The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1883-12-01
THE FIGURING MILL---A PUBLIC
MEETING CALLED.
is issued every Saturday by

many OF Ouf pTOnllnelb ldTulGIs anu
citizens, we hereby call public meet
ing to be held IN Warner hail on
Saturday, the 8th inst, at 2 pm, to
consider ways and means for establish
ing a joint-stock Touring mill in
Warner Every person interested in
the matter is earnestly requested to be
present, and we sincerely hope for q
large attendance. At the meeting the
question viii be discussed from every
standpoint and committees appointed
to compile statistics and CLEAN all
necessary information preparatory to
the calling of formal meeting at
some future date, if such is deemed
advisable. In requesting large
attendance we do so with the know
ledge that it Is to everybody's interest
to attend. Should the movement be
successful every resident farmer ana
business man will be enriched ten
times the amount of his outlay, and
not person interested i'll wheat OF
wheat growing in this vicinity should
absent himself
Remember, this is no individual
scheme, but one conceived for the
benefit of the farmers, for overriding
unjust influences, providing they sec
SEQ fit to grasp it. AT the present re-
tail price Of flour, 50 per cwt., wheat
should be worth here, after deductine
reasonable toll for grinding, something
over 81 per bushel; yet 68 cents i
the price offered by the elevator
and bonus-built mills Here we have
4 margin Of 80 cents per bushel be-
tween the cost of -Four to the farmer
and the price he receives for biz
wheat. And those very mills whicl
we're in the main built by public con
tributions, but allowed to remain ii
private hands, hands pocket this extra 81
cents over and above reasonable toll
and then call themselves public be,,a
factors. Of course wholesale prices
rule tl'ifie lower, but this fact alone
should be sufficient to establish The
necessity Of such an institution. iii
fact; we venture the assertion that the
profits from the concern viii pay our
farmers 100 per cent in three years
from the increased price Of wheat ol
the sale of the flour. a doubt as to
obtaining q market for the product
cannot be entertained for d moment
All through the territory towns are
paying adventufers immense bonuses
by way Of indpeing them to erect mills
Huron is now raising $2o,O0O) and
after they have been erected their
owners by gift ring in with the
Ielevafor companies and leave the
people the amount Of their subscrip-
tions the poorer. But by the proposed
SYSTEM the people own the property
they pay for md hayo it to use as they
please, either for veal or for woe, and
farmers arc given to allowing then
own property to conspire against
themselves.
BY erecting sucli a mill our farmers
will be leading the age and win estab,
lish a precedent that may be followed
with profit the world over. The fact
of farmers handling their own grain
from the time Of seeding until con
verted into -four is the ideal of modern
husbandfy, and were the system
universally adopted it would mos
effcctually abolish an obnoxious clas,
of leeches who fatten off the tillers b
the soil.
Our readers are only tco vel
acquainted with the present sstelil o
robbery perpetrated upon them BY I'm
Iscrup6lous capitalists, whilethe sdgan
tages to be derived from establishin,