Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-09-21
Open Saturday Evenings.
Howard Street, Corner Sixteenth.

COAL" he said. Rock Springs coal sells at
Sidney at S per ton, though Sidney is 400
miles nearer the mines than Omaha. II
has been practically impossible to get an
adequate supply of Rock Springs coal in
Omaha during the last year The ship
ment of Rock Springs coal to Omaha is
less than per cent OF other Goals shipped
from all sources"
Admits Getting Bonus.
William l.. Ritter Of the Union Pacific
Coal company at Cheyenne admitted he
was given bonus for ming on lands in
Wyoming and that he had transferred the
lands 10 D. o. Clark. Arthur II. Doane
testified similarly and that he received a
cash bonus of $3.50 above the fling foes,
all Of which were paid by Mr.. Clark. Wit
ness is the general sales agent OF tM
Union Pacific Coal company. He said:
MY application was for a cash pur-
chase. / was never on the land. MIR.
Clark directed me to make the application
and paid me for it. executed power of
attorney for the purpose of filing to George
L. Black. Don't know what bonus was
paid to others for fling"
w. r. Brooks, manager of the Con-
solidated Fuel company Of Fremont, tes-
titled that the ten-car-lot rate to Fremont
from the Union Pacific mines was "a. %.
He had been able to avail himself of this
rate but once and could not get the ten.car
lots when he wanted them. The wholesale
rates of Rock Springs. Kemmereri and the
Central Coal and Coke company was $3.50.
and that of Hanna coal $3.50 The rate at
Fremont is rs cents greater than at Omaha.
At Lincoln and Fremont the ten-car rate
is $3.50
Harry Newpan, a coal dealer of Column
bus, testified:
'The Rock Springs, Kemmerer and Dia-
mondville mines are owned or controlled
by the Union Pacific and are on its lines
have to pay 81 per ton at the mines. The
rate to Columbus, ninety-two miles west
Of Omaha and that much nearer the mines,
is $3.50. and we have TO sell the coal at
IS retail The Union Pacific has to com
pete at Columbus with all Colorado Goals
The Rock Springs would be the most used
II we could get it. I have been unable to
get Rock Springs in ten car lots though
the rate is so cents higher than at Omaha
The Rock Springs rate Is 70 cents higher
than on the Colorado Goals"
Distribution of Cars.
w d. Lincoln, superintendent Of car SER
vice OF the Union Pacific. said cars suf-
ficient in number to handle locomotive fuel
were frs furnished to the Union Pacific
Coal company, then u per cent for COM
mercisl coal were supplied this coal COM
pany and % per cent of them were turned
over to the Central Coal and Coke company
when car shortage Is not on. from 25o to
800 cars are stationed daily at Rock Springs
No commercial coal, T. e., coal for other
than locomouon purposes. is moved until
the Union Pacific has had Its supply of
ehS,s. coal. A coal shortage has existed
, ?os t4s>sst thirty days. he snid.
flsiysoav afternoons session developed
the fact that the Union Pacific treasury
had been depleted to the amount approx
mAtely ee 10000 for fees paid to receivers
and resitasrs OF the United States land
Offices az. Evanston and Cheyenne, wyo
aarfek fas last four. years. and that $4,000
nN4 lessn paid to d. o. Clark for the pur-
chese Of lands for coal purposes during
this same period.
The principal witness at the afternoon