New-York tribune., 1909-01-15
DELVE INTO PIPE LINES
.ST4ND1RD MEN TESTIFY .
Say Company's Shipments Tar Ca
pacitv of the Systems.

Fortified with maps of all the pipe lines OF the
Standard Oil Company and with tables or the
shipments made 1907. Frank b Kellogg eX-
amined yesterday. in the government suit TO dis
solve the New jersey corporation. three pipe line
officials Of the Standard 30 show that the lines
could be used common carriers from Oklahoma
to the Atlantic seabOard the inference being that
they are operated now restraint Of trade as the
rail shipments by independents are too expensive 20
permit competition. These officials were Forrest
TOwl. the chief engineer: Douglas bushnell the
general superintendent. and william ". Pilkng-
ton. in charge of the shipments through the pipes.
Mr. Towl went into the details Of the operation Of
the eight thousand miles Of pipe line Re said that
three systems were sometimes used interchange
ably; from Prebte. Ind, Indiana oil and Hi
nois oil were shipped most Of the time in separate
pipes. The Of the three systems from Prehie 10
Cygnet Oho was possible but he said he did not
know whether il had ever Leen done. To use four
systems that shipping district. the witness said.
would make necessary great changes in the pump
ing station one system could not be used for more
than kind of oil. lie said without seriously
interfering with the capacity Of the whole line
The significance OF the questions came out when
Mr.. Crawford Of counsel for the Standard, began
the Cross-exanlinaton.
His first question regarding the less Of
capacity by further division of the traffic. Mr.
FOWL said that the systems now operated could
deliver the normal quantities at stations il
other shipments were received These would inter-
fere with the collective as in force. he
said The loss would amount to from 5.010 10 1000
barrels day. The capacity now. he said. is s5.'oo
barrels the beginning Of shipment.
Mr.. TcWI said that the whole Standard system
was row operated az least 2s0 days year. tH enty
four hours each day. and that to take more bust
in the Northern pipes woIid mean an ex-
peaditure e s2.Goa0H0 to 100000 for addt-
tional pipes. pumps and tanks The tables sho" ed
that different qualities crude oil followed one
another in. the systems and this was not
denied. but II denied that there was no de-
terioration Mr.. ToWl said that his estimated cost
100000 g. nalnA added facilities applied
only to part Of the route the Northern In
the systems from Morgant6Un. ". Va. to Miway
/ Penn. the added cost would amount 70 sl.oN"o,
Mr. Crawford attacked the testimony Of w. ".
Tarbel given the day before. and the witness
said that the little pipe line Of four hundred miles
with its fo1Ir-inCh pipe. ared with the eight
thousand miles of Standard pipes Of from two L"
twelve inches in diameter one-car horse car
line compared with finely equipped trolley Sys-
tenn or a kindergarten with great university
MI Kellogg wanted to know how M. ToVl ar
rived at his estimate Of the additional cost should
the pipe lines accept other shipments, and tne VII
ness said that he not prepared 20 he exact
but that the figures not purely imaginative,
as he had the tankage and pumping station costs
guides.
Mr. Bushnell and Mr.. Pukington did not throw
additional light on the subject MI Bushnell said
that Il shipment Of from the Oklahoma field
had arrived here without much contamination. but
mixed to some II came out yesterday that
he Standard sent ify-six thousand barrels Of oil
to Chicago day. and the same quantity TO the
seaboard. The hearing Will on to-day.
At the close of the session Mr.. Kellogg insisted
that the governments contention. that the lines
could be operated common carriers had been
proved and that it the duty Of the defend
ant as long the law made II common car
rier TO provide the capacity to transport the OIL,
no matter what II When il was explained 70
him that the testimony showed 10 shipper had
ever applied has oils so transported. MI
Kellogg replied that was due to the prohioitVe
rates and la tx OF terminal facilities.