The Ely miner., 1908-02-07
Sincerely yours.
FRANCIS ]. HENEY." I"


Dear Sir: l hand you herewith file
oil shipped by the Associated Oil Com
pany over our line from January l, 1906,
up to and including November 15 1906.
I'VE agreed with the Associated Oil
Wells and myself, that in consideration
of their making us special price on oil
for company use, which is covered by a
contract, and the further consideration
that we would take a certain quantity,
they would in turn ship from Bakersfield
over our line to San Francisco Bay
points a certain minimum number of bar
rels of fuel oil at rate of % cents per
barrel from Bakersfield. exclusive of the
switching charge.
These statements cover the movement
except that they have included Stockton,
which is not correct, as 1t is not bay
point and could not be reached as con-
venently by water. We have paid them
should be deducted from the total of
movement shown in the attached papers.
"I wish you would arrange to make up
a statement. check the same. and refund
the basis of 25 cents per barrel from Ba-
kersfield where they are the shippers, re-
gardless Of who is consignee, as all their
fuel oil is sold delivered. The reason
for making this deal in addition to what
I have stated is that the Associated Oil
Company have their own boats and carry
along the coast near San Luis Obispo to
San Francisco at a much lower cost than
the special rate we have made them and
in competition with the Union Oil Com
pany and the Standard Oil Company, it
was necessary for them to sell at the
San Francisco Bay points on the basis
of the cost of water transportation from
the coast fields. They figured they could
barrel if by doing this they sold our
company a certain amount Of fuel oil,
otherwise the business covered by the
attached papers would have come in by
boat from the coast fields.
ST am writing this up completely so
that there may be in the papers history
of the reasons why this arrangement was
made l wish you would go ahead and
make the adjustment as soon as possible,
as the Associated Oil Company are very
anxious to have the matter closed up.
vember 18th at a conference between Mr..
Ripley, Mr.. Wells, Mr.. Porter, and my
self
"Yours truly.
EDWARD CHAMBERS"
Shipments-Associated Oil Company.
''Mr. G. A. Davidson,
The attacks by these great corporations
on the administrators actions have been
given a wide circulation throughout the
country, in the newspapers and other
wise, by those writer's and speakers who,
consciously or unconsciously; act as the
representatives of predatory wealth-of
the wealth accumulated on giant scale
by all forms of iniquity, ranging from
the oppression of wageworkers to unfair
and unwholesome methods of crushing
out competition, and to defrauding the
public by stock jobbing and the manipu-
iation of securities. Certain wealthy men
of this stamp, whose conduct should be
abhorrent to every man of ordinarily de-
cent conscience and who commit the
hideous wrong of teaching our young
men that phenomenal business success
must ordinarily be based on dishonesty,
have during the last few months made
it apparent that they have banded to-
eether to work for reaction. Their en-
deavor is to overthrow and discredit all
who honestly administer the law, to pre-
vent any additional legislation which
would check and restrain them, and to
secure if possible a freedom from all re-
straint which will permit every unscru-
pulous wrongdoer to do what he wishes
unchecked provided he has enough mon
ey The only way to ccunteract the
movement in which these men are en-
gagged is to make clear to the public just
what they have done in the past and just
what they are see!4 'ng to accomplish in
the present.