Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-01-09

s. H. GREELEY OF ST. PAUL
REPRESENTING INTERESTS
OF THAT CITY, HERE. ,
farmers TO GET Together
MIR. Greeley Tells Of the Advant.
ages Of System Planned by the
State,

The terminal elevators question is
now being agitated among the legis-
lators of the Fourteenth assembly and
the farmers who are in the Legislature
will undoubtedly get together within
the next few days to talk owe the
matter. ~.
S. H. Greeley of st. Paul, who was
secretary of the big farmers conven-
ton held in that city last month, is
representing the city of st. Paul in
an effort to have the terminal eleva-
tor to be built by the state of North
Dakota, if plans materialize, located
at that point. MI. Greeley is now
stopping at a local hotel. 49,. q, .,..
Greeley in an Interview. &
In an interview last night, Mr..
Greeley said regarding the terminal
elevator proposition: ~ .,
elf the elevator is established in
st. Paul it will give the farmers the
lowest possible rate in putting the
grain in condition and cleaning it, it
will break the backbone of the eieva-
tor trust; will reduce the premiums
for the futures; reduce the rates OF
storage; prevent manipulations of the
futures and corners in the market; it
will prevent large accumulations of
grain at the terminals held by the
grain trust and will enable the farmer
to place his grain direct to the miller,
himself. +
ct will insure to buyers a better
quality of wheat in storage and will
furnish public elevator facilities in
which the proprietor himself IS mot a
grain merchandiser, and in taking
away the advantages o enjoyed by
the warehousemen as spectators .
will have the tendency to increase
prices to the producers and also en-
able consumers to secure more re.
liable grades when the custodian him
self is not a manipulation of the mar,
ket:
1.-THE advantages of water transpor-
tation via the Mississippi river from
St. Paul to New Orleans for export
will reduce the cost of transportation
at least so per cent as compared to
the all rail rates now enforced to- the
Atlantic seaboard.@ "u .
Other Advantages. 81 .
"Such an elevator will take away
from gambling SPECTATORS on the com
mercial exchanges the safety and in
surance which now exists in shaping
The values of the crops through the
medium of options and futures, which
now regulate, the values of the crops.
- truly public elevator of the char
acter planned for in the North Dakota
appropriation will bring the farmer
and miller into direct communication
and make supply and demand more
largely the price regulator of the
crops.
1.-THE city of st. Paul and its bus1.
ness interests stand ready to do all
in their power to assist in this en-.
terprise. The 1900 delegates to the
farmers convention held in St. Paul
last month were all enthusiastic in
their belief that St. Paul is the most
desirable terminal for such an eleva.
tor. -''r
"The sentiment is rapidly growing
throughout the northwest in favor of
such a terminal as will offer to the
farmers such every Endorsement to
merchandise his own property.
cit is expected that in a few days
the motion pictures of the big farm
ers' convention wiz be here to show
the people of Bismarck"