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Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
GRAIN SOLD HERE
is ACTUALLY HERE
Dealing in Imaginary Supplies Has
No Part in Business of Omaha
Grain Exchange.
ITS BUSINESS WELL FOUNDED

The average man outside Of the busi-
ness understands little Of the machin-
cry by which the Omaha Grain Exchange
lives and moves and has It's being.
Receipts and shipments and prices and
grades of grain are Greek TO him, and
he is even more bewildered II he ever
goes UP and takes a look at the busy
grain exchange room with its clicking
telegraph keys. typewrlters. its thirty
telephone booths with their Pickering
lights. its quotation board, It's tables
filled with grain samples.
How does this grain get into Omaha
and what is done with It when it does
get here. What is the modus operandi
as Caesar would have remarked. Is the
grain really here or do these men buy
and sell Imaginary grain"
No option Market Here.
The grain is really here, gentle reader.
Selling imaginary grain" has no part
IN the activities of a healthy and re-
spectacle market like Omahas All the
grain bought and sold in Omaha is in
Omaha. The transaction Is purely one
OF buying and selling real grain with
real money-as much 20 as IL the owner
stood beside the car and showed the
grain to the buyer and then they came
20 an agreement and bought and sold.
There is no "option market" i'm Omaha,
no "bucket-shopping trades" II a man
wants TO deal in options he has to do II
on the Chicago market which can be
reached in Omaha through wire
house."
Most Of the sellers on the Omaha Grain
Exchange are commission men. They
do not speculate. They are merely agents
for the producer OF the grain. The pro-
ducer ships q car OF grain to his com.
mission man and the commission mar
sells It for the best price he can. getting
fraction of cent per bushel for his
services.
Who buyers Are.
The buyers of the grain are chiefly the
elevator companies and q few mills
Practically all the grain that comes int
Omaha is unloaded into some elevator
and all cars unloaded are unloaded un
der the supervision of a talleyman in the
employ OF the Omaha Grain exchange
so that the producer is sure of gettinl
paid for every busheI of grain h,
shipped.
1t is such careful methods that hav,
given the Omaha Grain exchange It.
high standing in the national grain mar
ket.
The word of its inspection department
is never disputed. Grain going out from
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
WHY PRICES HAVE
THE UPS AND DOWNS
Mr.. Wide World Tells the Dealers
How to Buy and Sell for Each
Days Business.
INFORMATION COVERS FIELD

To people outside Of the grain busi-
ness and allied interests the grain mar
ket column In a newspaper IL incompre-
hensible.
Wheat took a slump" says the news.
But why should wheat take a slump.
the reader wonders. who told II to take
a slump.
Corn was strong. going up y TO az
cents" says the report. And the man
on the street and more especially the
woman in the house Is puzzled to know
why corn should be strong. Who or
dered corn prices up7
Well. on this particular day the same
chap ordered corn prices up as ordered
wheat to slump. And who was this pow
erful chap? He was Mr.. Wide World
And Mr.. Wide World takes his orders
from the people OF the world and the
crops thereof
The price OF wheat or corn Is. as a
rule. barometer Of the supply and de-
mand day by day. For wheat is being
harvested continuously all the year
round. Every month sees a wheat har-
vest In some part OF the globe from
Russia's steppes to Argentnes plains
and from the wheat lands OF North
America to those OF Australia It's sum
mer in Australia when it's winter here,
and vice versa
II drouth or pests threaten the wheat
crop Of Russia the condition Is reflected
on the Omaha market with almost no
delay, and also on the other markets all
over the world
Anything that threatens TO make the
crop small tends to raise the price. Any
thing that threatens TO make the crop a
bumper tends 10 lower the price. pro-
vided the demand remains stationary.
And SO the reports come flashing In
from all over the world over tens OF
thousands of miles OF wire both on land
and under the sea. and the grain men
In Omaha know just what wheat is sell
ing for in Liverpool. London, Parts,
Vienna. BudR Pesth. Petrograd.
They know II there is a drouth over
Russia and Siberia or II floods have
devastated the wheat lands OF India.
They know pretty we'll the condition
OF the crop over the broad acres OF the
United States. This comes from various
sources. The national government gets
out bulletin. and there ara even some
big grain operators that have their own
service, or perhaps take a trip occasion.
ally 70 see for themselves ut first hand
just how the wheat or corn looks and
what is the prospect for a big or a little
crop.
The United states has grown TO be one
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27

crease In wheat production right here in
Nebraska and especially in the western
part which was considered too dry for
this purpose only few years ago.
Wheat Is self fertilizing. At Towering
time the anthers are pushed upward and
break open and the pollen falls on the
stigma. Nevertheless the pollen has been
removed from one variety OF wheat and
placed on the ovules of another and by
this means new varieties OF great value
have been produced.
A mature wheat kernel Is a single seed
enclosed in tight-fitting walls. During
growth the lateral portions Of the seed
fold inward and the seed elongates form
ing a fold or groove upon its upper sur
face.
The bran scale consists OF three parts.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
Facts About Wheat,
It's Growth, It's Nature and Uses

Two square feet OF land are required
under ordinary conditions TO produce
enough wheat to bake one loaf OF bread
Weighing a pound.
A few political economists Of the NAL
thusian turn OF mind nave taken their
pencils and figured that within half a
century or 30 there would be n wheat
famine. But there isn't the slightest
basis for such an assumption. The land
OF the United States has not nearly
reached it's maximum of production. In
fact the amount OF wheat raised per acre
In this country is hardly that raised in
Europe under intensive farming.
Large tracts of land in the United
States suitable for wheat growing are
ntill uncultivated and the immense in
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
ARM0URS REPRESENTED
ON CHANGE BY THRESHER

The Armour Grain company, who have
been large buyers in this territory for
shipment east from Omaha, have been
represented at Omaha for a number Of
years by e. r. Thresher. who has been
very successful as their buyer and rep
resentative at Omaha. The Armour
Grain company are big buyers OF grain
from this territory for eastern ship
ment and in addition to being buyers
OF grain are also handling conslgnments
Of grain on the Omaha market.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27

OF the big wheat exporting countries Of
the globe. In the twenty-elght years
from 1874 20 1900. for example. our eX-
ports OF wheat 20 England alone rose
from 100000 quarters In 1s72 TO l25eLoo
quarters In 1870. a quarter Of wheat
Is eight bushels. or 40 pounds. II Is tho
measure used in England.
Comparisons OF the amount Of wheat
produced per acre are interesting. In
England they get thirty bushels per
acre: IN Germany thlrty-three, in France
twenty. in Hungary seventeen, in Rou-
mania seventeen. In Russia ten and n
half and in India ten bushels per acre.
In the United States the average is about
fourteen and n half bushels per acre.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27

the outer skin or coarsest part OF the
bran. an inner double skin and a thin 7
hard. transparent layer. Inside the bran
another layer Of cells called the aleu-
rome cells is found. The flour cells found
within all these layers consists of about
"a per cent of the wheat kernel, OF which
about 70 per cent is recovered as flour.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
Official Roster
Of Omaha Grain
Exchange for 1916

Omaha Grain exchange officers, 1915:
President J. b. swearingen; first vice
president. Barton Millord: second. vice
president. ]. A. Hnderholm; treasurer, +,
H. Brown; secretary, r. p. Manchester.
Directors J. y. swearingen, w. J.
Hynes, p. p. Smith. r. II. Brown, Barton
Millard, J. A. Linderholm, II. l.. Olsen,
c. r. Niswonger and J. T. Buchanan.
Inspection and Weighing department:
Chief Inspector and welghmaster. George
Il. Powell assistant chief inspector. a.
+. Kruse: deputy assistant chief In
spector. r. W. Milligan; supervising in
spector and weighmaster. p. u. Little.
STANDING COMMITTEES FOR 78is
Alleged violation Of rules
g c. Crowell A. Mckinley
w. VI. Bailey q. A. Sammis
Elevator and elevator. register
j. y. Adams Rudolph Beal
George A. Roberts
j. w. Redick c. Vincent
CIV. Adams w. p. Motzger
w. II. Tohe
Finance.
r. II. Brown Rarton Millard
w. J. Hynes Ed p. Smith
Arbitrationi
c. 8. Rainboit o. E. Harris
j. u. Blanchard j. B. Adams
NJ. 8. Dolphin
Grain:
J. w. Holmquist o. NJ. Smith
Il. u. Twamley 8. s. Carlisle
A. VI. Bewsher J. IT. Conrad
James Swanick
Building:
w. j. Hynes u. y. Smith
+. 8. Cowgirl Barton Millard
Membership!
III T. Hudnell Frank Taylor
G. Vincent II. A. Cope
J. NJ. Alber
Cash margini
N, Merriam IL. s, Westbrook
]. M. Welsh
Quotations:
A. Mckinley E. II. Huntley
G. Il. Kern w. B. Weekes
Discounts:
n. ]. Southard w. IT, Bailey
o. II. Gibbs l.. p. Roberts
Transportationi
g. D. Sturtevant ]. w. Holmquist
u. A. Kuhn s. r. Mason
r.. y. Peck u. s. Westbrook
Ways and means.
Ed P. Smith NIB. Updike
~. T.. Peck
Publicity:
w. j. Hynes ]. w. Redick
z. ID. Sturtevant
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27

here is inspected and weighed and the
word Of the Omaha inspectors is accepted
without question by the other markets
or the mills to which It is sent.
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27
Storage and Milling
Capacity is Extensive

Elevators controlled by members Of
the Omaha Grain exchange at its head
quarters have a capacity Of 10000 bush
els. Two FIGURING mills in Omaha have
a capacity of 1900 barrels OF flour per
day. and three alfalfa mills have a ca
pacity for producing 1900 tons Of alfalfa
per day. The elevators and mills are:
ELEVATOR FACILITIES:
Bushels.
eli Bluffs ''o. ..,.....,'....,'. o.p.' 100000
pany. omsha...o.'..,e....,,.... o'ei ',' 10000
Trans-Mississippi Grain company. ...,
Council Bluffs .................... SOO,O0
Omaha ................,....'....... ms i.,r, 10000
pa omaha e.a.or .,.o.....o..,.... . IN q n 10000
1OS' omaha .a.............1....... e.a'Ui $4,000
Nebraska-Iowa Grain company.
cTo%eII 5%sna Elevator pany, O
Gate city Malt company, Omaha 100000
Council Bluffs .....,..'.i,.,..... y - > 10000
company Council Bluffs........ 10000
Nancy Milling company Omaha 225,OOO
Merriam & Milard company, &C,
NJ c. Peters Mil company, Omaha 100000
Iowa Elevator company, Council -.
Bluffs NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. 7b,OOO
omaha ia ia..-"'i..it....,..i...., -e 10000
j. F. Twamey, Son Co, Omaha 1900
MILLING FACILITIES:
Nancy Milling company, flour ca
pacity (barrels) ...............,,., 1000
Updike Milling company, flour ca
pacity (barrels) ............,..,.. 300
Nj. c. Peters Mil company, alfalfa
meal capacity Ctons) ...,......,., 600
Omaha Alfalfa Milling company,
alfalfa meal capacity (tons)... 600
Krogh Alfalfa Mills, alfalfa meal
capacity (tons) ......".....'..... Nv
Omaha daily bee., 1916-02-27


Exchange building showing elevator gu and the cigar stand
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-09-09

plement special or bargain sales. Use
a large space i'm your local paper TO
announce such sales. Several days in
advance mail a copy of this advertise,
ment with a sales letter 10 a selected
list of customers or prospects. re-
questing them 10 call and make Sc
lections the day before the sale Is TO
take place. The famous White Seal
OF the largest retail establishment in
the world. the Bon Marche in Paris.
is conducted along these lines.
Like Starting Balky Horse.
Your advertisements, catalogues,
circulars and sales letters must meet
the same standards OF excellence found
in those put out by the big mail order
houses. One OF the most noted horse
trainers in the world when asked the
easiest way to start baiky horse. said
lift one OF his fore feet and rap him
sharply on the frog with a wrench.
This takes his mind off baking and
you start him going. The hardest
part of any sales letter or advertise
ment to write is the opening and clos
ing paragraphs. In the opening para
graph 1t is often necessary to give the
recipient a mental Jolt surprise him
with statement or a claim that is out
of the ordinary--set him to thinking
about something different from the
subject in his mind at the time he
opens your letter or reads your adj
vertisement-then you can start him
going
How 10 meet the talent OF the high
salaried publicity man OF the big mail
order houses suggests that by CO.
operative effort similar talent may be
had by the local merchants. Let the
merchants organize into groups, hav-
ing publicity man in charge of each
group, and through him and the press
of Escanaba let the farmers and other
consumers of Delta County know that
you are capable of furnishing better
merchandise at better prices, with
better service. This can be accom-
plished, retail dealers of Escanaba.
and by this accomplishment you will
create better spirit of good business
fellowship among you and raise your
merchandising excellency to a stand
ard that will make you invinclble."
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-09-09

so prominently cut and the coin has
a much smoother appearance. On o.c
side OF il is the figure of the Goddess
of Liberty holding n one arm
bunch OF olive branches. Above the
figure are the words. I'm God We
Trust; below il is the word Lib
erty." On the opposite side Ct the
coin there is a spread eagle grasping
an oak twig in his talons as he stands
upon rock. At the top is printed
"The United States of America" and,
at the bottom Half Dollar"
One side of the new quarter has the
full figure OF woman coming thru a
gate in wall. On the opposite side
there is pictured an eagle in fight.
The new dime is OF a sharper cut.
On one side Is the head of a woman.
over the head is printed the word
Liberty" and in the lower left hand
corner the date. The diverse side OF
the coin has bundle OF Roman
"fasces" tied tightly together with an
ak and a strong oak stick Below the
cutting in the Latin quotation "E
Pluribus Unum."
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-09-09
NEW COINS READY

II some one hands you silver coin
tomorrow that has an unfamiliar
look. don't refuse II in the belief that
IL is counterfeit or OF foreign origin.
The probabilities are that IL Will be a
sample OF Uncle Sans new mintage,
which is about TO be placed In circu-
lation in compliance with the law that
requires a change in the designs OF
the silver pieces once in every twenty
years.
The new coins now ready for circu-
lation consist OF half-dollars, quarter
dollars and dimes. For more than a
month the United States minis in
Philadelphia, Denver and San Fran
cisco have been turning them out at
rate OF about $4,000 worth a day,
so that now the amount on hand is
sufficient to be placed in circulation
over the entire country within the
next few days.
The design of the new half dollars
is considered a higher type of art
than the coins that have for so loLg
boon familiar. The markings are not
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-09-09
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER ., 1916
HARD ON NEWSPAPERS.

Joyful days for the newspaper men.
News print is up little matter of 25O
per cent over twelve-month ago, and,
furthermore, is hard TO get on any
terms. The Mining Journal, which,
through no choice of the publishers,
must appear as a six-page paper for
period, has a shipment coming that is
a month overdue. and the only salts
faction that can be obtained from the
mills Is that they cannot get around
yet 10 turning the order out. Now
there is the prospect OF the railroad
strike, which IL II actually occurs and
is prolonged. might actually put many
newspapers out OF business for a per-
iod of weeks, after they had used up
their paper on hand. Just now 1t is
a fortunate newspaper that has its
warehouse full OF news print. But
there are not many of these. The
disturbance in this phase of the news
paper business came with little warn
ing. never before nave inc neNspd-
pers had any difficulty getting news
print. so 1t has been their practice to
keep on hand supply large enough
for few weeks run, depending on the
steady flow of shipments TO meet their
needs as they arose. Thus most news
papers today are prepared to meet
their requirements for only a COM
paratively short time, and this is par
ticularly the case now because of the
great difficulty OF obtaining shipment
during the past several years. SO the
public need not be surprised, II the
railroad strike occurs, to witness, as
a result, some startling change in both
the form and the size of its favorite
journals Some of them would short
ly be hard pressed to print on any
terms. They will not be able to be
choosers.- Mining Journal.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-09-09

and fixed among all methods employed |
by man for building up sales. II takes |
just so long to get two-cent sales
man anywhere You can tell when
your message will reach your custom
er by looking at the timetable.
mo thoughtful business man can be
prejudiced against the mail order prln-
ciple because he himself employs IT
/ every day Of his life. Show me a man
without a typewriter or a pen in his
office. Show me the man on whom the
postman never calls. Show me the
man who never receives a letter or
sends one. and | will then admit that
there is a man who does not employ
the mail order principle.
1.-The retail dealer has every right
to exist because he renders service;
otherwise he automatically eliminates
himself. The mere fact that he does
exist Is self-evident that he has right
TO exist There is no question about
the SeTNlCe tndl tie HidiiS Ithuci tHe
business public There would be a
panic in this country In twenty-four
hours IL the mails as a service institu-
ton were abolished What the mail
order people and the other fellows
ought to do is TO understand each 9TH
err and what each is trying to accom-
plish. II they fight, the ultimate con.
sumner suffers. II they fight to finish
the ultimate consumer will starve
which means that they. too. will starve
for every man is an ultimate consumer
no matter what his business may be.
THE progressive way OF doing
things is to analyze instead of mobil-
ize; shed thought instead of blood
Recognize the right OF the other fell
low and you will usually find him a
pretty decent chap.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-09-09
MINING ENGINEERS MEET

Leading metal producing companies
from all sections OF the country will
be represented by members OF their
staff at the meeting of the American
Institute OF Mining Engineers. which
convenes in Arizona on September
18th. The country's record production
OF metal during the past year has
greatly stimulated the interest in
in those general mining topics which
will be discussed at the Institutes
sessions.
More than twenty corporations have
already expressed a desire TO be rep
resented by Institute members who
may participate in the technical gath
ering Some of these are Anaconda
Copper Mining Co, the largest copper
producing company in the country;
American Smelling and Refining Co,
the largest lead producing company;
Ray Consolidated Copper Co, Tread
we'll and Alaska juneau mines, Miami
Copper Co. and the New Jersey Zinc
Co. Among the prominent engineers
who will be present are L. D. Ricketts,,
Benjamin b. Thayer. William l.. Saun-
ders. Sidney j. Jennings, George ID.
Barron and Philip n. Moore. A spec
ial train from New York will be the
travelling headquarters, the train NOV
ing from point to point in Arizona
each day during the week of the Con-
vention
Some seventy papers have been pre-
pared for discussion at the meeting
These papers bear largely upon new
methods OF production and the min
ing outlook in various parts OF the
world
Some of the most important OF these
are:
Automatic Operation of Mine HOSTS
as Exempliled by the New Electric
HOSTS for the Inspiration Copper Co.
BY II. Kenyon Burch and NJ. A. Whit
ing.
The Water Problem at the Old Do
minion Mine. BY p. G.. Beckett.
Power Plant OF Burro Mountain |
Copper Co BY Charles Legrand.
Geology of the Warren Mining Dis
trict. BY Y Bonillas, J. b. Tenny and
Leon Feuchere.
Flotation Concentration at Ana
conda, Mont. BY Frederick Laist and
Albert r. Wiggin
History OF the Flotation Process at
BY Rudolf Gail.
The Advent Of Flotation in the
District, Arizona,
.914-15. BY David Cole.
Comparative Test OF the Marathon,
lillian and Hardlnge Mills. BY +. G.
The Inspiration Plant, Concentrator
nd other Surface Equipment BY II.
Kenyon Burch.
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-09-09
Use Mail Order Plan.

"You can no longer combat the mail
order idea, no matter what your past
ideas may have been. The thing to do
is to use II yourself. II the mail order
houses are eating into your profits, in
a friendly way vie with them; put their
weapons into your own hands. Any
body with two cents who knows where
the postoffice is can subjugate this
powerful mail order force and put IL
to work for himself. but before you
undertake to extend your trade in this
manner you must realize that the
daily press is an essential adjunct to
any such advertising campaign. This
gives you a medium OF appeal that is
personal, and that in itself is a dis
tinct advantage over the other fellow.
Circularize your customers and pros
poets by mail. This plan is especially
effective in announcing fall and spring
styles and holiday goods and to sup
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-09-09

u. p. Merchants Urged to Study Mail
Order Methods.

An inspiring address on a subject
which is OF utmost Importance to
every merchant In Cloverland, was
delivered by Leo c. Harmon, OF Man
istique. before the Upper Peninsula
bureau at Escanaba Sat
urday, says the Manistique Pioneer
Tribune
Mr.. Harmon went 10 the very root
of the matter. and not only diagnosed
the trouble but offered satisfactory
remedy.
The address is as follows:
al have prepared for your consider
alton paper dealing with subject
that is OF vital interest TO every citizen
in Cloverland who is either mer-
chant or who Is interested in the sue
cess OF merchants refer TO the un-
relenting activity of the mail order
houses.
II am convinced that the merchants
OF Escanaba are not in sympathy with
the so-called mail order houses. am
convinced that this is a cancerous
growth fast eating into the heart OF
commercialism. Impartial investiga-
tions show that no greater handicap
confronts the merchants of Cloyerland
than the pernicious activities of the
big mail order houses.
How to successfully meet this
growing tendency of the time. How
TO successfully combat this CONNER
cial evil has engaged the attention of
many of you, as 1t has. engaged the at
tention OF merchants elsewhere
throughout this land.
Legislation Falls.
Some OF our sister states have at
tempted by legislative enactments to
curtail this influence. The mail order
house meets this onslaught with the
weapon of silence. The two-cent pos
tai stamp furnishes the cue to the all
powerful methods of the mail order
houses. Get this one thought well In
mind-the two-fisted salesman can do
things the two-eent salesman cannot
do The reverse is equally true.
What merchants must learn is
the concrete difference between the
two-their respective possibilities.
When you merchants learn this. you
will quit trying to eat soup with a
fork or drive with a putter. You will
throw off the unnecessary handicaps
which have been self imposed. You
must learn just what 1t cannot do.
Then your fight is half won. The use
OF the two-cent postal stamp by the
mail order houses is the most precise
The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1916-09-09
AUTOMOBILE FOR SALE.

Five passenger touring car In good
condition for sale. Has electric lights.
demountable rims. extra rim and tire,
tire pump. new tires and tools. Will
sell on time or trade for real estate or
timber. G. l.. Woodwork. Iron River.
Mich. CIV