A few examples will make clear the private railroad or “fake terminal” method of discrimination. The first case of this kind came to light in 1903 through an investigation of the “Salt Trust” by the Interstate Commission. Hutchinson is the centre of the salt industry in Kansas. There are 16 mills, 9 of which are operated by the Hutchinson Salt Company, known as the “Salt Trust,” while each of the independent mills is operated by a different individual or company. In July, 1902, the Hutchinson and Arkansas River Railroad was organized under the laws of Kansas. It took possession of about 1 mile of side tracks which had been built by the Salt Trust in connection with its works. This new Lilliputian railroad company had no equipment of any kind. The president of the Salt Trust and the president of the railroad were one and the same man, Joy Morton, brother of Paul Morton, who was then at the head of the traffic department of the Santa Fe. The Santa Fe, the Rock Island, and the Missouri Pacific—all the railroads entering Hutchinson—made an agreement with the switch-track Salt railroad to give said little 1–mile Salt Trust railroad 25 percent of the rates on bulk salt to Missouri River points, not to exceed, however, 50 cents a ton on all the bulk salt shipped to such points. The rate to Omaha was 12 cents per hundred and the rate to Kansas City was 10 cents. The division was therefore equivalent to a rebate of 50 cents a ton, which is of itself an excellent profit in the manufacture of salt. The result was that without departing from published rates, or apparently violating any provision of law, the trust and the railroads drove the independents out of the bulk salt business on the Missouri River and elsewhere, and an extension of the arrangement to all markets and all kinds of salt would give the Trust a weapon with which it could at any time destroy the independents.[252]