The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1906-11-30
OFFICIAL PAPER OF CITY
AND COUNTY.
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F. A. Wardwell. G. G. Thompson.
wARDwELL = rHo16PsoN.
STARTLING DISCLOSURE
IN HANDLING OF WHEAT

association OF this state, MeSsrS. j. IL.
Cashel, George M. Young, r. w. Cath
70, NJ. F. Murphy and w. G.! McFadden
were made committee to investigate
elevator methods at Duluth and Super
ior. No better men could have been
selected. They have been at Duluth
and Superior and have submitted their
report. 1t is too long story for our
columns but the following is synopsis:
First as to grading. AS we'll known
to all, for several years there has been
an effort made by which another board
Of graders should be established at
Superior under the laws of Wisconsin.
The object of this board was that it
would serve as competitor with the
Duluth board and it's feature was that
the board should consist of one man
from Wisconsin, one from New York
and one from Dakota. After much op-
position this board was finally formed
and proceeded to business under the
laws of Wisconsin. Then the Duluth
Board of Trade made a rule that no
person could be member of that body
who belonged to any other similar body
within one hundred miles of Duluth.
Another move was to make all the ele-
vators at Superior private instead of
public. These two rules with the ac-
tive cooperation of the railroads, shut
out all grain business with Superior,
and made the grading under the Wis
consin board of laws impossible.
The committee also looked over the
methods of handling grain in the Du.
luth elevators. The first process is to
elevate the grain to the top of the build
ing. AS it goes up it is subjected to a
strong suction draft tto keep the build
ing free from dust" and after it gets to
the top it is then weighed.
The screenings actually taken from
the grain averages three quarters of a
pound to the bushel. 1--WE were told by
an elevator agent in this county that
his orders were not take in any wheat
without docking at least one pound.)
These screenings are sold for about
eight dollars ton, after all the light
grain is removed from them. which
light grain (the amount depending on
the force of the sucti on draft is shipped
out as screenings to avoid inspection,
and to avoid appearing in the amount
of grain shipped out.
OF course anyone can see. that the
man who shipped the screenings, and
paid the freight on them, Ought to own
them, but it is evident the elevator
people have q different opinion. On the
other hand when the elevator people
sell, they sell clean grain and allow nc
dockage toS the purchasers. (The
amount Of screenings thus taken from
the farmers Of this state is something
enormous. On 50, 600 600 bushels the
docksge Of three quarters Of pound
to the bushel would amount to nearly
s250,0OO.)
But the above isjust the sslimmings
The following are figures obtained BY
the committee as to the. work OF one
elevator in Duluth for three months.
"A sss s5is ,s Receipts.
Grade. Blu shels.
No. Northern I. s. Z !. !. !. !. SO, I'll. .49
No. 2 Northern i. u. :. s. /. 141,4 ,456.l9
No. 3 Northern /. & /. u. 4. III, OF. 20
-. Z. w 4. 81. 4. 901 287, 90
No Grade !. !. ], .,. !. &, !. !. ll6 10
Rejected /. 8. !. g, ,74230