The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1915-04-17

clothing in Spokane, for the SELL
ing price of the article will in
clude not only the cost of the
goods, but cost of handling called
overhead expense. If this
overhead expense is donated to
Spokane, it will gradually build
up Spokane, but Colville people
will not see any of it.
Just a common-sense matter,
this. The person who works
for the community aids himself,
and the one who aids some other
place is not aiding his territory.
Dale Jones and D. K. Zuck,
proprietors of the Colville Flour
Mills, are advertising seed wheat
extensively, having last week
received another large supply.
They handle No. l Blue Stem
spring seed wheat, and have
already sold 1900 bushels this
spring to Stevens county far
mers. 1t is estimated this amount
of seed will produce a yield of
$4,000 or 80, 900 bushels this fall,
and if brought to the mill will
be turned into Top-Noch flour,
making about 10000 sacks.
There will be three times more
acreage sown to wheat this spring
in Stevens county than ever be-
fore. The Colville millers rec
ommend Blue Stem as the best
milling wheat because of the
superior quality of flour that can
be manufactured from it. 1t
runs "a to 36 per cent gluten,
and grows to good height, from
two to four feet, which enables
the farmer to utilize the stalk
for hay.
Wheat raising will soon be one
of the leading industries of this
county, and the Colville mills
afford a cash market for all the
grain products of the county.
Besides seed wheat, the mill
proprietors have for sale seed
barley, feed, chopped or rolled
barley and oats, and cracked
corn and wheat. Patronizing
these mills spells prosperity for
every farmer in Stevens county,
as the tiller of the soil no longer
has to hunt a market for his
grains and then wait indefinitely
for his pay. The Colville mills
pay cash for all such products.
The mill capacity is 125 barrels,
and is equipped with all the latest
improved milling machinery.
1t has an elevator capacity of
10000 bushels. The mill has
been running full time since last
July, when Messrs. Jones and
Zuck leased it from J. H. Lasswell
with option of purchasing at ex-
piration of lease. They will pur-
chase it next September.
These mills are the means for
developing the farming pos
sibilities of this country, as the
advantage they offer over former
conditions by paying cash for all
grain products will be an in
centive for farmers to seed more
of their lands to grains. Farm
ing development has reached
such a stage that now there is
scarcely a town surrounded by
fields of waving grain which
does not possess an elevator or
fouringm i'll. No farming COM
munity prospers as it should
without one or the other.
A town located in an agri-
cultural district depends largely
on the farmers trade, and of all
the edible grains brought to mar
ket, including corn, oats, rye,
barley and wheat, wheat is pre-
eminently the first in Importance.
1t has become the chief article of
diet of the human race in gen.
eral and has most properly
gained for itself the title of
staff of life." Wheat may,
therefore, be considered staple
article which governs the ad-
vancement and prosperity of a
country town, and it, in turn,