The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1882-08-25
The Reviews Market II ,ports.

There IL published in MS % pa
per called the Reuieto. ~rives its
sole patronage from the bi :ss men
of this city, and has grown and waxed
fat from their support, but not week
goes by in which that paper does not
smite the hands which feed it, by either
pur posely or ignOrantly misquoting the
markets vt our city, and We are prone
to believe the atfront is made purposely,
for fool wouldn't thus err Ignorantly.
In its issue of the 18th inst. it quotes
best quality of butter at IL cents, and
not until every exchange in the neigh
borhOOd copied and commented upon
iyand the merchants protested against
such misrepresentation, did the editor
take it back. Good table butter in this
market has brought from lS to 30 cents
pound the entire season. Again, in
this weeks issuse it says:
Are not our local dealers in flour too ex.
acting in the prices they demand and receive
for that artlcleI 1t seems to US, from Il gen.
eral view of the markets elsewhere and frcm
what we know is being charged in neighbor-
ing towns, this Is the fact. An inquiry of
one of our dealers gives quotations as fol-
lows: Per lO0 ns., patent, $4.lo to $3.50;
be disputed that the price Of wheat, which
should regulate this matter, is higher by from
~ a. ~ cents per bushel at st. Paul, Mime
are paying 50 to IS cents per hundred more
| than the retail price at WinOna, and about
the same amount more than the people of
st. Paul ami Minneapolis are required to pay.
Now let us investigate the truthful
ness of this guess work evidence. BY
"local dealers" the editor means our
millers. Inquiries at the big mill re.
veals the fact that patent flour is not,
and has not been, for some
months, higher than $3.50 per
hundred, while the Repiew says it
is "a 80. Then again, the prices Of the
flour mentioned were reduced 25 cents
u hundred last Monday morning, one
day before the Reoiew was published,
thus making patent 1885 and $4.O5 per
hundred, and straight $685.. Further,
the ReuieW is well aware that no new
wheat flour has been put upon the mar
ket yet, and that all -four sold at pres
ent was made of wheat the average cost
Of which was $l.35 bushel. Especial
ly is this so at the big mill of this city.
The editor further says that "wheat is
higher by from 10 to l2 cents bushel
at WinOna than it is at Mankato." TAX
ing the Winona daily Republican of the
2lst inst, we ascertain that wheat there
is quoted at 80 cents, while at Mankato
it was IS cents. Flour at WinOna was
quoted at 1897 to "a per hundred for
patent and $3.50 FOR straight, thus at
Winona the latter, instead of being
from so to rs cents lower, as the ReoieW
says, it was Is cents higher than the
same -four at this place, while at Min
neapolis straight grade -four sold at
$3.37H per hundred. and the same at
st. Paul. And it is well to remark that
the Winona -four is made from winter
wheat, while Mankato flour is made
from the hard Scotch fife, which is worth
in any market several cents bushel the
most.
Another fact is that last spring our
millers were requested to enter into
combination to raise the price of -four
far above even the figures of the Recie.c,
but they did not join any such con-
spiracy, yet they are eternally cursed
by the Repie,o for doing far better by
their consumers than other places around
US,
Why a man like Mr.. Wise should
forever run down his town instead of
speaking kind word tor it, is beyond
the comprehension Of our business COM
| munitY.