COUNTY OF GALVESTON
- BILTMORE PALACE
"Now, now Your Majesty," he began, "You know any industrialist would not agree with a higher cost, and that it would cut profits sizeably. Especially when it comes to something as important as kerosene and coal. You know, Pennsylvania could not supply the North's lighting at night on its own. As there are very few pipelines currently heading there, and I wouldn't use coaches, obviously, I have no options but to transport it by trains. Surely you can... cut some of the funds needed to transport our product to Kansas and Louisiana. About sixty per cent of the current tariff would be a generous amount." Elias is going to be frank; he's fed up with Boykin controlling the transportation industry in and out of Texas. If he would not relent and give him significantly lower cost for freight trains, he would ask a share of the railroad company that Boykin controlled. Expanding railroad capacity. Sounds like another plan to get himself more bucks at the expense of other corporations. And Elias would not bown down to any of it. He has a bargaining power - The West corporation's mines in just a few counties could produce about a half of Texas' coal output. If he did not get a cut, or a share, he's sufficiently prepared for the worst in disrupting the region's mineral output.
- GALVESTON