The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1888-11-23

ION, the fourth grain buyer, and the
newspaper man retraced his steps.
The question now now naturally arises:
have the farmers just cause for complaint
OF have they not. From the tone of
those who called upon the GRAPHIC the
farmer unhesitatlngly answers in the sfir-
native. So long as he knows from per
sonal experience that he has sold his
grain elsewhere for Il higher price than
he was offered in Kimball, figures In the
form Of market quotations, freight rates,
etc, are of no avail to convince him that
he is mistaken. In the language of the
late lamcn!ed Grover, it is a condition
which confronts him not n theory. On
the other hand, q business man or uni IL
terested party who will take the trouble
to look up the market quotations in Chi
cago OF Minneapolis or any other grain
center, together with the cost of ship
ping and the prices paid by the Kimball
buyers-somcthing any farmer can as
easily asceriain-hc will find it exceed
ingly difficult tod!scover any consider
eoiS IApit : gam buSGIs. VII tlo diy
the farmers made their complaint to the
GRAPHIC The Minneapolis markets We're
quoted as follows;
Wleat Speculative markets were lower ard
with prospects of Il still further decline, buyers
holding Of to wait for the bottom. Closing
quotations.: No. hard, cash, $i.2St2; December.
Si,2i; May, 1874; on track, Sl.2s; No. /, northern
cash, SLIP. December, Sl.iila; Mag. SILT; on
track, Bib; No. ., northern, cash and December,
Sl.01. May, LIZ; on track, $i.oJ.
The grain buyers all state that the
great bulk of the wheat taken at points
along this line is Not or rejected"
The cream of it is not graded better
thun No. . northern. WHAT'S called No.
! northern, MIR. Hayden, who is n prac-
teal miller, snys, is II mixture with No. l
hard, of which the latter is not raised
here. Granting even that all the wheat
taken in at kimball Saturday would
grade No. , northcrn-which the grain
men say it will fall short from doing
1t was worth on track in Minneapolis
sl.o' The ruling price paid in Kimball
On that day was Sc cents-tAough, as
before stated, Iir. I,odgett paid IS
Add II cents per bushel freight to Sc and
it makes Sl.t34 cents below Minneap-
oils prices. If Mr.. Blodgctt's price is
taken it brings it to within 2 cents of the
Minneapolis price, We have not taken
!. into consideration the cost of handling
OF buying the grain By the shippers. An
examination CT the Ochsner Bros. books
for the week ending Saturday revealed
the fact thati II cost them cent per bush
} ell nil grain bought during the week by
their buyer, to which must be added the
expense OF loading and the interest ON
money invested III their warehouse and
the business. On how close u margin
wheat can be handled can only be deter
mined by taking into consideration tho
!, amount bought and sold, together with
a constantly changing market-some-
thing every Individual can figure out fol
!. himself. We know OF one farmer WHO
9 last season shipped II car oil his own
2 wheat!to Minneapolis aud received for il
Just what he was offered III Kimbnll
'i'S' ~ 4HS iiSiS.-t. / loSL uCdIj1
/ 300 - the ce,ti.
=, Nc 90 MOI ,bink the Chamberlain mar
het cats any figure ii the matter and il
5 is not fair 10 compare prices paid there
with those paid elsewhere, A load Of
wheat there is u curiosity and they rush
7 for il. Tho advanced prices are paid by
9 the Chamberlain Mill, which must have
wheat no matter what the cost, but they
buy only the very best.
S OF one thing the GRAPHIC is well salts
+ fled, and that is, that no combination or
G trust exists among the kimball gram
buyers. Plenty OF evidence could be
shown wercit necessary to suhstantiate
that belief. Each aud every one seems
anxious to Obtain all the grain possible
4 and bitter feelings sometimes arise over
the business. Particularly is this true
since Ochsner Bros. entered the ficld-u
firm, by the way, which would be tho
last TO drive trade from Kimball where
+ all their interests lie. Blu in the face OF
all these reasonable deductions is the
v stubborn fact tina; among the farmers
n within Il trading radiHs of Kimball exists
! the feeling thai they can do better will
Il their grain at either Pukwana or White
Lake. 1t is said there is always somt
II fire whore there is smoke. The GRAPH
Il &c confesses its inability to find the fire
or the cause of it. If i. does really exisr
' we earnestly hope some one will dis
covert and %ext:nguish it forth With, anc
. it cannot be done any too soon.