The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1897-03-31

barrel capacity per twenty-four hours,
but enough new. Mills should be built
to amount to $4,000 blrrels capacity
per twenty-four hours. Now this
would be 500 carloads of -four to be
shipped out every day from the pro-
| ducers and 25O carloads Of feed kept at
home which we are now paying freight
on to get rid of. .Nhen it could all be
railroad companiEs s.are hauling out
$50 carloads froalA place it would be
| reduced to 500. tfes-p
The combined, milIs of Minneapolis
are grinding between thirty-one and
thirty-two Thousand barrels of -four
| day and it will not make much differ
| ence to them IL the wheat is worth SO
cents or $3.50 bushel, because it will
| take just SO much more from the Gus
| toner. OF course our laborers in 9TH
er states would have to suffer and
stand by us and we will stand by
| them.
viii now explain the cost of these
! 500 mills complete with the best mill
machinery made in the world put into
good substantial and fire proof build
| ings. IL would be just six million dol
| lars. A $50 barrel mill would cost
$4,000; 125 barrel mill, $4,000; 100
barrel mill, $4,000; Is barrel mill,
So, 600 and so barrel mill $4,000.
| Now my dear friends and brother
farmers, l will tell you how much
| these three states / have mentioned,
have lost on the wheat crop of 1899 by
not having mills to manufacture your
wheat into flour. Your wheat was
shipped to Minneapolis and Duluth.
little to Milwaukee and Chicago; in all
it was eighty million bushels. Now
take 80 cents on every bushel and it
will amount to the net sum of SIS, &c.,
600. On the whole wheat crop of 1891.
the same amount was lost on what
was sold only up to the 9Th Of Deem
Der. Now the money lost on your
crops Of 1890 would have built mills
enough to grind 100000 barrels in
twenty-four hours, of nearly eight
times as much as all the com ined
mills of Minneapolis, Just think of
this and you will soon see for yourself
what we need for our protection.
| l have now stated how much three
! states have lost by not manufacturing
their own wheat into flour and will
now show the loss to little towns and
villages. In every town where there
| is 10000 bushels OF wheat sold the
loss is $4,000; enough to build four
mills of 100 barrels capacity and one
Of 30 barrels, which would be capacity
| enough to grind 675, 900 bushels year.
Every farmer who sells 1891 bushels
| of wheat is losing enough on that
amount to pay for share in the mill
and besides that $40 worth of feed as
| that amount Of wheat entities him to
! 81 tons at Sc a ton for which he has to
pay $l2 ton and can't get it at that.
We will now see what labor there is
| lost to the village where 1870 bus h.
| els of wheat is sold to elevators. AL
| lowing two elevator men at $50 each a
months pay would be only 500. Now
take the mill aid manufacture this
amount of wheat into flour and it
| would pay as follows:
| The mill hands and clerk. $497
26O0 bbls made per mont tn 16c each 4l6
"a, 1913
This would bebpaying out $s13 more
! for help per month than it now
amounts to. l should think that
| every little town would wish to have a
| mill and that the inhabitants would
! join in with the farmers to make this
grand change in the Northwest.
Now my Brother Farmer Alliance
before close | will say to you, SO that
you will not misunderstood me, if we
have stated. Enough small mills built
in these three states to grind 5000
barrels Of -four every day. Now sup
pose that 200 Of these mill were built
| in Minnesota, it would be 10000
shares; 300 mills built in the two Da-
kotas and there will be 10000 shares.
All these little Monitor mills could be
| in operation by the first Of Septic ber
next, if $1,000 share holders in these
| three wheat growing states will put
| their shoulders to the wheel and say
yes, it shall move.
Now if you all take up and adopt my
plan l will tellyou WHAT it will save,in
| all, to ourselves and our children. The
trustworthy sons of theirs to go to
every city in this country, or in
Europe, to sell the flour. We have al
lowed SO cent a barrel for handling
and cents for drayage, which means
that every 100 barrel mill gives $54
day for selling the flour. This
amounts to $1,000 per year for each
leo barrel mill. For 500 mills the
amount would be 49, 100000 per year
All the small mills that are now in the
| state, will grind 5000, 0CO bushels more
than they are now doing which would
bring it up to thesamOunt Of wheat
SulDpCU III ISSU. ana Une udnulluR OIL
the flour amounts to $4,000, or in
all for handling the flour from S0,000,-
600 bushels. will amount to the fol-
lowing:
Handling. SIS, 649, 600
Labor for grinding. ......... D, l99, 946
Saved on bran and Shorts. 4,SUO,OUO
Saved on freight. ............ 1920, 600
Saved on $4,000, 600 bu wheat.27 100000
Total amount saved. 800 639, 948
Now / suppose you understand how
we can bring part fOf the wealth Of
our states to be divided amongst those
| to whom it belongs. If you will follow
| my plan you will get out of the
clutches Of the mill queen and you
can then take the crown and make a
present of it to the board Of trade and
| elevator combine, and l wish you
would watch them little and see if
they will divide it between them
selves like they have done with our
wheat. or gamble for it.
So much for the present until you
hear from me again.
Belle PLANE, Mimi, Feb. l. 1892.
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