The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1899-01-12
An improved Market.

There is prevalent feeling amons
business men and farmers alike tina
Sank Centre has not offered a salts
factory wheat market during the cur
rent crop year, and thousands o
bushels of wheat naturally tributary
to the city have been diverted b,
reason of better pcices at other sta
tons in this vicinity. The average
Dad OF wheat is approximately forty
bushels, and difference of a grade
!. pound in dockage, or cent or two IL
narket, price will amount to from fifty
cents to dollar or more load-suf
icient to direct the wheat to a mark
steven twenty miles away. BY reason
of this condition which is said to ex
ist, a vast amount of trade is lost tc
our retail dealers, for it is very natur
al for farmer to purchase in the
market in which he sells. Nor is this
,he only adverse feature-the condi
Jon begets ill feeling on the part OF
she producer toward the business an
,erests of the city. Confidence is
weakened and gradually there creeps
IN mutual feeling OF distrust, de,
structive of the best interests of farm
.er and business man alike.
This conviction of defective mark
ct has finally eliminated in an or
sanized effort to remedy it. To that
cud the farmers in this vicinity with
.he cooperation of the business men
Ut the city, are organizing for the
purchase and shipment of wheat upon
he most liberal basis possible, within
the limits of the bare cost of
handling. 1t is not a money-making
scheme in any other sense than that a
satisfactory wheat market is profitable
the entire community. The farm
ers are interested deepest and are
pushing the matter vigorously.
An elevator suitable for the pur-
lose will be purchased or erected and
conducted under the direction and
management of board of directors
selected from the stockholders, the
purpose being to give the producers
he voice in achieving the desired
end, namely, the highest possible re-
Lurn for their product. c
There is probably more wheat yet in,
first hands than ever before at this
season of the year. Farmers
have, as rule, sold only suffi-
eient to meet urgent necessities, in
the confident belief that some how and
at some time in the near future better
returns would be realized, and there is
syery indication that the first and a
long step has thus been taken in that
direction. What the future may have
in store in the matter OF a general ads
vance in price OF WI" wheat no one can
predict with confidence, but it is Sin
the air" that there must be ard will be
a decided betterment. Do not, how
ever, construe this statement to mean
thatthe HERALD advises farmers to
hold their wheat-it does not feel COM
petapt TO advise any specific course.
is the better judge as to
what he had best do with This own
The The stock Subscription pledge is
now, being circulated By the farmers
through the country, and is meeting
with liberal response, AS soon as
sufficient stock is subscribed, and the
amount is not large, the list will be
published, meeting called and the
organization perfected.
The farmers and others interested in
this movement are requested to meet
at the assembly room in the city hall
on Saturday, at 2:30 p. M, when a
report will be submitted and oppor-
tunity given for subscriptions pro-
viding all the stock be not taken be-
fore that time.
st. Clouds modesty is as con-
spicuous as ever. The following
iiftletitem from the Globe indicates
that the faithful of the faltl1less
.ity are decidedly oliver Twlstish
in their demands:
'AIC. f. Macdonald, OF the Times; w.
p. Remer. Mic Kraemer, Sheriff Schli
plin and COUNTY Attorney J.sD. SullI'
van, all of st. Cloud, called on GOV
Lind Yesterday tosurge the appoint
ment of several ST. Cloud men. q
Kowalkowski has been Endorsed for
position as deputy oil inspector; J. y
Osgood. deputy boiler inspectors n T
Kraemer on the game and fish com
mission, and w. p. Remer on thu
dairy and food commission
In view of the fact that the re
publicans held old Stearns doWI
below democratic low water mari
these demands may appear to Gov
Lind trifle presumptuous.