Show prouty taking evidence on aaion of rates portland ore april IT 17 it if v the rates from the east eastmo to spokane arc are too high those from portland to the interior territory are also that statement which forms an important admission in connection with Port lands prospective case in the event spokane wins her point was made this morning on the stand by james G woodworth traffic manager of the northern Paci pacific the witness wl anes s was taken over considerable ground that had hal been covered at the spokane hearing but he also explained the malting making of rates and their basis he was followed by R B miller general agent of cheha the Harriman iman lines who illustrated the loss in revenue such a move would mean to the system 1 H 11 1 P gillette Gl Uette an expert engineer who analyzed the testimony given givon by chief Mag engineer ineer darling of the northern pacific and st paul who was next on the stand endeavored to show the prices for work and transportation por tation given were inflated to a con sid erable degree richard koehler general purchasing agent for the harriman Harrl man N northwest lines was called for the tire purpose of showing the relative prices of material today aa a compared with those of several years ago the case ot of the howard mills against trana trans r tal lines on rates involving the trans por tation of flour and wheat from Misso missouri url river points will come up tomorrow the anticipated refutation of the testimony of chief engineer darling of the northern pacific and chief engineer hogeland of the great northern came on schedule time today when H P gillette was called to the stand by spokane attorneys I 1 mr jr gillette who is engineer for tl the le washington railway committee said the estimates furnished by engineer Il darling arling for replacing the northern pacific which amounts to about in round numbers is tar far too high and that in his opinion will reconstruct the present system gillette said chief engineer hogeland of the groat northern was waa about as far wrong as his brother en on gincer and that mr Hog elands fig ures tor for re replacing plating the system will total about in round mund numbers should shoud read the expert will be cross examined by the railroad attorneys tomorrow he declared it impossible to check up mr darlings figures on bridging he paid the estimated estimate 1 cost of trestle work of 0 water stations of ballasting and tun nelling was too high the engineer found like fault with the estimates on the cost of ties and steel rails in fact mr gillette took exceptions to practically every estimate made by either hogeland or darling J 0 H reynolds of spokane right of way agent for the washington and ani great northern railway was the witness for spokane and testified to tho the value of rights of way of the different railroads in washington W G Merrl MerA wether another kane real estate man confirmed them estimates of mr reynolds A telegram was read by judge gilman who just received it from st paul stating the value of the great northern holdings in spokane excle live of rights of way and terminals donated Js ii mccune a rate export brought here by spokane and who was formerly in the employ of the great northern was P put ut on the stand and sub bitted a long list of figures showing rates by those these tables it was shown that the trans con U railroads carry several classes of merchandise across the country to the pacific coast and reship re ship it to asiatic ports parts at a less rate for the whole journey than the same commodity earns if carried only to spokane the existence of the asiatic rate as it is called was put in the record of the case |