"I do not.... I have not been inside a refinery in ten years."[702]
"Two mills a ton a mile for five hundred miles would be a dollar a ton?"
"I am not able to demonstrate that proposition."
"You have some arithmetical knowledge?"
"I cannot answer that question."[703]
He could not state what proportion of the oil trade is now controlled by the trust. He had never looked into that question. He did not know who knows these things.[704]
"You own the pipe line to New York?"
"Yes, sir."
"What does it cost you to do business on that pipe line?"
"I do not know anything about it.... I have never been in the oil regions but once in my life.... I am not a practical oil man.... For perhaps eight years I have given absolutely no attention to the details of our business."[705]