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long-haul traffic. And this was to be obtained by 

 co-operation with the great packing-houses. But, 

 even aside from this co-operation, the refrigerator- 

 car companies, the packing-houses, and the railroads 

 are so interlocked in their ownership, as shown by 

 the report of the Pujo investigating committee of 

 Congress, that the railroads would have united with 

 the packers irrespective of their interest in freight 

 revenues.^ 



It is by this conspiracy of the transportation, 

 packing-house, and cold-storage industries that the 

 raising of cattle all over the country has been dis- 

 couraged or killed entirely. It is only partly true, 

 if at all, that the production of cattle, hogs, and 

 sheep has been killed by the cattle-ranges of the 

 West. It has really been killed by the inability of 

 the local farmer to find a market. And to-day, in 

 spite of the attempts of the Interstate Commerce 

 Commission to regulate railroads and refrigerator- 

 cars, it is very difficult for the farmers of New York 

 to secure transportation to the city, although the 

 fanners of California and Texas ship train-loads 

 of food which are delivered with the regularity of 

 passenger-trains and frequently in less time than 



1 The methods employed by the railroads to discourage or stifle 

 industry are indicated by the investigations of the Federal Trade 

 Commission and the Interstate Commerce Commission in relation 

 to the recent car shortage and the manipulation of the coal market. 

 Wherever it is to the private interest of the railroads to discourage 

 an industry they do so. This evil is inevitable under private own- 

 ership of the transportation agencies. 



