The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-01-23
NORTHWEST WHEAT GROWERS
PLAN TO MARKET THEIR CROPS

based upon the 1918 yield, has been
contracted to the association by the
growermembers each state associa-
tion will be legally Incorporated.
Immediately following the incorp-
oration of the three state associations
a tristate selling organization will be
formed, so that the entire pool of the
three states can be marketed by one
control board.
Formation of Association
The movement for the formation
of the association and the contractin
of wheat by the growers in the three
states will be pushed rapidly during
the next few weeks, with view to
enabling the association to handle the
1920 crop. Plans for this work were
formed at the meeting of the tristate
committee of Is in Spokane January
1913, previously referred to. An
executive committee of seven mem
bers was chosen from the larger
J committee to have complete charge
of the work of organization. This
executive committee comprises the
following men: A. A. Elmore, Spo-
kane, chairman; w. ]. Robinson,
Pomeroy, Wash, secretary; ]. F.
Langner, Portland, Ore, manager Of
publicity; Aaron Sapiro of California,
| legal advisor; n B. Atkinson, Waits
burg, Wash, H. Jergensen, Wilbur,
Wash, and H. E. Goldsworthy, Ros-
ALA, Wash
This executive committee has called
meetings for Idaho and Oregon for
this week, desiring that as many pro-
,, ducers of wheat as possible in these
two states be present to take part in
the selection of committee of II
members of each state to act as in
corporators for the respective state
associations when the movement has
advanced far enough to make incorp-
Grafton advisable. The Idaho meet
ing is being held at Moscow January
21, while the Oregon meeting will be
at Pendleton January "a. A board
of Is members will act as incorpora-
tors for the Washington association.
One member of each of these boards
shall be appointed by the dean of the
college of agriculture in the state to
represent the general public.
These three state committees will
conduct he work of each respective
state association until such time as
an election can be held for the mem
ber-growers themselves to elect the
board of directors provided for in the
general plan for each state associa-
ton. These state boards of directors
shall be elected annually by popular
vote of the members.
How Plan is Financed.
In order to get the movement under
way Immediately voluntary subscrip-
hoIn odo hxr oI
wheat growers, local farmers unions
and others to create a fund of ap-
proximately $4,000 to defray ex-
penses of organization. A. D. Cross
of Spokane has been named trustee
for the fund. It is the intention of
the executive committee to refund
these subscriptions when the associa-
tion has been we'll started and per-
finances arranged. Each
wheat grower who joins the associa-
tion by contracting his wheat to the
association will pay a membership
is contemplated. 1t is the purpose of
the committee to have the wheat it
self bear all expenses of the associa-
SO that after the movement is once
assessments will be required.
Securing Membership.
1t is the intention of the executive
committee to hold mass meetings of
wheat growers in every wheat-pro-
ducing section of the three states for
the purpose of laying before the
farmers the exact nature and pur-
pose of the movement and to begin
the signing of members. There will
be about Is of these meetins in the
state of Washington, beginning
shortly after the middle of February.
Thereafter similar meetings will be
held in the northern wheat-growing
sections of Idaho, then in the wheat
sections of Oregon, and last
ly in the wheat-growing sections of
southern Idaho.
There are between 10000 and
100000 wheat growers in the three
states of the northwest, producing
between 60,000,000 and 70,000,00O
bushels of grain in a normal season.
TO secure the contracting of the pro-
posed 25 per cent of the production of
all three states prior to Incorporation
Of the associations will mean the
signing of some 10000 members hav-
ing an annual wheat production Of
aot less than 100000 bushels. This
means that if the movement is sue
cessful from the start, as it's friends
believe it will be, there will be at
least 100000 bushels of wheat
sold comparatively in the northwest
his season. While this amount is
designated as the minimum to be
sought this season, the committee in
charge of the movement and the
many producers who have already
great interest in the under
.aking believe that much larger
of the production of the
northwest can be signed up, and will
work with that in view.
While the movement is starting in
The northwest, it is movement of
lation wide Importance, and plans
are already beginning to take form
,or the extension of the idea into all
he wheat-growing sections Of Amer
ca. A mass meeting of wheat grow
rs is planned for Kansas City in tha
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