New-York tribune., 1908-12-16
PRICE CUTTING IN GERMANY.

When the hearing was opened Mr.. Rosenthal
asked Mr. Archbold whether a Mr.. Post. who had
extensive wholesale oil trade in Germany, with
principal marketing stations at Mannheim and
Bremen had been connected with the Deutsche-
Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft. a Standard
interest before he went with the Pure Oil Com
pany. competing concern. Mr.. Archbold said that
Mr. Post had There was then the liveiiest kind of
price cutting the witness said. Mr.. Post went
back to the Standards German subsidiary in 1894.
Mr.. Rosenthal then took up the Standards pipe
line interests show that although the company
had first used pipe lines it had extended them
considerably. The Standard OIL Company, he said
had pipe line mileage in 1882 of 1852 Of that
Mr.. Archbold said. pulling paper from his pocket
his company had laid I014 miles and had purchased
48. Asked about the Russian refined oil export
business he said that. according to the United
States government records. the export in 1880 was
976 a33 barrels 42 gallons each This rose to TO-
5Oo0 600 barrels in 1898. He read from a paper to
show that the United States production of refined
steadily decreased until 1895 In 1892 the produc
10000 barrels; in 1893, s. 10000. 1894
30 $4,000 and in 1895 only IS 400 900 barrels.
80 that while the Russian production was stead
fly increasing it steadily decreasing here?'
asked Mr.. Rosenthal
''It was" answered the witness
Mr. Kellogg had brought former hearings
in cross-exa arnination that the company had I'M
rnense quantities of oil in storage Mr.. Archbod
said yesterday that IT essential to the steady
operation of the pipe lines that the stock
be talned 1he rennereS might often lack the
necessary crude oil If the wells alone depended
on. Other points which Mr.. Kellogg had brought
out were taken up with the apparent intention
of having the witness explain that the records
for the defence might give another story Mr..
Archbold was asked about the Standard holdings in
the Weters-Pierce oil Company. which the govern
ment contends long independent
although owned by Mr.. Rockefeler's company. The
witness said that the Standard had owned an iu-
terest n the Pierce company since ls7s but
that Mr. Pierce and his relatives had always man
aged tn. business. Mr Rosenthal then came down
10 the government counsels' request for records.
TRUST AGREEMENT RECORDS
you were requested produce among other
things" he said TO the witness. the books and
records of the stocks and papers Of the companies
which signed the 1879 Villas, Keith & Chester
trust agreement Have you had a search made
for them and have you found any9'
Mr. Archbold answered that he had found some
Of the stock books and some of the Incorporation
papers. and that all that he had found had been
compiled. These compilations were then read and
put in evidence and Mr. Kellogg was told that II
he wished the originals AT any time they could be
produced
The fact of Standard control in these companies
Mr Archbold gave the extent OF the corporations
interests. In these companies no records were
found: Bush & Co. Solar oil Company. Germania
Mining Company, Vacuum Oil Company and the
Inland oil Company.
In the following either the articles incorpora-
tion the stock books and the articles were
produced: Acme OIL companies OF New York and
Pennsylvania, Camden Consolidated oil Company,
Elizabeth Acid Works. Atlantic Refining CompanX>