Senator Long. How are they able to do that?

Mr. GoLDSBOROUGH. Well, coal of course is cheaper there than it is
here, and they were working under a statute wriich I understood
enabled them to devote all their time and energies to perfecting the
art of making gas cheaplv, which they did to unusual perfection.
Senator Scott. They have a very lar^e pipe running from West
Virginia that carries natural gas into Cincinnati ?
• Senator Long. Then that is competition.
Senator Scott. No, sir; it is sola by the gas company.
Mr. GoLDSBOROUGH. Senator, was that the case m 1902?

Senator Scott. They have been taking gas out of our fields for the
last ten or fifteen years. I do not know whether thej use it now. I
only know it is piped by that company from our State into Cincinnati.
Senator Long. That is natural gas. That is a different propo-
sition. ^

Mr. GoLDSBOROUGH. Ycs.
Senator Scott. I presume they mix it with the manufactured gas.
I do not know that. I do not make that assertion at all.
Senator Paynter. Has the Cincinnati company been paying divi-
dends to its stockholders ?

Mr. GoLDSBOROUGH. The company has always been paying divi-
dends to stockholders and the stock has been increased from time to
time from a comparatively small amount to something like thirty ot
forty million dollars.
Tne Chairman. In reference to the price paid in Cincinnati; I
have a letter from the mayor of the city, written a little over a year
ago. He says that the price is 85 cents a thousand if paid within five
days; and for fuel gas, 50 cents; and that they had a ten-year contract.
