Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-12-06
COAL ANDRAlLROAD COMBINE
Relations Between Colorado Fuel and
transportation Companies Close.
pERsI1S TO BUILD SPURS REFUSED
Bic Corporation Blocks Development
of other Mines By Preventing
...- Construction of Tracks DO
o.. s., Across Its Lands. s..a

DENVER, Dec. 1.-The Interstate Com
merce. commission coal hearing. begun here
yesterday by commissioner e. F. Clarke
was ended today after the examination OF
several witnesses. Nothing OF a sensational
nature was brought out today B.. ..-..
j. +. Welborni vice president Of the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron company, was recalled
today. In answer to questions he said he
was president and traffio manager Of the
Colorado & Wyoming railroad, but was un-
, able to give a list Of the stockholders Of
the latter company, and for this informa-
ton he referred tho, commission to d. c.
Beaman, SECRETARY Of the railroad COM
pany. 10 Pa. ..'7-
Judge Beaman testified that the Colorado
& Wyoming railrosd had already filed a
statement with the. Interstate Commerce
commission in response to the circular Of
June II 1906. He said that a majority OF
the company's stock was held by a trust
company as trustee He did not believe
he could obtain the names OF the actual
owners Of the stock MT, Beaman, in re-
ply to a question, said the earnings Of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron company during the
thirteen years,Of its life were SlS,SOOOU.
Fuel Company Blocks DeveIOPmc
A. M. Pryor, a stookman, was the next
witness. He owns a lease OF 100 acres Of
coal lands in Huerfano county, Colorado,
and for years had tried to open up a mine.
He could not get permission from the Colo
RADIO Fuel and Iron company to run spur
across. its land. He finally; got the state
legislature to pass a. bill 20 allow the spur
TO be built but when he Interested men
with money to open up his mine he was
informed that they did not care to buy into
a lawsuit. ..fi --..
Martha, c. Brown, receiver OF the United
States land ONCE at Gunnison, did not re-
member how much! coal land was taken up
through her office in 1902 by representa-
tives of the Utah Fuel company. Robert
Forester, geoloEist Of the Utah company,
who acted as attorney for "a number of
people, had paid in excess of $4,000 for
land, she said Smaller tracts were taken
by other individuals acting as attorneys
for the fuel company. 3'a'"7i"
James G. Craig secretary of the Rocky
Mountain Coal Mems association, testified
that the organization had received com
/ plants from all over the state in regard
to the shortage Of coal. He believed tho
mines could produce 80 per cent more than
they had II cars were provided. He knew
Of no actual discrimination In the distribu-
ton Of cars but said that nearly all Of
the operators had expressed the opinion
that they were not being treated right.
( Mr.. Craig declared the association had
nothing to do with fixing prices for the To-
> cal consumption of coal.s ., a.,
/ GeOIOgist Disguised ms Mormon,
]. NJ. Underwood, a farmer living near
, Gpnnison, was examined at length. in re-
gard to the coal entries. made in that dis
I trict for the Utah Fuel company. He raised
/ a laugh by the statement that Robert For
roster of the Utah Fuel company came into
the district disguisedsas IA Mormon elder!
PA. >sGannon of 4duerfano testified he
| was unable to get the. permission of the
Colorado Fuel and lion company TO run a
spur. line. of tFailroad ACROSS the cOmpany's
. property to his minsg,99' esr ....,
/ In examination Of the testimony given
yesterday, by Charles H. Schlacks, vice
president of the Denver & Rio Grande Rail
road company, that the company material
rate" of one-haH cent per ton per mile
had been given the Utah Fuel company
an adjunct of the railroad, Attorney Joel f.
Vale filed the tarih sheets of several rail-
roads showing that this rate was COM
monty made by railroads for their own
use. .t.-l