Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-09-01
neal IS THE Big
MAN IN DEALING
IN CASH wheat
Next Tuesday Morning Govern
ment Agent Will Take Over
Buying and Selling of !Ins
Years Nebraska Wheat. \

Starting in next Tuesday morning
Charles T. Neal. on the floor of the
Omaha Grain exchange, will become
the greatest buyer of cash wheat that
the Omaha market has ever known
As representative of the Food Admin.
istration Grain corporation, but per
haps better known as food admins.
traitor of the Nebraska district, Mr.
Neal will buy without competition
andNwiil take every bushel of grain
offered.
Mr.. Meals intention was to com.
mencc buying wheat on the Omaha
market with the opening of the ses-
sion of the exchange this morning.
However, some instructions relative to
his duties did not arrive until last
night, and this made it impossible for
him to line up the details earlier than
Tuesday. He might possibly have
been ready for business Monday
morning, but Monday is Labor day
and there is no market, so he has
postponed his entry into the grain
pit until Tuesday.
With Mr.. Neal doing the buying of
all the grain in this market, it virtu-
ally means that the government has
commandeered the 1917 wheat crop,
fixed the price at which it shalt be
bought of the farmers and the price
at which it shall be sold to the millers
and others. ,
Must Work Through Neal,
In handling the wheat coming into
Omaha not a member of the Omaha
exchange will have word to say re-
garding the price to be paid. In fact,
not member can get hold of a
bushel of the cereal unless the pur-
chase is made through Mr.. Neal. AS
in the past, the wheat shipped into
Omaha will come billed to consignees,
members of the Omaha Grain ex-
change, The inspection will be done
by exchange officials, as in the past,
but their duties will end when they
turn the railroad waybills and the in
spectors' reports over to Mr.. Neal.
AS soon as Mr.. Neal has the wheat
in his possession, which will be when
he takes~oyer the waybills and in
spectors' reports. it will actually be
government property. Then he will
sell it out to millers, charging the fol-
lowing prices, fixed by Food Admins
tration Grain corporation, plus / per
cent for handling the business:
Here Are the Prices.
No. dark hard winter, $219; hard
winter basic, $2l5; red winter basic,
$2.15; yellow hard winter, $2.1l; soft
red winter, $2,l3; dark northern
spring, $2.l9; red spring, S2.l3; hump
back, S205; amber durum,. $2.19;
durum basic. $2.15; red durunl, $2.08;
red walla, $20S; hard white basic,
S215; soft white, S2.l5; white club,
$21l; No. 2 of each grade is 8 cents
less; No. 3, E cents less; No. 4, 10
cents less. ..\
For performing the work required
of him by the government, Mr.. Neal
will charge commission of / per
cent that will be added to the selling
price.
OF course, the farmers who ship
the grain to the Omaha market will
not receive the ret per bushel indi-
Gated by the figures given. Out of
this will have to come the freight
charges, the charges for handling and
the cooperage of cars, the same as.
heretofore.
Payment for the wheat will be by
checks which will be issued by Mr..
Neal and which will be equivalent to
cash at any place in the United States,
for they will be issued with the full
approval of JJncfe Sam