St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-02-19
BARoNs FORCED INTO LINE.
MUST GRADE RIGHT AND PAY GOOD
PRICES OR GO WITHOUT
BUSINESS.
NOTES FROM OTHER PLACES.
Complaints at New York Mills
That Weights Are Always Short
at Line Elevators.
Special to the Globe.

best on the Fergus Falls and Black
Hills branch Of the Northern Pacific.
There have already been marketed here
over 400, 900 bushels of third
more than naturally is tributary to
this market. The competition between
the Independent house and the line
the result has been that many farmers
from distance have established the
custom of hauling their wheat to Hen
ming. This year has been no excep-
ton, either in the fight between the
farmers and the line elevators, or in
the amount of wheat that has been
hauled from long distances. So much
of the wheat was attracted from dis
tent sections that the merchants in
other towns became aroused and in
dependent buying at several nearby
towns was the result.
There are three elevators at Hen
ming, and their combined capacity is
$4,000 bushels, distributed as follows:
Andrew & Gage, 10000; Farmers, 20
900; Monarch, $4,000. OF the 100000
bushels from the crop Of '95 that has
been marketed here about 100000 BUSH
els-630 carloads-have been shipped
out, leaving $4,000 bushels still in store.
The farmers house has taken in about
175,000 bushels and has already shipped
out 251 carloads.
AT the commencement of the season
G. w. Brandborg, who has leased the
farmers elevator since it was built,
began to buy the wheat as it came in
and to contract for the delivering of
the balance Of farmers crops. He be-
gan to buy on Aug. % and shipped the
first car on Aug. 49, and it was graded
NO. 1 northern at Duluth. Only three
of the 251 cars failed to hold up to that
grade, although there was little differ
ence in the quality Of the wheat
shipped. The first car that failed to
hold was shipped on Nov. %, the sec
ond on Nov. 81 and the third on Dec.
IL During the entire season Mr.
Brandborg has only bought two car
loads Of No. northern wheat. He is
not friendly to the present state in
spection, and says IL is impossible to
have an
HONEST WHEAT MARKET
as long as the. present force is in con-
troll He maintains that Duluth is
the natural outlet for over one-haIf of
The wheat produced In the Northwest
anu, as minneapolis wants it, too, the
TWO markets are always at logger
heads- The only way Minneapolis can
get the wheat, Mr.. Brandborg believes
IS through juggling with the grades
Inc headquarters of the elevator COM
blne being at Minneapolis, the lords of
tne SranerieS have it in their power
to manipulate the markets there. and
1t looks very much as though thew
were interested in the grading to a
greater extent than they should be.
L know that much of the wheat that
l pought as No. L northern said Mr..
Brandberg. "eould have been obtained
at NO. z northern, and the farmers
could not have bettered themselves nv
sending samples to the chief inspector
as Is provided in the country elevator
law" o-
While Mr.. Brandborg was buying
wheat for the first three weeks of the
season, the buyers of the line houses
We're sitting idly by and making no eff
fort to secure any of the grain, and It
looked like an organized effort to beat
the wheat down a grade About the
nrst OF October the line houses began
thelr war upon the farmers house and
bought at SO close figure that there
was no margin left Up to that time
the farmers house had been buying
on a difference between local and fer.
l.
and after the war began the differences
was usually cents, and part of that
time cents. Brandborg did not nav
WITHIN cent of the line houses during
the light, as he had no money to lose
and was satisfied to keep the market
falr. The freight rate is rs cents a
bushel, and when the commissions
rent ana inspection and weighing fees
are added, there was, practically. no
margin left below 8 cents. The farmers
WATCHED THE WEIGHTS
closely, and many of them have scales
and weigh their wheat before hauling
1t to the elevator, so they are pretty
sure to get all there is in it as far as
the weights are concerned At the
present time all the houses are buying
on 10 cents difference between the To-
cal and terminal markets. This was
the average difference at the farm
ers' house for the first three months
OF the season, and was certified to by
the directors when they examined the
books in December.
The farmers house cost Sc, 200 in 1890
1t was the old 1000 bushel fiat house
that Brandborg built in 1885, rebuilt
ana enlarged to an elevator, with
capacity of 10000 bushels of grain. A
cooperative company was formed. and
$1,000 of the stock subscribed for. leay-
ing $1,000 to be paid out of the earn
ings. There has been paid over 81 .OO0
of this Indebtedness, which makes the
value of the shares $3.50 = their
face value being S.. There have been
two dividends, one of 10 per cent. and
one of rs per cent, and there is every
indication that another of 25 per cent
Will be declared this season. The plan
is similar to that outlined for the new
house at Hewitt, and there have been
In existence for several years similar
houses at Vining, Clitheral, Battle
Lake, Underwood, Wall Lake and Fer
gus Falls. The house is let to a buyer
by a vote on the first of September of
each year. One year it was let free
the buyer to pay within 10 cents of
the terminal prices. Other years the
rental has been Il cent, when wheat
was bought on an 11-cent difference,
and u cent when bought on a r.
cent differential. This year, there were
three bids and the house was again
let to Brandborg, who pays a rent of u
cent bushel on the wheat handled.
and can buy at any price under IL
cents below the terminal prices.
The present officers of the Henning
Farmers Elevator association are: N.
T. Rasmussen, president; G. A. Paul
son, treasurer; Frank Hoskins, secre-
tary, and Lars Larson, Axel Olsen,
John N. Nelson, Nils Nicholson, Arndt
Monson, w. B. Rekter, Jacob Hurst
and Nels Malmgren, directors.