The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1920-07-01
MILL PAYS l9C TO
26C MORE PER BU.
Charges by the I. V. A. press that
the state mill at Drake is paying less
for wheat than the elevator companies

"A careful comparison of the prices
paid at Fargo and those paid by the
Drake mill for months shows from
10 to 26 cents per bushel over the
Fargo mill, and perhaps one could go
over the state and find many of these
instances" continued the statement
Zone could not tell a citizen of this
state that an elevator in this state
could pay as much as a mill could pay
for wheat in this state; they would
certainly be ignorant if they made
such statements. Why shouldn't mill
in this state pay the Minneapolis price
fer wheat less the freight? For in
stance, if the freight from Drake,
where the state mill is located, to
Minneapolis is 12 cents per bushel
why couldn't the mill pay the Minnea-
polls price less that IL cents for
freight. Why, in this state the eleva-
tors not only take out the IL cents
for freight, but they take out two
cents per bushel for commission for
selling, weighing, inspection and war
tax, that makes ID cents. On top of
that they take from seven to nine
cents as a local profit. That is, they
buy from 81 to % cents under the
Minneapolis market. Now, the state
mill doesn't do that. They buy on the
Minneapolis market less. the freight.
Now, we all know what that means.
Furthermore, the state-owned mill
pays the farmers the same price they
do the shipper who would ship to a
terminal market or to the mill, and
you know very we'll that the rule at
the mills is that the farmer gets the
same price that the elevator company
pays. The price Of flour is based on
the price Of wheat.
s'The state-owned mill has but one
price for grain and they pay the farm.
ers the same price they do the ship
per, and for that reason you will find
farmers that are hauling wheat to the
state-owned mill at Drake rs to 35
miles, going thru several towns to
haul their wheat to the state-owned
mill. They also get paid for their dock
age. All Of the dockage that is in the
grain they get paid for at the market
value.
No Wheat Shipped From Drake
@'The Occident elevator at Drake,
according to information given out by
their manager, has not bought one
car load Of grain this last season; the
Independent elevator has not opened
the house; the Farmers Elevator Co,
this is the Equity Cooperative Elk
change elevator, has handled some
thing like eight to ten thousand bush
els du1lng all Of the season and the
state-owned mill has taken all Of that
grain. They never shipped bushel
Of it out. This alone should be proof
enough for any reasonable person who
wishes the facts in regard to the
prices paid for wheat by the Drake OF
state-owned mill.
IN regard D the price Of flour, the
fact is Tint state owned mill man
ufacturess = Ming but North Dakota
wheat. They make no mixtures. Any
person who cares to SO into the mat
4 ter Of the mir xtures lnade BY the larg-
er mills will be ,le 70 find that there
is not . large min il this state Of
North Dakota, Minneapolis, St. Paul,
Ia Crosse, Winona, but buys soft win
ter wheat. They mix l0-60, 40 pen
cent winter wheat and 60 per cent