St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-22

would pay for it at the elevator. The
market was fair, but could not be con-
sidered good one, as might be ex-
pected where there were so many buy
erS.
The houses here are: Andrews &
Gage, 35, 600; Monarch, 1900, and j. A.
Todd & Co., the new house, rs. 900, max
ing the total capacity 5000 bushels.
The farmers shipped direct from the
track about sixty carloads or 10000
bushels of wheat and flax. The Audi
bon roller mill has consumed about A.
900 bushels, and the elevators have
bought about 1876, 900 bushels, making
the total amount Of grain marketed here
close to 100000 bushels. OF this there
still remains in store over $4,000 bushels
and more than that number of bushels
are still in the hands of the farmers to
be shipped when navigation opens, or
sold when the price advances.
The elevator companies claimed to
have bought on margin Of two cents
above expenses, but, as the farmers
who shipped direct made an average or
three cents a bushel, they probably had
a cent a bushel. at least, more to go
on. The competition between the buy
ers caused them to grade some OF the
wheat No. hard when it should have
been graded No. northern, as it is gen
orally conceded that there was but lit
tie No. l hard grown in this section.
What there was of that grade was rails
ed on the prairies west Of here, and but
little of it reached this market. On the
south the grain was divided between
Pelican Rapids and this town. 1t was
claimed that better prices were paid all
through the season at Pelican Rapids
for both wheat and fax, and it Is GER
tain that many of the farmers who are
nearer to this market hauled all OF
their grain fO the distant town
and sold it there. It is difficult to esti-
mate the loss to the farmers, but 1t was
not large sum, considering the large
amount Of grain marketed here. The
greatest loss was on fax, which is diff
cult to grade, and, as there were large
quantities of this seed raised In the
country around Audubon, more of it
was shipped direct from track by the
farmers than wheat. Many Of them
sold their wheat to the elevators and
shipped their fax direct, although quite
a number shipped both wheat and flax
A. Gcttenborg, one of the leading
merchants of Audubon, sold some wheat
to the elevator companies, but 1t did not
hold out according to the machine
measure, or come anywhere near to
doing so, and it was even worse on flax
The balance of his grain he will ship
direct, and knows from the experience
of others, that he can make money by
doing So In "a he hauled some Of his
wheat to the elevator from the ma
chine, and 1t graded No. northern and
was locked two pounds. Later in the
season he was hauling the balance Of
his wheat to ship direct, and the agent
for Andrews & Gage, the company that
had bought the first of his wheat, offer
ed him No, 1 hard and half pound
dockage. Mr.. Gottenborg refused the
offer, and the agent wired to headquar-
ters and was authorized to pay two
cents bushe1 above the local market
price for the wheat and Mr.. Gottenborg
accepted this offer.
o. P. Boyer shipped a carload Of
wheat to Duluth and sold it for 81 cents,
while the best offer he could get here
was 48 cents. He made four cents a
bushel by the transaction, for the local
market was only At cents on the day his
wheat was sold in Duluth.
Ole Strand. who lives six miles north
Of Audubon, shipped a 450 bushel car
load Of flax to Duluth and made four
and half cents bushel, besides near
1y two cents through the lower dockage
at the terminal market. 1N'--,5. ID
Other farmers who shipped wheat or
flax were: Mark Combs Sever Larson,
Peter Swenson, Ole Larsen, Andrew
Johnson, Knute Rossun, Hans Jensen,
Lars Knutson, Ole Walden, Olas An
derson and Nils Gye and P. o. Boyer.