MAGIC OF THE MIXING-HOUSE 



It appeared also that this same company 

 had many elevators in Canada, and the leases 

 and intertwinings between its American sub- 

 sidiary companies and those in Canada were 

 so intricate that even Mr. Wells could hardly 

 explain them. 1 



Or we will listen next to the indubitable 

 testimony of G. F. Ewe, connected with the 

 great Minneapolis grain-house called the Van 

 Dusen-Harrington Company. 2 



Question. The capital stock of the other companies 

 is owned by the Van Dusen-Harrington Company? 



Answer. Yes, sir. 



Q. Then the National Elevator Company, the Atlas 

 Elevator Company, Van Dusen & Company, the Star 

 Elevator Company, the Pioneer Steel Elevator Com- 

 pany, and the Crescent Elevator Company are sub- 

 sidiary companies of the Van Dusen? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Later the witness added to this list the name 

 of the Interstate Elevator Company as simi- 

 larly owned. 



lie said that the thus owned National 

 Elevator Company owned in turn 75 or 80 

 country elevators (each at a station), in 

 various parts of the Northwest; the Atlas 

 Company owned 75 or 80; Van Dusen 

 Company owned 50 or 60. In a sentence or 

 two this witness acknowledged the owner- 



1 Hearing on House Bill 1449'J, Sixty-third Congress, Testimony, 

 p. 594. * Ibid., pp. 338, 340. 



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