Ida Tarbell

“ Mr. Rice, since the completion of his pipe-line, has shipped through it to Marietta more than forty-five thousand barrels of oil. The shipments by Mr. Rice might have been retained for the benefit of the railroad had the rate of seventeen and one-half cents per barrel been continued. It is probable that had not the arrangement which we have been considering been entered into, a line would have been put down by the parties represented by O'Day and Scheide, but without the arrangement the patronage of Mr. Rice could have been retained. ”

“ He also stated that the United Pipe Line is a division of the National Transit Company which runs from wells to railroad points or pumping stations, and that the wells to which he referred are located in Alleghany County, New York, and throughout a large portion of Pennsylvania. ”

“ This money was sent by Carrel to the bank in Cambridge in which the receiver made his deposits. It will be observed that this money was returned from Oil City some ten or twelve days after Judge Baxter made his order directing the receiver to make a report showing what discriminations, if any, had been made by him in the shipments of oil, which order had been obtained upon the complaint of George Rice. It was also returned after a consultation had by J. E. Terry with Daniel O'Day in the City of Cleveland. Mr. ”