The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1913-12-02

profit and every cent not actually used
for his benefit will at the end of the
reason revert back to his credit.
The writer now wishes to leave it
to the reader If the above is not a far
fairer and more just presentation of
conditions existing than the lone and
exceptional case communicated to your
paper in its latest issue.
AS an example any one knows that
! knows anything at all about it that no
! one was ever charged a $4,000 mem
bership fee for shipping car of po-
! tatoes. If membership fee based on
an acreage of orchard and to a diff
! ferent association, or to the member
ship fee of other persons is fair pre-
sentation of his case why not include
all his water payments and the cost
| of the land and price paid for the
wagon they were hauled on, etc. This
| item is too ridiculous, however, to
need further mention. A membership
in a local is an asset good for all time
to come. Does business man include
the purchase price of his furniture or
| fixtures as an expense item?
Let us now consider the reasons for
| the low price that was received for this
exceptional car of potatoes, which by
the way is the lowest net returns claim
ed by any one for car of potatoes
! shipped through the association this
! year. There have been two instances
| of cases where a bunch of our cars
have been cornered by the speculative
buyers and by reducing their prices
far below what they were asking at
other points have forced us to take a
price far below the prices being re-
ceived at any other point by us are
quoted at other points by the specu-
lative buyers whose object is to dis
satisfy a grower and get him to take
| a price fifteen cents below the ruling
price paid at any other points, so that
he will go and complain to his neigh
bors or better still, make an affidavit
of the fact and have it published.
| Did he first inquire who it was that
| first cut the prices in Oklahoma City
| when we had 20 cars there, to rs
cents bushel delivered or zoe hun
| dred here, there are several of us,
the writer of this for one who was
caught in this drag: but seeing all the
reasons for this it had a different eff
! feet on me than it did on some This
office is not going to cease till every
grower in southern Idaho knows the
reasons for these low prices that are
forced onto some growers. The grow
ers have one remedy yet this year
and that is to pool, in this way the
buyers cannot afford to sacrifice in
price to make this example of cars,
for under a pool these few exceptions
would not lower the general price to
such an extent to make more than a
| fraction of a cent in the average re-
! turns which all would share alike
Meetings are planned now for each To-
cality to give the growers a chance to
! determine in regard to this. This will
necessarily delay the returns and will
make it necessary to arrange for cash
advances which from present indica-
| lions will be easy to do.
This office will in the near future
mail to each grower a complete list of
all cars sold giving prices in each
case. These averages show so much
above what the buyers have been of
fering that it will show plainly why
such an effort has been made at GER
tain times in Oklahoma City especially
to force us to make returns that are
intended to dissatisfy the grower
| wonder why no one in your COM
munity is ready to communicate the
Sldlellleul VI the llISl cars that your
place shipped through the association
this year which brought $1.00 hun
dred shipped at a time that your To-
cal buyers were offering 70 cents. Our
salesman continued to get this price
for all shipments that were UP to
grade until your growers from the
country north of here sold enough al
low prices to enable them to cut the
| nrirp Had tliC ncCnaiatinn handle G
| all the potatoes this year from Idaho
the proof is very strong that no one
would have to receive less than the
three figures per hundred for his crop
that was packed to grade and arrived
in good shape. What was the first in
uication of a break in the market?
Buyers under quoting us on Idaho
Falls potatoes 10 cents Idaho Falls
rate on Idaho Falls rate | reitterate
that all the cuts in prices were done
with Idaho potatoes which were not
shipped through the association. Is
this plain? ! challenge any grower
to show where any cut in prices has
been made which affected the prices or
our potatoes in any of the territory
where mostly all of our potatoes are
shipped with any thing but Idaho po-
tatoes, also to show where in a single
instance our potatoes have been Of
fered at less price than was being
received for other Idaho potatoes.
| here make another statement that
| challenge the buyers to try to dis
prove. 1t is this: Minnesota and
Michigan potatoes would not enter in
to competition with Idaho stock in any
point south of Joplin, Mo-, or other
points taking an Is cent freight rate
from Minnesota points until we would
raise the price 10 cents hundred and
considering the fact that the big ma
iority of our shipments are made to
points south of there this is food for
thought" Consider now that Idaho
potatoes are worth ten cents a hun
dred more than theirs it would at any
time in the past or present require a
raise of 23 cents a hundred to bring us
into competition with their stock Does
this mean anything to you Mr.. Grow
oro