The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-09-05
GROWERS Of COTTON
EFFECT A COMBINE
Agree to Hold Their Crop
Until They Obtain Is
Cents Per Pound.
FARMERS UNION PLAN
Committee Figures Out Mini
mum Price for Grain in
Various States.

SALINA, Kan, Sept. "A national
official paper will be established by the
National Farmers union. This was de.
cided today at the annual convention
of the Organization. 1t was stated that
| the purpose of the publication would be
to advance the interests of organized
farmers by disseminating information
regarding the progress of legislation in
which the people of the rural districts
are concerned, Among other things the
votes of members of congress on leg
islation affecting the farmers will be
published.
The high cost of living will be higher
as result of the action of the union
today in fixing the price al which mem
bers will sell this years cotton crop
at Is cents pound. The present price
is approximately twelve cents.
The action binds every member of
the union to hold his cotton until the
market reaches the figures set. SINH
lar resolutions have failed of passage
at previous conventions.
Members Unanimous.
This year there was no opposition to
the plan Several of the leading, cotton
growers wanted the minimum figure
fixed at seventeen cents or eighteen
cents pointing out that owing to the
tightness of the money market and the
unsettled conditions in Europe and this
country prices Of all products would
soar, and cotton would bring that price
| if the members of the union held out.
Experts employed by the union esti-
mate this year cotton yield 14,O74 500
bales. Last year it was 100000
bales and the price averaged 19 cents.
| There are nearly two million members
of the Union who are cotton growers,
and leaders in the movement say that
| their neighbors who are not members
of the organization will be only too
| glad to join in the holding of the crop
until it can be marketed at Is cents a
pound The minimum price at which
cotton seed will be sold was fixed at
$50 ton, and members are pledged to
hold out for that figure. Last year g
price ranged around $26, which is ap-
proximately the present market figure.
A feature of the convention today
was the discharge of the committee on
the greater consumption of cotton
after R. D. Bowen of Paris, Tex,
chairman of the committee, had made
his report. The committee was not
discharged because it had not ac-
complished anything, but because it
was charged that Bowen attended a
farmers union conference at New
Orleans last April, which, it was said
was held for the purpose of fighting
the tariff bill now pending before con-
gress. A heated discussion preceded
the discharge Of the committee.
c. S. Barrett Of Union City. Ga,
was reelected president Of the organi'
zation today. Other officers elected
were A. V. Swift Of Oregon, vice pres
ident, and A, c. Davis. Arkansas, sec
rotary and treasurer.
The meeting of 1915 will be held al
San Francisco. The place for next
years convention has not been Sc
; lccted
The report Of the legislative commit
tee, which was adopted, declared
against the alien ownership OF land
and stated that corporations should
not be allowed to own more than is
necessary
Farm Product Prices.
The agricultural committee, in IT.
report, stated that the minimum price
or wheat, corn, oats and barley on th'
nome market 60 pay the cost OF pro
duction and 6 per cent on the value o.
: tarm lands in the various states shoulc
. be as follows
Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma
: wheat. S1.05: corn, 20 ceute; oats, Al
cents, and barley, 30 cents; Illinois
I Indiana and Missouri, wheat, Fl .25
> corn, 10 cents; oats, 90 cents, ant
. barley. 90 cents; western slope states
n wheat, 81 cents; corn, 90 cents; oats
Y oO cents, and barley, so cents.
0 The report was adopted, The con
t Ventlon closed with an open meetinl
G tonight.