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Show HOIORICKSOIMT SUeHRlEHRING Former President of West Cache Testifies Before Trade Commission SALT LAKE, April 17 Efforts pf the Amalgamated Sugar company to promote an independent sugar plant at Cache Valley were explained by John A. Ilendrlckson, former prcsl- pany, who took the witness stand yesterday yes-terday in the federal trade commia-ison commia-ison hearing before Examiner Joseph J. Dunham. Tho defendants, the Amalgamated Sugar company, the Ctah-Idaho Sugar Sug-ar company, JSrnest R. Woolley, E, F. Cullen and A. P. Cooper, are charged in the complaint with conspiracy to provont competition In Intcrstato I commerce. I West Cnclic Co. I In offering his testimony Mr. Hen-I Hen-I drickson related, first, his experience in attempting to promote a factory at fmalga and subsequently the opposition opposi-tion overcome in establishing the West Cache Sugar company at Cornish Corn-ish In anMwer to questions put to him by Henry Ward Beer, special attorney for the federal trade commission, conducting con-ducting tho case for the government, Mr. Hcndrickson told how at the re-1 quest of Abo Jorgenson he had set1 about tho organization of a company to build a factory In the Amalga district dis-trict in Cache valley. Stock to tho amount of $1269,000 had been aubscribed for the under-) taking, 4000 acres of beets had been contracted for, ho said, and a first payment of $50,000 had been made rb ' the Dyer Construction company for the erection of u 500-ton capacity factory fac-tory when the Amalgamated company, com-pany, led by I,. R. Eccles, suddenly doclded to build one-third of a mile from his contemplated factory. Mr. Hcndrickson testified further that ! when he had organized the company,! he thought it advslbale to inform tho, officers of the Utah-Idaho company of his move "in tho Interests of ha,r-mony," ha,r-mony," and that he called on Morrill : Nibley, vice-president of the com- ' pany. j Wanted Some Stock Mr. Nibley, so Mr I-Iendrickson testified, tes-tified, expresed his good will to the undertaking and said that he would 1 lllcj to have some stock. Verv shortly . after, this conversation, the witness said, Mr. Nibley came to Logan and informed Mr. Hcndrickson that he was on his way to Amalga to inform the farmers that the Amalgamated was to build there, but that ho wanted want-ed Mr. Hcndrickson to understand i that he. Merrill Nibley, was "not ! doublo crossing" tho proposed inde-1 inde-1 pendent plant, and that he was a par-I ty to the meeting at the request of his I father, C. W. Nibley. general manager of the L'tah-Idaho Sugar company. Following the meeting at which the Amalgamated factory was promised, Mr. Nibley informed Mr. Hcndrickson, stf'tho latter testified that "I guess we have done you up after promising those farmers a factory and a railroad." rail-road." "Wo" in this case, Mr. Hen- i drickson said, meant the Amalgamat- j ,ed Sugar company, of which C. W. Nibley was at the time a director. j After this enterprise had been "done up," as Mr. Hcndrickson said, ho be- j camo associated with Lorenzo N. Stohl in tho promotion which became be-came the West Cache Sugar company. The warmest exchange between witness wit-ness and counsel so far during tiie hearing came when Herbert R. Mac-millan, Mac-millan, counsel for the Amalgamated and Ernest R. Woolley. began his cross-examination of Mr. Hcndrickson. Obtains Option Mr. Hcndrickson told how, with Mr. Stohl, he had obtained an option on the abandoned sugar factory owned own-ed by Jesse Knight, the Eccles estate and others in Canada, andhow it was proposed to bring that plant to the Cache valley. The. witness related the incidents of, a conversation with L. R. Eccles of i the Amalgamated, in which he quotod ' the latter as saying, "If you build In j the Cache valley I will make it so hot for you that you will never live long! enougli to regret your action." and further, "To hell with the people; the j more you do for them tho less they like it." In reply to a statement Mr. Henderson said he made regarding i tho benefit to the farmers of another factory on the west side of the Bear river. The Eccles interests. Mr Hcndrickson' Hcndrick-son' testified, offered as much as much as $75,000 for the option he and I Mr Stohl had for the Knights' Canadian Cana-dian factory. The Eccles opposition to the West Cache undertaking was responsible, re-sponsible, so Mr. Hehdrickson said, for tho suit subsequently brought agninst himself and Mr. Stohl in the district court here for the recovery of "secret profits." Acting Tor ICcclcs In this suit. Mr. Hcndrickson alleged. al-leged. Ernest R. Woolley was acting for the Eccles people and -had at one time offered Mr. Stohl immunity if lie would not contest the action. Mr. Wooloy. .so Mr. Hcndrickson testified, was given stock control of the West Cache through the assistance of the Eccles interests and deposed the former form-er board of directors. Including MePsrs.Stohl and Hcndrickson. During his cross-examination of this witness. Mr. Macmillan a number of j times called upon Judge Dunham fori assistance in getting answers from him. Mr. Hcndrickson testified that he felt "bitter" against Mr. Woolley and that ho had no absolute knowledge knowl-edge of Mr. Woolley's ownership of stock In the West Cache. |
