The weekly times-record. (Valley City, N.D.) 1912-1922, 1916-04-06
Assistance in Organizing New
Elevator Companies by Equity

The Equity Cooperative exhange at
st. Paul has established a new depart.
ment. This department is under the
direct supervision of j. M. Anderson,
and is established for the purpose Of
helping farmers organize farmers
elevators wherever they are needed.
The department will have articles Of
incorporation, bylaws and such other
blanks as may be necessary for the
organizing and incorporating of ele-
vator companies, and it will have con.
nected with it men who have had
years of experience in organizing and
conducting farmers elevators, who
will make it their business to visit
any neighborhood wishing to organize,
and assist them in every way possible
to get their companies started. It is
hoped that many neighborhoods tina,
are without farmers elevators will
write to this department and secure
from them aid in organizing real CO.
operative elevator companies.
Grain Dealers School
The recent session of the school for
grain dealers held in st. Paul by the
Equity Cooperative exchange was a
success far beyond the expectations
of it's promoters. Long before the
close of the school, J. M. Anderson,
president Of the Equity Cooperative
exchange, ordered another session of
the school held in June. At the first
session there were "a students, and
out of the "a students it is expected
that at least 20 will become compe-
tent managers of farmers elevator
companies. On June the second
session of the school will start, and it
is hoped that many men that are now
acting as second men for elevators,
and also those acting as managers for
line elevators, will come in and take
advantage of this session of tho
school. Already several of the stu
dents have been placed or places
found for them, which they will fill
later. It is hoped that many farm
boys who have a good common school
education and ability to become man.
ayers of farmers elevators will come
in on June 6 and take the second
course, which will last until about the
first of July.
Date Set For Convention
The dates for the big farmers con-
vention at St. Paul next December
have already been set, and the con-
vention will be held on Dec 5, and
Z. Every effort possible will be made
to make this convention the largest
gathering of farmers ever held in the
northwest.
Build Terminal Elevator at Once
When the Equity Cooperative NOV
ed from Minneapolis to St. Paul, they
were promised a site for their termin-
al elevator However, the board Of
directors did not see fit to build an
elevator on the site furnished them,
but insisted upon owning the proper
ty. To clean up the title of the prop
erty they wanted has been a long and
tedious task. The title has been clear
ed however, and the deed is in the
hands of the officers of the Equity
Cooperative exchange, and work will
begin on the terminal elevator i'm.
mediately after the next session of
the board. The elevator will be com
pleted long before next years crop
begins to move, and on Dec. S, s and
7 the farmers of the northwest will
gather at st. Paul and dedicate theil
new terminal elevator. Many farmers
in the country are planning on bring
ing their wives, and it is freely pre-
dicted that the December convention
will be the largest gathering of farm
ers ever held in the northwest.
-" New Representative a.>
J. A. Axtel of Darlington, N. D., VIII
has had 16 years experience in tn
farmers elevator business, has beef
employed by the Equity COOPERATIVE
exchange to represent them in terri
tory adjacent to Darlington, and tt
assist their department of elevator OF
ganization in forming farmers eleva
tors wherever they are needed. MI
Axtel has during the past helped t,
organize and incorporate many sucl
elevators, and his services will be a
the disposal of communities wher.