The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-11-20
THE SALT LAKE HERALD: FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 20 1908

latter being under the name of the
Standard Oil company of Pittsburg- The
aggregate cost of the property pur-
chased Mr.. Rockefeller estimated at w.
/ 009, 000
The object of these purchases. said
Mr.. Rockefeller was TO extend the ex-
port business and secure the valuable
/ specialties in cans Asked ABOUT tne
Smiths Ferry OH Transportation COM
pany, Mr.. Rockefeller said he could not
recall distinctly anything about that
company. There were pipes and some
thing, but l don't recall, SAID ne L
am haZy at the moment. l know there
was such a place in the early days"
II come 20 your dealings in 1875 with
Porter. Moreland & Co. and Bennett,
Warner & Co.. said the examining at
/ troney.
"They were located in Titusville- John
d. Archbold was identified with Porter,
Moreland & Co. Mr.. Rockefeller said
negotiations for the purchase OF these
firms were contaminated in 1873 with
the object of extending the companys
business. The Acme Oil company was
organized to purchase the properties.
| Mr.. Rockefeller said his attention was
4 first directed to lubricating oil about
/ 1876. About 1873 the Standard company
purchased the American LubricaunS
/ Oil company of Cleveland, and the Mica
Axle Grease company. The purchases
were made with the idea OF further Ill
yersifying the business and securing
/ lubricating trade
Il want to bring your attention TO the
/ Empire Transportation company ana
what its relations were.
/ The company was the owner OF cars
and the transporters of oil ana other
products of the Pennsylvania Railroad
/ AS we understand the company was con-
trolled by Pennsylvania interests
Railroads and refining interests were
disturbed There was a great cutting OF
rates The refining interests were as
turbed as were the railroads, which laid
considerable stress on the amount OF oil
/ they should carry"
What relations were affected on the
New York Central Erie, Atlantic q Great
I Western and Baltimore Ohio by the
; ness ?''
They were much concerned as to what
loss of tie oil trade would follow and
there was heavy cutting of rates
. o'clock.
Chat During Recess.
During the intermission Mr.. Rockefeller
chatted with the newspaper men about
the care of his health. He said:
When l was young man used 10
work day and night, but l never forgot
that had stomach. You can work long
hours if you be careful about what you
eat was always careful about what
put into my stomach, and today L have
cause to be very grateful for it. 1 never
felt in better health than today, as re-
suit of rigidly adhering TO policy OF a
careful diet when | was boy ADVISE
any one who wants 10 keep his health to
do the same thing. Then when you
young men get to be 20 years old you
viii be able to keep up your work
81 never felt better in my life than
do now For the last twenty years
have kept out of doors as much as pos
sible, and to that practice, coupled with
a careful diet, l attribute my excellent
health
Asked if sitting in the witness chair
giving testimony for such long period
tired him. he replied:
Not in the slightest 1t has not be-
gun to grow irksome yet
Fight With Pennsylvania Road.
Soon after the opening of the afternoon
session Mr.. Rockefeller's counsel asked
him if il were true that the rates OBJ
tanned by him In the period of the Stand
ard Oil eompany's war with the Pennsyl-
yania railroad were TO crush and cripple
/ the Empire TRANSPORTATION company so
! that the Standard Oil company might ac-
quire its property.
at is not" replied Mr.. Rockefeller.
Previous to the putting of this question
Mr. Rockefeller said that when the En-
7 pire Transportation company was organ
! lied ''our interests presented the matter
to the railroads and protested to the
I pennsylvania w stopped shipments
over the Pennsylvania and used other
lines" he continued I'VE objected to
the Pennsylvania railroad engaging in
the refining business. We did not know
where We stood They were shipping
their own oil over their own lines and
discriminating against us Other rail
roads agreed TO stand by US, but there
was much bitterness between the rail
roads. We made our shipments over the
Lake Shore, New York Central, and we
purchased the Empire Transportation
company and pipe lines, to which l have
referred The Pennsylvania railroad ac-
quired the cars of the Empire company
! and issued car trust certificates which we
purchased"
Agreement Made.
Mr.. Rockefeller said that when the
transaction was completed and the Penn
sylvania railroad stopped refining. the
railroad war stopped and an agreement
was entered into between the roads
whereby they obtained a percentage OF
the oil carrying trade The Standard Oil
interests were called upon to make those
arrangements effective. The witness said
that the war between the railroads TO OBJ
tain the oil trade had been demoralizing
to the oil business
Mr.. Rockefeller's attention was then
called to an agreement between William
Rockefeller and William Scott. president
of the Pennsylvania railroad, which had
been approved by all the oil-carrying
roads.
Sometimes in seeing that the exact di-
vision of the traffic being carried
out we shipped our oil to our own disad-
vantage when we could have shipped it
more profitably by, other lines" said Mr..
Rockefeller. I'VE had nothing to do with
the division of traffic which the railroads
determined upon
Rebate Business.
Mr.. Rockefeller said that the company
guaranteed the Pennsylvania railroad q
certain number of barrels of oil d year,
and in consideration the railroad
pany guaranteed to pay back 10 per cent
Of the ta the oil shinned