St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-24

siderable. Included in the figures for
Lake Park are the shipments from the
sidetrack at Hillsdale, five miles west
OF here. This year the shipments for
six months, including August, 1895, and
January 1896, have aggregated 1S5,0O0
bushels, which is $4,000 bushels more
| than was marketed at and from this
section during the same months OF the
previous season. This season, however,
there is in store $4,000 bushels, while
the wheat had nearly all been shipped
before the end of January, 1896. 1t is
estimated that there is still in the hands
of the farmers about 10000 bushels
more than will be required for seeding,
and this makes the aggregate crop in
the territory tributary to Lake Park
250000 bushels.
The amount of wheat bought by the
Andrews & Gage house was only
about $4,000 bushels, while the other
house took in over $4,000 bushels, and
the direct shipments from this station
and Hillsdale, 100 carloads, amounted
to g., 600 bushels.
The Independent house was formerly
run by ]. A. Danielson & Co, mer-
chants, but is now operated by the Dan
ielson Elevator company, a corporation.
The officers are: J. A. Danielson, pres
ident and manager; Thomas L. CorIis,
| secretary; n. u. Anderson, treasurer.
L. w. Peterson, Nels Nielsen, C. O. Dan
! lelson and other farmers are stock
holders. This house has always been
buyer when independent shipping has
been possible, and the result has been
| that fair market has always existed
I at Lake Park.
Smell Bros, machinery dealers, help
I ed the farmers to ship their grain di-
rect, and made money themselves by
! shipping their fax direct. They sold
| some at Hitterdal, station north Of
! here, on the Winnipeg division, and
shipped the balance direct to Duluth,
making seven cents bushei on that
shipped. Mr. Smell said there had al
ways been considerable track shipping
from Lake Park, but an advance of a
cent a bushel this year would have at
! tracted nearly all the wheat to the ele-
vators. He thought that where there
are only two houses the competition is
| not always as strong as it might be, and
believed that every town should have
a small house where the farmers could
| ship their wheat direct. This should
contain a number of bins and could be
| furnished by the railroad company, or
! built on the cooperative plan by the
| farmers. 1t was not so bad now as it
was in former years, when the elevator
| companies controlled the market abSO-
lutely, and would not buy wheat that
was not tributary to town. Now the
| farmers need more competition and in
creased facilities for shipping their
grain direct.
Thomas II. Garfield, one of the pro-
! prietors Of the Northern Pacific road,
| and one of the pioneer farmers in the
! Red river valley, sells to the elevators
only the wheat that he has not room in
! his granaries' for He was one Of the
| first to plant the Saskatchewan fife
wheat and has kept up the standard
since he began to raise it in 50. That
year he sowed so bushels of seed on
new sod, and harvested 1000 bushels
| from the so acres. The seed was
picked over by hand, and none but the
largest, plumpest kernels retained, and
for this Mr.. Garfield paid So a bushei,
| or $3.50 for the seed for $50 acres. He
has supplied many places in Mime
sofa and the Dakotas with seed, and
large proportion Of his wheat is sold
each year for this purpose. After seed
| ing is finished, he loads the balance of
his wheat into cars and ships it direct
| to the terminal markets.
Charles Lord shipped three carloads
of wheat direct, and was well salts
fled with the weights, grades and dock
age at the terminal market. On the
last carload his profit was three cents
above the local market price for the
same quality of wheat
Jonas Erickson shipped carload
direct, and was locked four pounds
bushel, but his wheat was damp and
in bad shape, having been threshed
early and from the shock
John O'Day shipped a carload, and
made three cents a bushel.
John M. Hays shipped two carloads,
and made a profit on each shipment.
FL. M. Brown shipped his wheat di-
rect to Duluth, and was well pleased
with the result.
John Horn shipped a carload to Du-
luth, and made SIS.
John Berg shipped and made money
over the elevator prices.
Other shippers We're: M. Carlson, Eric
Erickson, Magnus Lindstrom, w. c..
Carlson, Nels Olson, John Sandgren,
John Norby,t G. P. Erickson, c. w.
Carlson, Magma Bjorge, John Berglen
and Nj. Bjornstad.
In 1894 Peter Wilson shipped his
wheat direct to Duluth and made four
cents a bushel over the local prices.
In '95 he did not raise much wheat, and
sold what he had to the elevators. His
principal crop in '95 was flax, and he
is now hauling and shipping this direct
! to Duluth