The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-08-09
DULUTH'S SIDE
OF GRAIN WAR.
SUPERIOR NOT WILLING TO PAY
PRICE FOR IT'S BOARD.
Maintaining of Two Big Grain Markets
at the Head Of the Lakes Held by
Duluth to Be Practically Impossible
History Of the Late Counter Move
ment, 7a

Special to The Journal.
Duluth, Mimi, Aug. "a contest is
now waging between Duluth and SUI
perior grain interests and is being Civ
en- much advertising. Most of this has
been coming from Superior and state
ment of the case from Duluth IS side
will doubtless be of interest.
Nearly twenty-five years ago Duluth
men established board of trade and
in the years since then it has been
gradually built up until it is body
of much strength and doing large
business. AS the market grew and the
port Of Duluth came into greater use
and prominence for the transportation
of the surplus crop Of the northwest
to eastern and foreign markets. more
grain men were attracted here, and the
building of large systems of elevators
began. ,,,o,,+ +h;s TINA e,o.;o, :,
coming into prominence as new city,
and one of the boom variety. It's
founders went after. everything in the
way of business or industries that was
ments. Thus it was when the eleva-
tor companies which came to Duluth
| to do their business on the Duluth
Board Of Trade attracted by the mar
ket it had built up, determined to build
houses. Their natural impulse was to
built on the Duluth side, where they
chose to maintain their Offices, but
sites and other inducements, saying
that there was no reason why the COM
panies could not have their houses over
| there and do their business in Duluth.
What Superior wanted was the invest
ment of the money there and the con-
slant employment in that city of the
men necessary to operate the plants,
| hn min ~ L.
inducements offered and built.
Superior's Policy.
Superior conveived the idea that a
board of trade ought to be estab.
lished there. Instead, however, Of es
tablishing one and building it up grad
ually as the Duluth men had done, Su
perl 9 attempted short cut to the de
already there to shoulder the burden
tor them. Instead Of building elevators
of its own, Superior sought to make
the houses established there do business
as it wished them to, and not as thei1
owners wanted to.
:. The men owning these houses be
liev:e it to be to their interest to dc
business under the established Mime
forts to compel them by legislative en-
actments to do business as Superio
wanted them to. For years thew wer
compelled to go to Madison at ever,
session and fight, tooth and nail, tn,
efforts of the Superior men to max
use of their elevators to build up tn
Superior board of trade. They sal,
they were getting practically not
> bushel of grain raised in the state O.
Wisconsin, and were handling grail
: raised in North Dakota, South Dakota
Minnesota and other states, and Wis
consin had no right, simply because
had the port thru which this grail
was loade upon the boats, to tell ther
how their business should be done.
The new Wisconsin, law provides tina
elevators that issue receipts shall b
public warehouses; BY issuing non
they cannot be classed as such. Wit
no public houses, where is delivery O
grain to be made upon contracts mad
upon the Superior board9
3 Fall Back on Duluth.
} The Superior men were allowed t
; come into the very market thew wer
reviling in the country and sell til
grain consigned to them. Without tn
l. opportunity Of selling it here, the
: = could not have done business, for the
!. have never yet been able to find
, market for l per cent of their stu
- outside of the Duluth board of trade.
They were allowed to come over t
Duluth in the afternoon, to bring thcj
samples of grain, and sell them to tn
a elevator and other companies here, n
> celvlng the closing price Of that da.
. whereas a Duluth man had to go on tn
board the next mOrninp and sell nj