The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1927-11-03
North Dakota Entitled
to Terminal Market

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ket, and have all the equipment that
is necessary to dry, clean and pre-
pare our hard spring wheat for
milling purposes.
Rates Should Break
Why should not the freight rates
break at our terminal grain market,
50 that we can furnish this particu-
lar kind Of wheat without having to
pay q penalty Of one and one half
cents bushel for cleaning our
wheat, and also having to pay
freight to the terminals in the Twin
Cities, or Duluth regardless Of
whether We ship it to or through
these terminals at all? We are now
obliged to pay freight to the Twin
Cities and Duluth on all wheat
ground at our terminal, whether we
ship it west or east to Minneapolis
and Duluth.
am Of the opinion that the rail-
roads will come to realize very soon
that they need warehousing for some
Of the grain ct least that is produced
in North Dakota.
If the freight rates could break at
our terminal it is likely that several
elevators would be built there by
people in the grain business who
realize that our hard spring wheat
should be kept separate from other
wheat, but they cannot afford to
build elevators and pay the penalties
that are now imposed upon our
grain.
I believe that the international
Harvester Company and some Of the
other companies manufacturing the
combine machinery that is now used
in harvesting and threshing grain in
the same operation, would be in
tensely interested in the establish.
ment Of market here at home.
Wheat is naturally damp and un-
seasoned after being threshed, and
not in condition to be shipped long
distances until it has been properly
prepared and dried. Local elevators
do not have the equipment that is
used in drying and preparing wheat
for shipment. At our terminal grain
market in Grand Forks we have the
facilities for hauling all grains, and
there. our wheat and other grains
can be run through driers and other
machines to put it in proper condi-
ton for shipping and storing.
This is an age Of rapid progress.
Should we not all help rather than
to stand in the way Of progress?
Markets are needed in all sections
Of the country where exclusive prod
ucts are handled, such products as
we have here in North Dakota, in
GLIDING not only our hard spring
wheat, but our. durum wheat and
flax. We need the Terminal Grain
Market to properly handle these ex-
elusive products Of our state.
If building a great center is the
desirable feature Of merchandising,
then why were any markets allowed
to be established west of New York,
which was doubtless the first mar
keting center? Why not continue
to make the long haul there without
having any market in between?
! believe the time has come when
the people realize that exclusive
commodities are entitled to proper
marketing facilities, so that CONSUME
ers may get the commodity Of the
quality they like instead Of having
to accept products that have been
mixed and blended to make them APP
pear just as good.
We are all more or less familiar
with the bootlegging game As it IL
practiced. Bootlegging Of our hard
spring wheat should not be permit
ted, and it is the practice Of boot
logging our wheat that we are try