Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1906-10-26
DEALERS DEP[ORE
GRAIN Combine.
Claim that Iowa Association
Shuts Out Inde-
pendents
BY ALLEGED TRUST METHODS
Charged with Compelling eiru,s %
Boycott Thsm-F. NJ. Terry. q
Little Sioux, Declares that Farm.
srs and Shoyelers Are the Victims.

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Omaha, Neb., oct. 26.-The hearing
On grain tra4ing conditions before In.
terstate Commerce Commissioners
Clark and Lane was resumed yestsr-
lay.
e. Peck, An Omaha grain dealer.
Told Of the methods OF arranging
prices year or two ago during the
life Of the Nebraska Grain Dealers
association, but said that no agree
inent Of that kind now exists. He
says he regarded shovel houses .
unfair competition, and used al
means to drive them out OF business
] c. G.. Crittenden Of the Central
Grain Company, Lincoln, Neb. said
his company operated elevators on the
Burlington line. They received from
that road an allowance OF 1-zc
hundred pounds to cover elevation
charges until last summer, when It
was discontinued. He knew OF NO
shovel houses" In his territory.
F. NJ. Terry, q general merchant OF
Little Sioux, Iowa, who operates 9
shovel house." said he was formerly
Disseminated against by the North
western railway. For the last TWO
years he has no reason for complaint
The Missouri Valley mills at Missouri
Valley, Iowa, he said refuse to buy
his grain, giving as reason that the
Updike Grain company of Omaha
would not sell them grain ii they did,
and would bid up the price 80 that
they could not buy from farmers.
Millers at Marshalltown, Iowa. also
refused to buy his grain, he said. be
cause he had no elevator and was not
member of the Iowa Grain Dealers
association. Mr.. Terry said he re-
eeived a letter from President Wells
OF the Iowa Grain Dealers ass0cia'
ton, some time ago, from which no
learned that the association fxe1
prices paid for grain and provides
for pooling by its members.
D. j. Gates Of Albion, Neb., an ON.
Ger Of the Albion Elevator company.
q farmers organization, said that his
company In the three years 1t had
been operating, had caused an increase
Of A cents in the price paid for grain
and still does business at q pront.
The penalty clause has been abolish
ed from the company's bylaws. At
first he had much trouble in selling
grain.
Letters were introduced from grain
buyers in Denver, Colo, Colorado
Springs and other points to show that
the Nebraska Grain Dealers associa-
ton then in existence tried to prevent
their buying from his company. Let
ters were also introduced to show that
the Nebraska Lumber Dealers assO-
citation objected to his company hand
ling lumber and one from the Union
Pacific Coal company refusing to quote
wholesale prices on coal. Latterly,
he had had no trouble in the grain
business. His company ships by tbs
Union Pacific company. At first It
was refused an elevator site and was
tailed by q Union Pacific official q
Matchmaking, business-d destroying con.
Germ.
E. E. Huntley, now grain dealer
Of Omaha. but formerly OF Salix, Ia,
said that up to 1905, when he left
there, the dealers in Salix had price
agreement and grain pool, each
dealer paying one cent bushel into
the pool for all grain bought over his
share.
S. M. McMurray, scoop shovel
err at Wood River and Shelton, Neb.,
said was formerly manager of the
Omaha Elevator company's elevator
at Wood River. The company also
owned and operated another elevator
there under the name Of the Conrad
Grain company. The two elevators
we're supposed to be competitors He
had trouble with the manager of the
other elevator and resigned and start
ed a shovel house, The price OF
wheat was raised S cents and Of corn
and oats 2 cents bushel at once. He
had been unable to get site for an
elevator from the Union Pacific COM
pany, the officials, giving as reason
that .the elevators were forcing their
hands," Mr.. McMurray said that not.
withstanding the antipathy against
scoop shovelers," It was fact that
most Of the big elevators began that
way. #
When the commission adjourned
large number OF witnesses from var,
ious parts Of the state were present to
testify. The commissioners will begin
hearing at Des Moines, Ia, today.