The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1910-02-16
GRAND s's hiiaY FINDS 36,OOO,OOO EGGS
Been in Cold Storage in Jersey City Since March 1909
100000 Pounds of Poultry Held Since Last Anril

Jersey CITY.-That there are
10000, zoe eggs, sufficient to give
avery man, woman and child within
this city and the limits of Greater
New York eight eggs apiece, in one
cold storage warehouse in this city,
and that there is some prospect of
tbe Indictment of the heads of the
beef trust for conspiracy were de-
yelopments of the investigation be-
gun by the Hudson county grand
iury. After the days work PrOsecu-
tor of the Pleas Garven, who is
thrusting the probe into the price
boosters, announced that he would
continue the inquiry. Meanwhile he
and County Judge Blair will have a
conference with Supreme Court JUS
tice Swayze, who presides over this
circuit, to map out the course of
further procedure. The prosecutor
declared that if the evidence is suffi-
Gent he will draw indictments
agains all those concerned in the
storage of meat, eggs and other food
stuffs for the control Of the market
and advance in prices.
The grand jury learned that the
36,000,000 eggs in the cold storage
house had been there since last
March, and beside them were more
than 100000 pounds of poultry
stored since last April. Prosecutor
Garven has subpoenaed the man
gers of the Union Terminal Cold
Storage Company, in whose ware
house the eggs and poultry are said
to be stored, and officers of other
large refrigerating companies to ap-
pear before the grand jury Friday,
when the prosecutor hopes to trace
other large consignments of ancient
meat and produce.
Witnesses from Swift & Compa-
ny's cold storage plant were before
the grand jury, but little valuable
information was ELECTED. This par
ticular Swift plant happens to be
small factor in comparison with
other warehouses in the vicinity
The Investigation is directed against
the cold storage concerns as a basis
for determining the cause of the high
cost of meats and other household
necessities.
Judge Blair and Prosecutor Garven
left for Newark for the conference
with Justice SwayZe over the meth
DDS to be employed in an attempt to
prove continued high meat prices are
being fOstered by cold storage
houses run by the beef trust. The
prosecutor said:
We are watching every storage
plant in the country. Every ship
ment in or out is being investigated
and every beef storage house is be-
ing investigated. The disclosures
yesterday were merely the beginning.
We intnd to find out if the cold stor-
age companies are not really owned
by the big beef trust and operated
by all the big meat magnates in
combination. / have no doubt but
that we will make a prima facie case
and also acquire valuable infOrma-
ton for the federal authorities.
There has been some question as to
our rights to proceed. l can merely
say that this is a common law state,
and under a common law it specifi-
Cally states
Every corner, whether it be to
effect the prices of articles of COM
merce such as breadstuffs, meat,
eggs or other price of vintable stock,
when accomplished by confederation
to raise or depress the prices and
operate on the markets, is a con-
splracy. We are working on this
common law, and common sense
theory of the law, and even should
our efforts disclose that nothing
criminal was done in the borders of
the county the effect Of such inquiry
cannot help but be of benefit to the
people. am, however, satisfied
that the developments will more than
snow the need of the investigation,
ana from reports already received l
am certain that the cold storage
warehouses are working overtime to
Whitewash conditions chat l am GER
tain exist"