The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1894-09-14
MANKATO MARKETS.
The Board of Trade Committee
Makes a Report Highly Favor
able to MankatO.
Everything Ever Claimed for This City
is Confirmed by The Actual
Figures.

At Board of Trade meeting Monday
morning Gen. E. M. Pope, for the
transportation COMMITTEE, stated
that he had forwarded the complaints
against the Minneapolis & ST.
Louis and ST. Paul & Duluth
roads, and that as the attorneys
for the roads were away the
time for an answer had been extended
to Sept. 18th. The committee was in
correspondence with the Duluth job
bers Union concerning the complaints.
w. M. Farr, for the special commit
tee appointed to report upon the Man
kato markets as compared with those
of other towns, presented a written
report. He said that the report was
not as satisfactory as he would like,
because it had been found impossible
to secure as much information from
other places as was desired. The re.
port is so favorable to Mankato, and
SO confirmatory of what the FREE
PRESS has been placing before the
people in it's controversy with papers
in the towns around, that we are
pleased to publish it in full. 1t is as
follows:
Your committee on markets beg
leave to submit the following report
as to the condition of the several To-
Cal markets named.
The information embodied in the
report has been obtained:
First from personal interviews; Sec
ond from correspondence; third from
the market reports of the different
towns.
We believe that the quotations CIV
en- in some instances are above the
actual prices paid on the dates named
in some of the outside towns, though
we have endeavored to get as correct
reports as possible and the figures CIV
en- are just as they came to us.
The committee have no doubt they
would have been able to make much
more comprehensive and satisfactory
report if they had been able to visit
the several towns on the same day
from time to time so as to get the
exact prices paid at each point on
those days as we have been able to do
in our own market. From the best
information at hand we find that the
Mankato market pays higher prices
for all the products included in the
scope of our inquiry, than any of the
surrounding towns, the difference
being about as follows:
On wheat from to cents per bushel
On flax 1" 2 to5 4"
On pork 10 to Is 4" " 100 lbs
On hides to4 pound.
With regard to the different towns
we find that compared with our own
market, they are about as follows: On
wheat, St. Peter pays the same price.
GAINESVILLE and Eagle Lake, one cent
less with less rate. Good Thunder
and Mapleton 2 to 4 cents less, and
Lake Crystal l to cents less.
On flax the difference does not vary
much from the figures quoted, 2 to 5
cents. To be more specific we annex
comparative sheet giving the price
of the different products in the sever
al towns on certain days.
The dates given were not selected
with any design but were made
to conform to the dates on which we
were able to get reports from the
other towns.
There is no doubt in the minds OF
the committee that the location in
our city of the Touring mills, oil Omill
and packing house are a great help in
maintaining better market for the
products they use than we could hope
for without them.
This is also true of the malt house,
which has made good market fol-
barley which is becoming a profitable
crop for the farmers. We have found
it very difficult to get the information
we wanted from some of the towns
and this of itself has confirmed our
opinion that those markets would not
compare favorably with our own, else
they would not be So shy about quot