Judith Gap journal. [volume] (Judith Gap, Mont.) 1908-19??, 1911-03-31

Canada, except farm products, coke
and Goldfish. Tie duties are to be
maintained upon farm implements,
clothing, boots shoes, paints, oils,
, glass, household furniture, carpets
and every other article which the
I people Of Montana buy. OF course,
in the event of the passage of the re-
ciprociy treaty. the people of Mon
tana will enjoy the great privilege of
importing coke and fish from Canada
free OF the duty.
When the 20 per cent duty on cattle.
! sleep and hogs has been in force;
when the duty on Canadian barley
has been removed. which has given
, American farmers Il price of rs cents
a bushel higher than the Canadian
market price; when the differential
has been removed from the price OF
wheat. amounting to 10 cents a BUSH
el, and when the tioodgates have been
opened to the free importation of
Canadian barley, wheat, oats, hay,
cattle. hogs and sheep. and when the
farm ers OfMontana and the popula-
ton OF the towns which are Deepen
dent upon the farmers cast up the
final account, they will discover that,
as far as coke is concerned, they will
be- able to import it from Canada.
free Of duty, thus saving the one dol
lar Il ton, which is now levied ut the
Great Falls custom house on the Ca
madam coke that has heretofore
made up the bulk of the duties col
lected ut Montana one port of entry.
The ratification of the reciprocity
treaty will, of course, relieve the
smelter ut Great Falls from the pay
! ment of about $50, 900 annually of GUS
tom duties that now 90 into the fed
eral treasury from the tariff levied on
this Canadian coke which, under the
treaty, will have free entry.
The dividends of the Amalgamated
company will be swelled to the eN-
tent OF this $780, 900 annually, and the
stockholders Of that great corpora
ton will be gratitie.l, corresponding
~. by the beneticient results OF 'reci-
procity."
The farmers Of Montana, however,
will, at the end Of the year, begin to
wonder what has become of their part
Of the profits OF Canadian reciprocity.
Take the one item of barley, for the
production Of which Montana has be-
come famous. In 1909 Montana pro-
d,ced 1000 900 bushels OF barley.
Canada is our only competitor in the
raising Of barley. Under the present
tariff schedules barley imported from
Canada carries duty Of 80 cents per
bushel, with the result that the sell
ling price of barley in Montana, North
Dakota and Minnesota averages
about % cents per buslel more than
in the Canadian barley market.
In the daily market quotations on
January ~ of this year barley was
selling in Winnipeg at ~ cents per
bushrl. while in Minneapolis and D,l-
luth the same grade of barley was
selling at ~ cents per buslel. TO be
more specific, on january 10 of the
present year at Pembina, North Da-
kota. barley was selling ut ~ cents
! per bushel, while ut Emerson, on the
Canadian side of the line four and Il
half miles distant, on the same day
the market price for barley was ~
cents per bushel, or rs cents per
bushel difference. On January ~, in
Neche, North Dakota. barley was sci.
ling at tai cents per bushel, and two
miles distant at Gretna, ON the Cana.
dian side Of the boundary line, it was
selling at rs cents per bushel, a diff
ference OF % cents per busllel to the
American farmer.
On the same date, January 10 at
lembina, North Dakota, wheat was
quoted at ~ cents per bushel, while
ut Emerson, four miles distant, nc.
ross the Canadian border, it was sell
ing at So cents per husllel, Il difference
OF IL cents per busliel.
In the year 1909, according to the
report Of the secretary Of agriculture,
Montana produced I,Vl2, 900 bushels
Of winter wheat and !, 75., 900 bushels