The Benton democrat. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1871-18??, 1873-04-12

intended to be, very liberal with the
farmers i'm the matter of weight, and OF
taking wheat unfit for to be stored.
lam well satisfied, and the evidence
I have presented goes TO show, that there
is considerable Increased weight. IF
wheat is in good condition when weigh
ed into the warehouse at harvest time,
it will weigh out in January, or later,
with an increase of y per cent; or, at
at any rate, it is as good as 8 cents per
busheI to the warehousenen. Then
Comstock & Co. were paid, say cents
per bushel for buying, and the price of
freight to Portland from Corvallis is,
and will continue to be reduced, if we
manage wisely, say q Is cents per bushel.
The Unnecessary expenses that kept the
price of wheat down this year are as
follows:
Increased weight per bushel ....$ .O5
ForDuylng.. ............ I'D
Freight. ............. .075
! Total. .I75.
This LIZ cents is over and beside of
the cents per busfe1 paid to the Ham,
iltons and Mr.. Hyland, for storing
handling and buying. 17% plus rs
equals 92L cents. But, says the ware
housemen, the increased weight will not
increase the price, but the quantity.
very WG1l, we CstIl pay GuG I1dulIlIOtiS
with the increased weight, and take the
cents storage ourselves. Five cents is
as good to us, whether it comes from the
increased weight or from storage.
With prudent management we may
just as well have 921a cents per bushel
as to take 75, and add nothing to the
price paid by the shippers. am inclin-
ed to believe that every encouragement
should be given to the opposition line of
boats, for they have put freight down.. Z
Our surplus products must be put in
the very best condition before they are
delivered to the Warehouseman or offer
ed for sale. This being done, we may
employ an agent to receive, store, and
sell our wheat, paying him, (he being
the owner of the Warehouses) 5 centspe
bushel for his services. His business
will then be TO get us the highest price
instead of the lowest, as heretofore; or,
we may insist that there should be no
discrimination against wheat on the
wharf. So that the farmer can put his
grain on board steam boat at the same
price as the mearchant can his bacon.
The farmer has been, and is, charged
cents per bushel, or $5 for 100 bushels
of three tons, while the merchant is
charged less than one half this amount
for his bacon.
I am credibly informed that the oppo-
sition freighting company are making
arrangements to establish wharves for
their boats to land and take freight at
all the principal points along the river,
and make these Wharves free to all freial.l
Hurrah for the opposition, 1 say. If
there is not some arrangement of this
kind by the opposition, then the city of
Corvallis had better see to it that there
is no discrimination against the farmers
frninhf If bn for. will soor
to patronize this town, while this dis
elimination exists here against him, he
ought to remain in the future, as he has
been in the past, the menial slave of the
middle-man. If wharf be established
here upon the basis of equal rights, the
farmer can sack and store his surplus
grain in any part of the city and deliver
it ON board the river boats, when sold,
at any time during the winter. This
will insure him the increased weight.
Many of the farmers own houses and
lots here already, and many more would
like to own them here. A small granary
could and would be built by the farmer
on his lot here, and his grain put into |
it and kept safely until it is sold.
This course will greatly benefit the
producer, the consumer, and the city. I
1t will benefit the producer, for it will |
insure him just what his grain is worth |
at the time it is sold, unmixed with |
other grain. It will benefit the COM
sumer, for it will enable him to get his |
bread-stuff and chicken feed of the pro-
ducer, at any time, at just what it is |
vol tn at the time he buys it, which has |
not been the case under the old system. |
1t will benefit the city, for it will bring |
people and property here, and build |
houses, barns; and granaries, which will |
go elsewhere if this system of discrimi- |