St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-28


go in there. Others have committed
themselves Tin our behalf). and don't
think it best, therefore, to bid against
ourselves through you. Very truly.
G. Nj. AMSDEN, q. M.
This last letter, like the others, di-
reefs Wolcott to prevent the establish
ment of an elevator by the farmers at
Reynolds. Amsden sugge sted that he
represent that the Northern Pacific road
would build line west of Reynolds and
make it Improbable for an elevator
which the farmers had established, and
which they were anxious to have VOL
colt run for them.
The following letter. shows that Ans
den kept pretty close watch of the
movements of farmers and others in
opposition to the combine:
OFFICE OF MINNEAPOLIS & NORTHERN
ELEVATOR COMPANY.
G. e. Wolcott.
Dear Sir: Understand Farmers Al
lance talk of building at Grand Harbor.
one of our points. Two houses there
now and very little biz; not enough for
our house: don't imagine the farmers
thant house at nOn-paylng point.
won't know as you can stop it, but
ID INK your man LOuckS was at Devils
Lake, or Grand Harbor, talking it up.
Very truly, G. M. AMsDEN, g. NJ.
tieo. A. PillSbury, &. NJ. Amsden,
President. Sec'y and Treas.
OFFICE OF MINNEAPOLIS & NORTHERN
ELEVATOR COMPANY.
MINNEAPOLIS, April Is, 1888.
g. G. WOlcott, Esq, City:
MIR. Pillsbury expects you will steer
your man LOuckS away from our terri
tory. Yours, &C..
G. M. AMsDEN, Genl. Mgr.
Better work your Scandal people out
OF our Territory. See? Yours, &C..
G. M. AMsDEN, g. M.
Mr.. PillSbury evidently was keeping
pretty close watch of Mr.. Loucks as
early as 1888, and didn't propose having
him buy wheat in competition
If he could help it. The affidavit of
Wolcott shows that MIR. Pillsbury's
visit to Mr.. LOucks was in 1SS9-nearly
one year after the above two letters
were written. Both these notes of Mr..
Amsden show clearly that the combine
did not permit anybody else but men,
bers of the combine to buy wheat.
MINNEAPOLIS AND NOTHERN ELE-
vATOR CO.,
Proprietors Public Grain Elevators in
Minneapolis and on the Line of st. P,
M. 4 N. Ry. Pc. Box 81. 200 Wash
lngton Av. South.
MINNEAPOLIS. MIMI. 5-3l, 1856.
G. G. Wolcott, ESQ.,, Larimore, d. T.
Dear SRI understand that Eastern
parties contemplate building mill at
Park River. Think it would be good
scheme to investigate this matter and
induce them not to build over 75-bar-
rel mill. 1t may also be we'll enough
for you take small interest in this
thing. Yours truly,
G. Nj. AMSDEN, Gen'l Man'gr.
Eastern parties were talking of build
Ing 200 or 500 barrel grist mill at Park
River, n. D., and Amsden wanted w OIL
colt to take an interest with the pros
pective investors and control them in
the interest of the combine, so that they
would not gOind so much wheat as they
contemplated, and the elevators would
have more wheat on which to make
few more dividends of 40 per cent.
Here are more letters:
OFFICE OF
MINNEAPOLIS & NORTHERN ELEVATOR
COMPANY.
George A. PillsDury, q. NJ. Amsdel,
President. Sec'y q Gen. Manager.
MINNEAPOLIs, Mimi, 3. 1857.
c. G. Wolcott. ESQ.,. City-Dear Sir:
Mr.. Plllsbury is very much surprised
to learn that yor have not lived up to
your contract with him, and ordered
the money deposited ihere to CT. of 1st
NATL returned ere this. He thinks the
interest you named is more than offset
by this time (even if any was due you,
which is doubtfuD, and requests me to
ask you to fix this matter at once. V cry
truly, e. NJ. AMsDEN.
Why should Mr.. Piilsbury be sur
cn6 hof al l, cd tn
his contract if he did not know that he
had made the contract in restraint OF
trade?
NJ. & N. ELEVATOR COMPANY.
MINNEAPOLIS. Mimi, 3, II, 1887.
G. G. Wolcott, Esq, City
Dear Sir: Mr.. Pillsbury learns you
intend going into the wheat biz at Gran
lite Falls, and he understands there is to
be another r. r. about to built in that
territory; says the receipts would not
warrant your making this move, and
therefore requests me to ask you to keep
out of Granite Falls. Very truly,
CHAs. M. AMsDEN, q. NJ.
Mr.. Pillsbury, of course, was not sup
posed to know what Amsden did. Mr.
AmSden must have told what was not
so when he said. MIR. Plllsbury learns
you intend going in the wheat biz at
Granite Falls" in opposition to the
trust. or else Mr.. Pillsbury did know Of
the combination. But why go on multi
plying the proof that Pillsbury knew all
about the combination? Can anybody,
who is sane, doubt it for an instant?
And yet in spite of the above letters,
the Republican organs say there is no
wheat ring!
The people will remember that only a
few months ago one of the leading
organs now defending the ring stated
that 10 cents per bushel on wheat was
lost between the farmers and Minneap-
oils.
Do not these letters account for that
10 cents per bushel?