The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1907-09-26
]. D. ROCKEFELLER
lost $100,000,000
sHRINkAcE OF HIS STANDARD
OIL STOCK WITHIN THE PAST
TEN YEARS.
Value Now s1os, 900 ,ooo-RssuIts Of
Agitation and Legal Proceedings
RevsaIed--LIst Of Principal Stock.
holders In the Trust.


New York, Sept. 21.-Records Of the
stockholders of the Standard Oil COM
pany Of New Jersey. laid bare Friday
at the hearing of the governments
suit for the dissolution Of the alleged
oil combine, disclosed the fact that
John d. Rockefeller owns 247,692
shares, or nearly five times as much
stock as any other individual share
holder, and that he and his associates
who signed the trust agreement In
1882 still control majority Of the
Standard Oil Stock.
Measured by the present market
price of s440 a share, the holdings
Of Mr.. Rockefeller in the Standard Oil
comuany have a value of sos, ,000, 900.
The stockholders record Of August II,
1907, shows that the University Of
Chicago is the owner Of 5000 shares
Of Standard Oil stock.
Big shrinkage In Ten Years.
The depreciation in the price Of
Standard OIL stock within the past
ten years. since about the time the
agitation against the company began.
has been more than S40O a share.
Since the legal proceedings against
the Standard OIL company Of New
Jersey were instituted the stock has
steadily declined until 1t is now
around $40. This represents a loss
Of over $1O0,000,00 on the holdings Of
John d. Rockefeller. The shrinkage
in the market value Of the stock also
Affects the University Of Chicago to
the extent Of about $2.oo0.00o.
The Lsroest Stockholders.
The respective holdings Of the
largest stockholders Of the Standard
OIL company OF New Jersey are as fol-
lows:
John ID. Rockefeller, 247.69 shares;
Charles r. Pratt estate, 52,5S2; ID. M.
Harkness estate. 10000; o. H. Payne.
100000; II. M. Flagler, S0.500; o. B.
jennings estate, $1,000; H. H. Rogers.
5000; ]. A. Bostwick. $4,000; Will
liam Rockefeller, 11,700; c. M. Brews-
ter, 10000; Charles Lickhart estate.
Pittsburg, $500; l.. c. Ledyard and
Payne Whitney, 5000; William c.
Whitney estate. 5000; w. II. Tilford,
5000; John D. Archbold, 5000; w. G.
Warden estate, 5,S6S; University of
Chicago, 5000; c. M. Pratt, 5000;
Daniel O'Day, 2,665.
Trust FooIing Texas?
New York, Sept. 20.-That the
Standard Oil company Is operating un
der the name Of the Corsicana Rein
ing company in the state of Texas
which has forbidden the oil combine
to operate within the state. was indi
Gated Thursday, when Wesley H. TIL
ford, treasurer of the Standard Oil
company, under examination in the
governments suit against the com
pany, testified that H. G. Folger and
C. M. Payne, who Frank Kellogg. the
attorney for the government, states
control the gorsicana company. are
prominent in the conduct Of AFFAIRS OF
the Standard OIL company.
Mr.. Kellogg sought to draw from
the witness the information that the
Corsicana company was really a
Standard OIL company and was oper
ating In Texas because the antitrust
laws of that state would not permit
the combine to operate there. Mr.. Til
ford replied that, so far as he knew
the STANDARD OIL company had no In
terests In Texas.
Rockefeller Owns More Than Fourth
Another interesting development
was the official statement, made for
the first time. Of John ID. Rockefeller's
personal holdings In the Standard OIL
company. Just to what extent the
rcputed head was individually inter
ested In the great concern has lone