Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1896-03-06
-. ). HILL oN IMMIeHArIoN



Recently President Hill of the Great
Northern addressed an immigration
convention at Warren, Mimi, and, as
usual when he stands before an audi
ence, his listeners were instructed and
entertained. Among other things he
said:
Let every man at home in his own
house think over where he came from
and find the names of dozen of his
old friends to whom he can send the
printed matter; or, better, to write and
tell them what he is doing, what he has
done. You can take men right in your
own neighborhood who came here, some
from other states. some from other
countries, without much of anything
except their hands. They have got on
and have lands and cattle to show for
it. If they will send back and say
! came here 10 years ago. I had $500.
or 5000, or $50, and now have 100 or 800
acres of land, stock, horses, ETC.; am
worth. as many can say. $4,000 or $780,
900. or $40, 900. This is the best immigra-
ton pamphlet you can send.
II want to call the attention of tho
farmers here to question that inter-
ests them more than any one else. The
low price of wheat. Owing to the con-
dition of low transportation all over the
face of the earth and the opening up of
new fields, the low price of wheat, in
my judgment, has come to remain. l
do not mean to say that 1t will be as low
as we have seen 1t. But the day for
81 bushel for wheat has gone. Re-
member that there is field of wheat
ripening every day somewhere on the
face of the earth. And we have to de-
pend on better methods.
I'VE have got to raise the wheat for
a lower price to meet the markets. Last
fall it started in, as you remember.
fairly well, but the receipts became
enormous. Twelve, thirteen. fourteen
hundred carloads a day going into Min
neapolis and Duluth. The wheat deal
ers said, there is no end to it. We can
buy at any price we like. What are
we going to do with it? AS matter Of
fact, II you bear In mind, as soon as
navigation closed and the winter set in
and your deliveries at the company sta
lions fell off, they began to see there
was not so much wheat in the country
as they thought The receipts dropped
off to less than one-half, and the price
in 80 days worked UP 10 cents bushel.
Notwithstanding that every bushel
bought now costs five cents or four
and a half cents more bushel to carry
it to the first Of May than 1t costs at
the close of navigation.
NOW, this means that. so far as you
can, you ought to provide yourselves
with granaries. I do not mean expen-
sive buildings. I mean a man can take
lumber and with little labor for $500
| put up place where he can hold
| good lot of grain-4000 or 5000 bushels
! and market 1t at his leisure. Have time
| to get his fall blowing done. He may
take a few loads to market for immedi-
| ate money. But IL he will market at
his leisure. these enormous daily re-
ceipts won't appear, and what they call
the visible supply won't lump itself
| up in the months Of October. November
and the first 10 days Of December. Five
cents a bushel on the crop of the state
of Minnesota would amount to $1,000
900. Surely it is worth saving, and
think 1t is safe to say that eight cents
bushel would be nearer the saving
than five. 1t would be worth while to
save that. 1t Is hard to get cars In the
fall. We have got cars enough to move
the entire crop in eight round trips.
We run our freight trains Is or 16 miles
an hour, but to save our lives we can't
get over 40 or As miles day out OF
our cars. That means three hours NOV
ing and 81 hours standing still. We
can not make any money while they are
standing still. For October we averag-
ed five days at Minneapolis on all cars
we took in there. If we could give you
cars enough to move 1t in week or In
a month, do not know where the price
would go. 1t is not to your advantage
to rush it to the market at once. II
costs you more money. This year II
probably loses 100000 to the state"