Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-07-03

long a wheat can be bought as cheap
Iy in Minneapolis as in St. Paul those
hose now buying in the former city
will continue to do so. Each Of us
aave our favorite trading points. The
only way we 4 be diverted to a new
one is through a reduction and not
through an increase in the cost OF
those things which We wish to pur.
chase. There must be some financial
inducement ample to impel the
change. The only way to create a
new grain center in ST. Paul is for
someone to take the initial loss that
s inevitable in the establishment of
/ new industry in any new commun.
,ty.
Distinctive Failure.
THE rivalry that has existed be-
tween Minneapolis and st. Paul would
have been more than ample stimulus
many years ago for the citizens of st,
Paul to have established a grain bus
mess if it were not so patient to
every business man that such a plan
would besa distinctive faiulre. Z =
1T Isl NOT Reasonable to presumf
that purchasers will seek a new mar
ket, the creation of which is found
ed on the theory that the producers
are to get higher prices, when the
purchasers a secure the products
at lower prices at an established mar
ket ten miles away. ."7l-" ,lH,.zan
THE only way that the farmers Of
North Dakota can establish a market
in St. Paul is to make it attractive tc
purchasers, and that certainly will,
not secure higher prices. Surely nc
individual or firm could expect to re
ccive a larger clientage by openly
claiming the purpose Of the individual.
or firm was to get higher prices. il
an individual could not win out along
those lines, how a the state OF
North Dakota more easily influence
the purchaser to part with his money:
Head of Navigation.
"If it is the theory that the state
owned terminal elevators could hold
up it's grades and establish higher
values in the worlds markets what
reason can be given. for the location
Of a terminal elevator by North Da'
kota in ST.. Paul? Such a terminal ell
evator would be cut off from export
by rail rate either to the seaboard OF
to the head Of the lakes. AS to river
transportation, Minneapolis, not St
Paul, is the official head of navigation
"If a terminal elevator, state-Own
ed Or otherwise, has no peculiar OF
unusual influence as a price-making
factor-and there is no reason to be-
lieve that the erection of a terminal
elevator in st. Paul would advanse
prices-what advantage would such
an institution be to North Dakota far
mers, even if he did pay for it? II
there is to be no benefit in price, the
benefit, if any, must be from some
other source. The establishment o.
higher grades would add to the con
%pensation of the farmer, but the ter
minal elevators now established have
nothing to do with grading incoming
grain, and all the farmers grain is in
coming. The same staff of inspectors
working under the rules and the regu
lations now established by the Mime
sofa warehouse commission, would in
spect the grain shipped to state-own
ed terminals as well as to all Other
terminal elevator. A terminal ele
vator, under wise and honest manage
ment, could complain of inspection oil
any car that passed through its hands
and ask for relief through an appeal
The decision on the appeal would be
final and binding.
,.-. OF Little Influence.
A state-owned elevator could eXer
else no greater influence or have any
more to do with the final decision or
the appeal than any commission firm
or individual now doing business or
the Minneapolis Chamber Of Com
merce, or independently. Similar
conditions exist as to weighing. Nc
state-owned elevator could influence
the weighing,
IF l am correct in my first three
premises that enter into better ne
prices for the farmers Of North Da'
kota, it leaves but small factors fol
consideration. The argument made
that the farmer would be benefited BY
less storage charge does not seem ten
able. If the carrying charge is, as
they claim, one of the determining
factors that makes the price, say Of