Idaho County free press. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho Territory) 1886-current, 1904-03-03
DEALERS ORGANIZE
Implement Dealers Will Work
for Lower Freight Rates
and Better Roads.


/. G. Hattabaugh returned Sat-
urday from Lewiston where he had
gone to attend the organization of
the Clearwater Implement Dealers
Association, which was organized
there last week, with the following
firms represented:
kamiah Trading Co., Nez Perce;
Grangeville Implement Co. Ltd,
Grangeville; Mockler, Miller &
Mockler, Nez Perce; Lewiston
Trading Co., Lewiston; Cash Hard
ware Store, Lewiston; Butterfield
Elder Implement Co., Culdesac;
Buttertield, Elder Implem ent Co.
Moscow; zimmerman Hardware
Co., Lewiston; Lenore Trading
Co., Lenore; Phar 4 Bashar, Peck
Clayton, Bramer Co., Clifford;
Sites Trading Co., Sites; Crosby
& Parkins, Grangeville; Idaho
Hardware & Implement Co., Ilo;
w. G. Cochran, Culdesac; Lincoln
Hardware & Implement Co., Kend-
rick; McCrea Bros, Kendrick; J.
Il. Lobaugh & Co., Pullman; w.
F. Chahnor & Co., Palouse; Breed
& Caluse, Palouse; B. Jacobs,
Uniontown.
| Robert L. Spiker, of Nez Perce,
was elected president; E. p. Dor.
ris, of the Cash Hardware Co., of
Lewiston, vice president; l. c.
Hattabaugh, Of the Grangeville
Implement Co., of Grangeville,
secretary and treasurer.
A constitution and bylaws were
adopted, and an executive COM
mittee of seven was elected as
follows: r. l.. Spiker of Nez Perce,
j. M. Pierce of Lenore, l. G. Hat
tabaugh of Grangeville, Thos.
Mockler of Nez Perce, E. P. Dor
ris of Lewiston, A. d. Gritman Of
Lewiston. Charles Carlisle of Gull
desac. The business of the as
sOciation can be largely transacted
by the executive committee, thus
saving time and the expense of
calling the entire association to-
gether.
The objects of these associations
are many and varied but the prin-
- cipal subjects considered and dis
= cussed were the good roads prop
: osition, reduction of freight rates
9 and better telephone service. These
) subjects are OF vast Importance to
: the people of the Clearwater valley.
) Nez Perce and Camas Prairie, fOl
5 the reason that we have ar
: bitrary freight rate on the Clear.
8 water branch Of the Northern
! : Pacific railroad, which is unfair
3 and unjust. 1t costs $40 more for
5 every carload of hogs, horses OF
! cattle shipped from Sites to mark.
3 ct, than it costs from stations or
) the main line of the road. 1t also
: costs not less than $40 and as high
. as $50 ON each and every carload
. of goods shipped into Sites and
other points on the Clearwater
branch. 1t also costs from two tt
three cents per bushel for every
bushel of grain shipped from thi1
J country. Now while these matter
, look small in the aggregate they
amount to thousands of dollars ant
the farmer is the man who pay
the bill. The. farmer who has 10,
900 bushels of grain pays the rail
J road $500 per annum extra freigh
and he also pays the freight on al
his farm machinery.
The implement dealers trade ex
clusively with the farmer, there
} fore their interests are mutual. Mr.
Hattabaugh, of the Grangevill
Implement Co., says, "that unles
the farmers and stockmen prospe
} and make money, we can not hop
, to advance as our business is de
, pendent entirely upon their sue
cess, and we are beginning t.
realize more than ever the necess
ity for good roads and bette
freight rates, and we are deter
! mined to keep up this fight unit
we accomplish something tha
will rebound to our mutual bene
fit.
1t is fact that the railroad com
panies will take through car {
freight from Spokane to Portlan,
{ for $3.50 less than they will brin
it to Sites although the distance
three times as great to Portlan
and over mountains, but not with
- standing all these facts 30,O
pound car will cost the farmers {
Z Oregon and eastern Washingto
: $4,000 less than the farmers Q
4 the Clearwater valley.
!: If we had Just one good roa
Z from the center of this prairie I
): the railroad it would save thoul
!: ands of dollars annually to tn
!: people of this prairie, but unde
s the present conditions the farme
!: cannot market the product Of b
5: farm only at loss, one canne
8 get grain to the railroad, now {
s all, as the roads are practically in
s passable.
& The following resolutions wei
s UNANIMOUSLY adopted by the al
= | ooniati0n