The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1912-12-14
ELEVATORS HANDLE 10000
BUSHELS OF WHEAT AT
NEW ENGLAND In ONE DAY

New England, N, D., Dec. 14-Over
$4,000 bushels per day has been the
average amount of grain handled by
The five elevators in New England the
% st week. ON three days the
AIKEN in went over 10000 bushels and
with the exception of one day. no
farmer had to wait longer than two
- % ret " chance To unload bis
rrain at one of the five elevators. For
a few hours yesterday two of the ele-
vators had to shut down until cars
N,Cr9 spotted. This made it bad for
more than 100 farmers who had to
wait for three or four hours before
they could unload at the three elcva-
tors not completely filled up. The
blockade was only temporary as six
tnen cars were spotted and loaded
during the latter part e the afternoon
and at night. :
Everybody Busy,
II has been one continuous hustle
cverv day at the elevators, railroad
yards, banks, hotels, restaurants, feed
barns and bla cksmith shops. and every
business place in town is rushed from
early morning until late at night. On
Saturday the Columbia elevator made
a record Ly hauling IL loads Of grain.
y-ler elevators handled over 100
haas each. 1t is not a case of buying
grain. so much as being able to handle
il. Strings and double strings of
teams are lined up in front of all five
elevators and the one that can handle
1t fastest gets the most loads for the
day.
From 800 to $50 teams have been in
New England every day, and with
over 1000 well-fed horses in town
there have been only one or two run
aways, and no serious damage has
been done. Five fed barns have been
filled every day and the blacksmiths
can't begin to do the work that comes
to them. It is the anne way in every
business place in town n the farm
ers seem we'll pleased with the serv-
ice they are getting. Barring the two
times when some Of the elevators a
to shut down while cars were being
spotted there have been no long
waits and several farmers have a
keted two loads a day.
Three Quarters Of a Million.
Up to Dec. l 3S2 carloads of this
years crop had been shipped, accord
ing to figures obtained this morning
from the managers of the five eleVa-
tors. This does not include n of
last years crop that vas shipped out
this fall, but is the new grain mar
keted in the months of September, OC-
tober and November. December will
VIC TIC blS IloIItl dliu IL d
started off with a rush. SiXty-seven
cars were shipped up to noon today
and twenty-five cars are being spot
ted and loaded this afternoon. This
makes a total of All cars loaded at
New England up to date, or approx
mately SOS, 200 bushels already ship
ped out. The five elevators have
10000 on hand, which added to the
amount shipped out, brings the total
for grain marketed at this point up to
715,0o0 bushels, or very close to the
three+quarters of a million mark. Two
days more and that mark will be pass
ed good, strong margin. If his good
weather continues until Dec. 20 it is
safe to say the million bushel mark
will be buried good and deep by
Christmas.
One Third Marketed. e.
Not a bushel over one-third of the
grain in this territory has been mar
keted, Hundreds of farmers have fin
ished threshing during the past three
weeks and are just commencing to
haul their grain. Many have reported
that they will have to make from
thirty to sixty trips to market his