The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1895-09-20
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FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 20, 1895.
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1t looks more and more like full Gle.
vators pretty soon, unless the rail-
roads and terminal elevators get q
hustle on and keep IL up.
We doubt IL there Is more than
10000 bushels elevator capacity in
the county. We think that the farm
ers have not granary capacity ON their
farms for half their grain, though re
ports from lumber dealers say that
new granaries are being built very
rapidly. Much wheat will be stored
awaiting higher prices. Wheat stor.
ed IN elevators, however is too "visl.
BILE" to assist in elevating prices.
Wheat ''Stured" in elevators Is not
stored at all, IL is sent 20 market just
US quickly us cash wheat. TIA farm
er stores in an elevator, and pays, say
5 cents a bushcl for sturage, that Is
$50 for IL thousand bushels. For $35
lie can build a granary ut home that
will hold thousand bushels, aud the
granary eau be used for a good many
years To come. We believe In small
portable granarics, they are cheap, do
not require heavy timbers, they save
one, Two or three teams when Llmesh.
ing, and on this account alone, save
the price Of themselves oyer one big
expensive granarv on the farm, or
hauling to the elevator from the ma
chine. A portable granary ska, piled
6 feet high will rold nearly 600 BUSH
els Of wheat, and the material with
car roof costs about $25. If you are
goIng to store wheat you can store
cheaper on your own farm than in the
elevator.
Ii you want to borrow money for
immediate needs, Ii you have plenty
Of wheat and YOUR own uame il good,
you will be accommodated readily by
the local banks ut low rate Of inter-
est ut this season Of the year.
The crop yields frOm the threshing
machine continue the same story of
the largest yield ever known. We
want to get all the reports possible
anu would ask our correspondents and
readers to assist. We want all the
yields possible, large and small, and
the grade. By and by we purpose re.
producing them altogether us a mat
ter VI history and interest. We want
enough 80 that 1t will give fair idea
Of the actual production in all parts
Of the county, as shown by the re-
ports from u number Of farmers In
each locality.
Last week several cars Of wheat
were loaded here by farmers who
crossed the river from kittson coun.
ty. Now they don't have to come
across, there are plenty OF Complies"
at st. Vincent. 1t seems to be a
good thing u have two railroads han.
dy,-but-when they become Two
halves Of one railroad, will the "emp-
ties" come 50 quickly?
a good many kittson county farm
ers are able to hold their wheat. BY
aud by, when nature builds . bridge
across the Red. the three elevator
companies here will probably throw
Out some attractions To those kitLsOp
county farmers.
1t may lie news to some In this
county, who think Of Pemblna as in
one corner, to mention, that at least
one-fourth Of the country trade to this
city comes from kittsOn county,
Mum. and, also. I'VE say it III u wills.
peri it Is certainly something remark.
able, the amount Of Canadian bills
and silver that is current In this
particular locality, especially when
one thinks Of the strict watch kept on
the boundary line.