The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-05
Saving to Standard.

saving TO otdnudFu.
The saving to the Standard during 1904
by the secret rate from clean to Roches-
ter alone was $4,000. This and other less
important rates from Olean were unknown
to the independent refiners, and were not
published on the ground that they were
wholly state rates; yet in fact they, were
used for oil consigned to points beyond
the state boundary of New York. Further
more, all the shipments from Olean on
these secret rates were blind billed-i. e.,
the rates were not shown on the way
bills.
3. The Standard Oil company has main
tained absolute control of almost the
whole section of the country south of
the Ohio river and east of the Mississippi
by means of secret rates and open dis
ordinations In rates from Whiting, Ind.
For example, the published tariff rate
from Whiting, Ind the great western
refinery of the Standard to Birmingham,
Ala, was ~ cents per hundred pounds.
For at least ten years the Standard. by
means of secret combination of rates
by way of Grand Junction, Tenn, over
the lines of the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois. the Illinois Central, and the
Southern railway, has shipped oil to Blr-
mingham for 291z cents The Toledo COM
petltor, no farther distant, had to pay
AN cents.
A great area in the south has been
reached by this same secret combination
a. rates averaging one-fourth less than
the published rates. The total saving to
the Standard on these rates has been
about $4,000 per year
Again. the open rate from Whiting to
Evansville. Ind has been for many years
II cents. The STANDARD has for about ten
years shipped oil to Evansville for local
use and for many points beyond in the
southeast at so-called state rates of G
cents and SA cents The freight paid by
the Standard in this case has been about
10000 per year less than the open rate.
The rates to this same territory from
the Independent refining points at To-
ledo and Cleveland were from to %
cents per hundred pounds, or from " to
~ cents a gallon higher than the rate
received by the Standard.
The records of the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois Railroad company show plainly
that these Grand Junction and Evansville
rates were intended to be secret were
given for the sole benefit of the Standard,
and were handled as secret rates with the
knowledge of STANDARD officials.
"a The Standard OIL company has for
at least ten years shipped oil from Whit
ing to East St. Louis, ILL.,, at rate of
or GA cents on three of the five railroads
running between these places, while the
only duly published rate on all roads has
been Is cents during all that period. The
saving to the Standard amounted to about
$4,000 in 1904.
Gate to Southwest.
For many years East st. Louis has been
the gateway for oil shipments by the
Standard into the southwest The rates
from the independent refining points of
Ohio to East st. Louis have been about
~ cents higher than the rate from Whit
ing whereas on other commodities of sim
ilar grade these points pay only about
cents more than Whiting.
Whiting is located in Indiana. about
two miles from the Illinois line East st.
Louis is In Illinois, just across the river
from st. Louis. The secret low rates were
given by the Chicago. Burlington and
Quincy Chicago and Alton and Chicago
and Eastern Illinois railroads. They were
not published, on the ground that they
were state rates In dealing with these
rates, one of the roads-the Chicago and
Alton-fasely waybilled the freight at IS
cents. and collected from the Standard at
cents The Chicago and Eastern Illinois