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pers over your road to Chicago. I have been in eastern Iowa for 

 thirty or thirty-five years, and the conditions are about the same 

 as when I commenced shipping. You never know where you are at 

 when you get off your train; there never is anybody to tell you 

 v/here the caboose will be. There will be three or four trains to 

 make up at Silvis, and a man doesn't know where his stock is or 

 vhat caboose to get into, and they all pile on one caboose. 



Mr. Whitenton : I will be perfectly frank with jou, Mr. Hamil- 

 ton ; I don't know why the conditions in that respect are as they 

 are at Silvis. 



Charles Cessna, Grinnell: I find the conditions at Silvis about 

 the same as already stated. At Savanna and at Clinton, on the Mil- 

 waukee and North Western, they are some better. Before you get 

 off your train on the Iowa division at Savanna, or going from Ma- 

 rion to Savanna, the conductor comes around and punches your 

 pass, and says: "This is second 62, or length 62," or whatever it 

 might be. We all go to a certain place to eat. A brakeman comes 

 in and says: "All men who came in on second 62" (or if the two 

 trains double up, he says, "second 62 and 63") and the bunch fol- 

 lows him and gets in the car, and are with the stock nine times out 

 of ten. At Silvis a man has no way to know what train his stock 

 is on. AVe get off our trains and they are switched and doubled up, 

 and they pull the train by and stop the caboose in front of the 

 office, and all get on who can. Mr. Eisele and I have several times 

 got an order to stop the passenger train at Silvis and got on it. Of 

 (ioursc when vv'C do that we lose our return pass. 



I\Ir. Whitenton: I will be very glad to look into that Silvis situ- 

 ation. 



Will Drurj^, Early: I would like to ask Mr. Whitenton if he 

 couldn't take up the matter of receipts with the railroads west of 

 Chicago, and give the shippers some line as to what they would be. 

 Yesterday v/e heard from our commission man in Chicago, Mr. 

 Walters, stating that the Ics? to shippers on Monday's market 

 v/as $45,000, while their gain on a light run would be only $15,000. 

 After a big run, the Drovers' Journal will send out the report that 

 the fool stGckm.en flooded the market. There is no way that the 

 stockmen can find out v/ho are going to ship except through the 

 railroads and if there was a bulletin out twelve hours before the 

 shipment, they would not flood the market so. Forty thousand or 

 sixty thousand hogs in Chicago means a tremendous loss to the 



