Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1886-05-15
NORTH DAKOTA GRANER|ES,
How the Great Wheat Crops
are Cared For.
Directory Of the Elevators and
Warehouses.
Giving Location and Owner
ship Of Each.
An Interesting Article for
Eastern Doubters.

Special Correspondence of the IxrER-CcEAS.l
BorT1NEAu, Oak, May LIN a recent
article infhe St. Paul Pioneer Press on
the elevator system of Dakota, there
was given u resume of the number of
elevators and warehouses IN Dakota,
with their total capacity in bushels and
the names of thirty owners in North
Dakota each having accommodations for
$4,000 bushels and over. The total mum
Der then given was 61S with a capacity
of 1926, 100 bushels. OF these North
Dakota has FOG elevators with q capac.
ity Of s,O1s, 900 bushels and 81 ware
houses with a capacity of $4,000 bush.
els. On the line of the St. Paul, Mime.
apolis & Manitoba railway there are al
elevators and % warehouses with a ca
pacity of 5,93s,O0O bushels. On the
Northern Pacific railroad there are 81
elevators and 10 warehouses with a Ca
pacity of 2,855,OOO bushels. On the
Fargo & Southern railroad there is one
elevator and seven warehouses with q
capacity of $4,000 bushels, and on the
Red river, not on any railroad, there are
three elevators with a capacity of72,0OO
bushels. These elevators and ware
houses are situated in 1923 cities and
towns and in % counties, averaging 9.s
elevators and "a warehouses to a coun.
ty, and the average capacity Of each Ell.
evator is nearly $1,000 bushels and that
of warehouses 5000 bushels. There are
"A separate owners, 800 whom have ell
evators and warehouses with a Joint ca,
pacity of $4,000 bushels and over, ag
gregating 1873 elevators and 80 ware.
houses capable of holding 100000 bu
shells, averaging 266, 800 bushels to eact
concern. There are A other owner,
with % elevators and 81 warehouses, tn,
joint capacity of which is 95S 600 bushel
or m average of 22,82O bushels 10 eacl
individual or company. There are II,
elevators or warehouses in North Da
kota controlled or run by or in the inter
est of the Farmers Alliance or an
other organization distlnctively devot
ed to the interests Of the Granger" e.
far as a be ascertained. The cost Q
the elevators, which Is estimated at q
cents a bushel, amounts in round mum
bers to $1,600,0OO. This is Independent
of the capital necessary to carry on tn
business.
According to the returns made by d.
Kruger, the census enumerator of Ram
sey county, the Minneapolis & Northern
elevator of $4,000 bushels capacity, ina,
a capital invested of $4,000, which is, a
may be observed, nearly 20 cents
bushel. The annual wages paid on
amounted to $1,000. If this case be
fair criterion of the cost and running ex
penses of an elevator, it will be figure'
out that there were paid out in Mort
Dakota last year for wages and runnin
expenses of the elevators alone abou
$4O0,OO0-by one method Of computs
ton $4,000 and by another $40S,O 0(
According to a writer in the Ponce
Press, the cost of receiving, cleaning, e
evating and discharging grain is abou
two cents per bushel. Elevator con
panies who buy and ship grain receiv
from three to three and 4 half cents DC
bushel. Out of this comes the intere.
on the investment, all expense Of mali
tanning and operating the elevator, il
surance on grain, cleaning and loss {
weights and grades at terminal points.
The following is q table of the numbe
of elevators and warehouses, their loo,
ton, names of owners and capacity j
bushels in each of the 81 counties
North Dakota