New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-08-15
BAD BLOWAT COUNTRY MILLS
Great Northern Cuts Milling-in-
Transit Rates.
New Move Will Destroy Profits Of
Local Milling.
Minneapolis Millers Get Reduction
of 24 Cents to Chicago.

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in fact all of the mills outside of
Minneapolis, have been trying to avert
has at last been put through by the
big competitors of the country mills
[inconjunction with the Great Northern
railroad. and the move threatens to
seriously if not permanently cripple
the business of the country mills. It's
achange in the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
The Great Northern makes much ado
about the low rate of II cents which it
now makes to the farmers for hauling
wheat about 1OOmiles into Minneapolis.
For hauling this same wheat four times
as far, or 400 miles to Chicago, the
Chicago lines get 10 cents per hundred,
and under the proposed milling-in-
transit arrangement, the Great North
ern will still collect IL cents per hun-
dred for 100 miles haul, but generously
proposes to make the Chicago lines
haul it 400 miles for u cents.
It is true that the milling-in-transit
privileges in the form given to the coun-
try millers for many years by the
Northwestern and Milwaukee lines
have given to the country mills an adj
vantage over the Minneapolis mills,
in rates between the wheat fields and
Chicago, of 81 cents per hundred,
which the Minneapolis millers have
with some justice complained of. Eff
forts have been made frequently to
have these two companies correct this
inequality, but without success.
The Great Northern has apparently
corrected the inequality lat their neigh
boris expense), but in fact it has done
far more, and not only taken away
whatever advantage the country mills
enjoyed, but has given the big mills OF
Minneapolis an enormous advantage
over their country competitors, so
enormous in fact that it threatens to
force the small mills out of business.
The milling-in-transit privilege as
now practiced gives the country miller
the right to pay the rate on wheat from
the wheat fields to Chicago, and stop
the grain at the mill where the whole
rate is paid. The country mill has the
right to ship free an equal weight OF
flour and offal to Chicago. Wheatwhen
ground into -four produces about 70
per cent flour and 80 per cent offal.
The country mill sells its offal to
local dairymen and consequently il
can never ship out more than 10 per
cent of the weight of wheat shipped in
: and paid for.
But it will be different in the case Of
the big city mills. They are located in
the greatest wheat market of the world.
They will sell their offal locally, and
then buy wheat in the market to make
sufficient flour to equal the weight Of
, the offal, and in this way ship out in
-four 100 instead of 70 per cent Of the
! weight of wheat shipped in on the
transit rates.
This is to say that for each ], 200, OOO
bushels of wheat equal to $4,000, OOO
pounds, that the country mill pays
freight on, it will be able to ship out
free $4,000, 900 pounds of flour, while
the Minneapolis mills upon payment OF
the same amount OF freight can ship
out free 60, o0o, 600 pounds Of -four.
This discrimination if persisted in
3 will enable the Minneapolis mills to
make shortwork ofthe country millers,
just as the same arrangement of rates
. bankrupted every country mill in this
state twenty-five years ago.
This will be the result of the great
generosity Of the Great Northern
! road, ia generosity, moreover, practiced
wholly at its neighbours expense.
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