The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1914-11-27
/ also observe another sale made at
csc on a 40c freight rate.

also observe another sale made at
csc on a 40c freight rate. ti
Another sale made at 63c a bushel
delivered on a 60c freight rate, or
45c.
observe that one car was sold as
low vas 43c ON that date, while several
offers of 45c were declined for prompt
shipment.
If the buyers were paying 40c ON
this date, as Mr.. Wilson says, they
were buying ON prospect of raise
in the market at the other end, and
not on the quotations on ti.at date.
We notice another car of Whites
sold at 48c on that date.
1t might be interesting also for you
to know that our enire board Of d.
rectors, composed of potato growers
of this state, or at least most of them,
heard Mr.. Wilson say that both Ja-'
cobsen and the Western Mill were also
cutting prices and lowering the mar
ket.
We would like to ask the buyers
l!why Mr.. R. P. Nelley, Of Fort Worth,
Texas, sent a telegram at about this
date, which read in part substantially
as follows:
will handle cars free of brokerage
and all expenses to you in order to
force the Southern Idaho Producers
association to cut their price,"
Our Mr.. J. @. sewell saw this tele-
gram, but failed to get copy Of It.
Let us not leave this 31st day Of
October until we look into Mr.. VIII
sons statements a little further.
I observe that day the growers were
receiving Acc. We do not doubt that
Mr.. Wilson was paying 40c on that
date, but imagine he did the same ex-
pecting sudden rise in the market
which we all looked for about that
time, but which did not come, mas
much as Mr. Wilson was making less
than l per cent of the purchases in
this state, it would not help the mar
lket at the other end when buyers at
'Murtaugh that day bought for soc,
which would be &c Idaho Falls and
at Rupert there were no buyers buy
ing, at Bull they were buying a few
Fat 3Oc, picking out the very best,
Twin Falls report sales at CSC, at
at Moore they were not buying, at
Blackfoot sales were made at a35c.
Talk about the buyers not democrat
izing the market at this time. On Oc-
tober 26th our Mr.. r. W. Faulkner.
at Oklahoma City, who, by the way,
is an Idaho potato grower on salary
for this association at Oklahoma CITY
Oklahoma, sold T. D. Turner there
1--WE cars at 45c hundred, and while
waiting for their Mr. Bennett to look
up the diversions he wanted, the tel
egraph messenger boy came in with
telegram, and Mr.. Bennett showed
Mr.. Faulkner the message with the
signature covered, Offering Idaho
Whites at 35c hundred at Twin
rails rate, which would be equal to
CSC Idaho Falls.
AS say, we do not doubt that Mr..
Wilson got his fingers burned buying
on this date at 4Oc, when other buy
ers were paying 80 and 35c, but we
furthermore claim that the price he
agreed for few cars week would
not very we'll uphold the market
when others we're quoting as above
indicated.
4 Mr.. Wilson also admits that buy
ers are handling potatoes this year
on SC margin, which we are we'll
aware is considerably less than they
are accustomed to handling them fo-
He furthermore brings this with
erlng accusation, that on that date
we had $50 cars loaded and on track
He first made this statement before
We set him right here, that these
cars were II in Denver, but when
shown the Denver track report that
we only had three cars there, Moth
ing on demurrage, he is more gener-
al in his accusations here and d es
not locate them at ALL
Mr.. Wilson also finds great distress
IN the fact that this association
charges 1Oc hundred and the grow
er doesn't know what he is going to
get, but he fails to admit that he
made the trip all the way down here
on last Wednesday with a propoei-
ii that the Fort company do the
very same thing.
If Mr.. Wilson had ever studied the
outside of the A. B. c. primer in CO.
which the government rec
ognizes as the only succy ssful method
Of marketing, in farmers bulletin
lust issued, he would know that the
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