The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1921-02-10

advisable but on account of the in
tanglement of the Saskatchewan com
pany with the government ii was
hard to work out any plan whereby
they could adjust with their farmers
and have their assets spread over
'other provinces where other provin-
ces held mortgages for the security
of funds advanced so the solution
was an amalgamation of the Alberta
company and the Grain Growers
Grain company, the new company be-
ing called the United Grain Growers
Ltd. with dominion charter which
provides for transacting any business
excerting operating banks and rail
roads.
This company has at the present
time about $50 country elevators
with coal sheds and warehouses for
/. the handling of other commodities
at most points. together with large
terminal and hospital elevator at Fit.
i William and smaller one at Van
Couver for handling the western
shipments and the B. G. business.
The export business is now handled
by one office at Fl. William for
handling what grain leaves there and
another office at New York which in
1919 handled over sixty-six millions
of bushels of which about forty-four
millions of bushels was grown in the
U. S. The profits on that office alone
for the year was about 100000.
/ The company has in addition to
its grain and cooperative supply
business one of the largest and most
vi 10 date sawmill plants in B. c. on
its timber limit from which it is
J shipping all kinds of lumber to the
prairies
+ The Saskatchewan Elevator COM
pany now have about $50 country
elevators with coal sheds and ware
houses besides their own terminal
elevator and export company.
In 1909 the three provincial or
CARNATIONS organized the Canadian
Council of Agriculture thru which
they could cooperate in Dominion
affairs. This organization was made
up of the executive committees of
each of the three provincial organ
izations in connection with the exc
cutive committees of each of the
business organizations. This organ
ization has since been enlarged by
the addition of the executive commit
tee of the united farmers of Ontario
and the executive Of their business
organization which compares favor
having had cooperative turnover
of about six millions last year. The
united farmers of Nova Scotia have
recently applied for membership as
well as the united farmers of B. G.
and the farmers of Quebec and the
other eastern provinces are rapidly
organizing and are expected to join
within the next year or two so that
we shall have all the provincial or
CARNATIONS joined in one Dominion |
organization with view to handling |
all Dominion matters thru the one !
channel.
One of the first things the Grian
Growers Grain company did after it |
started in business was to start a j
farmers paper and while this has
never proved a financial success yet |
it has been very great factor in |
building up the farmers movement in |
all the provinces. This paper, which
is called The Grain Growers Guide, |
now has weekly circulation of So
900 in the three western provinces |
and within the past two years that |
paper established branch in Ontario |
for the eastern provinces. Ontario
has established provincial paper |
within the past year for dealing with |
provincial matters and the Alberta |
annual convention last month author
lied it's board of directors to estab-
lish provincial organ for this !
province.
The three western provinces have
been able to get the most of the leg
islation from the provincial govern
ments that they have pressed for
without taking political action, but
Ontario did not start to organize un-
til the farmers there had become en-
tirely out of patience with the party |
governments and they stepped into
the political field in the fall of 1919
and elected a majority of the men,
bers and were forced with the few
labor members and independents in
the house to form government and
they are admitted by all to have put
more progressive legislation on the
statute books of the province than
has ever been put on by any previous
government in the same length of
time.
The one thing we have all been
preaching has been, Equal Rights
for All and Special Privileges for
None," and the Ontario farmers are
convincing people that they mean
what they say. One notable piece of
legislation which the farmers Of the
three western provinces have sue
ceeded in putting on the statute
books is their hail insurance acts,
which has been along the lines of