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


Sank Centre has not offered a salts
factory wheat market during the cur
rent crop year, and thousands o
bushels of wheat naturally tributar,
TO The city have been diverted b.
reason of better prices at other sta
tions in this vicinity. The average
Dad of wheat is approximately forty
bushels, and difference OF a grade
I. pound in dockage, or cent or two IL
inarket. price will amount to from fifty
cents to a dollar or more load-suf
ticient to direct the wheat to a mark
.teven twenty miles away. BY reaso
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
she only adverse feature-the cOndl
Jon begets ill feeling on the part Of
vhe producer toward the business in.
,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
tud the farmers in this vicinity with
.he cooperation of the business men
VI 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 q
satisfactory wheat market is profitable
the entire community. The farm
,rs are interested deepest and are
pushing the matter vigorously.
An elevator suitable for the pur-
lose will be purchased or erected and
,onducted under the direction and
management of a 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-
Turn for their product.
There is probably more wheat yet in.
first hands than ever before at this
season of the year. Farmers
have, as rule, sold only sutfi-
nient 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
long step has thus been taken in that
direction, What the future may have
in store in the matter Of q general ads
vance in price OF WIKI wheat no one can
predict with confidence, but it is Sin
the air" that there must be and will be
a decided betterment. Do not, how
ever, construe this statement to mean,
that.the HERALD advises farmers to
hold their wheat-it does not feel COM
petept to advise any specific course.
is the better Judge as to
what he had best do with his own
property.
The The stock subsuriiSS..iQn 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. a 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
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-
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