The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-01-16

GOWN. Inc CONSEQUENCES O1ItCpy 10, Oudb
BUYERS are instructed to be more rigid in
grading, or to drop the price a cent or two
per bnshel. Indirectly an injury is don by
creating an impression that little, III any,
No. 1 wheat is raised in Dakota The most Sc
rious injury, however, is o the farmer who
ships his w grain. He must necessarily, il
he has any large quantity to ship, do so
through the nearest elevator, because OF the
convenience of handling. III, as has been
charged, the elevator agent mixes the
farmer Nc. ! hard wheat With aa iafer!c.
grade, the cars will convey to the distant
market wheat that will not be UP TO grade,
and the farmer will be woefully disappointed
in the returns of his shipment. IL has proved
very difficult TO trace an otfense OF the nature
specified, for the reason given above e.,
wheat loses it's identity when elevated.
We are of opinion that If it be true that
this crime has been committed land we con-
slider 1T a crime, indeed,I the perpetrators
should be punished TO the full extent Of the
law; and we believe Messrs PIlsbury * Hurl-
but. George w. Van Dusen a Co., the Northern
Pacific Elevator company, Messrs. Pratt and
others who own the principal elevators on
the lines of the railroads of Dakota, would
assist with all their power in the prosecution
of any agents of theirs who should so attempt
to cheat the farmers.
1t appears to us that a free, open market
is a cure for the most of the ills to which the
farmer is subject, In connection with the
1A4A3I n ~ W AASob 1SAO ia tAlS " NEL
BY a free, open market, we mean the priv
lege Of shipping his grain directly TO any
point he desires, without unnecessary delay,
at the same rate per car load paid by owners
and proprietors of elevators; cars to be fur
nished and facilities afforded for loading on
the side tracks of the railroads, when prac-
ticable, or through the elevators, as the ship
per may choose, at q reasonable charge for
~eleyating, with proper safeguards against
mixing the grain. After this the great law
Of supply and demand will regulate the
whole subject better than all the statutes pos
sible to enact.
RECEIPTS M
We nave the hon to submit, in connec-
ton herewith, tabulated of the
receipts and shipments of wheat at the diff
ferent railroad stations in Dakota, together
with the number and capacity of the eleya-
tors. Our total elevator capacity is 5000
600 bushels. Our total shipments through
public elevators and warehouses were H.
1877, go bushels, as follows:
Pillsbury e. Hurlbut, on st. p, NJ.
~. 1850, S5S
N. P. Elevator Co., on ST. p, Nj. & Nj. 58I,S2S
N. 7. Elevator Co., on N p. road 49,, 2,00l, 29o
4 St. P.....~......,s......:.... 2,sss.71a
ofC. g. \. 1.O24,Ooo
Other purchasers on lines of ca NV 1,490, 800
On lines c., st. p, M. 81 O..... 16O.903
Total. 397,019
Reeves and other buyers, including
the Grandin Elevator Co, and indi-
vidual shippers on Manitoba road. 1,070,7O
Total shipments by railroad 49,. IL, 268, 62S
To the above add the large amount
purchased by the Touring mills dj-
rect from the farmer, amounting in
the aggregate to. ................ 3,SoS,OOU
Add also the seed wheat retained in
the hands of the farmers necessary
to seed the l 900, 600 acres in wheat
this year, at one bushel and a peck
per acre. 1000. OO6
Gives a grand total Of. $780, CPS
The capacity of Dakota Touring mills il
$3.50 barrels day, using 26.400 bushels Of
wheat per diem-a total OF 1895, 900 bushels
per year.