The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1915-11-19
GRAIN RECEIPTS
BREAK RECORDS
Farmers Hauling in Their Grain
to Local Elevators.
SCOBEY PRICES SHOWN UP
Erroneous Quotations Fail to Induce
Farmers to Market Grain There.
Farmers Haul to Glasgow.

Farmers Haul to Glasgow.
The determined efforts of Scobey
to corral the grain trade from the
north country by erroneous market
quotations do not seem to have ma
terialized. For over a year Scobey
has attempted to induce the farmers
in the Opheim and Glentana country
to market their grain there, and
numerous cases have been brought to
light which showed that the prices
quoted for grain there have been
higher than the actual prices paid.
However, the fact that Glasgow is
receiving more grain this fall than in
any previous year, and the fact that
farmers are hauling their grain here
from within twenty miles of Scobey
shows what the agitation has accom-
plished. Where formerly farmers
hauling in grain here remarked about
the higher prices being paid at Sco-
hey, now not one of them mentions
it, probably having come into contact
with the conditions as they existed
there.
AS anyone conversant with the
grain market knows, the prices paid
for this commodity in the towns where
the freight rate is equal, are the same
in almost every case. There have
been instances where a fight between
elevators in the same town had a ten
dency to raise prices. but Scobey's
claim that they were paying higher
market prices for grain than the ele-
vators here is on the face of it out of
the question.
Attempts to get the market QUOTA
tions at Scobey for publication in the
local papers have proven unsuccess-
full, after it was shown that the diff
ference was very slight between the
prices paid, with the local markets
higher on the average than those at
Scobey. 1t has been stated, on good
authority, that the prices paid at SEQ
bey are lower than the prices that had
been quoted. This information was
given out by Scobey citizen, and this
condition is said to still exist.
But whatever Scobey has gained by
it's campaign to "grab" the grain
trade many farmers from the territory
where Scobey would naturally get its
grain have been hauling to Glasgow,
and seem entirely satisfied with the
prices paid here and the treatment
they receive at the hands of the local
elevators.
"The prices are now equal as be-
tween Glasgow and Scobey and there
has been no time during this crop
year that there has been over one
cent difference in your price and the
prices paid at Scobey," said an offic-
cr of large grain firm that operates
elevators at both Glasgow and Sco-
hey. and probably nobody is in a
better position to know just what the
prices are in both towns than he.
In last weeks issue of the Scobey
Sentinel, an article in the editorial
column states that "Scobey markets
have, on the average been much higher
than those of Glasgow, and farmers
in every part of the north country
stand ready to prove this. The mere
publishing of market quotations in a
newspaper has no weight with the
farmer. 1t is what he actually gets
that has effect on him."
This theory seems to have worked
out perfectly, for the farmers who
have been hauling grain into Glasgow
have stated that they receive as
good, if not better treatment here
than at Scobey. The Scobey high
price bubble" has burst and they are
now confronted with the fact that
their grain trade is slipping away
from them.
One north country farmer in the
city a few days ago with a load Of
flax, which he marketed at a local
elevator, asked what the dockage was
and was told it would be two pounds.
He replied that he had been docked
two and one-half pounds at Scobey
for flax out of the same bin.
A comparison of the prices pub
lished in the Scobey Sentinel for Fri
day, November IL, and those the ele-
vators were paying here follows:
No. Nor. Durum Flax