The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04

members, and got ready for work,
ordering their lumber for a ware
house.
On applying to Mr. Truesdale for
permission to build a warehouse
next to side track they were fatty
refused, and told distinctly that If
they built q warehouse and filed it
the wheat. would remain there ten
years before one bushel of wheat
would be shipped by that road if he
remained in control of it.
The house was built upon private
ground, after consulting with R. R.
Commissioners, and hearing that
there was no law by which thew
could compel the R. r. Co., to let
them build by the side track.
When they wished a car to ship
wheat they got it,. thanks to the
granger" legislators of two years
ago.
1t was found to be expensive to
handle the grain in that way, and
days when they were shipping and
farmers came in with loads of wheat
the wagons were weighed upon vii
lage scales and the wheat hauled
and dumped from sacks into the
cars. Upon learning this, orders
came to the depot agent here to not
allow one bushel of wheat to be
loaded into car, unless it passed
through the farmers warehouse.
On learning that those orders could
not be enforced, orders came to
make the Farmers Warehouse Co.,
deposit IS. 90, with the agent for each
car as guarantee that the cars
would be loaded within "a hours af-
ter being ordered, which is not re-
quired of other shippers here. Dur
ing all the time that farmers we're
shipping here this market kept up
about 3 cents higher than the other
near markets.
While trying to make arrange
ments for side track privileges before
building they had promise from the
Franklin Milling Co., of privilege to
build near spur track to their mill,
but when attempting to do so were
fatty refused the privilege, caused by
orders from the "Mogu'."
After working against such in
Justice all the fall and part of winter
the Farmers Co. decided to move
the warehouse to the side track and
force an issue, to see if they had any
rights such a tyrant was bound to
respect. The house was placed by
the side track, some 24O feet from
any other building; but no sooner
had the house been placed there than
notice came to move the building off
within 5 days or action would be
commenced against the Farmers Co.
At this stage of affairs the presi-
dent of the Farmers Co. employed
the County Attorney of this county
to 20 to the r. R. Commissioners
and State Attorney and learn. what
law, if any, they had for self protec-
ton. Instead of doing the work he
was employed to do, he went directly
to the "Mogul," and as he says, plead
with a him as earnestly as he ever
plead with man in his life, telling
how the farmers of this Birch Cody
had bonded their town to the NJ. {
St. L. R. R. Co. in the sum of SIS, OOO.-
90 to assist in the building of the
road and how they were struggling
under their great burdens, to live
and meet their bonds when due, etc.
After one and ons-half hours, as he
says, of such pleading, the 'Mogul'
relented sufficiently to authorize the
County Attorney to say to the farm
ers here that they mi ht rest easy
for the present as things would re-
main in Statu Quo, or to give an I'M
educated farmer like myself to in
terpret the above quotation, the ak
is now raised in the air, and will re-
main SO until-we]l, just such time
as the farmers conclude TO ship
wheat again. Then down she comes,
and away must go the warehouse. or
worse.
For accomplishing all this our Co.
Attorney feels the farmers here
must think he is the best man in
this County-to use his own words.
Farmers, in the Legislature lies the
remedy for your evils. In the Legis-
lature, through bribery and corrup-
ton, the 'Moguls' get their Might
(right) to Cypress the farmers.
LATER.
ED. GREAT WEST:
The Farmers Warehouse Co., of
Franklin, have orders to move their
warehouse off the R. r. grounds.
T4ey (the farmers) propose to let
the r. r. Co. move it. If they do
not want it on their grounds they
can shoulder the responsibility. One
OF the objections Truesdale offered
for not allowing a warehouse to be
built on their grounds was there
were more elevators and warehouses;