Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-12-02
elevators
Have BIG RUSH
Dealers Have Paid $685..
600 for 425,O0O Bushels
| and More Grain in Sight
Grain Marketed In That Vi.
|cinlty Only Said to be Get
| ,tinQ 4 Fair Start

MOTT, n, d., Dec. 2,-WEsle many
other towns in this section Of tho
Itate are being loudly acclaimed by
their inhabitants and their newspa-
pers as the greatest grain markets
ever, it is well for the citizen OF Mott
to sit steady In the boat and grow
not alarmed, for this town is the orig.
inal, genuine, dyed.in-the,wool, blown.
in.the-bOttle grain market in south.
western North Dakota. With five big
elevators and two railroads, the town
affords a convenient outlet for the
farmers product and Is enabled to
pay slightly higher prices, facts
known and appreciated by grain grow.
ers.
A visit to the local elevators dis,
closed the fact that already some
$4,000 bushels OF grain have been
marketed here this season, and the
elevator managers are unanimous in
saying that the crop in the territory
tributary to Mott has just begun to
come in. In giving their estimates
the managers OF the two largest ele-
vators agreed in the statement that
less than a third of Motifs share has
been brought to market. The highest
estimate made by any of the five mans
ayers was that the marketed portion
represents nearly half the entire re-
ceipts for the season. One OF the
managers, and he is a man well &C.
quainted with conditions. insists. that
O%ne-fourth is nearer Il correct figure.
Elevator managers agree that the
glcater part Of the grain grown ad.
jacent to town has been brought in.
but they name farmer after farmer
from further out who are just prepar,
ing or have just begun to market
their crops. And, mark you, they
give the an Of these growers, tell
where they liv AID give accurate fig
Il cs as to their yields. The fields to
the west of Mott, particularly. have
been slow in getting their grain to
market. due primarily to delays in
threshing. Monday and Tuesday
! growers from 30 to rs miles west
brought in their first loads, one Of
them being a farmer whose grain will
total more than 1900 bushels. These
men confirm the statement of the ele-
vator managers that in their section
marketing cannot +, yet be said to have
Up to- Tuesday morning there had
been shipped over the Northern Pa.
citic 206 cars of grain, Of which 1So
were wheat and q were flax, equiv.
alent in bushels to 100000 of wheat
and 10000 of fax. Over the Milwau-
kee had been shipped 5000 bushels
of wheat, 10000 bushels of flax and
1000 bushels of barley. At the same
time there remained ii the elevators
$4,000 bushels Of wheat and 1000
bushels of flax. This makes the total
amount OF grain marketed here thus
far about as follows: Wheat, 370,-
600 bushels; flax, $4,000 bushels, and
barley, 1000 bushels; a grand total Of
424,400 bushels.
The elevator men estimate that the
wheat that has been marketed has
been paid for at an average price Of
II cents a bushel, the AJAX at $3.50 a
bushel and the barley at d cents a
bushel. This mems that there has
been paid in Mott this year for wheat
the sum Of $262, 700. for flax $5G,400
and for barley $1,000, in al a total
sum of 1922, 1000, which has been paid
out in Mott for grain raised in this
vicinity.
If the estimates of the elevator
men are to be accepted as anywhere
nearly correct, Motifs receipts Of
grain this year will approximate a
million and a quarter bushels, in pay
ment for which almost, if not quite,
which had caught fire and dropping
ed among the farmers Of the county.
So, after all, Mott is a grain mar
ket which will compare more than
favorably with older and larger
towns in more thickly settled coun.
tries than this, while for a new town
in a new country she has them all
beat a raile.