The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-02-19

they found they could not drive the farm
erS mousse out of business, they sat quiet
~ down and waited for such chances as
those that came last fall. They would
NOT quite meet the competition OF the
farmers house when there was no block
ade, and did not handle as much wheat
among them as did the independent
mouse. This season they handled more
Inan usual because Of the inability of the
FARMERS house to keep open during the
busiest season. Had there been ade-
quaee supply OF cars the independent
mouse would nave handled more than half
Oh the wheat marketed in Mcintosh.
1t was at Mcintosh that there was COM
plant in 1894 of the weights given nv one
OF the houses. The scales were exam
ined. The result was that lever reach
Ing under the scale platform and operated
Dy means of loose nail in the floor near
the scales was discovered. Then two
farmers, Andrew Nelson and Andrew
Hlgdon, spring the trap and the appli-
ance was removed forthwith They al
lowed the buyer to weigh a hopper full
OF wheat. and when he gave the number
OF bushels they objected, and. finding the
mail, proved their assertion TIL at the scales
We're being monkeyed with, for they took
turns In standing on the nail and demon
stratlng the effect upon the weights indi-
Gated ON the beam. Their claim was set
tied, but their mouths were not closed.
ana the matter was thoroughly venti-
lated.
There was some track shipping from
MCINTOSH, but not nearly as much as
there could have been, could the farmers
have obtained cars during the rush Of
the wheat during the fall and early win
ter. After the rush was over and the
farmers house could receive grain, there
was not the same occasion for direct ship
ment, as the producers could gain but
little over the prices paid by Larson
me FARMERS, however, who hauled to
FERTILE during the rush saved or cents
over the prices paid by the line houses
for the same grades.
Ole Erickson lives three miles nearer
Mcintosh than to Fertile and he had
1000 bushels of wheat to sell. When
the farmers house was blocked here he
hauled to Fertile. and got No. l hard for
the same wheat that the line houses at
Mcintosh would only grade No. north
ern. He saved enough to pay for haul
ing his wheat to market, making from
to cents on each bushel. After the
blockade was raised he hauled to McIn-
tosh, and sold all his wheat to the farm
ers' house.
Jens Hegelson hauled to Mcintosh I'M
til the farmers house was filled up and
when the other houses would not give
better than No. 2 northern, he took his
wheat to Fertile, where it graded No. 1
hard. He made cents by hauling the
additional four miles, it being four miles
further to Fertile than to Mcintosh.
Ole SeverSOn lives nine miles from Nc
lntosh and eighteen miles from Fertile.
Until the blockade closed up the farmers
house here he sold to the farmers house
for No. l northern, then the other houses
would only give No. northern, and he
took his wheat to Fertile, where he sold
for No. 1 hard and made over cents a
bushel
Christ. Olson hauled some wheat to
Fertile during the blockade and it graded
No. hard. The distance from his home
to Fertile is 16 miles, and is only IL miles
to Mcintosh. He would rather sell at
No. northern at Mcintosh than haul the
additional distance; besides the roads are
better to this place
0. Larson, of the town Of Winger.
hauled two loads of wheat to the Minnie
apol:s Northern, line house at McIn-
tosh, during the blockade, and claims to
have lost two bushels on each load. He
used the same sacks and they were al
ways filled alike, but he received two
bushels less on each load sold at the Min
neapolis Il Northern than ON loads OF
the same number of sacks hauled to the
farmers house at Mcintosh.
John s. King, living three miles north
east east of Mcintosh, hauled three loads
to the line houses during the blockade.
and neither would give him a better
grade than No. 2 northern. He sold two
loads to the ST. Anthony & Dakota and
one to the Minneapolis & Northern at
No. northern He afterwards sold
some to Andrews & Gage, independent,
at No. ! northern, and q carload to the
farmers house at which he received No.
l northern.
Andrew Adams lives seven miles
southeast of Mcintosh and during the
blockade hauled two loads here and sold
to the line houses for No northern.
the best grade they would offer. The
day before he had hauled two loads of
the same wheat to Fosston and it was
graded No. l northern.
Edward Tinberg and Thron Engle-
bertson were two farmers who made
three or four cents a bushel by hauling
their wheat to Fertile during the block
ade at Mcintosh. They have only eight
miles to haul to this town and the dis
lance to Fertile is twenty miles. They
considered themselves well paid for
hauling the extra twelve miles,
Andrew TrOvanton wanted to ship his
wheat direct and had stored it in the
farmers elevator. When the car he had
ordered had arrived the agent refused
to allow it to be delivered at the farm
ers' house and said Trovanton must
load from the track. AS he had already
stored his wheat in private bin in the
farmers warehouse, be had to give up
shipping direct.
Inglebert Larson, the buyer for the
Farmers Elevator company, said they
shipped all their wheat to Duluth and
Superior, as they received better treat
ment there than at Minneapolis. The
commission charged at Duluth is only
One-half of a cent bushel against a
cent at Minneapolis; then there are no
switching or trackage charges at the
head of the lake, but these are frequent
ly deducted when the wheat is shipped
to Minneapolis. Mr.. Larson thought
there were some strange discrepancies
fixed by the state inspectors and cited
two instances where they were un-
doubtedly in error He shipped, early
this season, some wheat from the crop
of '94, and it was as good grain as he
had ever seen. When it reached Mime
apolis it was graded No. 3, while all of
the wheat shipped from the crop of '94
had graded No hard. He thought this
indicated a disposition to grade down
the crop of 49, On the other hand. he
shipped some wheat that was a bad