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Show THE WEST CACHE SUGAR CO. TRIAL SALT LAKE, April 23. Cross examination ex-amination ot John A. Uendrlcksoti continued throughout yesterday and ' will be resumed this morning In trie-' trial before Judge W. H. Dramel of i the Third district court of tho suit brought by the West Cachu Sugar company agsinst Mr. Hendrlckson nnd Lorenzo N. Stohl. Faced with the record ot the testimony tes-timony of previous witnesses that' he i had told them there was to bo no "promotions" and that eveiyono was to shnre alike, Mr. Hendrickson deled de-led making such statements In some Instances but added that If he really did make such statements to anyone they were true. ' Tho record ot Mr. Ilendrlckson's bank account was intioduced to show that, but for deposits to his credit of subscription money for stock in tho, company contemplated, his account would, have been ovei drawn by some? thousands of dollars In December, 191Q, as a result of payments mado In connection with purchaso of' the Knight plant and the removal ot It f lorn Canada to Cache Valley. CONTRACTS .INTROnUCKD- , Counsel for the plaintiff called at- j tepfion to the beet contracts, Intro-1 duced as exhibits .bringing out tho j fact that the majority of them were for acreage In the vicinity of Cornish, Trenton, Weston and other localities removed from Smlthfield. The witness wit-ness admitted. that most of. the con?' tructs were obtained after it was known that the Amalgamated Sugar ' company would put a factory at ' Smlthfield, that he knew at tho time that Mr. Featherstone was using the chance of winning tho sugar factory ' I for one of the various towns as an i i argument with the farmers of the various places for contracting acreage. acre-age. He said that tho site was not finally determined until January, 1917, after tho company was organized, organ-ized, and that tho people of tho various var-ious communities had been Induced to bid against each other. Counsel drew attention to tho fact that Mr. Hendrickson had testified that the project to build ut Smith-, field, was abandoned In a meeting of piomotoig held nt Ogden on Soptem-, bor 30, 191C, nnd asked why the Smlthfield project was undor cousld- , oration at that time, when tho beet acieagf contracted was In other localities. local-ities. Counsel also called attention to tho fact Unit Mr. Hendrickson named . TifiUon nB a probablo slto In a letter let-ter of November G, 191G, in which ho offered to sell his beet contracts to James Pingreo of Ogden ,and nlso that tho samo letter set forth Uini Mr. Hendrickson would' ask tho pitv-Jlcgo pitv-Jlcgo of placing 1200,000 .worth of stock of any company formed by Mr. Pingreo with tho residents ot Cacnu valley, explaining that tho major ' part of this amount had been sub-&rlbeil. sub-&rlbeil. Mr. Hendiickson said ho had se-suied se-suied tho subscriptions ot Patrick Healcy, James W. Funk, Owen Nebe-ker, Nebe-ker, Mr .and Mrs. W. W. Rounay, W. S Htijiscn, nnd Senator John Tliornley without having lot them poo tho articles ot Incorporation, In which it wns piovldod that ho and Mr. Stohl should recolvo $529,000 for the contracts for purchase of tho Knight plant and Its romoval from Canada which contracts cost them 3C0,000. Letters Interchanged between E. F. Soderborgand Mr. Hendrickson with regard to"ttie company's promotion wero features of the morning's proceedings pro-ceedings when Introduced for tho purpobe of crohs examination. Tlio pertinent part of Mr. Sodciers letter written on May 7, 1917, follows! "We liavo met seveial bankors and big prospects who ask us to Itomlzo In a general way where $800,000 is going. In tho DIgelow bank wo wero nuked: If tho Canadian plant cost S150,0o and moving It cost, s.iy, $ 100,000 more ,nnd you gavo bonds or tho company of at least ? 150,000, 'and nu say the public Is saving fiom $G5,00i to $100,000 and new pans, nay, cost $200,000 ,and thero Is no promotion stock, no side rakcoff, sand donate,, etc., Air. Moss ot Woods Cross and a dozen mora will como In If you can glvo us a solution. "Of courbo wo know that tho People's Peo-ple's Sugar kopt about half of common com-mon stock and wo met tho public point blank and satisfied thorn, but you folks, Rrothor Hendrickson, havo challenged tho public In your advertisements adver-tisements thatyou wero different. "A1J I ask'uJhQ'aVovQ'Xor Is. to. find out If wo are to saw wood and (Continued on Pago Eight) I WEST CACHE SUGAR TRIAL H f H I Contnucd from Pag One) soy 'Nobody's business,' or meet nil BBBBB BBuk ' comers nnd get their applications. An H itemized statement, If clean cut, H would be fine. Kltiier way you answ- H or we will still sell your stock." H Mr. Hendrlckson'o reply, dated Hl May 9, 1017, of which n carbon copy iBri was Introduced follows: Hj "Your letter of the 7th Inst was 3 received yesterday at tills office and Bl we note with consldorablo Interest i Bonm of the wild figures you stated Hjjj people are offering to you rolatlvo to H the cost of sugar factories. You say 3 moving the plant would cost, say, Hl $100,000, for example. Now wo P have no objection to any and every Hjl one making their guesses as to what Hn ceitaln things cost, but that Is just f About as wild a guess as a man would Ji'mko If ho wns guessing how far It was to a certain cloud. The- Dyer Sugar company's bid for moving the plant, Including tho now machinery which wo ordered, was J 320,000, and the plant at Raymond, with tho now BBR t tiollcrs wo aro furnishing cost con- B eldorably over $200,000 and tho BBH freight on tho Raymond plant and BBJ tho now machinery Is an additional t $50,000. Now add boot shcdB, oluYa- BBJ -tors, pulp silos, warehouses, kiln BBl ' liouso and engine houso and othor BBJ buildings for which you would add BBJ another $140,000, which, you wilt BBJ find, will flguro up to over $700,000; H ijlvlng us less than $100,000 as n B working capital, which Is Indcod ln- BBJ sufllcjonl. Wo should have about B 4 300,000 and as a result tho dlrce- BBB tors are right now figuring on In BBfl creasing tho capital to $1,000,005.. BBB "Now, Mr. Sodorborg, let mo call B your attention to this ono thing, BBB which ought to be an answer to those BBB who aro so Tory curious and which BBB class of people seldom buy anything from you, but only tako your time In asking questions: Tho directors or this company aro n pretty good claim of business men and they have paid for their stock tho samo prlco that tltoso who aro buying from you, and .it their investigation satisfies them and none of them havo loss than about $2C,000 stock then those who buy from you can rest assured that they mo being treated about right. I "Everybody In our company will share nnd share alike, and wo bollovo that every man will got good value for nil he Invests, and thoso who don't believe that, let them Invest their monoy olsowhero, as we only want thoso to Invest with us who be-llovo be-llovo thoy aro Joining a company that will treat thorn fairly." Tho letter was slgned,"Wcst Cache Sugar company, by , General Gen-eral Manngcr." I Efforts of counsel to bring tho wlt-'ness wlt-'ness to denial or vorltlactlon of tho testimony given by previous witnesses witness-es constituted much of tho cross-ex-'nmlnatlon, of which tho following fa 'a samplo taken from tho record: J Q. I am reading from tho testimony testi-mony of William J. Funk. Did yon mako any statoment llko this: "Your dollar will buy as much as my dollar; thoro is no promotion stock; wo alt share and sharo alike" Did you say anything llko that? A. Not that I can find any resol- lection In my mind of It, for I had no reason to. Q, I read from tho testimony of Mr. Frank Wood, and ask you ,lf you said anything llko this at the Smlthflold meeting: -"One' man's dollar dol-lar Is Just as good as another's, pur-chases'Just pur-chases'Just as much, and we all share alike." Did you say anything like that? A. It is evident that all these men havo beon having tho same Bchool teacher. Mr. Jensen I ask that that he stricken. . jH The Court It may bo stricken. A, I don't recall' any such state- mont being mado but If I did stato It, It would have been tho truth. Q. We will see If Senator Funk has been schooled properly. Did you nay anything llko this to 'Senator Funk nt tho tlino he signed the subscription. sub-scription. did you say anything llko that to Senator FunkT A. If I told him thore was jio promotion, I told tho truth; If I tola him thcro was no commission being! charged at that time, I told him tho ttuth. Q. Mr. Hendrlckson, didn't you go right on from that tlmo steadily representing rep-resenting that thoro was no promotion promo-tion In connection with this proposition? proposi-tion? ' A. I didn't need to. Q. Now In that letter of October 14, exhibit "B", you said that Mr. Feathorstone was authorized to negotiate ne-gotiate for n sugar plant for tho West Cache Sugar company holding beet contracts for over four thousand acres ac-res of beets. A. Very well. Q. Did you mlsstato tho fact In that letter. A. If I was going to do It agjiln Q. You would not do it that way 7 A. It J knew then that Ernest Woolloy and Loltoy Ecclcs would bo alive now I would havo changed, X will tell you. |