The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1891-08-01
WILL SEND WHEAT UP.
FARMERS PREPARING TO RUN
A BIG CORNER.
The Farmers Alliance Making Ar
engagements tn Keep The Entire
Crop from tho Market.

ST. PAUL, Mimi. July 25 The
Farmers alliance is engaged in an at
tempt 10 corner the entire wheat crop
of the United States. At SIT Mabasha
street for several days large force Of
employees have zen engaged In sending
out circulars with a vie y not only Of
having the alliance men of the United
States but all elias e. of farmers keep
back their wheat crop until the bears
have all been killed off and prices have
been advanced Co high point. In
other words the alliance press bureau
and State press bureau are working to-
gcther, endcavoring to unite the
farmers of the United States I'm "a gigan-
tic wheat trust, i'm which the producers
shall be the stockholders, and by
which the spectators and wheat
buyers will be squeezed TO the wall
AT the head of the movement is
George Nj. Muller, editor of the State
and prominent Alliance man. The
circular, which recites the benefits OF
combination and urges the formation
of the trust" estimates the wheat
crop of 1891 in the United States at
SOC, 100000 bushels. The promoters of
the farmers wheat trust believe that
four-fifths of this wheat can be held
back by the farmers from four TO eight
weeks, by which time IL Is thought
that prices will have gone shyward.
Lists bearing the names of secretaries
Of every Alliance in the United States
are now in the hands of MIR. Muller,
and the circular has been sent 10 the
Alliances Of all the eastern wheat
growing States.
Alliance Wheat Statistics.
WASHINGTON, July 25.-The state
ment is again made that "a huge corner
on wheat is being manipulated by the
Farmers Alliance. The National
officers assert that they have no part
in the plan, as II Is "A subject wholly
within the local Alliance bodies. IL is
undoubtedly true, however, that the
reform press bureau which is IA sort
Of adjunct Go the Alliance. is sending
out circulars concerning the wheat
crop. The circulars are In high-fiown
language and are mainly rehash of
the government crop reports with some
Alliance philosophy added. The circr-
lar closes thus:
'No crops that can be raised this
year can change the fact that the
worlds supply is immensely below
the requirements. The american
that whoever markets his products late
I'm year like this receives the best
prices and there is really no danger
that many will show enough sym
pathy with the spccnlator 20 come To
his rescue
MIR. III. w Aver, secretary TO Presi-
dent Polk of the Farmers alliance and
manager in this city of the reform
press bureau" which is also known as
the Alliance press bureau" said that
the work of sending out circulars de-
signed 10 show the farmers OF the
country that IL was To their advantage
To hold back the wheat crop was act
lively proceeding in this city as well as
in st. Paul, Mimi, which was chosen
as one of the seats OF operations be-
cause of its location i'm the great wheat
belt.
Mr.. Aver said that there have al
ready been 100000 of these circulars
sent out from Washington. and that
during the next few days an average OF
100 OJ "a day will bc mailed until more
than million circulars altogether are
issued. The circular, he said, will also
be published in about two thousand
weekly papers with which the bureau
is connected lie remarked that he
could not say, of course that IL was
the circular which had brought about
the result, but he had noticed In a re-
cent market report that as matter of
fact the actual movement of wheat was
40 carloads less than had been esti-
mated.