St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-11-17
The Work Of Supplying
Threshers and Outfits for
Emergencies.
Even Far-DiStant Ohio Drawn
Upon for Hen and Ma
chimes.
The JObbePS' Committee APP
preeiates the Good Work
Of the Globe.


secured to thresh and house the mag
nificent wheat crop of portions of Min
nesOta and North Dakota, the st. Paul
JObbers, Union, the most enterpriSng
and far-Seeing organization of its kind
ia the country. came to the rescue.
Readers of the GLOBE are familiar with
its efforts in the direction of securing
that crop, and the entire story and its
results are made apparent in the fol-
lowing report. submitted to the union
by lis committee:
To the President and Members Of the
st. raul Jobbers' n-Gentlemen:
During the latter part of September a
heretofore unheard of condition of agri-
cultural affairs in North Dakota began
TO manifest itself. ami attracted the
attention of limited number of our
merchants. An enormous crop-mainly
Of wheat-had been cut. hut there Were
neither men nor machines enough to
perform the labor then remaining and
necessary to secure 1t in safety. 1t
stood in ''ShOcks" all over countless
thousands of acres where it had grown,
but stacking" was out of the question
because Of a scarcity of men. 1t must
be threShed from the shock" but
there were not machines enough in the
country to do this. even were they to
work all winter. 1t must not be lost. if
energy and effort cOuld save it. But
few weeks remained before the ad-
vancing season would make the task
more difficult. if not practically impOs-
sible. The cry was beginning TO come,
'Send us men and threshing machines.
or our 40,000.000 bushels of No. l hard
can never be marketed -
The st. Paul job5ers began to discuss
the situation earnestly. We believed
we could extend some practical help.
and your committee set about il without
delay. We first conferred with the rail
road authorities and discussed the mat
ter with them. We believed there were
plenty Of threShing machines aud crews
III the territory south and west of st.
Paul who could be induced TO 60 up
there if we could show them profitable
results to follow. Special rates of trans
porIatiOn must be made. and these were
promptly volunteered by both the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern
railways. The lines running into st.
Paul. on which we hoped to find the
machines and men, were called upon,
and while they showed a kindly and
generous interest in the movement,
their relations 10 each other were conf
pick and they could not respond to our
request quite SO promptly. Their con-
sent came somewhat too late to be of
any practical benefit, especially as we
worked upon tile theory that no time
was to be lost, and whatever was done
was to be done at once.
We issued an appeal through the st.
Paul daily papers. and they gave it
prominent notice The ST. Paul GLOBE,
| especially. took up the matter i'll gOod
| earnest, and spread our appeal on the
| first page of its issue Sept. %, under a
! prominent heading, accompanied Ivy a
| splendid editorial. Another editorial
| followed in its issue of Oct. Is, and still
| another extended notice appeared Oct.
%. The Pioneer Press was likewise
! earnest and efficient in its support Of
| the movement, many extended and able
| editorials and other notices having APP
| peared therein from the commencement
until the close of our iabors. The Dis
! patch and News also devoted much val
| liable space, at frequent intervals, both
editorially and otherwise, to what, in
all directions, was admitted TO be an
| important undertaking. Through the
Associated Press of our own and neigh
| boring states these articles were widely
| copied, or extracted from, and your
| committee believes that the widespread
| publicity thus given to the actual Situa-
ton of our friends and neighbors up
| North, vouched for, as it was, by the
st. Paul JObbers' union. over the names
of cur committee. has been prime
| factor IN producing subsequent results
Your committee has received aDpllca
| tons from the following points Ito each
one of which prompt reply was made)
| viz:
! Mortified 81, st. Peter, " orthington 81
| Zumbrota
Wisconsin - Fremont, Kiel, Lancaster
Rockland. st. Croix Fails %, Spencer.
Illinois Chestnut, De kalb, FiIhan, Free
port (2), Hoopston.
observation-disclosures. Marshalltown, Noun
| Vernon, Nichols.
Michigan-BentoE Harbor Hoppertown
Lucas.
Indiana-Bunker Hill, Laketon. Marion.
Ohio Graytown.
Observation-Disclosures.
In addition to the above, we had one
application from Minneapolis, from {
party who heard that we were paying z
bonus of s. per machine. and who
knew where some could be had, and
one that had been misdirected to the
Minneapolis JObbers' Union'' instead
of ours, which vas transmitted 10 US by
the secretary of their association.
The extensive circulation given to the
appeal issued by our committee is shown
by the geographical location of the
points mentioned, embracing as they
do, eight of the Western states.
We did not, however, deem it advis
able to induce machines and men to in.
cur the expense of transportation into
St. Paul, and again North, except from
the territory near us. and have, there
fore, discouraged all these inquiries
from distant points.
1t was our opinion that newspaper
publicity would not be a sufficiently
certain reliance, and we sent an agent
over each of the railroads running into
st. Paul from the South and Southwest
to find the machine owners themselves
and explain and urge them TO go North
| They were Systematically interviewed
and often many miles of driving over
none too good wagon roads became nee
eSSary in order to reach them. One Oh
two machine men seen and secured il
one locality advertised the fact to others
so that many whose names are unknown
to your committee have also gone.
The result has been all and more thar
, we hoped for. Threshing machines AM
crews to work them have been trans
ported over the Northern Pacific ant
Great Northern roads at merely tn,
bare cost of moving the car containing
the machine up and back. A full crew
of expert threshers accompanied eacl
machine, and these have been taken III
free. Both machines and men will b.
returned free when the threshing i
completed. The points to which the,
have been distributed are as follows:
In Minnesota.
Ada. 1lFelton .... 1IKennedy....
Angus .... l Fisher. 2 Northcote .
Argyle. 3 Fosston. i stephen. 80.
CrOOkston.. IlHallock. 4lWarren.
, Euclid. 2lHalstad.
Total machines.
I'm North Dakota.