Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-10-12
DIES MONIES MAN IS
ELECTED PRESIDENT
B. A. Lockwood at the Head Of
Grain Dealers National
Association.
r. H. PEAVEY MAKES ADDRESS
Discusses Materials for Building Eleva-
tors. and Believes he Great Amer
lean Desert VIII he Made .
Garden Spot.

oto hlOliltb, Ia, OGt, os-Ah NchNSA
ton OF the National Grain Dealers as
scciation adjourned Wednesday night
after re-electing Its old officers, recon-
intending Memphis, Tenn, as the seat of
the mex convention, n adopting res
olutions mcmorializing congress to
amend the interstate law;
condemning bucket shops: recommend
ing the reorganization of the govern
ment crop service and cooperation
with the National Hay Dealers asso-
~ciation; urging the Kansas City ex-
change to repeal its rule f~orbidding
%afiiliation with any other association.
end inviting 1t to affiliate with the ma
tional.
The officers elected are:
President, Benjamin A. Lockwood, Des
Moines, la.
First vice president. Theodore p. Bax-
ter Taylorsville, Ind.
Second vice president, IL. 8. Grimes
Portsmouth, O..
Directors, Arthur A. Sawyers, Chicago;
Jay A.. King, Nevada, Ia: ID. Hunter,
Hamburg, Ia: l. Cortelyou, Muscotah.
Kan; J. A. Garden, Iowa; J: p. Harrison.
f fnsrr Thom nss; Costello, SioPae" ill.,; j. ".
McCord, Columbus, o.; Il. A. Grubbs,
Greenvtlle, O.; A. w; Loughry, Month,
cello, Ind Barlow. Kokomo, Ind, and
oiiN "SliilA6NChp <hllNNAENAp afN
G. A. Stebbins Of Red Oak, Ia.
was elected secretary, after for
mer Secretary Charles s.. Clarke
had been reelected and declined on ac-
count OF private business interests. A
banquet and smoker was rendered the
members Of the convention by the Ce-
real club of this city.
Several paper were read today. +.
II. Peavey OF Minneapolis delivered the
nrinpinpl address, on "I.F1ln Trade In
the Northwest" Among other things
Mr.. Peavey saiG:
Grain men for years have been seek
ing material for elevator construction
that would be absolutely ire-proof.
There Is now being completed In Du-
luth an elevator costing 81, 600, 900 which
is the most complete, up-to-date plant
In the world. Men have come from
Liverpool, Montreal, New York and
elsewhere to investigate. this system or
construction. Three years & there
was erected a circul cement tank III
feet high and rs feet in diameter, hav-
ing an average thickness OF eight
inches. 1t was a success. An expert
was sent to Europe and he spent three
months in investigating the structures
built wholly or partly OF cement.
Found Successful Plant.
AT Braila in Roumania a large Gle
vator was found owned and success
fully operated by the government built
wholly of cement. Braila Is situated
or the Danube river thirty miles from
the Black sea and handles about TO-
900, 900 bushels of grain annually. An
other expert visited Italy and exam
ined the cement used In the coliseum In
Naples and Rome 1000 years ago.
These patterns are used In the Duluth
plant, which has now a capacity OF
5000, 600 bushels, 1000, 900 bushels in the
Woodworking house and 4.00o. 600
bushels in the cement cylindrical
tanks, each 1913 feet high, n IS feet
In diameter.
Mr.. Peavey made the following gen.
eral observations:
MANY of YOU remember when General
HaZen made his unfavorable report 10
the government on the northern racine
Railway project. stating the ROAD as pro-
jected would traverse q barren desert.
but much OF hat country Is now dotted
with the homes OF prosperous. farmers
This past season General Washburn, or
Minneapolis, has been opening up inc
country north of Bismarck-a country
supposed to be absolutely worthless Tor
agriculture. | have ridden with him over
his survey and from the observation then
made It appears that after getting 70
miles north OF BismarcK the rain belt Is
struck and the country will undoubtedly
prove to be most productive.
From Arid waste to Garden.
My observation has been that the plant
Ing of trees and turning over OF the sod
attracts moisture. q recall the time
when the city of Sioux City paid a dollar
for each tree hat was planted and lived
two years. l believe that what Is now
known as the arid west Will by artificial
means be made an agricultural garden. L
believe the canyons Of Colorado will soon
CIR or later be utilized as reservoirs, serv-
ing two purposes-confining the water IN
the spring and thus preventing the over
flow of rivers, and later dealing II out as
II Is needed for irrigation purposes-and
this work should be done by the govern
ment Our association should expert It's
best influence, collectively and individu-
ally at home and in Washington In the
interests OF irrigation by the government.
The Snake river district alone II hri.
gated, would produce millions or bushels
OF grain and with out fast increasing pop
u.ation and the orient absorbing an In
creasing quantity of our Pacific coast
goods we shall need more acres. We Will
And some good use for everything God
has given US, end we must tax our brains
an denergies to develop our endowment.
Senator Warren, or wyoming, In a recent
address made the following statement:
Redeem tho Desert.
There now remains at the disposal Of
the general government u~nappropriated
and unreserved land aggregating @O,0GO,GO
acres; OF this approximately $50, 00,0O
acres are in Alaska and practically all OF
the remaining $50, 10000 acres are In that
part OF the United States west of the
Missouri river once known as the Great
American desert. now called the arid west
and destined In time to be freed from this
implied designation of inferiority. To aid
the general government since
It's establishment has drscGed harbors, re-
moved Instructions In channels, deepened
river beds, built breakwaters and other
wise diverted and controlled waterways.
The expected benefits OF such aid cannot
we'll be called local, for the territory to be
subserNed is as great in extent as the ag-
gregate acreage OF all the New England,
middle and southern states, and Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Iowa adj
ditIonal."
The railroads are the great civilizers and
equalizers of the age. and famine canno
exist at one end OF this country with
plenty at the other.
l have occupied every position In the
elevator business and speak from personal
knowledge and experience. i am a be-
lever in men. and that the best way to
get along in the world Is to be absolutely
frank, open and above board with ones
competitor. The man who misleads or
INDUCES in half truths Is not only soon
found out, but belittles himself In his own
estimation and thus gives the honest and
candid man the advantage.
He Advises F~rankness
Many quarrels between buyers could be
aYerted by penness and ~frankness. so
far as line companies are concerned, l
am quite positive that much trouble Is
brought about by the excess Of zeal of
our own men. We believe ourselves TO
be straightforward and honest, but we
are prone to believe quickly anything bad
that W. hear about our neighbors.
There is no class Of men In commercial