Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-05-10
SURPRISES FOR OIL
Standard Company Due to Get
Some Knock Out Blows at
Chicago Hearing
MAPS OF THE PIPE LINES
Railroad Right Of Way Used for the
Company's Pipe Lines How the
Standard Can Crush Out Competition
of the OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Evidence
Already Prepared.
MAPS OF THE PIPE LINES

Chicago May 10-Several surprises
have been stored up for the Standard
Oil Company and the railroads which
will be sprung upon them at the Chi
merce commission, which begins this
morning at 10 o'clock in the east court
room on the sixth floor of the federal
building. Attorneys Marchanl and
Monnett, who are prosecuting this case,
before the commission, have succeeded
in unearthing much information re-
garding the peculiar relations between
the Standard Oil Company and the
railroads.
One OF the most interesting sur
prises Is map, showing the entire
pipe line system of the oil trust. This
Is the first complete and accurate
map of this pipe line system that has
ever been made. and is said to have
been secured by detectives employed
BY Ida NJ. Tarbell.
BY this map it will be possible to
show how many hundreds of miles of
pipe lines are laid along the right of
way of the various railroads. 1t will
show how the Standard Oil Company
can pipe oil from the Kansas fields
clear thru to tidewater and the lefiner-
les at Bayonne, n. j.
This map will show the lines of pipe
coming up thru Illinois from ST. Louis,
along the lines of the Alton road. and
NO rnfnai-ipg a
Whiting, Ind. The commission has
also gathered statistics. 1T is said
showing that some 100000 barrels
of oil are being stored by the Stand
ard OIL Company in the tanks at the
Lima fields In Ohio and in Pennsyl-
yania
Proof Of Warfare Ready.
They will be prepared to show, ac-
cording to information received, that
the Standard Oil Company is crushing
out the independent refiners IN wes-
tern Pennsylvania and Ohio by piping
the cheap Kansas oil to their ref1her-
les in the east, laying the crude Pc
trole,1m down at tidewater for ob cents
barrel, while the independent re-
finer of the east, who has not access
ia the pine lines and cannot afford to
nav the freight rates on the Kansas
oil 70 his eastern refineries, must pur-
chase the home product, the output OF
which is all controlled by the Standard
OIL Company and for which they
charge the independent dealers about
$1.S0 a barrel.
1t will doubtless be one OF the STRONG
est recommendations to congress IN the
report of the commission that the pipe
lines be declared common carriers ana
that. the commission should be given
jurisdiction over their rates. 1t IS
claimed outside Of the question of dis
criminatory rail and water rates. and
outside the rebates which the Stand
ard Oil Company is charged with nav
ing received, the independent refiners
will never be able to compete with the
trust so long as the pipe lines are
closed to them.
Packers Are Also involved.
There is another question outside the
oil inquiry which possibly will be taken
up ,by the commission during its sit.
ting here The railroads are prepared
to have this other matter brousn. TO
the attention OF the commission, having
llau IlelI udld prepared hoA mo- v si'S.'
a week, and the question Will relate to
the alleged underblling and misrepre-
sentation of merchandise in way bills
by the big packing concerns. 1t is said
the eastern roads have a claim against
the packers amounting to over $780, 900,
which has been running ever since
1898. and which includes many sep
arate items.
This bill has been presented to the
packers a great many times. 1t is said,
but they have never condescended' to
pay any further attention to it than re-
and filing it away. There is
one claim of 100000 for the shipment
of homeless chucks. which should take
the fresh meat rate, as salt meat,
thereby saving about 16 cents per 100
There is also a large claim for
shipping poultry, eggs, and other such
commodities, which have special rate
Of their own, in refrigerator cars I'M
der the classification of dressed beef
1t is even claimed some of the packers
have shipped large quantities OF sta
tionery in their refrigerator cars under |
the classification of fresh meat
Jacob Mccartney, the coal dealer of |
London, o., who shot and killed Earl
mail carrier, who was
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