The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-06-02
ThOresen Bid for Elec-
ton Meets Favor
(Continued from page one)

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Of q business boom. The Great
Northern railroad is building Ia
miles of new sidetrack in its Grand
Forks yards. 1t is moving its stock
yards from Devils Lake to this city.
1t is making extensive additions to
its roundhouse. Business men rea-
son that the railroad has looked in
to the future and by the expansion
it is making in its terminal
facilities is recognizing the fact that
Grand Forks is destined to become
increasingly important as a termin-
al. They feel that the state mill
and the business it is creating has
something to do with this condition.
Pertinent QUESTIONABLE
So there has been some reason
ing together. The decision has
been reached that it is up to the
community Of Grand Forks to pro-
tect it's interest in the state mill.
Just now that interest enters the
field of practical politics. So a
questionable has been prepared. 1t
is significant as to the attitude of
Grand Forks business men on the
mill. In substance it follows:
Shall the North Dakota Terminal,
now recognized as grain market
ing terminal, be discontinued at
Grand Forks?
Shall the state terminal elevator
now operated as public grain
warehouse at Grand Forks be
closed?
Shall the state flour mill, oper.
ating at q profit under its present
management, be closed?
Shall the state terminal elevator
and the state flour mill, now OPP
Grated under management more
efficient than heretofore, be turned
over to a political committee?
Shall the voters Of Grand Forks
city and county advertise to the
country and to the markets Of the
country that they want the state
plant here leased or sold, and that
they are not concerned about the
marketing problems Of our farm.
ers?
Will the voters of Grand Forks
select as a candidate for governor
man, no matter how much he may
be respected as a man, who in his
entire political career, has actively
urged and supported the sale ano
closing of the state terminal eleva.
tor and flour mill?
This QUESTIONABLE has been ten.
tatively submitted to the candi.
dates for governor. They have
answered it frankly. The answer
Of Mr.. Thoresen was satisfactory te
the business men. The answer OF
Mr.. Shafer was not. And behind
his present attitude is remem.
bered record that he once advocated
that the mill be wrecked and
thrown in the river"
Banker Endorses Thoresen
On the basis of this situation the
Thoresen-for- Governor club was or
ganized and is actively working for
Thoresen.
II am thoroughly sold on the
idea," said 0. H. Hanson, president
of the Northwestern National Bank,
and president of the Thoresen-for-
Governor club, that in North Da-
kota there can be established a pre-
MUM market for our superior mill
ing value hard spring wheat. l be-
lieve the merchandising methods
possible through the North Da-
kota Terminal Exchange are sound
business methods directed toward
that end. Commission houses are
coming in here. Growth is being
shown. This is no time to scrap a
going institution which is the prop
erty OF the state, operating at a
profit from he strictly operating
standpoint.
II believe the terminal has in it
future possibilities Of great value
to the farmers Of this state. Thirty
years ago ! remember an acquaint-
ance Of mine had an elevator at
Reynolds and was maxine. money.
He asked me one day If I knew Of
a good location for another elevator.
/ told him ] thought Buxton was a
good place. He told me he-was not
interested in Buxton, giving as his
reason there was too much low land
in that vicinity.
II could not understand his atti-
tude then. can understand it now.
He was getting q premium on the
protein value Of hard spring wheat
grown on high land. He was making
money from it. Milling value OF
wheat grown on low land was not
80 high. The profit for the eleva-
tor man was not so great.
Precisely what that elevator man
was doing 80 years ago il what the
farmers of this state should do to-
day. They should merchandise their
wheat on . basis At IT. milling
worth. The facilities are here at
hand. Should they be scrapped OF
thrown in the river! / do not
think 90.
Thoresen Able. Clean
II have known Thorstein H
Thoresen ever since he was . law
student ct the University Of North
Dakota. regard him Is able and
clean. ! am supporting him and
an urging my friends in Crane