Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1888-06-06
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THAT WOOL WAREHOUSE,

The editor of the boom pamphlet a
Fort Benton is out in letter in the Riv
er Press, explaining why he has gullet
the wool-growers into building ware
house on the levee at that place and he
fails lamentably to show where the bene-
fit is to accrue to sheep owners. Had he
represented the matter fairly, or in other
than his visionary way, to the flock-mas-
tiers of the Judith Basin they would not
have subscribed money for that purpose.
In asking them to do so Peck's charac-
teristic cheek is made manifest and when
the subscribers find out the true inward
ness of the matter they will forever after
wards regard him in the proper light.
1t is well known that the Manitoba
railroad company is building a large and
excellently arranged wool warehouse at
their depot on the hill, two miles from
Fort Benton. Is it at all probable that
this warehouse would be built on the hill
if the railroad management expected to
build into the Fort Benton bottom? No
one knows better than the editor of the
boom pamphlet that no track will be laid
to the levee for years to come. The
warehouse now being built on the bluff
at Benton by the railroad company will
cost not less than $4,000, being 40 or so
feet wide by 200 feet long. Is any one
foolish enough to believe that such
structure is being built for this year only?
The sheepmen who have agreed to put
noneJ into thie 1evna warahnuse are do
ing so without any guarantee or certainty
that railroad track will be built to it for
years, but with every indication that such
track will not be built. So those who |
put wool into it will simply have the |
same old scramble to get their clips ship
ped by the river before the bottom drops
out or will be compelled to have it haul
ed over two miles to the depot warehouse.
Before dropping their money into
scheme of this kind, we would suggest
to the woolgrowers that they get some in
formation upon the subject from reliable
source.
The talk Peck INDUCES in to the effect
that wool stored in such buildings as the
Manitoba is building at Great Falls and
Benton will dry out quicker than if stored
in his patent, cold storage concern, makes
one sick. Single roofs will cover the
railroad warehouse, while iron and wood
are to make the roof of Peck's building,
As all of these buildings will be open
most OF the time during the day, the hot
air is bound to rush through them and
will dry out the wool more or less-to
about the same extent in one as the other,
AS to COMPRISING Montana wool some
OF the best posted and most reliable wool
dealers of the east say Montana wool
should not be compressed unless at least
one cent ponnd is saved in freight,
We all know the woolgrowers have no
axes to grind for any one but themselves.
but those who have watched the move
ments of the secretary of the associa-
ton" can plainly see that he has axes to
grind and that he wants to use the wool
growers for his own special benefit. This
warehouse scheme is the, most glarinp
proof OF the fact that has yet been pre-.
sented.
For the benefit Of the wool growers we
will state that Great Falls is assured as
low rate as Benton on wool. The rates
are now the same and they will remain so,
whatever changes may occur. Peck
knows this as well as anybody, but in
order to serve his blooming" object, he
the facts.
We say again that it is an imposition,
md worse, to ask the woolgrowers to put
money into such an enterprise and the
ime is near at hand when they will fully
ealize it. Peck will be about the only
beneficiary.