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1 ! i BIG BUYERS ARE SLOW IN GETTING ONTO MMARKET "16hn FitzRoberts Testifies Be j fore Heney That Policy Pur j sued in South Omaha j . Scares Shippers. 1 William H. Wood. Gene Melady fc-nd John Fitt Roberts,, member of the Omaha Live Stock exchange, at the packing house investigation reld .Wednesday afternoon before Frinris J. Heney, of the Federal Trade com mission, testified to what in their .opinion was neglect on the pa-t of ithe Union Stock Yards company of (Omaha, adequately to provide yard jand weighing facilities for cattte. These men were members of a ,om fmittee of the exchange which pre Isented this matter to R. J. Dunham, president of the yards company Tley were outspoken in their comn.'.ints against the stock yards company and t Mr. Heney made the most of the op portunity. I Asked if he had any recommeda ; tions to offer in connection with the t situation, Mr. Roberts replied: "I think it would be a grand thing if ;Uie yards could be separated from j the packing house." f "Give us your opinion as to the i necessity of more yard room," ked ! Heney. "Well, they have world's of r.:om properly located and it -could be used." ; "To what do you attribute the failure of the yards company to en large the cattle facilities?" "I might surmise, but I don't want ' to get myself any more unpoou'ar than necessary with the yards." " . t "What about the price paid by the yards company for dead animals?" Price is Ridiculous. t ,.'7bt price "ifu'ou- They pay i Ja for a dead steer and I know of one 'case where $7.50 was. paid. t A good , steer that dies on the way to the pick- ing houses will sell for $25 to $28 but ; if it dies at ithe yardl it will bring : only $5." 7 y ' ; . ; The witness;, stated that the big buyers , are sometimes slow coming ; into the market in the morning when the run is heavy and thus the ten- dency is to depress the market by ; scaring the shippers. . In connection with the alleged r policy of the yards management not I to encourage anymore buyers, Mr. 'Roberts stated that the 'superintend- ent of the yards told him that he was "instructed not to look for any more ; big buyers; that they, had enough. I This line of investigation by Heney i was to show that control of the yards &by the big packers tended to dis courage any' more competition in the ; packing industry at South Omaha, J Wages Not Commensurate. Mr. Wood testified that it was the i general opinion of commission men at ! South, Omaha that the wages paid employes of the yards was not com I mensurate with the services per- formed. He also charged lack of J weighing and pen facilities for cattle jj marketing. . '. s , "We have been urging for three J years to get them to build more cat ; tie pens. We heard of improvements I being made at the Denvr yards and I w were wondering whether they were 'going to divide our trritory," Wood ! stated. . , "Did it ever occur to you that there rare only two big packers in Denver and they do business on a 50-50 basis. I and there are four in South Omaha? inai may make i flitterence," was ! comment by Heney. ' Heney-- What is your opinion as to wetner control of yards by the i packers is good for the live stock I industry?" I I Wood-"I have been hampered in ; extending my business. j Swift and Armour ControL neney it is generally observed that wh?n Swift and Armour get con t trol of a stock yards, that ends the giving of bonuses to get other plants to locate. There has not been i new 1 plant locjted in South Omaha since ; the Armour plant was established i there, has there? Is there any sue- 'gestion you would like to offer" i Wood "We want to . buildup this market at Omaha. We feel that cat- J ;tle facilities have been neglected and I ; producers must be provided with I facilities," ' ;.; . . f. eiay siaiea mat ne snared the ODinion of the rAmm!ll nf ! I Live Stock CXi-han? that nAA tt. rrovements have been neglected at h yrds for years. ' -, ; " Heney "Have the commission men made any efforts to get other packing f plants to locate here?" -' I . Melady "We have been agitating . that for years." - : - Heney "What do you think of the . future of this market?" ; Melady-"! think we would have the greatest market in the world if we had facilities it the yards. We , bave been losing much business , here." Heney "How does this market . compare! with Chicago?" . Melady "$t is uusually under," " .Heney "Do you have any trouble with the big buyers holding back?" Melady "Sometimes when - the . market is heavy." Heney went into such matters as t , speculating and buying on ords and ' the encouragement offered to those . who feed cattle for the market. i- Swift's Control : Extend Even to 3 Politics of City ' (Cenli'Mtfd tnm rage Ob.) json of b;g paekerj establishing con v'centrjtioii plants nd buying hogs at ; Chicago prices ti.hout freight? What v ;wi vi. juu vip urn ; , in this mvestition? We are here to ' 'help you. Cau't you help us? Are you afraid of the big packers?" ;r ' price Scared Them ; "l want to see what is being done Tiin way of eliminating the, smill pack ?,ers," stated Heney. "Have you had ;' the matter of purchase ojj your plant - up with S. & S." "Yes, but the price was so high that ' we scared tnem." " t tr,: "Yon didn't want to sell, did , you?" "What was' the proposition with S, S ?":?.,- ; 4 -' ' , -. ."TJjey watd us to go in with them '4and start stock yards at Sioux Falls." 'Foster admitted that his hog-buy-v-utg- territory had been reduced by PRODUCERS NEED SCANT SYMPATHY, ASSERTS MURPHY M. R. Murphy, general superintend ent of the Omaha plant ot the uiaany Packing company, who was the prin cipal witness at the federal investiga tion Tuesday, made the following statement Wednesday morning in re sponse to a question as to whether or not it was true that he had tried to hold down prices as charged by Mr. Heney: "Yes, I did make his statement. In fact I feel that live stock prices are altogether too high, especially hogs. Producers are constantly harping on the high priced corn they are com pelled to feed stock, when the facts are that practically 75 per cent of the stock that has been fed this winter has been fed on soft corn, and if they didn't have the stock to feed it to, would practically go to waste on ac count of the enormous quantity of it. In some instances I have heard of this corn selling for as low. as 30 to 50 cents a bushel, and experienced feeders have informed me that three bushels of this low grade corn is equal to about two bushels of grade corn for fattening purposes. "As regards feeding cattle, it is true that they are probably losing money on it, especially those that got in early in the game and paid 12 to 14 cents a pound for their feeders. This was caused largely also by the big demand early in the season by parties who had low-grade corn to feed, and by feeding it to live stock was the only way that they could realize any decent figure for it. "On the whole I feel that the pro ducers, notwithstanding their con stant harping, need little if any sym pathy. The government has fixed a minimum of ISVi cents for their hogs, but they have not fixed, any 15-cent pork chops for the poor consumers." reason'of the concentration yards es tablished at Creston and Burlington by the big packers. Made Price Attractive. "What inducements are offere to hog raisers to ship to Creston instead of shipping to your jplant at Ottum wa?" asked Heney. ' "They made the price attractive " "Wasn't the biggest inducement their advertisements that they wojtd absorb freight charges if shipped to Creston?" "Shippers have told us that." . "Did they say that Cudahy would pay them Omaha or Chicago prices?" "No; only an advantageous pnee." "Shippers have nothing to pai but the freight ,when they ship to your plant; is that correct?" "That is correct." : ; Hogs Double-Decked. "What is ihe practice at concentra tion points like Creston as to through rates?" --. -v r ; "I understand that the hogs are double-decked and reshipped on basis of through rates from original, point of shipment. I know that is true with the Burlington." "I think that is true of all of these concentration points. Does the Cres tin concentration yards draw from same territory as you do?" . "Yes." ' "Then yon are in competitor! with Swift and Cudaby." , , And yet Foster assured Heney he was not afraid of the big packers. 7 Would Be Investigated. Foster related conversation he had with Thomas E. Wilson of the Wilson Packing company, relative to proposed purchase of the Morrell plant. ' "Did you protest against the con centration yard ' at Sioux City," Heney asked Foster. - "Yes, we complained to the Burling, ton and they told us that the matter would be taken up at arr investigation before the Interstate Commerce com mission." - "What reason did you give?" Said they were cutting into our territory.'1 Mr. Heney read 'into the record testimony of Examiner Twombly of Federal Trade tommissfon , relative to papers taken from private files of Edward Fj Swift. Heney explained that his purpose was to amplify the record as to percentage purchases. These Swift records were said to cover purchases of hogs, cattle and sheep by Armour, Swift, Morris, Cudahy . and S. & S. for entire country. Swift was quoted as saying that there was an apparent uniformity in percentage of purchases, but he could not see any significance. ' An alleged 50-50 pact between Ar mour and Swift at Forth Worth and Denver was brought out, showing that during a year there was a dif ference of only four cattle in pur chases of Armour and Swift at Fort Worth. , Swift Perturbed. "Harold Swift was pertubed when shown those sheets; said he could not account for it and argued that he thought it was due to tremendous competition," Heney read. Further reading of Twombly testi mony by Heney referred to klleged 50-50 arrangement between Armour and Swift at Fort Worth and Drnvrr and that these packers owned and controlled tnose yards on a basis of equal interest. "Uncle Ogden." Mr. Heney read a letter written by Philip D. Armour, dated in Denver in 1916, and addressed to "My Dear Uncle Ogden." An extract reads: "Just a line to tel you I arrived here from Fort Worth. Swift's plant, from what I hear and frnm hi littU I au of it. is far ahead of ours both as to the size and condition. Of course, as you know, everything is done on a 50-50 basis and with the facilities we have it is almost imnossihle tn Veen up this ratio." , Rate Expert Testifies. Eugene Powell, rate expert of Ne braska State Railway commission, was first witness called today. "Can you tell us from your report the earnings of Union Stock Yards?" Heney asked. "Think I can. It draws net earnings and revenue from various sources. Beginning in 1911 the company fixed a depreciation, charge of $125,000 to $140,000 a year.( I would say that about' 7 per cent to cost of depreci able property would be fair." E. J. Stason, Sioux City attorney, was recalled at the afternoon session. "Do you know anything of i bill in troduced at Iowa legislature to place Sioux City stock yards under control of the state railway commission?" Hn-" asked. s O.iiy in a general way." Heney read letters purporting to show that the Hurni company at THE BEE: OMAHA, THURSDAY, MARCH Sioux City was discriminated against by Illinois Central in matter of re frigerator service, v Armour I. C. Factor. "J. Ogden Armour is a factor in the Illinois Central. It is as interest ing to note how the small packers were not encouraged to grow in Sioux City as it was to note the bonuses granted by the , Union Stock Yards company of Omaha," was a comment by Heney. Letters exchanged by F. L. Eaton, president of Sioux City Stock Yards company and Sioux City Terminal company, and L. F. Swift were read to indicate the close relations of the Swifts in Sioux City affairs. These letters related principally to purchase of the Hurn ofant. Heney read the following le tcrs into the records to show the working relations between Eaton and L. F. Swift: Hurni ,Track Matter. "Referring to your letter ot No vember 17, there is no Change in the situation in the Hurni track mtiier. The council has not acted upon the ordinance, and Hurni does not teem to be pushing it as far as we can find out. I was told confidentially by a lawyer here in town who happened to hear something from Hurni's lawyers that they were trying to claim tl at we had no rights to the street and alleys in the property north oi tlie stockyards, which we call vacatjj "I went to Mr, Mllchrist wi'h the statements made by this attorney, and Milchrist has again locked up the mat ter and says he does not think there is anything that they can do. More over, Hurni himself is using some of the streets and alleys, and his title is based on the same transactions as ours. Will keep as close to the sit uation in the council as possible and do not think any action will be taken without we are first duly advised. "When the Thompson bill was be fore the legislature, Mr. Statter was its most ardent supporter, and his attorney, Mr. Salinger, had more in fluence than any other person from Sioux City. It looked very doubtful as to our ability-to kill this bill be cause the sentiment had been worked up among the commission men that Statter and Hurni were not being al lowed to grow, and that same argu ment was used in Des Moines. We were able, to curtail the activities of the Hum! people, but in the case of Statter we found it necessary to make the plain statement in Des Moines before the committee that, if Mr. Statter heeded more ground to grow upon, we would be glad to let him have it, because we wanted more bus iness, and finally with that assurance upon our part Statter and his attor ney, Salinger, withdrew their support of the bill, and it died in committee." , Packers' Heavy Holdings. Mr. Heney read the following re port relating to the activities of big packers in Sioux City: Holdings of the packers in Sioux City W. L. Frost, president of Sioux City Real Estate board, stated that the following companies are owned and controlled by the packers in Sioux City: ; f J Armour & Co. Cudahy & Co. j , v Swift & Co., (Hurni plant). Sioux City Stock Yards company. Sioux City Terminal Railway com pany. -.. . v ' . . Sioux City Live Stock Record (and printing plant). j " Purity Serum company. i Sioux City Serum company. Sioux City Exchange building. Sioux City Traction ; company (street car system). Sioux City Service ; and Electric company. i i j Riverside park, 800 acres. (Inter state fair grounds.) Hawkeye Land company (about 160 acres of Sioux 'City residence prop erty.) Yankton, S. D., feed yards. (Owned by Sioux City Stock Yards company.) Live Stock National bank and Sioux City Cattle Loan company. Iowa Horse Commission company. He also stated that the Riverside park property, about 800 acres, was held by the Sioux City Traction com pany and that the packers were trying to sell this property to Sioux City as a park. Banker Is Witness. George L. Parker, president of Packers' National bank, Sioux City, testified that Swift and Armour com panies are interested in his institu tion. S Eugene Powell, rate expert for the Nebraska State Railway commission, in answer to a request of Mr. Heney for profits made by the stock yard's company, submitted the following figures: MAT AND GRAIN. IMS t 29.S0S.4E m 32.gas.io 1MT 48.141.86 IBM I0.S1I.17 m (3,081.(4 18fl0 81.738.11 llt S9.S4l.48 im ............l........ 111,70.8 lm i:i,79. so im 144.31t.46 1II& 102. m. 49 HAT. ORAIN. 19 .........I 4,9J1 ST S25.607.26 197 104.872.79 23,001.(7 19 , S,0(43 11,141.48 1S9( 4 .991.1 18,3.0S 1900 ., 9,440.(l 28.74J.33 1901 . "S7.97S.J7 83,231.67 1903 139.337.44 40.781.93 1903 11S, 311. 63 4t.0S9.42 194 93,397.44 4S.51I.93 190S 97.92t.87 48.088.30 190 (6,030.13 S0.B10.3t 1907 ....i 88.S96.03 68,040.07 1908 98,834.80 60,373.71 1909 ....4 108.734.4S 47,611.11 10 108.704.1ft 64.084.60 1911 9S, 967.74 68.646.03 Kit 116, 546 44 7S.621.1S 1913 t 131,298.68 90.231.7S 914 14,09.95 49.799.32 " Yardage Earnings. "Can yoit give us the yardage net earnings oit hogs?" "No, sir. That is a question that has never ben worked out. Com plaint was made about charge of 8 cents yardage per hog." "Give us the yardage, net earnings." 18S5 v ,'. 19.191.41 ! 44,481.17 1817 .... ,. 117,641.(6 1888 ., 164,808.(4 189 183,081. 7 1S 168,979.(3 1891 S45.99S.6J 191 10,690.(S 191 ,. S13.9St.92 194 ... 143,141.60 I99S ,. 130.199.(6 189 130.144. S3 1897 4 126.791.32 1898 364,141.(0 1899 k...... 391,0(0.41 1900 417.409.47 1901 ...p.... 410,091.72 1902 47T.24t.64 1903 4.,.f 264.962.71 1904 466.301.91 1905 492,46( 47 1906 (31,1(1.39 1907 616.320.03 1907 ................. ........... 63S.SS0.03 1908 4 614.116(3 1909 ,. J.. , 637.681.76 1910 683.639.77 1911 ....4 (03,761.71 1912 , 698.(7( 32 1911 6S0.ll9.t7 1914 to AuiruBt 31. 179,477.06 Huge Investments. Heney Have you figires to show investment of stock yartds company outside of the railway portion?' LOUIS' SWIFT'S LETTERT0EAT0N AT SIOUX CITY Chicago, January 19, 1917- P. L. Eaton, Sioux City Stock Yards Company, Sioux City, la. Dear Sir: Reviewing the action to be taken at the annual meetings of tbe various Sioux City companies, Tuesday, January 23. I understand you will arrange to carry out the following: Sioux City Stock Yards Com pany: Re-elect the present officers and directors. Sioux City Terminal Railway Company: Increase ithe board of directors from three to five, elect ing F. S. Brooks and R. F. Murray new members; re-electing old members. Appoint F. S. Brooks vice pres ident, making two candidates holding this office. , Reappoint the present officers. Iowa Rendering Company: Elect R. F. Murray director to succeed George E. Burdick. Reappoint the present officers. E. H. Schloeman & Co.: "Ar range to change the name to the Iowa Horse Commission company. Elect E. H. Burdick director to succeed E. H. Schloeman. Appoint William Milchrist pres- J ident to succeed E. H. Schloeman, leaving the office of vice president vacant. Hawkeye Land Company: Elect R. F. Murray director to succeed H. J. Aaron. Reappoint the present officers. James P. Moon will be in Sioux City on Tuesday to attend these meetings and will have the Chi cago proxies with him. Yours re spectfully, LOUIS F. SWIFT-N. Powell August 31, 1914, the yards construction account showed $2,309, 300." Heney "Did .that include any in vestment in the railroad end?" Powell "It did not." Heney "Can you give the railroad account?" Powell "It was shown at $2,626, 372." Heney "Were there any bonds?" Powell "Seven hundred thousand dollars for construction of a water plant." Buckingham on Stand. E. Buckingham, vice president and general manager of Union Stock Yards company of Omaha, ws ex amined by the Federal Trade com mission's counsel. "Since the yards were started what small plants have been established?" Heney inquired. 1 "Higgins, Hoffman, O'Day and the South Omaha Packing company. "Did the stock yards company give Higgins any bonus when he opened?" "No sir." :. "Have you made any efforts to get the S. & S. or Wilson's to locate in South Omaha?" , "No sir." ' "Do you recall a bill before legisla ture in 1913 relating to water works? What was its purport" ' "I think it referred to the Metro politan Water district." ' ' " ' "Did it take in South Omaha?" "I think it took in the whole state " ","You wefe interested in it because stock yards had its own plant?" ;,. Build' Water' Plant. "You are getting, into a long story. W'e could not get enough water; so we began to build a plant of our own and when, this bill came along we had nearly completed our own plant and naturally opposed the bill. "Did- you spend any money oppos ing that bill?'r "We did not." . .. ' ' "Any money spent by packing plants?" "You will have to ask the packing plants." "Did you have any arrangements with the packers in fighting the bill in the legislature?" . - "They were interested in the water supply." "Do the packers control the stock yards" "When you speak of packing com panies as owners of stock there are none. The Armours own 15,697 shares as individuals; Cudahys, 45; Swifts, 1,756. There are 75,000 shares. Tnose are all of the shares owned by the packers." r i "Whom do you consult regarding business of the yards?" "R. J. Dunham, president." "And he spends most of his time in Armour's office in Chicago, does he?" "I don't know. He is a hard man to find. I v Reads Letter to Murphy.. Heney then read into the record the following letter addressed to General Superintendent Murphy' of Cudahy plant under date of March 15, 1913: "Referring to the Omaha Water Works matter, we saw Morris, and they are perfectly willing to join us. We haven't seen Swift yet, but we expect they will come in too. So, I wish you would see Mr. Buckingham and learn from him his position on the bill to be killed, why, we are perfectly willing to join him and work with him torthat end. Let me knor by wire." John B. Smiley testified he operated small rendering plant in Sarpy county and sold out to Union Refining and Rendering company for $10,000 He said he bought dead hogs for 50 -ents a hundred and when his plant was taken over the Union companv re duced the price to 25 cents. ' Control Other Companies.; Mr. Heney showed that the big packers own and control the Union Refining and Rendering company, and his purpose of examining Smiley was to snow one of the alleged effor's of large packers to absorb small con- -VHY- If i. . f - nn C 7 'ftuiaow is Good-4&aj& You" nthsy" a 21, 1M18. cerns and control the fat and ade business. He noted "in passing that stock of Union Refining and Rever ing company shown in name of K- C Howe, was in fact owned by J. Ogden Armour. Heney read "list of stockholders of the Union company, showing names of Morris, Cudahy, Armour and Swift, owning nearly all of 1,000 shares Telegram From Howe. The following telegram, resa by Heney was sent May 25 4y k. C. Howe, general manager of Arur's South Omaha plant, to R. J. Dunham, president of the Union Stock Yards company of Omaha and said by Heney to be an Armour man:" "The net earnings of the Union Rendering company were as follows: 1912, $14,600; 1913, $14,500; 1914. $7, 750; 1915, $13,400. "The plant and real estate are worth probably $25,000 to $30,000, the stock on hand the last of this week will be worth under $1,000 if Armour 4 Co. don't build a rendering plant hre. I should think this stock would be worth $125 a ahare as an investment. Ycm understand the original HoMers of this stock never paid in over $10,000." Letter From Croll. i he following letter became part the records Dear Mr. Armour: Replying to your memorandum on the corner of the notice from the Union Rendering and Refining company of South Omaha: I have to say that this com pany has paid as follows: 1915, 12 per cent; 1916 (so far), 13 per cent " "The dividends vary on account of the earnings being paid out as they are made; sometimes they run up as high as 25 to 30- per cent, but in late years their earnings, according to statements, rendered from month to month have been somewhat less. From Tanuarv to Nnvimhr nf th current year they earned aboilt $14. 000, which is a little better than 16 per cent on their capital stock. You will notice by the above that thev have paid out 13 per cent so far. F. W. CROLL." Mr. Croll is treasurer of the Ar mour company. Meeker Writes Letter. And then this letter from Arthur Meeker of the Armour official staff and now with,' the federal food ad ministration, to R. J. Dunham: JJear cob: I think your note to Mr. Armour covers the situation. I believe you said that Mr. Swift said that he had paid $125 for his stock, but if he did, he evidently did not get in on the ground floor, but on the roof garden level. From what I learn there are less dead hogs every year, and I would think their earn ings were apt to decrease the next ten years instead of increase. "ARTHUR MEEKER." Heney stressed the telegram of Jl. r, Benson & Wotnt Ready for the Boy BOYS will be boys and when Easter rolls 'round they must have a complete new outfit. 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TARRY 240 C Howe, showing that the Union Re fining and Rendering company, since taken over by the packers, yielded net earnings of $13,400 in 1915, on original investment" of $10,000. Francis Heney Popular Person In Packer Town (Continued From Fa( One.) our very noses, in order that he might not continue his inquisition into their business methods. That would have been a tame "experience for Francis. He has already been shot in the court room once while conducting the Reuf trial. Anyway, just when everybody pres ent was getting fidgety, in walked Mr. Heney with tbe broadest smile and a hearty "Good Morning" for everybody in the courtrbdm. He smiled quizzically, sort of to him self, when he glanced at the clock out of the corner of his eyes and noted that he was late for "school." There were no thrills (except envi ous ones) at Wednesday morning's hearing. 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