The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1922-04-14
OCTOPUS REACHES
FOR P'WOOD Mill
Oeeldent Elevator Building Flour
Warehouse at Plentywood and Re-
serve to Retail Flour at Wholesale
Prices Unless Merchants Boycott
Local Flour.
OCCIDENT ADDICTED TO
UNFAIR METHODS
Plentywaod People Should Suuport
Local Industry-Farmers Should
Not Only Use Plentywood Flour
But See That Neighbors Do.

Fieh'ywaod People Should Support
Local ndustry-Farmers Should
| Not Only Use Plentywood Flour
But See That Neighbors Do.
OTHERWISE MILL WILL CLOSE
The Occident Elevator COMPANY.
which last summer entered this ter
ritory to buy grain, through the buy
ing Of the Montana & Dakota elev-
ators, which company because of their
activities had gotten into such low re-
pute that it was impossible for It to
any longer buy any grain in this sec
tlon Of the country, and which ele-
vator is owned by the milling CON-
pany which manufactures Occident
flour, is building warehouse in con-
junction with the elevator in which
it is reported that that company will
retail flour at wholesale prices unless
the local merchants will sign up a
contract with that mill to handle Oc-
cident -four exclusively, thus shutting
Oft the outlet of the product Of the
Plentywood mill. -
The warehouse in Plentywood was
started about ten days ago and has
progressed SO rapidly that it is now
enclosed and in ten days more it will
be finished. The building is being
constructed along side of the Occident
Elevator, and the grain buyer will
also retail -four both to city custom
ers and to. the farmers it is claimed,
as well as buy grain At Reserve the
same firm has also built and COM
pleted q. flour and mill feed ware
house for the same purpose and it is
claimed that warehouse will be
built in every town where the firm
has an elevator and the business in
flour and mill feed is large enough
to Justify the handling of those COM
modities.
TO DESTROY COMPETITION
The aim and design of the above
company seems to be to put the
Plentywood Mill out of business In
fact it IS reported on good authority
that young upstart representative
of the Occident Milling Trust has
made threats to the Hansens, who
operate the local mill, of putting them
out Of business, and it is claimed
that the building of the local ware
house is for the purpose of forcing
! the local merchants to handle only
Occioens flour thus boycotting Plenty
! wood -four, or else go up against the
direct competition of that hoggish
outfit who insist on having the busi-
ness in this territory.
PLENTYWOOD MILL DOES WELL
The Plentywood Mill under the
management of Jens Hansen has done
we'll. It has been blessing to the
country in that it made it possible for
the farmers to provide themselves
with a years supply of flour without
the expenditure of single cent, by
reason of the toll system Of doing
business practiced by the mill and
thus freed them of paying their
usual tribute to the milling octopus.
The Plentywood Mill makes the best
flour ON the market today, a flour
which is so superior to Occident that
there is no comparison, and as re-
suit everyone in this country is now
buying Plentywood -four which is
made OF pure Montana hard wheat,
and the inherent goodness of which is
not destroyed by any chemical bleach
ing. The Plentywood Mill, which had
been standing idle for several years
was rented last fall by Jens Hansen,
an old experienced miller who had
been farming for years at Dagmar,
and opened about the first of Novem-
ber Mr.. Hansen was assisted by his
two sons to whom he taught the
milling business. Since opening the
mill has manufactured IL carloads of
first class -four, or 1900 1OO-pound
sacks, besides the mill feed. At an
average price of SIS per sack, this has
amounted to a gross -four business CT
$24,OO and of mill feed about $500.
making a total gross business in
about; six months of $4,000, which |
businsss the Occident people lost, and
which, money, every cent, was kpt
right fn Sheridan county where t be-
longst and kept on the payroll IN |
Plent4wood, three men. No wonder
the Ohcident mill is on the warpath |
bCCIDENT TERRITORY
TheS Minneapolis Milling Combine
severf years ago divided territory
betweSn the different mills IN Mime |.
apolis and quit competing with each
other This territory is Occident ter
ritory and that octopus does not in
tend 20 allow a mill like the Plenty
wood mill to run in its territory II 1T
can help it. And so it has decreed
that tn Plentywood Mill must stop
business and the -four trust Will sue
eeed and the Plentywood mill will go
out Of business unless the farmers tf
county stand by this mill to
a man, and unless the business men
also show the expected loyalty to an
industry in their own town and coan-
ty. The -four trust has three reasons
to put the local mill out Of business:
first, it wants the business and does
not wait the competition; second: it
wants the fine Montana hard wheat +
at its mills in Minneapolis to mix
with inferior spring wheat like dur
um and winter wheat at the proper
ton OF one bushel of Montana hard
wheat to two bushels of soft wheat
10 make the standard grade of Occi-
ient -four, which the local mill grinds +
INTO -four; and third: because il the
Mill is allowed to 60 snI
yasnfinat such high grade -four out
s ngIsss Montana hard wheat it might
80 H. :.