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'its-'on Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, 111 , for /rans'ii thrniiph the iiiuiln a', .lenond-clasn rales. A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTKD TO THE ELEVATOR AND GRAIN INTERESTS.

J ONE DOLLAK PEE ANNUM, mitoh^lb^Jompany[ Vol. XXII. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 15, 1904. No. 8. SINGLE COPr, TEN CENTS. j

IT IS TIME REMEMBERTo think about your new elevator, and while you are doing your thinking You make no mistake in having your plans made by the

BURRELL ENGINEERING (Si CONSTRUCTION CO. VESIGJSfETiS AJSIV 'BX/IL'DE'RS OVER THIRTY COUNTRY ELEVATORS BUILT LAST SEASON, ALL IN SUCCESSFUL OPERATION AND GIVING BEST OF SATISFACTION. Write before the early rush sets in 265 La Salle Street. CHICAGO

MORE SALEM BUCKETS USED THAN ANY OTHER. SKILLIN

WRITE FOR. CATALOG AND PRICES. POWER TRANSMISSION, ETC. COMPLETE OUTFITS

L. R. FYFE L. H. MANSON

The Post or Stock Orders Executed Journal containing our Daily Market on New York Stock Letter, in which appears Chicago Board Exchange Over of Trade continu- Private Wires ous quotations from the opening to the G/fA/NePROVfS/ONS. c 1 o s e of business will be sent free upon application Members Chicago Board of Trade, STOCKS BONDS COFFEE COTTON Milwaukee Chamber of S4-S6 Board of Trade Bldg., Chicago Commerce MIMMKAROUB BT. LOUI8 MiLWAUKKm TeL Harrison 1925-2189 M. M. Pmynter, In Chmrgm of Cm»h Grain Department AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

Corn SKellers? Do We Make Em?

Well, just ask us for a copy of our Catalogue No. 35

TT tells all about the best and most complete line of Corn Shelling Machinery manufactured. We make Shellers and Cleaners as separate machines. Also a complete line of

Combined SKellers aad Cleaners ^LsMCRtN ones, c co. NEW PROCESS CORN SHELLER ONLY. for shelling both husked and unhusked corn.

The New Process Combined Shuck Sheller and Cleaner

is the only machine that can be fitted for either husked corn of Northern states or the unhusked corn of Southern states.

If you re going to buy a Corn Sheller or Corn Cleaner, get a New Process.

We are also manufatturers of Power Transmission Appliances and Grain Elevating and Conveying Machinery. We solicit specifi- cations and the privilege of quoting on any requirements in this line.

MARSEILLES, NEW PR0CC55 dORM CLEANER ..^,P'„^RS£'-'"'V'o; "^ ttAn5*>t Marseilles Mfg. Co. ILLINOIS. BRANCHES

NEW PROCESS CORN CLEANER, WITH SHUCK SEPARATING FAN. Peoria. III.. Council Bluffs and Cedar Rapids, la., Kansas City. Mo.

The Evans Controllable Wagon Dump THE BEST WAGON DUMP BUILT AUTOMATIC Cbo be UHed LOCKING I itI< h and DEVICE njthiiut dump scales CYCLONE DUST COLLECTOR AhBolute safety control, gri'St Btrengtb and durability. ateiited, April \W6.

Rose Creek. Minn.. Feb. 10, 1901. Write for Gentlemen: —We are more than pleased with the Evans Wasion Dump you placed in our elevator last circular and prices summer. Don't want anything better. JOHN CKONAN & CO.

E. leth street. miINrNE/\F»OLIS, miINN HURRY UP! A GRAIN SPOUT AND ORDEK THE That wiU load cars without shoveling'.

It i.s worth its weight in gold. It will .save you in labor all it cost in less than a THE KNICKERBOCKER CO. month. JACKSON. MICH. mm Send for Prices mFor mailing your grain, seeds, flour, etc. to Carries safely, fasiens securely, insures delivery. HEYWOOD MFG. CO. H.SANDMEYER&CO., 420 No. Third St., Minneapolis, Minn. PEORIA, ILLINOIS. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 401

Why Delay Purchasing a Hess Pneumatic Grain Drier

until your losses from ill-conditioned grain amount to more than the first cost of a drying plant? YOU DO NOT EXPERIMENT

THE HESS SYSTEM of drying and conditioning grain has been the most pronounced success, and since the machines were offered to the public have been purchased by many leaders in the grain business, among whom are the following:

THE ARMOUR GRAEN COMPANY, Chicago BARTLETT, KUHN ®. CO.. Terre Haute BARTLETT, FRAZIER ® COMPANY, Chicago BARTLETT, KUHN CO., Evansville, Ind. CHICAGO RAILWAY TERMINAL ELEVATOR CO., VPDIKE GRAIN COMPANY, Omaha Chicago ILLINOIS CENTRAL R, R. COMPANY, New Orleans CHICAGO DOCK COMPANY, Chicago TEXAS

NORTHERN GRAIN COMPANY, Manitowoc JOHN I. GLOVER. Kansas City, Mo. CLEVELAND GRAIN COMPANY, Cleveland DVFF GRAIN CO.. Nebraska City. Nebr.

To-day it is an incontrovertible fact that the

Hess Drier is a necessary and profitable adjunct to the grain dealer's business. OUR ILLUSTRATED BOOK DESCRIBING THE DRIER FREE

Hess Warming and Ventilating Co. 710 Tacoma Building ^ Chicago, Illinois ,

402 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

Riter=Conley Mfg. Co., Dodge Manufacturing Co. MANUFACTURERS, ENGINEERS, CONTRACTORS. ENGINEERS. FOUNDERS. MACHINISTS. Grain Elevators of Steel, SVo'S Mishawaka, Ind., U. S. A. ALSO Branches: CHICAGO, BOSTON, New York. Cincinnati, Atlanta, Ga., London, Eng. Gas Holders with Steel Tanks. manufacture a complete line of

Water and Oil Tanks, GRAIN ISl^JSyAI^OR Steel Buildings, Steel Stacks and MACHINERY Steel Construction of

Every Description, Embracine latest types of Grain Tricpers, Power Shovels, Car Pullers. Belt Conveyors, Marine Leg- Spouting, Etc.; Self o ling and Dustproof Bearings, also Dodge American System Manila Rope Transmission.

Desigfned, The fallowing Grain Eievatora, 'jiiaer construction or In operation, are among those reccnCy equipped: Furnished and Illinois Central R. K., New Orleans, La., capacity, l.'iOO.OOO bu. Erected in Northern Grain Co,, Manitowoc, 'Wis., 1,200,000 •' Northern Grain Co., Council Bluffs, la.. 75 fm •' All Parts of the World, • Cross section of Great Northern Elevator furnished by Botsford & Jenks, Meaford, Out., i.ooo.oo'i " us at Buffalo, N. Y. Three million bushels' capacity. Chicago Dock Co., Chicago, 111., - 1,000.000 Steel throughout. D. H. Stuhr Grain Co., Hammond, Ind., 600,000 "

- - ' Electric Steel Elevator, Buffalo, . 1,200,000

- •• McReynolds & Co., Hammond, Ind , 2,000,000 •• Calumet Elevator Co., South Chicago, 111., 1,200,000 General Office, Water Street, Pittsburg. Rosenbaum Bros., South Chicago, 111., 1.000,000 •• •• Plate, Tank and Boiler Works, First, Second and Third Aves. Peavey G rain Co. , South Chicago, 111. 1.500000 Chicago-O'Nell Grain Co., South Chicago. 111., 750,000 •• etc., etc. Structural Works, Preble Avenue, Allegheny City, Pa.

OfiBce, and Cortlandt New York 39 41 Street. Have tbe Largest Factory In the World Exclusively Devoted to the Manufacture of Power Transmliilii« Machinery. CATALOGUE UPON APPI ICATION. LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS.

Feed Mills

A A T^E make them for all purposes. ^ ^ We make them for orrindine all kinds of feed as well as fine meal for table use. Our line includes Willford's Liijht Running Three Roller Mill and Barnard's One, Two and Three Pair High Mills.

It pays to operate a grinding mill in connection with your other outfit. You utilize your spare power and add another source of income to your plant. Send for our latest circulars.

Barnard Leas Mfg. Co., Moline, 111. Builders of ^levators and Elevator Machinery AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 403

KAY-PIM MNFG. CO. Elevator Boots Manufacturers of Elevating, Conveyinj^ -AND- Power Transmiitin^ Machinery

SPECIALTIES for GRAIN ELEVATORS and MILLS

Sprockets and Link Belting Spiral Conveyors Elevator Boots and Buckets Flexible Spouts, Swivel Spouts

Our Improved Cast Iron Elevator Boot has been adopted by many of the most prominent grain elevator owners in

this country. IV/iy/' Simply because it is well made, plenty of room inside, removable self locking shields, removable

front and back and is practically dust proof. It is fully illustrated in our new catalog, No. 7. Shafting, Couplings, Bearings, Wood and Iron Pulleys, Gearing, Twin Heads and Special Elevator Belting. Special Facilities for the Manufacture of Rope Drives. GENERAL OFFICE AND WORKS: Stephens-Adamson Mfg. Co. NORTH BROADWAY. MONROE AND SECOND STREETS Aurora, Illinois ST. LOUIS, MO. Builders of GRAIN HANDLING MACHINERY

CUSTOM WORK! UTILIZE YOUR POWER BY OPERATING A GOOD MILL FOR GRINDING

...FEED AND MEAL... IT PAYS WE MANUFACTURE

THREE-ROLL, TWO-BREAK MILLS, 2 Sizes. THREE-PAIR HIGH, SIX-ROLLER MILLS, 4 Sizes. TWO-PAIR HIGH, FOUR-ROLLER MILLS, 5 Sizes, VERTICAL UNDER RUNNERS, PORTABLE FRENCH BUHR MILLS, UPPER RUNNERS, 85 Sizes and Styles. PULLEY AND GEAR DRIVES. SEND FOR BOOK ON MILLS.

ELEVATOR SUPPLIES and POWER CONNECTIONS. ROPE DRIVES. QEARINQ, CORN SMELLERS and CLEANERS, GRAIN CLEANERS.

DUST COLLECTORS (Tubular. Automatic).

I T We manufacture Elevator Cups for all purposes, and make a g;reater number of sizes than p^ found in any standard I ist. Our Cups have greater capacity ^ than others of same rated sizej for instance, our 3^x3 inch, list price 9c., has as much capacity as others 3ix3i inch, list price lOc Our prices are right. CORRESPONDENCE SOLIQTED.

NORDYKE & MARMON CO., INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA, U. S. A.

FLOURING MILL ENGINEERS, IRON FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS. ESTABLISHED J85J. 404 AMERICAN F.LEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

6onv6i)infl, Eievatlno ann Power-Transmittlno MaoliKi! H. W. CALDWELL & SON CO. GENERAL MACHINISTS, Western Avenue, 17th to 18th Streets, Chicago, III. Eastern Sales and Eng-ineering Office, R. 410, 95 Liberty St., New York, N. Y. Southeastern Sales and Engineering Office, R. 917 Empire BIdg., Atlanta, Qa. Southwestern Sales and Engineering Office, R. 20Z Trust BIdg., Dallas, 1 ex. CALDWELL HELICOID CONVEYOR.= PERFECT SPIRAL Specialties for THE ONLY CONVEYOR; with Flight of One Elevators and Mills. Grain OW I Continuous Strip of FletaL

LINK BELTING. FRICTION CLUTCHES. PILLOW BLOCKS. SPROCKET WHEELS. JAW CLUTCHES. IRON PULLEYS. COTTON BELTING. COUPLINGS. WOOD PULLEYS. RUBBER BELTING. FLEXIBLE SPOUTS. SHAFTING. Elevator LEATHER BELTING. GEARING (all kinds). SET COLLARS. BELT CLAMPS. GRAIN SCOOPS. SWIVEL SPOUTS. POWER GRAIN SHOVELS. ELEVATOR BOOTS. TAKE-UP BOXES. Boot. ELEVATOR BOLTS. COGSWELL MILL5. TURN HEAD SPOUTS. ELEVATOR BUCKETS. HANGERS. WIRE CLOTH. CALDWELL CORRUGATED SEAMLESS CONCRETE MIXERS. PERFORATED METALS. STEEL ELEVATOR BUCKETS. OUB NEW CATAI.O€}UE No. 3S (440 PACGS, CliOTH BOUND) WILIi BE SKfiT VPON APPUCATION.

H. L. THORNBURGH CO. MIDLAND MACHINERY CO. 245-247 S. Jefferson St., Chicago, 111. Furnishes Standard Goods at Right Prices, Elevator and Flour Mill Machinery MACHINERY GRAIN ELEVATOR MACHINERY AND MILL SUPPLIES SUPPLIES BEST SERVICE Power Transmission, Gas Engines. Steam Engines PRICES and Boilers. ESTIMATES FURNISHED 412 South Third Street, Minneapolis, Minn.

nilCT I nilCT I OIBBS' PATENT DUST UUdI I UUwl I PROTECTOR i.s invalu- MILL .C.MFG. & 5UPPLY CO TRIUMPH able to operatives in every OWNERS' POWER industry where dust is troublesome. It has been thoroughly tested for many C0RNl5HELLEF( years in every kind of dust MUTllAl FlRt INSURANCE and is the only reliable protector known. Periect ventil- SHAFTING ation. Nickel - plated pro- COMPANY tector, $1, postpaid. Circu- lars free. Agents wanted. POWER TRANSMITTING CLEVELAND 0. GIBBS RESPIRATOR CO., APPLIANCES DES IVIOIIMES, I O'XA^ A 34 La Salle St.. CHICAGO TURNED Insures Mills, Elevators, Warehouses IRON INSURANCE and Contents. MANILA ROPE SHEAVES dRAiN TRANSMISSION mm ON GRAIN ELEVATORS Oldtst Flour Mill Mutual in America MACHINERY AND CONTENTS ^ SAVED TO MEMBERS NAIIONALNUIUALflRE Is furnished at cost by the STANDARD SCREW NEARLY $1,000,000.00 Millers' National Insurance Co., SPROCKET WHEELS INSURANCE (0. of Chicago. J. O. SHARP*, Seo'y, AND CHAINS

INDIANAPOLIS INDIANA It is a Mutual Company which insures DES MOINES, lA. more mills and grain elevators than any other company in the United States. OFI-ICIiKS AND DIRECTORS ELEVATOR BUCKETS FORALL PURPOSES It has been in business 27 years and its President: H. N. Knight. OUR average annual cost for insurance to mu- The AJ AX SYSTEM Knight Grain Co., Monticello, ill. MANUFACTURES tual policy-holders has been about one-half PROTECTS Vice-President-. W. McCord, lINCLUDEAFUaUKEOf J. MILLS AND ELEVATORS McCord & Kelley, Columbus, Ohio. of the board rates of stock companies. MODERN POWER Against Llohtnlng Loss TRANSMITTING Secretary: C. A. McCottek, It had admitted assets, January 1, 1903, Kstiiimtes furnislied for APPLIANCES Underwriter, Indianapolis, Ind. of S3, 380, 676. 56, and a net cash surplus eqiiipiiicnts in nil parts uf ELEVATING SCONUEVING i Tilti-d Ntiiti'N mill Chairman of Ex. Com, : A. E. Reynolds, Cnnadu. HftCHWERY-GASiGASQLINE .ENGINES over all liabilities of $466,594.95. Losses Crabbs & Reynolds, Crawfordsville, Ind. AJAX St." paid, 83,939,221.28. THE CONDUCTOR *27 429 431 W. ST. R. F. Ct;MMiNGS, & MFG. CO. R. F. Cumraings Grain Co., Clifton. III. KANSAS City, Mo. The same conservative management Medinah Temple, CHICAGO Chas. S. Clark, which has directed the Company's affairs Editor Grain Dealers' Journal, Chicago, 111. all through its prosperous existence will S. Grimes, Portsmouth, H. Ohio. be continued. J. W. Sale, Studebaker, Sale & Co., Bluflton, Ind, Before placing your insurance, write to THE ALBERT Thos. a. Morrisson, the Company at No. 205 La Salle Street, DICKINSON CO. Morrisson & Thompson Co., Koltomo, Ind. Chicago, for a copy of the circular, and DC»l.tHS IN Treasurer: W. F, C Golt, statement, which fully explains the Com- GRASS SEEDS, CLOVEf:S, FLAX SEED, LAWN GRASS, BEANS, Cashier Columbia National Banl<. pany's method of insuring your class of Indianapolis. Ind. PEAS, POP CORN, BiHD SEEDS, BUCKWHEAT, BAGS, ETC. property on the mutual plan. If your risk SEEDS is up to the required standard you cannot CHICAGO, ILL. Branch: Minneapolis, Minn INSURES ElEVATORS ONLY afford to insure in any other company. W. L. BARNUM, Secy. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 406

Monarch Attrition Mills

Are ideal machines for the elevator owner who desires to add feed grinding as a side line. The Monarch requires less power in proportion to the work it accom- plishes than any other machine on the market. Then,

too, it is built for service and needs very little attention and practically no repairs. Consider these points before you buy a feed grinder.

Phosphor Bronze Interchanqe- NON-IVIIXING. NON-CHOKING. Write for able Bearings, Cable Chain Oilers, Double Movable Base, Catalogue Interchangeable or Seal Rings. and Quick Release. Safety Spring. Relief Springs, Special Adjust- Testimonials able Three-Pulley Drive. Ball HALL SYSTE Bearings. Hammered Steel Shafting, Etc.. Etc. SIGNALING NON-CHOKABLE DISTRIBUTOR BOOT

( Fire s started Amount elevated PREVENTS uouBLtsnniiDi EC J '/ by cliokes I Lite of cups and belts

CHOKES and MIXING GRAIN both COMPLETELY OVERCOME DISTRIBUTOR SIGNALS OPERATOR "Bin Full', "Spout Clogged" One-tenth labor Four-fold service SENT ON TRIAL

SEND FOR BOOKLET. HALL DISTRIBUTOR CO. ''-KSr- GRINDS CORN AND COB AND ALL SMALL GRAIN SPROUT WALDROM & CO. BOX 320, MUNCY, PA. "THE IDEAL ELEVATOR BELT." Burr Mills, Crushers, Shellers and a Full line of Milling Machinery. For Elevating, Conveying jind Power-Transmitting BELTING

MORE BUSHELS Gives the best results. Holds buckets firmly and securely, and resists heaviest strains. Will do 5oi6 Greater capacity than any other more work than the best rubber belt, and will outlast mill known. Great strength, three of the same. Its record for nineteen years handlinff Rrain, stone, sand, ore, coal and clay Easy running qualities. Less substantiates our claim. Belts warranted uniform power needed. Those are the througfhout. Made of any width up to loo inches, claims upon which the Northway and any length up to one mile. Feed Mill asks for a little of your Philadelpbia attention. MAIN BELTING COMPANY,~ |S'1VH."£;.:120 Pearl Si., Boston. INTERESTED? SEND FOR PRICE LISTS AND SAMPLE.

If you are—and would like to know some of those who have used and are using the Northway Mill to-day—write to us for their names; then write them asking for their opinions of the machine. Everything in Mill and Ele- vator Supplies. Catalog free. WHY NOT USE STRONG & NORTHWAY MFG. CO. IV1INNEAPOLIS, MINN. THE ORIGINAL CUTLER STEAM Bowsher's All-Around Feed Mill

(Sold with or without saddog DRYER, eievator)

Which is also a successful It CRUSHES ear corn (with or without shucks) and GRINDS all kinds Wheat Heater or Temperer small grain and KAFFIR IN THE or Dryer for Washed HEAD. Has CONICAL shaped Wheat or Bran. GRINDERS. DIFFERENT FROM ALL OTHERS. RUNS LIGHT. It leaves the Wheat in Perfect Condition for the Rolls. Will also dry Malster's, Brewer's and Distiller's Can run EMPTY WITHOUT IN- Wet Grain. JURY. Ahead of rolls or stones in Not an Experiment. In successful use 25 years drying speed and quality of work. CORN MEAL AND HOMINY, BREWERS' GRITS AND MEAL, YOU NEED a mill now. QUIT BCCKWHEAT, RICE AND THINKING about it. COMMENCE ALL CEREAL PRODUCTS. to investigate. Give US a chance ALSO SAND, COAL DUST, QRAPHITE AND CLAY AND ORE OF ALL KINDSI and we'll tell you WHY we think Automatic in operation, requiring- no attention. Double ours is the best. the capacity of any other Dryer sold for same pidce. SEVEN,SIZES: 2 to 25 H. P. _ Drive pulley overhang. Belt to it from any direc- Circular sent for the tion. Makes complete independent outfit. asking. THE N. P. BOWSHER CO,. South Bend, Ind. THE CUTLER CO., North Wilbraham, Mass. 406 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. THE I EVREKA 5) CORN DRYING AND CONDITIONING SYSTEM

Will Completely Dry and Put Damp Corn in First-Class Condition.

Is Complete, Economical in Operation, and I Occupies Small Space. Richmond ff/^S. HOWES CO. SILVER CREEK. N. Y. I NDIANAv CHICAQii OFFICE: 202 Traders Buildi g. NOWTHVVeSTEvN OFt ICE: 3 v. hamber of Commerce. SOUTHWESTERN REPRESENTATIVE: J. N. Heater, care Savoy Hotel, Kansas City, Mo. QUICK FEED GRINDING GAe SCIENTIFIC ATTRITION MILL Is acknowledged by all the large cereal mills to be the standard

It will grind Screenings, Will earn its cost

Bran, Corn and all every three months.

Grain fit for every market. Also a full line of small

mills, 4 to 20 h. p., Crushers, Separators Costs little to run and and Fittings. easily maintained.

Get New Special

Made in four sizes, Feed Grinding 10 to 50 horse power. Catalogue. READY FOR SHIPMENT THE FOOS MANUFACTURING CO. ESTABLISHED 25 YEARS SPRINGFIELD. OHIO AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 407

No. 109 Clipper Seed Cleaner

The "CINCINNATI SPECIAL" Cleaner

shown in cut, was designed especially for handling large quantities of very dirty timothy, red top and other light seeds. The first seven machines made in this style are operated in Cincinnati, from which fact the machine derives

its name. The No. 109 requires from two to three horse power when run to full capacity of 65 to 100 bushels of seed per hour, or 300 to 400 bushels of grain per hour. It has a screen surface 42x60 inches and a shoe that carries three full length screens and one half-length scalper screen, composing a set of coarse and fine scalpers and two grade screens.

This machine is adapted to cleaning all kinds of seeds

and is being successfully used by some of the largest deal-

ers in the country. Like all "Clippers" it is a combination machine, and gives equally good results on both seeds and grain when equipped with the proper screens. The No. 109 has Traveling Brushes and Special Air Controller, two features of "Clipper" superiority well known all over the United States and Canada wherever seeds are handled. Write for new catalog and full particulars.

A. T. FERRELL & CO.. Saginaw. W. S., Mich.

NO SHAKE, NO TRE.MBLE—Steadiness Itself. Gold Dollars The Invincible ^r'- Separators

Can be placed anywhere in the elevator. They never shake the building but stand as steady as a rock. Their work is perfect. Write for latest catalogue.

At FIFTY CENTS apiece are CHEAP, but they do not represent a better investment than we offer the "elevator and grain trade" in our Controllable Wagon Dump.

Winchester, III., February 4, 1899. aiESSRS. SATAGE & liOVE CO., Kockford, 111. Gentlemen:—Your favor of the 28th ult. received and noted. Last July I put one of your Controllable Wagon Dumps In a Fairbanks, Morse & Co.'s 22-ft. scale, and It has given me entire satisfaction In every respect. In this locality the bulk of grain Is as yet handled In sacks, and by tipping the Dump about one-half it makes a nice slant, making It very easy to pull the sacks to back lovincible Grain Cleaner Company, end of wagon, where strings are cut and grain runs out Into bin below. Every farmer, without exception, speaks in glowing terms of the merits of this Dump. In unloading loose grain from wagon there Is no dump that will equal yours In being easily handled and always imder control of N. V., U. operator. No scaring horses, no dropping of wagon and no noise. I consider a grain elevator SILVER CREEK, S. A. Incomplete without the Savage & Love Controllable Wagon Dumps. Also flanufacturers of the Yours truly, M. 0. WOODWORTH. MAinjFACTUEED ONT Y BY Needle Screen Gravity Separator and Spiral Belt Separator.

^-—--REPRESENTED BY .

W. J. Scott, Traders' Bldg., Chicago. 111. 94 Edward A. Ordway. 612 Exchange Bldg.. Kansas City, Mo THE SAVAGE & LOVE CO., Rockford, III. Chas. H. Scott. 307 So. 3d Street. Minneapolis, Minn. J. N. Bacon. Blacheme Block. Indianapolis, Ind N. B. Trask. Lochlel Hotel, Harrlsbnrg. Pa. FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO., $t. Paul, Minn., Northwestern AgenU: 408 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

^^6* Cleanest Grain

is the accomplishment of Monitor Grain Clean- ing Machmery. Monitor Machinery

is built on the lines that time has proven most

efficient. Embodying all desirable features of the

past it leads with con- A tinual improvements. You take no chances in buvino- Monitor Ma-

chines; we sell them subject to a thirty days'

trial on your own floors, where you can see them doing in actual

performance everything that is claimed for them. Write for catalocrue of the line which includes Monitor Elevator and Warehouse Separators and Scourers, Buckwheat Shuckers, Oat Clippers, Seed and Flax Cleaners.

HUNTLEY MANUFACTURING CO. SILVER CREEK. NEW YORK BRANCH OFFICES 302 Traders Bldg., Chicago. III.. F, M. Smith. Mgr. 418 Third St.. Minneapolis. Minn., A. F. Schuler. Mgr. 121 Front Street, New York, N. Y., J. W. Perrine, Mgr. A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ELEVATOR AND GRAIN INTERESTS. ™^ ^^"'^SlfxSi'^^^^f Vol. XXII. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 15, 1904. No. 8. ]'''3!^'co^v. ™

A TEXAS TRANSFER HOUSE. in which is located the corn machinery and also a and even get a nice little dividend on the shares wagon dump where grain is received from the neigh- besides. Nice, isn't it? Gainesville, one of the gates into Texas from the boring farmers. The next proposition presented to the Minnesota north, has been made hy Richardson & Company one farmers was the Farmers' Co-operative Shipping As- of the most important grain distributing points in THE ICY MIT. sociation, of which H. N. Gaines of Topeka was a the Lone Star State. Here is collected all the grain representative at the Exchange's meeting of Feb- handled over the Santa Fe lines and from the com- The Minnesota Farmers' Exchange which met in ruary 1. This association also has a capital stock pany's fifteen country stations in Indian Territory annual convention at St. Paul on February 2 de- of about $50,000,000, and the question before the and in Texas, run through the elevator and dis- cided to play the lone hand hereafter. It will Minnesota Exchange was whether to join with it. tributed to the company's customers, millers and re- "sympathize" with all other farmers' co-operative There was some debate; but C. E. Jackson of Buck- tail grain dealers man, Minn., president throughout Texas, or of the Minnesota Ex- forwarded for export change, appointed a through Galveston. large committee on The work of han- by-laws and constitu- dling this large vol- tion, which sat down ume of grain is all on the proposition, done through the ele- Weatherston of the vator shown in the ac- committee saying: "If companying engrav- you want to form a ing, operated by Rich- national association ardson & Company. It and write a national is, if not the most constitution, we can modern elevator in do it here in Minne- Texas, at least one of sota as well as by go- that type; and because ing down to Kansas. of its rapid handling We have got the and cleaning capacity, brains and the mon- it has created a revo- ey." lution in the former Having thus sum- crude methods in marily given the cold vogue in that state by shoulder to all their setting a pace that anxious contempora- competitors have to ries (with private keep up with; and commission houses at- even to-day the eleva- tached), the farmers tor meets with con- proceeded to organize siderable opposition the Minnesota Farm- from dealers who are ers' Exchange, capital RICHAEDSON & COMP.VNV's (l.NC.) CLE.\.\1NU AND TK.VNSFER ELEVATOR AT (iAl.XKSVlLLE, TEXA.S. not so well prepared $500,000, and having to handle grain as economically as this firm does. companies, alliances, etc., but it will not play second elected C. E. Jackson, Buckman, president, and J. The elevator storage capacity is 100,000 bushels, fiddle to any of them nor submit to annexation as S. MacDonald, Rush City, secretary, they adjourned with handling capacity of 100 cars of grain daily; a tail to their kites. They particularly froze with to March 10, when all the paper machinery of the and its two corn shellers will handle 20 cars of that the "icy stare" what they called "the so-called company will be ready to be filed for the benefit of cereal daily. farmers' company" promoted by certain members posterity. The other machinery equipment consists of hopper of the Chicago Board of Trade. This concern had scales of 80,000 pounds' capacity; five elevator legs several representatives at the St. Paul meeting of While the press news is a little more war-like, still with capacity of nearly 1,000 bushels per minute; the Minnesota Exchange, and proposed a plan by doubt reigns as to the outcome in the Far East. cleaners, clippers, and all the other necessaries which Minnesota farmers would get rich. The Chi- The question seems to be, will the Mun-GO-lian out that go to make up the outfit of a complete modern cago company is capitalized on the South Dakota of Manchuria and Korea, or will the Musco-VITE? transfer elevator, the machinery being operated by plan for $50,000,000 in small shares so that every A German friend says—"I dink so needer." Really, a rope drive transmission of power. farmer could take at least one. The farmers are as for some time past, one man's guess is as good In addition to the main elevator, which is 60x64 expected to ship their produce to Chicago, get fancy as another'!?,—Pope & Eckhardt Co.'s Circular, Jan- feet in size and 115 feet high, there is a corp house, prices for it, save the Minpesota middleman's profit uary 23, 410 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

HENRY H. WERNSE. intendent of exhibit, Decatur, 111., in time to arrive systematic scale was, after long detective work, there not later than February 23. ended at Camden, N. J., on January 30 by the arrest Henry H. Wernse, senior member of the firm of of a feight brakeman on the Atlantic City R. R., Wernse & Dieckman, who holds the distinguished CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE GRAIN named Samuel Cox, who pleaded guilty on his exposition of president of the St. Louis Merchants' THIEVES. amination. The thieving had been going on for Exchange for the great World's Fair year, is not several weeks, and a large amount of grain had a native of that city but went there in early boy- The war being made on the grain thieves in Chi- disappeared, owned by Sitley & Son, grain mer- hood with his parents, and is really a true son. He cago's railroad yards by the Grain Shippers' Pro- chants. Cox was a member of a shifting crew that is sixty-five years old, but doesn't look it by any tective Association has during the past few weeks got grain from Sitley & Co.'s elevator at Chelten means, carrying his years remarkably well. resulted in the capture and punishment of quite a and Railroad Avenues; and in his confession he said Educated in St. Louis schools, his first position num.ber of thieves, especially in the Calumet Dis- that when he obtained grain at the elevator in of consequence in business was that of chief clerk trict. Victor Johnson, Frank Wolf and Frank freight cars, extra bags were given to him by a of the United States subtreasury at St. Louis dur- Reschke, who were captured by special officers of shipping clerk in the employ of the grain firm. He ing the Civil War—a most important disbursing the McReynolds Elevator Co. at 106th Street and said the bags of grain were worth $1.63 each, and center for the government, owing to its nearness to Calumet River about the holidays, were taken be- he sold them for 50 cents apiece and divided the the scene of military operations in the West and fore Justice Callahan, who fined Wolf and Reschke proceeds with the Sitley & Co.'s clerk. The clerk the absence of any other subtreasury in the West $10 and costs each and sent Johnson, who is under was arrested, but he denied the charge laid against at that time. Mr. Wernse during those four years 16 years of age, to the Juvenile Court. Again, a him handled millions of the public money; and at the fortnight later, in January, Joseph Tanarski, for close of the war he retired from the position with the same offense, on complaint of Geo. H. Miller, GEO. C. CLARK. honor. He subsequently became connected with manager of the association named, was fined $25 Geo. C. Clerk, the various St. Louis banks as cashier or teller; but and costs by the same justice. A week later, John new president of the Peoria Board of Trade, is the son of Clark, Sr., when in 1877 the particular bank with which he was Danielson, arrested for stealing grain from C. & E. Horace who was the first president of that body, an office to then connected failed, he started in business on I. cars, was hold to the Criminal Court, Wm. Crow- which he elected his own account as a bond and stock broker. In ley fined $20 and costs, and Mrs. Augustana Brown was in 1870. Geo. C. Clark, who and Mrs. Minnie Mau were fined $15 and $20 respectively on charges of receiving stolen property. Continuing this list merely to show how grain disappears before it gets to the elevator, we find

that on January 9, two C, R.-I. & P. R. R. detectives arrested a young man with grain in his possession, which had been stolen from C. & E. I. car 61700, which was standing on the Belt Railway tracks at 96th Street, South Chicago. The young man was held to the Criminal Court. Mr. L. M. Custy, Chief of Detectives for the C, R.-I. & P. R. R., by the way, is doing all in his power to eliminate grain thieving. If some of the other roads had such men IS Mr. Custy superintending their watching service, grain pilfering might and probably would be reduced to a minimum. Again there were arrested at South Chicago in a raid by three city policemen and three railroad detectives, under supervision of the Grain Shippers' Protective Association, on January 30, Thomas Quinn, aged 16 years, who was fined $5 and costs by Justice Callahan; and Martin O'Connell and Ar- thur Peterson, aged 13 years, remanded to care of Juvenile Officer Bonner; all three of the above were captured in railroad yards with grain sacks. Their capture led to the recovery of several hundred grain doors. H. WEli.NSK. in HKMiY On January 30 three men were arrested the tiEO. C. CLARK. President of the St. Louis Merchants' Exchanse. Pennsylvania R. R. Yards at South Chicago for President Peoria Board of Trade.

J. his present sweeping grain cars, and Justice Callahan fined 1881 he was joined by H. Dieckman, was elected without opposition, is a* representative been associated, as fel- them $5 each and costs. partner, with whom he has Peoria business man of the broad gauge—a city house.? and as On February 3 Joe Korski was fined $5 and costs low employe of the same banking builder and a man whose business energies find by Justice Callahan on charge of disorderly con- partner, for thirty-three years. scope in many directions; and we find that aside duct. He had been caught in R. I. R. R. Yard at Mr. Wernse, adds a St. Louis writer, was very from holding the presidency of the Board of Trade, South Chicago with a grain sack concealed under- active in agitating for the formation of a stock ex- he is president of the following companies also: neath his vest. change in St. Louis, and the inception of the present Horace Clark & Sons Co., millers and dealers in And so it goes. But Chicago is not the only pl"ace Stock Exchange was principally due to him. It has grain and flour; Clark Coal ana Coke Co., miners where this thieving goes on. At Superior three proved a great convenience to investors residing in and wholesale dealers in coal and coke. He is also boys were arrested on Januay 13 who were believed the Mississippi Valley. Mr. Wernse was its first treasurer of the Peoria Life Association, director to be the active agents, or tools, in the hands of men president and was re-elected to that position until of the Clark, Quinn & Morse Co., wholesale hard- who have been conducting a systematic robbery of he declined to serve further, not considering it de- ware, besides which he is interested in several other grain cars at the terminal in the yards of the N. sirable that the presidency should be permanently minor companies. P. R. R. Co. The Municipal Court, however, dis- lodged in one person. the decision setting them at liberty charged , them, In 1896 he was made a director of the St. Louis One hundred and seventy-five members of th«. being based on evidence tending to show that they Exchange, later first Nebraska Grain Dealers' Association left Omaha via Merchants' and he was elected were acting at the instance of three Duluth men vice-president. actively useful the Missouri Pacific on February 10 for New Or- He made himself to against whom secret indictments have been re- leans. excursion primarily for the Exchange in various ways, with the result that turned by the grand jury, but upon whom service The was made the his associates at the last annual meeting urged him had not been obtained. The detective for the North- purpose of taking in the Mardi Gras, but incident- to accept the nomination for the presidency, which ern Pacific Railroad charged these boys with car- ally the grain situation at New Orleans where the ne finally did. His election was without opposition. rying away six sacks of wheat. The men are in- party was due to arrive on February 14 will receive dicted on the charge of breaking a seal of a car as attention. The schedule was arranged to allow a Premiums amounting to $500 and gold medals well as on a grand larceny count. The Northern stop of one day each at Kansas City, St. Louis and are offered for white and yellow corn exhibits of Pacific detective said he was accustomed to allow Memphis and a stop of a half a day at both Little 100 ears each at Decatur in connection with the the boys to enter cars which had been emptied of Rock and Hot Springs. Nine days in all will be Illinois Farmers' Institute on February 23 to 25, grain, to sweep up the screenings. The youngsters consumed in the jaunt. At each of the cities where by the Illinois Commission of the Louisiana Pur- made some disposition of the chaff and grain thus a stop is to be made the dealers will study the grain chase Exposition and the corn is to become their secured and realized a few cents on it. But the situation. At New Orleans they will study the term- property to exhibit at St. Louis. The instructions ofiicer added that he had discovered that the seal inal grain facilities, visit the man-of-war and see are: Wrap each ear of corn carefully in paper and of a grain car had been broken and a portion of the the Mardi Gras processions on Tuesday, February pack closely in a tight box to keep out mice, and contents removed. 16. The excursionists will be entertained by the prevent shelling off. Ship to W. B. Otwell, super- A troublesome case of grain car robbery on a Board of Trade officials. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 411

DELANY IN SOUTH AMERICA. Argentine quarantine regulations already men- is optimistic. Real estate nas risen in the "Camp," tioned. as the country districts are called, 300 to 400 per personal letter by Frank J. Delany, repre- [From a Our next stop was Santos on November 25. We cent in the last two years, ana everybody seems dis- senting the Nash-Wright Company, Chicago, on a special mission of enquiry to the Argentine, to his friend spent a day and a night there. Santos is where the posed to push the boom to the utmost. There are John E. Bacon, with the "American Elevator and Grain coffee comes from; and it is a very clean and very very few Americans here, and little American Trade." The date of writing is Rosario, Argentina, pretty little city. The wealthier business men of money is invested; but the English, German, December 15, 190S. Pictures rei)roduced from Dun's Re- view, montlily international edition.] Santos live in Sao Paulo, a very beautiful town up French and Italian investments are important and

I have at lasi found time to write you, but I fear in the hills, a few hours by rail distant from heavy in the oraer named. The immigration is light, Italian. is not carried I have little to write you about, in the way of Santos. mostly Commerce on cities gradually improve in appearance, im- should be, because of various gov- thrilling or unusual experiences. I left New York The as freely as u nevertheless, on the steamship Byron of the Lampost-Holt Line portance and energy as we get distant south of the ernmental taxes on commercial effort; equator. Montevideo, Uruguay, was next; we ar- on November 5, and we did not sight land again rived on the morning of November 29, but did not go ashore. We left after a few hours, and our r.ext stop was Buenos Ayres. Shortly after leaving Montevideo we reached the mouth of Ihe River Plate, and a peculiar spectacle confronted us. The river water does not mix with the ocean water and for miles and miles, as far as we could see, we could trace a sharply defined line of division of the waters. This line was as sharp and distinct as that dividing the plowed and the unbroken part of a stubble field. The River Plate,

01 La Plata, is formed by the junction of the Parana and the Ascencion Rivers, and at its mouth is 120 miles wide. How is that for a river? We arrived at Buenos Ayres on the morning of the 30th of November and disembarked immediately. Buenos Ayres was the greatest surprise of the trip. It is a city of over a million inhabitants; AVENID.V 1)E M.VYO, BUENOS AYRES. I.O.\niNG <;R.\IX I!Y rrHTES. RO.S.VRIO. and so far as elegance and beauty of its buildings and general cleanliness are concerned, it is ahead in spite of the restrictions (many of which are ab- until November 13, when we anchored outsiae of of any American city that I have ever seen, except surd), the country is growing and thriving. Pernambuco, Brazil. In the interim, of course, I perhaps Washington, D. C. In the older sections My experience with the government officials has had recovered from my sea-sickness and had en- of the city the streets are narrow, but they are in- been plea=ant. They have been very courteous joyed the voyage. The first two days out of New variably well kept; and piercing the heart of the tc me, and have shown considerable interest in my York we had very heavy weather and life was city from end to end and terminating in the beauti- mission, so that altogether I feel that my trip will extremely miserable. A friend of mine once re- ful park and suburb of Palermo is the "Averida de be a success, and that I will have, when I return, marked, as he took some bitter medicine: "This Mayo," a street that is wide as our widest boule- information that may be useful, and certainly will ought to be good for me; it tastes bad enough;" and vards, asphalt paved (in fact, most of the streets be interesting. on the same grounds I am inclined to ascribe great are asphalt paved) and fringed on either side with I had intended to devote more space to a descrip- virtues to sea-sickness. I fully appreciated the trees, ornamented arc-lights in the center, and in tion of the outlying "Camp" country, but I fear that force of Mark Twam's description, "First you are general beauty I am told is equal to the famous I have already made this letter so long that it will afraid you are going to die; and then you are Parisian or Russian boulevards. be tedious to you, so I will leave my "Camp" stories afraid you won't." But, when we arrived at Per- Spanish is, of course, the language, although for the next, or until I see you, which I expect will nambuco, we were all on our sea-legs and feeling there is a wonderful linguistic ability noticed here. be about March. fine. Most of the people speak at least two languages, If you see any of my friends in the grain trade I went ashore and spent part of the day wander- generally Spanish and French. A large proportion (and I know you will, for you know all of them), ing about that quaintly picturesque city. Per- nambuco was founded sometime in the 1600's and apparently did all of its growing in its first 100 years of existence, and has since been undergoing a process of dry-rot, commercially as well as physi- cally. The 125,000 inhabitants are all Brazilians, colored, who speak Portuguese and who seem to think that earthly happiness consists of one con- tinual siesta. One of the half dozen of the Euro- peans who reside in Pernambuco told me that 50 per cent of the population have no visible means of support. In fact, it is the rule, that when one member of a family goes to work all the rest of his immediate relatives take a vacation until he quits work and takes it easy too. Then some other one of the family will have to work for a while.

I won't attempt to describe the appearance of this

or any of the cities mentioned, for I have various snap-shots which will give you a better idea of these countries than my written description could. Bahia was our next stop. We left the Byron at Bahia and transferred to the Royal Mail Steam- ship Magdalena, as we thus avoided the possibility of quarantine at Buenos .\yres. The presence of the ri.AZ.\ VICTORI.\, BUENOS AYRES, CATHEDRAL ON LEFT, GOVERNMENT BUILDING ON RIGHT. plague in Rio Janeiro the bubonic caused Argentine speak three and four; and, I believe, there is a remember me to them, and say to them that al- to quarantine against government passengers from greater proportion of the population who speak five though I am enjoying this trip and learning much, Rio, and accordingly we stopped at Bahia thirty-six languages in Buenos Ayres than we will find in our about the best place, after all, is Chicago, and as a hours awaiting the arrival of the steamship Mag- country speaking three. matter of fact, a sight of the harbor lights of New dalena. Rosario, the next city in importance in this coun- York and a whiff of Chicago's smoke-laden ozone Bahia also is a negro city; but the inhabitants try, has 125,000 population, and is a solid and sub- is my dream and my most ardent desire. Tell all seem to have more energy, although they wear even stantial, though quiet little city. Here the same the boys that I am feeling fine, and give them what

fewer clothes than they do in Pernambuco; and I facility of language is noticed. Outside of Rosario news I have given you here, for I can't write to was shocked repeatedly. A Bahian who has on a and Buenos Ayres there are no cities of more than them all. coat is very much over-dressed. As a rule, the cos- passing importance, and the country, being new, is It is mighty hot here to-day, 90 degrees in the tume is trousers and part of a shirt, although the wild in exact proportion to its distance from rail- shade, and they tell me it will be woise later on. shirt is plainly an afterthought. ways and from these cities. Whew! We arrived at Rio Janeiro on the 23d of Novem- This country is on a boom now; prices for every- ber but did not go ashore, nor did the Magdalena thing are away up; living costs are two or three Secretary Miller has issued a new directory of take on any passengers or freight, on account of the times what they are in the States, {ii)4 everybody regular Nebraska grain dealers. 412 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

THE HESS PNEUMATIC GRAIN the elevator to this chamber where it falls into a INDICTED A SENATOR. DRIER AT CALUMET ELEVA- series of vertical racks side by side with air spaces between. The racks are made up of steel shelves The Federal grand jury at St. Louis on January "A," CHICAGO. TOR SOUTH on cast iron supports, there being eight sections 23 created somewhat of a sensation by returning on both sides. an indictment against Senator Joseph R. Burton When King Richard III on that memorable field with shelves AS the grain is spouted into the racks it falls of Kansas, charging him, on nine counts, with ac- of Bosworth raised the historic cry, "My kingdom into layers or columns, and fresh air, heated by cepting, between November 22, 1902, and March for a horse," he wanted one badly and he needed 1903, four months, five checks of each 17,280 lineal feet of one-inch steam pipe in the 26, $500 it quickly. As the result of his not obtaining with from the Rialto Grain and Securities Com- coils, is forced a fan into the air spaces. sufficient promptness this useful quadruped, he sub- steam by passing through pany while a United States Senator, for alleged sequently lost his kingdom and his life into the It cannot escape thence except by services in interceding with the Postmaster Gener- moisture with it bargain. If he could have seen that at this par- the grain layers and carrying the the build- al, chief postoffice inspector, and other high post- ticular time he would have needed his equine friend, out through the ventilators at the top of about office officials to induce them to render a favorable he would no doubt have made the necessary previ- ing. The temperature of this room is kept at decision in matters affecting the permission of the ous arrangements for having one to carry him away 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Rialto to use the mails, and to prevent dried, which re- Company from his very grievous predicament. When the grain is sufficiently the issuance of a fraud order against the company. To draw a simile between King Richard and the quires about 25 minutes, the operator allows it to Major Hugh C. Dennis, president of the company, average grain dealer might seem a trifle paradox- fall to the second floor or cooling chamber. The and W. B. Mehaney, associated with him, are named refilled grain at once. A ical, but there are times when in respect to grain top floor is with damp m the indictment as the men who made the check to the Senator. William E. Cochran, chief postoffice inspector, from Washington; Major Hugh C. Dennis and W. B. Mehaney are supposed to be the prosecution's witnesses. Postmaster General Payne

and his Fourth Assistant, J. L. Burton, also are named as possible witnesses. As a result of his connection with the company Dennis was indicted both in the Federal and state courts, but the United States Court acquitted him. Four indictments found in state courts against Den- nis are still pending. The penalty provided upon conviction for the offense with which Senator Burton is charged is a penitentiary sentence of not more than two years and a fine of not more than 510,000, and one so con- victed shall be rendered incapable of holding office of trust, honor, or emolument under the government. United States Senators are immune from arrest, except for certain specified crimes, while the senate is in session. Senator Burton immediately went to St. Louis and waiving his privilege gave bail in the sum of $5,000, and made arrangements for trial of the case. "My connection with Dennis was simply that of a lawyer professionally employed to defend a suit of prosecution," said Sena- tor Burton. "Dennis was having some trouble with his company, besides the indictment which was brought against him and he came here tcrconsult me regarding the case. It was while here we visited the Postoffice Department and made the inquiries regarding charges against Dennis." The Federal statute which it is alleged Senator Burton violated is as follows: Section 1782. No Senator, Representative or delegate, after his election and during his continuance in office, and no head of a department or other officer or clerk in the employ of the government, shall receive or agree to receive any compensation whatever, directly or indirectly, for any services rendered, or to be rendered, and to any person, either by himself or another, in relation to any pro- ceeding, contract, claim, controversy, charge, accu- sation, arrest, or other matter or thing in which the United States is a party, or directly or indirectly interested, before any department, court-martial, bureau, officer, or any civil, military or naval com- IflOSS PNEUMATIC GRAIN DKIEE AT CALUMET ELEVATOR A. mission whatever. Every person offending against this section shall be deemed guilty of a misde- driers the grain man is somewhat in his highness' special feature of the drier consists in the fact that meanor and shall be imprisoned not more than two position. When he has grain that is deteriorating the heat given off by the cooling grain is not years; and fined not more than $10,000, and shall, therefor, rendered for- every day for want of a drying plant the grain wasted in the outer air but is drawn again through moreover, by conviction be ever thereafter incapable of holding any office of merchant no doubt wishes that he had used a little heater and then applied to the damp grain in the honor, trust or profit under the government of the foresight and had one on hand for his necessity. It the heating chamber. After the grain is cooled United States. is the purpose of this article to show one of the operator again manipulates the slides which the The trade is familiar with the business of the driers that is popular on the market to-day and to fall grain control the of the and it descends into Rialto Grain Company at St. Louis. It was organ- describe some of the processes of grain drying. the hoppers on the first floor, from which it is car- ized in the summer of 1902 by Major Hugh C. Den- The accompanying illustration is a very good pic- ried by conveyor back into the elevator. nis, who went to St. Louis from Canada a few ture of the grain drier which the Hess Warming Mr. J. H. Hicks is superintendent of the elevator years previously and had become the general agent & Ventilating Company of Chicago built for the and regards the grain drier as an invaluable ac- for an insurance company. Charles H. Brooks, in Bartlett, Frazier & Carrington people for Calumet quisition to the company's plant. It has been operat- the spring of 1902, organized the Brooks Brokerage Elevator A at South Chicago, last year. The drier ing constantly since it was built and has demon- and Commission Company; and when in that sum- was commenced on March 27 and was finished twen- strated its utility as a perfect drying plant. When mer he went to California he asked Dennis to con- ty-three days later. The building which houses the ir is considered that a premium of from three to flve duct the business for him while he was away. drier isi of brick; is a distance of six feet from the cents is paid for dried grain the value of the plant Friction arose between Brooks and Dennis when elevator, and is 27x33 feet and 52 feet high. The ca- at once becomes apparent. Brooks returned, and then Dennis organized the pacity of the drier is 24,000 bushels per day and it Rialto Company. Associated with him were W. D.

consists of two units of 500 bushels each side by Owing, it is claimed, to unusual arrivals of poor Mahaney, who became secretary; William Leftwich, side within this housing. wheat at Milwaukee the tracks of the terminals Andrew D. Hardie and Hector McLeod. McLeod On entering the drier your guide takes you to there were so congested that on January 22 the C, is a Canadian whom Dennis invited to St. Louis. the top, or third floor, which is the heating cham- M. & St. P. declared a blockade and refused ship- From the beginning the Rialto Company did a flour- ber. The grain to be dried is spouted direct from ments for a fortnight ishing business. It advertised heavily, and was AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 413 charged witli irregularities. As stated above, an port of New Orleans under the auspices of the New THE NEBRASKA CO-OPERATIVES indictment in the Federal court failed to stick and Orleans Board of Trade, Limited, believing that the MEET. those by the state courts are yei to be tried. question of correct weights is one of the most important factors in the delivery of grain. The bu- The state association of cooperative elevator com- EXCHANGE REORGANIZATION AT reau will be in cliarge of an ellicient chief weigh- panies in Nebraska met at Lincoln on January 20 NEW ORLEANS. master, who will be assisted in performing the work and 21 and listened to H. H. Carr of Chicago, who of the department by the grain committee and by told them how the regular grain dealers of Illinois, The formal act of consolidation of the New Or- weighmen thoroughly familiar and experienced in "whose average investment is but $5,000," "by com- leans Board of Trade and the Maritime and Mer- that particular line. bination," "dominate what shall be done in the mar- chants' Exchange, took place on February 1. and "The arguments recently brought before the Grain keting of the grain of the 306,000" farmers of this is explained in a letter by Secretary Fred Muller on Dealers' National Association at their conven- state. Then he changed the subject to reel off a another page. This much of the unification of or- tion at Minneapolis, and the strong endorsements pipe-dream of "dollar wheat" and—what would hap- ganizations representing the commercial interests from the officials of all the state grain dealers' as- pen if the farmer should get it: "every business of the Crescent City has proved so satisfactory to sociations, hastened the decision of our exchange to enterprise would thrive because the man who sup- establish such a bureau as a safeguard in the in- ports them would be doing well"—just as though terest of the shippers, as well as receivers of grain. The bureau itself will be conducted on plans similar to those in Baltimore and other cities, and while we do not think it advisable for the present moment to make the use of the department compul- sory, we hope that all shippers of grain into and through New Orleans will avail themselves of the facilities afforded. "The charges, as fixed for the present, are 50c per car inward and 25c per thousand bushels out- ward. With the development of the bureau, it is likely that these charges will be reduced at the earliest possible moment." Chief Inspector Richeson, whose election by the grain committee was unanimous, is a young man, still in the 'thirties, who, as a boy, was raised in Chicago, but educated in grain in Kansas City and St. Louis. When the Maritime and Merchants' Ex- change, a few years ago, was hunting for a chief inspector, the grain men of the West, interested in the port's business, recommended Mr. Richeson, who was then at St. Louis, as the ideal man for the place. He was taken to New Orleans, placed in charge of the department, which thereafter inspected prac- FHEl) iMULLEK. tically all the grain going through the port. He Secretary New Orleans Board of Trade, J. IIEXEY LAPAYE.- is thoroughly expert in his profession, and to his every business enterprise had not been thriving for President New Orleans Board of Trade. several years, including farming, and no one in the interests involved, that it is rumored the Sugar America had gotten a dollar for wheat,, either! Exchange also is considering a proposition to con- The reporter for the daily press said a hundred solidate with the Board of Trade on the same basis associations were represented. This probably as the merger of the Maritime Exchange was ef- means about thirty, more or less. fected. The following resolutions were adopted: GBAIN INSPECTION .\T NEW ORLEANS. We most heartily indorse the principle of cooper- The consolidation named above made necessary ation; and we extend the invitation to every local our state asso- a reorganization of the New Orleans grain inspec- organization to become a member of ciation, believing that the cooperative plan is the tion system, which was done at a meeting of the only effective way by which we can handle our directors of the Board of Trade held on January produce for our mutual welfare. 29. At this meeting the grain committee submitted We further suggest that the board of directors the following appointments in the inspection depart- use all its influence in the organization of new companies. ment which were approved: We feel the need of legislation and of the enforce- Chief Grain Inspector, W. L. Richeson, who has ment of the laws already enacted, and we recom- been chief inspector of the Maritime Exchange; mend to this body the appointment of a committee assistants, Geo. Colby, John Anderson and J. H. on legislation. Kamlade; secretary of the department, Eugene V. The legislative committee named is composed of Ansenmann; deputies, John Stringer, Henry Hurle- 0. G. Smith of Kearney, James T. Brady of Albion, gand, Jos. Helledig. H. H. Hanks of Otoe, James Ryan and D. W. Baker. The Board of Trade will soon establish a bureau It will be one of the duties of this committee to of supervision over weights; and it is probable that test the validity of the Ramsey Act; or, if the law Robert McMillan, ex-chief grain inspector of the is set aside, to prepare a bill for a substitute, and Board of Trade, will be made chief supervisor of v.'ork it through the legislature. that department and that W. A. Quinn, the retiring The following officers were elected: J. S. Canady, secretary of the grain inspection department, will president and organizer; H. H. Hanks, vice-presi- be offered a position with the same department. dent; J. T. Brady of Albion, secretary; O. G. the order Inspection under new began on February W. L. KICIIESON. Smith of Kearney,- treasurer. One director from 1, the first certificate being issued to the Hall-Baker Chief Grain Inspector New Orleans Board of Trade. each congressional district and one director-at-large Grain Co., for 4,000 bushels No. (2) Two Hard as follows: First, H. H. Hanks, Otoe County; sec- technical knowledge and skill he unites executive Winter Wheat, Crop 1903. The work began with ond, no one present; third, 0. Brittell, Elgin, Ante- ability and many personal qualities which combine what the records show to have been the heaviest lope County; fourth, D. W. Baker; fifth, J. S. Can- to make him and his office as popular as it is ef- inward movement of grain in any one day for over ady, Minden, Kearney County; sixth, L. S. Deets, ficient. a year, the arrivals being 156 cars (150,000 bu.) of Buffalo County; director-at-large, J. T. Brady of corn and 160 cars (90,000 bu.) of wheat, from Illi- State Grain Inspector Arrasmith has prepared a Albion, Boone County. nois, Kansas, Nebraska, Indian Territory, etc. It circular letter addressed to the several county as- Reports from various members gave the infor- was consigned to various exporting agencies in New sessors of the state of Washington requesting them mation that there were troubles with the railroads Orleans for Europe, much of it entering upon to provide a special blank for use of deputies in in various parts of the state. O. G. Smith of through bills of lading subject only to New Or- obtaining statistical information from farmers while Kearney reported no sidetrack. Mr. Hubbard said leans inspection at the hands of the newly inaugu- they are taking values for the assessment rolls in there had been difficulty in getting cars from the rated inspection department. March. These blanks are intended to be filled in Missouri Pacific at Juniata. R. B. Price of Thayer The Board of Trade makes the following state- by the farmer, to show the acreage of wheat, oats, told of troubles with the North-Western Railway. ment as to the local inspection and weighing sys- barley, corn, etc., sown and report made to the state Commenting on statements made at the meeting tems: inspector, who from these reports can form reliable a Burlington official denied that that company is "To Grain Shippers:—Please be advised that we estimates of future crop under favorable weather fighting the independent buyers; but "the company have decided to establish a weighing bureau at the conditions. is not acting immediately," he said, "on the de- —

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mands of new elevators until it thoroughly can- and section six was made to require the approval reference to the market had come from the elevator vasses the grounds and sees that there is reason of the grades and standard samples by the board of in which he had been employed as inspector and why these demands should be met. At several directors. This committee further recommended weigher. places on our system cooperative and independent the appointment of J. J. Bright as chief grain in- The grain committee feel the situation is very companies have been buying and the road has spector and weigher of grain. unsatisfactory to the grain trade, all the members thrown no obstacles in their way. Of course in The report of this hybrid committee having been of which at one time contemplated withdrawing times of car shortage the company, like people in accepted and approved by the board of directors, from the Board in a body in protest, but so far as other lines of business, tries to take care of its the grain committee of the Board, composed of E we are informed have not done so, hoping, no best patrons first, and this has at times given rise AV. Seeds, J. P. McAllister, J. W. McCord and C. doubt to secure the reforms asked for by other to the belief that the company is working with or H. Tingley, immediately resigned, their joint letter methods. working against certain interests. All things be- of resignation saying among other things that ing equal no shipper gets more advantage than We are in receipt of a communication from Sec- BRICK GRAIN ELEVATOR AT another. I know personally that in some places retary Bassell, advising us of the action of the RUSHFORD, MINN. where a demand has been made for a site for coop- board of directors with reference to the inspection and weighing of grain in Columbus. erative companies the buyers have been paying all A very handsome and serviceable brick elevator We beg to say, that in our opinion the recom- the market would permit. The interests of the mendations of the committee have been so amended was completed for the Farmers' Elevator Company farmers are the interests of the railroad, and noth- as to utterly destroy their efficiency in safe-guard- at Rushford, Minn., in December, by S. H. Troman- ing the work of that department, that ing will be done which in the opinion of the and under hauser of Minneapolis. It has a capacity of 25,000 the new arrangement, the situation may easily be railroad managers will now or eventually injure bushels and is entirely of fire proof tile construc- worse than under the old. the farm interests." May we remind you that early in 1902 the grain tion. committee asked the Board to adopt a set of regu- The elevator's dimensions are 31x33 ft. and 58 ft. GRAIN INSPECTION AT COLUM- BUS, OHIO.

The members of the grain trade of Columbus who are also members of the Board of Trade of ihat city have protested against tne attitude of that body toward the inspection and weighing of grain at Columbus, said protest taking the form of the resignation of the grain committee on January 14. The grain committee of the Board had been trying for two years, more or less, to get the Board to reform the system in vogue in Columbus, and lately asked the board of directors to adopt certain recommendations by the committee representing the trade, regarding the inspection and weighing of grain. Whereupon the directors appointed a banker, a dry goods merchant and a coal operator (personally unobjectionable men all, but wholly unacquainted with the grain business) to investigate and report on the recommendation of the grain committee. Said recommendations were as follows: First-;—At the next regular meeting of the board of directors, there shall be appointed, on recommendation of the grain committee, a chief inspector and weigher of grain, who shall serve until his successor is chosen and qualified; and at the regular meeting of the board of directors in May of each year thereafter, a chief inspector and weigher of grain shall be appointed, who shall serve for one year, or until his successor is elected and qualified. Such officer shall have power to appoint as many deputies as may be necessary to properly attend to the work of the department; all such appointments shall be subject to the approval of the grain committee and board of directors. Second—Before entering upon his duties the chief inspector ahall give bond in the sum of $500.00 and each deputy in the sum of $300.00 for the faithful performance of his duties. Third— It shall be the duty of the chief inspector to supervise and oversee the work of the several deputies, who shall serve under these rules and report promptly any neglect, carelessness or derelic- tion of duty to the chairman of the grain com- nUTI.DINr:S OF THE FARMKRS' ELEVATOR COJIPANY AT RI SHKOIU), illNX. mittee. He shall have power to suspend any deputy for cause and at once report such suspension to the lations similar to those in use in most of the in height. It rests on a concrete foundation with larger markets; this request grain committee. was disregarded and rubble stone walls up to the level of the car floor. grain shall general a double headed, or headless, system was adopted. Fourth—The committee have The tile walls commence on top of the rubble stone charge of the inspection and weighing of grain, It was not long until complaints began to be and are eight inches thick, laid in Mankato cement, hay, and straw, and all inspectors and weighers made of the work done thereunder. . . . Your shall work under their direction. Anyone feeling grain committee then took up the matter again thus giving the strongest possible construction. and recommended practically the same organiza- aggrieved by the inspection or weighing of any The floors and roofs are made of concrete, sup- tion and regulations for the department that had article may appeal first to the chief officer and from netting laid offered the ported on I beams with a web of wire him to the grain committee, and after investiga- been by committee of 1902. in the concrete. The driveway, engine room and tion of the matter, the decision of the committee As noted above, these have been so changed as to shall be final as to grade or weight. destroy their efficiency; furthermore, the appoint- office also are built of tile with cement roof. ment of a chief inspector seems to have been made Fifth —The grain committee shall, previous to the The elevator has twelve bins of about 2,000 bush- for each election of the chief inspector and in violation of the rules just adopted by the Board. time els' capacity each. The overhead bins are all hopper- weigher, recommend to the board of directors some In the view of the above facts, and the entire dis- suitable person for such position, and in case of the regard of the recommendations of the grain com- bottomed. suspension of any deputy they shall investigate the mittee, which :'s composed wholly of men who have The machinery equipment consists of two stands been actively engaged in the grain trade in Colum- matter promptly and report their findings with of elevator legs with capacity of 1,500 bushels an recommendation to the Board for action. bus for more than twenty years, and who might hour each, one Special Cleaning Machine from the Sixth—All inspections shall be made and grades be supposed to know something of the proper Savage Love determined in accordance with the rules adopted by arrangements for such a department to secure Huntley ^Manufacturing Company, a & the Board of Trade and such standard samples as accurate results, and the further fact that your Dump and Fairbanks Scales and Engine. may be arranged from time to time by the grain action, in our judgment, places tne department in committee. a condition that will not commend itself to the grain trade, we, the undersigned, therefore, believ- The Grain Dealers' Association of Oklahoma Ter- These rules the committee composed of the ing that a grain committee is a useless appendage ritory report that the territorial elevators have a banker, dry goods man and coal operator amended to the Board of Trade, hereby tender our resigna- total storage capacity of 3,253,000 bushels. in various ways, inserting, in section one, after the tions as members of such grain committee, to take words "on recommendation of the grain committee," effect at once. The report of the Galveston Grain Committee the words "or some member thereof"; section four The appointment of the chief inspector was espe- shows that during 1903 18,780,856 bushels of wheat was amended to permit a final appeal to the board cially objectionable to the trade, in view of the fact and 4,333,321 bushels of corn were exported through of directors without the formality of an investiga- that, whatever the gentleman's qualifications and that port, a decided increase over the figures for tion; section five was changed as was section one; disposition, the source of all the complaints with 1902. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 415

NASHVILLE IN MOTION. two years he handled produce on that basis, when a lings. A few years later hemp rope was substituted,, reduction in the commission was made; and event- being lighter and cheaper. In the early 60's wire The Nashville Grain Dealers' Association of ually the margin was reduced to 10 per cent. And was introduced and proved more satisfactory. Nashville, Tenn.. held its annual banquet on Janu- in this way was established the pioneer commission In 1855 Mr. Randall wedded Miss Ann Lithgow, ary 22; and among other speakers was W. \V. business of Chicago, which since has grown to such daughter of George and Charlotte Lithgow. Her Hughes, who said: "Nashville needs more elevators. immense proportions. lather died in Chicago about 1849 and her mother Nashville is losing a big grain business which she Mr. Randall continued to carry on operations in found a permanent home with Mrs. Randall until if she had might handle as easily as other cities his old quarters in the Market until it was torn January 30 of the present year, when she passed and storing wheat and the facilities for handling down in 1857, when he removed to the Garrett awa/ peacefully at the advanced age of 88 years, 5 the present capacity is oats. At least three times Block, which occupied the site of Marshall Field & months and 10 days. To our subject and his wife to handle the grain properly." needed Co.'s present store. Chicago was then becoming a have been born eleven children, eight of whom are was a true prophet, for only about a Mr. Hughes commercial center, but bore little resemblance to now living. The family has a pleasant home at week later the Nashville Warehouse and Elevator the city of to-day. The center of the commission 2624 Calumet Avenue, where hospitality reigns Co. announced that it had decided to build an addi- trade. South Water Street, was improved with a supreme and good cheer abounds. tion to its plant which will double its present ca- lew shaky, wooden elevators, bordering on the In the primary organization of the World's Fair pacity. The elevator has now in use a capacity of river, while on the south side of the street were Association Mr. Randall served on the Finance Com- 300,000 bushels of grain. The new addition will saloons and boarding houses. Some years elapsed mittee until the directors were elected. Fraternally give the elevator a capacity of over 600,000 bushels. before it was transformed into the busy center of he is a Mason, attaining to the Knights Templar About 3,000,000 bushels of grain are handled an- trade it is at the present time. degree as a member of the Apollo Commandery. He nually by this company. Early in the 60's Mr. Randall removed to South is also a member of the Citizen's Association and The elevator is located in the railroad yards in Water Street, being among the first to locate there; holds membership in the Art Institute and Field South Nashville, across several tracks from the big and his business was continued with good success Columbian Museum. He is a pleasant, genial gentle- warehouse of the company, and connected with it until the great fire of October 9, 1871. Undeterred man, who, through the long years of his residence. by a tunnel. The addition will be built on one side of the present elevator, and will form a part of it. It will contain 200 bins, with a capacity of from 1,500 to 5,000 bushels each. It will be built of crib- bing, and will be iron clad. Modern machinery for handling grain will be installed. The addition will measure 160 by 80 feet, and will cost about $40,000. With the improvements which are planned the work on the elevator and warehouses will cost $50,000. The Nashville Warehouse and Elevator Co. operates a public elevator. It does no business of its own in grain, never buying or selling a bushel, but handles for grain dealers, making its profits from storage charges, delivering to the owner the identical grain stored by him. The Nashville Warehouse and Elevator Co, which was established in 1875, is capitalized at $150,000. Its officers are: Edgar Jones, president; Samuel J. Keith, vice-president; Chas. Rouzer, secretary and treasurer, and C. A. Harrison, superintendent.

THOS. D. RANDALL.

Probably no man is more familiar with the commercial history of Chicago curing the last half cen- tury than Thos. D. Randall, head of the commission firm of T. D. Randall & Co. The business he established has passed through financial panics and fire, and yet it has steadily grown until to-day it is one of the most extensive in the West. Mr. Randall's history is largely that of the development of the commission business in Chicago, where he began operations in this line in 1852. THO.M.X.S 1). KA^'UALL, CHICAGO. Mr. Randall was born on August 14, 1834, near Providence, Rhode Island, and is a son of Richard by his loss in that great disaster, he resumed busi- has made hosts of warm friends. He finds in travel and Betsy (Wilcox) Randall. His father was born ness in temporary quarters at Twenty-second and a source of recreation and pleasure; and his busi- in the town ot Cranston, in the same state, on State Streets, where he remained until the follow- ness trips have made him particularly familiar with

January 9, 1802. He was a machinist by trade, and ing spring, after which he spent about a year on his own country. He has visited every fruit- died in Chicago in 1878. His mother was born in Michigan Avenue, south of Hubbard Court, and the growing and produce-shipping locality of note in

the town of West Greenwich, R. I., in 1811 and died next spring removed to 118 South Water Street. the United States and has also made tours through in her native state in 1848. The Randalls were About 1875 dissatisfaction was expressed among portions of South America and Mexico. His trade among the first settlers of New England. commission merchants in that locality that the extends over all parts of the country. As the Thomas spent his early days in the East, but fail- rents charged were too exorbitant; accordingly founder of what has become one of the most im- ing health caused him to come West in 1850. He about twenty-five removed to Jackson Street, near portant lines of business in the West, he deserves stopped at Chicago, then a small town, and one Fifth Avenue, Mr. Randall among the rest. Al- special credit. His success has been the result of not altogether prepossessing; and during his few though he did a good business there, the location honest, persistent effort in the lines of honorable months' stay he came to the conclusion that he did was not as advantageous as the other, and he re- and manly dealings; his aims have been to attain not wish to make Chicago his future home and returned to South Water Street, where he continued the best; and he has carried forward to successful turned to Rhode Island. His taste of Western life, until May 1 last year, when T. D. Randall & Co. completion whatever he has undertaken. His life however, with its freedom, enterprise and pro- turned the fruit and produce business over to Mr. has been marked by a steady growth and now he is gressiveness, unfitted him for a residence in his Randall's son, George W. Randall, and that busi- in possession of an ample competence, and, more native state, and in 1851 he returned to Chicago ness is now running under the firm of G. W. than all, has that contentment that comes from a and engaged in the cigar business. The following Randall & Co. at 219 South Water Street. The hay, (•onsciousni=>ss of having lived for a good purpose. year he did the first commission business transacted grain and flour department meantime had grown to

in the city; and disposing of his cigar store, he such large proportions that it necessitated a change Baxter of New York and Atlanta, with two hun- embarked in the produce business in the old State of quarters and Mr. Randall removed to 92 Board dred branches, according to Chicago papers, failed Street Market, a structure that stood in the middle of Trade Building, where the firm of T. D. Randall lest Saturday. January 30. Cotton hit him hard. of State Street between Randolph and Lake Streets. & Co. has a large, light, well equipped office. Big advances on grain or stocks would hit many His first business transaction on commission was It may prove interesting to state that the first others the same way, if the sucker patrons would the following: A farmer came in from Kankakee hay sold in Chicago came in on wagons, was sold close their deals and take their profits. One Chi- with a load of fruit and produce, and not wishing by the load and not usually weighed. About 1857 cago paper of Sunday, January 31. had a big ad- to spend his time in peddling it about the streets they begun to ship baled hay in car lots. The vertisement of the bucket-shop which quit here the he agreed with Mr. Randall for the latter to handle bales were large, weighing from 400 to 500 pounds other day when two plungers hit them for a few his load for 25 per cent of the gross sales. For each, and were bound with hickory and oak sap- thousand.—C. A. King & Co., Toledo, February 1. 416 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

McCIiTJRE & CO. Only last week a traveling freight agent advised per mile has decreased and yet rates are advanced me that there was no question but that the railroad and demurrage on a car is still one dollar per day, McClure & Co. of Mt. Auburn, 111., operate two companies are liable for damages to a shipper at although the car may contain twice or three times houses, one at Mt. Auburn and the other at Os- any interior non-competitive point, who had not as much as formerly, and consequently require more bornville. The Mt. Auburn plant, shown In the been furnished with cars if he could show that the time to unload. And then think, gentlemen, in view accompanying engraving, consists of an elevator railroad companies had furnished cars at "competi- of the condition of the railroads, of a charge of $1 having five dumps and a capacity of 10,000 bushels tive points. I made this statement a year ago and per day demurrage, or over $300 per year and on with tight bins for shelled corn and oats, and bins now reiterate it. A number of legal authorities any kind of a car—flat, gondola, box or stock car. for shelled corn; also a storage crib, on the right can be cited if desired. There is no question as to A revenue of over 50 per cent on the investment of the picture, for ear corn, which is connected relief in this direction if it is gone after. without the expenditure of 5 cents for axle grease with the elevator proper by a belt conveyor. This It is held by the best authorities that when a or motive power. Will it be possible to find a legis- crib has storage for 25,000 bushels. railroad company has delivered its car of freight lator who will turn a deaf ear to our next appeal Both the elevator and the storage crib are run at destination the responsibility as a common car- or a governor who will veto their findings? by a 22-horsepower Fairbanks Gasoline Engine. rier ceases; and the car service association was I have before me the decisions of the higher The Osbornville house has 15,000 bushels' capacity formed. And while it is organized, and to all out- courts on the questions before us and would be and is managed by G. E. Whaley. This house is ward purposes is separate from the railroad com- glad to have them read to you or by you if time operated by steam power. panies, it nevertheless eats and sleeps in the same will permit. house; and when it gets into trouble, its cause is There is no question as to the right of state rail- RAILROAD SITUATION IN INDI- immediately taken up and protected by the local road commissioners to compel the building of such ANA. freight agent. Some lines in our state have their switches, and the interchange of business. The own car service department, which controls all sta- case of the railroad commissioners of Minnesota [A Report of the Legislative Committee of the Indiana tions at non-competitive points, and does not even was taken to United States Supreme Court, and the Grain Dealers' Association, prepared and read by C. S. report to the Indianapolis head. orders of the commission were upheld, although the Bash of Fort Wayne, and adopted by the Association As I said a year ago, the discrimination as to railroads showed that a large amount of the busi- on January 6, 1904.] the furnishing of cars, demurrage rules, unjust ness was inter-state—between Minnesota and Iowa; A year ago I was inveigled into giving you a ten- rates and all local troubles with the railroad com- and yet we have in this fair state of Indiana yes, minute talk on railroad discrimination in furnish- — lyanies, cannot be reached by the Interstate Com- the fairest in the United States, men who say we ing cars, demurrage rules and rates. The result — merce Commission. They have so advised us, and don't need a railroad commission, who, in the face was I was made chairman of the committee on legislation and am here to report.

I can say that Mr. Combs and Mr. Goodrich, my companions in misery, acted nobly, did their duty and are entitled to your heartfelt sympathy and thanks. On account of the illness of one of our friends in the senate, and the enormous amount of information necessary to determine our action, we were unable to get our bill drawn until over two- thirds of the session of our legislature had elapsed. It was apparent then that we could not hope for relief at that session; but your committee were having such opposition from the railroad interests of the state that they deemed it best to go ahead and pave the way for the next committee, who, we believe, will have less opposition. A full report of our efforts was made and published; and if you have not a copy, you should get one at once of the secretary. Many things that occurred were necessarily left out of the report, as the Association could not have raised money enough to have printed all that tran- spired; and the membership would never have gotten time to read it if printed. ;LK\ ATOl! AND .STOKAl,!-; (.lUl! OF M t'l.L Kli & CO., MT. AUBURN, ILL. To be brief, the greatest lobby of railroad attorneys ever assembled in this state for the pur- have furthermore said that these matters could of the fact that thirty of our sister states have each pose of fighting a bill met in Indianapolis the latter only be reached by the state legislatures. It is your a railroad commission, still say we should go along part of February and was continuously in session only relief; and the sooner you appreciate this the in the old ways. until the close of the session. What influence these better for the interests of the entire state of In- I ask you, gentlemen, whether this state, with the gentlemen had, with the powerful backing behind diana. largest variety of interests of any state in the them, can better be imagined than stated. Our There is no class of people in the state so vitally Union, with the most progressive and the most in- worthy senators and representatives were treated interested in this legislation as the farmer or pro- telligent people in this Union, is not entitled to a with the utmost solicitude as to their health and ducer. Let him once understand the importance of railroad commission that will conserve the interests welfare; and between baths and winter resorts, this legislation to himself, and the problem will be of the people as well as those of the railroad com- railroad passes and the burning of matches, break- solved. Every shipper knows that the price he pays panies? Railroad companies are but public ser- ing of straws and the tangible influences which were for grain or any produce is invariably determined vants. They are the creatures pure and simple of their brought to bear where it was found possible to be- by deducting the freight and other railroad charges the people whom they serve. The value of stow them acceptably, your very worthy commit- from the destination prices. Let this be once thor- franchises and vested rights increases as the peo- tee were lost and forgotten. Your committee have oughly settled in the producer's mind and our army ple increase along the same and just in proportion not spent one dollar in this work outside of the will need no more recruits. to the patronage bestowed upon them by the people, to employment of attorneys to draft the bill and look Bills for reciprocal demurrage will be introduced the fruits of whose labor they reap. It is unfair or after its passage. They return to you with clean in nearly every state legislature in the Union next class them along with private merchandizing hands, without a stain or taint on their garments. year. We should not be behind. In many of the manufacturing, and the courts have so decided. Now, gentlemen, is the time to prepare for 1905. large cities they now have what is known as aver- Recall, if you will, a few years ago when the rail- Commence to get ready now, and keep getting ready age demurrage. This is reciprocal as to time cred- road companies vied with each other for your busi- and and readier every minute, until the tap of the bell its or debits in loading or unloading of cars; and ness; when agent after agent called upon you furnished for the next race in 1905. First, we want a gover- as I am advised, it is satisfactory to the shippers solicited your trade; when cars were nor in sympathy with our cause; next, an attorney- but not so much so to the railroad companies. It promptly and your shipments were traced and hur- general; next, the lieutenant-governor and speaker, puts a premium on promptness in the handling of ried and you were thanked for the business given; the general and last, but not least, the membership of both cars by the shipper and serves as an impulse in when demurrage was unknown and houses. Every member of this Association should that direction. We have asked for it at Ft. Wayne, managers were all on the hunt for the best solicit- then make this his 'business for the next twelve months. but are still waiting to get it. ing agents to be found in the country; and haven't time to He should interest every farmer in his district. The Interstate Commerce Commission report think of the present. The agents having a meet- Every shipper and merchant, whatever his line, shows $34,000,000 increase in the net earnings of come and see you now—they are just should be awakened. The standing of our members the railroads of this country in 1903 over last year ing this afternoon! should be found out at once, and where informa- (1902); dividends $10,000,000 more; and the sur- Commercial Distillery at Terre Haute, tion is wanted, so that our position should be thor- prising showing is made of an increase of fifty per The New by Cincin- oughly understood, the same should be asked for cent in both net and gross earnings this year (1903) representing an investment of $400,000 Louisville capitalists, has begun operations, from our secretary and he will see that it is prompt- over 1897. The size of the cars has wonderfully nati and bushels of cor., a day. ly furnished. increased. The cost of carrying freight per ton grinding 2,200 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 417

WILLIAM M. HERB. President Hunter appointed the following com- received by farmers would be increased by fifty mittees: cents per ton. This would mean a very large sum of money, compared with which the cost of inspec- firm Herb Bros. Martin, Entertainment W. W. Pollock, Mexico, Mo.; J. Wm. M. Herb of the of & — tion would be a mere bagatelle. What is true of hay dealers in grain, hay and feed, Pittsburg, Pa., was B. Hurt, Armstrong, Mo.; E. H. Algermissen, Mont- would also be true, to a certain extent, with grain, beans and seeds. The legislation suggested by the born in Dubuque, Iowa, in 1864, moving to Pitts- gomery City; R. W. Pearson, Laddonia. bill provides that the inspection shall be self-sup- the grain business in Ti'ansportation—M. McFarlin, Des Moines, la.; burg in 18(!9. He started in porting and not an increased tax upon the state at J. H. Wayland, Salisbury, Mo.; W. S. Hathaway, 1884. and has been actively engaged in it ever large. Mexico, Mo. "In other words, have no inspection worthy since, devoting to it his entire time, and stands we Program and Invitation—G. A. Stibbens, Chi- the name; our products are going out subject to the in the trade. was one of the promoters of wen He notion, whim or caprice of the receiver at destina- cago; .1. W. Ilill, Des Moines; S. T. Marshall, St. the Allegheny County Retail Grain Dealers' Asso- tion; and it is costing the producers thousands of Louis; L. F. Cobb, Odessa, Mo. ciation and is its vice-president. dollars. It is proposed to spend a small propor- The following people were present at this meet- tion of this amount for inspection and save the Mr. Herb is also a director in State Bank of ing: Thos. Collins, Madison, Mc; S. Megown & Son, balance. In addition to this the dealer will be saved Renick; Harry Plattner, Salisbury; Geo. W. Crump, an immense amount of trouble and annoyance by making his trades subject to state inspection and Centralia; O. J. Wooldridge, Boonville; D. B. Sailor, attaching to his drafts state certificates." Montgomery City; C. L. Wright, St. Louis; S. T. Mr. Rowe moved the appointment of a commit- Marshall, St. Louis; S. J. Leach, Salisbury; Geo. tee of three to draft a bill to be presented to the C. Martin, Jr., St. Louis; J. H. Miller, High Hill; legislature at its next meeting. E. H. Algermissen, Montgomery City; Jno. H. Way- The motion prevailed and the president appointed land, Salisbury; Wm. McMahill, Shenandoah, la.; on the committee W. N. Rowe, of Grand Rapids; W. W. Pollock, Mexico, Mo.; R. W. Pearson, Lad- Harry E. Hooker of Lansing, secretary of the State donia; Jas. Sandbothe, Martinsburg; A. F. Owen, Millers' Association, and Robert Henkel of Detroit. Brunswick; J. L. Gwynn, Shenandoah, la.; E. Picker, St. Louis; D. Hunter, Hamburg, la.; G. A. C. B. RILEY. Stibbens. Chicago; L. F. Cobb, Odessa, Mo.; Mr. Hurd, Armstrong; L. B. Wilcox, Moberly; M. Mc- C. B. Riley, who has just been elected secretary of Farlin and J. W. Hill, Des Moines. the Indiana Grain Dealers' Association to succeed S. B. Sampson, has been engaged in the grain busi- t^EDALIA MEETING. ness in Indiana almosi continuously since 1877. The meeting of the Grain Dealers' Union held at From that year until 1881 he was in business in Sedalia. on Jan. 22, 1904, was called to order by Decatur County, from which he removed to Rush President Hunter at 2 o'clock p. m. County, where he has been in the business since, Matters of general interest were thoroughly dis- with the exception of a brief interval spent in the cussed, and those present were very favorable West. I Hill towards attending a Mexico meeting, and agreed Since 1900 Mr. Riley has been associated in busi- to talk it up with their competitors with a view to ness with A. C. Brown of Rushville, the firm name having a large attendance. The following were present: E. Picker, St. Louis; S. J. Dudley, Knobnoster; R. C. Frerkind, Alma;

S. L. Risser, Pleasant Green; 0. J. Wooldridge, WM. M. piTT.snrHc;. v\. Boonville; D. Hunter, Hamburg, la.; J. S. Klingen- A'ice-president Allegheny County rRetail Grain Dealers' berg, Concordia, Mo.; J. W. Shy, La Due; L. F. Association. Cobb, Odessa; R. T. Hunt, Pleasant Hill; S. T. Mar- Pittsburg, and a stockholder in other large financial shall, St. Louis; G. A. Stibbens, Chicago. institutions of that city. The Association he did so much to organize and STATE GRAIN INSPECTION FOR perfect is proving the wisdom of his efforts, and MICHIGAN. with the kind of backing and management it has it can hardly fail of success and great usefulness. The Michigan State Millers* Association, at its annual meeting at Lansing on January 20, appointed a MISSOURI MEETING OF THE committee of three to prepare a bill for a law GRAIN DEALERS' UNION. creating a state grain inspection department. The subject was introduced by Wm. N. Rowe of Grand Rapids, who said: The Grain Dealers' Union held a meeting at Mo- berly, Mo., on Jan. 21, which was called to order "I simply desire to say briefly that I am still a ftrong advocate of the state grain inspection bill in- by President Hunter at 2 o'clock p. m., who made troduced at the last session of our legislature. a brief statement of the objects of the meeting. Possibly it should be amended in some particulars; The following people addressed the meeting on but, on the whole, I believe the bill was carefully drawn. It was published and copies can be had by interesting subjects: J. H. Wayland, Salisbury, application to the secretary of this association. Mo.; M. McFarlin, Des Moines, la.; R. W. Pearson, "At our last annual meeting I read a paper on the Laddonia, Mo.; E. Picker, St. Louis; J. W. Hill, subject of state grain inspection, and do not know of anything to be said upon the subject; but Des Moines, la.; L. F. Cobb, Odessa, Mo.; E. H. new shall be pleased to answer any questions that I Algermisscn, Montgomery; Mr. Sailor, Montgomery am able to answer concerning it. During the past C. IS. lUlEV. City. year the grain dealers of the state have perfected an Serretnry Indiana Grain Dealcr-s' Association. so J. Hill of Des Moines a that organization; and the bill introduced should be W. made motion was Ijeing Riley. elevators at amended as to give them representation and a voice Brown & They operate concurred in, that when the meeting adjourned, it in the selection and recommendation of inspectors. Rushville, Milroy and Sexton and do a satisfactory would do so to meet at some convenient point, on I received a letter from the secretary of the Grain business. Dealers' Association recently, advising me that they or before April 1, and that the President appoint Mr. Riley has been a member of the Indiana were in favor of state inspection if it could be the committees on entertainment, transportation, since its organization, divorced from politics, and asking for a copy of the Grain Dealers' Association program and invitation. bill which we introduced, which was forwarded to and was a member of its first board of managers, On motion of Mr. .7. H. Wayland, a vote of thanks him for examination, with the comment that we to which office he was reelected at the late annual were agreed upon the question of divorcing the was tendered to the Commercial Club, for the use meeting for the three-year term. Subsequently the measure from politics as much as possible. On the for the meeting. deciding to their secretary, of their rooms other hand, it would be necessary for the governor managers, on change

The meeting I hen adjourned to 7 p. m. to ratify the appointment made by our board of elected Mr. Riley to this office. Mr. Riley will con- oflBcers state At the night meeting, on motion of J. W. Hill, control in order to invest the with tinue his business and retain his residence in Rush- authority to use the state seal upon inspection it was decided to hold the next meeting at Mexico, ville, where his wife and their daughters will re- certificates. Mo., at a date to be determined upon later. "It has been argued by opponents of the bill that side; but he will continue the office of the Associa- J. W. Hill also moved that the officers of the the inspection fee would be an unnecessary expense tion at Indianapolis as usual. the real is that organization extend a cordial invitation to all deal- saddled upon the farmers, but fact The Indiana Association is to be congratulated on a lack of uniform, authoritative inspection is cost- ers who might attend the Sedalia meeting, on the securing so able a man as Mr. Riley. His good ing the farmer many times more. For instance, following day, to meet with the Union at Mexico. the hay dealer is unwilling to take the chances of judgment and conservative method:?, united with Carried. inspection at destination unless he has a large mar- long, practical business experience in grain, will gin on, nor can he afford to. Michigan to- On motion of Mr. Hill it was decided to tender to work make him an invaluable official undoubtedly. day ships more hay than any other state in the invitation to Prof. Waters, Dean of Agriculture an Union—approximately a million tons per annum. flour have been of Columbia, Mo., to address the Mexico meeting on With a well organized inspection department, one Austrian granulated rice and rice the subject of "Corn Breeding." can very safely predict that the average price now imported by New York and Philadelphia for feed. —

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THE SONG OF THE WHEAT. is 15,000 bushels. In this elevator we recently put carried on as before. The Coffee Future Depart- a chop mill. ment, so auspiciously inaugurated in November last, "Brothers. Brothers, 'tis dark down here— )urs sincerely, is to be continued unchanged. A Grain Future De- feel the sun," Brothers, Brothers, O Bad jLxe, Mich. BAD AXE GRAIN CO. partment will be opened within the next thirty Whispers the wheat beneath our feet, days; In the glow of life begun. also a Department for the Supervision over 'ATOR8 GOVERK9IEKT INSPECTION. Weights of Grain. "Brothers, Brothers, the light is good- The wonderful development of the commercial Brothers, Brothers, my sap runs strong," 'ditor American Elevator and Grain Trade:—^We Murmurs each blade by the warm wind swayed, life of the city of New Orleans acted as a stimulus 'ie in receipt of your esteemed favor of the 2nd, song. In an endless whispering for both organizations to put md note contents very carefully and fully; and forward their united efforts to promote and advance the interests our "Brothers, Brothers, I'm fair and strong- would state that we are pleased to give you our of Brothers, Brothers, I'm crowned with gold," city, and we sincerely trust that all opinion regards advisability of placing the our friends in Whispers the wheat with its task complete. as the lines of business shipping their commodities into And the tale of its labors told. inspection department under government control and through this city will aid and assist with a view of placing the grain on a uniform grade us in our "Brothers, Brothers, the earth was dark; efforts for the good and welfare of the city of New Brothers, the world is fair in the different markets in the country. We cannot Brothers, '

Orleans. . But we struggled on and we gained a crown/ endorse this prospective action too strongly, and Which each of us may wear." /Tours very truly, believe that Congress should take speedy action in FRED MULLER, —Elmer Brown Mason in the Reader. Nejr Orleans, La. Secretary. this matter for the good of the different interests in the grain trade; and anything that you can nCJETETIN*^ Of NATIONAL II AV ASSOCIATION. do in the way of interesting the handlers of grain /Editor American Elevator and Grade Trade: We in the different markets will certainly be appreci- beg to inform you that after careful consideration ated by those who have the best interests of the we have selected the Forest Park University Hotel trade at heart. as the offieial headquarters for our eleventh annual Yours truly, MONTAGUE & COMPANY.^ convention which is to be held in St. Louis on June [We invite correspondence from everyone in any way Chicago, 111. interested in the grain trade on all topics connected 14, 15 and 16 next. As the convention is to be held see general exchange of opin- therewith. We wish to a PR09IISINO CAREER RUINED. in the World's Fair City, it was thought advisable ion on all subjects which pertain to the interest of the trade at large, or any branch of it.] Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade: M. to select a hotel and assembly room near the B. Lytle, formerly agent of the Des Moires Ele- World's Fair grounds. The above hotel is situated IT, CAX'T DO YOU KKOW. vator Company at Wiota, la., is one more man within 500 feet of the southeast entrance to the Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade: En- added to the list who have gone wrong. Mr. Lytle grounds, is of brick and stone, and thoroughly closed find on? dollar; please send me the "Amer- was a single man of pleasing address and apparent- fire-proof. The convention hall, while not large, ican Elevator and Grain Trade." Thought I could ly exemplary habits, and seemed possessed with will, we believe, be ample to meet our requirements. get along and do business without it, but find it a considerable ability as grain buyer. He commenced We trust now that this matter has been settled, very pleasant companion to have about. working for the Des Moines Elevator Company we will all begin making arrangements to attend corn to the seaboard We are shipping most of our about October 1, 1902, and at the end of the season the convention and the World's Fair, which prom- and every car has graded nicely. No trouble to get his accounts checked out all right and were found ises to be the greatest exposition the world has ever cars when wanted. to be correct. seen. We would advise those intending to go to is doing well The growing wheat About November 1, 1903, the company decided to write to the hotel management at an early date and Yours truly, GEO. W. TOPPING, bond their men, and Mr. Lytle, being unable to have their rooms reserved. However, should you Lyons, Ind. Lyons Mill and Elevator Co. furnish bond, was asked to resign. On shipping delay securing a room, there are other hotels near- out his grain at that station it was found to be by that will take care of you. SATISi'IBU. AN ERROH-FAR9I£Rj!« short considerable. It seems that the method he The secretary will gladly answer any inquiries Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade: I used was to issue checks to pay his accounts and and render any assistance within his power. Await- herewith one dollar to pay for the "Amer- hand you fill out his reports to the company that he had ing the pleasure of meeting you in person at the ican Elevator and Grain Trade" for one year. bought so much grain of a party, and in one in- next convention, we are I notice you say, in issue of January 15, that there stance raised the check from $15 to $115 after the Very truly yours, is built at Herscher, 111., a farmers' elevator. being farmer had endorsed it. JOHN L. DEXTER, Pres. You must have been misinformed. There is no He left Wiota about December 6; was arrested at P. E. GOODRICH, Sec'y. farmers' elevator being built there, and, so far as Bozeman, Mont., December 21; was indicted before I know, there never has been any talk of it. I the grand jury on January 6, 1904; plead guilty to WHAT A BANKER THINKS 0¥ IT. farmers perfectly satisfied with the treat- think the forgery January 8, and was sentenced to two years Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade: I dealers. ment they are receiving from the regular at the Ft. Madison penitentiary. enclose a clipping from the "Commercial News" of Yours truly, C. H. RUMLEY. Yours truly, I. C. Sioux Falls, S. D., which I happen to know was Kankakee, 111. Des Moines. written by a banker at Doris, S. D., for the edifica- BV»IIVES8 INCORPOBATBD. tion of the merchants of a neighboring town who NEW ORLEANS BOARD OV TRADE. have bought one of the little red Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade: I loading wagons Grain Trade: have incorporated my grain business for $50,000 Editor American Elevator and We and have begun dabbling in grain and upsetting the pleasure to announce that Monday, Feb. business, been under the name of the Linzee-Goodwin Grain Co., have the as has done so often at other places. the return of the official grain I think and will build a number of new elevators this 1, 1904, witnessed the trade will be interested in the financial Orleans, under the season. inspection of the port of New man's point of view: Orleans Board of Trade, Lim- is Mr. Goodwin will retire from the banking busi- iiuspices of the New "There a town in this state whose merchants the terms of the consolidation agreement are noted for their original, and, it ness and accept the office of secretary and treasurer ited, by to some people the Orleans Maritime and seem, peculiar, of the new company. At present he is cashier of entered into between New would methods of doing business. Exchange, Limited, and this organiza- Its latest claim to public attention has the First National Bank of Clinton, O. T. I will Merchants' been the in this that the retain the management of the business. tion. It is stipulated agreement formation of a corporation by the aforesaid mer- and Merchants' Exchange, Crop prospects are better since the rain of last New Orleans Maritime chants for the purpose of competing with the local week. Limited, shall cease to exist as a separate organiza- elevator companies, and, without any facilities for Yours truly, E. H. LINZEE. tion, but the Board of Trade will maintain and per- the storage of grain, are buying at an even thing Hobart, Okla., Jan. 28. form all the functions heretofore performed by the at such times as receipts are liberal and cars can be former, through the medium of a Maritime Branch, obtained and are loading from a dump. The losses »«TlIiI. IHAHI.\<,} ISIPROVEMEKTI!^. with offices located in the Hibernia Bank & Trust and expenses they figure will be more than rcade up Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade: We Building. by the increased trade they will gain from neigh- have been in business here but about six months All official business of both the Main Department, boring towns and the prompter collections they will but have four large buildings, making, we believe, as well as the Maritime Branch, are now under the make. To a disinterested party this seems like one of the best plants in our line in the state of supervision of the secretary of the corporation, and commercial piracy, in comparison with which the Michigan. We have but recently built an addition under the direction of the President and Board of method of the catalogue houses and peddlers is to one of our elevators, which is 100 feet long and Directors. The affairs of the grain business are virtue itself. 28 feet wide, which is used as a storehouse. On the looked after by a committee on grain, under the "It is conceded that the local elevator is a neces- second floor we have a room 24x28 feet in size, chairmanship of Mr. Lucas E. Moore.. Mr. W. L. sity in every town where the raising of grain is one nicely finished, in which we have 48 young women Richeson, formerly chief grain inspector of the of the leading occupations; and to conduct the hand-picking beans. We have also in our elevator New Orleans Maritime & Merchants' Exchange, business properly and regularly and not be a pirate three roller bean pickers, bean polisher, Fairbanks- l imited, has been appointed chief grain inspector in the business the dealer must be so equipped that Morse 15 h. p. Gasoline Engine, three sets of scales of the Grain Inspection Department. The Cotton every day in the year he can handle and keep sep- and a new Clipper Bean Cleaner. We are using Seed Product Inspection Department is under the arate any of the different kinds of grain offered on this elevator exclusively for handling beans, and its supervision of a committee on cotton seed products, the market. A modern elevator costs its owner capacity is 15,000 bushels. with Mr. E. T. George as chairman. Mr. J. J. $4,000, and he must pay a man to operate it $600 The capacity of our other elevator for handling Drawe remains the chief inspector of the Inspection per annum. Figuring salary, interest, taxes, Insur- grain, such as wheat, corn, oats, barley, peas, etc.. Department. The Cotton Isnpection Department is ance and other expenses, it will be seen that to I

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make both ends meet he must make off his plant of. But, with the state in control of putting stamp- punishment by imprisonment or fine, thereby prac- at least $1,000 per year. ing values upj3n wheat, corn, rye, oats and barley tically repealing the penalties for cutting transpor- "Therefore, any combination or individual that by grown in the states of Illinois, Indiana, Wisconsin, tation rates, by rebates or other devices now pro- irregular and unbusinesslike methods deprives a Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Ne- vided for in the Interstate Commerce Act and the legitimate and necessary branch of business of this braska and the Dakotas, we find great discrepancies Elkins amendment thereto and which are under- just profit deserves a place in the estimation of fair- in the judgment of those who are appointed by stood to be successfully operating to prevent secret minded people with the catalogue houses, peddlers, the government and backed by its appointees, the unjust discriminations in railway charges. etc., whose business it is to prey upon the legiti- chief inspector and supervising inspector. While ordinarily the mere proposal of a bill In mate trade of the country. We are confronted daily with car lots coming Congress has little significance, the introduction "Suppose the grain buyers at some station would to our market for sale on our Board of Trade, that of a measure having, as this has, such far reaching conclude that the sale of groceries for cost or less, on one railroad will inspect a full grade higher effect upon public and private interests and coming at that point, would increase their grain receipts to than on other railroads, often too high, and, on so soon after the argument in the Northern Securi- such an extent as to pay them to bring in a car- other roads, too low; and we have been unable to ties case in the Supreme Court, indicates a serious load or two and distribute it among the customers find any way to get rid of incompetent or dishon- purpose originating in powerful quarters. of the local merchants.—what a howl of indignation est inspectors. When complained of and asked why I beg to remain. ^\ould go up all over the state, what boycotts would they do not get rid of such men, have been told Very truly yours, JOHN B. DAISH. be inaugurated, and legislation sought to prevent a by the supervising inspector that they had not the Claim Agent, National Hay Association. continuance of such practices; and yet the principle power. Washington, D. C. involved in either case is the same. Now add all other states, with their favorite ap- "Judging from the experiences of the past, this pointees; also give the heads of departments at KATIOIVAL BOAKI> OF TRADE. new combination against the local grain men will Washington power to add a few,—while we could [At the request of the editor a delegate to the National Board of Trade who was prominent in be of few days and full of trouble; and when the not be hurt much by it, as the situation with us its sessions sends us the following brief report of the controversy has finished its inning I should be sorry to see it other side of could not be worse, en- the proceedings from a grain dealer's standpoint:] the merchants will find they have a well-developed forced upon states that now allow business organ- Editor American Elevator and Orain Trade:—At shortage on the deal charged up to experience." izations who handle the grain to dictate who shall the meeting of the National Board of Trade at Yours truly, A READER. pass upon its quality and are able, when abuses Washington, on the 19th to the 21st of January in- creep into their inspection departments, to correct A QUERV AK1> AKSWEB. clusive, the grain and hay trades of the country them by a change. Editor Americctn Orain and Elevator I'rade:—We were represented very extensively by committees In Illinois the appointments are purely political. would like to have your opinion as to who is re- from their own oragnizations, as well as members The officers or receivers of the Board of Trade, who sponsible for loss and damage to goods that are sold from different trade bodies that are interested in handle 350 millions of grain during the year, have delivered at destination For instance: We buy the grain and hay business. no voice or influence (unless it may be some heavy fiour or other package goods in Illinois, Tennessee Among the representatives were H. S. Grimes, dealers) as to the grading, or stamping the inspec- or some other state, at a certain price delivered in president, and John W. Snyder, vice-president of tion, of one bushel, although they are convinced it New Orleans, parties shipping making invoice on us the Grain Dealers' National Association, Chicago, is wrong. for the price we agree to pay delivered at New Or- 111.; Chas. England of the firm of Chas. England If the McCumber Bill becomes a law, I believe leans, deducting the freight charges from their in- & Co., Baltimore, Md.; John B. Daish of Washing- it will not be long before the receivers of grain on voice, whicii they request us to pay. In most cases ton; Geo. S. Bridge, Harry W. Slaughter, W. H. our Board of Trade will refuse to allow their grain where goods, upon cars being opened here, are Chadwick and Richard Lyon, of Chicago; John L. inspected in this market and sell it upon its quality found to have been damaged, either on account of Dexter, president of the National Hay Association, and merit. Large quantities are now sold on their being badly loaded or lor some other reason, the Detroit, Uyah.; W. M. Bell of Milwaukee, Wis.; merits and not by inspection, especially barley and shippers have entertained our claim and paid same, Chas. BVMurray, superintendent of Chamber of oats, but we have to pay the State Inspection Depart- merely requesting us to furnish them with proof Commeixe, Cincinnati, Ohio, and quite a number of ment just the same. However, if ordered not to of the damage; but some shippers claim that when Eastern grain men. inspect, we would not have that added expense to they deliver to the railroad companies a shipment will be seen by the above that the representa- our business. This measure is being strongly con- and get from them signed B-L for the goods in i^on in the grain and hay line was most excellent, sidered at the present time. good condition, their liability ceases and that the and every effort was put forward by the gentlemen Respectfully ISRAEL P. RUMSEY. / fact of our paying the freight brings the price back named to bring before the convention the necessi- Chicago, 111. to the shipping point basis and not at destination, / ties that are required to further the interests of although the goods were bought delivered at desti- EFFECT OF THE FOBAKEB BILL. / the grain and hay shipper. r.ation. We shall be very pleased to hear from you Editor American Elevator and Orain Trade:—On Prominent among the subjects that were before on this, as we consider that a firm selling goods behalf of the National Hay Association I cjuled your the convention was the report of the committee on delivered in New Orleans are responsible for the attention to Senate Bill No. 3937, introduced Janu- better crop reports from the Agricultural Bureau. goods arriving there in good condition, no matter ary 29, by Senator Foraker, and referred to the Embodied in this report was a statement made by whether they prepay the freight or deduct it from Committee on Interstate Commerce, as follows: the committee that the interested parties expected iheir invoice and party in New Orleans pays it. A bill to relieve foreign commerce and acts and too much of the government in regard to the ac- Respectfully, contracts in reasonable restraint of trade and com- curacy of its reports. B. F. GLOVER & SON COM. CO. merce among the several States from the provisions After reading the report Mr. Grimes, president of the Act to regulate commerce, approved February New Orleans. of the Grain Dealers' National Association, took fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and the AxswEB.—You are right in your contention that a Act to protect trade and commerce against unlaw- exceptions to that part of it, stating there was no firm selling goods delivered in New Orleans is re- ful restraints and monopolies, approved July sec- occasion for the government's not complying with spon^ble for the same arriving there in good condi- ond, eighteen hundred and ninety. the expectations of the interested parties, no mat- Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Repre- t:on(' no matter whether the freight is prepaid or ter what their expectations were, as it is the gen- sentatives of the United States of America in Con- de^lucted from the invoice paid is and by the receiver gress assembled, That nothing in the Act to regu- eral impression that what the government does a/ destination. — [Enixoii. late commerce approved February fourth, eighteen done v/ell, which has been verified in most every- hundred and eightj'-seven, or in the Act to protect thing it nas undertaken; and why should we ex- trade and commerce against unlawful restraints ^'HV THE M'CrSIBRR BILL, KHOULU NOT pect less on a subject that is of such vital impor- BECOME LAW. and monopolies, approved July second, eighteen hundred and ninety, or in any Act amendatory of tance as crop reports than what we would get from Editor A.merican Elevator and Grain Trade:— either of said Acts, shall hereafter apply to foreign any other bureau in the department? Of all the am in receipt of your letter of February 1, asking commerce or shall prohibit any act or any contract bureaus in the department, the Agricultural Bureau views as to the effect of the in restraint of trade or commerce among the sev- my McCumber Bill, of Statistics is one that should not attempt to report eral States, provided that such restraint be reason- now before Congress, the purpose of which is to anything that is not able, or shall hereafter authorize imprisonment or accurate. This was about lae place the inspection of grain under government man- foreiture of property as punishment for any viola- line of the exceptions taken by Mr. Grimes, which agement. tion of such Acta, except for perjury or contempt of seemed to be very well received by the gentlemen I firmly believe it would be a great mistake for court. present. many reasons: It is impracticable; it would be a The effect of this bill if it become a law will be: Quite a number of other matters were brought menace to the rightful handling of the farmers' 1. To exempt all import and export shipments, before the National Board in the interest of the products, and it is putting the grading of grain transportation or averments from the Interstate grain trade of the country, the most important one farther away from the farmer, the shipper and the Commerce Act and the Anti-Trust Act. being the report of the committee on the McCum- handler of the grain and, therefore, from the judges 2. To make all violations of the Anti-Trust Act ber Bill, the committee reporting almost unani- of its value. As inspection stamps the value to a or of the anti-railway pooling provision of the In- mously against it. great extent, the nearer you can get the grading of terstate Commerce Act depend upon whether the The McCumber Bill, as is well known, anticipates grain to the buyer and seller, the nearer will you court shall determine that the combination or pool the placing of all grading of grain in charge of get and keep to right inspection, for they will cor- operates unreasonably in restraint of trade; where- the Department of Agriculture. The report of the rect each other; and, where there are inspectors as at present the combination or pool is absolutely committee was unanimous with the exception of incompetent, or those who are susceptible to undue forbidden by these statutes. the member from Chicago, and his report was influences, either from the buyer or seller, they 3. To exempt all violators of either the Inter- brought In as a minority report, not particularly in will be called down, and, if necessary, gotten rid state Commerce Act or the Anti-Trust Act from favor of the McCumber Bill but in favor of any- —

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thing that would relieve Chicago of its present was hardly one of them who showed any signs of authority with him instead of trying to run the method of grading. The report of the committee future greatness. All of them did not become fa- house, as some of the building operations seem to condemning the McCumber Bill was carried with mous, but some of their names are now household have been managed—by "town meeting." the exception of two votes in the whole convention. v.ords." So you can see it was generally conceded that the THE McCUMBER BILL AT FARGO. grain interests would be better served by having JEREMIAH NEHIN. The last day of the convention of the their own inspectors from the different departments Tri-State selected to be Grain and Stock Growers' of commerce than in any other manner that could Jeremiah Nehin, who has been Association at Fargo, January 22, was distinguished be adopted. Such was tne opinion, anyhow, of all superintendent of the new elevator to be operated by the rejection of a report of a special committee on the present at the meeting. From inside information by the Montreal Harbor Commissioners, is a man McCumber its Bill and subsequent approval of the bill the received we feel safe in saying the McCumber Bill who knows the elevator business in every phase, by con- Buffalo, vention by a large majority. will be a thing of the past, as it has received so as well as a man of extensive experience at The report, prepared by E. D. Childs of many black eyes from all sections that no doubt one of the most important grain terminals in the Fargo, world. Buffalo, as N. D.; D. L. Wellman of Frazee, Minn., and J. P. it will never be pushed. Although born in he was taken Ranee of Webster, N. D., agreed The agitation in the past two or three years for a small boy by his parents to live on a farm in was to by the entire committee and was as follows: better government crop reports is largely tending Cattaraugus County, where he spent several years, toward bringing about that long-felt want; and the getting acquainted with grain au ymturel. Then, Your committee to whom was reported Senate File 199, entitled, Bill to government is beginning to realize that we must while still a boy, in 1866, he returned to Buffalo and "A provide for fixing a uniform standard of classifications and grading oi have accurate reports. Congress will be appealed sought employment as a grain shoveler in a Buffalo wheat, fiax, corn, oats, barley, rye, and other grains elevator, with a particular friend of his father. to to make sufficient appropriations to carry out and for other purposes," and which bill is known the wishes of the country at large in the manner He worked in that capacity for six seasons in the as the McCumber Bill, nave had the same under advisement necessary to secure reports that are comparatively different elevators of Buffalo, when he applied for and beg leave to report as follows: Realizing the deep concern which the agricul- accurate. Yours truly, and received the appointment of weighman at the tural and business interests represented at this DELEGATE. Exchange Elevator. Here he remained for fifteen convention have in the subject matter of this bill, j'ears, and by serving in all capacities about the we have given it our most careful and thoughtful LOUISVILLE PROFITS. consideration. Having had long and painful experience with the present uncertain and unsatis- The grain dealers interested in the Southeastern factory Minnesota inspection, by a board composed of members appointed because of their political pull grain trade going through Louisville as the gate- and not because of their known experience, in- way, have succeeded in restoring the basis of shrink- tegrity and skill in the grain business, we were age in force prior to fifteen months ago. This basis predisposed to favor this bill as a means of taking this matter out of its present control placing it effective February 3, will be 3c per 100 lbs. instead and in more disinterested hands. However, a careful of 2c, the rate in force during the past fifteen study of conditions convinces us^ months. The dealers who were unable to do busi- First, that this is a national measure, applying ness on the 2-cent basis are now expected to re-enter to every grain market in the Union. the trade. Second, that where the conditions differ wideiy in the different markets, what would be helpful in Louisville, however, has protested against the 2- one might be detrimental in another. cent basis since November 1, 1902, at which time, Third, that this bill has been drawn with refer- the lines, not bein,g able to agree on a ba^is, sub- ence to conditions local rather than general. mitted the question to A. N. Faithorn of the Chi- Fourth, that a subject so wide and important in its bearing upon interstate commerce requires for cago & Alton, as arbitrator, who decided that the its determination much more careful investigation 3-cent basis of shrinkage was wisely conceived, and and thought than the author of this bill has evi- was just to the parties concerned. He added, how- dently had time to give to its consideration. ever, that as a remuneration for the privilege which Fifth, that if the present Minnesota inspection laws were so amended as to place all its employes tile shrinkage gave Louisville, the penalty of $5 per under civil service rules; and, further, so as to oar should be paid. The $5 a car was afterward secure the same careful and scientific inspection changed to a penalty of one cent a hundred. In that of all other grains and seeds as is now given to way the basis was reduced to all intents and pur- flax, that most of the evils now complained of would be eliminated. poses one cent a hundred pounds, which is given We confidently believe such scientific inspection back to Louisville by the action of the meeting on of all grains and seeds is entirely practicable and January 30. The claim which Louisville made was can be easily and cheaply obtained if an effort is objected to as a competitive measure by competing made to do so. We, therefore, unanimously recommend that this convention signify its desire that gateways and not on a claim of injustice or dis- JEREMIAH NETII.V, 3[aXTI!E.\L. their honorable and honored senator do not further crimination. press the passage of this bill. We also recommena elevator thereby gained general and valuable ex- that your committee on resolutions be instructed DOLLAR WHEAT. perience in the elevator business. to incorporate in its report a resolution requesting In 1887 he received the appointment of foreman the Minnesota legislature to so amend its inspection laws as to accomplish the reforms suggested Cash wheat hit the dollar mark in Chicago on of the International Elevator, where he remained in this report. We further recommend that this February 3, when the J. Rosenbaum Grain Company for three years. This elevator was more of a car- convention appoint a standing committee whose paid I. N. Co. for 2 red car Ash & $1 No. wheat in receiving house than a marine elevator; and on the duty it should be to report at your next annual lots. basis of the experience gained there, he was ap- meeting a practical plan of inspection on such careful and scientific basis, the same to furnish data Speaking of "dollar wheat," A. B. Smith, a former pointed superintendent of the Kellogg Elevator. from which a bill to meet your views could be member of the Chicago Board, now a Minneapolis In this house he acted as building inspector, from drawn. hotel keeper, said recently to Minneapolis re- a the commencement of the work of laying the founda- If this committee is successful in its efforts, as we porter: tion to the completion of the elevator, and then believe it will be, there will ihen be plenty of time to place your recommendation in specific form "I believe that no one ever received a greater superintended its operation for several years, dur- before the next session of the Minnesota legisla- price for spot wheat than I did in a transaction on last ing the one of which he had complete charge ture to permit action thereon before its adjourn- the Chicago Board of Trade. In the '70s, when of the grain shovelers. ment. speculation was running high, I was working on He resigned from the Kellogg house to accept a The committee then offered the following supple- the floor of the Board and wheat was going up by municipal position, which did not prove congenial mental report: leaps and bounds. The marltet was more than to his taste, whereupon he resigned to take the posi- Resolved, That this the Tri-State Grain Growers' bullish, and at last rose to $1.90 a bushel. I was tion of superintendent of the Export Elevator, Association, at its fifth annual session, does most holding 100,000 bushels for 'Diamond Joe' Reynolds, which was then in the course of construction. This respectfully petition the Minnesota legislature that whose name was once synonymous with wheat. elevator began operations on July 1, 1897. they so amend the state law governing grain inspection as to accomplish the following results: 'Diamond Joe' was holding out, as he believed that His service at the Export Elevator gave a broader First. To eliminate from the inspection service the market would top the $1.90 mark, and I was scope to his experience than any position he had all incompetents and political barnacles. going to sell for him when it reached the $2 mark. theretofore held. Although an elevator with but one Second. Having done so, to place the entire in- "Things were pretty exciting for a while, as there marine leg, he ran into it in the first six months spection force under the civil service rules. Third. To secure for the grading of all other was not overmuch wheat on hand to be delivered. and delivered out of it 24,000,000 bushels of grain, grains and seeds the same careful inspection that Is Finally I sold the entire 100,000 bushels to the Star the greatest record of any one-legged marine house given to flax. and Crescent Mills for $200,000, or at $2 a bushel. in the world in the same length of time. Of this For these reforms your petitioners would ever In a few minutes after the sale was made public, amount of grain about 21,000,000 bushels were pray. prices began tumbling down, and never again has shipped by rail and about 3,000,000 by canal. This Mr. Mayo of Walhalla made a motion that the such a large transaction been recorded for such a position Mr. Nehin recently resigned to accept the reports be adopted. price. position of superintendent of the Harbor Commis- Then the orators got in their work, notably Col. "In those days, the men who are now famous sioners' new elevator at Montreal, Que., where he J. D. Benton of Fargo, who "spread the eagle"; operators on the Board of Trade and in Wall Street will without doubt prove an equally successful man- after which a motion to table the reports was were working along with other clerks, and there ager— if the Commissioners be wise enough to lodge adopted with a roar. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 421

The only business of general interest was the E. P. KNIGHT. control the sale of the grain raised on the farms and to ship it to the markets. Cattle shipped are adoption of the following resolutions: of Few men in the East or West are more generally to be fed by the corporation and to be disposed Resolved, That the members of the Kansas Grain Dealers' Association of Northwestern Kansas, in known to the grain trade than E. P. Knight, Boston by it to the markets. convention assembled, on January 18, 1904, at Atch- representative of the Cleveland Grain Co. of Cleve- The scheme is admitted to be as yet in the em- ison, Kansas, declare their belief that supervision land, Ohio. Beginning his connection with the grain bronic stage. of the inspection of grain by the National Govern- trade as the representative of W. H. Maynard & Co. ment at terminal markets would be detrimental to the grain trade, inasmuch as the same would result of Worcester, Mass., in 1869, he has been continn- WEARE GRAIN COMPANY. in political control; and we, therefore, are opposed- ously engaged in the trade to this hour—about to is known as the McCumber Bill, and re- The directors of the Chicago Board of Trade, on what thirty-four years, quite an exceptional record. spectfully ask the members of congress from this January 13, authorized Secretary Stone to make the Mr. Knight traveled for Maynard & Co. for five district and our United States senators to oppose following announcement respecting the Weare Grain bill. or six years in New England, selling grain, flour the passage of said Company: Resolved, That the members of the Kansas Grain feed; and then was engaged to handle in the and Dealers' Association of Northeastern Kansas, in con- Co., Weare Grain Company is not a member of same territory the business of S. C. Bartlett & The vention assembled, on January 18, 1904, at Atchi- the clearing-house of the Chicago Board of Trade then of Peoria, 111. This arrangement continued son, Kansas, declare their approval of the resolu- and is not authorized to make any trades upon the at close of which Mr. Knight tions [on this subject], passed by the Grain Deal- fo about a year, the floor of the exchange. Furthermore, according to ers' National Association at Minneapolis, Minn., formed a partnership with his old employer, W. H. the statement of P. B. Weare, he is not a stock- Oct. 8, 1903, and be it further officer of the Weare Grain Company Maynard, and operated under the firm name of holder or an Resolved, That the secretary of this Association and that the Weare Grain Company has no officers. Maynard, Knight & Co., this firm taking the Bart- be instructed to mail copies of these resolutions to The announcement was the result of an investiga- the Honorable Chas. Curtis, congressman from this district, and the honorable Senators Burton and tion by the directors and was intended as a warning Long. against the association of the company with the of opinion at this meeting Weare Commission Company, another concern. Sec- It was the consensus proportion of the corn produced retary Stone stated that the Weare Grain Company, that a very small in Northeastern Kansas would grade better than to the best of his knowledge, had committed no No. 4 good weather conditions until the grain particular offense, but that it had been deemed best with is marketed. for the protection of the members and any possible customers to announce that it was not a member of the Board. CHAS. KENNEDY. One problem in the case was to ascertain who Chas. Kennedy, president of the Buffalo Grain owns and operates the company named. A. P. Dealers' Association, is senior member of the firm Blakeslee, who traded for the company, said he was of Charles Kennedy & Co., receivers and shippers of not an officer of it, nor is P. B. Weare, although he grain at Buffalo. is supposed to be behind it. It is an incorporated The Association named is one of the auxiliary company with $50,000 capital, and was started less forces of the Buffalo Chamber of Commerce, whose than a year ago, when P. B. Weare and C. A. Weare were suspended from the Board of Trade on charges of uncommercial conduct, preferred by C. G. Mc- Neill of Sioux City, Iowa. Its first set of officers resigned three months ago, and the offices in the Old Colony building. Van Buren and Dearborn streets, have been given up. The Weare Grain Company of Chicago has transferred all its "private wire" business in Iowa to the Martin & Slack Company of Webster City. The Weare business has been in a bad way for some months, or since the difficulty with McNeil of Sioux

I- . 1". K.MCIIT OF IJOSTOX. City; but early in January its various offices in lett business on a commission basis in connection Iowa, sucli as Boone, Marshalltown, Des Moines, with their other business. etc., closed with a "bang" with many accounts un- In 1882 Mr. Knight disposed of his interests with settled. With the announcement of the sale to Mar- Maynard, Knight & Co. and came to the West, oper- tin & Slack, who have one of the biggest systems in ating at Lafayette, Ind., in connection with S. C. Iowa, notice was passed that all creditors at the Bartlett & Co. as Barlett, Knight & Co., as trade branch offices would be paid in full. buyers and shippers until 1888, when Mr. Knight Similarly in Illinois, when the announcement bought out the interest of S. C. Bartlett & Co. and was made on 'change that the Weare Grain Co. was conducted the business under the firm name of E. legally a fiction, being without offices, and not authorized to do business on the Chicago Board of P. Knight & Co. until 1895. In the meantime, 1893, Trade, the branch houses were closed. he built a large transfer elevator at Lafayette which he sold together with the business itself in 1895. OPPOSE GOVERNMENT INSPEC- After a brief interval spent with Bartlett, Frasier TION. & Co., at Chicago, Mr. Knight returned to Boston CHAS. KKNNEDY, BUl'TAI.O. since then has been handling the New A meeting of members of the Kansas Grain Deal- (1897) and President Buffalo Grain Dealers' Association. England and export business in Boston of the ers" Association located in the vicinity of Atchison, Kans., was held in that city on January 18. work has had a most stimulating effect on the grain Cleveland Grain Co., whose headquarters are at The following gentlemen were present: S. trade of that terminal. It recently tendered its Cleveland. named B. Samuelson, Hiawatha; E. Chase, Padonia; Jas. Pur- services with success in bringing about the revision of the trading rules of the New York Produce Ex-- ONE MORE. cell, Purcell; S. R. Washer and W. S. Washer, Atchison; F. G. Crowell, with the Hall-Baker Grain change, a change of methods that is expected to Still another "farmers' combine" that is going Co., Kansas City; Geo. G. Baker, Everest; E. Har- add still further to the business at Buffalo. to do things in strenuous style was launched at Chi- rington, Baker; J. J. Comer, Willis; Jno. W. Cain, cago on January 24 under the name and style of Lancaster; J. E. Duncan, Shannon; G. W. Hen- Ohio dealer asks what prices were during the Farmers' Grain and Live Stock Commission Com- drickson, Effingham; J. H. Cavanaugh, Effingham; famous Leiter season. We recall them with pleas- pany, with a South Dakota charter with authorized L. Cortelyou, Muscotah; Wm. Hedge. Whiting; S. ure. They were dreams. We may never see their capital of $100,000,000. The leading lights are all J. Thompson, Holton; S. T. Brisiow, and W. M. like again. Top was $1.65 here and $1.85 in Chi-

Chicago men. Chas. S. Northrup, a promoter, is Reckewey, Wetmore; Jno. McManis, Goff; M. G. cago, about the middle of May. On February 6, the principal incorporator. Associated with him Heald and Mr. Cliff, Centralia; Mr. Hinds and Mr. Chicago and Toledo were both 95, about the same as are James W. Speicer, Paul P. Plotz, James D. jNIc- Lint of Hinds & Lint Co., representatives of the at present. They ranged below dollar here until Connell, Thomas F. Spellman and D. M. Kirton of Blair Mills Co., Lukens Bros., Cain Mill Co., and April. Conditions are not the same this season- Chicago and John McLaughlin, S. C. Yarnell and C. Mr. Crawford, Atchison; Wm. Murphy, of the Mur- Leiter tried to corner May and July. The new crop W. Rohrer of Pierre S. D. phy Grain Co., Kansas City; Mr. McClellan, of Eat- prospect then was grand. This year it went into The incorporators are ''banking" on the expecta- on, McClellan & Co., St. Louis; Hauck Bros, and winter in poor condition. Crop of the world now is tion that the farmers will allow the company to B. C. Ragan, Valley Falls; E. J. Smiley, secretary much larger, so is the consumptive demand. Our do their buying and selling and to act for them as K. G. D. A.; A. J. Denton, of Denton Bros., Leav- farmers are now mostly capitalists. Eastern war commission merchants, packers and brokers do at enworth; W. L. Taylor, of Taylor Grain Co., To- cloud is now a factor.— C. A. King & Co., Toledo, present time. The new company intends also to peka, and E. J. Small, of Small & Co., Atchison. Circular. 422 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE. attainable degree of intelligent direction and .accur- of cotton should be attempted only by one of the acy of preparation. two branches of the government, and it appears This committee recognizes with much satisfaction reasonably plain that the crop reporting machinery The thirty-fourth annual meeting of the National the action of Congress in placing the Division of of the Department of Agriculture is the better pre- Statistics Agriculture a pared for the Board of Trade was held in Washington in January. of the Department of on work. bureau basis, as was urged by the inquiry commit- While this committee favors census investigations delegates were present, repre- A hundred or more tee. This change was effected on July 1, 1903, inci- concerning agricultural products as frequently as senting fifty or more of the most important trade or- dent to which the Division of Foreign Markets was every five years for the prominent crops and for placed under direction of the statistician. In his live stock, it is of the opinion that all yearly ganizations of the Nation, including the American work recent annual report to Congress the Secretary of of such nature, and such as is called for during Seed Trade Association, American Warehousemen's Agriculture gives assurance that no effort will be the progress of the year, should be performed within the Association, Baltimore Chamber of Commerce, Bos- spared to strengthen and improve the reports on Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agri- the staple crops and to present more detailed infor- culture. Chamber of Commerce, Buffalo Chamber of Com- ton mation with regard to fruits and various minor There has been some agitation in behalf of a merce, Chicago Board of Trade, Cincinnati Cham- crops. For the coming season it is expected to in- plan by which the crop reporting work now prose- clude details of the fruits of com- cuted by the Department of Agriculture should ber of Commerce, Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, minor crops and mercial significance in the monthly report of crops. pass to the Census Bureau of the Department of Grain Dealers' National Association, Indianapolis Quantitative estimates in regard to the flax crop Commerce and Labor. In view of the fact that much the greater part of the Board of Trade, Kansas City Board of Trade, Mill- have been added in the reports the past year. Also, crop reporting work estimates of yields of winter wheat per acre, in de- is preliminary, in the form of statements of com- National Association, Milwaukee Chamber of ers' tail by states, were presented in the August report, parative area, condition and yield of leading agri- Commerce, National Hay Association, New Orleans and of spring wheat in the October report, which cultural products, representing information more important to were valuable additions to such statements, hereto- those interested than final summaries Board of Trade, New York Produce Exchange, Pe- of total fore representing condition percentages until a later production, available only after such crops oria Board of Trade, St. Louis Merchants' Exchange. date in the season. This committee regards the have to a large extent been marketed and consumed, and inasmuch as even to epitomize the work of crop reporting work of the government offices the such information comes Without attempting more appropriately past year as deserving favorable recognition and within the Bureau of Statistics meeting, this report is confined to a brief state- of the Department, the acceptance as appropriately representing informa- having intimate relations with allied bureaus of ment of the work done of immediate interest to the tion obtainable upon questions involved. that department, this committee is of the opinion that the value of such In the opinion of this committee it would be well work would grain trade. suffer by a transfer to authorize the continuance of an organized body from the Department of Agri- culture. During the afternoon session of the first day Chas. of representatives of prominent commercial organi- While it is admitted that there has been of Cincinnati presented the reports of zations to act as occasion may call for in matters occasion B. Murray for calling relating to agricultural reports and statistics, inci- into question the consistency of some of special committees on crop report- the regular and dent to conferences with the Secretary of Agricul- the governmental statements and work concerning ing as follows: ture and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor. crops, the committee has observed with regret a To this end it is here recommended that the presi- disposition in some directions to attribute to such REPORT OF STANDING COMMITTEE ON CROP dent of the National Board of Trade, with the ad- statements a degree of disparagement not justified REPORTS. vice of the chairman of the standing committee by an intelligent understanding and considerate report of this committee a year ago on crop reports, if such committee be continued in With the treatment of such work and a fair recognition of its existence, be authorized to invite interested com- there was submitted a somewhat elaborate report merit and value. Much of the unfavorable comment of representatives mercial organizations to delegate representatives to of a special committee composed in these matters has manifestly been more or less serve in such a joint committee to act under aus- of several prominent commercial organizations, ap- due to impulses not consistent with a sincere desire pices of the National Board of Trade. In making pointed under invitation of the president of the to secure betterment of official service. The more this recommendation the committee may with pro- National Board of Trade, the province of that com- fully and the more reliably the governmental work priety allude to its having knowledge of a move- to inquire into and report upon meth- can be performed the less must the interested public mittee being- ment within official circles looking to the creation have occasion for reliance on or to be influenced by ods pursued in the collection and compilation of of a body which shall be essentially a cabinet com- statements from other sources, commanding less of agricultural statistics by the Census Bureau and posed of heads of the various bureaus in the depart- facility for performance of such service. by the Division of Statistics of the Department of ments which are concerned in such work, and that It has been made clear that the findings of the Agriculture, and as far as practicable to explain the committee has been officially Invited to lend its inquiry committee as presented in its report have causes of differences in exhibits of these two aid as occasion may arise in an advisory way in had important recognition and significant influence branches of governmental service in reference to promotion of the objects in view, which contem- upon procedures of the Census Bureau. This is ap- Inquiry committee report plate the harmonizing of all such official work on prominent crops. The parent not only with reference to investigations a basis of effectiveness and public value. was submitted and adopted as a part of the report which were instituted as a result Respectfully submitted, of statements in of the standing committee on crops; and it was the report pertaining to certain lines of inconsis- Chas. B. Murray, provided that the inquiry committee be continued tency found by the committee in exhibits promul- B. Frank Howard, in existence, as a representative organized body, gated by the bureau, but also in consideration of Wm. S. Harvey, for further consideration of questions, as they arise, plans for the further work of that office, looking E. G. Preston, to in regard to agricultural statistics, in the interest modification of faulty methods of the past and ac- of the general public, and the further betterment F. A. Scott, complishment of better Committee. results in the future. It is of governmental service in such matters. The in- pleasing to the committee that the Investigations quiry committee has accordingly prepared a report REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF INQUIRY thus brought about as a result of its analysis of con- for the past year, reviewing some of the evidences CONCERNING AGRICULTURAL STA- ditions surrounding work in the late census report of beneficial results from its previous efforts, which TISTICS. on agricultural information have developed features is now submitted as a part of this report. of interest and of positive value Under action taken at the meeting of the National in the work of that The National Board of Trade in bringing about branch of the government, all of which in con- Board of Trade a year ago, the committee of in- the investigation made by the inquiry committee firmatory of the merit of the conclusions reached quiry concerning agricultural statistics was con- bv did the public a service of much value, its conclu- the committee as stated in the report. It Is also tinued, as an organized body, for further consider- sions and report having been Influential for much pleasing to observe, with these evidences Indicative ation of such questions as called this committee into good in various ways, as well as explanatory of of the willingness and inclination of the officials existence. During the year the the causes of evident inconsistencies in exhibits. members of in charge to accept and to adopt suggestions deemed While it is to be recognized and regretted that committee have had conferences and correspond- to be serviceable in the direction of securing greater the crop-reporting service of the country furnishes ence, furnishing the basis for the expressions now accuracy In the official work, a manifest disposition occasion for much of unfavorable comment and submitted. to act in harmony with other official work on kin- criticism, a full understanding of the conditions Recommendations presented in the report of the dred lines. which lead up to such comment and which prompt inquiry committee relating to agricultural statis- In various features the Department of Agricul- much of the criticism makes it plain that the work tics and crop reporting have in various particulars ture has given recognition to the suggestions and does not deserve the degree of condemnation it has been recognized and adopted by departments of the recommendations offered by the inquiry committee, thus received. This is applicable both to the Cen- government, and the service under their adoption reflecting here as In the Census Bureau a readiness sus Bureau service and that of the Department of has been improved. This result has justified the to receive with favor that which may be brought to Agriculture—the latter being the subject of such action of the president of the National Board of notice In a manifestly earnest effort to render aid treatment the more frequently and emphatically, Trade in taking steps which led to the creation of in elevating the oflicial work to a higher plane of under the difference in nature and in frequency of the inquiry committee, and demonstrates the value accuracy and of usefulness. statements from the two offices. of the work it accomplished. The Information ob- Respectfully submitted, The Census Bureau work is specifically one contained and presented in the committee's report, Wm. S. Harvey, structed on a basis of enumeration; and if It were while necessarily short of a complete treatment of Chas. B. Murray. in fact what it is practically accepted to be, a show- questions under general consideration, was sufficient B. Frank Howard. ing from actual count and measurement, it would to indicate the main causes for differences and dis- J. C. Brown, deserve full recognition for accuracy of its exhibits, parities found to exist in the two branches of gov- Committee. provided the returns were complete and the compi- ernmental work, and to afford a basis for service- President lation correctly performed. But at the very outset able suggestions as to methods for securing better- Blanchard Randall of Baltimore com- of the effort to secure returns relating to agricul- ment of results in such service. plimented Mr. Murray and the committee on the tural products there is absence of ability to obtain One of the reasons, and an important one, for character of their work; but President H. S. Grimes specific information, because of the fact that much bringing into existence the Department of Com- the larger proportion of the producers are not able merce and Labor was to secure avoidance of dupli- of the Grain Dealers' National Association, who was to furnish other than approximations or estimates cation of statistical work by the different offices of present as a delegate from that body and who has of areas and yields. These are conditions which the government. While this feature applied mainly given a great deal also surround the work of the Department of Agri- to other than agricultural statistics, it logically em- of thought to the matter of crop culture. The larger proportion of the information braced this class of work. There has been, how- reporting, both as an individual and as an ex-oflJcio from this department relates to preliminary condi- ever, little of duplication at any time in this line member of the Ohio state bureau, tions and indications Incident to progress of cul- of information, the most striking instance of which challenged the ture, growth and comparative outcome of a crop, appears to represent the efforts of both the Census view of the report that the public "expects too currently and promptly available and serving as a Office the Department of Agriculture to furnish and much of the government. How can we expect too guide to calculations as to prospective supplies to information relating to the cotton crop, the Census meet future requirements. Office investigations being mainly confined to state- much of the government on such vital points?" he The criticisms concerning crop information from ments from ginners, while the Department of Agri- asked. "Above all things -we want accurate re- the government take form, for the most part, under culture returns have included not only the informa- ports. Take the late cotton lack of knowledge or of appropriate recognition of tion from ginners but also from various other avail- report, it is almost per- the uncertainties actually existing as to the basis able channels. With reference to the cotton crop fect. Cotton raising is limited to five states; grain for such returns. Too much is expected and de- produced in 1902 the Census Oflice, in addition to to twenty-five. Why cannot we have as accurate manded with reference to quantitative accuracy, a statement of quantity of cotton received by gin- and freedom from inconsistencies, in reports and neries at a fixed date also called for and presented grain reports as cotton reports?" statistics relating to agricultural It Is quantity to forward, products. estimates of the come which Mr. Murray replied that the difference was in not possible under any power at command of the was promulgated with confidence as to its approxi- the government or otherwise to present seasonable in- mate reliability as an Indication of the season's basis of obtaining the information "How can formation of this kind without a decided margin of yield, but which proved to be so much at variance tne government estimate the crop when the farmer variation from actual conditions. But this fact does with the true condition that this plan of calling for himself cannot estimate his own crop?" he In- not remove the need of such Information, and its estimates of the unmarketed product In connection Importance to producing and trading interests. It with returns of quantities ginned has been omitted quired. is Important and needful that the work of procur- the Census Office with reference to the crop of by Mr. Grimes remarked that since it was the in- ing and presenting such information shall be maln- the current season. It is the belief of this commit- t«liied, and that it be attended with the highest tee that the annual statements relating to the yield visible supply which affected the markets, deputized AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 423

agents might find out the amount in farmers' gran- ernment at terminal markets would be detrimental ber 14, 6,824; November 21, 6,730; November 28, to the agricultural interests and the grain trade of aries. With this the argument ended, and the pend- 6,700; December 5, 6,650; December 12, 6,635; De- the country and that it Is absolutely and unaltera- ing motion was passed, to adopt the reports and bly opposed to any attempt to exercise government cember 19, 6,630; December 26, 6,568; January 2, inspection of grain. also declare in favor of continue the committee for another year. We 6,560; January 9, 6,552. having the inspection in all terminal markets under The banquet at Willard's was addressed by Sen- the supervision and control of the commercial or- There were 6,016 pounds of the corn October 24, ator Hanna to whose slogan of "Stand Pat," he here ganizations of such markets. and up to January 9 it had shrunk 672 pounds, Resolved, That it Is the sense of this meeting that added a new one—"We hold the ace," referring to which is more than 11 per cent. It is seen by the a system of rules for grading of grain as nearly the power of the United States to compete in the uniform as possible should be adopted by the vari- weights that the moisture got out of this corn ous commercial exchanges. world's markets. His subject was that indefensible very rapidly the first few days after it was husked. bit of graft called the "ship subsidy bill." Secre- MINORITY REPORT. tary Cortelyou, Speaker Cannon, Representative A minority of the committee on national inspec- SOME BELTING TROUBLES. of grain respectfully submits the following re- Hepburn of Iowa and Gov. Van Sant of Minnesota tion port: also made speeches. In view of the important function of belts used Whereas, In the transhipment and exportation of The debate of the second day on the "Chicago grain it Is found that a large proportion of the par- to transmit power it is not clear why some men Canal" (so called in this meeting) was hardly cred- cels is subject to one or more 'ransfers en route, are so careless about this part of their equipment. whereby the Identity of the property is lost; and itable to the intelligence of the delegates from It can hardly be ignorance, as the amount of matter Whereas, The producer, seller, buyer and con- Cleveland and the East, who insisted in substance, sumer would be favorably affected by the estab- printed on this subject would stock a good sized 11- shall in the debate on the river and harbor committee lishment and maintenance of a system that safeguard all the interests of each; and report, that Chicago "should build her own canal," Whereas. A national uniform rule and practice forgetful, or ignorant, of the fact that Chicago has establishing the various grades of each sort of grain and furnishing a reliable and uniform in- dug and paid for "her canal," and that the improve- spection of all grains at such places as may be ment referred to in the report contemplates mak- found advisable. Including all exporting seaports all recognized commercial grain would ing navigable to the Gulf the Illinois and Missis- and markets, tend to establish and maintain the reputation of sippi Rivers from the end of the Chicago Drainage American grain and secure for such inspection the Canal; which is no more a local work than the con- respected confidence of all domestic and foreign buyers and dealers; therefore, be it tinued improvement of the Ohio River urged by Resolved, That the Congress of the United States the same report and approved by the convention. be urged to establish and provide for a bureau for the national Inspection of grain. The clause of the report referring to this work in Resolved, That a standing committee of a suita- Illinois was recommitted and killed, as were some ble number be appointed by the chair to represent other clauses that failed to meet the approval of the to Congress the urgent need of the establishment of said bureau, the administration of which shall be Eastern log-rollers. The action on the report as a under the civil service rules. whole demonstrated that the Board is no better than The following officers were elected for the current Congress itself when a suggestion of "pork" is in year: President, J. J. Sullivan of Cleveland; first sight. The Board had better deal in "glittering vice president. C. S. Hamlin of Boston; second vice let such matters severely alone; generalities" or president, George H. Johnson of Milwaukee; treas- FIGS. 1 AND 2, DEFECTIVE LACING. for this exhibition of local prejudices added nothing urer, William R. Tucker of Philadelphia (Mr. brary. At any rate the fact remains that in many to the dignity or weight of its proceedings. Tucker was the only officer re-elected); members mills and factories belts are neglected and mal- The principle of reciprocal demurrage also met of the council—Baltimore Chamber of Commerce, treated in a most shameful manner. with opposition, although the committee asked for Blanchard Randall; Boston Chamber of Commerce, A writer in The Engineer reviews the subject at a Federal law enforcing prompt furnishing of means Stanton White; Boston Merchants' Association, A. length for some and illustrates a number of the more of transportation without discrimination and A. Lawrence; Chicago Board of Trade, R. S. Lyon; defective belt lacings that have come under his a uniform charge for detention of facilities, whether Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, C. B. Murray; observation. destination, The accompanying cuts are examples. detention be at originating points or National Grain Dealers' Association, H. S. Grimes; Fig. 1 shows a belt union which is quite per- and including also a national reciprocal car service Millers' National Association, Frank Barry; Na- fectly laced so far as the setting of the laces is con- Kolff, York, said he be- or demurrage. Mr. of New tional Hay Association, Charles England; New York cerned, but there is an open space between the already enough legislation, and lieved there was Board of Trade and Transportation, G. Waldo butts, as shown at A. The union will never hold moved to refer the resolution back to the commit- Smith, J. F. Barker; New York Produce Exchange, well until the joint is resewn and the ends of the tee, thereby killing it. Commissioner John B. Daish J. F. Barker; Philadelphia Commercial Museum, U. belt brought together. earnestly opposed the reference, and Mr. Grimes S. Harvey; Philadelphia Trades League, M. N. In Fig. 2 is a piece of narrow belt joined with thought if demurrage was good for the railroads, Kline; Pittsburg of Commerce, G. H. An- Chamber a wider one. This a defect at and the reciprocal demurrage would be beneficial to both; makes B derson; Scranton Board of Trade H. Hitchcock; belt will lose its alignment every turn of the but H. L. Preston, of Boston, who spoke twice at Trenton Board of Trade, E. C. Hill; Milwaukee against reciprocal demurrage, said he believed rail- Chamber of Commerce, W. M. Bell; American Ware- roads were run by honest business men, who were housemen's Association, W. T. Robinson, and Cleve- burdened by doing more business than facilities per- land Chamber of Commerce, A. T. Anderson. mitted. At the final session the Board adopted an amend- A rising vote was necessary to decide the question ment to its by-laws reducing the dues to be paid which resulted in recommitting by a vote of 36 by constituent bodies to $20 by associations of 100 to 17. members or less, and $5 for each fifty members in The committee on grain inspection (consisting of excess of 100, the maximum dues to be $300. J. F. Parker, chairman, New York Produce Ex- The committee on reciprocity reported the follow- change; H. B. Slaughter, Chicago Board of Trade; ing resolution, which was unanimously adopted: Charles England, National Hay Association; H. S. "That the National Board of Trade favors the es- Grimes, Grain Dealers' National Association; Frank tablishment and maintenance of judicious recipro- Millers' National Association; ,1. Hume Barry. cal commercial relations with the chief foreign Smith. Baltimore Chamber of Commerce; E. G. markets of the world, and especially with the Do- Preston. Boston Chamber of Commerce; C. F. Coch- minion of Canada and other contiguous countries." ran, St. Joseph Commercial Club; C. B. Murray, Cin- cinnati Chamber of Commerce), brought in two re- SHRINKAGE OF CORN. FIGS. 3 AND 4, PUNCHING THE HOLES. ports, a majority and a minority. After a discussion the only votes polled for the minority report, The experiments at the Iowa College to determine wheels. It will wabble from side to side, as well in favor of national inspection, which was tabled, the amount of shrinkage of corn while in storage, as slipping and giving uneven motion. was that from Chicago. The majority report oppos- began, as previously announced in these columns, Most men are hasty and punch the holes as In ing inspection was adopted. These reports are as in October last, have been published. The report Fig. 3, either too much scattered as on the side E follows: says in substance that the corn was husked from or too near the end of the belt. The proper way MAJORITY REPORT. the shock on October 24 and put into a crib or is to have the lines scratched as in Fig. 4. Here The committee on national inspection of grain crate on wheels, which is run under an open shed. we have the line drawn across as at G G with respectfully submits the following report: The corn is exposed to the atmosphere but not to the square as a rule, and the line makes a perfect Whereas, A bill having been introduced into the the rains. The variety is Reid's Yellow Dent. gage for punching the United States Senate "to provide for the fixing of The holes. This gives the true a uniform standard of classification and grading weight of the wagon and crib is 1,208 pounds. start needed, and the rest is easy. of wheat, flax, corn, oats, rye and other grains, and Repeated weighings show the following: Gross for other purposes"; and weight of corn and crib, October Whereas, The passage of any measure disturbing 24, 7,224 pounds; Iowa feeders are shipping in corn from Nebraska the present system of boards of trade inspection, October 26, 7,140; October 27, 7,120; October 28, to fill their requirements, under which the present grain of the country has in addition to buying all 7,104; October 29, 7,080; October 30, 7,066; been built up, would be Injurious to the best inter- October the corn they can get in Iowa. There is very little the producer, dealer and foreign buyer; 7,060. ests of 31, contract corn in the state; and some dealers say therefore The weights at the end of each week to January they Resolved, That this body hereby declares Its belief are able to sell all the corn they can get at that the inspection of grain by the national gov- 9 have been: November 7, 6,940 pounds; Novem- better than Chicago prices. :

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THE SCOPE OF THE WESTERN WHEAT. a higher grade in consequence of being of poor BROADENING quality, No. 1 White Western Wheat shall be sound, dry damp, musty or dirty. NEW YORK GRAIN MARKET. and reasonably clean. No Grade Mixed Oats. (See General Rule.) No. 2 White W^estern Wheat shall consist of sound CLIPPED OATS. The plans, so much discussed, for broadening White Wheat unfit to grade No. 1. This grade may No. 1 White Clipped Oats shall be clipped White contain a slight admixture of smutty wheat. Oats, bright, sound, well cleaned, reasonably free the York grain marlcet, were the scope of New No Grade White Western Wheat. (See General from other grain, and weigh not less than 36 lbs. adopted as outlined by its grain committee by the Rule.) Winchester standard. Note. —The grades of White Western Wheat are to Oats that otherwise would grade No. 1 White New York Produce Exchance at a meeting held on include such wheats as are grown in the Northwest Clipped shall not be deprived of the grade if but January 19. The committee's recommendation for and on the Pacific Slope from either spring or win- slightly stained. new grades was approved, with the addition of a ter seeding. No. 2 White Clipped Oats shall be seven-eighths SPRING WHEAT. White, reasonably sound, reasonably clean, reason- of Western rye. The note authorizing the grading No. 1 Hard Spring Wheat shall be sound, bright ably free from other grain, but may be stained, and recommended amendments to the rules regulating and well cleaned, composed mostly of hard Scotch weigh not less than 34 lbs. Winchester standard. Fife, and weigh not less than 58 lbs. Winchester No. 3 White Clipped Oats shall be seven-eighths transactions in grain were -also adopted with only standard. White, fairly sound, fairly clean, fairly free from one or two slight changes. The principal feature No. 1 Northern Spring Wheat shall be sound and other grain, and weigh not less than 30 lbs. Win- well cleaned, contain not less than fifty per cent of chester standard. of this plan is the extension of the New York de- the Hard varieties of Spring Wheat, and weigh not No. 4 White Clipped Oats shall include all Clipped so that grain can be delivery system to Buffalo, less than 57 lbs. Winchester standard. Oats seven-eighths White, not fit for a higher grade livered at that point on New York contract. No. 2 Northern Spring Wheat shall be sound, rea- in consequence of being of poor quality, damp, sonably clean, contain not less than forty per cent musty or dirty. committee's recommended new grades ob- The of the Hard varieties of Spring Wheat, and weigh No Grade White Clipped Oats. (See General Rule.) serve, as Chairman Kemi) explained, the uniform- not less than 56 lbs. Winchester standard. No. 2 Clipped Oats shall be mixed Oats, clipped, No. 2 Spring Wheat shall comprise all inferior, reasonably sound, reasonably clean, reasonably free ity of standards in different markets; there were shrunken Spring Wheat, and weigh not less than 54 from other grain, and weigh not less than 32 lbs. practically no changes in the existing standards, lbs. Winchester standard. Win; hester standard. except in corn. The suggestion was made and No. 4 Spring Wheat shall include all Spring Wheat No. 3 Clipped Oats shall be Mixed Oats, clipped, not fit for a higher grade in consequence of being of fairly sound, reasonably clean, reasonably free from that the word "Western" be inserted on adopted poor quality, damp, musty, dirty, and weigh not other grain, and weigh not less than 30 lbs. Win- certificates .of rye for export to distinguish it from less than 52 lbs. Winchester standard. chester standard. Rule.) No. 4 Clipped shall New York or New Jersey rye upon satisfactory No Grade Spring Wheat. (See General Oats be Mixed Oats, clipped, MACARONI WHEAT. not fit for a higher grade in consequence of being evidence being submitted to the inspection depart- of poor quality, damp, musty or dirty. No. 1 Macaroni Wheat shall be bright, sound, well ment as to the rye having been grown in the No. Grade Clipped Oats. (See General Rule.) cleaned, and be composed of what is known as rice RYE. West. The recommendations of the committee, and or goose wheat, and may include wheat that is No. 1 Rye shall be sound, plump and well cleaned. noted, were adopted to take effect bleached and shrunken. with the addition 2 shall No. 2 Macaroni Wheat shall be inferior to No. 1, No. Rye be sound, reasonably clean, and on February 1. but sound, and be composed of what is known as reasonably free from other grain. include No. 3 Rye shall be reasonably sound, reasonably The descriptions of the new grades are as fol- rice and | or goose wheat, and may wheat that is bleached and shrunken. clean, and reasonably free from other grain. (the editor being indebted to the Chief In- lows No. 3 Macaroni Wheat shall include all wheat No. 4 Rye shall include all rye not fit for a high- spector, G. H. k. White for official copies) badly bleached or smutty, or for any other cause er grade in consequence of being of poor quality, unfit for No. 2. damp, musty or dirty. WINTER WHEAT. CORN. No Grade Rye. (See General Rule.) No. 1 White Winter Wheat shall be sound, plump, No. 1 White Corn shall be sound, dry, plump and BARLEY. and weigh not less than 60 lbs. dry, well cleaned, well cleaned. An occasional straw colored grain No. 1 Western Barley shall be plump, bright, Winchester standard. will not deprive it of this grade. sound, clean and free from other grain, and weigh No. 2 White Winter Wheat shall be sound, dry No. 2 White Corn shall be sound, dry, reasonably not less than 48 lbs. J\''inchester standard. clean, contain not more than five per and reasonably clean, and contain not more than two per cent of No. 2 Western Barley shall be sound, bright, not cent of Wheat, and weigh not less than 58 lbs. Red yellow or red grains. plump enough for No. 1, reasonably clean, free from Winchester standard. No. 3 White Corn shall be sound, reasonably dry, other grain, and weigh not less than 48 lbs. Win- shall be sound, dry No. 3 White Winter Wheat reasonably clean, and contain not more than two per chester standard. contain not more than five and reasonably clean, cent of yellow or red grains. Extra No. 3 Western Barley shall be the same as of Wheat, and weigh not less than 56V2 per cent Red Steamer White Corn shall be equal to the above No. 2 W^estern Barley in all respects, except as to Winchester standard. lbs. grade of No. 3 in quality, but in condition may be color, which may be dark. shall include all White No. 4 White Winter AVheat soft. No. 3 Western Barley shall include shrunken or Winter Wheat not fit for a higher grade in conse- otherwise slightly barley, No. 4 White Corn shall be White Corn not fit for a damaged and weigh not of of poor quality, damp, musty, dirty, quence being higher grade in consequence of being of poor quality, less than 44 lbs. Winchester standard. less than 52 lbs. Winchester stnadard. and weigh not damp, musty or dirty. No. 4 W'estern Barley shall include all Western AVheat. (See General No Grade White Winter No Grade White Corn. (See General Rule.) Barley not fit for a higher grade in consequence of Rule.) being of poor quality, damp, musty or dirty. No. 1 Yellow Corn shall be sound, dry, plump and Barley. RED WINTER W^HEAT. well cleaned. An occasional white or red grain shall No Grade Western (See General Rule.) Chevalier Barley. Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Chevalier Bar- No. 1 Red Winter Wheat shall be sound, plump, not deprive it of this grade. — ley shall conform in all respects to the grades of dry, well cleaned, and weigh not less than 60 lbs. No. 2 Yellow Corn shall be sound, dry, reasonably Nos. 1, 2 and 3 Barley, except that they Winchester standard. clean, and contain not more than five per cent of Western shall be of the Chevalier variety, grown in Mon- No. 2 Red Winter Wheat shall be sound, dry and white or red grains. tana, Oregon and on the Pacific Coast. reasonably clean, contain not more than ten per No. 3 Yellow Corn shall be sound, reasonably dry, No. 1 State Barley, four-rowed, shall be of a cent of White Winter Wheat, and weigh not less reasonably clean and contain not more than five per bright, natural color, plump, sound, well cleaned, than 58 lbs. Winchester standard. cent of white or red grains. and weigh not less than 4S lbs. Winchester stand- which shall be equal in all respects Steamer Yellow Corn shall be equal to the above Note. —Wheat ard. as to quality to the above standard of No. 2 Red, grade of No. 3 Yellow in quality, but in condition No. 2 State Barley, four-rowed, shall be plump, but which shall be slightly soft or damp, shall have may be soft. sound, reasonably clean, but may be slightly the word "Steamer" prefixed to the grade. No. 4 Yellow Corn shall be Yellow Corn not fit for stained, and weigh not less than lbs. a higher grade in consequence of being of poor qual- 46V4 Winchester No. 3 Red Winter Wheat shall be sound, dry and standard. leasonably clean, contain not more than ten per ity, damp, musty or dirty. No. 3 State Barley, four-rowed, shall be sound, cent of White Winter Wheat, and weigh not less No Grade Yellow Corn. (See General Rule.) reasonably clean, fit for malting, otherwise unfit for than 56y2 lbs. Winchester standard. No. 2 Corn shall be Mixed Corn, sound, dry and reasonably clean. No. 2. and weigh not less than 44 lbs. Winchester No. 4 Red Winter Wheat shall include all Red standard. fit for a higher grade in conse- Old No. 3 Corn shall be Mixed Corn, dry, reason- Winter Wheat not No. 1 State Barley, two-rowed, shall be of a bright, musty, dirty, ably clean, but inferior in quality to that described quence of being of poor quality, damp, natural color, plump, sound and well cleaned, and less 52 lbs. Winchester standard. as No. 2. and weigh not than weigh not less than 49 lbs. Winchester standard. No Grade Red Winter Wheat. (See General Rule.) No. 3 Corn shall be Mixed Corn, sound, reasonably dry and reasonably clean. No. 2 State Barley, two-rowed, shall be sound, reasonably clean, but in color not good enough for MIXED WINTER WHEAT. Steamer Mixed Corn shall be Mixed Corn, equal to No. 1, and weigh not less than 48 lbs. Winchester No. 1 Mixed Winter Wheat shall be Mixed Red and the above grade of No. 3 in quality, but in condi- standard. White Winter Wheat: sound, plump, dry, well tion may be soft. No. 3 State Barley, two-rowed, shall be sound and ( leaned, and weigh not loss than 60 lbs. Winchester No. 4 Corn shall be Mixed Corn not fit for a high- fit for malting, but in color cleanliness unfit standard. er grade in consequence of being of poor quality, and for No. 2. No. 2 Mixed Winter Wheat shall be Mixed Red and damp, musty or dirty. White Winter Wheat; sound, dry and reasonably No Grade Corn. (See General Rule.) NO GRADE—GENERAL RULE. All grain of any kind and variety Is wet, clean, and weigh not less than 58 lbs. Winchester OATS. that standard. hot, or in a heating condition, burned or smoky, or 1 Oats shall No. 3 Mixed Winter Wheat shall be Mixed Red No. White be White Oats, bright, is for any reason unfit for warehousing, shall be and White Winter Wheat; sound, dry and reason- sound, reasonably clean, free from other grain, and classed and graded "No Grade," and treated as pro- weigh not less than 31 lbs. ably clean, and weigh not less than 56% lbs. Win- Winchester standard. vided in Rule — of the Rules of the Railroad Com- chester standard. No. 2 WTiite Oats shall be seven-eighths White, panies, as contained in their agreement with th« reasonably sound, reasonably clean, reasonably No. 4 Mixed Winter Wheat shall include all Mixed free New York Produce Exchange. from other grain, and weigh not less than 29 lbs. Note. Red and White Winter Wheat not fit for a higher —Canadian grain should be graded In ac- standard. grade in consequence of being of poor quality, damp, Winchester cordance with above standards, but In consequence Standard Oats shall be seven-eighths musty, dirty, and weigh not less than 52 lbs. Win- White, weigh of being in bond, must be kept separate. chester standard. not less than 28 lbs. Winchester standard, but in Note. —In inspecting on board vessel for export, No Grade Mixed Winter Wheat. (See General other respects slightly Inferior to No. 2 White Oats. the inspector shall be governed in his interpretation Rule.) No. 3 White Oats shall be seven-eighths White, of the requirements of the grades by the season of HARD WINTER WHEAT. fairly sound, fairly clean, fairly free from other the year, length of voyage and the climatic condi- grain, and weigh not less than 26 lbs. Winchester tions at the port of destination. No. 1 Hard W'inter Wheat shall consist of the standard. The "next inferior grades" recommended for de- Hard varieties, shall be sound, dry, well cleaned and No. 4 White Oats shall be seven-eighths White, livery weigh not less than 61 lbs. Winchester standard. not fit for a higher grade in consequence of being on contracts are as follows: No. 2 Hard Winter Wheat shall consist of the of poor quality, damp, musty or dirty. Wheat—No. 2 W'hite Winter Wheat Is added to Hard varieties, be sound, dry and reasonably clean, No Grade White Oats. (See General Rule.) the contract standard upon the same basis as No. and weigh not less than 69 lbs. Winchester standard. No. 1 Oats shall be mixed Oats, bright, sound, rea- 2 Hard Winter Wheat, viz.: Two (2c) cents per No. 3 Hard Winter Wheat shall consist of the sonably clean, reasonably free from other grain, and bushel discount. The next lower grade to the quali- varieties, be sound, dry reasonably clean, Hard and weigh not less than 31 lbs. Winchester standard. ties now tenderable is added for delivery, each (No. and weigh not less than 57 lbs. Winchester standard. No. 2 Oats shall be mixed Oats, reasonably sound, 3 Red, No. 3 Hard and No. 2 Northern) at a dis- No. 4 Hard Winter Wheat shall include all the reasonably clean, reasonably free from other grain, count of five (5e) cents per bushel under Its corre- Hard varieties not fit for a higher grade in conse- and weigh not less than 28 lbs. Winchester standard! spondingly higher standard. of being of poor quality, quence damp, musty, dirty, No. 3 Oats shall be mixed Oats, fairly sound, fairly Corn—No. 1 and No. 2 White Corn for delivery In and weigh not less than 53 lbs. Winchester stand- clean, fairly free from other grain, and weigh not addition to those grades now authorized. ard. less than 26 lbs. Winchester standard. Old No. 3 Corn for delivery at a discount of two No Grade Hard Winter Wheat. (See General Rule.) No. 4 Oats shall include all mixed Oats not fit for (2c) cents per bushel. — — —

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No. 3 White, No. 3 Yellow and No. 3 Corn for de- the effort to secure a practical basis for a delivery to wheat, there were produced 53,000,000 bushels. A livery during September, October, November, De- of bonded grain on contract. 4-fold increase of acreage (8,120,000) would yield all cember, January and February at a discount of Buffalo are all much England requires; and yet Manitoba has three (3c) cents per bushel, and during Mart h, April, The elevator interests at 64,000,000 May, June, July and August at a discount of five pleased with the new arrangements at New York, acres available for wheat, all of which could speed- (5c) cents per bushel. which, it is believed, will materially benefit them ily be brought under the plow by making the Ca- The grades of No. 3 corn are to be made to conform under the revised grading rules of the qual- because a large amount of grain should be carried nadian Pacific Railway lines the backbone of a her- corn." ity now known to the trade as "steamer in store at Buffalo to protect the futures sold in ring-bone system of railways, this work being done Oats—In addition to the present authorized deliv- Buffalo a delivery point, by one of toilers ery, the grades of No. 3 White Clipped and No. 3 New York. By making army while another army of farm- White Oats at a discount of one (Ic) cent per bushel. New York invites the entire western section to ers planted and reaped the wheat alongside of these The New York contract erades and the basis for participate in trading at its market; for not only lateral extensions. delivery, the top grades being even with the con- can the, t'rain arriving at Buffalo be applied on To this interesting inquiry Mr. Edward Atkinson, tract and the lower grades at discounts, are as fol- New York contracts, but the shipper can avail him- in Bradstreet's of January 23, adds a brief but of opportunity of forwarding his grain to lows : self the pointed chapter admitting the truth of Mr. .John- other Atlantic seaboard ports, on sales for export. son's contention Wheat—No. 2 Red, No. 1 Northern, No. 1 Hard that one of the 67 squares of the Spring, even; No. 2 Hard Winter, No. 2 White, 2c diagram would produce all the wheat the United off; No. 3 Red. No. 2 Northern Spring, 5c off; No. 3 Kingdom has ever imported and suggesting, Hard Winter, 7c off. POSSIBLE WKEAT PRODUCTION Corn—No. I White, No. 2 White, No. 1 Yellow, No. "That is true, but under what conditions? It 2 No. 3 Corn, old, 2c off; OF CANADA. 2 Yellow, No. Corn, even; would of necessity be by a single crop method on No. 3 White, No. 3 Yellow, No. 3 Corn, 3c off, Feb- ruary to September, inclusive, or 5c off March to The London Statist having concluded from a study a system of extensive farming, prosecuted in a short, August, inclusive. of statistics that wheat consumption is overreaching hot summer, coupled with a very cold and long Oats—No. 1 White Clipped, No. 2 White Clipped, that Canada's possibilities for eco- winter. It would be in a section where there No. 1 White, No. 2 White and standard oats, even; production and would No. 3 White Clipped and No. 3 White Oats, Ic off. nomical wheat growing have been reached until she be little or no variety of crops except the vegetables In amending the rules, which include the Buffalo has a much larger railway mileage than at present, and roots needed for the supply of the farmer's delivery scheme, were then taken up, the only Geo. Johnson, statistician of the Dominion of Can- family; where there could be little or no intensive change made was the addition to Section VIII. of ada, has contributed to Bradstreet's an article com- agriculture; where farmers' families would be iso- Rule 10, which relates to transferable orders for bating the Statist's position, which is perhaps lated away from schools and towns, and in a section delivery of contiact wheat of the words, "the same worth a reference. subject to a very long haul, mostly by railway, to methods shall apply to deliveries of corn and oats Mr. Johnson measures Canada's capacity for wheat the seaboard. on transferable orders." Some of the more impor- production entirely from the standpoint of acres. "For five months in the year the canals and rivers tant rules as amended and new regulations follow: "In Manitoba," he says, '"there are 2,200 miles of of Canada are frozen, and during this most Im- The identical parcels of grain may be transferred, railway. A strip of land five miles on each side of portant period the crop must find its way to the mixed and inspected in store and merged into the the railways would give 14,000,000 acres of land. British steams across parts of the United States. grade, but no grain once merged into the grade Ten miles on each side would not be considered an The imports and exports of the shall be identified and subsequently mixed and Dominion are now merged into the grade. unreasonable haul for wheat. But take five miles; permitted to pass in bond by courtesy, only by the return of any warehouse receipt, properly in- On and at the rate of production of wheat in Manitoba consent of the executive officers of the government, dorsed, for grain in regular warehouse in Buffalo prior to 5 p. m. of any business day, and the tender during the past eighteen years, i. e., 18.65 bushels not by treaty. Suppose the Chamberlain policy of of all charges represented by it, such property shall per acre, the production would be 261,000,000, or free import of Canadian wheat should prevail, be promptly deliverable to holder of su- h receipt, 00,000,000 bushels more than the United Kingdom coupled with a tax or duty on wheat as his order may direct, and it shall not be subject grown in the to any further charges for storage after demand for has imported in any year from all the wheat ex- United States—how many days would elapse before such delivery shall have been made, provided the porting countries of the world. In the Northwest the courtesy ceased, and before instructions canal boat or cars taking same are ready at the would warehouse at the time to receive it. The agents in Territories there are 2,100 miles of railway. A strip be given not to pass Canadian import; or exports New York of the Buffalo warehouses shall deliver to •jf land five miles on each side would mean another in bond over any part of the domain c : the United the holder of such receipt a non-negotiable memorandum stating the kind and quantity of grain rep- 14,000,000 acres, another production of 261,000,000 State?, but to subject them all to the payment of resented by his order for which original canal or rail bushels, and another surplus over and above the duties?" bills of lading are to carry the title as soon as actu- demand of the United Kingdom of 60,000,000 bush- al delivery is made. Such original canal or rail bills of lading shall be sent promptly when issued els. Take Ontario with its 7,200 miles of railway CAR RECORDS AT KANSAS CITY. Buffalo to the agent of the Buffalo warehouses, from a strip of land one mile wide on each side would who shall deliver them to the holders of his non-negotiable memorandum in exchange for same. give 9,250,000 acres. The average of fall wheat The annual report of the supervising weight com- Every warehouseman shali, at the close of busi- during twenty-one years is 22 bushels per acre. The mittee of the Kansas City Board of Trade for 1903 ness on Saturday of each week, cause to be made would yield enough for the demand is as follows: out and sent to the Registrar of Grain of the New 9,250,000 acres the York Produce Exchange a statement of amount of Great Britain and 2,000,000 bushels over." As stated in our report last year, previous to the of graded grain in store in his warehouse at the So, while the importation of wheat by Great Brit- establishment of this department for a period of close of business on that day. eleven years, there only The president, subject to the approval of the ain, 210,000,000 bushels, seems large in itself, it is was forty-two per cent of all the grain received in Kansas City, unloaded Board of Managers, shall appoint a committee of really only a small affair, in view of Canada's possi- five, to be known as the Committee on Delivery of here; the year just previous, or 1900, fifty-seven ble acreage and production; for in addition to the Warehouse Grain, consisting of one Buffalo ware- per cent. The percentage unloaded in Kansas City houseman, one New York warehouseman and three lands mentioned above, there is in the provinces of as per this report is seventy-three per cent as members of the New York Produce Exchange known Quebec, Assiniboia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Ath- against seventy-seven per cent last year, the differ- as members of the grain trade, to whom shall be ence coming in through the destruction of facilities referred all disputed questions relating to the re- abaska enough more arable land to bring the total incident to the flood. The new elevators now in ceiving, storage or delivery of graded grain in Buf- to acres; to mention British Co- up 777,000,000 not the process of construction, or contemplated, will falo, or graded or other grain in New York. from, lumbia, and the districts of the far North and in in or to warehouse, and the decision of such ques- put us splendid shape this coming year. tion by this committee shall be final. Northwest, in all of which more or less wheal can be By way of comparison of our last annual report we show: On sale of graded grain the tender of a regular £;rown. Resorting to the graphic method of exposi- warehouse receipt for ex-lake grain in a regular 1902. 1903. "In the dia- warehouse in Buffalo shall constitute a delivery of tion, Mr. Johnson says: accompanying Cars unloaded 46,395 47,062 the grain as between buyers and sellers, except In gram each square represents 11,500,000 acres of land. Complaints 569 496 cases provided in Rule 5, Sec. VIII; provided, also, Per cent .0122 .0105 the seller deducts from invoice the published at and Leaks—seals broken 90 210 East rail rate of freight from to Buffalo New York, Ratio of complaints 1 to 81 1 to 94 and one-half cent per bushel equalization and tenders not less than five thousand bushels in any one Cars in bad order warehouse. On sale of graded grain the tender of Decrepit 4,uOj .... a regular warehouse receipt for all rail grain in a regular warehouse in Buffalo shall constitute a de- End Door Leaks 1,963 livery of grain as between buyers and sellers, End Windows Open .... j.9.5 .... ex- and is sufiTicient to grow all the wheat Great Britain cept as provided in Rule 5, Sec. VII; provided, also, Seals Broken 1,282 3,455 the seller deducts from the invoice the published has called for annually thus far in her history. Leaky Grain Doors .... 1,561 local tariff rate to New York existing at the time of There are, in all, Gv" squares, and one of them is all Robbed 59 such delivery, and one-half cent per bushel equaliza- Bars, Sliding, etc that is needed to grow sufflcient wheat to give the Draw 4,697 tion and tenders not less than five thousand bushels in any one warehouse. all deliveries motherland the yearly supply it now draws from On of grain in Total 7,697 10,115 Buffalo the buyer shall be entitled to the day of the whole world." Percentage of receipts. tender and the seven following days free of charge 12^^ 2IV2 Anticipating a pertinent objection, Mr. Johnson for storage, and in addition thereto, to any unex- The above shows there was unloaded 667 cars pired portion of a term of storage. refers to the energetic work done in building the more than last year, 73 less complaints, or in other Trading under these rules began on February 1; Canadian Pacific railways, and urges that were words .0017 per cent reduction, or again, one com- but in order that outstanding contracts may not be there need, either the Canadian Pacific Railway plaiui out of each 94 cars unloaded against one affected by the changes, the new rules will apply Company or the Hudson's Bay Company could, upon complaint out of the 81 cars unloaded last year. only to deliveries maturing on and after August the lands each owns, sow, plant and reap one of The percentage shows heavy increase in the mat- 1 next. such blocks of land, with the men and mechanical ter of faulty equipment arriving, being 21i^ per A committee consisting of Henry B. Hebert, aids already in existence on the North American cent of total receipts against 12i;4 per cent last David H. Bingham. George Blanchard. E. Pfarrius Continent. year. and C. F. Shirk, the last named member represent- Turning to what has been done, it appears that in ing milling interests, was appointed to continue Manitoba alone, in 1902, on 2,040,000 acres planted Send us the grain news of your town and county,

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MEETING OF GRAIN DEALERS AT meeting to-day you meet your competitors socially Bunch and Henry A. Rumsey, with Rumsey & Com- ROCKFORD, ILL. and can talk your troubles over. This always re- pany; W. M. Hirschey, with E. W. Wagner; H. L. sults in better conditions. Miller, with E. W. Bailey & Co.; J. G. Woodman W. M. Hirschey: I want to say that Mr. Radford and Fred D. Stevers, with Rosenbaum Brothers; The hitherto neglected territory of Northern Illi- is a member of the legislative committee of the L. S. Hoyt, with Montague & Company. nois will hereafter receive more attention from Illinois Grain Dealers' Association, and I was much Secretary Beyer of the Illinois Grain Dealers' Asso- The grain dealers who were present included T. Z. pleased that he spoke as he did. was before the ciation as both the dealers and conditions can be He Marshall, Belvidere; D. W. Stocking, Lindenwood; legislature needs a greatly benefited by a larger degree of association last winter. This committee H. J. McDonald, Frankfort; S. A. Gibson, Kings; greater support and that is it seems best for work. One of the first general meetings to be held why Robert Spottswood, Winnebago; W. S. Shearer, to organize. I of a great retired in that section convened at Rockford on February 8 you know many Steward; S. T. Zeller, Ashton; J. R. Titus, Flagg; farmers, but no retired grain dealers. I do not and it will be followed by other meetings at near- W. H. Randerson, Winnebago; J. H. Graham, Du- think that there is any business takes the by points until as many dealers as possible become man who rand; H. Bokkoff, Rock City; W. M. Webster, Pop- filled elevator interested. risk that the grain man does. Your lar Grove; G. W. Banks, Irene; H. A. Hillmer, Free- burns with the farmer's grain in it and he can make The meeting at Rockford did not bring out as port; C. A. Crosby, Monroe Center; A. J. Hyland, you pay every cent of his loss. This is only one of many d.ealers as the secretary's replies to letters Cherry Valley; J. C. Ralston, Caledonia; B. P. Hill, the risks experience which 1 would seem to have indicated, but interesting ses- many he takes. One Freeport; Chas. Whitney, Roscoe; S. S. Bramen, sions were held and the following made applications had when in business was that we quarreled too Shannon; C. B. Lewis, Creston. for membership in the state association: A. J. much. Hyland, Cherry Valley; W. M. Webster, Poplar Mr. Marshall said that the worst thing he had to RAILWAY RATES IN MINNESOTA Grove; Bokhof & Graham Bros., Durand; Ralston contend with was the scoop-shovel element. Bros., Caledonia; H. Bokhof & Co., Rock City; Mr. Beyer replied by stating the present status of After much delay and several postponements, the Shannon Grain Co., Shannon; B. P. Hill Grain Co., the scoop shoveler in the trade and the many dif- "Cannon Falls Case," so-called, one of rate discrim- ficulties busi- Freeport; Charles Whitney, Roscoe. that confronted him when trying to do ination, was heard at St. Paul by Commissioner Secretary Beyer called the meeting to order at ness. Organization had been responsible in nearly Prouty of the Interstate Commerce Commission on every territory for this evil the 2:30 p. m. in the assembly room of Hotel Nelson removing from .January 12. The complaint had been filed by the and said that from the replies he had received he grain trade. Cannon Falls Elevator Company of Cannon Falls, B. had expected a larger attendance, but that some P. Hill said he belonged to other associations Minn., against the C, M. & St. P. and C. G. W. outside profit- might come in later. The object of the meeting was the grain business which had proven Railroad Companies, the allegation being that, al- able to get the dealers in the north part of the state or- and he had no doubt but that organization though Cannon Falls is 45 miles nearer Chicago ganized. Every business recognizes the necessity would pay the grain dealers. than Minneapolis and St. Paul, the rates on barley of organization and the grain men are recognizing Mr. Shearer spoke of the uncertainty of the pres- and grain from Cannon Falls to the Louisville and the needs of association in their work. ent methods of inspecting grain due to human fal- Chicago markets were much higher than the rates Mr. Beyer spoke of the evil practices which a libility and thought that by chemical analysis an from Minneapolis and St. Paul to the same points. great many dealers indulged in, such as storing inspection would be made that would be certain and A specific charge was that the rate from Cannon grain for farmers without reasonable compensation just. It was his opinion that inspectors who even Falls to Louisville was 21 cents, while from Minne- and the ill-effects which it brought to the entire tried to do fairly by all would err through the apolis and St. Paul to Louisville it was 14 cents, trade. By organization also it was possible to se- judgment. or 33 1-3 per cent less. cure necessary legislation that would tend to pro- Mr. Beyer stated that 'that was an additional rea- Commissioner Prouty early sounded the keynote mote the interests of grain dealers. Every grain son for civil service law, as the grain could be in- of the hearing by putting to complainant's counsel scientific man had friends, and it was to their interest to see spected on a basis. the question, "You think, then, that because the that men were elected to office who would not pass The following committee was appointed on cre- distance is less, the rate from Cannon Falls to laws which would operate unjustly or inimlcally dentials: B. P. Hill, Freeport; S. T. Zeller, Ashton; Louisville should be less than from Minneapolis?" to the trade. T. Z. Marshall, Belvldere. An adjournment was This led to the submission of testimony that the Geo. A. Stibbens, secretary of the Grain Dealers' taken until evening. rates from Minneapolis and Cannon Falls to both National Association, was Introduced and read a EVENING SESSION. Chicago and Louisville were at one time equal, but paper on the "Benefits of Organization." The evening session was informal and was taken because of the pressure of the lake competition Mr. Beyer said that the arbitration committee of up with short talks on subjects of interest to the the rates from Minneapolis to Louisville, the greater Illinois satis- market, were slowly forced from the Grain Dealers' Association had 1 rade. down 21 cents to 14 cents. factorily settled differences involving an amount Secretary Beyer read a bill that was introduced Cannon Falls, feeling no such competi- approximating $30,000 this year and at a saving in the house of representatives by Mr. Rodenberg tion in marketing its grain, suffered no such lower- to the dealers interested. The arbitration com- and referred to the committee on interstate and for- ing of tariffs. mittee consisted of two shippers and one receiver, eign commerce. It was a bill to regulate the car- The defense sought to show that the conditions and their decisions had proven invariably just and riage of interstate freight on all railroads engaged obtaining in this territory justified a violation of satisfactory. in interstate transportation. the long and short haul clause of the commerce .T. G. Woodman spoke of the relation between the Mr. Stibbens read a memorandum showing the law, as provided by that law, which permits viola- commission man and the grain dealer. Their inter- condition of cars arriving at the Kansas City market tion when a road must meet competition or go out of ests were mutual and the receiver could not afford during January and took occasion to urge on deal- business. Testimony was then taken to show to treat the shipper with any degree of unfairness. ers the necessity of shipping their grain out in cars the effect of the lake rates in the Minnesota terri- Grain men should recollect that mistakes will some- that were properly coopered. He spoke of the plan tory. Mr. Ewe of the Van Dusen-Harrington Com- time happen and not blame the receivers too quickly which was now in process of being carried out of pany testified that much wheat actually moved each for errors that are unintentional and that are prob- equipping five cars with steel lining and placing year between the head of the lakes and Chicago by ably not known by the receiver. The grain dealers them in commission between Omaha and Chicago. water, on tramp steamers, bringing down the rail should also take sufficient interest in politics to se- The results of the trial would be announced later. rates which cannot equal in cheapness those of cure men for the legislature who were friendly to He said there always had been shortages and prob- n'ater routes. The same testimony was submitted their interests. ably always would be, but the constant pressure that by J. C. McCaull of Minneapolis, C. E. Anderson J. W. Radford introduced the subject of the pres- was being brought to bear and agitation of this sub- and other grain men. The effect was to show that ent Civil Service Bill. He spoke of the unsatis- ject was bringing about better conditions. rail rates out of Minneapolis for the East are gov- factory conditions existing at Chicago and said erned by lake rates through the entire year, since that the outlook was helpful for the enactment of a ROCKFOKI> XOTEi^. during the closed season the storage houses accept civil service law that would better conditions in all H. Stanberry represented the Millers' National grain and quote rates against the opening of navi- respects. He thought that the grain trade did not insurance Co. of Chicago. gation.

realize its own Importance and was confident they If you want the help of your secretary on any One of the important features of the hearing was could accomplish very much along the lines of se- questions you must notify him about it. brought out on a question from Commissioner curing just and necessary legislation if they would Prouty. "What would be the result," he asked, "if The Funk Bros. Seed Co. of Bloomington, 111., take more interest in these questions. If some of Cannon Falls obtained the same rate as Minneapo- sent a seed exhibit for the inspection of grain the grain dealers could be Induced to go to the leg- lis adjacent shipping points equalized to dealers. and were islature he did not believe it would cause that body the new rate?" "Seventj'-five per cent of all the The contortionist in his evening exhibition might to deteriorate in reputation or influence. If we barley grown in our section," the witness replied, give the dealers a lew points on "kicking" against could have practical civil service, it would be far "would go to Chicago instead of Minneapolis. Louis- existing evils in the trade. better then to secure the passage of the McCumber ville would get practically all the rye." will write their Bill; and if grain dealers would show a proper Grain dealers memoranda for a It was also testified to that a change In the rates amount of interest he was confident that Illinois while with the lead pencils distributed by H. L. for distances exceeding thirty-five to forty miles could have civil service next winter. Miller with the compliments of E. W. Bailey & Co. from Minneapolis, in the southern portion of the H. J. McDonald: I was born in the grain busi- A delegation from the Chicago Board of Trade state, would divert grain marketed at home to for- ness and was brought up to fight my competitor went out to give social prestige to the meeting. It eign markets and destroy the Minneapolis pre-emi- until I joined the state association. I now find that embraced J. W. Radford with Pope & Eckhardt Co.; nence. "The Minneapolis market," the witness said, grain dealers are good fellows. When you go to a W. M. Christie, with Fyfe, Manson & Co.; F. M. "is made by lake competition on grain. A change AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 427

in tariffs In the southeastern part of the state, therefor, the transfer of the instrument and its de- to make a reasonable charge for the alleged extra however slight, would influence grain to seek a livery to the pledgee is regarded in the law as de- or additional service in switching the cars. But market in Milwaukee or Chicago rather than in livery of possession to the pledgee of the property the court says that under the provisions of the Minneapolis." represented by the instrument; but it is a necessary statute, if a car of grain was received by the Com- The case was taken under advisement: but rail- condition to the existence of such symbolical pos- pany on its line, billed to the elevator at Victoria, way officials who attended the hearing profess to session by tlie pledgee that the property itself be it would be its duty to deliver the car at the ele- be unwilling to believe that the Commission will in the possession of some other person than the vator. Its duty would not be discharged by leav- disturb the present adjustment of rates in the pledgor. Two different persons cannot be in the ing it upon its own «ide tracks. If it could be re- southeastern part of Minnesota, other than to re- actual adverse possession of the same property or quired to deliver cars at the elevator, it was equally quire a revision which will eliminate violations of premises at the same time; and, as here the actual its duty to receive them there. the long and short haul clause and level existing possession and actual control of the property In The collection of the switching charge being rates into uniformity, so far as it can be secured, dispute was found to have been in the dealer, the wholly unauthorized and illegal, the court holds that and this they seem now willing to do. transfer of these warehouse receipts to bona fide it was extortionate to the whole extent of the holders for value, even without notice of the fact, amount collected. Nor does it consider that it could not constitute a valid pledge of the goods, as could be said that the party suing paid the switch- the storage company had not possession and control ing charges voluntarily and was, therefore, pre- COVRT DECISIONS of the goods. cluded from maintaining an action to recover back the money paid. It says that he was extensively Illegal Switching Charges. engaged in the grain business. He was entitled to In what is now entitled the case of Galesburg [Prepared especially for the "American Elevator and & have cars furnished him for shipment of grain with- Trade" J. L. Rosenberger, B., Grain by LL. of the Chi- Great Eastern Railroad Company vs. West (108 out the of the switching charges. However, cago Bar.] payment Illinois Appellate Court Reports, 504), the Appellate in order to obtain them, he was compelled to pay Warehouse Receipts Issued on Insufficient Pos- Court of Illinois, second district, affirms a judgment the additional $2 per car. It is important to have session of Property. in favor of the latter party, who brought the action cars promptly to take advantage of existing market A dealer was largely engaged in purchasing seeds, to recover for what he was compelled to pay for conditions, as well as to comply with contracts for storing the property purchased in his warehouse. switching, at $2 per car on 99 cars, and costs. This the delivery of grain at a specified time. If he were He occupied the premises, for which he paid $250 a railroad, it appears, extended from Victoria to under contract to deliver a carload of grain at a month rent, as a place of business, maintaining an Wataga, a distance of 10 miles, where it connected certain elevator in Chicago on a given day, and office there, with clerks to assist in the management with the C, B. & Q. From Victoria to Chicago the rould only obtain the car by the payment of the of the business and with porters to handle the seeds. distance was 165 miles. There were two grain ele- switching charges illegally demanded, and he was Then he arranged with a storage company which vators at Victoria. One was owned by the railroad left to the alternative of paying the illegal demand had no warehouse of its own to issue warehouse but apparently operated by other parties. The other or to the payment of damages arising from a failure warrants, or receipts, to him for property upon his was owned and operated by the party suing, who at to deliver the grain as agreed, which might amount premises for a certain email charge per month his own expense constructed a switch from his ele- to many times the extortionate demand of the rail- upon the value of the property covered by the re- vator to and connected it with the main line of road company, the payment of the switching charges ceipts. He executed a lease of the premises to the the railroad. The length of the switch was from under such circumstances is attended by a degree storage company, to continue so long as he should 300 to 350 feet. The statute provides that all rail- of financial coercion, or business duress, which de- desire and so long as property should remain there- roads shall permit connections to be made and main- prives the transaction of every vestige of a volun- on for which warrants or receipts had been issued; tained with their tracks to and from any and all tary payment. and this without any payment of rent by the stor- public warehouses where grain is or may be stored. age company. The storage company neither re- Thus it will be seen, the court says, that the con- AMERICANS IN MANITOBA. quired, nor was it given, any key to the premises, struction and connection of the side track of the Estimated roughly the Winnipeg Free Press but an agent of the company did occasionally visit party suing with the company's system of railroad thinks that between $9,000,000 and $10,000,000 of the premises, and inspect the property in a sort of was authorized by law. American money is invested in Manitoba lands and way. The dealer remained in possession of the The Railroad and Warehouse Commission flxed enterprises, including the grain business. The Im- premises as before the agreement, continuing to the maximum rate which might be charged for perial Elevator Company, called "one of the most transact his business there as he had formerly grain from Victoria to Chicago at 9.72 cents per progressive companies," is American. Its oflSce done. 100 lbs. The rate fixed and charged by the Rail- was opened on May last with Wm. C. Leistikow as There were certain signs placed upon the differ- road Company, however, was but 8.32 cents; and the president, and Wm. J. Bettinger, formerly of Min- ent floors of the building, indicating that the storage company sought to justify the collection of the neapolis, as vice-president and manager. They have company controlled the premises. These were small switching charges upon the theory that adding the over $300,000 invested. Mr. Leistikow was a pioneer and obscure signs, not likely to attract attention, $2 per car collected therefor to the rate charged of Dakota and in the early days of Red River navi- and most of them hidden behind the piles of bags for transmitting the freight the total would still gation was actively engaged in the river traflSc be- of seed. No sign was placed upon the exterior of be within the maximum rate authorized by the tween the little settlement of Fort Garry, as Win- the building, indicating any proprietorship of the Commissioners. nipeg was then called, and the towns across the storage company, or giving notice to the world that The court says that the arithmetic of the propo- border. He has ever since kept a watchful eye on any other than the dealer had possession and con- sition was all right, but that the law of the propo- the settlement on the banks of the Red River. He trol. There was no open, notorious manifestation sition was all wrong. It was optional with the lives at Grafton, N. D. of a change of possession; none was intended, and Company to establish the rate as it saw fit, not ex- The North Star Grain Company, Limited, is an- there was none in fact. ceeding the maximum rate flxed by the Commis- other American company that has been operating Upon each pile of bags of seed for which the sioners. It exercised that option; and by its mode in Manitoba for about a year only, but now have warehouse receipts or warrants were issued there of busine.'rs advertised to the world that it would twenty-five elevators and warehouses on the C. P. was placed a small tag, which might be discovered carry grain in carload lots from Victoria to Chi- Ry. and others on the C. N. Ry., to which "strings" after careful search. The dealer substantially cago at 8.32 cents per hundred. While the court of houses the company expects to add twenty-flve treated this property as his own, at times going does not hold that the Company might never there- more during the coming season. W. A. Anderson, through the forms prescribed by the storage com- after change or increase the rate, it does hold that a young Minnesotaian, and half owner of the it operating rate pany, and whenever he found it necessary, ignoring so long as was under that in deal- Schmid-Anderson line of houses in southern Minne- of the public, it deal with all them. It was not found that the storage company ing with a part must sota, is president of the North Star Company, and had knowledge of this action of the dealer, but It 01 its patrons upon the same basis. A farmer hav- Scott, G. Co.'s carload of grain to ship to Chicago could ob- H. R. who has been W. Van Dusen & certainly knew that it was possible under the cir- ing a representative in southern Minnesota, is general cumstances for the dealer to do with the property tain a car at a convenient place upon the company's track, within 300 to 350 feet the elevator manager. as he would, since it was left within his control. side from The Andrews-Gage Grain Co. of Minneapolis, who The United States Circuit Court of Appeals, sev- of the party suing, and load and ship it to Chicago operate large line of houses in rate, net; while the party suing a Minnesota and enth circuit, says (In re Rodgers, 125 Federal Re- at an 8.32 would the time, to the North Dakota, last year built twenty houses along porter, 169) that it is diflScult to look upon this be required, at same pay same the C. P. Ry. The business in Manitoba is man- transaction as a warehousing of property; and It amount for a similar carload, plus $2. It was mani- dealing could not be justi- aged by H. G. and J. C. Gage. holds that such a scheme within the state of Illinois fest that such a course of The McLaughlin-Ellis Grain Commission fied the ground that the Railroad Company, Com- is constructively fraudulent as to creditors and upon the switching charges, pany is another Minneapolis firm operating in Win- voidable by creditors. Nor does the court consider including the collection of demanded and received from the party suing, for nipeg, as well as in Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota that it can uphold this transaction as a pledge of services rendered, amount less than the maxi- and Nebraska. The company owns ten elevators the property to a bank and other parties to whom the an authorized by the Railroad Warehouse between Winnipeg and Indian Head and expects the dealer hypothecated some of these receipts to mum charges for a straight shipment between the to build more this season. secure loans. It says that actual or symbolical pos- Commissioners points In question. session of personal property in the pledgee is es- Again. It was urged that the elevator of the party Indian Head, Man., has eleven elevators with stor- eentlal to its pledge. It Is true that when the on his private property, not on railroad age capacity of 300,000 bushels, and about 150 flat actual delivery is to a carrier or warehouseman, suing was lands; and for that reason the Company had a right houses or granaries. and bill of lading or warehouse receipt Is given : — ; ;

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into the hands of the parasitic and tough classes guards, even under these laws, are slender that only the personal activity of business men enough. in practical politics can rescue the states from KANSAS CITY LEAK RECORD. i!'c control of those vicious elements. And the

work of business men, especially of grain deal- The annual report of the weighing conynit- cr.s, may l)c most efifective in the cijuntry dis- tee of the Kansas City Board of Trade appears tricts which are removed from the subterranean on another page. It shows fewer proportional and invisible influences which so largely control complaints of shortages in 1903 than in 1902; city and especially metropolitan primary elec- but the actual number of cars arriving in bad tions. PUBUSHED ON THE RFTEENTH OF EACH MONTH BY order was larger in 1903, both absolutely and THE FORAKER BILL. relatively, than in 1902. This is not encourag- MITCHELL BROS. COMPANY ing. It is unfortunate that the records were not (INCOBPOBATBD.) The purpose of the Foraker Bill, the imme- identical in form for both years, which creates OFHCEf diate and direct effects of which i\Ir. John B. confusion in differentiating the phenomena of Daish epitomizes in a letter printed under the shortages. Apparently—though, perhaps, only Manhattan Building, 315 Dearborn Street, heading of "Communicated," is intended apparently—the complaints in 1903 were due in CHICAGO, ILLi chiefly, it would seem, to neutralize the prob- large part to causes over which the railways had able effects of. a decision of the U. S. Supreme direct control; for out of cars received HARLEY B. MITCHELL Editor 10,115

A. J. MITCHELI, .....Business Manager Court sustaining the decision of the U. S. Cir- in bad order, 3,455 had seals broken and a cer- cuit Court that the consolidation of competing tain proportion of the 4,697 classed together had Subtcrtptioa Price, i> <• < ' Sl.OO per Year railway companies as etl'ccted the Northern in " by leaks at draw-bars, showing rough handling Eaglisb and Foreign Subtcriptioa, ' 1.60 " Securities Company is illegal under the Inter- transit. The report for 1903 does not, as it ADVERTISING. state Commerce and .-\nti-trust Acts. Such should, indicate clearly the- leaks that are due to This paper has a large circulation among the elevator men decision has not been handed down as yet ; but of cars or other preparation of and grain dealers of the country, and is the best medium in the faulty coopering United States for reaching persons connected with this trade. Mr. Foraker repels the charge of indecent haste the grain for shipment, and for that reason the Advertising rates made known upon application. in ottering his bill by the statement that he report is so very deficient as to be of little prac-

CORRESPONDENCE. knows the court has arrived at a decision. tical value. The committee should return at We solicit correspondence upon all topics of interest con- affirmative nected with the handling of grain or cognate subjects. An decision would, of course, be least to the form of record used in 1902, and the awkward—for the Northern Securities Com- committee could with profit go still further into CHICAGO, ILL., FEBRUARY 15, 1904. pany.; and the stock brokering and stockhold- details in order to disclose causes of leaks in ing world feels, no doubt, the "necessity" for order that by their exposure by disinterested Official Paper of the Illinois Qraln Dealers' Association. such legislation ; as it would be, in a measure, record makers they might be corrected. POLITICS FOE GRAIN MEN. a return to the common law interpretation of "restraint of trade" and control of trusts and RUSSIA'S ECONOMIC RESOURCES. C. S. Bash of Ft. Wayne, Ind., in a report monopolies, which the Sherman Act sets aside If, as now seems likely, Japan has, by becom- as chairman of the legislative committee of the by a definite statute, of one effect of which the ing tk.e apparent mistress of the Oriental seas, Indiana Grain Dealers' Association, printed on Supreme Court said in the Trans-Missouri transferred the war with Russia to the land, the another page, gives a vivid review of the car Freight Association case •Struggle may be a long and exhausting one, service and transportation situation in that state, When the body of an act pronounces as illegal especially to Russia, fighting, as she must, so where shippers are endeavoring to crystallize every contract or combination in restraint of trade far from her base of supplies. How well the public sentiment in favor of a law creating a or commerce among the several states, the plain and financial resources of the nation can endure such state board of warehouse commissioners. In- ordinary meaning of such language is not limited to that kind of contract alone which is unreason- a drain is an interesting question. Geo. Ken- diana is peculiarly situated from the railroad able restraint of trade, but all contracts are in- nan, a recognized authority, is of opinion that point of view ; for although she is gridironed in cluded in such language; and no exception or lim- Russia has already exhausted the power of every direction by roads, the state is, for the itation can be added without placing in the act that taxation in European Russia. The condition of most part, used by her strongest lines merely as which has been omitted by Congress. the peasant is really so bad as to be almost in- a highway for through business; and when The Circuit Court, in the Northern Securities conceivable by the native American. The that is brisk the local business is utterly neglect- case, went still further and said in substance amount of land per family is ridiculously small ed and its necessities ignored. The pressing that the Sherman Act penalized its productive capacit}- is small—compared with need, therefore, of some form of state control not only any combination in restraint of trade, rea- American farms as 39 to 81, and steadily de- of the transportation lines is apparent ; but the sonable or unreasonable, innocent or injurious, but there are few animals in certain experience of this legislative committee at In- even the mere acquisition of the power to make such creasing ; — a combination. averaging a "quarter of a horse" dianapolis last winter demonstrated that a law provinces not yet taxes are extortionately high, creating a board of railroad commissioners will These views of the courts arc held by the per farm ; of cash receipts of only be secured only by the determined and united friends of the Foraker Bill to be "unreasonable reaching $48.80 out family of eight persons, action of the shipping interests of the state, and disturbing." $105.08 for the average all sources represents heartily supported by the farmers and their rep- Perhaps so—at least to a part of the public whose total income from resentatives. but it cannot be said that to the shipping public not over $213. increasing exports of grain from Russia Mr. Bash's advice to Indiana shippers is to the manifest purpose of Mr. Foraker to break The recently averaged begin the work of formulating and solidifying down the force and effect of the only two acts, in recent years (and which bu. per week) have been taken as an public opinion on this question now. He is however imperfect, which the statute books 2.000,000 agricultural population of the right. The work cannot begin too soon. .Xs in carry for the protection of shippers is especially indication that the more and more prosperous Illinois, where it is hoped to put the employes welcomed. empire is becoming surplus of a similar commission under the control of a There really is no necessity for this bill. If and is raising a larger and larger annual means the suitable civil service law, the work must start the Northern Securities Company is an illegal of food products, but such is by no means with the selection of candidates for legislative form of combination, or power to effect a com- case. Grain has been one of Russia's the for her foreign payments and exporta- representatives and state senators. Grain deal- bination, it can be dissolved ; and temporary making the encouraged ; besides, under ers and shippers in both states should make it inconvenience of its dissolution can be more tion has been the Russian their business to know how candidates of all easilv borne by its shareholders than the break- pressure of desperate necessity, breadstuffs that they parties stand on these two questions and if posing down of the public defenses against objec- peasants have been selling their ex- sible should defeat for nomination those as- tionable combinations of carriers aind other ought to consume, and have increased it being pirants who will not pledge themselves to sup- quasi-public corporations can be permanently ports at the expense of their health, port these measures. Politics have gotten so far endured by the shipping public, whose safe- undenied that no less than twenty entire prov- AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 429

inces of European Russia are lial)itually nnder- .\!1 English millers are not agreed that abolition that the "ditcli" is already finished and paid for fed. The exhausting sale of food resources is of tlic "certificate final" system would bo desira- i)y Chicago herself, reconnnitted (that is, killed) made not because Russians have enough, much ble or practicable. At least the National Asso- a report favorable to the river improvement, less a surplus, but because they must get money ciation of British and Irish Millers refused to while endorsing other similar work no more for their taxes. That the exportation is not a go as far as Mr. Rank desired— to bind them- j)rcssing or meritorious. natural movement is certain, for on February 8, silves not to buy .\mcrican wheats, "certificate immediately after the war began, exports from final"; but Cdntented itself with declaring that McCUMBER BILL.

Odessa, as Broomhall's cabled, ceased. tiiat system is "unsatisfactory," and that, as The McCumber bill, or the proposition to Kennan says further that the arrearages of members of the association, they "will in establish govemment inspection of grain under state taxes have increased from lo i)er cent in the future endeavor to buy on sample or on IbiC direction of the Agricultural Department, 1871 to 177 per cent in i()0o, and that land re- standards made uj) in the United States and has been so vigorously objected to by the Na- demption payments have in manv provinces Canada in the same way that California sam- tional Board of Trade and by mnnerous boards wholly ceased—both facts .showing the hopeless ples are made up." iif trade, dealers' associations and individuals, economic condition of the peasants. It may also be of passing interest, at least, that it may be said to have received its quietus. Autocracy may do nuich that no other form to the .Vmerican out-port grain inspectors to I'.ven .Senator McCumber, we imagine, by this of government might dare dream of; but at know that American inspection certificates lime, understands the impracticability of his bill. least from the occidental-democratic point of are not wholly discredited abroad ; a promi- And, till), the ^otcs the minority report received view Russia's preparation for war (which .some nent Lcith miller saying to the British .Associa- i:i the National Board of Trade meeting were astute European once said is "Moncv, Monev tion when the subject was under discussion that probably votes in favor of the principle of uni- and more ]\Ioney'') is not whollv of the best, Montreal certificates were so utterly valueless formity in grading and inspection that govern- with an impoverished populace behind the armv. tliat he had refused point blank to accept grain ment control would tend, at least, to bring about, u|ion them, although he did accept .American rather than expressions of opinion that the Mc- SENATOR BURTON'S CASE. certificates, and objected to committing the asso- Cumber bill in its present form is likely to bring ciation against tlu-m as a whole. Senator Burton, in explanation of the indict- about such a condition. ment against him at St. Louis, agrees he It is now up to the exchanges to was THE NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE. themselves paid by the Rialto Grain and Securities Com- biing about this uniformity and thus anticipate pany for "legal services," said services any further attempts inspection $2,500 The National Board of Trade convention de- to take the of consisting only in his going to the postoffice de- grain out of the hands of the trade itself. The voted rather more time than usual to subjects in partment "to find wdiether a fraud order had exchanges must recognize the fact that their which the grain trade is interested ; and these been issued" against the said company. This ciiief and perhaps only legitimate function is to on the whole were disposed of satisfactorily to would seem rather a high fee for so simple a facilitate the marketing of grain in such a man- the trade. The crop report committee's two re- service, even when paid in five separate install- •i( r as to encourage its production by obtaining |)orts, published on another page, were, perhaps, ments of each : for a lawyer might for it the highest prices the world is willing to $500 $23 rather colorless, barring the huge boquct depos- have made so simple an inquiry quite as well as |)ay for it ; not to cater exclusively to the specu- ited on Statistician Hyde's desk'. The commit- the Senator who denies having done more. lative side of the market and to the professional tee was, of course, right in its view of the Bu- The Senator, may or may not be punished un- mixers and sophisticators of grain. A multi- reau's work ; that is, if the work is hereafter to der the statute for the offense charged : it real- nlicity of definitions of the same kind or grade be done in the way it is done now. r)Ut Mr. ly doesn't matter; the "mi.x up'' has done him cif grain in different markets creates confusion (irimcs of Ohio, who knows something by ex- irreparable anyhow. But the pertinent lliat necessarily plays into the hands of the ex- damage perience in this identical work of the accuracy fact is, that have been held ])crt and causes loss to the inexpert are though many persons of farmers' guesses and reports on crojis, feels who accountable for ofTenses against the postal laws always the cotmlry shi])pcr and, lastly, the there is a better way to arrive at the results of sort in this case, few have been f;rowei. Uniform grading definitions and in- the involved sought than to depend on the guesses of many whipt of justice. The bucket-shoppers of St. thousands of volunteer correspondents, even spection, on the other hand, would remove con- continue fusion, at least from the growers' minds, Louis, Kansas City and Minnesota when sup]Dlementcd by the guesses of certain and their business of advertising for and plucking therefore be a direct and distinct benefit to the paid field agents. It would assuredly cost more their tickets un- cash business on all exchanges, which it is their the "innocent purcha,sers" of money to get an accurate estimate, say of the authorities, although their busi- duty to encourage and foster by trying to bring molested by the grain in farmers' hands at a given date, than to to be in some growers and dealers into closer sympathy. ness is well understood and known arrive at the sum total of many thousands of respectable "square" than the respects less or guesses; but what Mr. Grimes contends for is Louisiana or Kentucky Lotter- QUEER PROMOTERS. suppressed (?) that if the government is going to authorize a ies. and the Sen- Why do these gentry escape it statement statement at all, ought to base that It is remarked in both North Dakota and in ator from Kansas get all the attention? on something more tangible than mere gues.ses. Illinois that the promoters and professional The Board did not indorse his view, at least so BRITISH COMPLAINTS OF IN- spouters for farmers' elevators, farmers' ex- far to recommit or reject the reports. SPECTION. as changes, and tlie like are frequently broken disposed of National inspection of grain was down political hacks who have worn out their possible, since the entire grain There are, of course, two sides to pretty near- in the only way welcome with all parties with which they have ly all questions; at any rate, the matter of cis- trade of the country with few exceptions is op- been identified. O. G. Major of North Dakota, atlantic export wheat has, whether the grain posed to it. who has been organizing farmers' elevators and originates in the United States or in Canada. Senator Hanna came forward with an "ace was once a middle-of-the-road candidate for buyer, under the high" hand to bluff his ship subsidy scheme At the present time the English governor, is now lecturing on socialism ; Col.

miller has been tl.rough ; but the Board refused to commit itself lead of J. Rank of Hull, a who Denton, who distinguished himself at Fargo as cn this continent recently and is sure he knows, on that hopeless project, beyond urging the ap- the champion of national inspection, is referred is trying very hard to get millers to break away pointment by President Roosevelt of a special to proudly as "a Democrat in an overwhelming from the systejn of buying on inspectors'^ certifi- commission to report upon the needs of the Republican state," as if that added any weight the standard or Amer'can merchant marine. cates of grade and to substitute to his argument ; and down in Carroll County, sealed sample method. The Board, however, undertook too much and 111., is another local politician, notable for his blunders, including There is very little doubt that the hos- in consequence made some skill in sophistry and softsoapery, who is accused pitalizing system in vogue at the exporting the very stupid one of confounding the Illinois by a Milledgeville editor of promoting a farm- elevators of both the United States and Canada River ship canal improvement with the di.gging ers' elevator in order to "get even" politically but Chicago's drainage canal at government ex- is rather overdoing the mixing proposition ; of with the buyer at Chadwick. Farmers who butt just what may be done abroad to offset or stop pense, to which the Cleveland men loudly ob- in on that kind of representation ought to exhibiting its ignorance of the fact the alleged abuses of the system is not so clear. jected, and, know what to expect; yet some do it. ;

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service was appointed by the association, in the dition than this shelled stuflE in the bins. At any pDITORIALi^^K hope of getting relief from this vicious as well rate, certain tests in Sangamon County of this as illegal form of competition. kind of corn for seed showed that 90 per cent of it germinated. The railroad rate war in the West and South- It has been decided by the Grain Dealers' Un- west is putting unexpected money in the purses ion of S. W. Iowa and N. W. Missouri to hold a of grain dealers, and is particularly pleasant, meeting at Mexico, Mo., on March 29 or 30 Shortages are like the poor—they're with us no doubt, to dealers in Kansas or Nebraska, for the purpose of thoroughly organizing the always. where previous high rates and car famines had grain trade in that state. An excellent program made the dealer's life anything but a happy one. Let your watchword be "Civil Service" in the will be arranged for the afternoon and a ban- Illinois inspection department. It is the intention of the car equipment com- quet will be given in the evening. The speak- mittee of the Grain Dealers' National Associa- ers will be men who have had long experience If every grain dealer has to have a cooperage tion to submit to the different railroads for their in association work. The exact date will be shop, why wouldn't it be well to go a step consideration models of grain doors. It is sug- announced later. farther and build his own railroad cars? gested that all persons who may have ideas or The member of the Chicago Board who ad- models for grain doors which they may wish Grain dealers should recollect that they can dressed the co-operators at Lincoln the other day presented should send working models to H. A. often grind feed with profit to themselves dur- is quoted by the State Journal as saying he Foss, chairman, room 90, Board of Trade, Chi- ing the winter and spring months. "wanted the farmers to ship to him because he cago. was the only man on the Board that would give If October doesn't get a "hip holt" soon, it It is said the farmer element in the Iowa legis- them fair treatment. He interspersed his appears now as though June would take a fall lature has "pooled its issues" and agreed to lengthy remarks with some [other?] anecdotes from him in the present National Association stand together for the legislation they want and that brought down the house." Wonder the Tune-October contest. stop what they don't want. This looks legitimate Board's entertainment committee never puts him

from their point of view ; but this growing habit on for a stunt. If you nnist handle the new corn that is now of the farmers and other classes to flock each being shelled, better consign it and have it sold The new administration of the Chicago b}' themselves simply because they are farmers, on its merits for immediate consumption, for it Board of Trade has appointed a special commit- etc., is by no means a healthy condition in leg- will not stand storage. tee on the inspection system of Illinois, taking islation. up the work where the former special commit- Now we have it, at last. The Board of Trade It is intimated that Mr. Chamberlain is get- tee, of which Mr. Slaughter was chairman, left at Pilot Mound, Manitoba, has adopted a reso- for protection in ting tired of his campaign Eng- off. Just at this time the wheat inspection is lution asking the Dominion government to ap- trying to land, and that he and the ministry are under criticism. But as the department is out of point a grain inspector in each town instead of get together to "drop it," and substitute a reach of any sort of ammunition the Board may only one at Winnipeg. bounty on English and Colonial grown wheat fire except paper bullets, "it pursues," as a witty

for the proposed duty on foreign wheat—which member said, "the even tenor of its unjust and The Nebraska Grain Dealers' Association is another way of "skinning the rabbit," but inequitable way," just as though the Slaughter started south last week on a friendly visit to one, perhaps, not quite so expensive to the Brit- committee had never reported. the king of the Mardi Gras. As ambassadors ish consumer. extraordinary of King Corn, King Rex will About the most tiresome thing in Canada at without doubt extend them a heartv welcome. The first act of the new administration of the this moment is the everlasting wail of woe that Chicago Board of Trade was to re-elect George one hears that the new grain elevator now being During the late wheat squeeze at St. Louis F. Stone secretary and to increase his salary fi.nished in Montreal harbor will "prove a huge there was strong complaint by millers that the from $7,000 to $8,500 per annum, in recognition disappointment." Why should it—if given half contract grade there, No. 2 Red, was intoler- of twenty years of faithful and high-grade ser- a chance by the authorities and its natural pat- ably mixed with hard wheats and passed bv the vice. This graceful act was characteristic of rons to prove its usefulness? It has been built inspectors. Perhaps the inspectors couldn't tell this association which has never failed to recog- and equipped by one of the best engineering and the difference and so "couldn't help it." nize its obligation to its servants in the fullest constructing firms on the continent ; it has a mag- sense and in the broadest manner. The annual meeting of the Grain Dealers' nificent water front; and is to be managed by a Union will be held at Johnson Hotel, Red Oak, Tlic winter now coming to a close has again man who has had abundant practical experience. la., early in March. The exact date will be an- demonstrated the money value of a good grain There is no earthly reason for its proving any kind of a "disappointment," except a happy one. nounced by the Secretary by circular, .\ftcr- flryer ; l)ut the remarkable thing is that country noon and evening sessions will be held, and dealers who have ample means to erect dryers The Montreal pessimists who now have this to every member is expected to be present. (for they arc not expensive) and can get the elevator on their minds ought take some- grain to keep them at work, continue to handle thing and give the public a bit of quiet, at least

Tlie grain growers at Brandon, Man., arc the wet stul¥ and run all tlie risks, merely to until the house has been put on trial. now growling because their wheat is mixed in forward the grain to the city man whose dryer Co. transit and the Englisli miller doesn't get it The verdict against Edwards, Wood & i.-< quite as profitable to him as many a paying of Minneapolis and Duluth, whatever its merits pure. This is touching. Perhaps if the grain gold mine. growers of Brandon would haul fewer screen- and whether sustained or not by the appellate ings to town with their wheat, the mixers would I'hc weather for the past thirty days, bar- court, will have been beneficial to the commis- ring about a week, has been very favorable for find it more difficult to get mixing stuffs and l)e sion business in the Northwest, where there ap- grading *'orced to sell the wheat pure. corn, which has been rather better than pears to have been some, though not much, buy- il will hereafter and has been arriving in the ing in of their consignors' stuff by commission

In spite of the Elkins law, which forbids dis- East for export in good condition. Many cen- houses. This practice is bad, even when the criminations, the Wisconsin Millers' .Associa- tral Illinois houses are still full of the stuff, how- purchase is made in entire good faith and for tion, on January 21, found it advisable to adopt ever, finding it hard to get regular supplies of the benefit of the consignors ; because it is a resolutions protesting that they are "informed, cars. This grain is morally certain to go wrong .'•elf-evident principle that no man can serve and for reasons believe, that a lower rate of unless moved very soon ; for having been wm- himself and his client disinterestedly in the one

freight is being given to a certain line of ele- tcr-shelled it will certainly blacken and mold as transaction ; and the agreement of the commis- vators" operating in that state than is given to soon as warmer weather arrives and hits it. sion houses with the Railroad Commissioners of millers, etc. This is a rather serious charge Corn that has been left in the fields, where not Minnesota to live up strictly to the letter of the but a permanent commiftcc on rates and car actually on the ground, is probably in better con- Grindeland law, however inconvenient and ex- AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 431 pensive that may be, will tend to restore any loss the trade may be sure that the inexplicable stand ucts of the farms, the safer operators and cash 'if the confidence the verdict may have created taken by the directors will be modified or else dealers are in their business. in the mind of the shipping public. the trade at Columbus will assuredly bring The new "broad market" at New York is on about a radical change of system that will pro- trial on the Produce Exchange. Up to date .\ Minnesota reader sends us an interesting tect both themselves and their consignors. Buffalo and Winnipeg, at least, welcome the and unusual clipping from a South Dakota The Michigan Millers' Association on Janu- change, Buffalo especially expecting for herself paper which is reproduced in the department of ary 20 appointed a committee to draft and advo- a probable large increase in option trading. 'Communicated." The point of view is one cate before the coming legislature the passage that agitators, of course, never take when the of laws providing for state grain inspection and The fire losses for 1902 were something tre- question of "creating local competition in grain" permitting millers to issue grain certificates. mendous—away up in the nine-figure class. is up for discussion by local merchants. "Com- No doubt the millers have thoroughly consid- Which goes to remind us that if stock insurance mercial piracy" from their standix)int is an at- ered their wants in this line and see their way companies were as studious to force the physi- tack on their business—not an attack by them to remove the difficulties that seem to cal improvement of their risks as are the mu- on that of the "other fellow." The banker's would surround such a dual purpose. The commit- tual companies, their losses, at least, would be argument is so pertinent to many towns of the tee's bill will be looked for with interest. greatly reduced. If the mutual companies can Northwest now-days that grain men could well (and they do) give full protection for about 50 use it in the campaign against local imbecility The Minnesota farmers who the other day or- per cent of board rates, the board companies that is liable to break out in almost any unsus- ganized the Minnesota Farmers' Exchange might at least approach that figure by the adop- pected place. turned a cold shoulder to the posing "farmer's tion of similar methods, with immense saving of The apparent immobility of Congress on the friends" on the Chicago Board and the $50,000,- wealth to the country at large. But the stock tail seed distribution question was shown the other 000 cooperative to their private commission companies seem to find it easier to lift rates day when Representative Shepherd of Texas l)usiness kites and also upon the Jimmy Butler- than the physical character of their risks. made an effort to reform the system by striking Vincent Kansas-Nebraska aggregation operat- The gram elevators in Baltimore, fortu- out of the appropriation bill the item for the ing in the Southwest. This was depressing to nately, escaped the general destruction of busi- purchase of machinery for making the distribu- iheir representatives, sent at great expense to ness property in the awful fire of February tion. This was done with the help of the speak- St. Paul to show the Minnesotans the way to get 7-9, these structures being located on the opposite er; but subsequently the item was restored, only rich quick. Have the Minnesotans also a favor- side of the river. In so far, the members of two men in the entire house voting with j\Ir. ite "farmer's friend" in the commission line? the grain trade are to be congratulated, while Shepherd against it. Mr. Shepherd aimed to In a recent case at Wichita, Kans. (R. I. at the same time the world's sympathy goes out have the distribution confined to rare and un- Lumber and Mfg. Co. vs. Mo. Pac. Ry. Co.), to them along with the other sufferers in this tried but, of seeds only—a laudable reform ; the City Court held that the railway company's tremendous and unexpected calamity. The wri- course, Congressmen could not be expected to demurrage charge was unlawful, and this de- ter remembers the prediction in some quarters, deprive themselves of this "cheap and nasty" cision was not appealed from. The contention after the Chicago fire of that this city means of remembering their constituents with 187 1, of the lumber company is, as to the time for un- would not be rebuilt in twenty-five years yet these little presents of worthless truck— at the ; loading, the law implies a contract on the part the core of Chicago, corresponding Balti- public expense. to of the freighter to unload within a reasonable more's "burnt district," was practically twice re- time, "National inspection of grain is again being dependent upon the nature of each built within that period. So it will be at Balti- agitated. A uniform system of grading grain, transaction, and that if the freighter through more. Calamity will not appall or discourage under the supervision of the federal govern- his own negligence fails to so unload he is liable Baltimoreans any more than it did Chicagoans ment, has its attractive features," says Orange for damages in the nature of damages and not in 1871 ; and soon as human labor can do it, the Judd Farmer. "But the greatest care must be in a specific sum. (Authorities cited are 31 N. world will see a new Baltimore far more glori- observed in the framing and operation of such E. Rep. 343, etc.) It is expected, says the at- ous and prosperous than the old rising from the law, to prevent the inspection falling into the torney for the plaintiflf in the Wichita case ashes of to-day. hands of cheap politicians. In such an impor- in The Southwestern Grain Journal, that Kan- tant matter as preserving the integrity of impar- sas railroads will now change their bill of lading The campaign ag-ainst grain thieves in railroad yards is that in tial and accurate grading, there is no place for to fit the circumstances, being unable to collect one apparently has no end the henchmen of those with a 'pull' in politics." demurrage under the old one. sight. It ceitainly has no local habitation. It Good. And in view of the Farmer's eratic would be much more satisfactory to shippers and With Produce Exchange seats selling (as one to those in dicta on the grain business, it reminds one of the engaged the work of catching the did about a week ago) for $151, it is not sur- lawyer whom the court fined for contempt. thieves, mostly boys, if the pursuit were entered prising that the New Yorkers are anxious to into a little heartily "You are drunk, sir.'' "C'rect, yer (hie) hon'r more by railway yard broaden their market. King & Co. seem to think authorities themselves. In Chicago, for —only c-rect decision I ever heard in (hie) ex- their plan, outlined on another page, will not thish court." ample, some of the roads are thoroughly in ear- prove what is expected of it, because there is no nest; and with men like L. M. Custy, chief of The exhibition of stubborn stupidity by the iieading oflf "those with special rates" and be- detectives of the Rock Island system, much good directors of the Board of Trade of Columbus, cause exporters and millers will not buy the in- work is being done; but, unfortunately, not all O., in the local grain inspection matter, illus- ferior grades. Why not ? They get them any of the roads entering Chicago feel equally keen- trates most forcibly the evil results that may way, if all complaints of inspection of grain to ly their responsibilities in this matter. At the result from the interference of parties outside go East be justified. The tendency in all big s:.me time, much depends also on the local the grain trade in matters concerning that trade, markets that have been groaning for months justices of the peace, not all of whom are like of -which they have no technical knowledge and under apparent manipulation is to broaden the Justice Callahan of South Chicago, who is prov- in which they have no interest. The protest of contract grades. And that policy seems, at least ing an exception to the run of J. P.'s in the rhe trade was sharp and ought to be sufficient to to the onlooker, a good one, for it is getting Calumet district, if not in Chicago as a whole, awaken the members of the Board to a sense of back and closer to the actual stuff that goes to since too many of these courts seem to think it the gross insult put upon the grain committee market from the farm and away from the pres- their especial duty to protect the juvenile and through them upon the grain trade, mem- ent artificial contract grades that no longer thieves from the police and prosecution, and not bers of the Board. Shippers need not, however, reach market except from the bins of private the public from the thieves. Mr. Callahan's re- worr\- about the situation this rank injustice of elevators. If the grain markets are to be the cent fines and commitments to the juvenile court the directors has created. The grain receivers at victims of willful manipulation (which their are of the right sort, and doubtless will tend Columbus are men who realize fully their re- behavior often suggests), the more the contract lo have, as all such punishments of youths sponsibilities to shippers to that market, whose grades conform to the actual products of the should have, a corrective as well as a punitive rights will be fully protected in any event ; and farms, or what the inspectors say are the prod- influence on the boys under arrest. —

432 AlVlERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

space, makes the little book a very desirable one. FOREIGN TRADE IN GRAIN. Accompanying the diary is booklet showing the financial condition of the Mill Owners' Mutual Fire With a total value of $878,479,451, the domestic Insurance Co. and giving such information about exports of farm products [including grain] of the the affairs of the company as a seeker after good country leached a higher figure in the year ended insurance would require. June 30, 1903, than was ever reached in one year, Co.'s E'. F. Wallace, who is in charge of The Wolf excepting 1901, says Geo. K. Holmes, chief of the offices at 506 Chamber of Commerce, Detroit, Mich., NEW ENGLAND GRAIN DEALERS. Division of Foreign Markets of the Agricultural at pres- states that he is enjoj'ing a good trade the Department's bureau of statistics. This amount is ent time. The New England Grain Dealers' Association higher than the average of the preceding four years is now only about two months old, but it is already Nordyke & Marmon Co., of Indianapolis, Ind., are by $17,441,036, and higher than the average of the well organized and has a membership of about 130, furnishing rope transmission and other power con- next preceding five years (1893-97J by $262,404,504. which is growing daily It has permanent quar- nections for the Oregon City Mfg. Co. of Oregon The exports of farm products during the fiscal ters, an office of its own in room I, Chamber of City, Ore. year named constituted 63.1 per cent of the total Commerce building, Boston, and in addition to its domestic exports. Thomas Roberts of Springfield. Ohio, who manu- president, vice-president, board of directors, etc., it The money value of the chief grain exports was facturers the Victory Corn and Peed Mill, is meet- has secured a permanent salaried corresponding as follows: ing with a Vfry satisfactory demand for his mill secretary in the person of Hugh Hamlin of Boston this season. Grain— 1902. 1903. the last meeting of the board of directors At Barley $ 3,995,303 $ 4,662,544 is one of the latest firms Lund, Rud & Company Geo. F. Reed of Boston was elected to succeed Buckwheat 449,917 75,713 to in the business of grain elevator building, Corn engage Rodney J. Hardy, deceased, as director. 16,185,673 40,540,637 Northwest. Both are experienced men in Oats 4,153,238 1,850,728 in the The first practical work the Association has un Rye 1,581,491 the business and joined forces in January. Their 3,143,910 dertaken has been to make an agreement with Wheat 112,875,222 87,795,104 313 S. Third street, Minneapolis, Minn. offices are at various fast freight lines for immediate adjustment Total grain C. A. Burks, the elevator broker of Decatur, 111., of overcharges on grain, flour, feed, etc., shipped $139,240,844 $138,068,636 Grain products (meal is out with list No. 10 of desirable elevator proper- on fast freight line B/L's from various Western and flour) $ 68,334,318 $ 76,990,455 ties that have been placed in his hands for sale. points. Mill feed, malt, brewery

A great many houses are described and any one who The Association's request along this line met and distilling refuse. . 2,387,125 2,517,919 contemplates buying an established grain business with immediate and satisfactory responses, with the Bread-stuft preparations 2,809,154 3,256,945 will do well to write Mr. Burks. result that the trade now has complete and unquali- Grand total grain and One of the most complete catalogues of grain ele- fied arrangements with the following lines; Blue grain products $21:^.401,238 $221,495,086 vator machinery and appliances, which ha? been Line, Red Line, West Shore Line, R. W. & O. Line, Hay $ 1.550,657 $ 1,909,951 Oil cake sent out from the Northwest has just been issued Interstate Despatch, National Despatch; also all the Corn 164,056 95,568 Minneapolis, Minn. lines running over the Pere Marquette R. R., which by the Midland Machinery Co. of Flaxseed 7,508,133 7,011,214 six in connection It comprises almost 200 pages, is of convenient include or seven routes working Corn Oil 1,769,370 1,467,493 pocket size, and fully illustrated. with the Pere Marquette west of Buffalo. Linseed Oil 68,617 98,116 A correspondent in this connection adds: "We Rice and Rice Products. 257,717 149,637 Pope & Eckhardt Co., grain receivers and com- Grass Seeds 1,283,335 2,985,289 also have qualified arrangements with most of the mission merchants, 317-321 Western Union build- ether of the various fast freight line?, and we cer- According to the Bureau of Statistics of the De- ing, Chicago, are sending out a useful souvenir in tainly appreciate the willingness of the various partment of Commerce and Labor the grain ex- the shape of a heavy glass paper weight. It is one railroad officials to put this feature of railroad ports for the calendar year 1903 compared with of those extremely handy little things that every detail onto a strictly business-like basis. In this 1902 in bushels were as follows: business man likes to have on his desk. connection we wish to impress upon various West- 1902. 1903. Jas. Kemp & Co., of Kankakee, 111., makers of ern carload shippers the desirability in every way Barley 8,712,874 9,799,005 Buckwheat 239,203 31,702 Kemn's Baling Presses, issue a catalogue that fully of obtaining regular fast freight line bills of lading Corn 18,723,960 91,732,780 describes and illustrates this machine and shows it for all of their shipments, as such bills of lading Oats 5,968,653 1,494,857 in operation under different conditions. This firm mean a great deal more to an Eastern buyer, espe- Rye 4,855,263 2,758,900 has been building presses for 25 years and the cially one that is buying on a sight-draft basis, Wheat 129,466,280 73,372,255 present machine is the outgrowth of wide experi- than does a local railroad bill of lading. There is The United Kingdom was the heaviest buyer of ence. chance for considerable reform in this respect with corn in 1903 (35,966,782 bu.) and Germany next Through an oversight, the handsome calendar of the larger Minneapolis mills which are in the habit heaviest (18,764,611 bu.), Netherlands third (9,721,- H. G. Morgan & Co., Pittsburg, Pa., was not men- of sending forward a good many of their ship- 199 bu.) and British North America fourth (8,574,- tioned last month. This is a hanger, 15xl9V2 inches, ments under local Minneapolis railroad receipts, 232 bu.). with a lithographed design in colors, showing the stamped over with a rubber stamp and with the The Philippines were the heaviest buyers of oats heads of two golden haired cherubs. The hanger is through rate, etc., inserted afterwards. (460,677 bu.), British Africa next (382,798 bu.) and all but free from advertising, the firm's business "The matter of adjustment of damage claims, etc., United Kingdom third (167,426 bu.). card occupying a small space in one corner. is also being given attention, and we hope in time The United Kingdom was the largest buyer of present conditions, The demand tor the Spear Envelopes, manufac- to secure an improvement over wheat (29,917,662 bu.) and of flour (10,i26,356 of our Association have a num- tured by the Heywood Mfg. Co., 412 N. Third street, as the members now bbls.); Germany was the next heaviest buyer of Minneapolis, Minn., has increased steadily since ber of claims for shortage, damage, etc., a year or wheat (10,876,089 bu.), but Kongkong stood second originally into various this useful article was placed on the market. The two old, which were put the as a flour buyer (1,381,104 bbls.), Japan third (1,- with complete vouchers in every trade finds these envelopes are the best for their last freight lines 351,757 bbls.) and Netherlands fourth (1,084,007 delivery purposes, as they may be fastened securely, and as respect; such as Eastern agent's notation bbls.). Asia and Oceania took in 1903 9,378,749 bu. customer, etc. In spite they carry safely the delivery of the contents in of shortage, affidavit by the of wheat, the Netherlands 5,799,496 bu. and Belgium this, claims are very slow in adjustment; good shape is assured. of such 6,430,352 bu. and we feel there is no fundamental reason why a ' Catalogue No. 57A of the Jeffrey Manufacturing marked improvement cannot be made in this re- Company, Columbus, Ohio, shows Jeffrey machinery A car of wheat was unloaded at Minneapolis on spect, as it is the intention of our Association to for tne saw mill, lumber and wood working indus- January 18 that contained 1,652.30 bushels of No. secure a complete list of those specially old claims 1 tries. While a major portion of the book, which Northern wheat. through our various members, and by doing so we contains 142 pages, is devoted to this line consid- A pitched battle was fought at St. P^ul, Nebr., re- can ascertain in a pretty accurate way what fast erable space is given over to other machinery in- cently, in order to get possession of a grain car. freight lines are the worst offenders and take ac- cluding some of the grain handling and conveying One of the local dealers is said to have taken a car tion accordingly." devices made by this company: Jeffrey elevator that had been set aside for the use of Taylor, and The entire policy of the New England Associa- belts, buckets, boots and spiral conveyors are shown loaded it with grain. When the matter was re- tion is for the peaceful solution of these various together with price lists and tables oC dimensions. ported to the railroad authorities, they ordered the difficulties, and the response which it has had in oomething new in the shape of a vest-pocket section hands from several neighboring towns to the matter of settling railroad overcharges imme- diary has been issued by the Mill Owners' Mutual dump the grain upon the ground and give the car diately, indicates that the railroad officials are Fire Insurance Co., of Des Moines, Iowa. The book to the first dealer. This they proceeded to do, but willing to meet the Association more than half way is bound in black leather and the pages are gilt found the second dealer had barricaded inside the when matters of this kind are brought before them edged. In addition to being extremely handsome it box car with a goodly supply of arms and muni- for action. is one of the most useful things that a busy man tions of war on hand. The section hands then beat can have in his pocket. A receptacle for cards, a It takes 120 days for sailing vessels to go from a hasty retreat to the section house for a confer- complete diary for 1904, an identification page, space Australia to London. As most of the wheat then ence of war. In the meantime adherents of dealer for a monthly cash account, memorandum pages, is shipped in sailing vessels, this means that it will No. 2 armed themselves, and a fusillade of shots soon tables of weights and measures, a list of principal require three months for the wheat now being began. The firing was kept tip all night. When cities and their population, rates of postage; in shipped to reach London. Very little is forwarded daylight came, some deputy sheriffs appeared and fact, a mass of information condensed into small in steamers which make the trip in seven weeks. arrested Mr. Dealer, who was fined $10...... , . .. . ; ......

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VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN. tract timothy seed sold at [email protected] per cental; MEW ORIiEAWS— Reported by Fred Muller, secretary of prime contract clover seed at $11.25; Hungarian the Board of Trade. The following table shows the visible supply of at $1,501.85; German millet at [email protected]; buck- Receipts. Shipments. Articles. grain Saturday, Feb. 0, HK)4, as compiled by Ceorge wheat at [email protected] per 100 pounds. 1904. 1 1903. 1904. 1 1903. F. Stone, secretary of the Chicago Hoard of' Trade: During the week ending with February 5, prime Wheat, bushels l,04S;fl01| H56,807 809.901 1,216,210 contract timothy seed sold at $3.05 per cental; 892,886 3,856,831 568,317 3,811,588 Corn, Oats, In Store at Wheal Rye. Barley, prime contract clover seed at [email protected]; Hun- 400,000 ;)90,000 123 14,102 bu. bu. bu. bu. bu. fiarian at German millet at [email protected] [email protected]; 33,793 30,465 118,451 92,649 Baltimore 391.000 1,249,000 145,000 190,000 t)iukwheat at [email protected] iier 100 pounds. Boston 161.000 243,000 65.000 I'EOBIA-Reported by R. C. Grier, secretary of the Board of Buffalo 11.503.000 55,000 255,000 307,666 1,303,000 Trade. do. afloat... 121.000 RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS. Wheat, bushels 114,400 83,600 96,400 66,050 Chicago 2,903,000 2,457,000 1,474.000 2r9!666 "351,666 Corn, bushels 1,134,000 2.203,1,50 1,814,000 ,173,875 do Oats, t)usliels 858,600 iiSKi.cKMi f;«i,2oo 983,100 j Following are the receipts and shipments of grain, Detroit 221,000 ri8[666 134,000 Km bb^ooo Barley, Imshels 2;l7,,50O 32il,400 ti4.;too 206,800 do. afloat... etc., at leading receiving and hhipping points in the live, bushels 13,000 26,7(» 8.(IIK) 14,700

Duluth I 3,041,666 i2]666 V,482i666 438!666 United States for the montli of .lanuary, l'J04: Mill Feed, tons 2,055 1,425 7.077 3,685 do. afloat... Spirits and Liquors, bbls 5,775 3,575 41,089 40,311

Ft. William . . . ! 2,569.000 B.\I.TIMOKK—Rep Ttcd by H. A. Wroih, secretary of Syrups ami Glucose, bbls 6,200 4,400 19,590 19,150 do. afloat...; the Chamber of Commerce. Sei'ds, lbs 120,000 60,000 :!0,000 :io,ooo Galve.ston 1.063.000 360,000 Broom Corn, lbs 1.5,000 30,000 37,100 do. afloat... Receipt*. Sliipmenti. Hay, tons • 2.410 2,200! :ino 330 Article!. Indianapolis...! 107.000 72.000 30,000 Flour, bbls 80,550 It9,975| 136,798 123,083

I 1904. 1903. 1904. 1903. I Kansa.s City . . . 1,419.000 384. (HK) 110,000 Milwaukee .. 892,000 81,000 394,000 14,000 482,000 Wheat, bushels 185.192 224,011 81,687 91,766 PHILAnEIiPHIA- Reported by A, D. Acheson, secretary do. afloat. Corn, bushels 2.027.494 3,061,738 1,118,565 2,6.50,607 of the Commercial Exchange. Minneapolis.. 12,878,000 135,000 1,917.000 34,000 1,590.000 Oals. bushels 201,9.i9 336,428 19,897 720 Wheat, bushels . . . 49,3971 115,230 128,000 302,944 Montreal 42.000 la'i.lXK) 62,000 1.000 .15,000 Barley, bushels 10.417 8,121 Corn, bushels 1,389,477 1,139,972 1,049,846 1,211,920 New Orleans B5.'i,000; Kye, bushels 121.499 128,961 8,469 76,901 555.000 15,000 Oats, bushels 242,164 378,568 do. afloat. Timothy Seed, bus. 4.660 2,273 8,911 Barley, bushels 24,000 51,200 New York 1,183.000 341,000 500,000 8,000 426,000 Clover .Seed, bus... 7,894 8,420 1,437 7,443 j Rye, bushels 4,000 3,200 do. afloat,., Hay. tons 4.963 5,176 1,994 l,.51fl Timothy .Seed. bags. 279 Peoria 537.000 845.000 'suooo ' 9,666 Flour, bbls 238,851 283,3.55 232,626 2.36.857 Clover Seed, bays . . 200 Philadelphia ., 73.000 449,000 83,000 BOWTOX—Reported by Elwyn G. Preston, secretary of the Flax Seed, bushels . 45,600 Port Arthur . . 1,262,000 Chamber of Commerce. Hay, tons 6,yi0 7,650 do. :i float... Flour, bbls 183,873 313,651 188,190 200,798 Wheat, bushels :m,711 1,477.538 825,979 .526,.")C6 St. Louis 5,027,000 123,000 95,000 19.000 15 oai I do. afloat... Corn, bushels tM3,102 773,a36 484,876 391,965 t*AIW FKAMCISCO-Reported by T. C. Friedlander, secre- Toledo 238[666 '564]666 "9t53!666 22.000 1,000 Oats, bushels ;128,489 517,144 1,896 24,342 tary of the Merchants' Exchange. do. afloat. Barley, bushels 700 4.835 Wheat, centals . 870,715 318,165 849,695 175,930 Toronto 39.000 7,000 Rye, ()ushels 0,683 13,637 25,279 ' Corn, centals 12,7U8 20,022 1,500 1,969 On Canal ' Fla.\ Seed, bushels 571 8,2«9 152,000 155,000 35,000 17,666 69^666 Oats, centals 16,284 51,320 2,572 851 On Lakes Millfecd, tons 874 942 41 731 Barley, centals. .. 140,337 22:1,761 149,638 152,917 On Miss. River Corn Meal, bbls 1,855 1.365 3,027 762 Rye. centals 2,602 4,790 167 Oat Meal, bbts , 8,3.59 11.213 7,802 2,957 Flax Seed, sacks. 26,979 Grand Total. ' Oat Meal, sacks 6.100 7.020 12,459 5,805 39,200,000 8,061,000 8,596,000 ,085,000 4,772,000 Hay. tons 12,364 13,047 2,242 1,422 Corresponding Hay. tons 12.500 15,390 3,6:10 1.600 Flour, bbls 86,407 111,442 36,112 74,486 date 1903 48,429.000 9,510,000 4,72.").0OO 929,000 2,116,000 Flour bbls 130.908 135.665 84,669 96.935 Weekly Inc 871.000 150,000 ST. IiOlJIf>»-Reported by Geo. H. Morgan, secretary of the Reported by F. Howard Mason, secretary of the . . BUFFAIiO— Weekly Dec 560,000 I 105,660 114,000 Merchant's Exchange. Chamber of Commerce. Receipts by lake; shipment by rail. Wheat, bushels 1,998.900 1,821,600 2,169.240 1.638.525 Navigation has closed until about April 1. Corn, bushels 2.455.200 3„526,200 1.660,1.50 3,384,801 FLAX SEED AT CHICAGO. CHICAGO— Reported by Geo. F. Stone, secretary of the Oats, bu.shels 1.499.850 1,921.400 1 ,283.h;10 1,465.743 Board of Trade. Barley, bushels 469.000 51il.(X)0 59.645 15,240 Rye, bushels 115,200 177,300 156,075 138,186 Wheat, bushels 249.2B:1 1,916,196 911,553 729,005 The receipts and shipinentB of flaxseed at Chicago Grass Seed, sacks . . Corn, bushels ,483.707 10,318,770 5,180.242 5,033,893 Flax Seed, bushels . during the IS months ending with Jan. as reported Oats, bushels ,297.102 9,117,600 3,604,097 5,343,967 Mill Feed, tons by Chas. F. Lias, flaxseed inspector of the Board of Barley, bu.shels ,746,539 2,017,404 4!>4,456 404,883 Hay, tons 23,2.55 29.565 10.400 10,230 Rye, bushels 195.368 268,074 136.886 51,916 Trade, were as follows: Flour, bbls 227,055 160,735 31.5,480 234.791 Timothy Seed, lbs 790.265 3,3:18,430 1.563,685 3,773,600 Clover Seed, lbs 706,617 821,7.55 1.614,190 1,920,800 Receipts. Shipments. Reported by A. Gassaway, secretary of the Pro- Other Grass Seed, lbs. 6.57.782 1,507,794 2,641,705 743,854 TOIiEOO— Months. duce Exchanae. Flax Seed, bushels 202.462 115.800 56.5.50 64,420 1903-04. 1902-03 1903-04. 1902-03 Broom Corn, lbs 476.400 1,959.695 705,530 1,034,680 Wheat, bushels . . 145.800 363,000 100,319! 149,700 August 345.226 411.198 97.809 250,496 Hay. tons 17,648 2:1,157 793 798 Corn, bushels 1,239.500 1,601,000 866,560 905,430 Flour, bbls 7,56,741 562.055 784,174 483.665 Oats, bushels 218,«00 276,080 192,090 301,500 September . 102.620 545.866 162.900 273,292 October 530.960 783.075 166,049 145,142 Barley, bushels . . 500 900 6,470 21,271 CINCIWMATI— Reported by C. B. Murray, Superintendent Rye. bushels 13,900 17,600 6,640 10,000 November . 708.953 755,833 41.057 140,400 of the Chamber of Commerce. Clover Seed, bags. 9,166 8,245 23,603 26,761 December . 250.979 408,271 78,274 40,559 January 307.976 2.i8,8"5 90,906 28,643 Wheat, bushels 136,214 123.260 129,171 86,417 Corn, bushels 1,04,5,318 645,958| 684,046 298,580 February . 454.650 39,473 March 282,200 46,323 Oats, bushels 239,636 217,242 141,108 145,694 April 206.918 39,367 Barley, bushels 105,600 120,903 2,426 18 EXPORTS FROM ATLANTIC PORTS. May 81,800 46,376 Rye, bushels 44.750 56,819 15,646 30.979 June 106,250 14,36S Timothy Seed, bags ... 880 4,794 2,476 2.229 The export of breadstuffs, as compiled by George July 234,981 23,491 Clover Seed, bags 5,259 3,316 5,823 9,467 Other Grass Seed, bags. 5,317 8,212 9,995 10,404 F. Stone, secretary of the Chicago Board of Trade, 6.39,995 1,088,023 Malt, bushels the Atlantic ports during the two Total bushels . !,246,714 4.539,917 from weeks ending Hay. tons 8,657 8,312 5,592 4,520 Feb. G, 1904, as compared with same weeks last Flour, bbls 1.33,061 180,684 96,162 148,472 year, have been as follows: RANGE OF PRICES AT CHICAGO. DKTROIT—Reported by F. W. Waring, secretary of the Board of Trade. For week ending For week endlns Wheat, bushels 118,072! 229.738 44,493 47,331 Feb. 6. Feb. 7. Jan. 30. Jan. 31. Articles. The daily range of prices for cash grain at Chicago Corn, bushels 519,329 323.812 201.690 53,324 for the month ending Feb. 11, has been as follows: Oats, bushels 344,419 292.298 52.214 21,917 1904. 1903. 1904. 1903. Barley, bushels 366,199. 176,420 26.559 3,914 Wheal, bushels 1.088,000 1,301,000 1,020,000 NO. 2* KOl.NO* NO. 2 NO. 2 NO. 2 NO. N. W. Rye, bushels 24,590 50,373 29,661 38,826 1.734,000 B.W.WHT SP.WHT COBN. OATS. BYE. fTLAXSEBD. Flour, bbls 22,400 18,300 15.800 13,600 Corn, bushels . 1,989,000 l,5'.i7,000 2.019,000 Oats, bushels .. 50,000 80.000 84,000 116,000 -Reported by H. B. Moore, secretary of the Board Jan. Rye. bushels . . 40,000 25.000 35,000 24,000 of Trade. Barley, bushels 10,000 68,000 63,000 Flour, bbls 353,600 210.000 Wheat, bushels I 1,3:12.635| 811,769 141,458 40,406 421.400 414,600

a Corn, bushels . 10,679 Oats, bushels 833.959 244.239 ,'M,987 37,270 IS.. 82?i87H 82=«83H44M44M,37 37 1.03H1.03H Barley, bushels 143.657 121.809 113,815 96,959 13.. 82H 8r?8 82'.i'83S,44H44Hl37 37 Rye, bushels 39.917 25.110 WHEAT RECEIPTS AT PRIMARY 14.. 88 K\ 8:i?i 45 45 ;37V4 37M^8 Flax Seed, bushels 941,524 696.000 316,910 382,300 MARKETS. 15.. 83 879i Si\ ts'-o 15',: , . .. 59 .9»V, .98V4 Flour, bbls 64,200| 86,070 61,040 85,585 16.. 8:i',i tlj39 KAX»AS CITY- Reported by E. D. Blgelow, secretary of 1903-4. 1902-3. 24.. the Board of Trade. 25.. 88 93 85 H Wheat, bushels I 4.384.800 1.899.2001 3,371,400 909,600 St. Louis 18.989.000 27.404.000 28.. 91 ni'.iB-',, fjomeoM 66H Corn, bushels 1,859.400 2.816.400 1,268,100 2,511,200 Toledo 4,244,000 11.867.060 27. 85>8 87 i4e?i40'4 39!'.39W60H «0W 1.19 1.19 88M9H8 Oats, bushels ! 392,400 884.400 4.30,800 672,000 Detroit 1,499,000 3,040,000 88 86« 924 !47H47« Barley, bushels 75,000 1.000 12,000 Kansas City 32,323,000 1.15 1.15 22,011,000 89^^ 9:i'< 87 H7^4|47M|47V4 61 61 Rye. bushels 32,000 28,800 17,600 3,200 SO..., 88«i92;a 86^4 87f^'47}<^7« 116M 1.15H Bran, ton ' Winter 57,055,000 64,3-22.000 31. .. Flax Seed, bushels 3.200 12,800 2,400 Chicago 21,292,000 31,809.000 Feb. 1. Hay, tons 9,210 17,340 5,460 10,650 87i,;'46 -46 61 1.15 1.16 Milwaukee 7,147,000 6.322.000 1. . ;R6 41 61M 4m Flour, bbls 1 113,800 85,600 Minneapolis 65,181,000 69,226,000 2. .., 90^i 93?i^»7HmH7\f 479i41 4IS,«' 60 3..., 91 |96 ,88Vi90Vs5I 51 j42 42M61 61 MlliWAUKEE-Reported by Wra. J. Langson, secretary Duluth 24,952,000 32,439,000 4..., 93 87H88 93 i52m.52H42 42 of the Chamber of Commerce. 1.18 1.18 5... 92^ 98 (90y,,93 :.52!4 52«45H45H Wheat, bushels 995.280, 618.400 240.005 53,858 Spring 118,572,000 139,796,000 1.18 1.18 6..., 92?i,973iifi905ii92X150X50ii;41 41 Corn, bushels ... 326.800 2I7..550 307.670 1.39.787 7..., Oats, bushels 585 000 703.600 5.54.775 377.9112 Total bus. 32 weeks 175,027,000 201,118,000 8... 93 97 U9 1 16K 1 . 16y, 1.435^450 1.907.600 536.170 620.3!)7 Barley, bushels | 92^ 50 '50 39J4 39^159 1.17 1.17 9... :9m Rye. bushels 94.400 1 11.2(0 57.055 61.430 40 10... 639^98 91»£j94 ^9H49H40 Timothy Seed, lbs . 238,196 248.900 510,720 120.445 11... Clover Seed, lbs 2.50.6.55 446.350 765,430 East-bound cars from Chicago have been hard Flax Seed, bushels 23.400 17.100 to get, and their scarcity has interfered with the Daring the week ending January 15, prime con- Hay, tons 1.4101 2.488, 20 140 shipping business. There is no apprehension, how- tract timothy seed sold at $3.00 per cental; prime Flour, bbls 147,180 223.585 220,630 276.605 Feed, tons ever, of any such car scarcity as last year for the clover seed at [email protected]; Hungarian contract reason that all the roads have been acting with at [email protected]; German millet at [email protected]; buck- 91 1 N WEA PO £.18—Reported by G. D. Rogers, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. great caution. wheat at [email protected] per 100 pounds. Wheat, bushels 8.281. 160{ 8..569.960 l,582,810i 1,105,330 January 22, prime con- J. W. Crabb of Delavan recently sold 3,000 bushels During the week ending Cora, bushels 1,009,860 505.730! 149.9301 150,440 tract timothy seed sold at [email protected] per cental; Oats, bushels 2.324,450| 1,944.060 1.232.540! 944,910 of corn to Hulbard, Warren & Co., Osceola, la., at prime contract clover seed at [email protected]; Hun- Barley, bushels 1.084,420! 786.280 827.780! 640,870 60c per bushel for seed. A few days later Frank Rye. bushels 169,3201 144.290 120,170 92,270 garian at [email protected]; German millet at [email protected]; M. Hunt and Jag. Gilmer of Franklin, Ind., sold to Flax .Seed, bushels . 619,410, 628,800 340.800; 290,310 buckwheat at ?l-15@l-25 per 100 pounds. Hay. tons S,170: 2,382 216' 83 J. A. Everett 1,000 bushels of seed corn (Johnson During the week ending January 30, prime con- Flour, bbls 42,755 23,960 1.328,8191 1,365,494 County White Dent) at $1.00 434 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

deal in grain, feed, etc., under the style of Johnson purchased. Sufficient stock has been subscribed at & Harrison. both points. The Calumet & Western Elevator Co., incorporated Of wheat handled by the mill and warehouses at ELEVATOR and under the laws of New Jersey with a capital of Odessa, Wash., during the past season, the Odessa $300,000, has been incorporated in Illinois with a Milling Cc. handled 230,000 bushels, the Farmers' capital stock of $30,000. Warehouse Co. 100,000 bushels, the Orondo Shipping Co. 160,000 bushels, and the Seattle Grain 100,- GRAIN NEWS It is proposed by farmers of Swygert, 111., and Co. vicinity to build elevators at Swygert and Rugby, 000 bushels. 111., if they are unable to purchase the elevator IOWA. at the first named place. G. S. Stewart & Co. will erect a grain elevator at ILLINOIS. The grain elevator at Osco, 111., owned by Samuel- Pleasantville, Iowa. The new elevator of R. C. Cox & Sons at Cora, 111., son & Anderson, was sold at public auction recently farmers' has been completed. for the purpose of settling an estate. George H. A elevator is to be built at Palmer, Johnson was the purchaser. Iowa, in the spring. The new farmers' elevator at Bearsdale, 111., is G. Tudor succeeds now receiving grain. H. & C. Oakes of Bluffs, 111., will build a 40,000- W. C. N. Hibbs in the grain bushel elevator at Riggston, 111., as soon as the trade at Lacey, lov/a. John Cash has sold his elevator at Stewardson, weather will permit. The Younglove & Boggess Co. Hulshizer & Co. of Hamburg, Iowa, will equip 111., to B. K. Herron. of Mason City, Iowa, has the contract. their new house with an improved Hall Distrib- J. A. Ellis has purchased T. A. Grier & Co.'s ele- A charter has been granted to the Farmers' Grain, utor. vator at Deer Creek, 111. Live Stock & Co-operative Co. of Hermon, 111. The The Reliance Elevator Co. has closed its eleva- The Farmers' Elevator at Findlay, 111., has been capital stock is $1,000 and the incorporators are tor at Crystal Lake, Iowa. It will not be reopened started up. completed and John Bivans, W. A. Began and William McElrea. until next harvest. The Rock Island A and B elevators at Chicago N. D. Mansfield, who recently purchased the Ul- The Brooklyn Lumber & Grain Co. has been or- have been reopened for business. rich Elevator at Illiopolis, 111., has sold a one-half ganized at Brooklyn, Iowa, with a capital of $25,- busi- Frank Beatty has sold his grain and feed interest to William Close. The house will be op- 000. Albert Davidson is president and H. C. Light, ness at Waverly, 111., to H. E. Ensley. erated under the firm name of Mansfield & Close. secretary. The National Grain Elevator Co. has completed The Farmers' Grain & Supply Co. has been char- The Bronson Lumber & Coal Co., a new corpora- 111. its new office building at Newman, tered at Kinsman, 111., with a capital of $8,000 to tion of Bronson, Iowa, will build an elevator at that A. A. Armitage & Son's new elevator at Bucking- deal in grain and building material. W. F. Baker, point in the near future. The company is composed ham, Hi., has been opened for business. W. D. Lindsay and W. E. Conniss are the incorpor- of local farmers. H. H. Onstot is secretary. Corn crushing machinery has been installed in ators. The recently organized Farmers' Elevator Co. at the F. M. B. A. Elevator at St. Jacob, 111. Nearly $10,000 has been subscribed by the farm- Boone, Iowa, is making arrangements for the erec- ers of Weston and Chenoa. 111., towards the erection of a 15,000-bushel elevator. It is the The new farmers' elevator at Morton, 111., is intention finished and the machinery has been installed. tion of a co-operative elevator at the first named to build after the same style as the new Crooks place. A company has been formed and officers Elevator at Keliey, Iowa. John Collins has traded his elevator at Tuscola, elected. De Wolf & Wells of Laurens, Iowa, who a short 111., for a thousand acres of land in Tennessee. Work on the new Farmers' Elevator at Sidney, time ago purchased the line of six elevators on the Berlin, 111., which was slight- The elevator at New 111., is progressing. The elevator will be 36 feet in Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, owned by P. M. been repaired. ly damaged by fire on February 2, has height and will cost about $7,500. A 12-horsepower Ingold, have opened their general office at Spencer, Bartlett, Frazier & Carrington of Chicago will gasoline engine will be used to operate the ma- Iowa. The firm also owns four houses on the C, build a 20,000-bushel grain elevator at Sycamore, chinery. M. & St. P. Railway. 111. Lageschulte Bros., dealers in feed, grain, coal The Nebraska Elevator Co. is planning to build The Illiopolis Farmers' Grain Co. has been in- and lumber, at Barrington, 111., have dissolved part- a large cleaning and storage elevator on the right- corporated at Illiopolis, 111., with a capital of $10,- nership. H. J. Lageschulte and his son will con- of-way of both the Rock Island and Union Pacific 000. tinue the business under the style of H. J. Lage- railways in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Final arrange- sculte & Co. ments as to the size, location, etc., have not yet A. H. Davison has disposed of his grain and mer- rebult its been made, but the elevator will probably be built chandise business at Smithshire, 111., to C. C. Bird- The Glucose Sugar Refining Co. has after the plan of the large Minneapolis houses, with sail. burned plant at Taylor street and the Chicago River, Chicago, and it commenced operation in all depart- steel storage tanks. The company has 26 elevators McElroy & Treadway of Arenzville, 111., will ments the middle of February. The plant consumes on the lines of the Union Pacific and Rock Island. equip their elevator with an improved Hall Dis- 30,000 bushels of corn daily. tributor. MINNESOTA AND WISCONSIN. C. R. Aden & Co. have purchased the site on the An independent elevator company is being organ- C. & A. Raihvay at Carlinville, 111., formerly occu- A farmers' elevator will be built at Morgan, Minn. ized at Ivesdale, 111., to buy or build an elevator at pied by J. N. Hairgrove's elevator, which burned a The Osborne-McMillan Elevator Co. will build an that point. few months ago, and will erect a new elevator with elevator at Otter Tail, Minn. Fred Moberly of Mt. Auburn, 111., has sold a one- a capacity of 15,000 bushels. A modern elevator will probably be built at Glen- half interest in his elevator to J. W. Turner of J. B. Walton & Sons, operating elevators at Ur- wood, Wis., in the near future. Boody, 111. bana, Mayview and Thomasboro, 111., will build The Canadian Elevator Co. has put up a flour and Best & Wakefield's elevator at Princeville, 111., an elevator in the new town of Royal, Champaign feed warehouse at Warroad, Minn. has been started up under the management of G. County, 111. A. A. Funk, formerly manager for the Wakefield. The Amenia Elevator Co. has succeeded the Cres- W. Zorn Grain Co.. will have charge. cent Elevator Co. at Duluth, Minn. Henry Mooney of Philo, 111., will remove to Villa The Winnebago Produce & Supply Co. of Winne- Grove, 111., build an elevator and engage in the The National Elevator Co. has closed its house bago, 111., has increased its capital stock from $5,000 at Eagle Bend, Minn., for the season. grain business. to $10,000. The present officers of the company are W. W. Day has sold his elevator, lumber yard William McGrachy, president; James McNair, sec- Richards, Graves & Roberts, grain dealers at and residence at Monica, 111., to Chas. Gelling and retary, and W. H. Randerson, manager. Oregon, Wis., have dissolved partnerhip. Henry McManus. R. G. & C. H. Risser have opened the unused ele- L. Schnell of St. Charles, Minn., has installed The Hendee Elevator at Table Grove, 111., which vator owned by them at the Three-I Railroad, Kan- an improved Hall Distributor in his new elevator at that place. was destroyed by fire a short time ago, will be kakee, 111. It has a capacity of about 15,000 bush- rebuilt this spring. els and is put in operation to accommodate the The Farmers' Elevator Co. of Truman, Minn., A company is being organized among the farmers large offerings of corn now being made at that will build an addition to its elevator and handle of Grundy County for the erection of a co-operative point. flour and feed. elevator at Morris, 111. At the annual meeting of the Kewanee Grain The S. Y. Hyde Elevator Co. has bought the ele- The Mt. Pulaski Farmers' Grain & Elevator Co. Elevator Co., Kewanee, 111., the following officers vator at Montgomery, Minn., formerly owned by the of Mt. Pulaski, 111., has increased its capital stock were elected: Geo. A. Anthony, president, and F. SheflBeld-King Milling Co. from $7,000 to $11,000. E. Terry, secretary-treasurer. The company owns The Farmers' Elevator Co. at Faribault, Minn., the elevator buildings which are leased to M. C. It is announced that the recently chartered at its annua! meeting held recently elected Theo. Quinn. Farmers' Elevator Co. of Ludlow, 111., will erect Thom president and J. L. O'Brien secretary. a .50,000-bushel grain elevator. William Murray of Champaign, 111., who recently The Northern Grain Co. has leased a cold storage completed a 50,000-bushel elevator at White Heath, The Saunemin Elevator Co., which operates an plant at Manitowoc, Wis., and will buy and ship 111., has purchased J. C. Flanigan's elevator and elevator at Scovel, 111., is making arrangements to poultry in connection with its grain business. now controls the grain trade at that point. The erect elevators at Saunemin and Eylar, 111. A company composed of farmers and business Flanigan Elevator will be rebuilt and will be used It is stated that the People's Traction Co. of men at Seaforth, Minn., is being organized to buy principally for oats. Abingdon, 111., will erect a new grain elevator about and operate the Western Elevator Co.'s house. two and a half miles south of that place. A company is being organized among the farmers The Prairie Elevator Co. has completed its 35,000- between Magnet ann Mattoon, 111., with the view G. W. Miller of Long Point, 111., has acquired R. at Otter Tail, Minn., is build- of building a cooperative elevator at one of the bushel elevator and W. Thorp's interest in the Farmers' Elevator at points aliove named. The farmers have an option ing a coal shed for the purpose of handling fuel. Wapella, 111., and will have charge as manager. on the Morris Elevator at Magnet. 111., and may de- The Rialto Elevator Co. of Milwaukee, Wis., has The two elevators at Hudson, 111., are reported cide to purchase it instead of building. amended its articles of incorporation increasing its lo have GO. 000 bushels of corn in storage and are capital stock to $300,000. The number of directors \inable to secure cars in which to make shipments. WESTERN. were also increased. Two elevators are reported in course of construc- The Farmers' Grain & Supply Co.'s elevator at At the annual meeting of the Waseca County tion at Penrose, 111. One is being built for Armour Davenport, Wash., has been completed. Farmers' Elevator and Mercantile Association, held & Co., and one for a local organization of farmers. The Falls City Mill & Feed Co. has Incorporated at Waseca. Minn., on January 19 James Byron was president and J. secretary. The Atlanta Grain, Lumber & Coal Co. of At- at Spokane, Wash., to carry on a general merchan- elected W. Conway W. H. Roesler was retained as manager. lanta, 111., will increase its capital stock to $5,000 dise, grain and produce business. The incorpora- and amend its charter so as to permit it to handle tion is to run 25 years. Henry P. Glass, J. Grant At the annual meeting of the Ellendale Farmers' agricultural implements. Strawn and C. D. Francis are the trustees. Elevator Co. of Ellendale, Minn., which was organ- Charles E. Johnson, who recently purchased the The Farmers' Grain & Supply Co. has decided ized last year, and which has been making efforts interest of his partner, E. J. Currier, in the Elliott either to build or buy a warehouse at Spangle, to secure a site and erect an elevator, it was unani- Elevator at Sterling. 111., has since sold a one-half Wash., and to build both a warehouse and elevator mously voted to continue the project. The oflicers interest to W. H. Harrison. The new firm will at Cheney. Wash., unless suitable structures can be were instructed to proceed with the erection of an AMERICA N ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 435

elevator as soon as the frost is out of the ground, tract for doing the work and furnishing the ma- at a point about five miles west of Wahpeton, that provided a site is secured. chinery. state.

The Benson Grain Co. has made preparations to The Walnut Creek Milling Co. of Great Bend, Mills Bros, succeed to the grain business of Ches- close its grain elevators at Avoca, Woodstock and Kans., has installed feed grinding machinery in its ter M. Mills at Hermosa, S. D. Slayton, Minn., for the season. The houses at elevator at Dundee, Kans. Colman, S. D., is said to have prospects for two Hadley and Jeffers are already closed. Rankin Bros, have completed the addition to elevators to be built this spring. their elevator at Cambridge, Nebr. A 500-bushel A farmers' elevator will be constructed at Han- Daniel O'Leary and J. C. Cahill will build a mod- hopper scale has been installed. cock, Minn. The capital stock of the concern is ern elevator at Albee, S. D., in the spring. placed at $5,000, to be divided into shares of $25 .\ feed mill for Winfleld & Hodgson is being put The Monarch Elevator Co. will rebuild its ele- up in Wichita, Kans. P. is furnishing each, and no stockholder will be allowed to hold H. Pelkey vator at Drayton, N. 1)., which was burned a short more than four shares. the machinery and doing the work. time ago. The .Arapalioo. Nebr., branch of the Farmers' The Interstate Elevator Co. has made arrange- Pinkcrton & Mariner have sold their elevator at Co-operative Grain & Live Stock Association has ments for the rebuilidng of its elevator at Evans- Northvillc. S. D., to the Sleepy Eye Milling Co. of asked for a side track to its elevator. • ville, Minn., which was burned on January 13. Sleepy Eye, Minn. The Midland i\lachinpry Co. of Minneapolis will The Westbrook-Gibbons Grain Co. of Omaha, A farmers' elevator comjiany has been organized Nebr.. installed Distributor furnish the machinery equipment. has an improved Hall at Wakonda, S. D. C. J. Wagner is secretary. An in its elevator at St. Edwards, Nol)r. elevator will be built. An electric motor has been installed in the farm- It is reported that Harry Landa, of the Landa ers' elevator at Faribault, Minn., to furnish motive An independent elevator will be built at Flaxton, Roller Mills, New liraumfols, Texas, will build a power. The 10-horsepower gasoline engine, hereto- N. D., during the coming summer. There are three 1,000,000 bushels elevator in the east bottoms at tore used, has been sold to Rademacher & Young elevators and a track buyer at Flaxton now. Kansas City. of New Market. Minn., who will use it to operate Two elevators are reported to be in prospect at a feed mill. The Farmers' Co-operative Shipping Association Eldridge, N. D. One is to be built by the Occi- of Kansas City, Mo., has awarded the contract for Articles of incorporation dental Elevator Co., and the other by local farmers. have been filed by the a modern 10,000-bushel elevator to P. H. Pelkey of Farmers' Elevator Co. of Barrett, Minn., with a Wichita, Kans. O. A. Carpenter of Sioux Falls, S. D., will, it is capital stock of $10,000. The incoporators are as Robert Bailey has purchased the Hutchinson slated, erect an elevator at Colton, S. D., as soon as follows: R. .Johnson, .T. K. Lee, O. K. Alvstad, P. P. Grain and Feed Co.'s elevator at Hutchinson, Kans., the proposed railroad between the two places is Thune, A. H. Anderson, A. J. Johnson, N. P. bet- and will continue the business. Possession was giv- built. terlund and E. J. Newman. en February 1. William and Charles Corcoran have purchased The Hubbard & Palmer Co. of Mankato, Minn., The Farmers' Co-oiierative Shipping Association Larkin & Thompson's elevator at Flandreau, S. D., has purchased from E. D. Davis the old mill and of Havelock, Nebr., has been unable to secure an and will continue the business. Charles Corcoran elevator at Kasota, Minn., and will use them for elevator on satisfactory terms and will do a scoop- will act as manager. grain storage purposes. Neither the mill nor the ing business at that station. A farmers' elevator company is in process of elevator has been in use for a long time and it is A company has been formed at Ericson, Nebr., formation at Howard, S. D., and vicinity. If one not the intention of the new owners to start them to build a 15.000-bushel co-operative elevator. The of the present elevators at that point can be pur- up. A side track will be built to the plant. officers arc: President, E. Brown; secretary, F. G. chased a new elevator will not be built, otherwise The Calumet Grain Co. is building a new ele- Ball, and treasurer, Erastus Irving. Work will be it will. vator and power house at Minneapolis, Minn., which commenced as soon as the weather will permit. The Co-operative Elevator Co. is the name of a will cost when completed about $75,000. The ele- new organization composed of farmers which has vator proper is 56x84 feet in dimensions and 150 SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWESTERN. been formed at Webster, S. D. The capital stock Is feet high. It is of frame construction, metal-clad $4,000. C. E. Anderson is secretary. An elevator grain warehouse has been opened at Wartrace, and will have a storage capacity of 225,000 bushels. A will be built as soon as a site is secured. The power house will be 5(;x62 feet and 24 feet high, Tenn. The annual meeting of the Farmers' Elevator of fireproof construction. It will have a battery of A large grain elevator will be erected at Frisco, Co. of Mayville, N. D., was held on January 23. three boilers and bo capable of furnishing 350-horse- Texas. The officers elected were: 0. C. Hauan, president; Ijower. It will also contain an electric light plant. E. J. Blount succeeds to the grain business of 0. 0. Jordet, vice-president; A. A. Skarperud, sec- The elevator will be ready for business about E. J. Blount & Co. at Timpson, Texas. retary; J. C. Leuni, treasurer. John Christopher- March 1. son continues as The Canadian Mill & Elevator Co. of El Reno, manager. MISSOURI, KANSAS AND NEBRASKA. Okla.. has increased its capital stock from $60,000 to $200,000. OHIO, INDIANA AND MICHIGAN. A farmers' elevator is in contemplation at Nelson, Nebr. Taylor & Co. of Union City, Tenn., dealers in The grain firm of William Dickman & Son at grain, hay and feedstuffs, have incorporated with Celina, Ohio, has been dissolved. farmers' elevator company has been formed at A a capital of $25,000. Rogers, Nebr. T. W. Brooks has bought the grain elevator and J. C. Robb, of Kingfisher, Okla., is making ar- residence of J. S. Harshman at Enon, Ohio. Railback Bros, have completed their elevator at rangements for the erection of a 200,000-bushel ele- Nebr. Smith Bros, succeed F. B. Nims & Co. in the Malmo, vator Guthrie, Okla. at ownership in the grain elevator at Lake Ouessa, Halton Bros, have bought the Delaney Elevator The Armstrong Grain & Investment Co. has Mich. at Angus, Nebr. opened an office and warehouse at Houston, Texas, J. L. Simons, of Muncie, Ind., has purchased the A farmers' elevator will be built at Memphis, to handle grain feedstuffs, etc. elevator at Gaston, Ind., from Carter Bros, and will Nebr., in the spring. C. L. Spencer, who recently sold his grain busi- remove to that place. A Mr. Berry succeeds J. B. Wuenster in the grain ness at Newberne, N. C, has removed to Charlotte, Bert Miller has sold his one-third interest business at Home, Kans. N. C, and opened a grain and seed store. in the grain business of Blue & Co. at Flora, Ind., to The new farmers' elevator at Haviland, Kans., has O. The Nashville Warehouse & Elevator Co. will L. Landis and D. J. McCain. been opened for bu.=?!ness. erect a new elevator, doubling the capacity of its of the elevator at Perrysburg, The Ewart-Wilkinson Grain Co. has reopened its plant at Nashville, Tenn. The improvement will The owners Ohio, leased Gorrill's elevator elevator at Verona, Nebr. cost $40,000. have M. R. at Luckey, Ohio, and will continue to operate it. L. K. Butts of Kingman, Kans., has bought the E. T. Oliver of Bedford City, Va., who purchased grain elevator at Basil, Kans. the Farina Roller Mills at Raleigh, N. C, from W. Humiston & Chandler is the style of the new W. H. Moore has installed a new gasoline engine De Rundeau, will increase the capacity of the plant firm which has succeeded E. S. Tuttle in the grain in his elevator at Oneida, Kans. and erect a large grain elevator. and coal business at Norwalk, Ohio. L. E. Plumer is reported to contemplate building The premises of the Birmingham Grain Co., Bir- A. K. Zinn of Galesburg, Mich., and George B. an elevator at Turlington, Nebr. mingham, Ala., which were badly damaged by fire Little of Richmond, Mich., have purchased the J. L. The Duff Grain Co. has completed its new grain on December 24, are being rebuilt and the concern Sebring Elevator at Kalamazoo. Mich., and will con- drying plant at Nebraska City, Nebr. will in the near future occupy its old quarters. vert it into a flour mill. The Tyler Milling Co. is erecting a 50,000-bushel The Clarksville Mill & Elevator Co. of Clarksville, M. E. Burke, B. F. Sage, W. E. Denman, James metal-clad elevator at Junction City, Kans. Ark., has filed articles of incorporation. The capi- B. Guthery and E. M. Rizor, all of Larue, Ohio, are tal stock is $15,000. R. D. Dunlap is president, the in'orporators of the Larue Grain & Elevator Bailey and George Coryell have leased the J. W. Samuel Laser vice-president, E. S. Meyer secretary, Co., capitalized at $12,000. Brock, Nebr. Bartling Grain Co.'s elevator at treasurer. and A. N. Ragan U. G. Hagey & Co. have sold their grain elevator Farmers' Association con- The Howard County The Linze-Goodwin Grain Co. has been incorpo- on the Waba-^h Railroad at North Liberty, Ind., to building an elevator at St. Paul, Nebr. templates rated at Hobart. Okla.. with a capital stock of $20,- Edwin and Melvin L. Steele, who will continue the A co-operative elevator may be built at Elgin, 000. The incorporators are: E. H. Linze, of Hobart, business under the style of Steele Bros. of that place and vicinity. Okla.; C. W. Goodwin, of Clinton, Okla., and G. D. Nebr., by the farmers The Nading Mill & Grain Co has filed articles of Warsing, of Greenview, 111. It is stated that a num- Barry-Wehmiller Machinery Co. of St. Louis, incorporation at Shelbyville, Ind. The capital stock The ber of elevators will be built this spring. Mo., has purchased an improved Hall Distributor. is $80,000. William Nading, Charles W. Billingsley and Mary N. Nading are the directors. Duncan Bros, have sold their elevator at Rose- THE DAKOTAS. land, Nebr., to the J. M. Sewell Co. of Hastings, P^rank Plice, formerly owner of the elevator at farmers' elevator will be built at Jessie, N. D. Nebr. A Nankin. Ohio, and since that time a resident of S. D., a farmers' elevator company is Polk, Ohio, has purchased an elevator at Carlisle, The new 20,000-bushel elevator of the Platte Val- At De Smet, being formed. Ohio, and will remove to that place about April 1, ley Milling Co. at Gothenburg, Nebr., is nearly completed. George Kusler has bought Reagan & Hooper's The Pioneer Elevator Co., of Pioneer, Williams elevator at Artas, S. D. County, Ohio, has capital J. H. Kinnear has secured a site and will build an incorporated with a of elevator on the Rock Island right-of-way at Pow- Six elevators are said to be in course of con- $10,000. M. T. Hodson, T. L. Converse, M. E. Big- hattan, Kans. struction at Mohall, N. D. bee, J. F. Hanna and J. A Grant are the incorporators. Plans are being prepared for the erection of an Farmers-in the vicinity of Twin Brooks, S. D., are elevator and warehouse at Kansas City, Mo., for the organizing a company to put up an elevator at that At the stockholders' meeting of the Interstate Russell Grain Co. point. Grain & Storage Co., held at Toledo, Ohio, on Janu- of his business inter- ary 26, the following officers were elected: A. W Schenberger is remodeling his elevator at P. H. Murray has disposed A. Men- Wakefield, Kans. A rope drive will be installed ests at Murdock, Minn., and will build an elevator nel. president; Isaac Harter, vice-president, and W. and a Hall Distributor. P. H. Pelkey has the con- on the Northern Pacific Railway In North Dakota F. Day, secretary-treasurer. The board of directors 436 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

chosen includes the officers and Henry W. Harter, being supplied by the Midland Machinery Co. of J. E. Brown, Isaac Harter, Jr., and L. A. Mennel. Minneapolis. W. L. Skinner, owner of elevators at Powers, Tenders for the construction of tlie elevator at Redkey and Dunkirk, Ind., has purchased a site Fort William, Ont., for the Ogilvie Flour Mills Co., FOREIGN NEWS at Pennville, Ind., and will erect a modern elevator. Ltd., were closed on February 5. It will contain a double driveway, with two dumps, The grain and flour firm of C. G. Racicot & Co., and will be lighted by electricity. St. Hyacinthe, Que., has been dissolved. The busi- The firm of H. G. Stanley & Sons, Beloit, Ohio, ness is continued by C. G. Racicot. The leading grain exporters of the Argentine has been dissolved. H. T. and A. J. Stanley will W. Gibbins & Co., Winnipeg, Man., has incorpor- have resolved to reduce the commission to grain continue the flour, feed and grain business under ated under the Joint Stock Company's Act to do a brokers to Vz per cent. the firm name of H. T. Stanley & Son, and Ira Stan- general grain and elevator business. Agitation has begun in Berlin for the erection by ley will conduct the lumber business. the municipality of a grain warehouse, the grain It is rumored that the Canadian Pacific Railway A. T. Roudebush has purchased the interests of storage capacity of the city being now far below its will still further increase the capacity of its ele- Sullenberger in the grain business of Sullen- needs. G. W. vator at Port Arthur. Ont.. by the addition of 18 berger White at Hamilton, Ohio, and the sawmill An English judge, following & storage tanks, giving a total capacity of 1,500,000 some bad American business will be conducted "authorities," at Oxford, Ohio. The bushels. perhaps, has upset English traditions under the firm name of White & Roudebush. by deciding a case as gambling where brokers sued The Minneapolis Steel & Machinery Co. of Min- elevator at Lapeer, Mich., owned by E. C. a client for margins, who pleaded "gambling." The neapolis, Minn., has recently shipped several car- occupied by R. G. Hart, which burned Russian out port for Roberts and loads of machinery tor the large elevator which A new wheat has been suc- on December 26, will not be rebuilt. It is said, cessfully established at Khorly, on the north coast the Barnett & Record Co. is building at Port Ar- Michigan Central or the however, that either the thur, Ont. of Karkinitzy Bay, a western arm of the Gulf of Grand Trunk Railway may erect a new elevator at Perekop, on the Black Sea. It will take a portion J. Bettingen, president of the Imperial Ele- Lapeer. W. of the wheat that formerly went out from Odessa. vator Co. of Winnipeg, Man., accompanied by M. S. Allen Wheeler Co. has been chartered at Mandelevitch, the largest grain exporter ship The & Boyd and C. H. Hammerton. directors, recently and Troy, Ohio, to deal in grain, etc. The capital stock owner in southern Russia, committed suicide at made a trip through the Canadian West to inspect is .$160,000. and the incorporators are: Thomas B. Odessa recently. He was worth ten million dollars, the company's line of 42 elevators and to select sites Wheeler, Henry M. Allen, Horace Allen, E. N. Kin- all accumulated in the past twenty-five years. for several new houses to be built during the com- He L. A. Wheeler, Alonzo J. Young was than other caid, H. L. Penn, ing season. no more honest Russian merchants, and H. S. Thompson. but he was very charitable. The Canadian Northern Railway has received transfer of the Lake Shore Elevator at Auburn, A telegram from St. Petersburg says that a com- A requisitions from various companies for the erec- Ind., formerly operated by the late L. J. Miller and plaint by Russian consul general at San Francisco tion of five grain elevators at Edmonton, Man. subsequently by the L. J. Miller Grain Co., has been in regard to the foulness of Russian grain sent to The houses will range from 40,000 to 50,000 bush- to T. L. and H. C. Hoodlemier, who will con- California is attracting the attention both of the made els' capacity. The Canadian Northern will build tinue the business. The firm of Hoodlemier Bros, press and of the exporters here, and a better inspec- new yards at Edmonton and will put in tracks will deal in grain, hay and feed. tion by the local corn exchange and a revision of so the elevators will be in a position to take grain its methods are demanded. next fall. The question of a uniform system of weights and EASTERN. Jeremiah Nehin, an experienced elevator man of measures in Great Britain is again under discus- C. H. W^ebber has opened a grain store at Kenne- Buffalo, N. Y., has been engaged by the Montreal sion. A telling point was made by one farmer who bunk, Me. Harbor Commission to take the management of the declared that uniformity in weight of corn is im- Michael Keaveney has started up a grain and fuel new 1,000,000-bushel elevator at Montreal, which perative because now farmers cannot tell the actual store at Haverhill, Mass. will be put in operation at the opening of navigation price of corn in different parts of the country owing Walkersville, this spring. Mr. Nehin will superintend the plac- The Walkersville Elevator Co. of to its being sold at different weights. Farmers are ing of the machinery and the work of preparing the Md., has sold its grain and coal business. not alone in the desire for uniformity, and the house for business. The Grange Co-operative Association has opened sooner this much needed reform of the present ante- Canadian Pacific Railway Co. is planning to a grain store in South Gardner, Mass., with Herbert The diluvian order of things is enacted the better for change the motive power of its elevators at Port Smith in charge. all concerned. Ai-thur and Fort William, Ont., from steam to elec- Frank Wentworth and Charles G. Gowen have The port of Manchester continues to grow in im- tricity. The electrical plant will be stationed at bought out the grain business of Brackett & Dalton portance; and the canal revenue, which was only Fort William and sufficient power generated to fur- at Springvale, Me. about $450,000 in its first year has grown to about nish the elevators at Port Arthur with the neces- $2,000,000 in 1903. The growth of the grain trade A charter has been granted to the Somerville sary current. It is said that the improvements will has been equally striking, the 35,688 tons of wheat Grain Co. of Somerville, Mass. The company is involve an expenditure of at least $500,000. capitalized at $5,000. Prank H. Pitts is president. handled in 1895 having grown to 348,911 tons for Arthur Atkinson, a grain merchant of Winnipeg, 1903 (December not included). The quantities of The Annis Flour & Grain Co. is adding another Man., has reorganized his business under the firm flour and meal, however, grew much less rapidly. story to its building at Manchester, N. H. The other name of A. Atkinson & Co. The members of The cause of the growth of the grain trade is of erection of a new shed for storage purposes is con- Deloraine, the firm are W. H. Atkinson of Man., course traceable to the low cost of handling it templated. and Thomas Coulter. In addition to doing a gen- through the American built elevator. T. George has purchased the grain and flour eral grain business the firm will look after the in- business at South Ryegate, Vt. from Everett Fore- terests of the Atkinson portable steel grain tanks There is said to be a growing feeling in rural syth of Topsham, Vt. Mr. George has been in and the Atkinson portable grain elevators of which Germany in favor of re-enacting the law prohibiting contracts in grain owing to charge of the business as manager for some time. it controls the patents. "future" or "option" the extensive operations in grain. The former law incorpor- The Montreal Harbor Board has decided to erect The Newark Grain & Hay Co. has been on this subject was a failure, for the simple reason a tower at each end of the new elevator in Mont- ated at Newark, N. J., with a capital stock of $50,000 that the authorities were quite unable to enforce to deal in grain and hay. The incorporators are: real harbor. They will be placed on the shore it. The exchanges in Berlin, Hamburg, and other wharf and used for conveying the grain from the Alexander Gilland, Jr., William Cooper and George centers were closed, the brokers ceased business as barges into the elevator, thence into the steamers. W. Campbell. a protest against the measure, so that the govern- It is expected that all the machinery will be regu- The D. L. Marshall Co. has been chartered at Bos- ment was in the end compelled to allow it to be- larly installed by March 15 and the elevator will ton, Mass., with a capital of $5,000 to deal in flour, come a dead letter, which it has remained until now. be ready for operation two or three weeks later. feed and grain. The officers are: President, Dwight All the electrical equipment, with the exception Apropos the Chamberlain campaign, Broomhall's, L. Marshall; treasurer, George F. Nash; clerk, of the motors, is already installed. Liverpool, says: "Should the proposals of Mr. Jharles E. Marshall. Chamberlain be adopted and a duty of 2s per quar- and The Canadian Elevator Co. of Winnipeg, Man., The firm of C. W. Crippen & Son, liverymen ter (6c per bushel) put on all foreign wheat coming been dis- will, it is announced, build at Port Arthur, Ont., grain dealers at Fair Haven, Conn., has into this country from all places outside of the consent. C. Crippen will con- one of the largest grain elevators in the world. Ar- solved by mutual W. empire, it is very unlikely that this would have rangements have already been made with the Ca- tinue the livery business and W. C. Crippen will any serious disturbance on trade as a consequence. nadian Pacific and Canadian Northern railways for conduct the grain and feed store. Quite as much wheat would be consumed and it increased facilities for the new elevator, which will, Articles of incorporation have been filed by the would take many years to increase the production it is expected, be completed in time to receive the H. K. Webster Co., Lawrence, Mass., to deal in fiour to any considerable extent in Canada or elsewhere. crop of 1904. The working house, which will be and grain. The capital stock is $60,000 and the in- All Canadian, Indian and Australian wheat would constructed first, will have a capacity of 1,250,000 corporators are: H. K. Webster, D. K. Webster, Al- come to this country and Continental buyers would bushels. This will be supplemented by immense bert S. Watson and Frank M. Victor. have to take more American or Russian, whichever storage warehouses to be built of tile or concrete. The Electric Grain Elevator Co., of Buffalo, N. could be obtained the cheapest. I may add that Y., recently elected the following directors: O. M. The Canadian Atlantic Railway Co. will not build some of our millers, even when strongly protection- Mitchell, Montclaire, N. J.; Yale Kneeland, New its proposed elevator at Depot Harbor, Ont., this !.sts, do not like the proposal to tax wheat, because York; A. Miller, New York; E. W. Eames, Buffalo, winter. This decision was arrived at during a re- they think it would restrict their choice of raw in the keen com- N. Y., and Franklin E. Kneeland, New York. cent meeting of the directors of the company. The material and thus handicap them reason for not constructing the elevator, for which petition they have to face." plans had been made and the materials largely ar- CANADIAN. The flndings of the English Board of Trade's in- ranged for, is the fact that the. management of the on the new Canadian Northern Elevator at quiry into the legislation of the world against trad- Work company believes that there will not be so large a Arthur. Ont., is progressing favorably. ing in options in grain, made some time ago, have Port rtish of grain from the Canadian West next season just been published. The report of results shows W. J. Morse has admitted W. H. Benson to a part- will have to depend upon American and that they that practically in only one country, Austria, Is nership in his grain business at Chatham, Ont. their elevators running. The through grain to keep there any law in force actually prohibiting trading at Arthur, to Montreal has affected the traffic by The annex to King's Elevator Port water route in opcions or futures, and this only came into effect opened for business. of Depot Harbor and from other lake points Ont., has been completed and way on April 10 last year. In all probability the law large extent. Fire at Burlington, Ont., recently destroyed the overland to a will not remain in force long, for in Hungary the grain warehouse of W. Kerns & Co., general and term market still exists. Germany has tried similar grain merchants. The Country Gentleman gives the following "rule laws, without success; whilst the Belgian senate as The premises of Holmes & Christie, Ottawa, Ont., of thumb" for estimating the quantity of corn in a long ago as 1896 passed a similar bill, but it has dealers in groceries, flour and grain, were recently crib: "It takes two bushels of ears to make one not yet come before the house of representatives. in 1901, damaged by flre. bushel of shelled corn. A bushel has 2150.4 cubic In France, too, similar attempts were made approximately 2.5 cubic but failed. Altogether, therefore, it seems difficult, The Crown Grain Co. has completed its new inches; hence two bushels is cubic feet. if impossible, to prohibit by legislation such 250,000-bushel cleaning elevator at Winnipeg, Man. feet. A crib 8 by 30 by 9 feet is 2160 not is 864." dealings in grain, doubtless owing to the difficulty W. S. Cleveland was the builder, the machinery This volume divided by 2.5 —

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of discriminating between what may be called Harris, Gates & Co. and will have charge of the gambling pure and simple, and legitimate opera- office in the new Railway Exchange building on tions for forward deliveries, which all large traders Michigan avenue. must have freedom to indulge in. Michael Holly, a former trader in the Chicago CR.OP REPORTS Hoard of Trade wheat pit, who has been doing business in grain and cotton stocks at New York under the name of Holly & Co., has made an assignment for the benefit of his creditors. General rains have fallen In Texas and the out- COMMISSION Arthur A. Fowler, for some years head of the loolv for small grain is much improved. grain commission firm of A. A. Fowler & Co., Prod- uce E.xchange, N. Y., has been admitted to the firm Reports to the Burlington road say that Nebraska of Rogers, Brown & Co., and will join the New wheat has not been injured by the intense cold. Lindman & Schreiner. grain York organization of the fiim at No. 71 commission, Chicago, Broadway. According to the Michigan state report 95 per have discontinued business. The Adler Stock & Grain Co. has been incorpor- cent of correspondents report no damage to wheat W. J. Pyffe has resumed commission business in ated at St. Louis, Mo., to do a general commission in .January. The state has had plenty of snow. Chicago as W. .1. Fyfl'e & Co.. succeeding Fvffe Bros. and brokerage business. The capital stock is $50,- The February report for Missouri says of wheat & Co. 000, fully paid up. The incorporators and amount that the condition of the crop as a whole is below John H. Dwight, for over of stock held by each are as follows: Ben Adler, 30 years a member o£ the average, but while in many sections the plants the Chicago Board of 498 shares; Sam Herman, 1 share, and Julius Joel, Trade, has posted his mem- are small, they are, as a rule, well rooted. bership for transfer. 1 share. Irwin, in C. V. Topping, secretary of the Oklahoma Export The Baker-Gilliam Commission Co. has been in- Green & Co., with offices the Rialto Co., and A. H. Jackman, territorial grain inspector, corporated at St. Louis, iMo.. with a capital of ?25,- building, Chicago, have been doing some early agree that reports from the two territories 000, by W. C. Gilliam and others. spring housecleaning the past month. They have show taken on additional rooms, made necessary by an that wheat has been greatly benefited by rain and Walter Fitch, vice-president of the Chicago Board increased working force, and made changes that snow. The prospects are better than at the same of Trade, was recently elected to the presidency of time last will give greater efficiency and convenience in all year. the Chicago Athletic Association. the departments. State Statistician Johnson believes that with per- C. B. Slade has resigned his connection with L. H. Manson. of Fyffe. Manson & Co., Chicago, fect weather conditions from now on the Indiana Charles Counselman & Co., Chicago. He had been wheat crop left the city on February 7 on a three weeks' ])leas- will be only fair. The dry weather in with that house for a number of years. ure trip to New Orleans and Southern points. He the fall seriously injured the crop all over the Joseph M. Hahn. who has been connected with will be present at the Mardi Gras and may visit state, e.specially in the southern part. The north- Otto E. Lohrke & Co., Chicago, for several years, Cuba before his return. As Mr. Manson has not ern counties had more rain, but it came after the has engaged in the brokerage business for himself. taken a vacation for about four years, his friends damage had been done. Frederick S. Martin, who was a partner of Charles feel that he should take a reasonable time to re- State Grain Inspector Arrasmith computes that Counselman & Co., Chicago, for a number of years, cuperate. the farmers of Washington are still holding 20 per cent has resigned that connection, to take effect March 1. The grain and fiour firm of Gale Bros, at Cincin- of last year's crop. In addition to this he says the exporters and grain buyers L. S. Allen, -who has been with Harris, Gates & nati, Ohio, which was dissolved by the death of J. hold anywhere from 12 to 15 per of the Co., Chicago, for a number of years, has gone with P. Gale, has been reorganized with $125,000 capital cent crop, making about one-third of last year's yield W. H. Lake & Co. and will represent them in the stock as the Gale Bros. Co. The incorporators are yet remaining to be exported. The mills of eastern corn pit. B. W. Gale, of the old firm; A. C. Gale, who has Washington and those of the Puget Sound country will use a great S. C. Scully, the cotton leader, has been with the firm 25 years; P. M. Gale, who has established a deal of this wheat, Chief Deputy King estimating commission firm of his own to deal in grain, cotton been with it about 13 years; Mrs. Mary S. Gale, that 25 per cent of it will be manufactured into stocks is widow of J. P. Gale, and H. B. Richter, who has and and negotiating for a Chicago Board flOUi'. of Trade membership. been with the firm 14 years. H. G. Miller, secretary of Herman C. Hilmers, a broker of New York City the Nebraska Grain The Pope & Eckhardt Co. of Chicago has been re- Dealers' Association, partner in the of Field, Lindley, recently issued Crop Report its friends the past gift and who was a firm membering month by the No. 13, from which Wiechei-s & Co., grain and stock brokers, which the following summary is taken: of a useful as well as beautiful desk article in the Corn Acreage, failed in November, 1891, filed a petition in bank- — 5,706,230; acreage harvested, 5,215,- form of a glass paper weight. 559; yield per acre, 28.37 ruptcy on February 4 to get rid of liabilities in- bushels; total yield, 147,- Van Ness Wilson of Chicago having outgrown 905,408 bushels. this & curred as a partner in that firm. His total liabili- Of amount 47 per cent will their old quarters in the Rialto building, are now grade No. 3 or better ties are given at $3,i02,830 with no assets. Daniel and 41 per cent will grade located in a spacious suite of rooms, 4. comfortably A. Lindley. one of the partners, went through bank- No. The requirements for home feeding will 440-4 building. Nos. 12, of the same ruptcy about three years ago. amount to 48 per cent. There were 10,987,493 bush- Albert W. Walker, who has been representing A. els carried over from the 1902 crop. The winter Bolton, De Ruyter & Co., general commission A. Fowler & Co. of New York in the Chicago market wheat acreage of the state is 9 per cent less as com- brokers in grain, provisions, stocks and bonds at for some years, has gone with Fyffe, Manson & Co. I.ared with last year. The condition is plac'ed at San Francisco, Cal., suspended on February 3. It is 7 per cent He will still have the Fowler business. below that of last year. Sixty eight per stated that the liabilities will amount to about cent of the 1903 crop has been marketed. To Dec. The Mutual Grain Co. has incorporated at Kansas $98,000. The embarrassment of the firm began, it 15, 1903, 66 per cent of the 1903 oat crop had been Cit}'. Mo., to do a grain commission business. The is said, when the failure of Sharp & Bryan of New marketed. capital stock is $10,000 and the incorporators are: York took place in September last. As an addi- special crop report issued 1 S. H. Pitts, Charles L. Scott and B. F. Reavis. A on February by the tional cause of the suspension, it is stated that a Illinois bureau says that wheat and rye in the cen- The D. L. IMarshall Co. has been chartered at Bos- subordinate had, without the consent or authority tral and the northern districts are in a normal Mass., handle flour and grain. The capital ton, to of the house, extended large credits to local cus- mid-winter condition. Ample covering by snow was stock is $.5,000 and the officers are Dwight L. Mar- tomers. The firm claims it will pay 100 per cent. afforded during the period of rigorous weather. In shall, president, and Fred F. Nash, treasurer. The Smith-Gambrill Co., grain exporters, with of- the principal wheat-growing section— the southern Jones, of the wheat pit and of the di- John H. fices in the Chamber of Commerce, Baltimore, Md., district— the crop is very uneven. Expressions of Board of Trade, who has rectory of the Chicago made an assignment for the benefit of creditors on poor prospects are made by many correspondents. with typhoid fever for ten weeks, has been sick January 19. Harry N. Abercrombie is trustee un- The crop is suffering from adverse fall conditions, leave for Belleair, Fla. recovered sufficiently to der the deed. Robert H. Smith, attorney for the when there was a pronounced deficiency in mois- Peter Wannemacher is the style of a new grain trustee, said the failure was caused by the sharp ture, and the plant has not attained seasonable commission house chartered at New York City with advance in prices for grain due to the war scare growth. During the cold wave the fields were gen- a capital of $10,000. Peter Wannemacher, Peter in the East. The company was organized in 1896 cially well covered with snow. Corn is not being Wannemacher, Jr., and Augustus Engelhardt are with a capital of $50,000. The officers were J, Hume marketed freely. Thera is a considerable propor- the directors. Smith, president; E. F. Richards, secretary; W. M. tion that has not dried out well. The opinion is freely advanced that high-grade corn will be scarce. John J. Stream, who has been with the Chicago Smith, treasurer; Richard Gambrill, of Chicago, commission house of Charles Counselman & Co. for western manager, and Edwin Hewes. exporter. The monthly summary issued by the agricultural many years, has been made manager of that con- department on February 1 was as follows: "Janu- cern. He has also been elected president of the ary. 1904. was unusually mild in the upper Mis- Chicago Grain Elevator Co. souri valley and in the northern Rocky Mountain The Rialto Elevator Co. of Milwaukee, Wis., by arid north Pacific Coast districts, but decidedly cold R. B. Schneider, president, and James Bradley, sec- cast of the Mississippi River, with generally de- retary, has filed an amendment to its articles of ficient precipitation, although a narrow area extend- organization, increasing its capital from $200,000 to ing from Oklahoma lo southern New England, $300,000, and the number of directors from three to northern Florida, and a few other limited areas seven. received more than the average. Over the southern portions of the winter wheat belt winter wheat was Harrv S. Slone has been admitted into a partner- largely without snow protection until near the close ship with Gilbert Plowman, hay, straw and grain of the month, when the northern, central, and east- commission merchant of New York City. Mr. Stone ern portions were well covered. In the middle At- has been in :Mr. Plowman's employ for the past lantic states and portions of the Ohio and central twelve years. The style of the new firm is Gilbert Mississippi valleys the crop suffered as a result of Plowman & Co. protracted cold and absence of snow covering dur- capital stock of $50,- The Greer Grain Co.. with a ing a large part of thn month." 000, is a new firm in Kansas City, Mo., and is composed of M. S. Greer, formerly Kansas City manager for Counselman; F. A. Farnier, N. A. Duff, of Not since "Little Joe" Leiter held sway in Chi- the DufI Grain Co. of Nebraska City, and A. B. Up- cago six years ago. and carried prices of wheat up dyke, of the Updyke Grain Co. of Omaha. STALLED! and down as a child would play with a toy, has the The new house of Charles G. Gates & Co., which situation been more interesting for grain dealers Mr. Bear has had much trouble running his En- than at present. will succeed to the business of the Chicago and New Another man has entered the arena gine (and deals) lately. Will he fare better soon? houses of Harris, Gates & Co. on March 1, will in Chicago, and while he may not eclipse Leiter, his York Zahm's Circular. include Charles G. Gates, A. J. Singer, J. A. Black, power has already made the market tremble and the partners. convulsion is being felt afar. Armour is his name. C. G. Smith and A. C. Wells as general John W. Gates and John Lambert will be special Grain buyers at Portland, Ore., have government All who know this name know that it means nerve, contracts for of oats to go to the Philip- and barrels of partners. Ben !Morrow will have the same sort of 4,320 tons money as working capital.—Nash- working interest in the new firm he has had with pines. ville American. 438 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

govern all commercial transactions, and complaint McMillan, G. R. Crows, Capel Tilt, Thos. Thomp- will be subject to discipline as provided for in said son, W. A. Black, W. L. Parrish, C. A. Young, H. section 7." N. Baird, and THE EXCHANGES It is understood that a committe of the Chicago Arbitration committee: C. A. Young, S. P. Board of Trade will be appointed to investigate the Clarke, W. J. Bettingen, Jas. Hodd, J. C. Gage, S. Hosford system of clearing trades, which is in use Spink and A. Reid; and on a number of exchanges. Under it a commission Committee on appeals: T. L. Morton, F. O. Fow- A membership on the Chicago Board of Trade man short to one house and long to another at ler, T. H. Hatchard, Bruce McBean, T. H. Metcalf, changed hands recently at $3,400 net to the seller. the same price would not have his capital tied up H. H. Wineals and J. G. McHugh. Improvements costing about $30,000 will be made in margins if the trades did not "settle." Many in the St. Louis Merchants' Exchange between now small failures of recent board of trade history would BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. averted and May 1. have been with this system in force. It Ar the annual meeting of the Boston Chamber minimizes risks and with the rule in Members of the Chicago Board of Trade have commission of Commerce, held January 19, Henry M. Whitney force would not reduce profits. voted to make No. 2 hard winter wheat deliverable was elected president. John F. Crocker was chosen on a penalty of 2 cents. Recent amendments to the rules of the Chicago first vice-president; David W. Ranlet, second vice- Board of Trade are as follows: An assessment of president and William F. Berry, It is reported that a plan to protect grain traders Chas. M. Cox, Geo. $25 a year on each membership for three years to R. Wason and Benard J. Rothwell, directors. on the Chicago Board of Trade over night is being A provide fund formulated. Details are withheld. a for purchase of memberships at number of addresses were delivered and several $3,000; the rules governing the clearing house to important subjects discussed. The report of the The Western Trust and Savings Bank has been provide that losses or damages on defaulted con- treasurer, Daniel D. Morse, showed receipts for the made a regular depository for margins by the di- tracts shall be payable through the clearing house; year were $112,270.11, with accounts receivable and lectors of the Chicago Board of Trade. the fees for the special grain inspection committee cash on hand December 31 of $14,323.94, bringing Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade have were increased from 50c per car to $5; canal boat the total receipts for the year up to $126,594.05 and approved of the Lodge Bill for a law providing for loads, which were $3, are advanced to $10, and ves- disbursements for the year of $105,663.57. The total the Improvement of the consular service. sels were advanced from ^6 to $50. The amend- assets of the chamber are $515,119.39. In reelecting George F. Stone secretary of the ment providing for deliveries on Saturdays from Chicago Board of Trade the directors paid him a 8:30 to 9:15 a. m. was carried by a large majority. ST. EOUIS MERCHANTS' EXCHANGE. substantial compliment by increasing his salary to A report of the Chicago committee on the inter- Among the newly appointed standing committees $8,500. market contracts has been given out. The Chicago of the St. Louis Merchants' Exchange are the fol- A petition has been circulated on the Chicago committee, composed of James Pettit, Robert Mc- lowing: Board of Trade to make No. 3 hard winter wheat Dougal, and W. H. Merritt, have been at work sev- Membership—William C. Ellis, chairman; Henry deliverable on contracts at a penalty of 12 cents. eral months and have had conferences with J. F. R. Todd and Thomas B. Teasdale. There is also talk of making No. 3 corn a contract Parker and E. Pfarrius, representing the New York Weighing—John E. Geraghty, chairman; W. B. grade. Produce Exchange. Their endeavor has been to Harrison, 0. A. Orvis, F. H. Gisselman, M. J. Mul- The St. Joseph (Mo.) Board of Trade has adopted agree upon terms for handling cash grain. They lally, Edward Devoy, J. S. McClellan and M. W. a rule which permits the exchange to make any local have formulated plans upon which an agreement Cochrane. house "regular." It is proposed to make the Har- has been reached with few exceptions, and these Rules—Thomas B. Teasdale, chairman; N. L. roun Elevator a regular house and appoint an in- points will probably be adjusted in the near future. Moffitt, R. C. Grier, B. H. Lang and F. C. Orthwein. One important feature involves the changing of the spector to supervise it. Contracts for Future Delivery—W. A. Gardner, rule now in force in Chicago providing for arbitra- The high premium paid at the annual sale of chairman; E. M. Flesh and E. W. Gessler. tion. It is proposed to have a board of arbitration, feample tables on the Chicago Board of Trade was Market Reports—R. J. Pendleton, S. A. White- consisting of five members, to be appointed by the $100. The total amount; realized was $6,369, an ad- head and P. P. Connor. president of the Chicago Board of Trade, which vance of $500 over last year. This, with the rentals, Grain—T. R. Baliard, chairman; T. B. Morton, shall be approved by the board of managers of the made the Board's income from the tables $8,119. E. L. Waggoner, Roger P. Annan, F. P. Brockmann, New York Produce Exchange, to act in the West, George L. Graham, George F. Langenberg, F. E. Directors of the Chicago Board of Trade have and another board 01 arbitration, consisting of five Kauffman and D. P. Byrne. ruled that one member cannot have another dis- members, to be appointed by the New York Produce Barley E. A. Faust, chairman; Charles H. Teich- ciplined because of any default in performance of — Exchange, which shall be approved by the board of mann, Henry Griesedieck, Jr., Otto F. Stifel, Will- a contract on another exchange and connected with directors of the Chicago Board of Trade, to act in iam J. Lemp, Jr., Henry Greve, L. Lemcke. a commodity not dealt in on the Board of Trade. the East. A fee of $25 shall be paid for each sit- Hay—D. W. Clifton, chairman; Henry vV. Mack, At a meeting of the grain inspection committee ting by the party against whom the decision shall Chris. Hilke, Daniel S. Mullally H. W. Beck, J. H. of the Chicago Board of Trade and the railway and be rendered, except as the committee may other- Evill. warehouse commission arrangements were made for wise order Contracts for shipments by all rail or the preparation of a new set of type samples of con- lake and rail c. 1. f. Eastern points shall be sub- MONTREAL BOARD OF TRADE. tract grain to be placed in the sample room on the ject to these rules as regards adjustments of varia- The newly elected committee of management of seventh floor for the reference of members. tions in quantity, brokers' liability, drafts, margins, the Montreal Corn Exchange Association is as fol- futures, times of shipment, official samplers, and lows: Geo. A. Thomson, president; Jos. Quintal, An effort is being made to revive option trading arbitration Navigation shall be understood to be treasurer; A. E. Cook, A. E. Labelle, R. W. Oliver, on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and it is probable open from Lake Erie ports when vessels can get into M. A. Overend, C. R. Taylor. that the Clearing House Association, which was or- Buffalo harbor, intermediate water courses continu- At the first meeting of the committee, held Feb- ganized in 1901 and to which only a few members ing open; from other lake ports after arrival of ruary 1, Norman Wight was elected vice-president of the exchange belong, will hereafter have a more vessels at Buffalo from lower lakes, intermediate and the subject of gi-ain standards was taken up. representative membership. Some changes have water courses continuing open. It was decided to renew the representations made "oeen made in contract grades to apply on sales for last year in favor of such amendment of the in- aiture delivery. PEORIA BOARD OF TRADE- spection law as will abolish the Eastern Grain The grain trade of the New York Produce Ex- Standards Board, and substitute for the present sys- The annual election of the Peoria Board of Trade change has adopted the proposed rules making No. tem of annual standards one whereunder inspec- resulted as follows: President, Geo. C. Clark; vice- 3 red winter wheat deliverable on contracts at a tion would be based on the descriptions of the vari- presidents, C. H. Feltman, R. W. Van Tassell; sec- penalty of 5 cents and No. 2 northern at the same ous grades and the standards would be made per- retary, Robt. C. Grier; treasurer. Water Barker; prices, No. 3 hard, 7 cents; No. 2 hard, 2 cents. manent as they are in the Manitoba district. directors, T. A. Grier, B. Waren, Jr.. W. R. Buckley, Also Buffalo receipts were made deliverable at an In the matter of the association's desire that the A. G. Tyng, R. D. Clarke, Frank Hall, C. C. Miles, allowance of the rail rate at and east of Buffalo Montreal inspector should be empowered to issue D. Mowat, James Bannister, Peter Casey; commit- and V2 cent penalty. Trading began February 1 at original certificates of inspection of Manitoba wheat, tee of arbitration 2 years, Geo. A. Smith, J. Y. the basis of contracts for delivery August 1 and — which, owing to opposition from Manitoba, the gov- Mills, M. B. Pratt; committee of appeals—2 years, later. ernment has hitherto declined to grant, it was de- E. Roberts, J. Wachenheimer, J. M. Quinn. This At a recent meeting of the directors of the Chi- cided that a meeting of the grain exporters of the the only ticket in the field. cago Board of Trade E. A. Hamill was reappointed was port should be called to decide what further action treasurer of the board, J. C. Block treasurer of the could be taken in the matter. The question is one clearing house, and Sam Powell manager of the NEW ORLEANS BOARD OF TRADE. of great importance to the grain shippers of Mon- clearing house. Walter Blowney was held over as The standing grain committee of the consolidated treal for in the absence of Canadian seaboard in- assistant secretary of the board. H. A. Foss is to exchange at New Orleans is made up as follows: spection of Manitoba grain much of it is being be continued as weighmaster and J. A. Tobey is Lucas E. Moore, chairman; A. F. Leonhardt, C. shipped via United States ports for the reason that retained as inspector of provisions and R. W. Rath- B. Fox. E. F. Stevens, Henry Leverich, E. Stein- seaboard inspection can be there obtained. bone as inspector of flour. Henry S. Robbins has hardt, F. P. Futvoye, H. W. Brodnax, Geo. Gerdes, been reelected attorney. H. Meletta, Thos. J. Stanton. PHILADELPHIA COMMERCIAL EXCHANGE. These will have charge of the practical work of The following ruling has been made by the direc- The new officers of the Philadelphia Commercial consolidating the grain inspection business, select- tors of the Chicago Board of Trade: "Resolved, Exchange are: Walter F. Hagar, president; George ing a new chief grain inspector, and in several That it is the sense of the directory that in the F. White, vice-president; Nathan Sellars, treas- other putting the consolidation of the Board case of grain sold f. 0. b. to be switched from a ways urer; Armon D. Acheson, secretary; Henry A. Merchants' and Maritime Ex- Western to an Eastern line, and the car containing of Trade and the Tumelty. assistant secretary, and Frank Hogust, su- such grain is by request of the buyer placed on the change into active effect. perintendent. The new directors elected to serve team track of the Western line and unloaded, a for two years are: Charles Dunwoody, William H. claim on the buyer by the seller for the payment of WINNIPEG GRAIN EXCHANGE, Tenbrook. R. F. Dewees, S. C. Woolman, Edmund $2 switching charge, which would have accrued had The sixteenth annual meeting of the Winnipeg E. Delp and W. R. Brown. been switched to line, the car the Eastern is not a Grain Exchange was held February 1. Following The new committees are as follows: Finance, proper claim." the established precedent A. R. Hargraft, who S. C. Woolman. James Hancock, R. S. Dewees; A number of applications for membership in the served last year as vice-president, was this year jMembership, William McAleer, Jr.. Clarence W. Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce have been reelected president by acclamation. Nominations for Hagar, Edmund E. Delp; Room and Fixtures, Wat- ceived from non-resident millers and grain men. vice-president called forth the names of John Love son Walton, William Cornell, W. R. Brown; Joint Trading in oat futures is well under way. A recent and T. L. Morton. The scrutineers declared Mr. Committees: Transporiation, from the Board of Di- amendment to the rules is as follows: "It is a vio- Love elected. C. N. Bell was reelected secretary- rectors, James Hancock, W. H. Tenbrook, Charles lation of section 7 of rule 4 of the association for treasurer by acclamation. Dunwoody; from the Exchange, Samuel Bell, Jr., any member, firm or corporation to offer to buy at The election of the council took a very long time James Hay, Charles Saunders, E. Blackford, Jr.; a price higher than the current selling price or to owing to the number of nominations and the large Information and Statistics, from the Board of Di- sell below the current price, any article dealt in on number of ballots, the president finally read the rectors, Clarence W. Wagar, Harvey C. Miller, Will- the floor of the Chamber of Commerce, in that such following names as the council for 1904: A. B. iam R. Cornell; from the Exchange, Edgar G. conduct would be contrary to the spirit which should Ellis, W. H. McWilliams, W. D. McBean, W. W. Thomas, William Howell, Jr., William B. Dupuy, AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 439

Samuel S. Daniels; River and Harbor, S. C. Wool- tions made went into the following day's report. was Mr. Hubbard's assistant at Mankato, will have man, Antonio Sans, F. W. Taylor, Edgar S. Thomas, This was the result of the inspection report: charge of that office. P. Fendall Young; Grain. James B. Canby, L. G. No. 3 corn, fifty-nine cars; No. 3 yellow corn, J. M. Morey, manager of the Schertz Elevator at Graff, Jr., George G. Omerly, E. L. Rogers," Charles three cars; No. 4 corn, eleven cars; No. 3 white Ferris, 111., contemplates taking charge of the ele- J. String, E. H. Price, Samuel L. McKnight; Pro- oats, five cars; No. 4 white oats, five cars; No. 4 vator at McCall, 111., his brother, D. A, Morey, suc- visions, Louis Burk, W. H. Tenbrook, George Haus- hard winter wheat, one car; No grade wheat, one ceeding him at Ferris. raan, Jamts P. Hart; Seeds," Charles R. Koch. George car; No. 4 barley, one car. Total, eighty-six cars. J. F. Hamill, who has been employed in an ele- B. Taylor, Charles G. Alexander, Casper T. Sharp- To facilitate trading, an octagonal pit has been vator at New Richland, Minn., for the past two less, Herbert W. Johnson; .•Vrbitration, A. D. Bah- constructed within the trading hall, about the mid- years, has moved to Waseca. Minn., and will manage mer. A. E. Brecht, L. J. Logan, Willis C. AlacNutt. dle. The first day's trading was somewhat ham- the Wood and Van Dusen elevators. A. Judson Stiles, J. S. Pultz, William J. McMuUin, pered by the fact that buyers and sellers were scat- William R. Potts, Frank Richards. tered, and that the rule excluding all but members A. F. Hawkinson has accepted the management of was not enforced, as it will be hereafter. The only Railsback Bros.' elevator at Malmo, Nebr. Mr. Ny- CHICAGO STANDING COMMITTEES. exceptions besides the exchange employes will be green. the former manager, has been transferrd to The standing comniitiecs of iho Chicago Board railroad and insurance re))resentatives, who may be the firm's elevator at Ashland, Nebr. of Trade for the ensuing year are as follows: admitted for purposes of soliciting in their own F. E. Belden has resigned as agent for the Thorpe Executive—Adams, Jones. White. lines of business only on admission card costing Elevator Co. at Montrose, Minn., and is succeeded Finance— Patten. Sickel, MeReynolds. $25 per year; and to a limited number of accredited by Lloyd Ferrell, who has been in charge of the Room— Jones, Fitch, Crighton. representatives of the press. company's house at Smith Lake, Minn. committees of the new are: Membership—MeReynolds, Tietgcns. Jones. The exchange Grain Elmer Young, who has been in charge of Barker & Real Estate Taylor, Tietgens, —A. B. Jaquith, F. S. Cowgill, E. C. Twamley, — Sager. Collins' elevator at Bondville, 111., for the past ten Warehouse George H. I^yons, Nathan Merriman. Elevator Reg- —Wagner. Sickel. Bines. years, has resigned and will go to farming. A Mr. Rules—Crighton, Taylor, Adams. ister— Nathan Merriam, C. F. McGrew, C. W. Ly- Moore from Indiana succeeds to the vacant position. Grain Commifee—Sager, C. B. Pierce, B. A. Eck- man. Finance— G. W. Wattles, A. L. Reed, F. H. J. L. McCauU, the Minneapolis grain man, has hart. James Templeton. W. N. Eckhardt. Davis. Transportation — E. P. Kirkendall, F. A. selected a room in St. Luke's hospital at Aberdeen, Legal Advice—Warren. Ware, Patten. Nash. George E. Thomas, W. J. C. Kenyon, John C. S. D., and fitted it up as a memorial to his son. Clearing House—Richardson, Sickel, Wagner. Wharton. Alleged Violations of Rules—E. E. Bruce, James, who was born in that city, and who died Transportation Sickel, MeReynolds, Patten, J. E. C. Hollinger. T. J. Mahoney. Arbitration— E. E. — J. last summer. Bryant. E. S. aierritt. E. H. Bingham, Henry Zeiss, Bruce, E. I'. Peck. W. C. Sunderland, E. S. West- Paul Kniss, B. A. Eckhart, Richard Gambrill, brook, J. H. Hamilton. Appeals—A. C. Smith, J. D. at one time manager of E. A. Market Report— Fitch, Warren, MeReynolds. W. Holmquist, John L. Kennedy, M. C. Peters, R. Brown's elevator at Thompson, Iowa, and of late at Campbell, Minn., Weighing—Ware. Richardson, Crighton. S. Hall. Quotation— S. A. McWhorter, N. B. Up- employed has been placed in charge of the Stewart Elevator Violation of Rules— Bines. White, Ware, Taylor, dike, F. C. Hollinger. Membership— N. B. Updike, Co.'s house at Bridge, Patten. A. B. Jaquith, G. B. Conistock, James Welsh, E. C. Souris, N. D. Meteorological Observation—Taylor, Warren, Huntley. Elevator— F. S. Cowgill, E. P. Peck, E. Dudley M. Irwin, a member of the Buffalo Cham- Sager. .\. Cope. ber of Commerce, and a well known grain commis- Claims— Bridge, Jones, Tietgens. All Omaha and Council Bluff elevators have been sion man of that city, has inherited over |238,000 Other Inspection— Crighton, Bridge, Adams. made "regular." by the death of his uncle, Theodore Irwin, a banker Arbitration of Grass and Field Seeds—T. M. Hun- of Oswego, N. Y. ter, F. E. Winans, George A. Wegener, C. A. Heath, E. L. Grates, who has for some time held the po- G. S. Green. A. Gerstenberg. sition of agent for the McCall-Webster Elevator Co. Flaxseed Insi)ection—H. N. Sager, T. M. Hunter, at Rauville, S. D., has been transferred to the com- J. W. Hirst, George E. Alt, P. H. Eschenburg, J. H. PERSONAL pany's elevator at Labolt, S. D. Herman Smith suc- Milne. ceeds him at Rauville. Legislation AVhite, Richardson. Wagner. Ware. — T. N. Boner of Shenandoah, Iowa, who is buying BALTIMORE OF grain for McMahill & Marsh at Keytesville, Mo., CHAMBER COMMERCE. had a narrow escape recently. The hotel at which The directors of the Baltimore Chamber of Com- J. H. Ruhl has taken charge of A. W. Heinz's ele- he was boarding caught fire during tlie night and merce have selected the following officers: Presi- vator at Mahomet, 111. Mr. Boner barely escaped with his life, leaving his dent. James C. Gorman; vice-president, William M. A. C. Dunning is now agent for the Westbrook- watch, pocketbook and other possessions behind. Knight; treasurer, John L. Rodgers; secretary, Gibbons Grain Co. at Shelby, Nebr. Henry A. Wroth; assistant secretary and cashier, James B. Hessong. The directors also elected an Charles Shields succeeds C. M. Isaacson as wheat executive committee as follows: Douglas M. buyer for the State Elevator Co. at Darwin, Minn. Wylie, Ferdinand A. Meyer, Eugene A. Slack, Daniel John Studebaker of Litchfield, 111., is now grain Rider. J. Collin Vincent. The committee organ- OUR. CALLERS buyer for the Munday-Settlemire Co. at Waggoner, ized later by selecting Mr. Wylie chairman and Mr. III. Meyer vice-chairman. Schenck Stoutenborough has severed his con- The following preamble and resolutions were nection with the Maroa Elevator Co. at Maroa, (We hare received calls from the following gentlemen prom- adopted by the board of directors of the Baltimore Inentl.T connected with the grain and elevator interests, during 111. Chamber of Commerce on January 11, 1B04: the month.] The directors of Whereas. A bill has been introduced into the the Minneapolis Chamber of Com- merce United States Senate "To provide for the fixing of have appointed A. W. Gilbert official grain N. Plumb, Streator, 111. sampler. a uniform standard or classification and grading J. F. Pritsch, Palatine, III. of n'heat, flax, corn, oats, barley, rye and other George Harter has resigned his situation in the I. J. Landon, David City, Nebr. grains, and for other purposes;"—known as Sen- Bumgartner Elevator at Cissna Park, 111., and taken Wm. Johnston, Cedar Falls, Iowa. ate Bill No. 199, and a position in another line. W. H. Hamilton, Battle Creek, Mich. Whereas, The passage of any measure seeking W. C. Isgieg, manager of the elevator at Rileys- F. C Baluss of Baluss-Dawson Co., Blissfield, of Mich. to control or change the present method grain burg, III., fell into the grain pit on January 16 and inspection, conducted by the commercial organiza- fractured one of his ribs. C. G. Hammond, president Huntley Mfg. Co., Sil- tions, can only result in injury to the grain trade ver Creek, N. Y. Alvin Steele has of this country, which has been fostered and de- resigned his position with the G. M. Robinson, president Charter Gas Engine Atlas Elevator Co. at Belden, Nebr., veloped by those having the greatest interest in it, and returned Co., Sterling, III. to his and thereby assisting in the remarkable advance- home at Tyndall, S. D. Geo. Beyer, secretary Illinois Grain Dealers' As- ment of our country by the advantageous market- Ed. Krause has taken the position with the Up- sociation, Decatur, 111. ing abroad of its most important products, and dike Grain Co. at Shickley, Nebr., made vacant by M. M. Snider, Des Moines, Iowa, representing will be injurious to the agriculturist, dealer, ex- the resignation of George Powell. Barnard & Leas Mfg. Co., Moline, 111. porter, also transportation interests; Resolved. That the Baltimore Chamber of Com- W. F. Batten, a prominent grain dealer of Linn merce confidently asserts that the inspection of Grove, Iowa, was recently united in marriage to FIX RATES FOR OATS. Gail grain, or the supervision of grades, by the Na- Miss Anderson at Cedar Falls, Iowa. tional Government, will be detrimental to every George Bruce Farlin, a grain dealer of Proctor, At a meeting of the terminal elevator companies identified with the American grain trade, the following charges for receiving, shipping, clip- interest 111., and Miss Elva Estella Fox of Farmer City, 111., and because of the unreliability of political inspec- were married at that place on January 21. ping and storing contract oats were adopted: tion, will tend to advance the business of foreign All oats sold in store for cash or future delivery J. W. Greer, local agent for the grain producing countries, which are seeking every Federal Elevator shall be subject to a "loading-out" charge of % cent Co. at Glyndon, Minn., advantage to enlarge their grain trade, by the dis- has been promoted to the per bushel. The "loading-out" charge shall cover position traveling placement of American products in the markets of of agent of this company. a minimum period of five days' free storage from the world. James Henry has resigned his position with the the date of delivery on contract oats, and a minimum period of fifteen days' free storage from the OMAHA EXCHANGE IN OPERATION. Duluth Elevator Co. at Hamilton, N. D., and taken a position with a hardware firm at Hallock, Minn. date of delivery, when ordered clipped. The Omaha Grain Exchange began business on As between buyer and seller the "loading-out" H. O. Ellefson has given up February 1. when after a brief address, President his position as man- charge gives the buyer a minimum period of five ager G. W. Wattles sounded the gong and started the of the elevator at Syre, Minn., and taken charge days' free storage on natural oats and a minimum of the trading by selling .5,000 bushels of May corn at 40 Thorpe Elevator Co.'s Flaming, Minn., house. period of fifteen days' free storage when ordered The attendance exceeded 100 and all were cents. Jefferson Louk has succeeded A. A. Wheeler as clipped. enthusiastic. The charge for clipping grain buyer for Doie & Co. at Prairie City, 111. Mr. oats shall be % cent per The early trading was all in futures, owing to bushel, to be paid by the Louk was formerly at Galesburg, 111., with the same buyer, and three-quarters arriving, it the fact that samples were slow in and firm. of one pound per bushel shall be allowed the eleva- within is estimated 250,000 bushels changed hands tor company as shrinkage for clipping; it being un- H. M. Brassett. agent of the Andrews & Gage Ele- two hours after the opening. The day's business derstood that contract natural oats when clipped vator Co. at Kathryn, N. D., and Miss Anna Jacob- amounted to 500,000 bushels. shall test thirty-six pounds. If oats are clipped to son of that place were married recently at the home The reports of grain inspection for the first day a heavier test than thirty-six pounds, the shrinkage of the bride's parents. of business on the exchange showed eighty-six cars shall not be less than three-quarters of one pound as having been gone over. This did not include W. A. Hubbard, for two years manager of the per bushel. the receipts of the day; nor did it include all of Mankato, Minn., office of Edwards, Wood & Co., has The storage charge on oats shall be % cent per the inspections. But it did include the inspections been promoted to the position of traveling manager. bushel for each ten days or fractional part thereof, up to 4 o'clock p. m., after which hour the inspec- He will remove to Minneapolis. Mr. Milton, who after the free period. 440 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

faction between dealers and consumers and putting [email protected]; No. 1 timothy, [email protected]; No. 2 prices at sixes and sevens. Straw, also, for some timothy, [email protected]; No. 3 timothy, [email protected]; cause not clearly explained, has been unusually choice prairie, $10. 50@ 11.00; No. 1 prairie, $9.00@ HAY AND STRAW scarce and dearer by a third than best hay, it hav- 10.00; No. 2 prairie, [email protected]; No. 3 prairie, $6.00 ing sold up to as high as $26 per ton." @7.00; No. 4 prairie. [email protected]. Inside prices on H. H. Freeman & Co., Chicago, in their market prairie hay for stale and outside for Kansas, Ne- letter of February 11 say: Timothy—Receipts are braska and Iowa hay. Sales ranged at $7.00(g)13.00 moderate with demand steady. The C. & N. W., for fair to choice timothy, $6.00 for threshed, $5.75 S. L. Chapman have engaged D. E. Price and which has been holding, in their inside yard, hay @7.50 for state, and [email protected] for Iowa, Kansas in the hay and feed business at Aurora, Nebr. for some time, is now placing it on track. Most and Nebraska prairie hay. Rye straw sold at $8.00 The Michigan & Ohio Hay Co., with headquarters of this is timothy hay. Timothy is moving off @9.00, and oat straw at [email protected]. The receipts at Allegan, Mich., has opened an office in Greater satisfactorily, the price obtainable being as good for the week were 5,500 tons, against 5,142 tons New York. as can be expected. Most of the hay is of common for the previous week. Shipments for the week grade. is scarce offerings of such are viere 101 tons, against 20C tons for the previous Receipts of hay at Chicago on February 1 were Choice and though week. The market for timothy hay ruled steady 680 tons, as compared with 688 tons for the same quickly taken. High colored hays, even they be are also selling well. The latter and exhibited no material change. Prairie hay was date last year. mixed grades can be worked off to better advantage dur- in large supply and very dull during the week. William B. Stephens of Port Richmond, L. I., ing the winter than in the warmer months and The demand was light and receivers experienced N. Y., has organized a company to deal in hay, we urge the immediate shipment of them. Poor considerable difficulty in disposing of consignments. office has been opened in New grain and feed. An grades are not wanted and should not be shipped York City. here. Prairie is dull; the demand for it is slow The recent bulletin issued by the California sec- and very discouraging. Choice lots are scare and SOME TYPES OF FIRE PROOF Agriculture states tion of the U. S. Department of this is about the only thing buyers want. Iowa ELEVATORS. that prospects for a fair crop of hay in that state has been a liberal shipper, the grade of which is are excellent. very low—practically no better than state hay and [Extracts from an article in "Insurance Engineer- The committee on hay and straw quotations of sells at prices but little higher. State hay has moved ing" on "Grain Elevators: A Consideration of the the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce for the cur- better than other ordinary grades of hay because Various Types, Old and New."] rent month are: William Hopps, Robert S. Sinton the freight rate is low and it can be sold at mod- Wood, brick, iron, steel, hollow tile, concrete, and and Richard D. Wells. erate prices. There has been no large amount of combinations of these materials, have been em- The premises of the New England Hay Co. at prairie arriving, yet it has accumulated. Straw ployed in the construction of grain elevators and Boston, Mass., were badly damaged by water dur- has continued steady with receipts light; all grades most of them have been in actual tests to be un- are a have ing a fire on January 19 which partially destroyed meeting with good market. At no time equal to the needs of the case. A very large ma- an adjoining building. we had any rush of this article and in consequence jority of fires in these risks make total losses—in- buyers have no stocks on hand. We look for a prefer insure build- The stable and warehouse of Volkommen & Co., surance companies not to the continued active market. Owing to improved ings and to write only short-term policies on the AVilliamsburg, N. Y., was burned on January 25, weather conditions this week receipts have in- together with a quantity of hay, straw and feed. grain in the bins. The explanation of this ab- creased 209 cars; last week there arrived 346 cars, The firm will rebuild at once. normally high loss ratio is undoubtedly to be found this week 555. Market, however, remains prac- in the peculiar construction required for the stor- Pfanner Bros., dealers in hay, feed, grain, etc., tically unchanged and steady. Many sections of age of grain—at least no great change has been at Tonawanda. N. Y., have dissolved partnership, the country have not yet started moving their hay; made in the manner of storing grain while in George Pfanner retiring. The business will be there has been but a small portion moved and we transit in the past fifty years. In the first place continued by Fred Pfanner, Jr. to urge you, believing it for your best interests, these buildings are very inaccessible and the first as convenient. The Newark Hay & Grain Co. has been chartered let shipments come forward as soon floor (above the bins) in the common type of ele- at Newark, N. J., with a capital of $50,000. Alex- vators is high above the ground level. Being usual- Gilliland, Jr., William Cooper, and G. W. ander REVIEW OF THE CHICAGO HAY MARKET. ly situated along a water front, one side, and often Campbell are the incorporators. three sides, cannot be reached excepting by fire The prices ruling for hay in the Chicago market At the last session of the Cherokee Council the boats. Or, as in the case of an old elevator that during the past four weeks, according to the Daily tax on hay was repealed. This action has been burned in Chicago recently, they may be surrounded Trade Bulletin, were as follows: approved by the President and the Indian office. by railroad tracks, which is just as bad. Again, During the week ending January 16. quotations at The royalty heretofore on all hay shipped out of being frequently built on piling some distance from the close ranged as follows: Choice timothy, $11.50 the Cherokee nation has been 20 cents a ton. the shore, the nearest fire hydrants may be so far @12.50; No. 1 timothy, [email protected]; No. 2 timothy, off that it is necessary to stretch many lengths of The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad has lifted its [email protected]; No. 3 timothy. [email protected]; choice prai- hose to reach a fire with water from a steamer, embargo on hay from the west for Baltimore. The rie, [email protected]; No. 1 prairie, $9.00(g)10.00; No. 2 with a consequent loss of pressure. embargo went into effect last May, but was some- prairie, [email protected]; No. 3 prairie, [email protected]; No. 4 long ago as 1865 two grain elevators, one in what modified last November so as to permit ship- prairie, [email protected]. Inside prices on prairie hay As the other in Philadelphia, built ments of hay to Baltimore over the main line of for state and outside for Kansas, Nebraska and Brooklyn and were the road. Iowa hay. Sales ranged at [email protected] for poor of iron, and in 1869 one was built in Buffalo from brick. But the type of elevator met with more com- The Forest Park University Hotel at St. Louis, to choice timothy, $8.25 for mixed hay, [email protected] monly consists of a rectangular group of bins, 50 Mo., has been selected as the official headquarters for state, and [email protected] for Iowa, Dakota and to 100 feet high, constructed of 2-inch by 10-inch for the eleventh annual convention of the National Kansas prairie hay. Rye straw sold at [email protected] plank at the bottom, narrowing to 2-inch by 5-inch Hay Association which will be held June 14, 15 for poor to choice. Wheat straw at $7.00 and oat at 'the top, laid flatwise and spiked together, with and 16. The hotel is conveniently located near the straw at [email protected]. The receipts for the week were superstructure of one or more floors containing World's Fair grounds. 3,793 tons, against 3,084 tons for the previous week. a tons, against the machinery, shafting, spouts, etc., for handling John B. Daish has been selected by President Shipments for the week were 167 firm feeling the grain, the entire building thus formed being Dexter of the National Hay Association to represent 188 tons for the previous week. A while the market for prairie sheathed on the outside with slate or corrugated that organization at the hearings before the com- existed for timothy hay rather dull. iron and with roof of the same material. The bot- mittee of the Senate and House relative to the hay was quiet and quotations toms of the bins of most old-style elevators are 12 amendment of the Interstate Commerce Act and to During the week ending January 23, follows: Choice timothy, to 15 feet above the ground, supported by heavy appear at any other committee hearing wherein the at the close ranged as [email protected]; No. 1 timothy, [email protected]; No. 2 limbers and hopper shaped. National Hay Association is affected. timothy, [email protected]; No. 3 timothy, [email protected]; The Great Northern elevator situated at Buffalo The Albers Bros. Milling Co. of Portland, Ore., choice prairie, $10.50(5)11.00; No. 1 prairie, $9.00@ may be taken as a good example of the type of con- received the contract for 1,250 tons of hay for gov- 10.00; No. 2 prairie, [email protected]; No. 3 prairie, $6.00 struction employing stone, steel and brick. It ernment use in the Philippines at the recent award @7.00; No. 4 prairie, [email protected]. Inside prices on covers an area of 120 by 400 feet. The building of forage contracts. The hay will the be Willamette prairie hay for state and outside for Kansas, Ne- has a pile foundation, the piles being driven down \ alley product and is to be shipped on the steamer braska and Iowa hay. Sales ranged at [email protected] from 30 to 48 feet below water to solid rock. Stone Lyra which is due to sail from Seattle on March for poor to choice timothy, $7.00 for threshed tim- piers 8 feet high were laid on top of this founda- 5. San Francisco dealers will furnish 3,000 tons othy, [email protected] for state, and [email protected] for tion, supporting the columns. The elevator bins and Seattle and Tacoma dealers about 1,500 tons Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas prairie hay. Rye straw are built cylindrical in form, with a cone-shaped more. sold at [email protected] and oat straw at [email protected]. The bottom, and consist of thirty bins 38 feet in diame- The National Hay Association has sent out a receipts for the week were 4,586 tons, against 3,793 ter by 70 feet high; eighteen bins 15^^ feet in circular to non-members among the hay trade call- tons for the previous week. Shipments for the week diameter by 70 feet high; and eighteen exterior ing their attention to the benefits to be derived from were 202 tons, against 167 tons for the previous small bins 9 feet 9 inches in diameter by 60 feet membership in the Association. Attached to each week. A good local demand existed for timothy high, making a combined capacity of 3,000,000 bush- circular is a blank membership application which hay and the offerings were only fair. Prairie hay els. The cupola, which extends the entire length is to be filled out and forwarded to P. E. Goodrich, was quiet and dull throughout the week. of the elevator, containing four floors, is 40 feet secretary, Winchester. Ind. Any one desiring a During the week ending January 30. quotations at wide and 67 feet high. The main grain floor is copy of this circular and application may obtain the close ranged as follows: Choice timothy, $11.50 fireproof, underlined with tiling; and the upper same from the secretary at the above address or at 'S1I2.5O; No. 1 timothy, f [email protected]; No. 2 tim- floors, joists, rafters, girders, garners, scale bins, thin office. othy. [email protected]; No. 3 timothy, [email protected]; choice and all other parts of the building other than the

A recent issue of the Brooklyn (N. Y. ) Eagle prairie, [email protected]; No. 1 prairie. $9.00@]0.00; brick wall surrounding the structure are built of comments on the hay situation as follows: "There No. 2 prairie. [email protected]; No. 3 prairie, [email protected]; steel, including the three marine towers. The walls appears to be record of no previous season in which No. 4 prairie, [email protected]. Inside prices on prairie and roof of the superstructure are covered with conditions of hay and straw were so irregular and hay for state and outside for Kansas. Nebraska and corrugated iron. Electricity is used throughout for liuzzling as in 1903. After the spring opened, with Iowa hay. Sales ranged at [email protected] for fair lighting and power purposes, the marine towers a beautiful and promising March, a drought set in, to choice timothy. $7.50 for clover mixed, $7.00@ being equipped with electric passenger service. In- so pronounced and prolonged that to the middle 8.00 for state, and [email protected] for poor to fair Iowa, duction motors supply the power, thus doing away of June it seemed thai no hay could possibly be Nebraska and Kansas prairie hay. Rye straw sold with the sparking hazard of the ordinary brush gathered in the eastern part of the country. Then at [email protected], and oat straw at [email protected]. The machines. followed continuous rain, which promoted a ram- receipts for the week were 5,142 tons, against 4,586 While the steel bin elevator enclosed with brick pant growth of grass to a great crop in a phenom- tons for the previous week. Shipments for the walls and with its electrical machinery for hand- enally short interval, to the delight of farmers and week were 206 tons, against 202 tons for the previ- ling the grain was a decided change from the com- the hope of the trade for good and cheap hay. But ous week. Only a fair business was transacted mon type which prevailed for so many years and alas! for human expectations, excessive wet con- during the week. The receipts were liberal and still used, the Electric Elevator, also located at tinued throughout the harvesting period, which only a moderate demand existed for both timothy Buffalo and built the same year as the Great North- spoiled the quality of the greater portion of the and prairie hay. ern, completely revolutionized elevator construc- product. Poor hay was rushed to the cities, un- During the week ending February 6, quotations tion. The Electric Elevator is what is known as settling the market and causing no end of dissatis- at the close ranged as follows: Choice timothy, a Steel Storage Tank Elevator, and is the only AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 441

one of its kind in the East. The elevator is built it will be mounted on twenty pairs of car wheels on the July oats deal represented by them were not on the natural rock, which is found only 7 feet running on four steel rails along the dock. actual losses. below the average water level. condition consists section front This was This dock of a middle in After having been in all the stale courts, the case the chief reason why this site was selected, inas- of the elevator, which will be built entirely of con- of Robert Van Tassell of Peoria against Wakefield much as there can be no settlement. crete steel construction, piles. and supported on & Best of Princeville, in which the latter were The main building towers width this section is feet, height and marine are con- The of of dock 33 ejected from the elevator at Princeville for failure si ructed entirely of steel, the floors 2,") feet, length feet. being %-inch and 200 At either end of the to comply with the conditions of the deed, has been plate. All the in the is middle section is retaining wall machinery structure sup- a heavy concrete concluded. Since the beginning of the suit Best ported on steel girders, and the elevator legs, scale with filling behind, which will form the dock be- has died and Wakefield has gone into bankruptcy. hoppers and garners are all built steel. the elevator. total length of concrete of yond The Another Wakefield took charge oi the elevator and The plant consists of a structural steel building dock is 000 feel, running across the inshore end now the United States Supreme Court says Wake- 38 by 120 feet the between by 140 feet high; a stationary and of basin the two adjacent steamship field must give Van Tassell possession. movable tower of steel 28 by 32 feet, each 140 feet piers. The total height of the concrete work under The Farmers' Grain and Live Stock Co. of Kear- high; a steel belt gallery over top of tanks 17 the elevator from pile heads to bin bottoms is 50 ney, Nebr., on February 4, filed a petition in the feet wide, 204 feet long, SO feet above the ground, feet. About 25 feet of this will be below grade District Court asking for a peremptory writ of man- and a series of twenty-four immense steel grain when the filling is completed. Two car tracks run damus to compel the Union Pacific to furnish it tanks. Five have a capacity of 100,000 bushels through the elevator. with cars and to transport its grain to market. The each, seven are of 100,000 bushels capacity each, This lower concrete story is thoroughly braced petition says that the Farmers' Company has erected and the other twelve tanks are of 25,000 bushels by heavy concrete arches running entirely across (ipon two lots it owns an elevator at a cost of about capacity each. Four of the smaller tanks are sub- the building, with buttresses extending out on $5,000 which is located on a switch ten years old divided into four bins of about 0,000 bushels each. cither side to take the thrust. The space between owned by the railroad and has facilities for loading All the tanks are air-tight and fireproof, and all columns will be filled by a concrete curtain wall grains; that it has more than three carloads of have self-cleaning hopper bottoms. with a double window, three sashes high, in each grain in its elevator which it desires to have trans- The construction is such that the possibility of panel, which will make a very light lower working ported to market, has made the proper demand for moisture getting at the grain stored in them is pre- lloor. The entire outer surface of the concrete will cars to be set upon the switch for the handling and cluded. Grain can also be stored in the tanks be blocked off to resemble massive masonry, and transportation of the grain, which request and de- for an indefinite space of time without fear of bush-hammered all over. The top of the bins will mand have been refused. The court issued an order heating, thereby saving the expense of turning the be 110 feet above ground level, and the cupola will to the railroad to show cause why a peremptory grain, as is necessary in the old-style elevators. lun 85 feet above this, making a total height from writ should not issue. Owing to the storage of all the grain in tanks in- the grotind of 195 feet. This cupola will be struc- dependent of the main building, there is practically tural steel throughout, with concrete floors and The Smith-Gambrill Company, for the use of the trustee for the creditors, no hazard from dust. All the grain is weighed I oof. the Maryland Export Com- in the main building and not in the towers, as is pany, for the use of the receiver, and Gill & Fisher the case in most elevators. Electricity is used for of Baltimore have begun suit against the Central lighting and for power in the Electric Elevator Elevator Company to recover damages for alleged also injuiy to grain in the custody of the defendant company. In the first it is Still another innovation is the fireproof tile tank IN THE COVR.TS suit alleged that the Smith- grain elevator, of which type the Great Eastern Gambrill Company delivered to the defendant for at Minneapolis may be taken as an illustration. storage at its grain elevator 23,702 bushels of corn, This is what is known as the hollow-tile bin sys- and that while the corn was stored in the elevator a tem, the walls of the tanks being constructed en- part of it heated and was badly injured. The Mary- Bradley Brothers, dealers in tirely of hollow tiles tied at intervals with steel flour, feed, grain, hay, land Export Company makes the same allegations, straw, etc.. at Pittsfield, Man., on 21 called rods. The method of construction is as follows: January the amount of corn mentioned in its declaration be- a meeting of creditors. liabilities are The tiles are set on edge in a tile base, which is The stated as ing 31,802 bushels, and the suit of Messrs. Gill & tied by steel rods which run around the circum- $0,000. Fisher is identical with the two others, the amount ference of the tank. Sometimes the bottoms of the The suits against the insurance companies inter- of corn mentioned in the declaration being 21,149 bins are of stone and cement, in some cases rest- ested in the losses on the Dahl & Peterson elevator bushels. Each plaintiff claims $3,000 damages. ing top stone tunnels. at Atwater, Minn., were settled out of court, the on of When a complete Judge Barber of Toledo on February 5 rendered circle of the tiles has been placed, tile companys paying $3,500. another y decision in the case of Joseph Timmons of Kep- base is in position; the operation is re- put and Koch & Son of Algonquin, 111., have filed a petition ton, O., against the East Side Iron Elevator Com- until peated the full height of the bin is reached. in bankruptcy at Chicago. They handle grain and l)any. The facts are in substance these: Mr. Tim- On the inside of this wall is cemented a circle of implements. Assets, $5,000; stated liabilities, $6,000, mons shipped a carload of wheat to Toledo, con- white vitrified tiling, placed with the openings or but claims aggregating $20,000 have been filed. signed to the order of Storer & Company of Colum- flues vertical, the result being that continuous air- bus. drew on that firm, sight draft accom- Thos. E. Price and others have begun action He a shafts are formed through the wall from top to panying the bill of lading. The firm did not, how- against T. A. Cleage, Jr., the St. Louis plunger, to bottom. The four tanks are each .50 feet in diame- declare ever, pay the draft, but told J. J. Coon, of Toledo, ter by 80 feet in height, the total capacity being him a bankrupt, alleging transfer of his property a grain merchant, to get the wheat from the East bushels. In a test this after he knew himself to be insolvent. 400,000 made of system at Side Iron Elevator Company, where it had been The claims amount to $22,290. a time when the thermometer stood at 15 degrees delivered, and the Elevator Company delivered it The Choctaw Elevator above zero in the open, water and snow were ap- Company on January 19 to Coon. The question Judge Barber was called commenced an attachment suit in the plied to the interior of a section of the wall and Chancery to decide was, whether Storer & Company had the Court at Memphis against the J. Rosenbaum Grain allowed to freeze into a solid cake, while against right to sell the wheat, not having paid for it and Company, an Illinois corporation, to collect the outer wall there was erected a furnace in the sum taken up the bill of lading. The court held that of $2,609.39 claimed to be due on an open which a fire was started and forced, until the account. Storer & Company did not have title; that Timmons pyrometer showed a temperature of 2,000 degrees. Albert L. Deibel of Atlanta, Ga., formerly of St. had not parted with his title; and that the East It was not until the fire had been banked that the Louis, who has been representing the Deibel Grain Side Iron Elevator Company, in delivering the ice on the inside began to melt, and after the last Company, of St. Louis, in Atlanta, has filed a peti- wheat to Coon without a bill of lading, did so at cf the fire had died away there was still some ice tion in bankruptcy. His indebtedness for jewelry, its peril and must pay. Judgment for $612 in and snow remaining against the inner wall of the livery, flowers, etc., amounts to $1,212.85, with no favor of plaintiff was therefore given against the tank. In view of the results thus obtained, it is assets. Elevator Company. claimed that the contents of a tile tank are proof The Farmer City Grain Company of Farmer City, The Supreme Court of Minnesota has remanded against injury by fire. 111., recently brought suit before a justice against the case of Henry Kramer against the Northwestern Finally we come to the steel and concrete ele- E. H. Wilson, J. T. North, Geo. Winslow and James Elevator Co., ti'ied at Granite Falls, Minn. Kramer vator. The Pioneer Steel Elevator at Minneapolis Patterson for non-payment of their subscriptions to had brought suit to recover grain, or the value there- is one of this class. The total capacity of the plant the capital slock of the company. The justice de- of, which had been stored in the defendant's ele- is 1,200,000 bushels. At the center is the working cided the case in favor of the Grain Company. vator. Memorandum slips were introduced to show house, which covers 70 by 84 feet of ground. This There was a great interest taken in the case by the that the grain had been delivered. These slips were is steel building, the floors which are of com- a of stockholders. not the regular slips provided for by the Railway posite steel and concrete construction. Double and Commission, an objection The suit of the Farmers' Co-operative Shipping Warehouse and was tracks run through the building on the ground made to their introduction. The court held that Association of Kansas to compel the Burlington floor, all of which floor is devoted to unloading and they had been given in good faith and were permis- road to build a spur to an elevator at the town of cleaning the grain. It has a capacity of fifty cars sible as evidence. "I prefer, counsel, that if there Upland and to grant an elevator site at the town in and fifty cars out every day. The building con- is to be any stealing done on technicalities that the of Rladen. a suit referred to throughout the state as tains thirty-five steel, hopper-bottom bins. On the Supreme Court say so," said the trial judge. The Su- one which would test the validity of the Ramsey ground floor are four large special cleaners, with preme Court maintains that this created in the elevator law, was dismissed in the Supreme Court a capacity of 25,000 bushels per day, two large minds of the jury a prejudice against the elevator on motion of the Association. The reason for the wheat cleaners and one oat clipper. Above the company and grants a new trial on that ground. dismissal is not known. bins, the frame of the building is of structural The court says (2 of Syllabus) : "If a warehouseman Orders were issued in the Circuit Court at St. steel work, with a covering of corrugated iron. receives grain for storage and issues memorandum Louis on January 18 by Judges Sale, and The total height of the working house is 145 feet. Woods slips, or tickets, not in accordance with the statute in several of the alleged wheat corner cases, On either side is a line of flve eylindical steel Ryan (Section 7716-7717 G. S.), and the bailor in good granting temporary injunctions until the cases can tanks, each 55 feet in diameter by 80 feet in height, faith deposits wheat and accepts such tickets, he is be further heard, so far as margins deposited in and capable of holding 100,000 bushels. The cov- not deprived of his right to the property or value the banks are concerned. The judges, however, de- ered way extending either way from the working thereof. Such memorandum slips are properly ad- clined to grant injunctions restraining the Mer- house above the roof of the tanks, contains a belt mitted in evidence in connection with evidence to chants' Exchange from disciplining its members by conveyor, and a similar conveyor extends beneath identify and make them certain to prove the fact suspension or expulsion for failure to carry out their the floor of the tanks. that the wheat was actually delivered. But if the contracts. Another example of the steel and concrete ele- bailor had knowledge of the fact that the agent's vator is the "grasshopper" elevator now in course Porteus B. Weare and Charles A. Weare, doing authority was limited to the issuance only of such of construction at Montreal. The foundations, business as P. B. Weare & Co., are defendants in certificates as are prescribed by statue, and ac- lower story, and all upper floors are built of con- a suit in assumpsit for $7,500, filed in the Circuit cepted a form, of ticket which does not provide for crete. The bins are cylindrical in shape, built of Court on January 20 by the Canadian Bank of Com- storage charged, for the purpose of avoiding them, steel plates, with all spaces between cylindrical bins merce of Chicago. The basis of the action is said then such transaction was not necessarily of such formed into smaller bins, so that the whole area is to be several notes made four months ago for clients fraudulent character as to deprive the bailor from utilized for storage. The total number of bins is of the defendants and indorsed by the defendants. recovering the wheat, or its value, although he may seventj'-eight: and the total storage capacity 1,- Miles Dover of Melrose, la., and Geo. Herbert of be charged with storage charges to the same extent 000,000 bushels. The marine tower is built of steel, Seymour. la., also sue the same parties for $15,000 as he would have been under the terms of the regu- and is 23 feet wide, 33 feet long, and 150 feet high; and $5,000 respectively. They allege th^t the losses lar receipt." 442 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

' ' ' "* •*-'•'*''"' trol 1 of seed or not, i i i 1 services held St. but the i j jj r - i r iin.firrf rrn were at James' Catholic church on sudden marking January 18. up of prices is considered as evidence that such Edward A. Lord, a veteran member of the Chi- is the case. The season is now approaching when OBITUARY cago Board of Trade and a pioneer resident of the demand for linseed oil begins on a large scale it is stated that other Evanston, 111., died at his home in that suburb on and no interest except the February 2 after an illness of five weeks. His American could afford to mark up the seed 5 cents end was hastened by heart troubles, although his a bushel for the mere purpose of improving the Charles A. Ebert, 68 years old, a retired grocer death was partially attributed to old age. Although oil position. and grain dealer of Kansas City, Kans., died of 75 years of age, Mr. Lord had not retired from busi- Brights disease on January 16. Mr. Ebert had re- ness and until the last was in active charge of the turned from California only a few days previous to business of E. A. Lord & Son. The deceased was his death. He leaves a widow. born in Ipswich, Mass., and before coming to Chi- Henry Memory, a member of the Chicago Board cago was for a number of years in the dry goods of Trade, who had been identified with the provi- trade in Boston. He is survived by five children, sion interests for over 30 years, died recently on the three sons and two daughters. steamer Prince Oscar of the North German Lioyd Enoch Colby, a pioneer resident of Chicago and line, while nearing Naples, and was buried at sea. for 27 years identified with the department of grain J. J. Bittzer has opened a seed store at Portland, Dwight P. Robinson, formerly in the grain busi- inspection, died of apoplexy at his home in this city Ore. ness in Minneapolis, but who for some time has on January 11, aged 87 years. The deceased was George E. Stuphen has sold his seed business at been living a retired life, was found dead in his born in Thornlon, N. J., in 1817, and first came to Aurora. 111. bed at the Holmes hotel in that city on February 8. Chicago in 1838. He returned to his native state The Henry Philipps Seed & Implement Co. of Mr. Robinson was 35 years of age and had not been in 1839 where he remained for several years. In Toledo, Ohio, has made extensive improvements to in good health for some time. 1855 he again came to Chicago and for ten years its store. Alpheus L. Brinker, aged 58, a grain and stock was a contractor and builder. He entered the grain X''. Barteldes & Co., wholesale seed dealers of broker of Pittsburg, Pa., committed suicide on the inspection department in 1866. Mr. Colby was a Lawrence, Kans., have erected a new seed elevator morning of .January 19 by cutting his throat. He member of the original Union League Club and the at Oklahoma City, Okla. had been in ill health for some time and despair- early Wide-Awake Club. He is survived by one son ing of obtaining relief ended his life. Mr. Brinker and four daughters, his wife dying in 1895. St. Paul, Minn., wholesalers are said to be selling leaves a wife and daughter. Rodney J. Hardy of Arlington, Mass., senior mem- seed sweet corn at from $6 to $10 per bushel and a recent report from Kankakee, 111., states that William Howard Martin. Jr., who has been con- ber of the firm of R. J. Hardy & Sons, grain mer- local seed men are asking a bushel. nected with McReynolds & Co. for several years, chants of Boston, Mass., dropped dead in the rail- $8 representing them in the provision pit of the Chi- road station at Bristol, Conn., on January 26. Death The Joseph L. Ullathorne Seed Co. has been in- cago Board of Trade, died at St. Luke's hospital, was caused by heart failure. The deceased was corporated at Memphis. Tenn., with a capital of Chicago, on February 4, aged 31 years. His death born in Hollis, N. H., in 1828 and spent his early $100,000 to deal in field, garden and flower seeds, married was caused by cancer of the stomach. life on his father's farm. In 1854 he was plants, etc. The incorporators are J. L. Ullathorne, E. Tenney and removed to Cam- Frederick M. Smith, a feed and grain dealer of to Miss Sarah O. C. Armstrong. A. S. Ullathorne, Hosmer J. Bar- bridge, Mass., where he taught school for a time, New Haven, Conn., died suddenly at his home in rett, George S. Hopper, W. A. Bickford and Henry later engaging in the dry goods trade in Boston. that city on the evening of January 26. His death Craft. In 1872 he engaged in the grain business with his was due to heart disease and occurred after an ill- A recent report from Toledo, Ohio, states that two sons, Rodney T. and William E. Mr. Hardy ness of only a few hours. Mr. Smith was 59 years cucumber seed is selling at $1.50 per pound, whole- leaves seven children, three sons and four daugh- of age and leaves a wife, one son and a daughter. sale. This is an advance of $1.30 per pound over ters. His wife died in 1897. Herbert C. Ferguson, a grain buyer of Seaforth, prices of two years ago, the seed selling then at Minn., died at a hospital in Rochester, Minn., Jan- Col. Walter B. Dutton, aged 56 years, for years 20 cents a pound. Seed sweet corn is quoted at uary 25. The deceased had been in ill health for one of the leading business men of Racine, Wis., Toledo at $10 a bushel, an advance of $7 in the some time and had gone to Rochester a few days died on February 5 of diabetes after an illness of past two years. preceding his death for treatment. Mr. Ferguson nearly two years. He was born in Racine in 1847, had William S. Gilbreath, for fifteen years associated formerly resided son of the late A. P. Dutton, one of the pioneer at Morgan and at Chattield, Minn., with the Illinois Seed Co. of Chicago, and one year and his funeral was held at the latter residents and a leading vessel owner and grain place. He with J. M. McCulIotigh's Sons, of Cincinnati, Ohio, leaves a wife and commission merchant. He was long associated with two daughters. has opened a new seed house at Indianapolis, Ind., his father in business and then became assistant Herman Bruckman, a well known grain and hay under the name of the William S. Gilbreath Seed manager of the J. I. Case Threshing Machine Co., merchant of Lawrence, Mass., died suddenly at his Co. The new company will do a general grass, resigning to accept the position of general manager home in that city January 7, aged 61 years. His field seed, grain and storage busines. of an Arkansas railroad. For the past ten years death was caused by heart failure. The deceased he has been engaged in the lumber business in Fire at Thornton, Texas, at 2 o'clock a. m., Jan- was a native of Germany and came to America in Racine, disposing of his interests some months ago uary 24, destroyed a row of six seed houses near 1868. He shortly afterwards located at Lawrence, on account of ill health. He is survived by his the railroad tracks in that city. Two of the burned Mass., and engaged in the grain and hay business. v.idow. one daughter and two sons. houses contained about 1,000 bushels of corn and He is survived by his widow, one son and two buildings by daughters. a quantity of hay. The were owned various seed companies and were valued at from Jo.seph H. Martin, a former president of the Min- $300 to $400 each. The loss is partially covered neapolis Chamber of Commerce ana one of it pres- by insurance. ent board of directors, died January 13 from cancer At the annual business meeting of the Missouri of the stomach at his residence in Minneapolis, FLAXSEED Corn Growers' Association held at Columbia, Mo., Minn., after a six months' illness. Mr. Martin was on January 7, the following officers were elected for born at Rockport, Me., and was 60 years old. He the ensuing year: President, E. E. Laufland, Rich iscame a resident of Minneapolis about 21 years Hill, Mo.; vice-presidents, J. N. Price, Trenton, Mo., ago and engaged in the grain commission business. exports of linseed oil cake from Russia in The J. M. Doughty, Farmington, Mo., E. C. Weeks, From 1898 to 1900 he was president of the Chamber 1902 were 233,229,516 pounds, against 298,682,352 F. M. Reible, Arbela, Mo., and C. C. of Eldon, Mo.. Commerce. The deceased leaves a widow ' and pounds for the preceding year. Urich, Mo., secretary treasurer, G. M. one daughter. Page. and Stocks of flaxseed in country elevators on Feb- Tucker, Columbia, Mo. John E. Nelms, a prominent grain merchant of ruary 1 were 868,000 bushels, as compared with Bath, 111., died suddenly at A new organization auxiliary to the Minnesota his home in that village 1,078,000 bushels on January 1, and 1,593,000 bush- on February 3. State Agricultural Society was formed at Minne- The deceased was born in Beards- els a year ago. town, 111., in 1835 and for a number of years re- apolis on January 12. It is to be known as the Nearly 500,000 bushels of flax has been shipped sided at Peoria, 111., where he was a member of Minnesota Field Crop Breeders' Association. The from Duluth to Chicago since the closing of navi- the Board of Trade. At the time of his death he following are the officers: O. C. Thompson, presi- gation. This is presumably for the mills of the was president of the Nelms Heye Grain Co. Last dent; W. M. Hays, secretary; Arthur Cooper, treas- American Linseed Co. September Mr. Nelms was married to Miss Anna urer; J. J. Furlong, Karl Olsted, C. N. Cosgrove, E. Ware, of Ottawa, 111., who survives him; also a Flax receipts at Duluth during January were B. T. Hoyt, Jesse E. Northrup, F. F. Marshall, O- daughter by a former marriage, and one sister. His 942,000 bushels, as compared with 696,000 bushels O. Enestvedt. H. H. Chapman, and W. C. Currie, body was taken to Peoria for interment. for January, 1903. The receipts at Minneapolis vice-presidents. were 700,000 bushels, compared with 621,000 bush- Patrick H. McEvoy, an attorney at law and the The Illinois Corn Growers' Association elected els in January last year. "The total receipts at both father of the New York grain elevator law, which the following officers at Champaign, 111., on January points were 1,042,000 bushels, compared with 1,317,- fixed the minimum charge for handling grain in 26: E. E. Chester, of Champaign, president; W. 000 bushels a year ago. Buffalo, died at his home in Little Falls, N. Y., Jan- H. Young, of Athens, secretary; H. A. Winter, of uary 11. His death was caused by a complication of Imports of flaxseed for the month of December AVenona, treasurer; H. G. Easterly, of Carbondale, liver and stomach troubles which had confined him amounted to 4 bushels, valued at $11. The total C. A. Rowe, of Jacksonville, J. P. Robards, of to his house for some time. Mr. McEvoy was for imports of flaxseed for the twelve months ending Greenfield, George A. Hunt, of Hebron, W. C. Grif- several years a member of the New York legislature with December were 13,505 bushels, valued at $19,- fith and William Enins, of Decatur, vice-presi- and it was during his first term in that body that he 233, as compared with 501,278 bushels, valued at dents. The Illinois Seed Corn Breeders' Associa- introduced the measure which made him famous. $736,380, for the corresponding period ending with tion at the same place and on the same date elected He is survived by his wife, four sons and a daugh- the preceding December. officers as follows: J. H. Coolidge, of Galesburg. ter. During the month of December 133,432 bushels president; E. E. Chester, of Champaign, vice-president, and J. R. Clisby, of Areola, secretary-treas- Thomas E. Sullivan, a member of the Chicago of flaxseed, valued at $135,908, were exported as urer. The executive committee elected are Prof. Board of Trade, died at his home in this city Jan- compared with 653,978 bushels, valued at $927,992, E. Davenport, of Urbana, J. H. Coolidge, and J. uary 15 of heart failure. Mr. Sullivan was born in for the preceding December. For the twelve months Dwight Funk, of Bloomington, J. 0. Toland, of Chicago in 1860 and began his business career as a ending with December 1, 157,953 bushels of flax- Areola. F. A. Warner, of Sibley, and J. L. Reid, clerk for Richard Murphy and Joseph McDonald. seed, valued at $1,318,839, were exported, as com- of East Lynne. When only 18 years of age he went with the firm pared with 4,046,178 bushels, valued at $5,722,045, of Charles B. Pope & Co. and two years later was for the corresponding twelve months ending with sent to New York as eastern manager for the firm. the preceding December. Illinois broom corn growers have organized the Corn Growers' Protective Association of the On the retirement of Mr. Pope in 1881 Mr. Sullivan A recent advance of 5 cents in the flax price Broom United States. returned to Chicago and went with Dwight & Mur- at Duluth was taken as a sign by flax people that phy. He shortly afterwards became a partner in the American Linseed Co. was in control of the The Way-Johnson-Lee Co. of Minneapolis in Jan- house in the and 1887 engaged in the brokerage busi- seed situation and was ready to mark up the seed uary received from C. E. Stendfield of Waubay, S. ness for himself. The deceased was married in 1882 price so as to influence the oil situation. No one D., a car of flaxseed that weighed 105,600 pounds, and leaves a widow and three children. His funeral IS certain that the American Linseed Co. has con- equal to 1,885:40 bushels. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 443

the building and contents is $33,000 and the total lecture upon some essential elements that should loss occasioned by the fire is $45,000. The insur- materially help the corn-growing and corn-selling ance will cover most of the loss. larmer. The necessity of handling corn in large FIRES CASUALTIES Charles Weichselbaum, contractor on the Osborn units, the methods of inspection and the elements that influence of & Scofield elevator at Portal, N. D., was caught in the grading corn were clearly ex- the main shaft on January 15 and made about 100 plained. The essential thing the farmer has to do revolutions before the machinery could be stopped. to enhance the value of the corn he has to sell is, the skull he said, to see to it that the corn when offered for McDuffle & Garrison's grain elevator at Garrison, He was badly bruised at the base of and bruises. doctors sale has no excess of moisture and is clean as well Texas, was damaged by fire recently. his whole body was a mass of The of is havo little hoi)cs of his recovery. as sound. The question moldy corn one of The premises of tlie Annis Flour & Grain Co. at prime importance to the farmers. Mold develops The Interstate Elevator Co.'s elevator at Evans- Manchester, N. H., were recently damaged by fire. more quickly around the germ than anywhere else ville, Minn., was burned, together with its contents, Fire in the engine room of Walter M. Bail's eleva- and more quickly around a grain with dirt deposits at an early hour on January 13. The flre was of tor at Clark, S. L)., on February 1, damaged that on it than a clean seed. The airt seems to furnish incendiary origin, attempts being also made to burn structure to the extent of about $100. a bed for the fungus spores to develop in, which the Northwestern and the Minneapolis & Northern they are quick to take advantage of. It is reported that the Updike Elevator, now in elevators. The burned elevator had a capacity of course of construction at Missouri Valley, Iowa, CO, 000 bushels and contained about 5,000 bushels of caught fire slightly recently and was damaged. grain at the time of the flre. A man, allegeu to The St. Anthony & Dakota Elevator at York, N. have been the incendiary, was arrested, but was D., was destroyed by a fire of unknown origin at afterwards acquitted of the charge and released. 10:30 o'clock m., 11. I), January A large quantity Jesse Brown, a young man employed in P. K. BARLEY AND MALT of wheat ind flax were burned. Wilson's elevator at Clinton, III., was fatally in- .John Weeks, an employe of .\ndre\vs & Gage's jured on the afternoon of January 27. He was elevator a.t Detroit, Minn., was severely burned handling a rope while at work in the top of the about the head and face recently by an explosion elevator when it became entangled in the shafting. The Lake Ontario Malting Co. of Oswego, N. Y., of gasoline in the engine room. In endeavoring to release the rope his clothing is reported to have dissolved. The Mt. Vernon Milling Co.'s elevator and flour caught and he was whirled around the revolving The Paterson Brewing & Malting Co.'s malt stopped and the young mill at Mt. Vernon, 111., were burned on January 12, shaft. The machinery was house at Paterson, N. J., was burned recently. man released. His left arm was badly crushed and causing a loss of $42,000, with insurance of $15,200. The elevator of the Wisconsin Malt & Grain Co. both legs and feet were severely bruised. He is not About 5,000 bushels of wheat were destroyed. at Forest Junction, Wis., burned January 18. expected to survive. Weber & Peirano's grain elevator at Wilson. Kans., Herman J. Sulzen, Sacramento, Cal., has been Fire on the afternoon of January 28 destroyed the was damaged by flre on January 29. Tlie fire granted United States letters patent No. 751,026 on Wabash Elevator at Seventy-seventh and Rockwell started from a hot journal in the cupola and was a malt-making machine. oxtinguished by the loca'. fire department. The loss Streets. Chicago. The house had been closed for The first grain charter on the lakes for the sea- is small. some months, but it was to have been opened on that February 1. The engineer had started up the mason was of the Ionia, which takes a load of The grain elevator belonging to the old i'lational chinery to ascertain whether it was in worlcing or- barley from Chicago to Oswego, at 2% cents. Mills at Parsons. Kans.. was destroyed by flre at 5 der. A hot journal is supposed to have caused the The Johnstown Dry Grains Co. has been char- o'clock p. m., January 18. The plant had not been fire. The elevator was located about a mile and a tered at Johnstown, Pa., with a capital of $25,000. operated for several years. The mill was saved. half from the nearest fire plug and for this reason The directors are: Henry Saly, W. H. Fredericks The loss is estimated at $1,800. the department was unable to reach the fire with a and J. M. Heading, all of Johnstown. The elevator at Roberts. Wis., owned by the Wis- sufficient volume of water to extinguish the flames. The malt elevator at 31 Vine street, Cincinnati, consin Grain Co.. was burneci on January 28. The The eighteen engines which responded to the alarm Ohio, owned by the Herman Goepper Co., malsters. fire is thought to have been caused by a defective were stationed at intervals between the hydrant and was badly daraaged by flre on the night of February flue. The loss is $10,000, with $5,000 insurance. A elevator in order to reach the fire with a single 2. The fire originated in the Great China Tea Co.'s quantity of grain also was burned. stream of water. The burned house had a frontage warehouse near-by and spread to the malt-house and Hugh Scoby's flour mill and elevator at Newbern, of 100 feet and was more than 80 feet in height. It other structures. The two top floors of the malt Tenn.. were destroyed by a fire which swept over was owned by the Wabash Railroad and operated house were burned and the malt on the lower that city on the night of February G. The loss on by Pratt & Buckley. The elevator had a capacity floors was ruined by smoke. The loss is estimated the mill and elevator is estimated at $12,000. A of 200,000 bushels, but contained little grain at the at $50,000 and is said to be covered by insurance. number of other buildings were also destroyed. time of the fire. The loss is estimated at from $75,- Fire in the big dry Itiln of the Chicago Consoli- 000 to $100,000. with $41,500 insurance. The flour and grain warehouse of Gale Bros, at dated Milling & Malting Co. at St. Clair and Michi- Cincinnati. Ohio, was damaged to the extent of gan streets, Chicago, on January 17 damaged the $4,000 by a fire that started in the Great China STUDYING CORN AT AMES. plant to the extent of $75,000. The dry kiln was Tea Co.'s warehouse on the night of February 2 entirely burned out and a large quantity of malt and spread to a number of adjoining buildings. The Iowa Corn School, so called, held at the in an elevator adjoining was badly damaged by W. F. Hammond's grain elevator at Elgin. Nebr., Agricultural College at Ames in January last, was, water. About 20,000 bushels of grain being malted was burned at 9:30 o'clock p. m., February 1. The perhaps, the largest ever held in any state. The in the malt house adjoining was practically spoiled. loss is $10,000 with insurance of $2,500. The fire enrollment was between 500 and 600, representing Nine firemen had a narrow escape from death while was caused by friction of a pulley in the top of the the states of Iowa, Massachusetts, West Virginia, fighting the flames, all being overcome by smoke. elevator. A bucket brigade succeeded in saving Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Minnesota, South Dakota, Two others were injured, but not seriously. The near-by structures. The elevator will be rebuilt. Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, as well as Ontario, burned structure was owned by George Bullen & The large grain elevator at Forest Junction, Wis., Mexico and the Argentine Republic. Co., a constituent company of the large concern. together with a quantity of grain, flour and feed, In the corn show there were over 350 (2,760 The loss is covered by insurance. burned on the morning of January IS. The loss is ears) entries of corn from all parts of Iowa, which estimated at $10,000, with small insurance. The competed for the cash and trophy prizes which IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF BARLEY AND elevator was owned by the Wisconsin ]Malt & Grain amounted to $3,000. The.'^e were arranged in an oc- MALT. Co. and will be rebuilt. tagon pavilion 65 feet in diameter, with 24 windows BAR1.BY. The Milwaukee Elevator Co.'s Elevator E, at Mil- and a large skylight. The exhibitors were members Imports- Bushels. Value. the Growers' Association, which had waukee. Wis., was damaged by fire to the extent of of Iowa Corn December, 1902 13,780 $ 6,901 divisions into about $500 on the morning of January 27. The fire accepted for its purposes the nine December, 1903 40,258 20,378 was caused by spontaneous combustion in the dust which the state of Iowa is divided for crop report- Twelve mo. end. December, 1902 54,137 29,412 conveyor on the fourth floor of the building. It ing purposes by Secretary Wells of the Iowa Grain Twelve mo. end. December 1903 72,980 36,407 Dealers' Association. was discovered at 2:40 o'clock a. m. l)y the watch- Exports- man, who gave the alarm. The entries for the Whiting trophy were divided December, 1902 906,223 570,056 as follows: For the best ten ears of corn: North- One of the warehouses on the Commercial Dock December, 1903 1,598,256 931,973 west, 9: north central, 10; northeast, 6; west cen- 1902 at Port Townsend. Wash., which was used by a local Twelve mo. end. Dec, 8,712,874 4,712,934 tral. 17: central, 30; east central, 16; southwest, firm for the storage of hay and straw, slid into the Twelve mo. end. Dec, 1903 9,799,605 5,678.148 20; south central, 3; southeast, 3; total entries, 114. on the morning of January 9. The piling had bay For the Cook Trophy, the best single ear, any BARLEY MALT. been all but eaten through by teredos, and the storm variety, there were 77 entries, every district in the Exports- prevailed at the time hastened the work of which state being represented. December, 1902 32,854 25,701 destruction. Eighty tons of hay and straw slipped In the three classes open to the world there were December, 1903 29,463 20,359 bay. The loss on the building is $500 and into the sixty-nine exhibits. With the exception of W. E. Twelve mo. end. Dec, 1902 405,162 279,348 the and straw were valued at $1,000. hay Johnson of Illinois, sweepstakes winner on Reid's Twelve mo. end. Dec, 1903 , 366,003 266,779 The grain elevator of the Haynes Milling Co. on Yellow Dent at the Peoria Corn Carnival, and one Erie & Western Railroad at Portland, Ind., the Lake or two other Illinois corn growers, the entries in The Oklahoma Corn Growers' Association has totally destroyed by fire on the morning of was the open-to-the-world classes were all from Iowa. been organized with headquarters at Newkirk, O. January 23. The loss is $15,000, and the insurance to consist of less A corn club to compete had not T., William Grimes, secretary. amounts to $4,000. It is thought that the fire start- than five members, every member belonging to the ed from electric wires. Half the structure was in Corn Growers' Association of the state. This was Usually ice does not form in Lake Superior until flames when the flre was discovered. About 3,500 a very important feature of the corn show. late in February and some years it Is a question bushels of wheat and two cars of shelled corn were In the club entries of fifty ears, not more than whether enough will form to give the icemen a burned. The question of rebuilding has not been twenty from any one member, there were twenty chance. This winter there was ice in December decided. clubs represented, competing for the Wallace and by the middle of this month, it extended from The warehouse of J. A. Brubaker & Co., hay and Farmer $240 cup trophy. Duluth nearly to Two Harbors. There is a record grain dealers, in the west bottoms at Kansas City, In the ten-ear exhibit by clubs, not more than back in 1882, of the Duluth end of Lake Superior Mo., was destroyed by fire on the morning of Feb- two ears by one person, there were forty-four en- being frozen over, so that teams could drive from the Isle first ar- ruary 1- The cause of the fire is attributed to a tries, representing nearly every district in the Apostle Islands to Royale. The spark from a passing locomotive or a carelessly state. rival from lower lakes that year was May 15. In dropped match. Eight loaded freight cars, four The awards were made by Chas. R. Rowe of recent years the earliest arrival from lower lakes containing hay and grain, were also burned. The Jacksonville, Ills., a farmer who is recognized as was in 1902, April 6, and the latest in 1901, May 7. burned building was erected about six years ago one of the best judges of corn in the corn belt. Aside from any question of possible delay from and cost $18,000. It was owned by the 'Frisco Rail- Classes in corn judging were held under a dozen labor troubles, it is quite certain that the ice field way and will not be rebuilt as the site will be used instructors all directed by Prof. Holden. in this end of Lake Superior is going to require for additional yard room. The warehouse con- C. S. Scofield of the Agricultural Department at considerable warm weather before boats will go tained a large quantity of baled hay. The loss on Washington gave an interesting and instructive through it. —

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or 34,725,000 bushels out of the total. Canada has 2-cent reduction from the Western territory in- spent $4,000,000 on her Sault canal and lock, against volved through Kansas City to Chicago. A cut of 2 .$12,500,000 by the United States on its canal, two cents below Great Western rates was made by the TRANSPORTATION locks and channels to Lake Huron. The canal was Chicago & North-Western, effective February 4, to begun in 1885 and completed in 1891, and was the effect through freight from Nebraska to Chicago. biggest public work in Canada at the time. This tariff of the North-Western permits a stoppage The project of a new deep water canal across of grain in Omaha, it being a milling-in-transit rate. The grain blockade of western Kansas, which has Canada, connecting Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie I\Ir. Stickney's latest cut is the result and he says tied up one-third of the wheat crop of that section, and doing away with the necessity of vessels navi- he will continue to make combined local rates the as is being rapidly broken. Reports from elevator men gating Detroit River, is not taken seriously by ves- same through rates. At a meeting of executive say that 60 to 80 per cent of the surplus has been sel owners on the lakes, although it is said by the officials of the various roads involved in the rate war, held moved and it is expected in a few days that ship- promoters to have attracted London and Paris cap- on February 8, efforts to bring about ments will be even with receipts from the farm. italists. That the canal would cut off six hours a peaceful settlement of the differences were a from the trip between the upper and lower lakes failure. A reduction of 5c on the grain for export via the does not impress them. That the the Gulf from Interior Kansas points has been made by scheme of new canal is not taken seriously by vessel owners the Santa Pe to protect its interests. This is due was shown by the prompt tabling of the matter to the cut of 2c made by the Great Western from when brought up -it the recent convention of the Omaha and by the Missouri Pacific and Rock Isl- Lake Carriers held at Detroit. The fact that it and from Kansas points to Chicago. This makes would be an all-Canadian route and that tolls would a rate of 17c on wheat and 16c on corn to the Gulf. have to be charged argues against its success. Plans The new rate from Kansas City to Chicago is 12c for such a canal have come up on wheat and lie on corn. from time to time for many years, and in every case have been Illinois Central Railroad on January 29 an- Issued on January liS, 1904. The dropped after a thorough canvass of the situation. nounced that it would not accept through-billed Grain Transporting and Weighing Apparatus. Grain shipments from Port Arthur and Fort Will- grain for transfer to the Lake Shore or the Nickel George W. McNear, Jr., Oakland, Cal. Filed June iam during the crop season of 1903, that is from Plate Railroads. Grain shipments have been de- 29, 1903. No. 749,216. See cut. September 1 to layed on those roads by blockades, and Eastern December 6, were less by nearly four million bushels than the shipments during the Issued on January 19, 1904. roads have been borrowing all the ears they could corresponding period of 1902. For 1903 crop season Grain Car Door.—Elmer E. Kenfield, Washburn, get from the West and keeping them. This is prob- the total receipts were bushels, shipments Wis. Filed Aug. 31, 1903. No. 750,111. See cut. ably the reason for the embargo, as the car short- 16,687,319 16,334,107 bushels. For the corresponding season Grain Door. age is just as marked in the West, a circumstance Car —James Barry, Seattle, Wash., which is restricting the movement and receipts of all grains. The traffic department of the Willmar & Sioux Falls Railway on February 2 promulgated a rate on grain from points on its Nebraska line through Sioux City to Minneapolis, Duluth and Chicago for the purpose of meeting the North-Western's reduction of 2 cents per 100 pounds from all its Ne- braska points to Omaha. The new rate was effec-

, 1 tive February 4, the same day as the North-West- 7 5 1 .3 8. ern rate. The reduction of the Willmar & Sioux Falls will apply from all stations on the Pacific Short line. During the transportation year, which closed on Monday, December 7, the Canada Atlantic Railway carried from the West to tide water three million rTTrrnrTTjWnT' bushels more grain that in the 1902 season, while maintaining its volume of tonnage In the other direction, and in all other classes. It estimates its handling of grain during the season at 25,000,000 bushels, or at least half the amount handled by all the Canadian carriers between the points on the Upper Lakes and Montreal, covered by the Canada Atlantic fleet and railways. The Canada Atlantic estimates its annual grain carriage during the few immediate following years as from 25,000,000 to 30,000,000 bushels. A new proportional rate on grain from Omaha, St. Joseph, Kansas City, Leavenworth and other Kansas and Nebraska territory to Minneapolis and of 1902 the receipts were 20,501,739 and the ship- assignor of one-half to Augusta F. Johnson, Seattle, St. Paul was published by the Chicago Great West- ments 19,719,315. The shipments of wheat alone Wash. Filed Dec. 23, 1902. No. 750,149. See cut. ern Railway on January 27, effective January 30. were 15,787,437 bushels as compared with 19,480,282 Grain Sieve. K. Clement, Laporte, The new tariff is 9 cents on wheat and 8 cents on —Henry Ind. between September 1 and December 6, 1902, a de- corn. This followed Filed Nov. 8, 1902. No. 750,167. See cut. was by an announcement from crease for the season just closed of 3,701,845. Of the Island of the Rock same rates between the the total 13,932,797 bushels were carried on Cana- Issued on January >S6, 1904. same points, to apply to all but intermediate points dian vessels and 1,854,640 bushels in foreign ves- Grain Car Door.— Sylvester A. Bushey, Denton, in Minnesota and Iowa. The Rock Island tariff sels. In the crop season of 1902 the quantity carried Texas. Filed Sept. 4, 1903. No. 750,431. See cut. went into effect February 1. The new proportional in Canadian vessels was 12,278,036 bushels, and in Issued on February 2, 1904. of the Chicago Great Western was also adopted by foreign vessels 7,211,246 bushels. The returns of Bucket Conveyor,—Charles H. Notter, Chicago, the C, M. & St. P. Railway and made effective wheat shipped from Port Arthur and Fort William January 31. The Santa Fe decided not to this 111. Filed Dec. 8, 1902. No. 750,886. meet during the entire season of navigation of 1903 show cut of 2 cents to the Elevator Bucket. William G. Averv. Painesville, Twin cities by way of Chi- a total of 34,725,011, of which 27,913,357 bushels — cago and the Wisconsin Central. Ohio. Filed Feb. 9, 1903. No. 751,138. See cut. or 80 per cent, was carried in Canadian vessels, and Vessel men at Chicago will closely follow the re- 6,811,654 bushels or 20 per cent in foreign vessels. Bucket Elevator and Conveyor.—Frederick V. quest of the Lake Carriers' Association that no During the season of navigation of 1902 nearly 35 Hetzel, Philadelphia. Pa., assignor to the Link Belt grain charters be made during the winter for ves- per cent of the wheat from the Canadian ports of Engineering Co., Philadelphia. Filed Dec. 9, 1903. sels belonging to that organization. This action Port Arthur and Fort William was carried in for- No. 751,396. was due to the fact that a general tie-up is almost eign vessels. certain to result from labor troubles at the opening OF CLEANING A further cut in grain rates from Omaha, St. SALES MACHINERY. of navigation. Under the Chicago Board of Trade Joseph, Atchison, Leavenworth and Kansas City During January the Barnard & Leas Mfg. Co., of rules grain-laden vessels must sail at the opening to Chicago was announced on February 5 by the Moline, 111., received orders for corn shellers and of the Straits of Mackinac. The order is to escape Chicago Great Western Railway. The new rate cleaners from Sprout, Waldron & Co., Muncy, Pa.; trouble with shippers should a strike prevent own- went into effect on February 9 and is 10 cents on Paducah Packing Co., Paducah, Ky,; Edgar & Stauf- ers from obtaining crews in the spring. The first wheat and 9 cents on corn, a reduction of 2 cents fer, Stillwater, Pa.; Allen P. Ely & Co., Omaha, grain charter on the lakes for the season was that per hundred pounds. These tariffs from Missouri Nebr. ; Allis-Chalmers Co.. Milwaukee, Wis.; A. H. of the Ionia, which takes barley from Milwaukee River points to Chicago are the lowest made in Richner, Crawfordsville. Ind.; John W. Poole & to Oswego at 2% cents. Shippers are now offering years. The fight was started about two months Son, Petersburg, Va. The company also sold sepa- 1% cents on oats to Buffalo, and agents say they ago when President Stickne/ of the Chicago Great rators to the following during the same period: could get 2 cents if vesselmen would charter. Western reduced the wheat rate from Omaha to McElroy & Treadway. Arenzville, 111.; Hagerty A recent issue of the Boston Transcript, in speak- Chicago from 16 cents to 14 cents to make the local Bros. (2 machines), Peoria, 111.; Thomas Mining ing of the development of the inland of marine rates from Nebraska points to Omaha and from Co.. Thomas, Okla.; Kellogg Ac Co., Stratton, Nebr.; Canada, states thirty-three new steel ships have Omaha to Chicago the same as the through rates by Davenport Flour & Feed Co., Davenport, Iowa. been added to the lake marine of the Dominion in other lines. Soon afterwards the Chicago & North- the past two years. There are now fifty Canadian Western made another cut and the other through freighters on the Upper Lakes and ten English- lines followed. Mr. Stickney then reduced the rate MARDI GRAS AT NEW ORLEANS. built ships are to be added. The carrying capacity from Omaha to 12 cents on wheat and flour and of the Canadian vessels in the Lake Superior trade 11 cents on corn. He made equally low tariffs from Best Reached hy the Illinois Central. ip. about 4,500.000 bushels of wheat per trip. Of all southwestern Missouri River points. The Gulf This gorgeous spectacular event occurs February the 61,385,000 bushels of wheat carried down lakes roads, including the Sante Fe, the Rock Island, the 15 and 16. For it the Illinois Central will sell last season the Canadian vessels had 29,000,000, or Missouri Pacific and Missouri, Kansas & Texas, tickets to New Orleans at $25.00 the round trip on 47.2 per cent. American vessels during the past then made a 5 cent reduction in the grain rate from February 9 to 15. Fast morning and evening trains year moved only 22 per cent of the grain shipped Trans-Missouri territory to New Orleans and Gal- to New Orleans, with buffet-library, dining car and from the Canadian Northwest, instead of practically veston, effective February 1. At the same time the through sleeping car service. Send for illustrated all of it, as in previous years. It is stated also Missouri Pacific announced a rate of 10 cents on literature on the Mardi Gras and on New Orleans. that 56 per cent of all the wheat moved out of grain to Memphis, and in addition both the Mis- H. J. Phelps, G. P. and T. A., 99 Adams St., Chicago, Lake Superior last year, was from Canadian ports. souri Pacific and the Rock Island gave notice of a Phone, Central 2705. .

AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 446

FOR SALE. GRAIN WANTED One 30 H. l\ latest improved 1904 Pierce Gaso- GRAIN WANTED. line Engine; new, guaranteed; $000. Wanted Feed barley and new No. 2 and No. 3 PIERCE ENGINE CO., Drawer A, Ratine, Wis. — rye. Sale Evansville, Ind. For H. & CO., FOR SALE. W. SMALL 50-ton Buffalo Track Scale. One 36-foot, WANTED TO CORRESPOND. [Copy for notices under this head should reach us by the 12th One 12x15 center crank engine. of the month to insure insertion in the issue for that month.) shippers of grain and hay, who wish to do Both the above as good as new; will sell cheap. With Address business in this territory. T. & Grain Broker, Richmond, ELEVATORS DAVENPORT MALT & GRAIN CO., Davenport, GEO. KING, Kay KANSAS ELEVATORS. Iowa. V;i. Elevators for sale in Kansas. Address FOR SALE. E. J. SMILEY, 37 Crawford Bldg., Topeka, Kans. Two 500-bushel Western Shellers and Cleaners, LOCATIONS FOR ELEVATORS. One Marseilles Portable Sheller WRITE combined. Fine locations for Elevators on the Belt Railway steel burr for grinding and crush- uuounted). One 01 Chicago. Elevator Broker, Decatur, 111., if C. A. Burks, The cobs. Will sell cheap. Address ing corn and Competitive rates and ample car supply. to buy a good elevator. you want H. C. CL.\RK, Lebanon, Ind. Address B. THOMAS, Pres't. NEW ELEVATOR. FOR SALE Room 15, Dearborn Station, Chicago. 9- In Sac County, Iowa, for sale; 25,000-bushel, Thirty sets of 42,000-pound Fairbanks-Morse bin, cribbed. Compound-Beam Hopper Scales, as good as new. J. J. GROSENBAUGH, Nemaha, Iowa. Can furnish framing timbers with these scales. For Industrial Locations 2400 feet of second hand 5 ply 17i^-inch wide rub- FOR SALE. In Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, Upper Michigan, ber belt. North and South Dakota, write to W. B. Davenport, Industrial and coal business; two competitors; re- Elevator 2S00 elevator buckets, 6xl4i^, four holes, with Commissioner, 660 Old Colony Building, Chicago. ceipts over one million bus. per annum. Address brace in center. Can furnish boots to go with this GEO. D. WERNLI, Le Mars, Iowa. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway belt. Four steel pans, 168 inches long at top, 92 inches SEEDS long at bottom, 63 inches wide at top, 37 inches wide FIELD AND GRASS SEED. at bottom, 60 inches deep. Burlap Bags!! Grain Bags!! Prices made on above on application. in need of anything in (his line For sale. When TRANS-MISSISSIPPI GRAIN CO., 523-534 Bee ALL SIZES HADE TO ORDER. make prompt delivery. write us; we building, Omaha, Nebr. J. 182 St., Chicago. THE WM. S. GILBREATH SEED CO., Indian- W. JOHNSTON, Jackson apolis, Ind. BEST SEEDS. Headquarters for Alfalfa, Meadow, Fescue, J^fiscetlaneou

ESTABLISHED 1875. ESTABLISHED 1846 A. S. DUMONT R. C. Roberts A. E. O'DONNBLI, P. B.&C. C. MILES 0 Dumont, Roberts & Co. Grain Commission Merchants RECEIVERS QI^AIN SHIPPERS C.A.KING&C BUYERS AND SHIPPERS of Chamber Commerce Merchants Exchange GOLDEN DEIROIT, MICH. DECATUR, ILL. THE RULE 36-37 Chamber of Commerce, PEORIA, ILL. Consignments Solicited. As'i for our Bids and Quotations GRAIN AND CLOVER SEED DEALERS OF TOLEDO, OHIO T. A. GRIER&CO. BUFFALO PEORIA, ILL. SPECIAL MARKET AND CROP REPORTS FREE. RECEIVERS, BUYERS AND SHIPPERS BE FRIENDLY. WRITE OCCASIONALLY. OF WHEAT, CORN, OATS AND RYE W.W. ALDER On account of the peculiar character of the season, grain Consign Your Grain Is largely off grade and we advise consignments. P. LIFE To a Strictly RAYMOND WE GIVE ALL CONSIGNMENTS CAREFUL ATTENTION BUYER OP A. G. TV NO, Jr. D. D. HALL. Commission Merchant HAY, GRAIN and MILL FEEDS TYNG, HALL ®. CO., ...OUR SPECIALTIES... HAY A SPECIALTY. Quick Return and Careful Guarding of Our Shippers' GraLin aLnd Interests. We can use hay in any sort of car that comes to Toledo. Can Commission also use mixed cars of hay and straw. Write for prices. Merchants, Correspondence Invited. The Spitzer Building, TOLEDO, OHIO Write for Buffalo Market Letter ROOMS 33 AND 35 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 83 Board of Trade, BUFFALO, N. Y. WILLIAM R. WORTS ARTHUR B. EMMICK PEORIA, ILLINOIS.

WORTS & EMMICK MINNEAPOLIS Consign Your Gra>.in to Grain and Commission BURNS BROS. tl. PEAVtY (0., 47 Produce Exchange, Toledo, Ohio PV I & 44 Board Trade. Buffalo. N. Y. SPOT AND FUTU RES. It you do not receive our bids, ask for MINNEAPOLIS, them. We will bid you no matter where you are located. Let us handle your consignments. Our motto ; Success to our patrons. Try us. GRAIN RECEIVERS. MINN. QUICK SALES. IMMEDIATE RETURNS. RELIABLE REPORTS. Consignments Solicited. .Members Grain Dealers National Assuclation. REYNOLDS BROS. MILLING WHEAT A SPECIALTY J. R. Marfikld, Pres. Wm. Gbitfiths, Vice-Pres. and Mgr. C. D. Teabse, Sec'y and Treas. DECATUR TOLEDO, O. MARFIELD=QRIFFITHS CO, GRAIN COMMISSION Buy and Sell Grain, OFFICES: Consignments and Onters tor miNKrPoi.ir"Dui;uTl ^"""-^ Oenvery Solicited. SELL US YOURS. PRIVATE WIRES—CHICAGO AND NEW YORK. 511-514 New Chamber of Commerce, Minneapolis, Minn. If you don't get our bids, ask for OUR BIDS ARE GOOD ONES. them. Consignments always BALTIMORE welcome. Consign us yours. NEW YORK CITY SMITH^GAMBRILL CO-, Chamber of Commerce, Baltimore, Md., BROOKLYN HAY & GRAIN CO. J. F. ZAHM P. W. JAEGER F. MAYER ESTABLISHED 1879 GRAIN COMMISSION HAY, STRAW AND GRAIN RECEIVERS AND EXPORTERS. COMMISSION MERCHANTS ON ALL MARKETS IN NEW YORK HARBOR J. F. ZAHM & GO. RICHARD QAMBRILL, Western Manager, Cliicago, lU. Office s Borough of Brooklyn, New York MEMPHIS. GRAIN and SEEDS GEO. N. REINHARDT & CO. W. p. BROWN GEO. READ MELROSE STATION, NEW YORK CITY. TOLEDO, OHIO. W. p. BROWN & CO. Handling consignments and filling orders (or futures Successors to JNO. K. SPEED & CO. OUR SPECIALTY SEND FOR OUR DAILY CIRCULAR; IT'S FREE WHOLESALE GRAIN, HAY, SALT

~~Office, No. 1 Madison Street MPVIDHIC11^3, TPMISIici-M-"!. WarehcuK.Cor. Builerand Teinesiee Sis. mciTlfl~~

\a/ire:, aa/ri-ti KHOJM ° UNITED GRAIN COMPANY "^^0°° Successor to Churchill & Company; The Paddock-Hodge Company; The Churchill-White Grain Company. IB2!iS TO 163 ^ST. HARLEM RAILROAD (PORT^^ORRIS eBANCH)

We buy delivered either of these points, or f. o. b. your stations. Fire proof elevators and seed houses. We sell on Commission and buy direct. Unlimited storage capacity for grain and seed. Storage capacity, 6,000,000. Unloading capacity, 300 cars daily. HAY, GRAIN AND FEED. Clipping; Capacity, 175,000 Dally. We trade in futures. Storage capacity 8,000 bales, 30,000 buataela Let us knov what you b&ve to offer. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 447 GRAIIN RECEIVERS ST. LOUIS PITTSBURG MILWAUKEE

CONNOR BROS. & CO. C. A. FOSTER. McCance Block, Cor. Seventh Ave. Milwaukee Elevator Co. and Smithfield St., Pittsburgh, Pa. CstablisKed 1878 GENERAL GRAIN DEALERS GRAIN AND HAY AND BUYERS ST. LOUIS. Wholesale Grain, Hay and Mill Feed BARLEY A SPECIALTY coNSla^^ENT5 solicited. 61-66 Mitchell Building, MILWAUKEE, WIS. MEMBERS OF GRAIN DEALERS' NATIONAL ASS'N Reference.

O. MOHR. Mgr. G. C. HOLSTKIN, Sec'y-Treas We Solicit Your Consignments of QEIDEL & CO., Mohr Holstein Commission Co. Grain, Hay and Seeds Leading iWill Feed Dealers, 29 Chamber of Commerce GRAIN, HAY AND STRAW. MILWAUKEE G. L. GRAHAM & CO., Mem HERS or Sample Grain a Specialty Nationiil Hay A.ssociation, PITTSBURQ, PA. Piilsburg Grain and Flour KxelianRe. BRANCH OFFICES AT CHICAGO. MINNEAPOLIS 301 Chamber of Commerce, ST. LOUIS, MO. WE USE ROBINSON'S CIPHER. CHICAGO BRINSON-WAGGONER DANI[l SONS (0. MWmn Thomas E. Wells Benjamin S. Wilson ESTABLISHED 1867 GRAIN CO. LEADING HAY AND r. E. WELLS & CO. RECEIVERS AND SHIPPERS OF GRAIN GRAIN DEALERS COMMISSIONMERCHANTS GRAIN, PROVISIONS, STOCKS and BONDS CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. DITT<^RITDn PA FUTURE rll I vl? U l\. VJ , m. ORDERS EXECUTED ST. LOUIS. MO. Reler oce: Duquesne Nai'i Bank. 1011-1017 Royal Insurance Bidg., CHICAGO W. V. T mberlaUe in cliarne of Cash Grain Department E.\-pT enctd and PICKER&BEARDSLEY D. Q. STEWART capatile u.cn in all depailmenls. PITTSBURQ, PA. Bei\tley-Joi\es GraLin Co. COMMISSION MERCHANTS \A/HOLES/\LE DErtLEF? I IN - G R. A I GRAIN, HAY and MILL FEED N GRAIN, HAY AND GRASS SEEDS Proprietor Iron City Grain Elevator COMMISSION MERCHANTS CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED THE I.AKGEST RECEIVERS OF CON- Consignments and Orders for Future SIGNED SEEDS IN ST. LOUIS. Delivery Solicited. No option trades taken. Strift attention QEIDEL & DICKSON 73 and 74 Board of Trade, CHICAGO. paid to the sale of cash ic;rain by sample. RECEIVERS and SHIPPERS (1-. >OORI GRAIN, HAY AND MILL FEED 432-4 Seventh Ave., PITTSBURG, PA. W. H. LAIDLEY&CO. PHILADELPHIA Stocks. i{i>ii(lH....(;rain :iii

N. ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. GRAIN, MILL FEED and HAY & OFFICE 2931 BROAD WARNER WILBUR, WRITE FOR OUR BIDS CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. Speclil tteolloa GENERAL COMMISSION tta« biodllaf of AND OATS. flTcn to CORN 203 Bissel Block, PITTSBURQ, PA. MaDDfkCturera' Naclonsl Bank, Ptalladelphls.Pa. MERCHANTS j K»F«B»HO«B ) UnlOD National Bank. WMttnlniver. Md. CLEVELAND CONSIGNMENTS AND ORDERS IN FUTURES SOLICITED ST. JOSEPH, MO. 417 and 419 Royal Insurance Building, Hstabllshed 1879 CHICAGO, ILL. THE UNION ELEVATOR CO. T. P. GORDON BUYERS AND SHIPPERS Wholesale Dealer in Qerstenber§: & Co. GRAIN, HAY and HILL FEED WHEAT. CORN, OATS, HAY AND STRAW COMPETENCY, INTEGRITY and ABILITY COMMISSION HERCHANTS OUR SPECIALTY: RECLEANED ILLINOIS SHELLED CORN SHIP TO ME—ORDER FROM ME Personal attention plven CLEVELAND, O. to selling References: Any Bank or ST. JOSEPH, MO. crain ami seeds by sample. Commercial Institution of St. Joseph BAULKY A SPECIALTY. Chicago

Try us and you will be well CAIRO BATTLE CREEK pleased W. F. JOHNSON OHO. A. WEOBNIK McLane, Swift m. Co., H.LHalliday Milling Co. , I JOHNSON & (0. QRAIN, SEED RECEIVERS AND SHIPPERS Buyers Battle Creek, AND PROVISION Mich. Commission Merchants CORN-WHEAT-OATS Orders for future delivery carefully executed. Consignments and correspondence solicited. CAIRO. :: ILLINOIS CORRESPONDENCE FROM EASTER.N BUYERS SOLICITED. Room 59, Board of Trade CHICAGO 448 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. GRAIN RECEIVERS CHICAGO CHICAGO W. R. MUMFORD CO., TRI-STAT GRAIN COMMISSION THE GRAIN CO. Buyers and Shippers CHICAGO: MINNEAPOLIS: of Grain,

428-430 Rialto Building. 79 Chamber of Commerce. CHICAGO. OPERATINQ KANSAS CITY ST. LOUIS. MILWAUKEE. GEN, OFFICEi EXCHANGE BLDG. HAWKEYE ELEVATOR "A," HAMMOND, IND. advances on Consignments. Orders in Futures solicited. Liberal U, S. YARDS. Cash and Future Market Letter mailed free on application. HAWKEYE ELEVATOR "B," DAVENPORT, IOWA. Members of Different Exchanges. J. ROSENBAUM GRAIN CO. (IINJCORRORATED) RECEIVER GRAIN MERCHAN AND SHIPPER CHICAOO SAM FINNEY COMMISSION MERCHANT

~~425-426 Rialto BIdg., CHICAGO, MUELLER~~

2 SHER.MAN ST. CHICAGO . E. W. WAGNER, Write for my MEMBER CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE "Grain Trade Talks" PERSONAL ATTENTION GIVEN SPECULATIVE ACCOUNTS Edward G. Heeman 70 Board of Trade, AND CONSIGNMENTS. Member Chicago Board of Trade. CHICAGO Market letter mailed free on application, COMMISSION ME-RCHANT ONLY. Doing no trading whatever on my own account, which enables me to judge the marKet from an unbiased standpoint. 99 Board of Trade BIdg., Chicago, III. All business transacted through /_ Consignments of cash grain and orders in

and coniirmed by Halely Bros. \ I\ futures have my personal attention, My "GRAIN TRADE TALKS'* are published in full in the Chicago Evening Post and Chicago Journal. -^S^ Will send either paper free to customers,

~~J.H. WABB E. F. LBLAND O. W. I.EE F. J. FAHEY~~

~~Consign your grain and seeds and send your Board of Trade Orders to Troubles Behind and Money Ahead WARE & LELAND, 200-210 Rialto BIdg., Chicago. BY SHIPPING TO GRAIN, PROVISIONS, STOCKS AND COTTON.~~

Write for our Daily Market Letter. Your interests LASIER HOOPER are & our iaterents. » « Special attention glveu to cash grain shipments. 102 and 103 Rialto Building, Chicago "THE ONLY WAY' TN THE GRAIN TRADE, is to be so well informed as to the trend of the markets that the dealer secures the greatest advantage for himself of all that is going. Consignments judiciously made give most satisfactory results and insure the recognition of merit in all better qualities.

Occasionally track sales are advisable and "pan out" well, though not so often as is popularl}- believed. If you want THE BEST THAT IS GOING, from inspection and weights to sales and results and prompt returns, "CALL UP" or WRITE TO

G 1*3. in Seeds POPE & ECKHARDT CO. their customers Provisions 317-321 WESTERN UNION BLDG., CHICAGO live long and prosperr AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 449 GRAIN RECEIVERS CHICAGO CHICAGO CHICAGO

AoTHORizED Capital. Ssoo.noo.oo W. S. SEAVERNS Established 185a H. A. PORITZ Consign Your Grain and Seeds to We Have The $t Calumet Western every facility for handling Elevator grain on consignment or for Company I. N. ASH & CO., future delivery. GENERAL GRAIN HANDLERS Experienced Men on 'Change. Careful Attention Orders Consignments and Future FUTURES OF GRAIN, SEEDS AND PROVISIONS Ample Financial Resources. "Chicaf;o Evening Post" contiiininp our daily markot letter BOUGHT AND SOLD ON MARGINS. Thirty Years' Experience. mailed j-ou if desired. 169 JACKSON BOULtVARD, CHICAGO 76 Board of Trade, CHICAGO COMMISSION MERCHANTS 77 Board of Trade

Geobge S. Ubidge John R. Leonard CHARLES D. SNOW & CO., A. C. CURRY & CO. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, BRIDGE& LEONARD Commission Merchants Rialto BIdg., GRAIN AND HAY COMMISSION MEMBERS 228 and 230 CHICAGO BOAR.) OP TRADE CHICAGO. GRAIN, SEEDS AND PROVISIONS. JMEMBRRS Chicago Board of Trade fif RnttrtiOvaiU UInf Ti-A/IaIVauC St. I ouls Merchants' Exchange 65 Board of Trade* Building Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce Our Special Market Letters ami Pocket Manual furnished tree Qraln Dealers' National Association fHlfAfin II I on application. CHICMGO National Hay Association V111W/\UW, ILL,. R. E. \A/IINAINS W. H. MERRITT & CO., CRAIN AND flELD SEEDS COMMISSION MERCHANT CRIQHTON & CO. BARLEY, OATS, WHEAT. CORN. RYE TIMOTHY. CLOVER, FLAX. HUNGARIAN MILLET Grain Buyers and Shippers 6 Sherman Street, CHICAGO GRAIN COMMISSION

Write us freely on all matters pertaininK to erain and field seeds. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Your questions fully and cheerfully answered: particular attention 402-403 Royal Insurance BIdg., CHICAQO paid to timothy seed and erain by sample. Consicnments and speculative orders receive our careful personal attention. 87 Board Of Trade, CHICAGO, ILL.

Hbnbt Hkmmelgarn Philip H. Schifflin Establlsbed 1S61 ESTABLISHED 1852 T. li. nEMMEldARN & (0., D. RANDALL & CO. Long Distance * End GRAIN. .connissioN herchants, Tcltpb ae, 3339 Harrison COMMISSION MERCHANTS Grain, Seeds and Provisions jonnissioN herchants HAY, GRAIN AND STRAW Correspondence and Consignments 66 BOARD OP TRADE, RMBii 317, 318 and 31* RliUo Bulldiat. r HIT Ann II I CniCAUU, ILL. Solicited. Market Keports r-ntr'Kt^ry ii 92 Board of Trade BIdg., Adiolnini Board ol Trade. on Application. i^nH^AUU, ILL. CHICAQO Consignments Solicited. Correspondence Invited.