New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-12-05
DIVISION OF OIL TRADE
.ST4NDARD'S OPPOSITION.
G0rernment and Trusts Counsel DIS
agree Deer List of Competitors.

One If the last exhibits turned in this week by
counsel for the Standard Oil Company IN !he eo'
eminent suit 10 dissolve the trust was iis' VI
competing companies Much importance was az
,schc6 - II as showing that If there was any re-
straint Of trade these independents would not Oe
fourishing.
In the lis; Of competing rehneries there are 10
companies. representing I2S refneres The com
tfre6 captal 81 was said yesterday. was about
so onn oNo The capital Of the Standard conlla-
MES including ;he New Jersey corporation WHO"
IS an operating concern also. is $S2S.eoo'oo'-
The government contends that this showing Is no'
q fair index Of the comparative business oone-
TIE average percentage Of trade controlled bE 'l,e
Standard including every branch Of the OIL busl-
ness was computed At Ss and fraction. leaving
only u Ter cent for the independents
In the selling 81 lubricstng oils TO the railroads
She Standard. a5-or5ing 10 government counsel
controls q Ter cert Of the business: in illumnat-
.-z oils & per cent. and naphtha Szs per cent
= vas said that only about eighty OF 1he llne
,,endert rehnaries amounted 70 anything as d com
-e-i-e force and that all together their business
s,5 ,o- exoaed that Of the Bayonne refneries Of
sh4 STANDARD.
Compromising works and asphalt factories are in
r-,ded in the list ard the government counsel salu
YESTERDAY That there duplication Of com
-srieS TIE reHneries in oklahoma and Kansas
-re-e organized recently and ,Ouid not be counted
IS operating in opposition 10 the STANDARD
There are Two Independents reaneries in this har-
ho- .te Columbia oil company and the Nalvoline
vicinity .. other oil region points. IS Of which are
q oil city and - Warren: Ohio. Q: Kansas. ~
Okla bona 6 Illinois. = Kentucky. 1: COLORADO =
wyoming I. California. .: Texas, 10, ana Lonlsl-
sna-
A. the oeH.a Of the Standard oil Company it vas
denied Yesterday that there was any duplication OF
-efneries in the list Of independents The asphalt
companies all had stills in which the crude Oh useu
n he manufacture Of asphalt vas treated Il was
said and the resulting by-products. naphtha ana
engine distinato the latter largely used in can
fo-nia as substitute fer naphtha. furnished VAL
7.ahle addition 10 the profits Of the asphalt ousl-
ness Il was pointed out that nearly al OF me re-
Fneries in the California section Of the fst mao
been mentioned in the reDort Of Secretary Garneo
when Commissioner Of Corporations in 100"
A company need not have a large output to ne
decided factor in the business one Of the men
f. The Standard said yesterday. 1t figures in the
te--itor where it is situated in fixing the price Of
oil ana must be reCkoned with every time
rank 2 kellogg the government counsel. was
b1sv Yesterday preparing for Monday and Al No
7s Broadway there was unusual activity IN me
Offices Of the Standard counsel There was re
port that Nj Kellogg had decided 10 ask for the
recall Of John d Rockefeller as soon as the prose
,,Jtion opened in reblIttal which may not be until
,he %-er week in January. i was said that NJ!
Rockefeller would remain at Pocantico Hills with
occasional visits his home in this city. until me
evidence vas all in.
Counsel for the Standard Oil Company viii De
eide today who shall follow John D Archhold on
the stand on Monday. will also he determined
TO-DAY = r,ossihle whether William Rockefeller
shall be called He has been suhpPraed, but Il
may be decided that the history Of The company $
operations necessary TO complete the record ~ the
defence has been sufficiently revealed by John j.
bookseller and AIr. Archhold. James MoTlell'
president OF the Standard Of Indiana. and H NJ
rr5Iford president Of the Standard Of California,
will be called to tell Of the operations OF the com
psny IN those fields.