The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-01-24

along the road. Neither has it
been our intention to censure
any local buyer because they
have not kept up the market,
yet w. L. Beaton feels aggrieved
and why he should the Red River
Valley market is a query yet I'M
solved. The wheat question of
to-day begins to take on aserious
attitude, and it may as well be
met fairly and squarely as any
other..way. 1t is a conceded fact
OH the part of the elevator men
in Hallock that they. owing to
the grading, cannot compete
with the points on the Northern
Pacific, and it looks as though
there was a niger in the fence
somewhere, and just where the
chap is located would be a great
source of satisfaction to the
wheat producers and grain buy
ers of Northern Minnesota. As
to the combine of the elevator
system there is no doubt what
ever, and the illustrious board of
Railroad and Warehouse Com
missiOners are sharing in the
''rake off, This is saying con-
siderable, you may think, but
wait till we look a little further
into the matter. In the first
place wheat that last year would
pass as No. 1 hard, goes below
and is as liable to go rejected or
No. 3, as anything else. Wheat
out of the same bins have been
sent to the markets, all loaded
at the same time and place, and
raised on the same land. One
car would go No. 2 northern and
the other "off grade" From
the books and returns Of the
wheat buyers, anyone can see
they have been grading as high
as they could and have then lost
a grade or two when wheat
would reach the market. From
railroad agents at Drayton and
Hallock we are informed that the
rate from both points are 10
cents per hundred, and the only
way this little conundrum can be
solved is this: The elevator sys-
tenn combines against local buy
ers, and the illustrious Grain
Commissioners sit back and
watch the proceedings, and the
railroad companies are giving
rebates to those in the ''ring,o
and the buyer who happens to be
on the outside can just whistle to
himself, for he gets no benefit.
To show more fully that there is
something in this deal, we cite
our readers to the experience of
Eklund Bros, who began buying
at Drayton. That firm was re-
fused cars, and when asked the
reason were informed that the
company was afraid the ele-
vator folks might not like it. :"
At Drayton they are paying no
higher price for wheat than in
Hallock, but the difference is in
the grade, which is higher. Now
it seems high time that some
thing was done. There is no
denying the fact that the present
system of grading wheat is ruin
ing our market and injuring our
town as a whole. You ask what
is to be done? That is a ques-
ton not SO easily solved. Itwas
supposed when the republican
administration conceived this
commissioner scheme that the
offspring might prove beneficial,
but if their actions the past
three years are anything to go
by, this state has seen enough
of such ring rule, and want to
see this new tangled system OF
paying flcn men d salary OuU OI
a poor mans pocket forever
abolished. Would it not be a
good idea to have a committee
appointed and wait on these mo-
guls in there elegant parlors in
St. Paul and give them to under
stand the people of Northern
Minnesota are not as big fools as
they look, and demand justice
and right at their hands.
Iowa Tribune:
Mortgage Census.
The U. S. Senate has already
discussed the question as to whe.
ther the census soon to be taken
shall show the mortgage indebt-
edness of the people. That au-
gust body OF millionaires is not