The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-18


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HE hoidinaa In n mihe, which cost nothing,
now bring him 81 .1p . year. ~ In tho cglHe
~ ether officials, thess stocks wcre lust
alvsu 10 him fpr M particular reaaon.
Mr.. O'Donnell did furnish one olew, and
that was that they had fsen given 10 him
becatae h. had bsen In ths PittaburE dIa-
trict for -ome tbns and mine owners wanted
70 go him GET along.
The list, 10 far ~ known, follows. Key
stone Coal and cohe Company, so shares,
par value 10000; Madison Gas Coal Com-
pany. 100 shares, par vnl,ts 5000; latrobc-
Connellsville Company. 600 shares, par value.
et0.OO0; Preston Company. twenty-five
shares, value 81 $50; Johnstown Company,
twelve shares, value teOo; also shares 81
the Bowman. Bagdad and Gilpin companies.
y. n. wlgton, after testifying 10 the re-
bates, told how the railroad by disoriml-
mating against him in favor Of the Berwind-
White company had caused him to lose
st0,O OO. The Pennsylvania first would not
give him any cars; then they forced him TO
buy them.
But after | got the care, continued Mr..
wigton, I'VE could not get from the railroad
locomotives to move them. so that our con-
tracts remained untitled"
At the same time the Pennsylvania Rail-
road had plenty Of facilities, as most Of the
hard coal mines were shut down. In the
Clearfleld region-our r~egion-the Berwind-
White company was receiving its normal
supply Of cars and running full capacity.
while our production was practically moth
ing during the whole winter Of i902-0s.'
Mr.. Wigton then declared emphatically
that railroads should not be allowed to
uae their power TO force coal companies 10
coll them coal at reduced prices. He said
railroads should be compelled to go in the
market and buy coal like any one else. He
then showed how the railroads were able to
discriminate against certain mine owners
in the distribution of cars, by placing So
called fuel cars for railroad company
orders.
Although his company owns $50 private
cars, he declared they were an evil and that
the Morrisdale Coal Company was forced
to buy them or 60 to the wall. The little
fellow who could not buy them, he said,
did 20 TO the wall. He gave several in
etanoes of this and also mentioned the case
OF the Salisbury mine. which in the posses
zion of certain railroad interests Is now
paying property, but which a number of
years ago, when he had an interest in IL,
wa not paying because he could not get
oars from the railroad.
He also said hat the Pennsylvania Rail-
road is running the Clearfeld district by
charging a rate on tidewater coal hat
prohibits any competition with the coal
shipped from Southern points over the Nor
folk and Western and Chesapeake and Ohio
roads. He also contrasted the Pennsyl-
vania RAILROADS. policy with the methods
pursued by the New York Centr al Railroad,
to the disadvantage Of the Pen nsylvania