The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-03-05
to any grocer cutting these prices.
Yours truly.
HACKNEY & COMPANY.
Dictated by G. W. H.

Inter-Ocean Mills. Willis Norton & Co.
Topeka, Kas., Feb 20, 1904.
Dear Sir: Until further notice, our
price to the retail flour trade OF To-
peka, for White Loaf, delivered at
stores, is $3.50 per cwt. in 48pound and
98-pound sacks, and S2.55 per cwt. in
24-pound sacks. In order to enable all
dealers to make a fair margin of profit
on our goods we must insit that they
sell White Loaf flour to their trade at
not less than the following prices:
4S-pOund sacks, at 81. 40 per sack.
98-pound sacks. at 290 per sack.
24-pound sacks, at rs per sack.
We will not sell our goods to anyone
Who does not sell by our schedule, eX-
cept at an advance of 40 cents per cwt.
over the price we ask the dealers who
do abide by it. Yours truly.
WILLIS NORTON & co.
Topeka. Kas.. Feb q, 1904
Dear Sir: Our present wholesale price
of Topeka Patent Big T'' is 81. SO per
cwt. and Shawnee Fancy $40 per cwt.
with cents additional for 24-pound
sacks
These prices are quoted to all dealers
who sell exclusively flour made in To-
peka and put up in mill brands and
maintain a retail price of not less than
80 per cwt. for big T" and $3.50 per
cWt. for Shawnee Fancy.
To all others the above retail prices
will be charged
THE SHAWNEE MILLING co.
nave ventured upon their present or
gan1zed effort to control flour prices
without due pains for their own pro-
lection against complications with the
rigid antitrust laws prevailing in this
state. Every communication to the
grocers is sent out as the individual an
nouncement of the mill making it and
there is no visible indication of collu-
sion between the different mill pro-
prietors.
AIMED AT TAYLOR.
| The recent appearance on the Topeka
retail market of two or three new
brands of flour handled by the W. L.
Iaylor Commission company and man.
| ufactured by Kansas mills, at a price
somewhat lower than Topeka flour, is
probably Responsible for the edict of the
| Topeka mills that they will in the fu-
ture refuse to sell to any grocer who
| handles foreign flour. Mr.. Taylor de-
| clared war upon the Topeka mills sew
| boycotted his wheat, which he handled
| in his elevator in North Topeka. He
retaliated by making arrangements tc
handle Kansas flour which could under
| sell the Topeka product and he is now
making arrangements to build a mil
with which he says he will manufac-
| ture flour at less than the trust rates
Taylor claims that the Topeka millers
nave not only taken advantage of tht
support which their Topeka patrons
! have given them, but that they have
also injured Topeka as a shipping cen
ter by refusing to take any except GER
| tain grades of wheat which are Offered
by western elevators. He says his il
the only exporting elevator in Topeka
He said further:
1 'If the Topeka mills would carry OF
! a wheat export business TOPEKA woul.
| grow rapidly in Importance as a ship
ping center AS it is the mills refus
to receive in their elevators any ex
cept certain of the best qualities o
wheat for their own use. AS a conse
quence the elevator men don't want t.
send their wheat in here with a chanc
of it's being rejected. AT my elevator
have bought all the wheat that ha
come in and have exported it. I pa.
only what it is worth but I have en-
coura ged shipments. In many inquiries
to Kansas elevator men as to why the.
have not shipped their wheat here the.
have replied that the mills were so ex
acting as to the grade they received
that it was not worth while to try con
Quoting a general shipping trade witt
Topeka. Topeka mil1ers ought to re
ceive all the wheat that comes. The.
have the elevators and could max
money in exporting it. AS it is nov
the amount of wheat that is shippe'
here is really comparatively small an
Topeka has lost importance as
wheat shipping town.