10.  There  remain  for  consideration  two  further  sugges-
tions. It  is  said  that  the  Hocking  and  the  Kanawha  are
competing  roads,  and  hence  that  the  former  cannot  take
part  in  managing  the  latter,  either  directly  or  through  the
instrumentality  of  the  Hocking's  chief  stockholder.  I  am
not  satisfied  that  these  two  roads  are  in  any  fair  sense  com-
peting. That  portion  of  the  Kanawha  extending  from  Hob-
son  north  40  miles  to  Corning,  and  that  portion  of  the
Hocking  extending  from  Logan  south  50  miles  to  the  river,
are  substantially  parallel  and  20  miles  apart.  There  is  some
traffic  to  and  from  two  or  three  small  towns,  Pomeroy,
Middleport  and  Gallipolis,  but  the  Kanawha  does  not  reach
these  towns  with  its  own  track  and  runs  to  them  over  the
Hocking  under  a  trackage  contract  which  does  not  permit
it  to  compete  with  the  Hocking,  except  by  the  latter's  suf-
ferance. A  small  amount  of  coal  is  produced  at  some
mines  along  the  southern  part  of  the  Hocking  river  di-
vision. The  Kanawha  might,  by  building  its  own  spurs
and  branches,  reach  these  three  towns  and  these  mines,  but
the  whole  of  the  traffic  so  reachable  and  as  to  which,  theo-
retically, there  might  be  competition,  is  negligible  both  in
percentages  and  in  total  volume;  neither  is  any  reason
shown  to  anticipate  increase.
The  relative  positions  of  the  Hocking  and  the  Kanawha
are  not  those  of  parallel  and  competing  roads,  but  those

'^  1900  the  New  Xork  Central  lines  were  fnmiflhing  1,000  cars
per  month  to  the  Central ;  in  1911,  8,300  cars  per  month.  Coal  pro-
duction at  the  mines  on  the  Central  increased  500,000  tons  for  1911
over  1900.
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