Woodford, a copy of which contract is attached to the report of Receiver Pease, filed in your court in November, 1885. After this contract was entered into, they organised a corporation known as the Ohio Transit Company, with T. D. Dale as president and W. J. Brundred as vice-president, to which corporation this contract was assigned. This company continued in the business until January, 1885. Mr. Dale, the president, states that "We said we could not compete with the Standard Oil Company, and for that reason we sold out at a fair price." When asked to whom his company sold their property, Mr. Dale answered, "I don't know what company, but my recollection is that it might have been the National Transit Company." "It was done in their office. I don't know whether the bill of sale was made to Mr. O'Day or to Mr. Scheide." Mr. Dale further states that "Mr. O'Day was vice-president of the National Transit Company, and that Mr. Scheide was its general manager; it, however, is conjecture on my part." In another place Mr. Dale states that the gentleman managing the National Transit Company bought the property of the Ohio Transit Company, and gives as their names Daniel O'Day, W. T. Scheide, and J. R. Campbell. The corporation or partnership, or whatever it is which now manages the pipe-line system in Macksburg oil fields, and extending from there to Parkersburg, is known as the Macksburg Pipe Line. One Daniel O'Day, now having his headquarters at Macksburg, is the manager of this pipe-line. When O'Day was asked, "To whom does the Macksburg Pipe Line belong?" he answered, "I do not believe I can answer that; I do not know." When asked, "Who has general control of it?" he answered, "Mr. Scheide, Mr. O'Day, and J. R. Campbell." He stated that "Mr. Scheide lives in Titusville, Mr. Campbell at Oil City, and Mr. O'Day at Buffalo." He also stated that these gentlemen were officers of the National Transit Company and the United Pipe Line, a division of the National Transit Company; that Mr. O'Day is general manager of the National Transit Company, and when asked whether the Macksburg Pipe Line is also a branch of the same system, he answered, "Really, I am not well enough posted to know, but I presume it is." Daniel O'Day also stated that the National Transit Company is a corporation organised under the laws of New York, and that its principal office is located in New York City. He also stated that "its property is located throughout the state of New York and the state of Pennsylvania, and some in Ohio." The line located in Ohio he described as running from Parker's Landing, in Pennsylvania, to Cleveland. He also stated that the United Pipe Line is a division of the National Transit Company which runs from wells to railroad points or pumping stations, and that the wells to which he referred are located in Alleghany County, New York, and throughout a large portion of Pennsylvania. He also stated that the Macksburg Pipe Line controls, by lease and deed, sixty or seventy acres of land in this state of the line of the Cleveland and Marietta Railroad Company, and that the lease and deeds for this land are in the name of one Benjamin Brewster, of New York City, and that said Brewster is the vice-president of the National Transit Company.
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