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these shops were not then and had not been for a year employing more 

 than 150 men. Had there been no rate discrimination, Colorado would 

 have made all the mining machinery needed in the state. However, 

 at that time and with all the shops ready, Denver did not produce more 

 than 25 per cent, of the mining machinery needed in the country tribu- 

 tary to it. It was stated that if there had been at that time the same 

 discrimination between manufactured articles and raw iron as there had 

 been between pig and manufactured iron, the iron manufacture would 

 have developed rapidly in Denver. The rate on pig iron from the Missouri 

 River was fifty cents a hundred ; on bar iron $1 . 00. If the bar iron was 

 boxed to go into machinery, the rate was sixty cents a hundred. 1 There 

 was a discrimination also against Denver as a distributing point for 

 manufactured articles. The rate from Denver to Wood River was the 

 same as the rate from Omaha and other Missouri River points to Wood 

 River, though the distance was several times as great. 2 



It was brought out in the testimony before the committee that the 

 Santa Fe charged about 40 per cent, higher rates on freight from Denver 

 to New Mexico points than was charged shippers bringing in their goods 

 from eastern points. As an illustration of this Mr. Davis, a manufacturer 

 of boilers and engines, related to the committee the following incident: 

 He sold a hoisting outfit, boiler and engine, to a person who desired them 

 to be shipped to Los Cerillos, New Mexico. After the bargain had been 

 concluded, other dealers in boilers and engines who were handling goods 

 shipped in from the East offered the purchaser of Mr. Davis' machinery 

 the same goods at a cheaper price. The purchaser stuck to his bargain. 

 Mr. Davis went to see about the freight rate on the outfit to the destina- 

 tion in New Mexico. Before stating the rate, the freight agent asked 

 Mr. Davis where the goods were made. When he was told they were 

 made in Denver, the freight rate announced was considerably higher 

 than the rate from Denver to New Mexico charged commodities that 

 were shipped in and jobbed from Denver. Mr. Davis next tried to ship 

 this outfit through a firm that had a special agreement with the Santa 

 Fe, Jensen, Bliss and Company. "I went to Mr. Bliss and asked him 

 if he would ship it, he said he would and asked what it was; I told him 



1 Ibid., p. 4. 3 Ibid. 



