The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-26

and that it was willing to sell the Cor
sicana on any terms to your
Yes. and 10 any one else replied
Mr.. FolgeT.
MI Rosenthal asked the witness If
it was not a fact that after the last
analysis was made all the COrsicana
sold for was s415. 600
Mr.. Folger replied that Il was
Plant Was Cheap.
Mr.. Kellogg, resuming the examina-
ton, asked the witness if he did not
think it strange that the National
Transit company should sell a plant
FOR S415.0o0 which had originally cost
about $7G0,0G0, and which could pay
per cent interest a year and Jneu pay
f0r itself in ten years.
Mr.. Folger said they could find no
other purchasers.
c. NJ. Crossman, who has charge Of
the freight and pipe line tariffs of the
interstate commerce commission, iden-
titled a schedule of oil tariffs made up
by the commission from statements Of
oil companies and railroads. Tariff
lists submitted to the commission by
the various oil companies were also
offered in evidence.
Dragged TO Light.
Some interesting evidence that lay al
most hidden in a vOluminOu5 schedule Of
oil tariffs submitted to the interstate
commerce commission by the Standard
Oil company was unfOlded today at the
hearing of the federal suit against the
sO-calied oil trust. when Calvin NJ. Payne,
vice president of the National Transit
company, took the witness stand to tell
about the various pipe lines Of the oil
combine over which he had supervision.
The schedule shows that tariffs for trans
pOrtatiOn of crude oil by the Standard 5
mi HnHr
is on the state line between New York
and New Jersey. and Center Bridge, 10
Gated on the New NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
state line.
Frank B. Kellogg. conducting the fed
eral action. asked Mr.. Payne if Union
vile did not spring into existence in 1906,
when the Hepburn bill. which provides
that common carriers must publish tariff
schedules, became a law. Mr. Payne
testified that Unionville doomed geo
graphically in the summer Of 1896, while
he was abroad.
The governments counsel further de-
veloped that at UniOnville the pipes of
the National Transit company carrying
oil from OIean. n. Y. and other western
points. connected with the pipe line Of
the Standard Oil Company of New Jer-
sey and that at Center Bridge the pipe
line carrying the oils Of the Eureka Pipe
Line company. the Buckeye Pipe Line
company. the Southern Pennsylvania Pipe
Line company and the National Transit
company. from Lima. o.. TO the seabOard,
connect with the pipe line of the Stand
ard Oil Company of New Jersey. Mr..
Payne said that as the lines of those
companies ended at UniOnville and Cen
ter Bridge, the tariff schedules are fixed
for those points
Mr.. Kellogg sought to show that no
independent company could send oil to
the seabOard over these lines, because
rates could not be obtained from those
points to the seabOard Mr.. Kellogg said
the Standard would not publish rates on
its line through New Jersey and as
consequence Independents were shut out
from tidewater.
The oil hearing will be adjourned after
Friday over the early part of next week
to permit John G. Milburn, counsel for
the defendants, to attend the unwilling
of the Mckinley monument at Canton, o.