The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1890-03-14
EVERY FRIDAY MORNING
FRIDAY. MARCH IA, 1880.
EVERYBODY READ.

EVERYBODY READ.
We are not sensationalists. W.
are not alarmists. But we believe
that there is a large shortage of seed
wheat in the country contiguous tc
Pembina. It needs no argument
to prove that this is u matter in
which everybody is a like interest.
ed. The Northern Pacific, the Gle.
vator companies, the business men,
the laborers are all interested.
Whatare we to do about it? First
find out if there is a shortage.
Second, devise means to supply the
need. There is no cash with which
to buy, but ample security can be
furnished. The question is, where
is the wheat to buy2 The farmers
that had wheat last fall sold them.
selves short to pay their debts.
That was honest and right. others
had no wheat to sell. Now they
need assistance to procure seed.
Mutual existence depends on mu.
tual help.
During the past week a number
of people have been seeking aid, at
the auditors Office thinking that
the county had done something.
The commissioners hayc done
nothing for the following reasons {:
LIST, but few appeals came to their
notice until this week. end.
Only one petition to bond, or for
the county to buy wheat, came in
and that was filed March LIST, one
day too late to act under the bond
law. Bird. 1t was thought farm.
ers could procure seed under the
bill making the price of the seed
wheat a tax. 4th. The petition
filed was signed largely by men
who do not need seed.
The situation. We know of
only one locality where the short.
age is alarming. In other local.
tiles there may be an equal short.
age, but so far as we are informed,
there is more OF less seed in the
hands Of ncighbors, who however
need and demand cash. From
positive information received dur.
ing the week, we fear a large por.
ton of the farmers oftle northern,
part of toilette township, a part Of
Carlisle and Pembina, are without
seed. Some without bushel and
some are only partially provided
for. From superficial investiga.
ton. we believe that from 1000 tc
5000 bushels of wheat will be
wanted at Toilette station during
the next 40 days, to say nothing Of
other grains. And there is nc
surplus grain there, in anybodys
hands, that we can discover
There is however 1000 bushels a,
Bowesmont, and it is believed thai
the farmers near that point hav.
sufficient seed and perhaps little
to spare. The agent at Bowes
mont has no privilege of sale or
any account and the wheat may be
shipped south any day. The farm.
ers around toilette station are
mostly able to give good security
beside the seed lien, but, we un.
derstand, the elevator companies
have lost so much money in ad.
vancing seed grain, that they dc
not care to sell to any body except
for cash.
The seed-tax.lien.law passed by
the present legislature is, in our
humble opinion, not as good as all
culinary seed lien, or chattel mort
gage. By its terms however, it
is of no use now, at any rate, as
the term expires for applications
tomorrow, March 18th.
What can be done? We confess
We do not know. Today, Friday,
a meeting will be held at toilette
station at 2 p. m. to find out how
much seed is wanted, and what
can be offered as security. To.mor.
row a meeting will be held at Penn.
binna in Kittson Hall at 8 p. m.
to consider the same question.
We do not know if any thing
done. We do know. il
done, nothing will be
u us at least find out
e need and, as Daaaftit,, is
Her of inventi Lay