Weekly journal-miner., 1910-10-12

pounds to the barrel when my under standing is that thirty-tnree pounds is the quantity commonly used.'
 Witness was then asked if The Arizona Brewing company did not handle the Anheuser Busch beer of St. Louis in connection with its own product, and upon admitting that this was correct, Camp made the point that the reason Eastern beers were sold on this market was not because of their being favored by freight rates but because there was an es- tablished demand for them. Witness conceded that this was true and said: {: of we didn't handle it (the An heuserBuseh) someone else would. "
 "You have a wholesale liquor h- cense, then, in addition to your brew CTS heense7"
 "Yes, sir," replied the witness.
 Camp then turned his attention to the situation at Phoenix, and it de- veloped that no Los Angeles beer has been sold there for some time, but that a San Francisco brewery has an established trade there. The Prescott brewery sells five ear loads a month there during the summer. Los An geles beer had been sold in Prescott up to the time of the strike among the brewers in the former city. One of these breweries supplied the trade in Williams and that district, it hay ing an advantage through maintain ing a storage plant there and ship ping in ear load lots.
 When asked if the freight redue- tion on malt to $l had aided the Prescott brewery in extending its business, witness replied that it had not, and attributed the fact to the hard times"
 There were some technical features of the brewery business which Man ager Bold did not claim to know, and accordingly John Bauer, the brewer at the local plant, was called as a witness. He said that the in gredients he used in a barrel of beer, outside of the water, were forty five pounds of malt, twenty pounds of grit and one pound of hops. At tOrney Camp seemed to doubt that such large percentage of malt was used, and demanded that the records be produced These were submitted later in the day and they showed that the exact proportions were for ty-three pounds of malt and fourteen pounds of grit.
 Camp insisted on knowing why the Eastern malt was considered better than the California article, and wit ness explained that it had a better flavor and better keeping qualities, this being due, he explained, to its containing a large percentage of al bumen. Witness had been brewer and manager of the Anaheim brewery in California, and he said that the in- creased cost of producing beer in AriOzna over that of California, was due solely to the difference in freight rates, which entered not only into the cost of the malt, but also the fuel, oil and other items of expense. Labor expense was practically the same. A barrel of beer in Prescott, be said, cost $6.5O to produce while in Anaheim it was $4.5O.
 W. J. Mulvenon, president and di rector of the Arizona Brewing com pany, detailed at length the items that entered into the cost of making beer in Prescott, and as the industry seemed to be handicapped by so many disadvantages, Examiner Gerry was moved to ask him why he went into the brewery business in Pres colt.
 This question amused the witness, who replied that he had been here for thirty-three years and that the brewery was established by local cap ital, on account of the fact that there was 50 much money being sent out of the Territory for the article.
 F. A. Jones, traffic manager for the Maricopa Commercial Club, and formerly general freight and passen- ger agent for the s. F., P. & P. at Phoenix, was placed on the stand. He submitted 8 table showing that the rate on Eastern malt to Prescott was materially higher than to any other part of the Rocky Mountain district, and contended that the class ification discriminated against malt, which he declared should be in Class E, along with other barley products and eerealines, and thus take a lower rate. In his judgment a fair rate