In  1880,  through  all  the  storm  and  stress  of  these  day%  he
was  able  to  double  the  capacity  of  his  refinery.  Again  he
succeeded  in  building  up  a  livelihood,  and  again  his  succeas
was  treated  as  trespass  and  invasion.  His  bitter  experience
in  Ohio  in  1879  proved  to  be  but  an  apprenticeship  for  a
still  sterner  struggle.  Rice  was  getting  most  of  his  crude  oil
from  Pennsylvania,  through  a  little  pipe  line  which  brought
it  to  the  Alleghany.  The  pipe  line  was  taken  up  by  the
oil  trust.*

This  compelled  him  to  turn  to  the  Macksburg,  Ohio,  field  for
most  of  his  petroleum.  He  had  one  tank-car,  and  he  ran  this
back  and  forth  faster  than  ever.  Then  came  the  next  blow.
The  railroad  over  which  he  ran  his  tank-car  doubled  his  freight
to  35  cents  a  barrel,  from  17^.  That  was  not  all.  The  same
railroad  brought  oil  to  the  combination's  Marietta  refineries  at
10  cents  a  barrel,  while  they  charged  him  35.  That  was  not
all.  The  railroad  paid  over  to  the  combination  25  cents  out
of  every  35  cents  he  paid  for  freight.  If  he  had  done  all  the
oil  business  at  Marietta,  and  his  rival  had  put  out  all  its  fires
and  let  its  works  stand  empty,  it  would  still  have  made  25
cents  a  barrel  on  the  whole  output.  Rice  found  a  just  judge
when  he  took  this  thing  into  court.     '^  Abhorrent,"  ^<  danger-

I  Trusts,  Congress,  1888,  p.  674.
