Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-07-27
STATE FACES
ELEVATOR AND
Mill PROBLEM ;|
Financial Question Involved
In Putting Plant Into
Operation.

With the state mill and elevator at
Grand Forks nearing com pletion.
members of the state Industrial COM
mission are taking up the big problem
or how to conduct the establishment
according to reports from Bismarck.
program for the operation of the
mill this fall. selection OF personnel to
operate 1t. and solution of the f1nan-,
cial Problems involved are among the
matters being taken up by the com
mission this summer.
1t is probable that one unit Of the
mill will be put into operation and
that the elevator will be opened for
tne storage of grain for use in the
mill and as well as for general use
or the farmers in the northeastern
part of the state. The elevator and
at least one unit Of the mill are ex-
pected to be read1 for operation by
October i.
Many Seek Jobs.
More than 200 applications have
been received by the Industrial Com
mission for positions of various kinds
in the mill. anc numerous applica-
tions have been received from persons
outside the state for the position or
superintendent of the milling opera
tons. The commission. has begun to
canvass the field for competent su-
perintendent to. be placed in general
charge. Among the suggestions which
have been voiced in unofficial circles is
that. the lnoustrial Commission ten
der the position of manager of the
mill tosSenator r. II. Ladd, because Of
the repeated statenents of Senator
L.add within the Hast. few years OF his
fWonderful success in milling and his
certainty that the; and elevator
.busi wiz, pay the State eof Nortf,
-Dakota.s .Senator> Lad d is. not one 81
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the position, however. E.;E i.'&
: Governor Nestos' IL, expected to
come to Grand Forks to meet the
commission he named last winter to
study the problem of the Grand Forks
project, and to discuss recommends
tions of that .comitltte,. 1t is prob
able that this meeting will be held in
Grand Forks next Monday. This
body was named shortly after Cover
nor Nestos took office, among its
members being the late ~ Senator
Gronna.
f Financial Problem.
One of the problems to be settled
is the matter of finance, the Nonparti-
san league laws providing for the op-
Grafton OF state-owned mills provided
that a mortgage should be issued COW
ering the property Of any, mill or ele-
vator built and that bonds should be
issued to pay for the construction.
Under this statute bond attorneys
have held that three million dollars is
the limit of bonds which may be is
sued upon the Grand Forks project.
Since the cost of the mill will exceed
81, 100000 there will not be available
If it is held that any bond money
may be used more than $500. .000-for
the purpose of Operating the mill.
This is one of the problems growing
out of the mill and elevator program
which is expected to occupy some of
the time of the next legislature.
There are three units in the Grand
Forks mill. of 1000 barrels capacity
each. 1t is unlikely that more than
one of these units will be finished by
the last of September. and the present
plans of the Industrial Commission
contemplate the operation of one unit
at the start. The elevator and tanks
have a storage capacity of 1,750,000
bushels of wheat, SO that it would cost
about s2,000,00O to fill them with
wheat. for milling purposes.
There have been suggestions voiced
that the operation of the mill be de-
ferred until the legislature may work
out the problems which apparently
| must be solved by it in the big under
taking. 1t is understood members OF
the Industrial Commission hold there
is no alternative under the law but to
begin operations when possible and
| feasible. tr.f