The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-01-29

by Mr.. Glavin and corroborated by ali
others. was the spread" on prices MAIN
tanned by the line houses at Warren, the
difference at TERMINAL points between the
several grades. while at Warren 1t was
from one to three cents, as Is shown In
the following table:
Grades. At TERMINAL At Warren.
Difference Between. Points. Cts. Cts
No. l hard and No.
northern -; ~: .N .N
No. northern and No.
northern .......... .O1 .03
No. northern and No.
nOTlH3Tn III .U3
Thus it Will be seen that No. / hard
received by the elevators as No. 9
northern afforded the purchaser an ad-
ditonal profit Of two cents a bushel be-
sides his margins. dockage, etc. If the
same wheat was sacrificed at No. 3
northern, then the spread" gave the
purchaser four additional cents Of vel
vet" After the track shipping was be-
gun, this margin was cut down and the
local prices followed those of the termin-
ais and the farmer saved from one to
two cents when he received the proper
grade. that would have gone into the
Golfers of the wheat barons had it not
been for the fight on this as we'll as on
the other points raised against the COM
bine.
Here are few samples of the way the
town suffered:
Martin Sand. who lives about eleven
miles west Of Warren. brought in a load
of wheat and refused to accept the prices
offered by the line houses. They were
the only ones that had room to receive
grain. He hauled it back home. and the
next day took the same load of grain
to East Grand Forks, making six cents a
bushel by the operation saved several hun
bushel by the operation saved several dol
lars. Anton Hill, one Of the county COM
missioners who lives twelve miles north
east of Warren. brought some wheat
here, but could get no price for IT, He
hauled to Fast Grand Forks and saved
several doollars by the deal
Over 10000 bushels of wheat were
hauled from the Lord Ramsey farm to
East Grand Forks and it would all have
been marketed here had the market
been fair.
Others who sold large quantities of
wheat at East Grand Forks. and who for
were r. Mcclellan. Levi Lick, w. NJ.
Mcclellan, John Mcclellan. John G..
Smith and w. L. Davis. These are only
few of the heaviest shippers. IT. J..
Beardsmore and s. S. Trickey each sold
about 5000 bushels at keystone.
1t was estmate ted that there were di-
verted from Warren. by reason Of the
trouble in keeping the market open, be-
tween 300, 900 and 900 bushels of grain
This was divided between the markets
at keystone and East Grand Forks. Full
ly three-fourths of the grain produced in
the township of Vega, which has forty
five sections on account of the strip an
nexed from Polk county, and the town
ships Of Oak Park and Warrington, was
marketed at East Grand Forks and Key
etOne instead of reaching it's ma tural mar
ket at Warren.
eve understand that M. Burdick holds
an office under the railroad commission
ers, and is paid a salary out Of the farm
er's money; and he spends his time try
ing to help the elevator companies rob
the people And what are the railroad
commissioners doing, all this time, that
a ST Paul paper has to take up the cud-
gels in defence of the farmers? They are
paid $4,000 each what do the people get
for that money?
Is it not time that there was general
house cleaning? ED. REPD