The AMERICAN ELEVATOR and GRAIN TRADE

Entered at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., for transmission through the viails at second-class rates.

A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ELEVATOR AND GRAIN INTERESTS.

ONE DOLLAE PER ANNUM, MITCHELL Bros: COMPANY i VoL. XXI. CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 15, 1903. No. 8. ] s.Na,,K copt. ten ck.ts.

If you are looking for a higK grade, built upon honor, durable and economical gasoline engine, then buy a BACKVS GASOLINE ENGINE Can furnish yon with a second-hand 6 H.-P. Fairbanks; a 15 H.-P. Otto; 20 and 60 H.-P. New Era; 32 and 65 H.-P. Foos.

If yovi want the best, buy a new Backvis Gasolirve Engine

St III. CHICAGO WATER MOTOR

SALEM BUCKETS SKILLIN & RICHARDS MFG. CO., Used Than Any Other 127-147 FULTON STREET, CHICAQO. MANUFACTURERS AND FURNISHERS OF ALL KINDS OF ELEVATOR MACHINERY,

Write for Catalog and Prices. POWER TRANSMISSION, ETC. COriPLETE OUTFITS.

L. R. FYFE L. H. MANSON

Stock Orders The POST or JOURNAL, Executed on containing our Daily New York IVIarlfet Letter, in which appears Stock Exchange Chicago Board of Trade Over continuous quotations Private Wires from the opening to the close of business ^^^^^^ will be sent MEMBERS- WGPA/NePROV/S/ONS.^ free upon application Chlcago Board of STOCKS BONDS COFFEE Trade COTTON 54-S6 Board of Trade BIdg., Chicago Milwaukeo Chamber TEL. HARRISON ot Commeree MINNEAPOLIS ST. LOUIS MILWAUKEE 192S—21B9

H. M. Paynter, In Charge of Cash Grain Department .

U.S. Denial AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

Corn SKellers? Do We Make 'Em?

Wei/, just ask us foi^ a copy of our Catalogtie No. 35

TT tells all about the best and most complete line of NEW PROCESS CYLINDER CORN SHELLER. 1 Corn Shellins; Machinery manufactured. We make Shellers and Cleaners as separate machines, Also a WITHOUT complete line of CLEANER..

Combined SKellers and Cleaners

Si. JA^C/7i iV Onvi. 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 SouthcFn states. FEED HOPPER If yotcre going to buy a Corn Sheller or Corn Cleaner, get a New Process.

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

MARSEILLES, ^ € NEW PROCESS -CORN CIEANEB » .»P'^^pseiUt5M«; „^„sEl.i-'-',\i5 Marseilles Mfg. Co. ILLINOIS. BRANCHES

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

PATENT STRETCHED ELEVATOR BELTING. S/V\ITM'S AUIOMATK WAREtlOySf AND ElEVATOR Will Write /WACMIINERY Give You For Prompt The Ohio Sheller Prices. Attention.

THIS THE GUTTA PERCHA AND RUBBER HPG. CO., SHELLER 96 AND 98 LAKE STREET, CHICAGO.

^ Is guaranteed to equal any THE LINK-BELT MACHINERY CO., Sheller on the market. ENGINEERS, FOUNDERS, MACHINISTS, • - CHICAGO, U. S. A.

All the shelling surfaces are of chilled iron, giving the greatest possible durability.

PHILIP SMITH INCLUDING BELT TRIPPERS, POWER SHOVELS, SIDNEY, SPOUTS, BUCKETS, BOOTS, MACHINE MOLDED KOPE SHEAVES, OHIO, SHAFTING, PULLEYS, SHAFT BEARINGS, GEARING, U. S. A. FRICTION CLUTCHES, ETC.

YORK. LINK-BELT EN&lNEEItlNG CO.. I'll I I.A DELPUIA AKD NEW AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 381

OUR VALENTINE!

Lovers who peak, and maids who pine,

Look to Cupid for their valentine,

As shippers, when they've grain to sell.

Look to us, would they do well.

J. Rosenbaum Grain Co. 382 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

Riter=Conley Mfg. Co., Dodge Manufacturing Co. MANUFACTURERS, ENGINEERS, CONTRACTORS. ENGINEERS, FOUNDERS, MACHINISTS, of Steel, Grain Elevators rJVo'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 j^I^^yAI^OR Steel Buildings, Steel stacks and MACHINERY Steel Construction of

Every Description, Embracing latest types of Grain Trirpefs, Power Shovels. Car Pullers. Belt Conveyors, Marine Legs, Spouting, Etc.; Self o.iing and Dustproof Bearings, also Dodge American Sy5:*eir, Manila Rope Transmission.

Designed, The following Grain Fievators, -jBder construction or in operation, are among those recently equipped: Famished and Illinois Central R. R., New Orleans, La., capacity, 1,200,000 bu. " Erected in Northern Grain Co,, Manitowoc, Wis., 1,200,000 " Northern Grain Co., Council Bluffs, la., 750,000 All Parts of the "World. " Cross section of Great Northern Elevator furnished by Botsford & Jenks, Meaford, Ont., 1,000,000 " us at Buffalo, N. Y. Three million bushels' capacity. Chicago Dock Co., Chicago, III., - 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 Grain Co., South Chicago, 111., 1,600.000 Chicago-O'Neil Grain Co., South Chicago, 111. 750,000 " etc., etc. Structural Works, Preble Avenue, Allegheny City, Pa.

New York Office, 39 and 41 Cortlandt Street. Have the Largest Factory in the World Exclusively Devoted to the Manufacture of Power Transmitllni; Machinery. CATALOQUE UPON APPLICATION. LONG-DISTANCE TELEPHONE CONNECTIONS. Feed and Meal

"Hp HE Willford Light Running Three

^ Roller Mill is just the machine you

need for custom work. It will grind the most feed with the least power.

It is easy to operate; is strong, durable and reliable, and will give the best of satisfaction for orrmdino^ feed and meal.

We also make two and three-pair-high Feed Mills, Cob Crushers, Corn Shellers and Cleaners, Separators, Scourers and Oat

Clippers, and furnish all kinds of mill and elevator supplies.

Barnard & Leas Mfg. Co. BUILDERS OF ELEVATORS and ELEVATOR MACHINERY MOLINE, ILL. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

THE C O M IJSf ET> Belt Conveyor Machinery MO JSfATiC H CO'RJSf and GO'S OVTFIT

Is easy to install and rasN' t(i operate. It is making' money for otlu-rs: why not tor you?

The machines are built on scientific principles and so designed that the greatest amount of work can be done with the

least amount of power.

Mav be used sejjarately if desired.

TowsERS. N. Y. (^i-titl,-ittrn : 1 am well pleased witli the lo-inch Combined Mill purchased of you October 1'), It tloes the work satisfactorily and have been to no expense whatever for repairs. Do all kinds of grinti- ins; at the rate of tjOO to 8W pounds ^^UR Patent Self-Oiling Carriers are in use by many per hour with HI horse water power. in this .-\m so well pleased with it that if 1 of the best modern plants countr}-. We were to set another mill it would be the same kind. manufacture a complete line of the inos/ improved appli- Yours verv trulv. ALONZo p.\lmi;r. a?ices for belt conveyors. Our Carriers, Trippers and Take-ups have features that are most distinct improve- Ol'R Feed Mill Cataloaue and others on the market. Pamphlet. " U'HA TOUF: CUS- ments over any TOMERS SAV." will tell you more Estimates furnished on application. about this outfit. They are yours for the askins.

Stephens=Adanison Mfg. Co.

Sprout, Waldron& Co. Office an 1 Works : Chicago Representatives: AURORA, ILLINOIS MONARCH MILL

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, SEX-ROLLER MILLS, 4 Sizes. TWO-PAIR HIGH, FOUR-ROLLER MILLS, 5 Sizes,

•••And*** VERTICAL UNDER RUNNERS, PORTABLE FRENCH BUHR MILLS, UPPER RUNNERS, 85 Sizes and Styles. PULLEY AND GEAR DRIVES.

3-PAIR-HIGH, SIX-ROLLER MILL. SEND FOR BOOK ON MILLS.

ELEVATOR SUPPLIES and POWER CONNECTIONS. ROPE DRIVES. GEARING, CORN SHELLERS and CLEANERS, GRAIN CLEANERS.

Automatic). DUST COLLECTORS ~ ,

T ^* manufacture Elevator Cups for all purposes, and make a greater number of sizes than found in any standard I ist. have greater I pC Our Cups capacity than others of same rated sizei for instance, our 3^x3 inch, list price 9c., has as much capacity as others 3ix3i inch, list price JOc. Our prices are fight. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED.

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

FLOURING MILL ENGINEERS, IRON FOUNDERS AND MACHINISTS. ESTABLISHED 1 85 J. 384 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

YOV WILL

Certainly make some arrangements for the grinding of meal and feed to meet the ever increasing demand for these products, and when you do you will most surely want a first-class machine.

We wish to interest you enough to write us for prices on our THREE.PAIR.HIGH SIX.ROLLER MILL, as we are satisfied we can make you a customer. No machine can so well cover your requirements as the one we offer.

For a CORN AND COB CRUSHER, you will surely want a CYCLONE, once you have read description and know the price.

We carry a full line of mill and elevator supplies and shall be pleased to have speci- fications for any of your wants.

CASE MFG. CO. COLUMBUS. OHIO AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 385

We Own and Control the Only GRAIN PURIFIER

Thai is Protected by United States Letters Patent

course vou need a Grain Purifier that will remove

all traces of smut, must and mold odors, water

stains, etc., and gix'e you the highest prices for your grain,

l)ut at the same time you want protection from damage suits for usino- infrmoino- devices.

Write us if you want to know what our Grain Purifier can do for you.

l5/)e American Graii\ Purifier Coi\structing Co. PAID UP CAPITAL. $250.000 Davenpoft, or Kentland, Indiana 1 Iowa, I

Edward Hines Lumber Company CKicago, Illinois

HEADQUARTERS FOR LONG, HEAVY SIZE TIMBER^S especially selected for Scale Timbers, Special Bill Stock, etc. Also HEMLOCK

We carr\' a laroe line in all sizes and lenorths; it is nice soft charactered stock — not "brash)'" at all, as is the case with that which is generally carried in stock here. Excellent for construction purposes. Cribbing

We continually carry a large and complete assortment of stock used for this purpose.

REMEMBER, we carry a stock of over 7.5, 000, OOU feet of lumber here—the largest and most complete stock ever carried by any one concern in the world, and that our facilities to handle your business are par

excellence ; all of this for your benefit and at 3'our service. Correspondence solicited and will be answered the day received. Long distance telephone, Canal No. 349. 386 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

6onv6ulno, Eievatlno and PowerJransmitiino Mac*^^ H.W. CALDWELL & SON CO. GENERAL MACHINISTS, Western Avenue, 17th to 18th Streets, Chicago, 111. Eastern Sales and Engineering Office, R. 410. 95 Liberty St.. New Yorlt. N. Y. Southeastern Sales and Engineering Office, R. 411 Prudential BIdg., Atlanta, Qa. Southwestern Sales and Engineering Office, R. 202 Trust BIdg., Dallas, lex. CALDWELL HELICOID CONVEYOR. THE ONLY PERFECT SPIRAL Specialties for CAA/t\L, CONVEYOR; with Flight of One Grain Elevators and Mills. Continuous Strip of fletal.

LINK BELTINQ. FRICTION CLUTCHES. PILLOW BLOCKS. SPROCKET WHEELS. JAW CLUTCHES. IRON PULLEYS. COTTON BELTINQ. COUPLINGS. WOOD PULLEYS. RUBBER BELTINQ. FLEXIBLE SPOUTS. SHAFTING. Elevator LEATHER BELTINQ. GEARING (all kinds). SET COLLARS. BELT CLAMPS. GRAIN SCOOPS. SWIVEL SPOUTS. POWER GRAIN SHOVELS. ELEVATOR BOOTS. TAKE-UP BOXES. Boot. ELEVATOR BOLTS. COGSWELL MILLS. TURN HEAD SPOUTS. BUCKETS. HANGERS. WIRE CLOTH. CALDWELL CORRUGATED ELEVATOR SEAMLESS CONCRETE MIXERS. PERFORATED METALS. STEEL ELEVATOR BUCKETS. OIJB SEW OATAIiOeCE Xo. SS (440 PACKS, CIjOTH BOUND) Wllili BE SESIT UPON APPliICATlON.

THE COMPLETE ELEVATOR OUTFITS OUR SPECIALTIES New EraL ElevaLtor Patented Chain Grain Feeders Is the long looked for MACHINERY and SUPPLIES. "Little Giant" Grain Cleaners conveyance for carrying employes between the "Little Giant" Suction Fans LARGE STOCK, lower and upper floors, PROMPT SHIPMENTS. Interesting Prices. Water=Tight Elevator Boots making pleasure out of Elevator Heads your hardest work. Sold on 30 days' trial. For "Safety" Wagon Dumps WEBSTER. GASOLINE ENGINES. further information apply Send specitieatlonsfor comp ete equip- to ments for Grain Elevators. MIDLAND MACHINERY CO., B. S. CONSTANT CO.. PHILIP MOSEH BLOOMINGTON :: ILLINOIS Sole Manufacturer

309 So. 3rd Street, : : : MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. SIDNEY. OHIO

GIBBS' PATENT DUST DUST! DUST! PROTECTOR is invaluable to operatives in every ARE YOV INTERESTED? industry where dust is trou- blesome. It has been thorout'hly tested for many years in every kind of dust and is the only reliable pro- idriiin Dealers Ndtiondl tector known. Perfect ventll- Jlion. Nickel - plated pro- teelor. ^1. postpaid. Circu- NutudinrelnsurdiiceCo. lars free. Ai-'cnts wanted. GIBBS RESPIRATOR CO.. INSURES COUNTRY 34 La Salle St.. CHICAGO. ELEVATORS ONLY INSURANCE For Irvforrrvatiorv, write ON GRAIN ELEV.ATORS C. A. McCotfer. Sec'y, AND CONTENTS Board of Trade BIdg., Indianapolis, Ind.*

Is furnished at cost by the

MILL OWNERS' Millers' National Insurance Co., of Chicago.

It is a Mutual Company which insures MUTUAL mi INSURANCE more mills and grain elevators than any other company in the United States.

It has been in business 26 years and its COMPANY average annual cost for insurance to mutual policy-holders has been about one half of the board rates of stock companies. DES IVIOIIMES, I 0\A/A It had admitted assets, January i, igoi, of $2,828 533 6g, and a net cash surplus Insures Mills, Elevators, Warehouses over all liabilities of $472,753.43. The same conservative management and Contents. which has directed the Company's affairs all through its prosperous existence will be continued. Oldest Flour Mill Mutual In America Before placing your insurance, write to the Company at No. 205 La Salle Street, SAVED TO MEMBERS Chicago, for a copy of the circular and statement, which fully explains the Com- NEARLY $1,000,000.00 pany's method of insuring your class of property on the mutual plan. If your risk is up to the required standard you cannot afford to insure in any other company.

DBS MOINES, lA. W. L. BARNUM, SECY. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 387

The BestAll=Around Feed Mill

(SOLD WITU Oil WITHOUT SACKING ATTACHMENT ) KAY PIM MNFG. CO. For crushing ear corn, or with without MANUF.\CTIJRERS OF shuck, and grinding all kinds of smalt grain. The conical burrs are light running anA ahead of rolls or stones in speed and quality of work. Has every con- General Grain Handling venience belonging to a first-class modern feed mill Will grind Kaffir corn in the head. Sold with or without bagging attach- and Power Transmitting ment. Made in seven sizes, ranging from

2 to 25 h p. High-priced grain Incites feeders to economize. Ground feed is the economical feed. Our catalogue sent for the asking. MACHINERY Our new works are equipped The N. P. Bowsher Co., ^""'.^d^^""' to demonstrate the fact that by unproved methods, high-grade STANDARD GOODSat RIGHT PRICES machinery may be furnished ARE OVR at Low Prices. GRAIN ELEVATOR MACHINERY AND MILL SUPPLIES, POWER TRANSMISSION, GAS ENGINES, STEAM ENGINES AND BOILERS. Grain Elevator Contractors, Machinery Agents and ESTIMATES FURNISHED Elevator Owners ivillfind it to their advantage to obtain our quotations. H. L. 6, CO. THORNBURGH WRITE FOR CATALOGUE 245-247 S. JEFFERSON ST.. CHICAGO, ILL. GENERAL OFFICE AND WORKS N. Broadway, Monroe and Second Sts. "THE IDEAL ELEVATOR BELT." ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

For Elevating, Conveying and Power-Transmitting BELTING THE

Gives the best results. Holds buckets firmly and securely, and resists heaviest strains. Will do 50S6 more work than the best rubber belt, and will outlast three of the same. Its record for nineteen years HUMPHREY handling grain, stone, sand, ore, coal and clay substantiates our claim. Belts warranted uniform throughout. Made of any width up to 100 inches, and any length up to one mile. Endless Belt

1219-1241 Carpenter St., Pblladelpbla. SS-57 Market St., Chicago. MAIN BELTING COMPANY, 120 Pearl St., Boston. Employes' SEND FOR PRICE LISTS AND SAMPLE. Eleva^tor

WHY NOT USE :: :: F O 'R :: :: THE ORIGINAL CUTLER CRAIJ^ ELEVATOTiS STEAM FACTORIESFLOl/Ti MILLS AJ^D DRYER, Which It alto a tuccettful For fifteen years in continuous

Wheat Heater or Temperer use in many of the big elevators or Dryer for WaAhed Wheat or Bran. and mills of the country. It leaves the Wheat in Perfect Condition for the Rolls. Will also dry Saves time, gets the men nalster's, Brewer's and Distiller's Wet Qraln. Not an Experiment. In successful use 2S years drying around oftener, insures better CORK HEAI. AST* HOarnTF, service. BBBWKR8' CiBITS AlVD MKAL, BVCKWHBAT, BICB AMD Let me refer you to scores of Alili CEBKAX PBODVCTH. ALSO SAND, COAL DUST, GRAPHITE AND CLAY AND ORE OP ALL KINDSI enthusiastic users. Automatic in operation, requiring no attention. Double the capacity of any other Dryer sold for same price. 53 STATE ST. THE CUTLER CO., North Wilbraham, Mass. S. K. HUMPHREY, BOSTON, MASS. 388 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. I5he Eureka" DRYER AND CONDITIONER For Drying Damp Wheat, Ba-rley, Oa-ts a.rvd Corn. Bhe ^'Eureka*'

Wheat WaLsher, Whizzer and For Completely Cleaning Sm\itty and Off Grade Wheat. Over Three Hundred of These Systems in Operation WRITE FOR FULL PARTICVLARS.

THE S. HOWES COMPANY

"Eureka" Works. ^"ll^l!^^'^ SILVER CREEK, N. Y. BRANCH OFFICES

6+ Mark Lane. London. Eng.

1 1 Broadway, New York Citj'. .">() William Street. Melbourne, Australia. 11 Traders Building-, Chicago. 111.

.5 Chamber of Commerce, Minneapolis, Minn.

NO SHAKE, NO TREMBLE—Steadiness Itself.

Why not The Invincible Tr'- Separators

Can be placed anywhere in the elevator. into elevator pzU your They never shake the building but stand as steady as a rock.

Their work is perfect. a mill to grind Meal and Feed? Write for latest catalogue.

The fai^mer ^tses Meal and Feed

and he comes to yottr door.

We Make the MacKines

ROLLER MILLS, BURR MILLS, DISC MILLS AND CRUSHERS.

WE WANT TO SEND YOU OUR BOOK Invincible Grain Cleaner Company, SILVER CREEK, N. Y., U. S. A. Also rianufacturers of the RicKmond City Mill Works Needle Screen Gravity Separator and Spiral Belt Separator, 544 NORTH SIXTEENTH ST., RICHMOND, IND. REPRESENTED BY-

"VV. .1. Si'ott. m Tniaei>' IJIily.. Clili a^'u. IH- Edward A. Ordvray. ('.12 Exchange Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Chas. II. Scott, 3u" So. 3d Street. Minneapolis, Minn. J. N. Bacon. Blacherne Block, Indianapolis, Ind N. B. Trask, Locbiel llotel, Harrisburg, Pa. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 389

The Clipper Grain and Seed Cleaner

Our No. 9 Spcciul Clipp<.T Cleaner with Travelinii' Brushes

;ind Air Controller is absolutt-ly (^i,ii'i'i:it uneiiualled for handliui; all kinds Witli tin- air controller, the of iirain and seed. It will handle blast can be regulated to blow clover, timothy, millet, red top, out all imperfect seed or grain, blue s;rass or flax to ])erfection,

and all kinds of grain equally as the importance of which all

well. dealers ai)i)reciate. Our Traveling Brush Cleaner Our machines are guaranteed will pay for itself in one j'ear to be tirst-class in every jJartic- in time saved to the operator. ular, to require a smaller amount After the machinr and brushes are once regulated, the\ will of iiower than any other cleaner run without personal atten- of equal capacity, and to give

tion, the brushes will keep tlu' entire satisfaction in the \vork screens clear at ail times, and for which we recommend them. tlu' results will far exceed results secured by using a cleaner without traveling brushes.

017^ SAMPLE PLATE OF PERFORATLONS AND CATALOG MALLED ON REQUEST A. T. FERRELL CO.. Saginaw, Mich.

II DRYING GRAIN BY NATURE'S OWN METHOD

Means something- more than merely

kiln drying- it. It means the putting

of every kernel into its normal condi-

tion. You can do this, but only in a Paine -Ellis Drier. It will handle with equal facility grain containing 50 per cent moisture to that simply

damp and musty. It will operate At FIFTY CENTS apiece are CHEAP, but they do not success ''ully and rapidly at a temper- represent a better investment than we offer the "elevator and ature as low as 110 degrees; a point grain trade" in our that practical millers and elevator men will appreciate. Adapted to a Controllable Wagon Dump.

wide range of usefulness. Millions Winchester, III., February 4, 1896. MESSRS. & liOVE CO., Kockford, 111. of bushels successfully handled annu- Gentlemkn:—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 Riven me entire satisfaction In every respect. Jn this locality the bulk of grain Is as yet handled In sacks, and by ally. Write us for particulars. :: :: tipping the Dump about one-half It makes a nice slant, making it very easy to pull the sacks to bacK 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 operator. No scaring horses, no dropping of wagon and no noise. I consider a grain alevator Incomplete without the Savage & Love Controllable Wagon Dumps. Yours truly, M. C. WOODWORTH. The Paine=Ellis Grain Drier Co. MAjrUFACTXTRED ONTT BY 53 Chamber of Commerce, Milwaukee, Wis. THE SAVAGE & LOVE CO., Rockford, III.

FAIRBANKS, MORSE & CO., S',, Paul, Minn., Northwestern Agents. 390 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. THE WI^EM^N LETTERS

Thirty Days After

My Dear John :

Just got your letter when I returned home from a trip up in Canada and you enclose me a copy of Just-as-Good &

Co.'s guarantee. It looks pretty—reads nice, but you will forgive me being a little c\'nical, but I have seen that guarantee before.

It caused me one of my best clients to find out how much that guarantee was worth. Suppose you put in the J. A. G.

& Co.'s machinery and thirty days afterwards you find it isn't worth what you thought it was, and you have got a lot of work on hand that you have taken in on the supposition that your department can handle it? You have made \'our contracts for delivery and your department cannot handle it —you are up against it, aren't j'ou? Then suppose you have the J. A. G. & Co.'s people come down and try to make those machines worth while? What are you going to do while those machines are out of service.

I tell you, it gives you heart's disease and makes your pocketbook look sick when you run up against that sort of thing.

I had a taste of that, as I suggest above.

That whole guarantee is a "give-away" on the face of it. What's the use of bothering with the Just-as-Good

machinery when you k7iow that the Monitor is the best —when the Just-as Good people admit that it is the best and when the

difference in cost is so mighty little? If it meant a difference in hundreds of dollars it might be worth while, but the Monitor

people are manufacturing a product that cannot be sold cheaper than they sell it for. Now if somebody is selling machinery

that looks like the Monitor, but is cheaper, how can you figure it out that you are going to save anything by buying a cheaper, inferior article?

I don't care what line of machinery you put in —whether it is a Separator, Scourer, Oat Clippers, Smutters, or any .of the special machinery of which the Huntley people make such a large line, or whether you put it in for mills or for elevators, the Monitor machines stand the racket—produce the results and you can't get as good a machine for one penny less, and as far as my experience goes there are no machines made as good as they are for the money.

That is pretty strong talk, I know, but my experience has absolutely proven it to be correct: Yours, SAMUEL WISEMAN.

The Morvitor Line Irvclvides:

Monitor Dustless Warehouse and Elevator Separator Monitor Dustless Oat Clipper Monitor Dustless Warehouse Smutter And a full line of special grain cleaning machinery for any and all kinds of uses. Huntley Maciwifoccturing Co. Silver Creek, New York. A MONTHLY JOURNAL DEVOTED TO THE ELEVATOR AND GRAIN 1 NTERESTS.

PDBLISHED IBY 1 o 1 ONE DOLLAR PER ANNUM, MITCHELL BROS. COMPANY - VoL 1903. INU. O. XXI CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, FEBRUARY 15, j SINlil.B 1 OPY, TEN CENTS. t INCOKroflATKI) ). J

THE AMERICAN CEREAL COMPANY'S ELEVATOR AT PETERBORO, ONTARIO, CANADA. Macdonald Engineering Company. Chicago, Engineers and Contractors. 392 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

AMERICAN CEREAL COMPANY. Hamlin of Boston, W. M. Day of Cleveland and G. SWITCHING CHARGE REMOVED. H. D. Johnson of Milwaukee, board of managers. The familiar figure of the benevolent old Quaker Mr. Randall, the new president, has been presi- The Illinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission gentleman with a package in his hand and an dent of both the Baltimore Board of Trade and the on January 15 announced a decision by Commis- oatmeal expression in his smile has invaded Can- Chamber of Commerce. He has been a member of sioner Neville abolishing in East St. Louis, 111., the ada. This refined and sanctimonious old scion of the firm of Gill & Fisher, grain merchants, since $2 switching and reconsignment charge exacted Fhiladelphlan gentility has dammed the Otonabee 1883, and is connected as director with several since November 1 last within the limits of St. Louis River at Peterboro, Ont., built a million dollars' financial institutions of Baltimore. He is a native and East St. Louis. woi'th of mills and other things, is preparing to of Annapolis, Md. The shippers complained that the charge was an pump ten thousand electrical horsepower from the unjust discrimination, in view of the fact that it locked up waters through the mills and into the F. M. SMITH. was charged only when reconsignments were made boro and scatter his illumined packages to the to interchange tracks witli other roads, or to ele- familiar name and face in the grain and mill- furthermost confines of the earth. A vators or warehouses on their own roads when the ing business of the west and the rice trade of the The erection of a grain elevator was an import- said grains were to be unloaded within the switch- southwest is Frank M. Smith, who, since 1895, has ant factor in this scheme. He wanted a place to ing limits of East St. Louis, and were not made represented The Huntley Manufacturing store, for his own convenience, 500,000 bushels for Company when cars are delivered of being shipped beyond of Silver Creek, N. Y., as general western agent in the first installment. He got that; and now he the switching limits of East St. Louis. The order Chicago. wants a million and a half more. is as follows: Born in 1843 in Erie county, N. Y., Mr. Smith The building illustrated herewith was designed "It is therefore ordered by the Railroad and Ware- enlisted while still a youth in the Tenth York and erected by the Macdonald Engineering Co., Chi- New house Commission of the state of Illinois tliat all Cavalry, with which he saw four years of active cago, for that purpose. It is a wooden structure, cov- railroads running into and doing business within

service in the great ' war between the states, and ered with galvanized corrugated iron above the first the city of, or switching limits of East St. Louis, arose to the rank of lieutenant. When the war was story, which is enclosed with brick walls. The shall hereafter allow all shippers or receivers of over metaphorically beaten cupola has the appearance of a somewhat stunted and swords were into grain within said district a reasonable time to plowshares, the occupation of miller succeeded that growth, as measured by the standard type of ele- direct said railroad companies where to deliver said vator cupola. This arises from the fact that the grain, after they have had notice of its arrival with- weighing is all done on the ground level by means in the switching limits of East St. Louis, when said of three 80-ton track scales, located in the receiving grain is shipped from a point within the state of ii-ack, which passes through the house. There Illinois, to East St. Louis, and that such reasonable lieing no hoppers or garners in the cupola, the time shall be until 5 o'clock p. m. the day follow- height required is only for direct spouting from the ing delivery of notice of arrival thereof, and that elevator heads to the bins. no extra charge shall be made for delivering said There are three car receiving legs of 8,000-bu. gram to any warehouse, elevator or interchange capacity each, and three legs' of 4,000-bu. capacity tracks where said grain is to be delivered within each for receiving from wagon dumps, located in the switching limits of East St. Louis and until ihe driveway shed on the outside of the building. after 5 o'clock p. m. of the day following the delivery of notice of such arrival to the consignee, re- The basement floor of the elevator is ten feet below ceiver or person entitled to receive said grain." the track level and affords a roomy operating space The charge on the St. Louis side of the river and for the track scales, elevator boots and a belt con- at Kansas City is now in the courts for adjudica- veyor, which travels in either direction the length tion. of the building. The wagon dumps are each set in an S-ton wagon scale, having the register beam lo- STATE INSPECTION IN OREGON. cated on the main floor inside of the building.

The dumps are operated by a special controllable A bill has been introduced in the Oregon legisla- mechanism and discharge into large dump hoppers, ture to create a state grain inspection department. from which the grain is conveyed to the legs by It provides for the appointment by the governor of means of screw conveyors. a chief grain inspector who will have authority to The first story is a heavy frame of long leaf pine appoint two chief deputies and as many others as timbers dressed and all painted white. The frame- there are places in the state from which grain is work of all floors, walls and roofs is in heavy mill F. JI. SMITH, CHICAGO. shipped in carload lots. The salaries will be: Chief construction with sheathing 2 inches thick. of soldier and Mr. Smith became an early master inspector, $1,800; chief deputies, $1,000; other depu- The machinery is driven by electric motors, the of the art. Later he entered the service of the old ties, $75 per month; chief clerk, $1,000. These sal- current being supplied from the company's hy- and well known firm of Huntley, Holcomb & Heine aries must be made out of the fees collected, at the draulic power plant on the premises. of Silver Creek, N. Y., with whom he remained for rate of 75 cents per car for grain in sacks and 50 All grain received in the elevator is passed seven years. He was successively with the Jno. cents per car for grain in bulk. through an elaborate system of cleaning machines T. Noye Manufacturing Company of Buffalo, build- It is further provided that the grain inspector located in the brick cleaning house adjacent to the ing mills, and The Geo. T. Smith Purifier Company shall supervise and have exclusive control of the elevator, and is constimed in the manufacture of of Jackson, Mich., in building the Eldred Mill, and weighing, as well as of the grading of grain. the company's cereal products. then with The Knickerboclcer Company of the same Appeals from the track inspector may be made, place. Ten years ago he became connected with within 36 hours (barring Sunday and holidays), to NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE. The Huntley Manufacturing Company of Silver the chief inspector (fee $1 per car extra), and from Creek and, as above stated, lias been located in him to a board composed of himself, a person chos- Commissioner Frank Barry reported to. the Na- Chicago since 1895 as their general western agent. en by the appellant and a third person to be chosen tional Board of Trade, at its meeting in Washing- Mr. Smith was married in 1868 to Miss Marcia by these two. ton on .January 13, that since his appointment he D. Fiske and has three children living, a son Grain consigned to points outside the state shall had visited thirty-seven cities, located in twenty- inheriting his father's genius for mechanics. To not be subject to inspection or to the fees therefor one states, and had called on .the directors of more the personal qualities which make a good sales- unless it shall be milled in transit in Oregon. than 100 industrial organizations; and that in con- man Mr. Smith adds a wide knowledge of machin- Grain scales shall be subject to examination and sequence of his efforts twelve new organizations ery and experience with grain that have contrib- be licensed, the fee being $5 per annum. have applied for membership in the National Board, uted to success in his chosen field. All employees in or about any warehouse, ele- and others have the question of joining under con- vator, mill, dock, feed store, commission house, etc., sideration. OPEN BOARD DELIVERIES. where grain is subject to inspection and is weighed The proceedings of the Board, as usual, covered must be licensed by the cliief grain inspector, such I jseveral days and circled around an enormous field On January 22 the Chicago Open Board of Trade license stating that said person is competent and of operations, including merchant marine, interstate adopted an amendment to its rules providing for had taken an oath faithfully and honestly to per- commerce law, consular service, tariff revision, river the delivery of grain on future contracts, the Chi- form his duties as such weigher, etc. and harbor improvements, reciprocity in general cago Board of Trade contracts being adopted. The bill also creates a State Grain Commission reciprocity and with Newfoundland and Canada The rule also stipulates that on trades for con- to consist of the chief grain inspector and two oth- specifically—all of which projects received } endorse- tract wheat, corn or oats the seller can tender lower ers, who shall be appointed by the governor and ment in some form or other. grades at a discount from the contract price. In hold office for two years. The commissioner shall , Blanchard Randall of Baltimore was elected presi- wheat Na 3 red or No. 2 spring, in corn No. 3, No. have power to establish grades of grain each year, dent: B. A. Eckhart ; of Chicago, first vice-president; 3 yellow, or No. 3 white, and in oats No. 3 white publish the same, and upon request furnish sam- W. P. Kennett of St. Louis, j second vice-president, or No. 2 can be delivered. In all cases the differen- ples at cost to warehouses and elevators.

! and R. W. Tucker of Philadelphia, secretary-treas- tial rates are to be established by a committee of It is provided also that, "for the purpose of main- urer; the gentlemen named and V. P. La Lanne of three not members of the directory, who are to be taining the grade of wheat known abroad and in Philadelphia, W. H. Chadwick of Chicago, C. S. elected by the Board. exporting as 'fair average quality Walla Walla,' it AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 393

shall be the duty of the chief inspector to procure cago an injunction to prevent the Board from cut- time that excess of moisture is the chief cause of from every part of the state of Oregon, each season, ting off its quotations; but the Appellate Court trouble causing such complaints. as soon as it can be done after harvest, samples of dissolved the writ, which ruling was sustained by the crop of wheat, and after collecting such samples the Supreme Court. Then the company made a L. S. CHURCHILL. of wheat he shall call a meeting of the State Grain slight change in its name and removed to Indiana. Commission, and they shall make up and establish When the Board learned that the company was The business career in grain of L. S. Churchill, from the said samples the said grade, which shall doing business in Illinois, on December 26, 1902, it president of the Toledo Produce Exchange, covers be a fair average mixture of all the club varieties applied to the United States Court for an injunc- a little over twenty years. Going to Toledo in grown in the different sections of this state." If tion. The defendants questioned the jurisdiction January, 1883, he entered the employ of Churchill, deemed expedient, the Commission may confer with of the court, but failed to produce their president Bennett & Co. (M. Churchill, now of Chicago, and like authorities of the state of Washington in or- and manager, and again changed its name on or M. H. Bennett of the Calumet Grain and Elevator der to make the grade uniform within the two about January 6 to the Hammond Elevator Com- Company, Chicago). A year later, on their advice, states. "Fair average quality Walla Walla" may pany, another Delaware corporation. An order on Mr. Churchill entered into business (January 1, be inspected out on notifying the inspector on pay- the company to produce its president and manager, 1884) on his own account. In 1899 he was ad- ment of a sliding scale of fees per ton based on the Mr. James F. Southard, for examination l)efore a mitted to a partnership with Churchill & Shoe- quantity inspected at any one time, no single in- master, having failed to bring him into court. maker. After the death of Mr. Shoemaker (1891) spection to be worth less than $1. Judge Kohlsaat entered the restraining order pend- the firm name was changed to Churchill & Co. ing the production of the witness. Mr. Churchill has been very successful as a grain differentiate Chicago Board in merchant, and in addition to the large business to REUBEN. G. CHANDLER. In order to the all respects from the Open Board, the directory of which his name is given, he is largely interested in former institution prepared an amendment to country elevators in Ohio and Indiana operated by Reuben G. Chandler is one of the men who have the had greatness thrust upon them. His friends are the rules ordering any member who shall have any line companies—one, the Wayne Grain and Malting of Leipsic, Ohio, of which he is vice-presi- confident his moral shoulders are broad enough to dealings directly or indirectly with bucketshops, or, Company or its shall dent; another, the Standard Grain and Hay Com- bear ever greater honors with credit to himself in short, with the Open Board, members, be deemed guilty of unmercantile conduct, and be subject to expulsion.

[For the "American Elevator and Grain Trade."] KILN-DRYING CORN,

liY GEO. H. HESS, JK. The recent hearing before the Illinois Warehouse Commission of arguments for and against the proposal to make a separate grade for artificially dried corn, has revived interest in a subject on which the grain trade seems to have little definite information. The impression seems to prevail in some quarters that the drying of corn is injurious and unfits the grain for use, objectors going so far, at this hearing, as to claim that the germs were killed; oil eliminated; starch content destroyed; nutriment impaired, etc., but without fortifying such claims by actual tests and analysis. As a matter of fact, such results are not produced by any of the driers in use in Chicago, and probably not by driers anywhere. The drying of corn

is carried on for the purpose of expelling moisture enough to render storage and shipping possible, which incidentally raises the grade of such corn;

REUnE.V Ci. CHANDLER. if and this is accomplished by exposing the grain to L. .S. cm JiCIIILL, TOLEDO, OHIO. President Chicago Board of Trade. currents of warm air (140° to 190°) for a very President Toledo Produce Exchange, and to the Board of Trade of which he is the chief short period, say thirty to forty minutes. It is pany; and a third, the Hancock Grain and Milling executive officer. then immediately cooled by a blast of cold air. Company, of both of which last named companies Mr. Chandler's platform is to continue the policy It is not intended to exhaust all the moisture he is president. He is also interested in the Iron of his predecessor, W. S. Warren, whose adminis- from the corn, for No. 2 corn will safely carry 10 Elevator and Transfer Company at Buffalo, N. Y., trations have lifted the Board out of the "Slough per cent of water, and an evaporation below that of which he is vice-president; and he is president, of Despond," restored it to self-respect as the content will be an actual loss to the operators. But also, of the Diamond Mills of Buffalo, N. Y. upholder of the laws of the state as well as of the the purpose is to bring the grain to a condition As member of the Toledo Produce Exchange he rules of the board itself, and rehabilitated it in which will insure safety from deterioration. Grain has always taken a leading part in the conduct of the confidence of the general public as a great com- is not injured by proper drying. The writer sub- its affairs, and on account of both his business mercial exchange affording the widest facilities for mitted to the Commission samples of the identical ability and personal character he has been honored legitimate speculation as well as for unlimited cash grain complained of and which complaint was the by his colleagues in the trade in past years by trading. cause of said hearing; and these samples showed elections successively to the office of second and president of the Board could have a higher the grain sprouted and growing, though they had No then first vice-president, and at the late election aim upon entering upon a new administration. been exposed to germinating influences but sixty to the office of president, the highest honors in the hours. gift of the association. AFTER BUCKETSHOPS. Of course, it is not expected that grain of low quality, immature and poor, can be dried and then THE SEED MILL GRINDING. ^ There is much rapid firing along the line at this made acceptable as No. 2. The inspection depart-

time at the bucketshops. In the Illinois legislature ment can prevent such grading. But if grain of The congressional distribution of seeds is now Mr. Nohe has introduced a bill to penalize bucket- proper quality is dried to proper condition, it comes going on, the limit being only 39,000,000 packages. shop men and horse-race gamblers who use the tele- within the rules and should pass as No. 2. The distributors began early, so that prior to graph or telephone in their business for the dis- The use of the drier is legitimate and necessary, Christmas seeds had been sent to Alabama, Ari- semination of bets, results, etc. The penalty is and has resulted in the saving of millions of bushels zona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisi- $1,000 fine or imprisonment up to two years for of grain. It is an insurance and a safeguard ana, Mississippi, New Mexico, South Carolina and first offense; for second, both penalties. against deterioration which cannot safely be dis- Texas; by December 31, Arkansas, North Carolina, In the Minnesota legislature a bill to make all pensed with, especially with such a crop as that of Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee and Washington were bucketshop operations unlawful has been offered. 1902. i-eached. The other states not reached in January At both Chicago and Minneapolis the grand It is invaluable for the protection of grain in will receive their dole in February and March. Ida- juries took up the bucketshoppers for investigation. oceanic transit. The Department of Agriculture ho, Maine, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, On January 28 Judge Kohlsaat at Chicago issued has received many complaints from abroad of the Vermont and Wyoming come last, and seeds to this, an injunction restraining the Central Grain and Ijad condition on arrival of American corn, and rec- the sixth division, will be sent by March 31. Stock Exchange of Hammond, Ind., from distrib- ommends the use of driers on such grain before The seeds are put up by machinery, so that the uting Chicago Board of Trade quotations in Illi- shipments. This department is now collecting in- contractor employs only about 100 girls, who get nois. This company is an old offender, and a foxy formation for publication with reference to this the magnificent wage of "about $4 a week." There one. In 1900 it obtained from Judge Vail at Chi- / very matter, it being conclusively proven at this are also some boys at work. 394 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

CATON FARM ELEVATOR. Trade of the city of Chicago and the regulations to unload any grain prior to its inspection while and requirements of its board of directors." An transit as an article of interstate commerce, oats, The Caton Farm in Will County, Illinois, has long The Board of Trade description of standard f Secretary Wilson is known to favor such legisla-

been celebrated as the home of high-bred horse wherein they were referred to as seven-eighths ' tion; and the Washington correspondents think this flesh. Owned by a millionaire who has taken a per- white, has been eliminated and the description left bill, or the subject in general, will be referred to sonal interest and pride in the farm and its ap- to the state Inspection Department. him for an opinion on the feasibility of national in- pointments, the elevator naturally partakes of the spection of grain, etc. The committee on agricul- general character of its surroundings, as will be NATIONAL INSPECTION PRO- ture of the senate, to whom the bill is referred, in- seen by the description below. It is located on the POSED. cludes, among others. Senators Proctor (chairman), coal branch of E., J. & E. Ry.. about five miles from Vermont; Quarles of Wisconsin, Dolliver of Iowa,

the village of Plainfield. \ Hon. Porter J. McCumber, senator from North and Hansborough of North Dakota. The elevator is 36x65 feet on the ground and 45 Dakota, has introduced in the senate a bill pro- Senator McCumber's views on inspection as given feet high above the foundation. It has two dumps viding for the federal inspection and grading of to the press reporters are not particularly lumin- and two stands of elevators, each dump having a ^grain in interstate trade, said grading to be under ous. He says: "There has been a growing defec- capacity of 300 bushels. The grain is distributed the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture. tion among the producers of wheat, not only in our

from the elevators into fourteen bins. [' The bill provides for the creation of a bureau own state, but in the state of Minnesota as well,

Between the railroad track and the driveway is a ! of grain inspection of the Agricultural Department, with the system of grain inspection and grading in space 32x36 feet in size, where are located an oats with a chief—a man of at least three years' ex- the principal cities to which the wheat is destined. clipper, dustless grain cleaner, corn sheller, car perience—whose duty it shall be to report on the While the cause of complaint may be somewhat ex- interstate trade in puller, etc., and close to the track line is a 20,000-lb. i condition of the and commerce aggerated, there is no question in my mind but that hopper scale. The grain drops directly from the grains of the United States, their grading, weigh- in many instances it is well founded, and the feel- scale into the car, so there is no chance for mixing ing and inspection, and also to inquire into and ing is very general among the farmers of the coun-, for the prevention of defects in try. grain while loading. Above the scale is a garner of ; suggest means the For instance, it is claimed that there is a 1,500 bushels' capacity. A car can be loaded in present system of weighing, inspection, etc. The much greater quantity of No. 1 northern wheat sold about 35 minutes. Each elevator discharge spout ' Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to appoint for consumption and transportation abroad at the is provided with a suction fan by which the dust "grain inspectors," one of whom shall be stationed great markets than there is of the same grade all blown into a dust collector, and each central market, who may appoint the neces- taken in at these markets. And there is probably and chaff are fat eventually burned in the boiler furnace. The dust sary deputy inspectors, etc. All these men are to some truth in this. It is also claimed that wheat purchased as No. 2 northern, for instance, is min- gled with grades of No. 1 northern, in, say, equal quantities, and the whole sold for No. 1 northern, and the farmer loses just what the cheaper grain gains by this mixture. Grain that will grade very close to No. 1 northern, but which failing to reach '(the standard, is sold for No. 2 northern, brings no better price to the producer than a lower grade which barely gets over the line of No. 3 and ends in the No. 2 bin." The Senator continues to observe that inspec- J 'tors do seem to get muddled on duty and that, perhaps, if they were only federal instead of state officials they would not get muddled; because the "impression is widespread" that somehow "the elevator man, or the shipping interests, control the election and appointment of inspectors," etc., and "whilB this feeling is much more universal than

the facts justify, we all know it is there, and it is THE CATON FAEM NEAE PLAINFIELD, ILL. WHIPPLE & BAEE'S ELEVATOE ON thought that if grades are determined and fixed by the Secretary of Agriculture it will and dirt from the grain cleaner and oats clipper hold office subject to civil service rules. Each shall remove the subject much further from political or personal influ- also are taken care of in the same way. give the usual bond, which is liable also for "damage Both elevators are rigged with friction clutches to any person or persons who may be injured by ence." and may be started or stopped without stopping the reason of neglect to comply with the laws or the engine. The cleaner and oat clipper are similarly rules and regulations" of the bureau. And no OKLAHOMA DEALERS. inspector be interested in any way in the • rigged. All bearings are supplied with spring may The annual meeting of the Grain Dealers' Asso- grease cups. grain business. ciation of Oklahoma and Indian Territory shall was held The engine and boiler house is 20x36 feet in size, , The Secretary have the power to make the at Kingfisher, Okla., on January 21. The attend- with coal bin adjoining the track. It is built of [rules and regulations of the bureau and fix the ance was unusually large, and included the officers brick and contains a 45-horsepower engine and 50- amount of the fees, as well as determine the of the Texas Grain Dealers' Association and Secre- horsepower boiler. There is also a duplex steam "classification and grading" of grain, etc., "as in his tary Walker of the Texas Millers' Association. pump with 200 feet of 2-in. hose for use in case of judgment the usages of trade warrant and permit, The officers elected are: E. D. Humphrey, El fire. having reference to the standard, classification and Reno, president; L. C. McGivney, Pond Creek, vice- The storage capacity of the elevator is 75,000 grades now recognized by the several chambers of president; C. T. Prouty, Kingflsher, secretary and bushels; and altogether it is one of the handiest as commerce, etc., of the United States; treasurer; directors, R. H. Drennan, Oklahoma well as one of the best country houses in northern Provided, however, that the reference to such various classifications and grades shall serve only City; Goltry, Enid; W. H. Masters, Perry; H. G. Illinois. Whipple & Barr, who operate the house, as a guide and suggestion in the matter of deter- Linsey, Norman; A. Stevenson, Enid; G. A. Har- handle coal, lumber, salt, etc., and are doing as good tnining and fixing, by the Secretary, the United baugh, Alva. a business as the car famine at this time permits States standard herein provided for, but he shall A banquet was given by the Kingfisher members them to expect. not be controlled thereby, but shall determine and fix such standard and such classification and grades to their associates at the Kingfisher Hotel. as will, in his best judgment, best subserve the CONTRACT OATS AT CHICAGO. interests of the public in the conduct of interstate trade and commerce in grain. NEW PENNSYLVANIA ELEVATOR On .lanuary 14 the Chicago Board of Trade direct- Assuming that the federal government would AT GERMANTOWN. ors amended Sec. 3, Rule 22, defining contract oats. have no power to force its inspection and grading The Pennsylvania Railroad Company will build a The existing rule included only standard as a de- of grain in the different states until the grain has steel grain elevator at Germantown Junction, Phil- livery on future contracts. The proposed amend- entered into interstate commerce, the bill provides follows: adelphia, to cost $30,000. The contract has been ment reads as ! for the creation of United States standard grades let to Geo. M. Moulton & Co. of Chicago. "All contracts for oats, unless otherwise speci- to be made matters of record accessible to all who will be 126x76 feet on the ground and fied, shall be understood as for contract oats, and for copies of descriptions thereof. grain This house , apply But high. There will be also a shelter house on such contracts, for the delivery of oats on and may be delivered without inspection to an author- 164 feet corrugated iron 36x14 feet in size and a brick after July 1, 1902, a tender of No. 1 white oats, ized agent or to a miller or to a private storehouse of in size. new No. 1 white oats. No. 2 white oats, new No. 2 or for deposit in a special bin in a public ware- office 12x16 feet white oats, standard oats, or new standard oats, house or to a purchaser, the purchaser consenting in such proportions as may be convenient to the thereto, or to a market where the usages of the Special reports to the C. P. Ry. show that the ele- seller, subject, however, to the provisions of section trade recognize sales of grain by sample when the vators of that system in Manitoba and Territories 5 of rule 21 of the rules of the Board of Trade of consignor shall direct its sale by sample. on January 31 had room for 5,000,000 more bushels the city of Chicago, shall be deemed a valid tender Transportation companies must notify inspectors of wheat than were then in store, that is to say of contract oats, under the rules of the Board of of the arrival of grain; and it is made unlawful 9,374,670, making the possible 14,405,000 bushels. — r

AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 395

A ONE-MAN ELEVATOR. This house has a capacity for 20,000 bushels of is of slate and the siding of iron, making the build- small grain and 3,000 bushels of ear corn. ing iron clad. The accompanying cuts are made from the plans The power is furnished by a gas engine, located The machinery in the building is so arranged direct of a modern grain elevator, located on the in the basement. that it is not necessary to have more than one man Clover Leaf R. R. at Van Buren, Ind., and owned The machinery consists of a sheiler in tjie base- to operate the plant. by Studebaker, Sale & Co. of Bhiftton, Ind. The ment, which is so arranged that the ear corn can company had various sets of plans and speciflca- be conveyed to either the elevator or the sheiler WOULD ABOLISH STATE INSPEC- from the same sink. There are two elevator legs, TION. one to receive the grain from the sheiler or sink, and the other for small grain only. Representative Dunham of Whitman County has bill The corn cleaner is located in the cupola. The introduced in the Washington legislature a grain is spouted from this cleaner to the bins providing, or through a distributing spout. All spouting is made That no grain, however deposited or shipped of heavy sheet iron. This distributing spout, as consigned, shall in any case be subject to state in-

3000 ffu, Cr-/6

CROSS SECTION ONE-MAN ELEVATOR. tions submitted to them, but it being the desire to build as modern and labor-saving a plant as could 1 I I I |-|— "T~r be designed, the plans selected were those sub- r-c-- — SS'-O"- mitted by the Reliance Manufacturing Company of ELEVATOR. Indianapolis, Ind.. to whom the building contract GEOUND PLAN ONE-MAN also was let. well as those under each elevator head, are oper- spection, nor to inspectors' fees or charges, if the ated from the working floor. The cobs are spouted owner notifies the state inspector in writing that to the cob room, which is so located that the cobs state inspection is not desired. can be loaded into cars or into a wagon. The State inspection in Washington has been in force wheat cleaner is located on the first floor. The since 1895; but has been consistently opposed by shipping scales are over the working floor, with the Portland interests and some shippers on the Sound. beam on the working floor. The Washington rules make 58 lbs. the test for No. In the corner of the working floor is the ofiice, 1 wheat, while Portland requires 59% lbs. Wash- with the beam of the wagon scale inside and the ington choice milling calls for 60% lbs., while Port- scale in the driveway. land has no grade above 59%. There are two dumps and two sinks. The roof Friends of the Washington inspection system argue that the proposed change of the law would place the farmers in a measure at the mercy of un- scrupulous exporters and buyers, in this way: Wheat shippers and buyers are divided into two classes: the independent buyers having warehouses only in the wheat areas, and the shippers wlio own warehouses both in the wheat districts and at the terminals. The latter class practically control 80 or 90 per cent of the wheat exportation and buying of the state. The independent buyer is in favor of state inspection, which he thinks is fairer to him than inspection and grading of his shipments by exporters at Sound terminals. The price of inspecting a carload of wheat in the sack is 75 cents; in the bulk, 50 cents. The big wheat interests of the state contend this is a need- less expense, but the independent buyer, on the other hand, sees in the inspection a protection for the buyer and for the farmers, and the maintenance of the reputation of Washington wheat in the markets of the world. In support of their claims, they assert that much of the Eastside wheat, which formerly went to Portland, now goes direct to tide water at Puget sound ports. For this reason Oregon wheat men are antagonistic to the inspection, that state having no inspection law.

A Texas member of congress has introduced a bill to levy a tax of one mill on each bale of cotton and one-fortieth of a mill on each bushel of wheat consumed by millers to create a fund to collect statis- SECTIONAL VIEW ONE-MAN ELEVATOR. tics of cotton and wheat. 396 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

DANIEL BURNS, HAGERMAN, O. two,' 'There's my three,' 'Score me four,' 'Tally to a point above high-water mark, and will also be five.' The tallying was done in fives, and occasion- made thoroughly fireproof. The cost will be about The engraving does injustice to the elevator of ally the representative of the buyer would call out $50,000. aside half bushel for weigh bag. The Daniel Burns at Hagerman (Rossville Station of to set a the PUBLIC INSPECTION the C. & N. R. R.), Ohio, tor it conveys the impres- average weight was secured from these sample lots AT PITTS- sion of carelessly kept premises; but such is not taken at random. It usually took six men about BURG. the fact. The truth is, Mr. Burns was repairing six hours to handle 1,000 bushels of grain by this The directory of the Pittsburg Grain and Flour when the photograph was taken, and the litter scat- slow process. Now, with the gi-ain elevators and Exchange has decided to make the Exchange's in- tered about was only an inevitable part of that modern machinery, these grain-handlers are dis- spection system available to the general shipping process. placed, and 50,000 bushels can be readily loaded on public, and not confine it, as has been the case The elevator is 42x60 feet in size and 43 feet a vessel in five hours. hitherto, to the use of members of the Exchange high, with a cupola 20x20 feet in size and 20 feet "The first grain elevator was built in 1863 by J. only. The inspection fee will be 50 cents per car high. Then there is a cob house and engine room N. Gardner on the Canton side of the harbor, but, to non-members and 25 cents to members. A sec- 24x30 feet in size and a hay barn for 100 tons. being under private management, it did not become ond inspector will be appointed to look after the The elevator capacity is 20,000 bushels of small and of practical value. additional business. shell grain and 10,000 bushels of ear corn. "The Baltimore and Ohio opened Elevator A, at It will be stipulated that non-members using the The machinery equipment is a Brownell Engine Locust Point, in .January, 1872. This was the first Exchange's inspection department must have all and Boiler of 20 horsepower, Cornwall Corn tidewater elevator, and was followed by Elevators their shipments inspected. Many western shippers B. in 1874, and C, in 1881, on that side, and the send grain to Pittsburg for regrading before recon- Camden Station elevator; Nos. 1 and 3 by the signing eastward; so that the change of ruling is Pennsylvania Railroad at Canton and No. 2 at Cal- likely to bring more business to the inspection de- vert Station. Elevator A, on the Locust Point side, partment than might be at first thought. was burned down in October, 1891, and has not been This change of grading has also made necessary rebuilt. No. 3, at Canton, was recently burned, but a revision of the oats grades; the "extra 3" of the will be rebuilt at once. The capacities of these ele- market being dropped and a No. 4 grade substi- vators are as follows: Daily tuted. The "extra 3" grade was so near No. 2 that Holding Handling the two often brought the same price. The re- Elevators. Capacity. Capacity. vision makes the oats grades conform to those of B 1,500,000 bus. 1,000,000 bus. same numbers at Chicago. C 1,800,000 bus. 1,000,000 bus. Camden 250,000 bus. bus. Canton No. 1 500,000 bus. 100,000 bus. HARRISTOWN GRAIN AND COAL Calvert No. 2 300,000 bus. bus. Canton No. 3 1,000,000 bus. 350,000 bus. COMPANY. "In 18G7 there were only 800,000 bushels of corn Harristown. Illinois, is located on the Wabash exported Baltimore, no or other from and wheat Railway a few miles west of Decatur. In a county grain. The total value of all exports in that year rich in first class elevators, Harristown, however, from this port was $12,203,617. The imports for DANIEL BUIiXS'S ELEVATOK, HAGERMAN, O. holds her own, and has every reason to be proud the same year were $12,042,874. Last year the value of the elevator and coal products of the Harristown Cleaner of 3,000 bushels' capacity. Monitor Wheat of our exports was $74,335,903 and the imports were bushels' Cleaner and Westeijn Corn Sheller of 4,000 $25,219,075. To the exports last year corn, wheat, capacity. oats, rye, barley and flour contributed $22,700,565, is for business in The station good a normal nearly double the entire export trade of 1867, de- bushels seasons of 150,000 to 200,000 of grain and spite the fact that the corn crop handled last year from 300 to 600 tons of hay annually. was a short one. "Of the directors of this organization in 1867, the SOME CHANGES IN THIRTY-FIVE only ones now living are Messrs. William H. Cor- YEARS. ner, George T. Kenly and James Knox. The latter is now a resident of New York. The dead number In retiring after thirty-five years of continuous such men as Israel M. Parr, who was then presi- service as secretary of the Baltimore Chamber of dent, and William Crichton, then vice-president; Commerce, Mr. Wm. F. Wheatley, who has become Hugh Warden, John S. Dickinson, J. Frank Wheat- president of the City Trust and Banking Company ley, Henry Duvall, Richard G. Macgill, Oliver C. of Baltimore, gave a Ne^ws reporter some inter- Zell, Edward Mitchell, S. Sprigg Belt, Joshua Walk- esting reminiscences of the changes in the grain er, and last, but not least, the dashing Confederate trade in Baltimore in that time, from which the leader, General James R. Herbert, who .commanded following facts are obtained: the Maryland troops at Gettysburg. Death has

Mr. Wheatley became secretary on December 7, claimed seven of the twenty presidents the Ex- ELEVATOR OF THE HAIilUSTOWN CHAIN AND COAL CO. 1867. The Chamber had been organized in the same change has had since 1867." year as the Baltimore Corn and Flour Exchange, The list of presidents during Secretary Wheat- Grain and Coal Company, owned by J. N. Keefer and was located at the corner of South and Wood ley's incumbency, with the years of their election, and T. J. Scroggins & Son. streets, in the building now used by the Fruit Ex- is as follows: Israel M. Parr, 1866; Philip P. Pen- The elevator, which is shown in the accompany- change. The trade had been informally organized dleton, 1869; William S. Young, 1870; S. Sprigg ing engraving, is but two years old. It has 40,000 is equipped with five since 1853, but had had no trading rules - and no Belt, 1873; Charles D. Fisher, 1875; Walter B. Mc- bushels' storage capacity and home, except that members displayed their sam- Afee, 1877; .John Izzard Middleton, 1879; William dumps and two stands of elevators with turn-heads ples on barrel heads in the vicinity of Bowly's S, Young, 1881; George H. Baer, 1882; John Gill of to fifteen bins, all of which are controlled from the Wharf, where in winter and summer and in sun and R., 1885; Edson M. Schryver, 1886; Henry A. Parr, first floor. The house has hopper scales also, and a rain they carried on their operations. 1887; Louis Muller, 1889; Edward C. Heald, 1890; steam power plant equal to fifteen horsepower. The The Exchange remained at Wood and South Blanchard Randall, 1891; John L. Rodgers, 1892; machinery was supplied by the Union Iron Works streets until 1882, when the Chamber of Commerce Charles England, 1894; Robert Ramsay, 1896; J. of Decatur, and is, of course, of the latest models. Building was completed, and was a credit to the Hume Smith, 1898; Charles C. Macgill, 1901. Of city. The Exchange's name was changed to Cham- this list the dead are Messrs. Israel M. Parr, Philip NEW TILE ELEVATOR AT PORT ber of Commerce in 1896. There was no initiation P. Pendleton, William S. Young, S. Sprigg Belt, ARTHUR, ONT. fee until 1870, and dues were only $5 per annum. Walter B. McAtee, William S. Young and George The initiation fee is now $500 with membership H. Baer. The new tile elevator, just finished for the Cana- limited to 400, the actual number being 396. In dian Northern Ry. at Port Arthur, Ont., by the Bar- 1902 the Chamber of Commerce owned $200,000 NEW PENNSYLVANIA ELEVATOR nett & Record Company, began taking grain on of dividend-paying securities and had a revenue of AT PITTSBURG. January 19. There was then bin room ready for $54,608.54. It had forty-five employes and a salary 400,000 bushels; but other tanks were finished as list of $25,000. There are three departments under The Pennsylvania Railroad Company has let the rapidly as needed to take 2,000,000 bushels. The its direction, to wit, the maritime, the inspection contract to Pittsburg parties for the erection of a entire plant is fireproof, being constructed of steel, and the weighing (estal)lished in 1902). grain elevator on Herr's Island, Pittsburg, with tile and cement only. "All grain arriving in this port in 1867," said Mr. storage capacity for 100.000 bushels. Herr's Island The Canadian Pacific Ry. has awarded a con- Wheatley, "was handled in half-bushel measures, is the site of the new stockyards, which are contract to the same company of engineers and con- and, as it was sacked, was carried into warehouses trolled indirectly by the Pennsylvania. The ele- tractors to build at Port Arthur an elevator to hold by darkies on their backs. As they lifted it out in vator will be equipped with modern electrical ma- 500,000 bushels, which will be planned to admit these measures they had a musically sing-song way chinery, and will be able to handle a carload of of subsequent additions as needed. The initial con- of calling it off. It was, 'Give me one,' 'Make if grain in about five minutes. It will be waterproof tract calls for nine concrete tanks. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 397

MANITOBA DEALERS PROTEST. the grain dealers can rely more certainly on the WISCONSIN STATE INSPECTION. grade he will get at destination by reason of the of inspection. can and does A meeting of the Northwestern Grain Dealers' check home He pay The movement inaugurated at West Superior to the farmer more for his grain. held at Winnipeg on January 13 substitute Wisconsin inspection in that state for Association was The Oklahoma inspection does not pay very of Manitoba the Minnesota state inspection at Superior, has as- to protest against the provisions the much, but it is gradually growing in public favor grain act and the interpretation given to the act and in my judgment in time we will have terminal sumed the form of a bill in the legislature at Madi- by the authorities. The protest took the form of points in our own territory with large elevators son for a law creating an inspection system and where grain will be bought and received. Then the the following resolution: joint resolution at Bismarck, N. D., appointing a inspection department will pay. committee from that state to co-operate with Supe- Resolved, That the operation of the Manitoba The inspector recommends to the legislature that as now in force, is detrimental to the rior and the Wisconsin legislature in fixing up a grain act, the scale inspection law be amended to provide that best interests of the country in restricting and in- Wisconsin law to suit North Dakota farmers as for and commerce, and is mani- all scales used for weighing grain market be terfering with trade well as West Superior receivers. festly unfair to those in the grain trade who have subject to official inspection. The Madison bill provides for a grain commission capital invested in elevators; and we therefore request that the Dominion government have such leg- consisting of two members from Wisconsin and one islation enacted at the coming session of Parlia- JOHN W. FULGHUM. from North Dakota. There are also various regula- the ment as will remove such restrictions and make tions touching manager of the grain depart- warehouse receipts and the manner operations of said act fair and equitable to all. John W. Fulghum, in which they shall be made and recorded, not mate- ment of Shanks, Phillips & Co., Memphis, Tenn., is The kernel of the contention is the requirement a native Tennesseean, having been born and raised rially different from those issued by public eleva- relating to the distribution of cars, which of the act tors generally. The other provisions of the bill at Nashville, where he received a good common until every is that no one applicant can get two cars have not been published, but are school education. On completing the common promised to be other applicant has had one. If, for example, there school course, he entered Vanderbilt University and amply comprehensive and sure to prevent all mix- one sta- are fifty farmers on the list of applicants at ing and substituting. then finished with a business course at Eastman's car in its turn tion the elevator can have but one In North Dakota a committee Business College at Poughkeepsie, N. Y. was created by applicants; and this no mat- in the list of fifty-one joint resolution to confer with a committee Mr. Fulghum first became a bank clerk, and at from the elevator. Nor pre- ter what the condition of the Superior board of trade to recommend the end of seven years in that line, resigned the to this second lot of cars sumably can one station have a legislature a plan for the establishment position of head bookkeeper of the Fourth National of joint have had their allotments. until all other stations inspection bureau of grain at Superior. This com- it would have been practically Under such a ruling mittee consists of Hons. R. G. Turner, commis- elevator men, since September 1 impossible for the sioner of agriculture; C. N. Frick, attorney gen- business had it been enforced last, to have done any eral; G. M. Young, C. H. Baker, W. F. Leech, mem- letter. As it is, the elevator men have been to the bers of the house, and J. B. Sharpe and M. Jacob- and now have full elevators, badly handicapped, son, senators. This committee met on January 26; they are paying insurance and grain on which and, according to the Milwaukee Sentinel, decided impatiently waiting for working expenses while that they were "greatly pleased with the proposal furnished. cars that are not to give to the grades the name of 'Dakota,' and the purely techni- These facts and many others of a opinion was expressed that before the year 1903 import were presented to Hon. Mr. cal and local should expire Dakota No. 1 hard would be known attended the Sifton. minister of public works, who through the length and breadth of the civilized length, admitting the condi- meeting. He replied at world. It is a significant fact," adds the Sentinel claiming that the railways were respon- tions, but man, "that all No. 1 hard wheat, until the past that they have "failed to ap- sible for the crisis in inspection, came from the state of North Dakota comprehend the task they were sup- prehend and and it is peculiarly appropriate that the name be of the trouble is posed to accomplish— nine tenths applied to the grades." due to that fact." The one question which perplexes the Dakota indirection that the Mr. Sifton contended by gentlemen is the constitutional power of the gov- for the situa- grain men had to thank themselves ernor of Wisconsin to appoint a North Dakota man in. "There is nothing to be gained," tion they are a member of a Wisconsin grain commission. It is about the bush. The said the minister, "in beating also suggested that the North Dakota legislature that the farmer who statement had been made enact a law making it the duty of the governor of received from six shipped his own grain on clrs that state to name the man whom, and no other, per bushel more than the farmer to seven cents the governor of Wisconsin shall appoint. It was through an elevator. I have who shipped his wheat still further suggested that the third man should grain trade. due regard for the men engaged in the be a member of the New York Produce Exchange; in a perfectly legitimate business. They are engaged but that idea was thought too far fetched and it was are entitled to the same amount of considera- They .JOHN \V. Fl'LGIIUM, MEMPHIS, TENN. shelved in favor of a prior proposition. tion as farmers— as much, and no more. And, on Bank of Nashville to go into the grain business. the other hand, the farmers are entitled to, and FARMERS' ORGANIZATION IN The firm was Fulghum & Johnson. They did a should receive, as much consideration as the grain local and Southeastern business and did well. They NEBRASKA. dealers. But when the grain producer comes to also successfully operated an elevator at Mt. Vernon Parliament, and says: "I have produced a com- The farmers' meeting at Lincoln, Neb., on Janu- on the Ohio River. modity which is in universal demand, and I object ary 22 and 23 had the usual pipe-dreamy features Later the business was divided, Mr. Johnson to its going through the hands of middlemen, who as seen through .the mediums of the newspapers and taking the Mt. Vernon end of the business and Mr. will take an undue toll on the product of my labor," the reports of James Butler et al.. on the list of Fulghum that at Nashville, which was continued by then I want to say plainly, that this is a com- promoters. Mr. Fulghum as J. W. Fulghum & Co. Very re- plaint and an objection that Parliament is bound Butler opened the meeting with a characteristic cently Mr. Fulghum closed his own business to to recognize. And I tell you, moreover, gentlemen, speech, in which he made that stock argument of accept the place he now holds with Shanks, Phillips that no Parliament will ever be elected in Canada his—so specious that it might deceive the very & Co., wholesale grocers and grain dealers. that can afford to disregard this protest." elect—that "middlemen seem to think it their right Mr. Fulghum is a good business man.—a pusher, Other speakers went into particulars as to the to collect unlimited toll from you and reap the re- and with the prestige the firm name gives the busi- expenses grain dealers were under in handling ward of your labor"; the demagog's argument on all ness, he anticipates, as he has reason to, a most grain to show what a legitimate margin is; and the occasions before ignorant men. This was the key- satisfactory business future. The firm is a member meeting adjourned. note of the meeting, which apparently was well at- Grain Dealers' National Association the of the and tended, some newspapers claiming 500; Butler National Hay Association. INSPECTION IN OKLAHOMA. claiming 1,200—of course. A. S. Canaday of Min- den was made chairman and John Reese of Broken To relieve the feed famine in the Pacific North- Col. C. T. Prouty, chief grain inspector of Okla- Bow secretary. west, the O. k. &. N. and Union Pacific have made homa, reports only 4,088 cars of grain inspected On the first day a committee on organization was a special rate of 50 cents per 100 pounds on corn from .January 1 to October 31, 1902. The fee was appointed. This committee, after laboring all and wheat from all points in Kansas and Nebraska Sr> cents per car. making the earnings of the depart- night, recommended, "as a preliminary step toward to Pendleton, Ore. ment $1,430.80, against $1,357.9.5 in 1901. The re- the organization of a co-operative association," that port says also: Wall street is anxiously watching corn exports when the local organization shall be perfected, it (which in 1902 were about $100,000,000 less than shall During the year 1901 comparatively little wheat appoint a committee of seven—one from each was inspected owing to the fact that the wheat was in 1901), not that Wall street cares anything about congressional district of the state and one at large all good and all would grade No. 2 in any market corn, but the street is unanimous in pointing to —"to meet with similar committees from other and there was no use to pay for do\ible inspection. the coming corn exports (the 1902 crop being the states and territories to form a national organiza- As we have no terminal points in Oklahoma as yet, largest on record) as a prime factor of relief to the tion; and that the financiering of this organization our inspection is used as a check upon the inspection at destination points, and has proved of great strained market for sterling and that means more be by the issue of capital stock."

benefit to the shippers and also to the farmers, as money for "lithographs." The following were then appointed a committee . 1

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on permanent organization: Jas. M. Armstrong, PLANS FOR 25,000-BU. ELEVATOR the piers were covered with 3-inch planking for the Auburn; L. E. Patter, Gretna; O. Brittel, Elgin; entire width and length, and mud-sills placed there- F. Engelliard, Rising City; J. S. Canaday, Minden; The plans herewith reproduced were prepared by on. There are also posts reaching to the main sills L. S. Deets, Kearney, and John Reese, Broken Bow. Younglove & Boggess Company of Mason City, Iowa, to give the floor the required height. An attempt was made to provide from a general for Canadian clients. Stone being hard to get and A steel pan 5 feet deep is used in the pit and fund $100 to pay the ahove named committeemen, expensive in that country, concrete was used for placed in the ground to the depth of 6 feet. Exca- vation is made for the pan, which is protected by walls of cribbing to hold the dirt in place. The elevator is cribbed to the height of 38 feet and 4 feet higher on the center walls. There are nine bins. In the dump floor is a 5-ton wagon scale with the beam in the office. In the alley floor is a 100-bushel hopper scale. To this scale grain is drawn from the overhead bins. The contents of scale are dumped into the back pit, and while this is being elevated the hopper may be refilled, thus keeping the stream of grain continuous while loading a car. By running this directly through the loading sprout, a car may be trimmed full without manual labor and the cost of elevating is slight. For the Northwest and Canada a flax cleaner of desired capacity is placed on the alley floor. This machine may be used to clean wheat or other grain also. The oflBce adjoins and is attached to the driveway; while the is — 1 engine house detached and lo- nil L < H ow e X3\j^p 5c^B cated 20 feet away from any wood work, thus reduc- 1 :> « < ing the flre risk from that quarter to a minimum. II ^

II n / \ 1 The power is obtained from an 8-horsepower gasoline engine and transmitted by a line shaft, from which it is taken for distribution by ropes by means of a 24-in. sheave, which drives to a 60-in. sheave on PId Qr the head, with idler, swing tension and frame. The rope is the best 1-in. manilla.

The Washington state board of control on Janu- 25,000-BUSHEI, ELEVATOE. ary 28 flxed the price of penitentiary bags at 6.3.'^ but extravagance was frowned upon, the districts the foundations, which consist of eight piers 11 cents each, the same price as charged last year. being called on to pay their own individual mem- feet long by 40 inches wide and about 12 inches Applications must be made during February and bers. thick, placed on undisturbed ground. The tops of March. Then former Gov. Savage "addressed the meeting" on the subject of trusts, and put himself on record, in a wholly unnecessary effort to be consistent, as favoring trusts, which, as he did not believe in "mincing words," he said, are "simply de- velopments," and "nothing can be gained by fighting them." A legislative committee reported, favoring the elevator bill now in the Nebraska legislature, known as the Ramsey Bill (H. R. 70), which aims to compel railroad companies in that state to afford equal facilities to all persons desiring to ship grain. Later in the sessions the organization committee recommended in favor of holding another meeting at Lincoln on February 11, at which each county in the state would be allowed one delegate. This suggestion met with general approval, except that various delegates expressed themselves as consumed with apprehension lest the wicked grain dealers of Cupola 8c the state should elect enough county delegates to rHistributmg^T-'lin capture the meeting.

The real purpose of the promoters of the meeting appears rather in what was left undone than in what was actually accomplished at Lincoln. As in Kansas, when the Butler-Bucklin combination was launched, there is much blustering talk of a vast national organization, with an interminable string of local stations and terminal elevators, etc., all cooperative. As in Kansas, the new concern "expects to start" with thirty elevators in Kansas, fifteen in Oklahoma and ten in Nebraska. In short, the scheme is Butleric to a degree and as frothy. Af- ter the grain business is all corralled, co-operative stores will follow, "on the Rockdale" plan, etc. It will "try to keep out of politics"; but if there were any old populistic political relics in Nebraska not identified lingering around the edges of the meeting, they had probably mislaid their tags.

Ice formed on Lake Superior two weeks earlier this season than usual; and on January 31 a field extended down the lake from Duluth as far as the eye could reach. There is more snow around Lake Superior than for some years past. The prospects, i therefore, so far as the ice is concerned, is for a much later opening of navigation than last year. SIDE ELEVATION OF 25,000-BU. ELEVATOR. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 399

KILN-DRIED CORN. opposed to the doctrine of "plenty of corn but none JACOB P. WOOLFORD. for contract." His firm had exported dried corn The Railroad and Warehouse Commission of Illi- to all markets, and has yet to hear of any com- Although the portrait herewith of Jacob P. Wool- nois, on January 23, gave a hearing at Chicago to plaints of it. His firm were indifferent about a lord of Galton, Illinois, is not, perhaps, the best Board of Trade men interested pro and con in kiln- new grade, but ho thought a consensus of disinter- that might be made of him, he will nevertheless be dried corn. ested opinion would be an agreement that It would recognized by most members of the Illinois Grain John J. Bryant opened the discussion by calling be better for the entire trade not to a make new Dealers' Association who attend its meetings and the Commission's attention to the fact that there is grade. take more than a perfunctory interest in its af- a great deal of such corn offered shippers on ware- Geo. E. Marcy thought that drying is beneficial fairs. To those who are not favored with the house receipts, and that there is nothing in the to the country, as its tendency is to keep up the personal acquaintance of Mr. Woolford It is enough rules to relieve shippers from being compelled to price to the country by making it possible to dis- to say of him that he is chairman of the local accept such grain. Yet, as Mr. Bryant contended, pose of corn that otherwise could not be disposed grain dealers' association and also of the arbitra- of or handled. is unsound; has been killed; it such corn the germ tion committee of the Illinois Association, which Mr. Marcy conceded that over-drying would kill it has an undue proportion of broken ker- is mealy; has been of late attracting not a little attention the germ. But he contended that it is not prac- nels; it suffers heavy shrinkage in handling; and through central Illinois In business circles not ticable to undertake to dry poor No. 3 and No. 4 is objectionable to consumers. Appeals to the ap- and winter shelled corn; but the skillful drier directly interested in grain by the rapidity and peals committee of the Board have been without fairness it dis- takes corn which is nearly dry enough for No. 2, with which has been disposing of avail so far as obtaining a re-inspection of the corn which can be safely dried. He told of one lot of agreements among grain dealers, the committee as No. 2, and yet every cargo has to be blown, with 300,000 bushels of kiln-dried corn which was passed being styled a "new kind of court" and getting high heavy loss by shrinkage to the shipper. upon by the Glucose Sugar Refining Company's ex- praise from many newspapers for the business- Mr. Bryant felt that it is unfair to shippers (o be perts as natural No. 2 corn and accepted by that like manner in which it has done Its work. compelled to take such corn as No. 2; and in de- company. Delivery of kiln-dried corn is witnin the Mr. Woolford is a native of Ohio, having been fense of his position submitted a pretty tough look- 4.03 control of the inspectors. Such corn does not neces- born in Butler that state on February ing sample of corn which he said was kiln-dried, 1.29 County of sarily become mealy or broken, and at any rate the forty days old. It looked like only a fair article IS, 1855. His parents, Daniel and Elizabeth (Ech- differentiation of this corn is under the control of of chicken feed. Mr. Bryant, therefore, asked for ert) Woolford, were also natives of Butler County, the inspectors, like other corn. In the last analysis relief; and this he thought should take the form of 8.75 but his grandfather Echert was a Virginian, who, kiln-drying corn is a good "safety valve" to the a grade to be known as '"No. 2 kiln-dried." Such a in about 1812, removed to Butler County, Ohio, market. grade could be identified by the inspector, and pur- while his paternal grandfather, Jacob Woolford, Mr. Snydaker submitted analyses of kiln-dried chasers of No. 2 corn would then know what to ex- corn by the Columbian Laboratories, before pect on taking delivery. made and after kiln-drying, as follows by percentages: Jos. P. Griffin, manager of the grain department of the Glucose Sugar Refining Company, said his Not dried. Dried. company could not use the kind of corn Mr. Bryant Protein 8.66 Oil 4.07 complained of. His chemists found 12 per cent of Moisture 14.66 13.96 broken kernels and meal; that the germ is killed; Ash 1.39 reduced, and the starch changed in the oil content showing that the chemical changes by drying are character. He thought there ought to be a sep- practically nil. arate grade made for it by the inspection depart- Mr. Griffin said this analyzed corn could not have ment, and then the Board could say whether it been dried as corn is usually dried here. should be deliverable on contract or not. Mr. Snydacker: "That's It; there is a differ- Mr. Griffin said further that drying will be active ence." from November to May because there is so little Geo. H. Hess, Jr., submitted samples of klln-drled contract corn secured during that period; and that corn which had been rejected by the shippers' in- the severity of the inspection of corn on arrival is spectors at the Nebraska City elevator as objection- responsible for the quantity of kiln-dried stuff. able, but which the appeals committee passed as Mr. Walsh of Campus attributed the shortness No. 2; also a sample of the same corn sprouted after JACOB r. WOOLFORD, GALTON, ILL. of No. 2 corn to the severity of the inspection; and GO hours In the growing pan, and also another sam- explained the results of this policy upon the trade ple of the same corn growing. He said he had no was a Pennsylvanian from Lancaster County. His in the country. Mr. Walsh objected to the proposed comments to make: the samples told their own father, Daniel Woolford, came to Illinois in 1869 grade. new story. and located on a farm two miles south of Areola. Capt. I. P. Rumsey did not agree with the argu- Mr. Marcy: The amount of moisture eliminated Jacob P. Woolford went to Galton in 1893 as grain ment of Mr. Walsh, since No. 3 corn, which is the is 1 to IV2 per cent. buyer for R. & J. Irvin of Tuscola, succeeding M. only kind of corn coming in, excepting No. 4, S. station. Mr. Griffin: If that is all, there Is no Injury to Felson at that In 1894 he built his brings a price as high as No. 2, and if there is a cor- elevator, the corn; but some time it runs as high as 9 to own a house with 25,000 bushels' capacity, ner so much the better. He did agree that the 20 per cent. and has since then become noted as one of the most inspection is unnecessarily severe, and claimed that Capt. Rumsey was only for fair play, and in- popular and successful grain dealers in Douglas some No. 4 corn he had seen was as fine com as sisted that the logical conclusion of the hearing County. He is also a dealer In general merchan- any grain he had ever seen. There is no No. 2 was that a new grade should be made. dise. coming into store, but no end to it delivered out. Mr. Marcy: Don't do it. We have difficulty In 1879 Mr. Woolford married Miss Carrie Kelso, He believed a new grade should be made; for when enough In getting No. 2 corn now; don't make it a daughter of Wm. Kelso, then living a mile south a man buys No. 2 corn he is entitled to receive it in worse. If we get another grade, it will be simply of Areola, but now of Tazewell County. They have its natural condition and not doctored. another excuse for the track inspectors to be more three children, Roscoe M., Alfred J. and Samuel H. H. Carr said he had been told by an expert severe than ever, and to knock out all No. 2 stuff. W., all now at home and "in line for promotion," that kiln drying would kill the germ of corn; it is Capt. Rumsey said that if the Board would change no doubt. the same process as malting, and the product is its operations to No. 3 corn, the commercial grade, not merchantable. He thought Chicago inspection it would be worth millions to the country. We can THE GERMANS COMPLAIN. certificates are accepted in European markets only never have any natural No. 2 corn in quantity because buyers there do not know the corn is kiln- again; and the thing now to do is to make conai- A cable from Berlin says: "The Society of Grain dried. tions so severe that the Board will be forced to Dealers of the Hamburg Bourse on January 13 pub- Wm. Nash said he had made exhaustive inquiries make No. 3 a contract grade. lished the following notice: "Renewed complaints into the matter and thought no new grade was de- Mr. Snydacker: I agree with Capt. Rumsey; but against the inferior quality of American shipments sired or desirable. It would simply be another ob- making a grade of kiln-dried No. 2 is not the way of wheat and corn have been made to the board of stacle in the way of selling grain and corners would to go about it. managers. The latter, therefore, intends to again be made still easier than they are. The corn now Commissioner French: Why don't you force the make a protest to the American produce exchanges artificially; coming in must be dried and he be- issue with the Board and not ask us to do It? in order to remedy the evils complained of and to lieved it can be dried without injury to it. A new Others present agreed with Capt. Rumsey that secure strict supervision of classification." For the act as more to re- grade would simply one hammer making No. 3 corn a contract grade would be de- promotion of this end grain dealers are advised to duce the price paid for grain to the grower—the sirable. lay before the board all facts about inferior quality farmer would suffer. After much further informal discussion Commis- and give classification. Mr. Bryant said those who desire the new grade sioner French said the subject matter would be This publication Is characteristic—an aimless want it only as a guide to the inspector—shippers taken under consideration and a ruling made upon growl apparently. So far as appears no market is simply want to know what they are getting when it later. Decision is expected on March 5. differentiated by the complaints. New York "denies they get corn on delivery. It will unify inspection, the allegation" and lays It all on New Orleans, who which will be the same from day to day. The Iowa Board of Control has decided not to use may In turn "defy the alligator." Complaints of Jos. G. Snydacker denied that there la anything any soft corn for feed at state Institutions, but to this kind would be much more effective and less illegitimate about drying corn. He was decidedly import corn from Missouri and Nebraska. offensive if made specific. :

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FITS THE CRIME. One can sell No. 2 Mixed Corn for future delivery A CARD FROM MR. LLOYW. here, but they must so state when they offer it for Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:— BY A HOARD OF TRADE POET. sale. No. 3 Yellow Corn can be delivered on a No. For reasons that I considered tending to the best you?" Satan asked as a man rapped at "Who are 2 contract, but No. 2 corn cannot be delivered on a interests of the Illinois Grain Dealers' Association, the gate. No. 3 Yellow contract. I have resigned my position as its traveling repre- I'm a railroad man," he said; "please open; I cannot wait." Yours very truly, J. F. ZAHM & CO. sentative, and am no longer acting in that capacity. "Why do you long to be within this place of groans Toledo, Ohio. However, my loyalty to and enthusiasm for the and tears?" association has undergone no change, and I am still The man's frame shook with anguish, and his NEW ORI.E.\XS SHIPMEXTS IX JAXI ARY. for the best interest of the grain trade of Illinois ashen face showed fears. Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade: — as before. He said: "On earth I had no peace, my life was much as The work of the association is I have great pleasure in submitting to you a state- full of jars; a necessity and it must be carried forward regard- ment of the grain export business through the port I lied to all the grain men because they wanted less of all interferences. If 1 can in any way con- of New Orleans during January, 1903: cars." ^ tribute to its success I shall always be ready to Satan said: "Go way, poor man, this is no place This month has been a record-breaker in the for you; work anywhere and in any way. We must all pull amount of grain shipped through our port, and of The hold is full of grain men waiting to put you together and we' will succeed. a total of 5,031,939 bushels of grain, the New Or- through. I am now in the employ of the grain commission They've got a cast iron freight car well heated leans Maritime and Merchants' Exchange inspected firm of Fyfe, Manson & Co., Chicago. This firm, through and through; 1,170,203 bushels wheat, 3,343,866 bushels corn and while not so old is They've held it now so very long the 'demurrage' as some, strong at all points 17,142.48 bushels rye. is up to you." and prepared to care for its patrons in every de- — You will notice from this statement that the Examiner. ^ tail. The firm's traders in both pit and cash grain grain inspection department of this exchange in- are unexcelled. Their success depends on the sat- spected 4,537,211 bushels of the grain shipped isfaction given, and all that hard work and intelli- through this port, and that only a comparatively gent methods can secure are guaranteed. small amount was inspected outside of this ex- COMMUNICATED Yours very truly, A. \V. LLOYD. change. Chicago, 111. Yours very truly, FRED MULLER, Secretary. BELIEVE IN ARBITRATION, Bl T I»0 XOT [We invite correspondence from everyone in any way inter ested in the grain trade on all topics connected therewith. We New Orleans, La. ABIUE BY IT. wish to see a general exchange of opinion on all subjects which Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:— pertain to the interest of the trade at large, or any branch of it.J BOTH PARTIES MUST BE TREATEB FAIRI,Y. We have a clipping from cne of your numbers, Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:— WEI.1. PI.EASED WITH lY. which is before us as this is being written, reading We cannot be too careful in regard to our grades of Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:— as follows: corn. The interests of the consumer, who in the I received your December number of the American "STRONG BELIEVERS IN ARBITRATION. end pays for it, must be considered equally with the Elevator and Grain Trade, and was well pleased "Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade: — interest of the grower who provides it. The com- with the information I received from it. Enclosed We are strong believers in arbitration, and anyone mission man will be satisfied if the views of these find ?1 for a year's subscription. that will not agree to abide by the findings of an two can be brought together. J. H. WARNER, Arbitration Board is not worthy to do business The contract grade in this market, whatever we with. believe that it is the fairest, most just, Supervisor of Weighing. We may call it, must be dry enough for shipment and and cheapest way of arriving at the merits of a case. 313 Chamber of Commerce, St. Louis. storage. If we can have a contract grade that can "Very truly yours, "HEISIG & NORVELL." WOUIiO SUBMIT AIiL, IHSPIITES TO ARBI- be stored without getting out of condition and "Beaumont, Texas." TRATIOX. shipped abroad without losing its qualities of sound Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:— We beg to say that on April 25, 1902, we had an corn, it is good enough to be graded contract in I certainly would be in favor of submitting all sub- arbitration with the above named parties over an this market. Some of the Three corn coming here jects under dispute to arbitration; for I think men amount of $48.90, in which the decision was ren- will stand these tests. Some of it will not. posted on such business transactions will render a dered in our favor. We first proposed arbitration The country shipper always wants a liberal in- more just decision than any judge or jury. to Heisig & Norvell, and they acquiesced to the spection. The exporter and consumer insist that - GEO. F. DIMOND. agreement to arbitrate; but they have subsequently the line be very sharply drawn. Each must yield Maysville, Mich. failed to recognize the decision of the committee. something, and a spirit of fairness should guide us filed the same in the Circuit Court here, and FAVORS ARBITRATION OF IHSPFTES, in the decision of this question. We later filed a transcript in Beaumont, Texas, which Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:— Yours very truly, up to this time has been unsuccessful. As the present crop year has been one of advancing MILMINE, BODMAN & CO. Truly, prices, I have had little if any trouble as regards Chicago, 111. "Consistency, thou art a jewel." Yours truly, THE KEMPER GRAIN CO. shipments of hay; but in such years as the previous A YEAR'S BUSINESS AT NEW ORI.EAXS, one, I it would better if disputes Kansas City, Kans. think be more as Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:— to grade, etc., were settled by arbitration. I would I beg to enclose comparative statement of exports not favor arbitrating every matter, as cases some- A Xo. 3 CONTRACT 4;RAI>F, OF < ORX OF NO of grain through the ports of New Orleans and Gal- I'SE TO SIIII>IM:itS. times come up that are so palpably wrong as to veston during 1902, the compilation of which I just Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:— seem beyond the pale of arbitration. finished lu my opinion the shipper would be in no way ben- Respectfully yours, CHAS. WOLOHAN. NEW ORLEANS. efited by No. 3 corn a contract grade on the Chi- Birch Run, Mich. Month, 1902. Corn, bu. Wheat, bu. cago market, as it would simply mean that .January 17,143 730,697 we WOIIIiI> XOT OBJECT TO TRAIUXG IN XO. 3. February 33,344 245,416 would have the same trouble in getting No. 3 corn Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:— March 168,080 576,476 then that we have in getting No. 2 now. The only April On the question of the right to apply No. 3 corn 77,011 700,970 way to remedy the existing evils of the Chicago May 1,111,765 on contracts for No. 2 at a fixed difference, I am Board of Trade is to make No. 3 corn deliverable June '. 11,577 1,136,430 opposed to it; but I would not object to the trading July 42,857 1,600,950 on contracts at a difference not to exceed 5 per in No. 3 corn (instead of No. 2) on the Chicago August 14,510 1,649,606 cent. This privilege the Board of Trade has re- Board of Trade. September 2,487,178 peatedly refused to grant. October 1,607,091 Have you thought of one possible result? The It seems that everybody is making a fight on the November 1,697,922 state inspectors might not then find much corn December 1,276,332 2,080,905 inspection department, the Board of Trade included, above No. 4! A "public elevator" (with its side when, in my opinion, the Board of Trade is entirely hospitals) is still a "private snap." Total 1,640,853 15,625,406 to blame. It has refused to make No. 3 corn deliv- Rye—September, 13,928 bu; December, 43,000 bu. Yours truly, WM. J. POPE, erable on contracts, putting up the excuse that the Corn. Wheat. Pope Eckhardt Co., Chicago. & (lAXVESTON. corn is not safe to go into elevators and remain Chicago, 111. January 88,370 there an indefinite length of time. This, however,

No. 3 YEliliOW ( ORX A < OXTR.\«'T 4,;RAI»E. P'ebruary 124,000 is not the real reason, as it would never be neces- March 208,000 Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:— sary to deliver No. 3 corn on contracts except in April 296,504 Our contract grade of corn is No. 3 Yellow. We fig- May 62,452 time of a corner, because at any other time the No. ure that our grade was not lowered when we made June 397,460 3 corn is just as desirable for every purpose in the it No. 3 Yellow, because the year round it generally July 696,600 world as No. 2 and is really the commercial grade Au.gust 3,148,099 brings a premium over No. 2 Mixed Corn. of corn. But it looks as if the Board of Trade, the September 2,999,000 There is no doubt but that the changing of this October 23,315 1,481,680 last two or three years, had gone into the corner- rule has increased the trade in Toledo considera- November 306,305 744,220 ing business on a large scale; that the legitimate bly, because it pleases the Eastern buyers and is December 633,107 822,509 grain business is almost crowded out and the mar- much more satisfactory to the Western shippers. ket run in the interest of a few gamljlers who are Total 962,777 11,068,894 If their contract the detri- Chicago should make grade No. 3 Rye—November, 12,064 bu. constantly manipulating the market to corn, they would be lowering the grade; shipper in the land. while To- FRED MUELLER, Sec'y. ment of every producer and ledo did not lower its grade. New Orleans. La. These manipulations, or corners, which have be- AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 401

us, ask they are to be furnished with official certificates of come chronic, make the grain business so hazardous :ome new rules and not tell when we them sell a and weight issued by the Weighing Bureau of the Buf- that every man that handles a bushel of actual grain to do something, that "We can't horse is Merchants' Exchange; and should also instruct must have a wider margin to protect himself against deliver a mule;" for wheat is wheat, and corn falo onimission men to whom they are shipping that losses, and the producers of grain eventually foot corn. has an honest set of in- they desire all grain sold on the above weights. the bill. I presume that Chicago while there are corners and great dif- The Weighing Bureau in Buffalo is largely the I believe that the Board of Trade, as it is being pectors; but inspectors of the meeting of the Indiana Grain Deal- operated at the present time, is costing the pro- ferences between No. 2 and No. 3, the outcome get ers' Association held in Peoria, 111., at which time ducers cf the United States a hundred million dol- may do their very best and yet they will never they passed resolutions and addressed a communi- lars every year; besides it is tearing legitimate the credit that belongs to them. But to prevent inspector some cation to the Buffalo Merchants' Exchange request- business all to pieces; and unless members of the those great differences will give the inspec- ing that this market institute a weighing bureau Board take some action to remedy the existing evils chance; and I hope to live to hear Chicago is under supervision of the Merchants' Exchange. there, they will drive every legitimate trader out tion spoken of as highly and praised as much as the of This very favorably received by Buffalo grain of that market. Sooner or later the handlers of Chicago weighing, for to hear any condemnation was the result that have a welgn- actual grain will be compelled to take some action Chicago weights is a thing of the past. dealers, with we now ing bureau well established, which with proper sup- in self defense. H. C. MOWRf. Forsythe, 111. will be Yours truly, THOS. COSTELLO. port from Western shippers undoubtedly permanent and give entire satisfaction to all grain Maroa, 111. HOW Xo. :i YKIvliOW .\S «'OXTltA<'T <'01{X WOKKS .\T ''70L,KI>0. dealers interested in Buffalo weights. BVFFAI.O WEKiHlXW BI'KKAI . Yours truly, W. W. ALDER, ' Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:— American Elcvatur and Grain Trade: — Buffalo, N Y. Per T. J. Stofer, Mgr. Editor Since making No. 3 Yellow Corn the contract grade in The organization of the weighing department whatever in in this market, we have had no trouble l>IFFICUIiTIES OF HAXOLiXO BAUIiV the Buffalo Merchants' Exchange is as o^et incom- inducing the country snippers to sell the contract il^OItTEU HAY. plete, but I have been hard at work at it ever since grade here, and have had splendid orders from New Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:— and it will my appointment as chief weighmaster; York and Philadelphia for our con- England, New Personally we have but very little use for arbitra- it as perfect be my aim and constant care to make delivery has averaged tract grade, which for May tion with our customers. We think this privilege will allow. as circumstances from to cent above Chicago May ever since Vi Vz is misused in many cases. We think if country I have arranged with Mr. In the first place, began trading in the May option. we shippers were more particular in loading ca;rs and to handle all lake grain just as Junius S. Smith No. 3 Yellow being the commercial grade, es- would see that they loaded the same grade all he has done for many years past. for England interior York pecially New and New through they would have much less use for arbi- weighmasters have been placed in the Exchange trade, it is particularly desirable and Pennsylvania tration. Shore transfer elevators and Nickel Plate and Lake in territory, and it is very for buyers that a easy We have known ma'ny cases where parties buy to weigh the grain at the negotiations are on foot grade to make for the country shipper, so that hay in stacks or barns before it is pressed, perhaps Elevator also, and at the plants of International everybody is satisfied, and there are no attempts to be loaded .away from home; in which case they Mills Buffalo Cereal Company the Diamond and at cornering the market. There are only the usual hire some green man to load it who will load it just lake elevators will be Also all cars weighed out at fluctuations caused by supply and demand condi- as it comes from the farmer's wagon, no matter if supervision. under my personal tions, which should prevail in every market. there are three or four distinct grades. When this put in satisfactory Our rules have not yet been The writer reiterates what he said in his paper car is loaded, it is invoiced at the grade it was is peculiar to this mar- shape, as the situation on "Grain Corners" at the Grain Dealers' National bought in bulk for, while probably part of it is bet- other market can, as a ket, and the rules of no Convention at Peoria, that the commercial grade, ter than the grade sold and some not as good. applied. These, however, will be out whole, be which is good enough for buyers in every part of When this car arrives, no matter if "Providing the whole, the thing starts off smoothly, soon. As a the world, is certainly good enough for the contract car had been properly sorted it would have been encouraged with the result so and I feel very much grade in Toledo, Chicago or any other corn market. worth $5.00 per car more," the receiver makes a far. While, of course, our market is not a large one like great kick, simply because it was not all as good to the inspection department: Although last As Chicago, at the same time the trading in futures is as the best of it, and in all probability will make a Buffalo had her share of the year was a poor year, growing here constantly; and when better under- claim for $1 per ton on one-half of the car and as is proven by the result of the year's business, stood by both buyers and sellers, that our con- perhaps on all of it, when if the hay had been in this department, which was so good that work tract grade is No. 3 Yellow, there will be still larger properly sorted when loaded, so that it had been the trustees of the Exchange at their last meeting, trading in it, and more hedging done by the trade all one grade, it would have been accepted all right. on recommendation, granted to the employes of my ill general in this market, in preference to trading In other cases, where hay is bought loose, it does a raise of about 10 per cent in sal- the department in Chicago, where they are liable to run into ma not perhaps press out as good as it appeared in the aries. Yours truly, nipulated market every three months. barn, and insteaa of being No. 1 timothy, as it was Buffalo, N. Y. J. D. SHANAHAN. Yours truly, P. O. PADDOCK, bought for, it is really nothing but No. 2. We all President The Paddock, Hoge Co. «'l'KRKXT COXI>ITI<>.\!S .\T dislike to take a loss, or to have to handle it for MORR ABOUT Toledo, Ohio. t'HICACO. nothing; and there is a great temptation to invoice

Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:— XEW WKI4^HIX4,i BI'KEAI' AT BUFFALO. it on our first judgment and see if the receiver will In my article last month I endeavored to show how ^ Editor American Elevator and Grain Trade:- not get fooled the same. While this may possibly ' very hard it is for the inspector to decide on line On or about January 10 John D. Shanahan, chief .work in some cases, it is not safe, and in all prob- grain; and hardly anyone can realize the responsi- weighmaster, placed his deputy weighman in the ability makes a good case for arbitration, as the bility the inspector feels when there is 20 per cent Nickel Plate Elevator, and since that time the bu receiver will ask about $2 per ton reduction when difference in two grades and he can hardly tell in reau has weighed about 300 cars through the Nickel there is only $1 per ton difference in the value. which grade to put the grain. Now, such a state Plate Transfer Elevator and so far there has not It would look to us as though if we all stayed at

of things as I have just mentioned the inspector been a single complaint on account of shortage home and handled only what we could give our per- should never have to contend with. The Bureau has also weighed about 300 cars of sonal attention to and let the other fellow have Grain of different grades but of about the same grain out of the lake houses to the entire satisfac- some business; see that every car is properly load- real value for all purposes should never be more tion of all interested. Mr. Shanahan is now per- ed and handle half as much, if necessary, we would than 10 per cent difference in price. Of course, fecting arrangements whereby the Bureau will do have about as much profit at the end of the year, there are men with plenty of time and means who the weighing for the Lake Shore Transfer Elevator much less worry, and no use for arbitration—in really take pleasure and pride in manipulating the commencing on or about February 1. Negotiations fact, "Buy right," "Load right," "Sell right," and markets, and. as we say, in outgeneraling other are also under way whereby grain transferred .?ave trouble. operators. And that may be all right with the class through the International Elevator will be under We remain, yours truly, that Armour, Gates and others belong to; but how the supervision of the Weighing Bureau. There J. E. OTTAWAY & CO. does it work for the country shipper? Under pres- has been considerable satisfaction evinced by the Flushing, Mich. ent circumstances the latter cannot hedge on one trade all over the country, and there is every reason kind of grain and hold another; but if the Board to believe that the Buffalo Weighing Bureau will Screenings at sheep feeding stations near Chicago of Trade rules were so changed that the country fulfill in every particular early promises. had advanced from ?8 normal to about |15 at Feb- dealers could hedge on No. 2 against what they The appointment of Mr. Shanahan as chief weigh- ruary 1, owing to heavy arrivals of sheep to go on hold and pay with No. 3 at only a reasonable dif- master has proved especially satisfactory, not only second feed. ference, then the business could be done as it was to Buffalo dealers but to the grain trade in general An Illinois legislator has introduced a bill for a a few years ago; and then, if some of the large throughout the country, to whom he is well and law providing for reciprocal demurrage. In other operators did happen to corner some kind of grain, favorably known as chief inspector of this market words, any railroad company refusing or failing to the parties holding No. 3 grain would not be badly for some years passed. There seems to be no ques- supply cars at the station they are ordered from hurt—the gamblers would be the only sufferers; tion but that the Weighing Bureau will prove suc- and in such a position that they can be loaded and then we should hear less complaint about the cessful and be a permanent institution, especially within three days from the date of ordering, shall inspection. so if it is properly supported by Western shippers. be liable to the person or corporation so ordering And with the late decisions which are likely to be It would seem to be very desirable that all shippers for all resulting damages, and in addition thereto affirmed by the higher court, it does seem to me to this market should make it a portion of their shall be liable for a demurrage of $3 per day on that the Board of Trade should be thinking about contract, when making sales to Buffalo dealers, that every car from the date ordered. 402 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

MEETING OF GRAIN DEALERS be gained outside of the social feature of these Armour & Co. of Chicago were represented by meetings, it is worth more to you than all it costs, W. M. McDougal of Omaha. UNION AT CHILLICOTHE, MO. for by meeting each other frequently, you form a friendship one for the other that has a tendency to A number of new dealers were admitted to mem- A meeting of the Grain Dealers' Union of South- beget better treatment from your competitors. You bership. More are wanted. western Iowa and Northwestern Missouri was held also exchange ideas, consequently you learn what Mr. McFarlin said that Messrs. Hunter and Stib- at Chillicothe, Mo., on January 19, for the purpose others are doing and keep up with the progress of time. The grain dealer who sits down in his office bens would go to Halifax or San Francisco to at- of interesting more Missouri dealers in that organi- in preference to mingling with his brother dealers tend a Union meeting. It is hoped that won't get zation. in this day and age is certainly blind as to what is so far away, as their services are needed in this President D. Hunter of Hamburg, Iowa, and going on all about him; and, gentlemen, it is your country. Secretary Geo. A. Stibbens of Chicago were present. duty as good business men to lend your strength and influence towards a betterment of conditions. Among the dealers present were C. A. Wilder, The following firms made application and were In order to work in harmony with your com- Laddonia; Geo. Van Buskirk, Dalton; Wm. Mc- Leach Bros., Salisbury; admitted to membership: petitors it will be necessary for each one of you Mahill, Keytesville; L. B. Wilcox, Moberly; L. F. F. G. Fulton, Gallatin; Scruby Bros., Chillicothe; to make your word as good as your bond, for if you Cobb, Odessa; W. W. Pollock, Mexico; F. G. Fulton Cline & Cline, Gallatin; Hathaway-Keath Seed & expect the other fellow to be fair he will expect the same of you. As this work is purely a matter and P. P. Cline, Gallatin; E. P. Peck, Gallatin; S. Produce Co., Mexico; J. D. Johnson & Co., Chilli- of honor, it behooves every one of you to lay aside J. Leach, Salisbury; J, M. and R. Springs; E. Bumgarner, cothe; Sutherland & Baumgarner, Lock petty jealousy and assist in establishing a condi- Lock Springs; T. S. Bishop, J. T. Milbank and W. McMahill & Marsh, Keytesville; Van Buskirk & Mc- tion of affairs that you will in a few years point Scruby, Chillicothe; J. Bevan, New Cambria; W. Mahill, Dalton. back to with pride. It will be well, too, for you to in S. Hathaway, Mexico; E. Lowe, Wheeling; A. J. The application of E. P. Peck, who recently sold consider making demands of the receivers that reciprocity must pre- Marsh, Keytesville; J. H. Wayland, Salisbury. his business at Carlow, and who was attempting to vail; or, in other words, do not expect that the re- A number of St. Louis commission attended. do a scoop shovel business at Gallatin, was rejected, ceivers will grant everything you ask unless you men as he was not considered regular at that station. are willing to give something in return. The re- They included the following firms and representa- ceivers assisted President Hunter called the meeting to order at have us in building up and main- tives: G. L. Graham & Co., by S. T. Marshall; taining grain organizations in all the important Picker 2 m., and in a short address reviewed the evils & Bardsley, by E. Picker; Chris Sharp Com- p. grain growing states, and the time has come when mission Co., by Harry Hunter; Brinson-Judd Grain that confronted the grain trade before the days of the country dealers must make a choice and pat- organization and the satisfactory conditions as ex- ronize the receiving element that protect your busi- Co., by T. C. Taylor; Connery Commission Co., by ness and isting at present. He urged dealers to buy in their withhold your patronage from the receiver Hy. Blankenship; John A. Warren & Co., by John who seeks to ruin your business by catering to the A. territory and avoid the resultant bad condi- Warren; Fisher Grain Co., by C. V. Fisher; own irregular element in the country shipping trade. John E. Hall Commission Co., by W. E. Knapp; P. tions due to going after business in one's neighbors Railroad officials are busy men, and when you P. Williams Grain Co., grounds. have a grievance, be positive it is a just one; then by W. C. Seele; John Mul- put it before them in a gentlemanly and a business- lally Commission Co., by S. Winterbower; J. L. John A. Warren of St. Louis followed and spoke like way and I know from experience it will re- Wright Grain Co., by C. L. Wright. of the importance of the grain commission mer- ceive proper attention. Do not burden them with chant becoming acquainted with the country grain unnecessary matter. INDIANA-OHIO GRAIN DEALERS. dealer. There should be a thorough understanding Some of you may think the primary objects of a grain association is to make and maintain prices, as to who were regular grain dealers, as otherwise The annual meeting of the Northwest Ohio and but this is a mistake; and no organization should the grain merchant at the terminal market would Northeast Indiana Grain Dealers' Association was attempt to fix prices, as it cannot legally be done, not know with whom he was doing business. He and none of you desire to be parties to anything held on Friday, February 5, at the Wayne Hotel, said he understod a regular grain dealer to be one that is a violation of law. If you will become Fort Wayne, Ind. members of this Union, and treat your competitors who was in the business every day in the year even There was a large attendance, and besides many as you would like to be treated, you will be sur- though he might not have facilities. important business points discussed the social prised at the effect, and the first thing you know On being called for, Mr. McFarlin of Des Moines, you will all be handling grain on a reasonable mar- features of the meeting were not neglected. Iowa, spoke in regard to conditions in Iowa as fol- gin, and cut-throat competition will be eliminated. At the business meeting, held in the afternoon, There are other reasons why you should organ- lows: I have been interested in association work there was a general discussion of the conditions of ize, as you have in this state obnoxious laws that for many years. Some of our efforts for organiza- the business, principally the -all-absorbing topic of are detrimental to the grain trade, but they will tion failed in early days, but we kept at it, and we never be repealed or amended unless you go to the common difficulty all are having in making finally secured an association. Conditions in Iowa work in earnest to bring it about. shipments. are now very favorable. Mr. Stibbens and Mr. I challenge you to name any important business The matter of grade on consignments also was that is not thoroughly organized to-day for mutual Hunter have produced good results in the state and thoroughly discussed. The universal sentiment benefit and protection; but it is surprising that a we want the organization to be more complete in great agricultural state like this has neglected to was that the shipper is at the mercy of the con- this territory. As to what would constitute a reg- create and maintain a grain organization, when you signee in regard to grading. Many valuable sug- into consideration ular dealer in the Union, gradually to sift the thing take that the products of your gestions were brought out in the discussion. The state in dollars and cents are so vast in the aggre- down, it would be one who was in the market all prevailing opinion was that the best solution of the gate that the average mind fails to comprehend it. the year round. There is no question but that An organization in this state will encourage the difficulty would be to have inspectors at various Missouri is going to be a great grain state with building of more elevators, which will be of great points, who shall inspect all shipments in certain to you as well as to the railroads; men and facilities for handling it. The Missouri advantage be- prescribed territory and issue certificates as to sides it is much easier to demonstrate to receivers Grain Company, in whicn I am interested, will be weights and grade, which shall be binding upon that you are regular dealers where you operate very glad to see the territory here more thoroughly elevators. the consignee to accept. organized. Still another point that claimed its share of the W. Scruby of Chillicothe, who had had an experi^ President Hunter explained that a regular dealer attention of the meeting was the matter of sys- ence of thirty ye9,rs in the grain business, said that was one who was ready to buy gi-ain at his station tematizing conditions at terminals. Resolutions this year had been a good one for Chillicothe, but the year round. If there were two grain were adopted asking the National Association to buyers that as good crops of grain might not be grown at a station, one with elevator one use every effort to provide public scales and in- an and without, again for some time. He had formerly owned an the latter would be considered regular if there spections at all terminal points, especially at Buf- elevator, but it had been removed by order of the were enough grain handled for people. falo. two railroad, there not having been sufficient grain to Secretary Stibbens made a strong appeal to non- The officers elected were as follows: President, support it. He was in favor of organization, but to join Frank Windiate, Paulding, Ohio; vice-president, J. members the Union. Among other things failures in former associations had shaken his con- said that: — M. Deweese, Montezuma, Ohio; secretary-treasurer. he fidence in them. C. S. Egly, Berne, Ind. The number of grain dealers who identified them- L. F. Cobb of Odessa said he could make more An elaborate banquet was served in the evening, selves with the Grain Dealers' Union at the Mober- money on a short crop than on a big one. When ly meeting was somewhat of a disappointment, con- which was highly enjoyed by the members and the crops were short he had bought in Iowa and sold sidering the large attendance; but we realized that ladies of their families present. a great many of you desired to take the matter to feeders. They could not buy in Iowa, not being Mr. Carroll, the retiring president, gracefully did under consideration and give it careful thought. members of the Union. Feeders could go up and the honors as toastmaster. Mr. Chas. S. Bash of Some of you may be backward about being identi- buy of farmers, but as this would entail consid- fied with a grain organization, and you may believe Fort Wayne was the principal speaker upon busi- erable trouble, they preferred to buy of him. that your customers will look upon you with sus- ness matters. His theme was the railroad car sit- picion, if you become members of this association; Secretary Stibbens read a legal opinion on the uation, the relation of the railroads as common but you are mistaken, as the grain organizations status of the Union and said that no dealer need carriers to the public, and the benefit to the former of to-day are founded upon business principles, and fear any trouble in this direction from joining. He their chief objects are to harmonize the dealers and from the successful solution of the many problems said that at places where there were one or more correct abuses at terminal markets. No dealer need this Association has before it. have any fear of becoming a member of this Un- roads each should be given a fair share of the busi- The commission houses were well represented. ion, as our constitution and by-laws have been ness. It would be better for all parties concerned Mr. "Andy" Kuhl of the Baltimore firm of G. A. passed upon by a competent attorney and pro- and was only fair business ethics. He finished nounced absolutely legal. Hax & Co., who, by the way, shipped a keg of with a plea for organization, after which the meet- I do not believe there is a grain dealer in the oysters all the way from Baltimore to serve at the ing closed. state of Missouri that is not so hide-bound that he banquet, was everywhere in evidence and was in his will allow the amount of money it will cost to keep LEEPER NOTES. usual jovial spirits. witty him out of this organization, for a reasonable profit His speech and song on one car of grain will pay your membership fee W. W. Knight of Moberly represented Reynolds took the banquet by storm. and dues for one year. If there were no benefits to Brothers of Toledo. Ohio. Jos. McCaffrey, vice-president of Daniel McCaf- '

AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 403 frey's Sons' Company of Pittsburg, added many Star Mills by defendant on the switch tracks used Watts took and gave to the Boyds and that which new friends to his already long list. It surely by the Star Mills, as was the custom of defendant, they paid him back and could be traced to the would be hard to carry on a grain convention in the wheat would not have been destroyed by the bank; and that Boyd is held responsible for about the West without "Andy" and "Joe"; at least, there storm, as the water was not of sufficient depth to $3,500. would be something lacking if they were absent. have entered the cars. This judgment is affirmed Warren Furbeck has begun suit against the Other commission houses represented were Mr. by the Supreme Court of Texas. Weare Commission Company, claiming damages of R. Martin of Hoeb Bros. & Martin, Pittsburg; Chas. The grand jury of Bureau county. 111., at its last $150,000. Furbeck does not claim to have himself of Reynolds Bros., Toledo; Art. Bmniick of Knox term returned an indictment against the Weare lost the money "but the suit is brought," the attor- Worts Emraick, Toledo; Harry Cuddeback of & Commission Company of Chicago on charge of run- ney said, "under the law providing that three times \V. A. Rundell Co., Toledo. & ning a bucket-shop. The company made its appear- the amount that is lost in a gambling transaction

ance for trial on February 4, and raised the ques- may be recovered in a suit at law," any person tion of jurisdiction, showing that no names of in- having the right to bring the suit after six months dividuals are mentioned in the indictment and no have elapsed from the time the money was lost. IN THE COVRTS arrests made. This point is still to be argued and One-half of the money recovered goes to the county passed upon before the case can be heard on its and the remainder to the person bringing the suit." merits. The name of the person who lost the money is not disclosed. The Supreme Court of Wisconsin by a bare ma- Geo. H. Phillips began suit at Galesburg, 111., 3 reversed the The National Hay Association, by John B. Daish jority of the court on _ February on January 20 against W. H. Smith to recover decision of the Circuit Court at Milwaukee, which of Washington, its attorneys, has begun an action due him as grain margins. $1,500 vacated an injunction restraining the Chamber of before the Interstate Commerce Commission by S. The Cassidy Commission Company of Princeton, Commerce from expelling or suspending the firm S. Daish & Sons against the C. A. & C. Ry. and 111., indicted for operating a bucket-shop, pleaded of Bartlett, Frazier & Co. The Chamber had held B. & O. R. R., claiming damages in the sum of guilty on January 31 and were fined $300 and costs. that the firm had violated its rules by refusing $1,159.20. The complaint is based on a delay in the delivery of a certain car of billed at Condit, The sequel of the recent trial in the Criminal to settle a trade made by its clerk, Walter E. hay Ohio, to Washington, D. and is Court at Chicago of Chas. G. McNeil and Benj. C. Brown, with L. Bartlett & Sons Company. The C, the purpose to test the liability of the roads for damages caused Jolly is two suits by them brought against Portus clerk, it will be remembered, made trades on his by the freight B. Weare for $50,000 each on claim of personal own account but apparently in the name of his embargo and the refusal of the damages. employers, although forbidden by the rules of the B. & O. R. R. to accept freight delivered to it by exchange to trade for himself or them. The Su- its western connections when billed through. The John J. Whiting, bookkeeper for the Rosenbaum Court therefore holds that Bartlett, Frazier bill states that the complainants presented their Grain Company at Fort Worth, Texas, was recently preme were justified in refusing to recognize as bill of lading to the B. & O. road at Washington, arrested in Washington, D. C, on a charge of em- & Co., their own trades made by a non-member clerk together with the freight charges, but was informed bezzlement, the sum being $170 more or less. He without their knowledge or consent. that the car was not in Washington, whereupon the was returned to Texas. bill declares that the road has frequently estab- A warrant was issued at Crookston, Minn., for Fifteen years ago, before the "Old Hutch's" last lished embargos on certain kinds of freight; and the arrest of Andrew Monson, local agent at Neils- wheat corner, Alfred N. Beadleston of the brewing then a specific embargo of December 27 is referred ville, Minn., for the Northwestern Elevator Com- firm of Beadleston & Woerz, New York City, "took to as being still in force, and that the B. & O. R. R. pany, on a charge of embezzlement, the sum a flyer" in wheat, authorizing his brokers, Palma- will not receive certain kinds of freight for ship- claimed being $487.42. Monson had left Neilsville teer & Butter, to sell short 50,000 bushels of wheat, ment east. The complainant further states that before the warrant was served. with a "stop loss" limit of $2,000, but to use their the frequent practice of the B. & O. R. R. in plac- discretion. They closed out the transaction with A. E. Taylor and C. S. Baldwin, employed to ing embargoes which are in force and effect for a profit; and, under their general discretion, they trace leaks of quotations at Minneapolis to the local considerable time causes undue and unreasonable then sold 50,000 bushels of wheat short for Beadle- bucket-shops, were arrested on January 19, charged prejudice and disadvantage to the dealer and to the ston's account. Then came the wheat corner. The with attempting to break into the office of the Coe consumers in Washington, as the said embargoes brokers, after calling on Beadleston, who refused Commission Company, and were bound over to cause hay to become low in supply and unneces- to make any further payment of margin, bought the grand jury in $500 bail each. , sarily high in price. It is further alleged that the in the wheat, losing over $19,000. For this sum E. L. Buckmaster, formerly agent of the Inde- defendant by detaining the said car of hay and they sued, with interest. Beadleston contended that pendent Elevator Company at Kragness, Clay coun- failure to deliver same within a reasonable time his stop order on the first transaction applied to ty, Minn., has been arrested and bound over to the has subjected the complainants to undue and un- all dealings between them, and the Supreme Court grand jury at Moorehead, Minn., for hearing. The reasonable disadvantage; that the defendants have of New York City on January 23 last sustained his company claims a shortage of $1,000, and had Mr. transported other freight during the time specified; contention. Buckmaster arrested at Wolverton. that the defendants charge demurrage if cars be not In the Circuit Court at Paxton, Ford county, promptly unloaded, but do not compensate anyone J. D. Tidmarsh of Chicago pleaded guilty in the 111., the Union Elevator Company of Cleveland, for detention of cars by the carriers, and this is U. S. Court at Springfield to a charge of neglecting for against Rich- Ohio, was given a judgment $175 stated to be an undue and unreasonable prejudice to affix revenue stamps to bucket-shop transactions, suit was brought ardson & Cooper of Elliott. The and disadvantage in favor of the carrier as against and paid $500 fine. Although not standing trial, recover damages for non-delivery of 10,000 bush- to the patron. It is stated that the usual time of held that he was simply an agent, and Tidmarsh els of oats bought on 8, 1902, 30 days deliv- May transportation of carloads of freight from Ohio to on that ground had refused to affix the stamps. ery. At the expiration of the time, oats had risen Washington is ten days, and that this is ample Chas. Waite and Robert H. Thornburn of the late three-quarter cents, and de- in price one and the time; that the car in question has now been with- Board of Trade firm of Waite, Thornburn & Co., failed to deliver the oats and gave no fendants held from the complainant for fifty days, and there- Chicago, who were suspended for alleged violations the plaintiffs. Some days after the plaint- notice to fore the complainant has been injured in the sum of the Board rules, have individually begun suits iffs delivery and the defendants wrote demanded of $1,000.00, beside the value of the hay, $1,159.20. for $100,000 damages each against Wm. S. Warren, back, "If you can't wait for the oats until we get The prayer of the complainant is that the de- lately president, and the directors of the Board. will settle on the basis of 30 days." The them, we fendant be required to furnish in their answer a Their attorneys claim they were suspended for not endeavored show that the time of defendants to statement of each and every embargo placed by making settlement of "July oats" deals; but the delivery had been extended, and introduced letters them since July 1, 1902; and that the Commission officials named deny that they were suspended on and telegrams to prove that claim, but the court issue an order to the defendants to cease and de- that account, but on complaint of Harris, Gates & ruled the offered evidence insufficient and rendered sist from violations of the act to regulate com- Co. for default in the delivery of corn for July, judgment as above. merce; and this is followed by the general prayer 1902. In 1896 Boyd & Co. of Omaha acted as brokers for relief. On September 1, 1900, Seley & Earley of Waco, for John C. Walls on grain transactions. Walls Up to February 1 about cars Texas, shipped a car of wheat via the M., K. & T. was using the Bank of Neola's money and lost 700 of Manitoba wheat had been sent to Minneapolis to R. R. Co. to Galveston, consigned to the Texas $46,000. His bondsman, Herman Mendel, sued J. E. be milled in bond. Star Mills. The grain was not so delivered, but Boyd to recover. It was shown that Walls used was destroyed in the storm of September 8. When nineteen drafts on the Chemical National Bank of A. H. Aldridge, with the Wisconsin Elevator Co., the shippers brought suit to recover the value of New York, amounting to $21,185, in his operations Roberts, Wis., says: "Enclosed please find $1 for the lost grain the railroad offered the defense that with the Boyds. When he won the money the another year's subscription to the American Ele- the bill of lading contained an exception to its Boyds paid him was returned to the bank. The vator and Grain Trade. It is a great, grand paper " liability from loss by act of God. The trial court commission men were able to prove that $18,500 for those in the 'biz.' rendered judgment in favor of Seley & Earley for went back to the bank in this way. The court In the 1902 report of Supt. Kennedy of the grain $1,160, holding that had the railroad "promptly noti- below held that Boyd, having proved that he paid elevating department of the Lake Carriers' Asso- fied the Star Mills of the arrival of the wheat, the Watts more money than Watts paid him on grain ciation that gentleman reports that he handled evidence shows that it would in all probability have trades, Mendel, who sued as Watts' bondsman, from vessels to elevators in Buffalo during the year been unloaded to the Star Mills elevator before the could not recover. But this ruling the Supreme 125,680,750 bushels of grain. This amount is con- storm and not been lost; but if it had not been Court reversed, holding that the sum due Mendel siderably below the Buffalo receipts of either 1901 unloaded before the storm but delivered to the represented the difference between the amount or 1900. 404 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

OVERDRAFTS AND FULFILLMENT besmirch their business integrity and declare to regular dealers; but how do some of them do it? OF CONTRACT. the business world they are dishonest by defaulting They send a traveling man out into a certain sec- on a contract. Only a few receivers try to violate tion of country and he goes personally to the [From a paper by Geo. A. Stibbens, Secretary of the contracts they enter into. The majority of the regular dealers and tells them he is going to have Grain Dealers' National Association, read at the an- deraults are by country dealers. The way to cure some of the business and unless he gets it from the nual meeting- of the Indiana Grain Dealers' Association at Indianapolis on January 8, 1903.] this evil is to arbitrate it; and people who will not regular dealers he will get it from the scoop-shovel In my persona] experience as a grain dealer and arbitrate should be expelled from the associations dealer; and he actually compels the legitimate as an association secretary, I find that overdrafts to which they belong, and that fact published broad- dealer through fear to give him business to avoid and non-fulfillment of contracts are me primary cast to the trade, which should be a warning to the scoop-shovel competition. I want to ask the re- causes of nearly all trade differences; and I say business world to refuse uo trade with defaulters. ceiver, is this fair? Is it an honest way to secure

to you candidly, I have no patience with a man A track buyer once said, "We have been cheerful business, by coercion? Would it not be much more that practices either. Very rarely does the occasion and consistent members of grain dealers' associa- respectable for any concern to secure business on require any dealer to make an overdraft,' and when tions from their inception, and have kept all their its merits? Don't you think a firm should secure he does he should realize the fact that he has precepts from their youth up, and to our knowl- business in an open field with his competitors, money belonging to the receiver which is not his edge have not broken faith with' any of the re- instead of trying in this manner to steal the own; and if he is honest he will return it as soon quirements of these worthy institutions." It is business other firms have spent a lifetime in work- as he is made acquainted with the facts and without an undisputed fact that 95 per cent of the track ing up? Is it fair for country shippers to forsake quibling. buyers and receivers have at all times fulfilled receivers who have always been good supporters of

1 believe in calling everything by its proper name; their obligations, and have been loyal in times of associations and made it possible for them to exist and the dealer who refuses to pay an overdraft panic and of prosperity, and they are the people and give their business to a man who has always he has made, or the receiver who refuses to pay Wxio have made it possible for associations to live catered to the scoop-shoveler and would be doing a balance due on a shipment, has committed lar- and flourish; for without their support it would it to-day if it was not for the fact that he has com- ceny, and is equally as guilty, from a moral stand- not be possible for grain organizations to con- pelled a number ot shippers to give him business point, as the man who enters your house in the tinue in business. to prevent their business being ruined? dark hours of nign^ and quietly steals your money. When receivers buy your grain they do so because Can the dealers throughout the various states When consigning grain on a declining market, they have made saies for export, and they are afford to withdraw their trade from receivers who legitimate overdrafts will frequently occur; but compelled to contract for vessel room to be loaded have always been consistent supporters of grain where a dealer sells grain on his track or delivered, by a certain time; but if you default on your con- organizations and give it to the concerns who say

if an overdraft is made, it is done with the full tracts, you force them to pay large damages in the tney will have it, or get it from the scoop shovel knowledge of the shipper, and should not be tol- way of demurrage, which a great many of you do dealer? One class of receivers support you from erated by the receiver; and the quicker receivers not take into consideration. Some of you may take principal, but the other class supports you because commence to educate the trade in that direction the view that because you do not fill your contracts they are compelling you to take business from the less trouble they will have. But some receivers in the time specified, you are under no obligation your true supporters and give it to a class of re- and track buyers are so eager for business they to make shipment at all; but in this you are mis- ceivers that have been trying to disrupt and disor- will pay a draft when they know the amount is taken, as the buyer is entitled to all damages ganize you.

too large and trust to luck or Providence to and a reasonable profit on the transaction. I hops I hope you will consider this matter well, as it is get even. the day is not far distant that when the arbitration important; and you must decide to whom you will The practice of making overdrafts has been in committees of the various associations are called give the preference. It will certainly be to your in- vogue for many years; hut thanks to grain or- upon to decide differences arising from defaulted terest to patronize the receiving element that is loy- ganizations this practice is being eliminated, and by contracts they will award to the injured party the al to you and withhold your patronage from the strict adherence to association principles, with Qifference in the market, and all damages accruing concerns that seek to destroy you. proper support from receivers, their trade abuse will on account of said detault, with a reasonable profit be entirely eradicated. The country shippers of on the quantity sold. AND STILL ANOTHER. grain owe it to the trade to stop at once the If it were possible to legislate honesty into dis- practice of making overdrafts, and receivers should honest people, and we had a pull with the poli- Another has been added to the already large num- so called, that is demand it; for in no other way can trade evils ticians, we might easily remedy the troubles; but ber of "farmers' combines," to be remedied than by the hearty co operation of all this being impossible, we must compel the trickster say, the "Fraternal Order of American Farmers," concerned. to be honorable by entorcing arbitration or expel which is said to permeate all the Northwest as well as Kansas and and Indian Ter- Each one of you knows what good business meth- him from the organization, and by so doing he is Nebraska, Oklahoma ritories. ods are, and you owe it to yourselves and to the branded as a scoundrel. And when this is done, order, parties yoti are dealing with to complete every what more can we do to protect your interests? The object of this which has come to the transaction you enter into strictly to the letter and Country dealers require, and even demand, that surface at this time in Oklahoma, is not to run the of all creation it does not, happily, ex- meaning of the contract. Non-fulfillment of con- track buyers and receivers shall protect their in- business — starve the local retailers tracts brings more trouble to the trade than all terests in the way of confining their business to pect to out by patronizing "cat" houses exclusively, nor to drive other busi- other subjects combined; but if each party to an those regularly engaged in' it, and justly so; but obligation were always disposed to be fair and what are you offering in return for that protection? ness men off the footstool, but only to get not less than cents per bushel for wheat in Oklahoma. honest, instead of looking for some loophole to If you continue to make overdrafts and default 60 do this it is proposed to "organize" crawl out of when the market goes against him on your contracts, can you consistently expect them To Oklahoma; and then put down the screws. there would be but little for the various arbitra- to give you the protection you ask? On the other

tion committees to do. hand, -if your drafts are reasonable and you live A great many controversies over contracts occur up strictly to the letter and spirit of every con- A newspaper war on the Cleveland Grain Dealers' Association declared by certain buyers of because each party to the obligation does not fully tract you make, you will have done all that is has been understand the terms of the contract. Others occur expected of you and you will be in a position to grain and other horse feed, who are endeavoring in "trust." because one of the parties does not wish to under- enforce your demands. In considering these mat- the usual specious way to locate a stand; for if he did, it would be to his detriment ters you must realize there are two sides to A complaint of violation of the commission rules from a financial standpoint; and when you strike every question, and you must accord receivers the by members of the New York Produce Exchange a man's pocketbook, you severely test his honor, same fair treatment you exact of them, or you caused an investigation, which was held on Febru-

and I am sorry to say that some regard more can never hope to have a harmonious trade. ary 2. It then appeared that the principal complaint highly their money than their honor. Leaving the original subject for your careful con- was over the question of the employment of solici-

Associations have materially raised the standard sideration,* I desire to call your attention to the re- tors and the pretense of having employed solicitors of the grain traue, but thei-e is still room for im- ceiver who styles himself "Reformer." In other when none were employed. After a long discussion

provement; and until such time as every man words, to the receiver who has made a specialty it was decided to get up a more satisfactory rule, connected with the trade shall regard his word of soliciting business from a cla-ss of people who are and the president was authorized to appoint a com- as sacredly as he does his bond, differences will not regularly engaged in the grain business. mittee of five for this purpose. It will be several occur. There are people in the trade who have As you all know, we have in every market two weeks before the committee will report. the happy faculty of selling grain to arrive, and or three concerns that get all their trade from The New York Superintendent of Public Works if the market declines they never fail to fill their what we term the scalpers or irregular dealers; and in his report on the doings of the state canals in contracts; but if the market advances, the weather these people prospered fairly well before the birth 1902, says: "In spite of the lengthened season the suddenly turns bad and the farmers cannot de- of organizations. But for the past few years this total tons carried was only 3,274,446, as against liver; or there is a shortage of cars and they are class of receivers have found their business slipping 3,420,613 tons in 1901, a falling oft of 146,167 tons. unable to load out the grain on time: or they away from them and going to the receiver who is This loss is more than accounted for in through are not satisfied with the inspection: weights are willing to protect the interest of the dealer who is freight, for whereas there was an increase in way bad; or they suddenly discover there is something regularly in the business, making an open market freight east of 84,976 tons, the total decrease in wrong with the terms of the contract. You cannot for the producer each dby in the year. through freight was 210,619 tons. The beginning of change human nature; but is it not strange that A few receivers of this cla-s occasionally notify the shrinkage is coincident with the shutting down men who have grown up in the grain business, and the state secretaries that they propose to turn of the mines. There was a total decrease for six have become rich in some cases, are willing to over a new leaf and to confine their business to months of 406,109 tons. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 405

some degree oy the relationship e.\isting between as, Missouri and North Carolina, cited in the former the parties, as well as by their conduct after the opinion (Russell vs. Grain Co., above referred to), COVRT DECISIONS contract was entered into. Wherefore, the court show what is meant. They were all cases in which says that it did not sufficiently appear that the con- the bank had become, by purchase of the bills of tract was illegal. On the contrary, it was con- lading, the substituted vendor of the grain covered strained to hold that it was entered into and by such bills' of lading, and that was the whole ex- [Prepared especially for the "American Elevator and executed for a proper and legitimate purpose, and tent of this court's former opinion. Grain Trade" by J. L. Rosenberger, LL. B., of the Chi- cago Bar.] that, while the member of the firm sued may have thought that by such an arrangement he could con- S. p. ELEVATOR AT GALVESTON Retention of Grain of Inferior Quality. trol the local market, there was no intent to stifle The Court of Appeals at St. Louis holds (Small competition, except as consolidation of the two firms FINISHED. vs. Bartlett, 70 Southwestern Reporter, 393) that if would effectuate that purpose. The Southern Pacific Elevator at Galveston was a purchaser of an article, as, for example, a car of With the question of the amount due the suing finished on January 23, and was tested a few days corn, retains the same, and sues for damages for a firm the court found more difficulty than with the later. The house has storage capacity for 1,000,000 breach of warranty in regard to its quality, he can- other matters in issue, because of the unsatisfac- bushels. It will lie operated by the J. Rosenbaum not recover the entire purchase price, unless the ar- tory condition of the record. It says that aside Grain Company of Chicago, and will be in charge ticle is shown to have been worthless, not merely from a book, which was not properly identified, the of Alex. Nichol. for the purpose for which it was bought, but for evidence was largely made up of estimates, from any purpose. which it was difficult to arrive at a satisfactory SAVANNAH GRAIN DEALERS. conclusion. The parties sued introduced statements Standard Where Grain Is Purchased Governs. from a book said to have been kept by the firm, The grain dealers of Savannah, Ga., on January In the absence of an agreed standard, the United showing the amount of corn and oats purchased by 17 formed an association for mutual benefit and pro- States Circuit Court of Appeals, seventh circuit, it contract, itself under the but the book was not tection. The officers thus elected are as follows: holds (Richardson & Co. vs. Cornforth, 118 Federal offered in evidence. If offered, the preliminary President, T. J. Davis; first vice-president, J. S. Col- Reporter, 325) that the standard of the place where proof was not to justify it? reception as tjvi- made lins; second vice-president, H. Traub; secretary and a commodity is purchased governs. With reference dence. These statements, in the absence of the treasurer, James E. Grady, Jr. to a purchase of clipped oats in the Chicago market, book itself, were not competent; and the book, un- where 32 pounds has been fixed by the statute as less properly identified, and its genuineness estab- the standard for the measurement of a bushel of lished, was not admissible. The court had, there- NEW ELEVATOR BUILDING AT oats, the court says that this may not include, it is fore, to rely on the estimates made by the various BUFFALO. true, oats artificially treated, but it may be shown, witnesses, and the showing as to the grain shipped The Michigan Central Railroad Company contem- by the custom of the market, to be applied to clipped from the place named in the contract, with the tes- plates building a steel grain elevator of moderate oats as well. timony as it might have been, but it was the best size Buffalo; and the negotiations to that end evidence obtainable. From this evidence the court at Validity of Partnership Contract Between Firms progress. was constrained to hold that the conclusion reached are in of Grain Dealers. There is rumor in Buffalo that the Grand Trunk by the trial judge was as nearly correct as it was Two firms made a contract that all the corn and and Fere Marquette roads will join in the erection possible to arrive at. And this it approved as the crop of that year purchased at a certain of large size; but Detroit officials oats of the best approximation obtainable. of a steel house place should be on joint account at actual purchase of the latter road deny knowledge of the project. price. Should either party have more invested than Extent of Bank's Liability Under New Doctrine. the other, the interest should be adjusted and In the cases entitled National vs. NEW MEMBERS GRAIN DEALERS' charged to the account of the cost of the grain. Exchange Bank All moneys paid for oats should be charged to oats Russell, and same vs. Searls et al., respectively NATIONAL ASSOCIATION. account and all moneys paid for corn should be (32 Southern Reporter, 314), which were brought The following are latest aciditions to the mem- charged to corn account. Both parties should share by the latter parties to recover damages for alleged bership list of the Grain Dealers' National Asso- alike in the loss or gain on the entire purchase and breaches of contract for grain sold to them by an ciation: H. L. Lawler & Sons, New Orleans, La.; sale. One of the firms agreed to ship from another Arkansas grain company, the Supreme Court of Columbus Grain & Elevator Co., Columbus, Ohio; point 40,000 bushels of oats, to be put into the joint jMississippi says that the trial court went too far in Redman-Magee Co., Cairo, 111.; F. E. Winans, Chi- account at a certain price per bushel. All subse- the application of the doctrine announced in the cago, 111.; John Warren & Co., St. Louis, Mo.; quent shipments should be at cost. In a suit in case of Russell vs. Grain Company (32 So. Rep. Flannagan Mill & Elevator Co., Rich Hill, Mo.; equity for a partnership accounting, the firm last 287), heretofore reported for our readers. Perrin Bros., Cincinnati, Ohio.; John B. Ross & Co., referred to claimed that this contract had been car- The Supreme Court says that whatever damage LaFayette, Ind. ried out, and that they had not had their share the consignees in these two cases had sustained by of the resulting profits. The other firm pleaded reason of defective quality of the grain, or by rea- that the contract was contrary to public policy, and son of any shortage in the grain delivered to them NEW ELEVATOR AT BALTIMORE. in contravention of section 50G0 of the Iowa code, covered by the bills of lading (which had been pur- Contracts have been let by the Pennsylvania R. relating to pools, combination?, trusts, etc. chased by the bank), taey might recover; but they R. Co. to Geo. M. Moulton & Co. for rebuilding the That two partnerships, oi- a partnership" and an could not recover from the bank any damage which Central Elevator No. 3 at Baltimore, individual, may enter into a new partnership, the they might have sustained by reason of the failure Northern which was burned on December 31, 1902. Supreme Court of Iowa says (Willson vs. Morse, 91 of the Grain Company to ship grain which it had new elevator will have a capacity of 150,000 Northwestern Reporter, 823), seemed to be con- contracted to ship. The failure on the part of the The bushels greater than the old structure, which will ceded. Indeed, in the face of the authorities that Grain Company to deliver to them other shipments make the capacity of the new elevator about 1,500,- proposition could not well be denied. It was also of grain than those covered by the bills of lading 000 bushels. The bins will have a uniform depth conceded, or at least not denied, that the agreement in these two specific cases, purchased by the Bank, feet, instead of 55 to 65 feet, as in the old quoted created a partnership between the two par- was a breach of the contract between them and the of 70 structure. The elevating and shipping capacity of ties. Even if denied, the cases left the question in Grain Company, but was no breach of contract on the old structure will also be improved on. no doubt. The contract being le.gal on its face, the the part of the Bank. The Bank simply had noth- The Chamber of Commerce would have preferred burden was on the firm denying its legality to show ing to do with those contracts. It was in no way a steel to a wooden house; but the railroad com- its illegality by satisfactory and convincing evi- connected with the breach of those contracts by the dence. Grain Company. pany believed that the urgent necessities of the port for a house for immediate use justified re- If made to prevent competition, or to fix the The ground on which recovery is allowed against building with wood, instead of delaying construc- price to be paid for grain in the territory where it the Bank for defective quality and shortage in tion in order to use steel. was to be operative, it was, of course, contrary to quantity of the particular grain covered by the bills

public policy and void; or if, in the language of the of lading bought by the Bank is that as to such

statute, it was "to regulate or fix the price of any grain the Bank has been contractually substituted A Baltimorean writes Statistician Hyde the his- article of merchandise or commodity," it could not as the vendor of all such grain in the place of the tory of the first shipment of western grain to Baltl be enforced. Whether the parties had in mind Grain Company, and, of course, must answer as any more as follows: "In 1863 a small grain elevator either of these purposes was a question of fact to other vendor would answer for defects in quality was constructed by Mr. J. N. Gardner. This was the be determined from the evidence. That one mem- and for shortage in quantity. But there was no first grain elevator built in Baltimore. It was ready

ber of the firm sued had one or the other, or both contractual relation whatever between the Bank for business on January 1, 1869, and in March of of these, in mind must be accepted as true, for he and either of these consignees or the Grain Com- the same year Luther B. Cox & Co., commission mer- so testified in the case. But he did not say that he pany as to any other grain than such grain as the chants, ordered 1,000 bushels of wheat at Chicago, communicated his purpose to the suing firm, or bank bought the bills of lading for. The Bank has which was brought to Baltimore by the Empire that they had any knowledge thereof. Ordinarily no concern with the failure of the Grain Company Line of the Pennsylvania Railroad system in three such a contract would be treated with suspicion, to carry out its contracts to ship indefinitely other cars, and arrived in four and a half days. This but, as applied to the facts shown by the record in carloads of grain which it may have contracted with grain was handled through the new elevator di- this case, that suspicion was removed by the une- these consignees to ship. rectly by Mr. Gardner, and was the first Western quivocal testimony of the suing firm, supported in The distinction is plain; and the cases from Tex- wheat sold in the Baltimore market." ! ;

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try shipper, with business enough to warrant a In short, the change from the inspection of the plant, would be able to take advantage of the 'exchange to that of the state seems everywhere

drying system, were he so disposed, and pocket • to have acted as a boomerang to bruise the hand

its attractive profits. that made it ; whereas the least complaint is heard from markets where exchange inspection

NO. 3 CORN AS CONTRACT. still obtains to the exclusion of that of the state.

Still, if we must have government inspection The hope that the Chicago rules may be in place of that of the exchange—which is amended to permit No. 3 corn to be delivered really the logical system—we are inclined to on No. 2 contracts with a difference is still in- think that federal inspection, with the men un- PUBLISHED ON THE FIFTEENTH OF EACH MONTH BY dulged by some shippers. We believe all such der civil service rules, would be more welcome hopes are doomed to disappointment. The apt than additions to the state inspection systems. MITCHELL BROS. COMPANY saying that a man who contracts to buy a horse (INCOEPOBATED.) will object to the delivery of a mule, even at a PUTS AND CALLS. difference, hits the situation. And the Board is OFFICE! not likely to follow the lead of the "Open The appearance at Springfield of a bill to repeal the law penalizing deals in puts and calls Manhattan Building, 315 Dearborn Street, Board" in anything. to that species of But Capt. I. P. Rumsey remarked at the in Illinois has drawn attention CHICAGO, ILL! kiln-drying hearing that No. 2 corn has prac- trading. The present prohibition is doubtless a doubtful tically ceased to be a commodity for sale in the part of that species of legislation of HARLEY B. MITCHELL Editor market. quality, so popular with the country members, A. J. MITCHELL Business Manager country tributary to the Chicago The fact that no bids for No. 2 now go out from any which would outlaw all trading in grain Price, x / o / Sl.OO per Year SubBcription quarter emphasizes the fact that the country and provisions for future delivery. " English and Foreign Subscription, > 1,60 " grain trade has ceased to deal in Chicago con- Puts and calls are siii generis, of course, and tract corn. Why, then, should there not be a their utiHty to the trade as a form of insurance ADVERTISING. contract grade that the country can sell ? Is the on other trades, obtainable in no other way with This paper has a large circulation among the elevator men and grain dealers of the country, and is the hest medium in the machinery of the exchange created and protect- so much ease and satisfaction, will commend United States for reaching persons connected with this trade. the other hand, the Advertising rates made known upon application. ed by law for the sole benefit of exporters and them to ti-aders. But, on

the dealers in wind ? attractions they offer to mere speculators have CORRESPONDENCE. Toledo has made its contract grade of corn always given them a bad name, especially with We solicit correspondence upon all topics of interest con- yellow because that is the kind of grain outsiders who do not understand their actual nected with the handling of grain or cognate subjects. No. 3 trade. it receives from its country shippers ; and Mr. usefulness to the regular CCHICAGO, ILL., FEBRUARY 15, 1903. Paddock of the Paddock-Hodge Company of TEMPEST. that city, in a brief letter printed on another A TEA-POT Official Paper of the Illinois Qraln Dealers' Association. tells the change from an ideal grade page, how A row over the distribution of cars between is produced only in the city and TOO DRYING. of corn that D. H. Curry & Co. of Mason City and two other MUCH under the cover of elevator roofs to a grade stations on the I. C. road in Illinois and a rival sell has benefited that The hearing on the kihi-drying question, re- that the country has to elevator run by the farmers, neither of which ported briefly elsewhere in these columns, was market. parties or elevators are or were members of the good many members of the Board who are hardly encouraging to the proponents of a grade A Illinois Grain Dealers' Association, has sub- receivers and meet country shippers now admit of No. 2 corn kiln-dried. The prohibition of jected that body to much unfair criticism by the the necessity of a change in the contract grade kiln-drying, directly or indirectly, like the pro- press, the severity of whose strictures has been

to meet conditions forced on this market ; but hibition of mixing grain, would at once ren- in inverse ratio to the accuracy of their informa- the pressure for any change must come from the der unmarketable a large amount of good corn, tion. Curry & Co. made complaint to the Rail- country shippers who are most damaged by or, at least, depress its price materially. No at- road and Warehouse Commission of unfairness present conditions. tempt was made at the hearing to rebut testi- by the I. C. road, which, they said, gave the mony to that effect. Co. NATIONAL INSPECTION. farmers more cars than it gave Curry & But more to the point was the testimony to whereupon the Commission, with that superior prove that kiln-drying corn did not, when prop- The merits of Mr. McCumber's bill to create characterized the Yates ad- I wisdom which has erly done, damage the physical character of la bureau of the agricultural department for ministration thus far, subpoenaed a large num- corn. Successful drying is that which attempts the federal inspection of grain may be more ber of witnesses and proceeded to try, not the

only the entirely practicable work of removing weighty than his reasons for offering it. In- I. C. road against whom the complaint was the superfluous moisture from No. 3 that would deed the latter seems rather preposterous, which lodged, but the Illinois Grain Dealers' Associa- grade No. 2 were that superfluity removed. Burke once defined as "getting the cart before tion, a party not in interest, directly or indirect-

That some driers may attempt to raise very the horse." The Senator could hardly expect ly, for conspiracy to drive the independent ele- damp No. 3, or even No. 4, or worse, to No. 2, to have an official inspector at every station in vators out of business! Truly our old friend and make such a mess as Mr. Bryant objected his state, without which the conditions of which Dogberry will have to look to his honors

to, is not an argument against the drier, but a he complains could not be corrected. And the The attorney o^" the Illinois Association very warning to the inspector that he is liable to Senator's notion that prohibition of mixing properly protested against the introduction of blunder "if he doesn't watch out." would increase the price of grain to the grower any evidence reflecting on that body. It was in Perhaps the most successful drying is the is, of course, a fallacy that only the excitable reno way responsible for the acts of Curry & Co. practice at New Orleans, frequently imitated, porter has failed to comprehend. in the fight they are carrying on against a rival, where, before shipping, there is mixed yvith the National inspection must have some other whether their complaint was made in good faith kiln-dried corn enough undried corn to equalize raison d' etre to merit consideration. And un- substitution of the Illinois Asso- or bad ; and the the content of moisture of the lot. Such a less there can be assurance that it will be more ciation as defendant in place of the Illinois Cen-

system has been found to bring corn up to No. reliable than state inspection, a change is hard- tral road was as unjust as it was unwarranted 2 condition with practically no cause of com- ly to be desired. The truth is, the public expect and arbitrary. plaint of over drying. to that Curry ; too much of "the government," which some- The testimony did, indeed, show & Ealn-drying, in short, is a perfectly legiti- thing in the nature of superhuman power and Co. had written to their commission men in Chi- mate, wholesome and desirable treatment of extra-human prescience is often attributed, cago informing them that if they did business damp corn, which should not be it for Curry condemned be- , whereas it is a verj' human machine, indeed. for the farmers they could not do

cause driers are inexpert it affilia- and overdo ; and is ) State inspection has signally failed to satisfy & Co., but as Curry & Co. have had no less to see the be discountenanced because the coun- i those who most clamored for it—the farmers. tion with any association, it is impossible to ; : ;

AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 407 how the IlHnois Grain Dealers' Association can But a specific demurrage fee of say $3 per day, The bill, in short, aims to give vital force to be held responsible for their acts or their views as contemplated by a bill in the Illinois legisla- the original interstate commerce law, and has of business ethics. a real to the shipper. If the merit of separating interstate commerce ture, might be damage ;

By arbitrarily forcing the Association into a the shipper is actually damaged, he should be from general trust legislation. It also omits defense, however, the Commission secured the able to recover the full amount that he can any reference to pooling and fixing of rates, J statement from W. H. Suffern that he had been prove he has been damaged upon a proper ac- questions on which, unfortunately, the members advised not to buy grain of the independents tion al law, and such loss, if worth a suit at all, of the commission were unable to agree amcjug I

' and an effort was made to show that A. W. would probably' be much greater than any themselves. It is not all that could be desired Lloyd, late agent of the Association named, had demurrage fee represents, which would no ljut it is a good deal more than was expected of officially issued threatening letters of that na- doubt be fixed at a nominal sum per diem, about the congress. Let us then be thankful. ture to .certain receivers. The officers of the equivalent to what the roads themselves charge Association, on the other hand, positively dis- up to dilatory receivers. OREGON COURT ON BAILMENTS. avowed any such action by Mr. Lloyd as un- Laws do not execute themselves ; nor will The Oregon Supreme Court has affirmed a authorized, and denied that the Association ex- legal damages collect themselves. If, then, a judgment of a lower court which convicted a ists for other than legitimate purposes. shipper is suing for damages, the law ought not warehouseman in that state of "larceny by The whole enquiry, as far as it affected the to limit, as a demurrage law would, the amount bailee" and sentenced him to two years in the Illinois Association, was an unwarranted exer- the injured party is justly entitled to recover. state prison. The decision printed in the Ore- cise of arbitrary power, and it would have gonian devotes the greater length to a discussion been thrown out of a court of record sum- CAR FAMINE. of technicalities of the statutory law, but as marily. But if it was allowable to try the Asso- There is nothing new that can be said of the to point ciation on any warrant, the Association was en- the main at issue says car famine, which is threatening a real grain titled to a hearing aside and apart from any The wheat having been delivered to, and accepted famine in the Atlantic Coast states from Maine by, the defendant constituted a bailment, and any washing of dirty linen by Curry & Co. and their to Alabama, from all portions of which territory exercise of dominion over it by him, inconsistent competitors. The charge that has since been with the claim vt owner, amounted a con- complaint comes of scarcity of grain for feed the to made in the press on the basis of this hearing is, version of the grain. The testimony having dis- and milling purposes, as well as disorganizing therefore, a libel on the Association, which in closed that the defendant, instead of returning the the business in the West. Worst of all, there the case of an individual would be actionable. ! wheat, in compliance with the terms of the agree- appears no sign of relief before navigation ment, shipped it away, thereby necessarily nega-

I PRICE OF BURNED GRAIN. opens. Apropos this situation, then, the E. A. tives any permission secured from the owner to

1 take it. Grubbs Grain Co. make these suggestions, which The dispute between IIil owners of grain in The crime of which the defendant was found : are worth reading twice I the Northern Central Railroad at Baltimore, As most elevators are unable to receive grain guilty was not, however, conversion by a ware- which burned on December 31, 1902, and the DOW, we believe it will be unwise to allow your cus- houseman, but larceny by bailee. An attempt receive agents of the insuring companies over the price tomers to commence hauling soon as you Vv'as made to arrest judgment on the point that j car. have them stopped now; and it will be to be paid for the insured grain revives an old a You the defendant and the prosecuting witness sus- easier to keep them from hauling than to stop j question which many people "out west," where tained the relations of warehouseman and de- them again. Even if the embargo Is raised, the elevator fires are perhaps the ruled that the more numerous than railroads cannot give all relief at once. More than positor of wheat; but court they are "down east," had supposed to ])e that, most banks are carrying all they can now. defendant, although a warehouseman, not hav- I settled. They have accommodated their customers, believ- ing issued to the witness the form of warehouse embargo would only last a few days; and The insurance man offered to pay the ing the receipt required by the warehouse law, cannot they as well as the railroads must be considered. amounts of insurance as determined by the price rely for his defense in a criminal action upon More than this: if all the grain could be moved of grain at the close of the Chamber of the privileges of the warehouse law which he Com- at once, it would have a tendency to depress merce business on December 31. But the grain prices; and you would likely suffer loss on grain had failed to comply with in his business trans- owners stood out for a higher price, which they unsold, as well as put the price down to the farmer. actions with the complaining witness. It now looks as if the shipping demand for corn subsequently agreed, we believe, to accept. The warehouse receipt required by law must will continue good, and moderate receipts will The insurance men were no doubt right in bear date of issue, a statement from whom the likely hold prices steady, and the farmer is the their contention that the law would allow the one who can hold the grain without a hardship. grain is received, the amount and the condition, insured no more than this. At any rate, de- If the dealers work together they can handle the as well as the conditions upon which it is stored a cisions of the courts have been made as long situation in such a manner that it will not be but the receipt actually issued in this case was burden to any. as fifteen to eighteen years ago that the maxi- defective in details, making the legal transac- j mum of insurance cannot exceed the value of THE EL.KINS BILL. tion amount to a bailment. The distinction is a the insured property on the day it was de- nice one, but it seems to be an important one stroyed. If the insured can always this to remember nevertheless. get sum To the surprise of the shipping public, who

without a lawsuit, it is difficult to see he i how had been led by a remark of Interstate Com- can have cause for complaint, especially when, JOLLYING THE FARMER. missioner Prouty to expect no action by con- = as in this case, the insured has himself had the interstate com- gress, the senate committee on Orange Judd Farmer, which combines with privilege of establishing the value of the prop- in favor of the merce reported unanimously much sound sense an astonishing proportion of erty. Elkins bill, which was, on Feb- passage of the nonsense, speaks of the National Society of

j ruary passed by the senate without objection RECIPROCAL DEMURRAGE. 3, Equity of Indianapolis as "the latest tangible or discussion. And Walter Wellman states on effort toward widespread cooperation among In some of the legislatures bills have been in- authority that the bill, substantially as it came farmers." It may be ; but usually all "touches" . roduced to make car demurrage reciprocal. from the senate, will be passed by the house. It of that kind are remembered in after days with This is, of course, theoretically fair. The com- will of course be signed by the President, as a chagrin rather than satisfaction by the victims mon carrier is bound to carry all commodities part of the anti-trust legislation he has so per- who happily recover their good sense, tho' at offered for transportation ; and the law contem- sistently urged upon congress. the expense of their purses. "Squaring the plates responsibility in damages for neglect to The bill, which has been drawn with the circle" isn't a circumstance, as a problem, com- do so. But a reciprocal demurrage act would assistance of Attorney General Knox, contains pared with getting farmers organized and to be a new step, we believe, and perhaps a doubt- the provisions of the Knox anti-trust bill for —

stay organized "fix prices" ; and the Farmer ful one. the punishment of those who receive, as well as —to are scarce, those who give, rebates provides for the pun- ought not to encourage moon.shine schemes of When freight is abundant and cars ; the roads are quite as anxious as the shippers to ishment of corporations by fine, instead of im- that sort. It isn't fair to its readers. It's worse keep them in use; and probably no demurrage prisonment of the officials, and also for injunc- than publishing fake advertisements, which the liability by the road would hasten the supply. tions to prevent discriminations. ; Farmer so much deprecates. 408 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

for without knowing just what the)- want or grabbed a large part of the license taxes paid whv thev want it. by the cities to reduce their own local taxation, the farmers ought now to play fair on the canal The car famine has had the result of filling question ; but they don"t seem to be "built that tlie country banks with about all the grain paper ENTION way." most of them care to carr}-. There seems no

trouble to get accommodations ; but dealers who Nearly 350 students were present at the corn full Did you get your car this month ? have houses should discourage more con- judging school at Ames, la., in January. They tracts for the time being that require further came from all parts of the West and even from Mr. Armour has set the boys guessing. Was loans. Let the other fellow do the borrowing Mexico and Canada. Undoubtedly these win- his latest wheat deal planned as a gigantic scalp, for a while. ter schools must have an enormous influence or what? on the future quality of American corn ; but A Superior paper stops in its mad rush after apparently unless the track inspectors can be Secretary Stibbens's paper on ''Overdrafts," Wisconsin-Dakota grain inspection to welcome induced to attend the schools, the world will etc., is a hint that some people ought to haul to the city, as "a big grain firm," with the never be able to find it out. down the "God Bless Our Home" and give the "greatest private wire system in the world,"

' uolden Rule" a chance. in the most notorious bucket-shop concern the In a little Indiana town there is a mill of real Northwest. Superior grain men of the most mysterious mien. Its business is to pul- Ed. Culver of Toledo has been reappointed sort ought to ask police protection from their verize corn cobs which are hauled into town by inspector for another year by the Produce Ex- self-constitued friends. the train load, and shipped out in bags as "Cor- change. Toledo doesn't have to be shown a ona." What "Corona" is used for is a deep good thing more than once. Senator Torson of St. James, Minn., has in- mystery to the guileless townspeople, who sus- troduced in the Minnesota legislature a bill for a pect that it may be a new sort of health food The sixth annual meeting the Kansas of law declaring all market quotations public prop- or muscle builder, or mayhap is used by the Grain Dealers' Association will be held at Kan- erty. Now let a senator introduce a bill legaliz- brewers to give that "nutty flavor" to the pure sas City on March Invitations are 24 and 25. ing the sale of "gold bricks," the lottery, the malt beer of this era. But it does not seem to extended to members of other associations. faro bank and policy shop, and he will be con- have occurred to them to look for it in the "feed sistent and make other sporty gents as happy as Cannot the farmers be induced to stop win- box." he has the bucket-shop skindicates. ter-shelling? Corn is seldom in condition to These are the times that test the quality of shell and bin before May, and is almost cer- Secretary Wilson has sent a letter to Con- your elevator construction. Fortunately, most tain to grade No. 3 or worse at all times until gress in which he opposes the transfer of the of the barn-builder houses seem to have gone after the germinating season. (statistical bureau to the proposed department down in previous attempts to hold more corn of commerce, that is to say, to the census bu- than they were built to carry ; and elevator A central Illinois paper has started the story reau. The mess made by the latter bureau of its breaks have been far less numerous this season that the grain elevator at Kenney, built in 1873, agriculture statistics for 1899 ought to be suffi- than ever under like circumstances. It pays to is the "oldest in the state." Bless us ! but if cient to warn Congress from dumping any work build right—to get an architect and engineer to it's only 30 years old it's an infant compared in upon it that could be done elsewhere. make your plans and to build according to those with some we might name on the old I. and M. plans. Then you can go home easy at night canal. The German farmers ought now to be con- and expect to see the building and its grain in tented. They have secured a tarifif law that The Winnipeg Board of Trade has adopted place next morning, even if the house is carry- gives them protection to the amount of 58c a resolutions urging the Dominion Parliament to ing a full load. bushel on wheat and per barrel on flour, and make no more donations of any sort to rail- $4 but a fraction less on other cereals, including The latest is the "National Society of Equity ways; but recommends that the government corn. But this is not the end, as already Aus- 01 North America," incorporated at Indianapo- itself proceed to develop its own system of rail- tria-Hungary is preparing to get even by duties lis on December 24 as the nucleus of an organ- ways by extensions of the International Rail- exporters sc|uirm. ization of the "millions engaged in agriculture.'" way to Lake Superior. that will make German The society will have "a complete system of di- Even the York Produce Exchange crop reporting" (patented?) ; and "knowing the The suggestion has been made that the Mari- New rectory has declared war on the bucket-shop and amount of crops produced, the consumption time Exchange, the Board of Trade and the rule to voted on on the 19th from past experience, equitable minimum Mechanics', Dealers' and Lumbermen's Ex- has prepared a be prices it ofifense expulsion for will be fixed by the directors of the change of New Orleans be merged. This would making an involving national bodv and all connected with such business reported at once to parts of the country : at least abolish the double-headed grain inspec- members to be indirectly in any capacity. once fixed, the price will rule on that crop for tion which has given that market so queer an directory or New the year." If this doesn't put the Butler and aspect for some months past. York may be rapid, but the delay in arriving at this view of bucketshopping creates the impres- Hanley noses out of joint, what will? The Grain Dealers' Union will hold two sion that some of her business ideas seem to The uproar of the collapse of a $2,000,000 meetings in Missouri during the present week, come in with a grain consignment 60 days out liorse race pool at New Orleans and the pinch- the first at the Labinnah Club, Hannibal, at i :30 from Chicago. ing of a get-rich-quick concern in New York p. m., February 16. headquarters at Union De- It is now feared, and, indeed, expected, that City by Uncle Sam has somewhat diverted pub- pot Hotel, and the other at the Ringo Hotel, legislation lookin'g to the enlargement of Erie lic attention from the late Cleage blind pool at Mexico, at i 130 p. m., the 17th. These are im- canal will fail in the present New York legis- St. Louis, except in various sporty locations in portant organization meetings which should be well attended. lature.' The larger cities of the .state, which Ohio. Although the pool was advertised quite arc located on the canal and were created extensively as having "won" not less than

A bill has been introduced into the Wisconsin by it, are to a unit in favor of the $80,000,000 $300,000 in the December corn deal, it is esti- legislature to revive Superior inspection of expenditure for the enlargement ; but the farm- mated that at least 2,000 members of the pool in grain, which ought to transfer that somewhat ers, who would pay but a fraction of this sum Ohio towns are wondering why they fail to tiresome matter to Madison. No doubt the law in any event, are as unanimous in opposition get certified checks for their share of the win- v.ill be made—such laws always are put on the to it. A stranger should not meddle with fam- nings. At Bellefontaine alone the contributiojis books, and then we shall see what we shall see. ily affairs, but it does seem as though the farm- lo the pool are estimated to have reached $50,- Probably this will be tliat the Wisconsin inspec- ers of New York are rather selfish. They owe 000 to $100,000 ; but the expectants there have tion at Superior will prove one of those dum- the canal at least $10,000,000, which it has been notified that the "campaign" was a total fool things that newspapers are always howling earned net in the past. ^loreover, having failure—the entire capital sunk. The music of —

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the numerous brass bands Mr. Cleage has in his ing on Mr. Northrup with both feet and a brick "Year Book," and not only stands comparison time exploited and led is as nothing compared m each pocket. 11c is accused of being arbi- with that volume, but suggests that the "Year with the faufare any mention of the "pool" trary, of being the sole maker and arbiter (^f I'.iKik" has been improved upon if anything. It

creates in IJellefontaine : and llic refrain is the grading rules which he has promulgated in is indeed an ideal report, one that any man heard all over Ohio. form disapproved by the grain men called by might be proud of, and suggests the thought himself into -consultation when making them, that when Sec'y Wilson retires from Washing- C. C. Christie, the big bucket-shopper of Kan- etc. Of these things we have no personal ton it will be an easy matter to find a successor sas City, has at last been indicted for non-pay- knowledge, and allude to the affair merely as big enough to occupy even a greater chair than ment of the bucket-shop transactions tax of the a biennial episode in the trade in Kansas illus- Mr. Wilson's. War Reveinie Law. .\s it is now some four trating the advantage of politics in the inspec- years or more since that tax became operative, The reinspcction nuisance at Kansas City has tion department as a means of keeping up the aroused the dealers those and manv months since it was wholly repealed, not only Kansas but excitement. isn't this action a little subsequent? Is Kansas of Nebraska also, who have felt it necessary to C\t\ al\\a\s as slow as this? The receivers in the South are not the only send a committee to that market to try to get dealers who claim rebates for grain out of con- relief. Of course, the congestion of railway Brer Carr, the farmers' friend, and several dition or who turn down cars on arrival. .\t traffic is at the bottom of this serious trouble; other kinds of distinguished philanthropist, the Fort Wa}-ne meeting, reported in brief on but the astonishing part of the matter is the with a commission business attached, is credit- another page, it appeared that the trouble is ai)])arent indifference of the Kansas City Board ed by a Chicago pajjcr with Johnny-Morganatic becoming very serious to shippers from that of Trade to the gravity of a situation, the losses intentions apropos the numerous farmers ele- territory eastward. The discouraging thing is resulting from which are made to fall upon the vators, farmers' national cooperative move- that no practicable wa}' appears to put a stop shipper only. The wording of the reconsignment, et cetera. His $50,000,000 Cooperative to the loss. The absence of inspectors at deliv- mcnt rule, as it now stands, relieves the buyer Association of South Dakota contains so much ery points, who are the official arbiters of such from all such responsibility as would spur him difficult, superheated atmosphere that one had thought it disputes, makes settlement very espe- on to due diligence to secure prompt delivery to cially at time like the present when grain is long since gone out of sight ; but a few atoms a himself, and leaves the shipper to stand all the in transit, while the ab- thereof appear to have been condensed in the unreasonably delayed loss or fight the railroads to recover it. This is scales the shipper vicinity of Broadlands. 111., where a "branch" sence of public sales and puts grossly unfair, and no market ought to con- has been organized. at the mercy of the interior towns and unscrupu- tinue a rule that works such injustice. As the lous dealers. The association named passed the annual meeting of the Kansas association will An arbitrated controversy over a car of oats problem on to the National Association, where be held in Kansas City in March, the Board at Cincinnati between Braun & Kipp and Col- indeed it properly belongs, as it involves a prob- ought then to get a flea in the ear that will stir lins & Co. turned on the question of what was lem of widespread interest. it up to some different kind of action than an "ofTicial weigher,'' in Cincinnati, his weights merely the writing of formal letters of "We re- to govern according to this contract of sale. This is the kind of advice the E. A. Grubbs gret," etc. The oats were actually weighed at Westwood Grain Company sends out from Cincinnati, O., ofificial Many country towns in Illinois, Nebraska by a weigher who was not an of the to their customers; it will bear repeating. "Do Chamber Collins and the Northwest are now engaged in the ven- of Commerce, and & Co. de- you want to make money—good clean money turesome work of building farmers' elevators. clined to accept the weights as "official." The money you can enjoy? If so, work in harmony The business has assumed a more or less epi- committee finally decided that the Westwood with your competitor. Pay the farmer all his demic character. In some places the complaint weigher's certificate was not "ofificial," thus es- grain is legitimately worth, and grade it where is even more malignant than the mumps or the tablishing the precedent that an "official" weigh- it belongs. Don't pay the same for poor grain measles. The good luck of such companies as er for Cincinnati must be an authorized official that you do for good, expecting to mix it in the Kenyon Farmers' Elevator in Minnesota, of the Chamber of Commerce. and get full price for it. If you do, you encourage poor farming. Don't pay more than which for 1902 paid a 50 per cent dividend as for 90 and the cooperative The Labor Commissioner of Nebraska, from the grain is worth. If shipped out without 1 1, elevators at Northfield and Zumbrota, Minn., whose office the state crop estimates are issued, profit, it is like time forever gone. Urge your which paid 10 per cent each, in discussing in his biennial report the conflict farmers to sow white oats, and either plant all and a few others in various of results obtained by the various methods of white corn, or all yellow. Get them to stop parts of the country which somehow failed to enquiry, says: "The last figures [of the state planting mixed corn and sowing mixed oats. "bust," is as catching as was Cleage's blind pool in December. auditor's report on acreages], taken from a re- And, by the way, it is time everyone was looking Our news columns give port of the Nebraska Grain Dealers' Associa- after seed corn. Afuch of this corn may not considerable information on the subject generally, which is tion, would seem to combat the idea advanced "TOW, and it is time tests were made." encouraging to neither the ra- tional in certain Cjuarters that the grain merchants are farmer nor the elevator man ; because the world delights nowadays to always bent on giving out statements misrepre- The man while the movement is, perhaps, an indication is the things. this class senting the facts concerning the production of honor man who does In of friction that ought not to exist, there sel- of who are known by their fruits must our principal crops." This is a bit of justice men dom appears behind it anything like good busi- that few politicians would be able to render or- stand Sec'y F. D. Coburn of the Kansas Agri- ness sense. The new houses are "fighters." dinarily. Shake, Air. Commissioner. cultural Board, who has lately added to his They start out by quarreling with their neigh- former list of successful public documents his bors and even with themselves ; and instead of thirteenth annual report, There is a three-cornered fight on for the a volume of 1,140 proceeding, as good business men would, to appointment as grain inspector of Kansas. pages, not one of which his best friend could make money directly to divide among the share- inspector, wish suppressed. "Documents" are usually dry- holders, for the However, B. J. Northrup, present they most part adopt the pirati-

; here is report that is full and John Radford, both from Wyandotte Coun- asdust stuflf but a as cal method and aim to destroy all profit in the

ty, are the real principals, with D. R. Gnrden of of life as a cricket and as crammed with meat business for both them.selves and their neiofh- Abilene as the dark-horse. Although this is a as a sausage. Aside from the inevitable statis- bors. It is, therefore, a safe prediction that business office pure and simple, the merits of tics, we have no less than four of the secretary's all companies conducting their business in that the opposing candidates seem to be simmered unique monographs (on "Short Horn Cattle," way will fail, sooner or later, only to leave the down to a question of the relative amount of "Hereford Cattle," "Polled Catde," and "Kan- ,e-rain buying business of individuals prostrate strength each would add to the republican sas Wheat Growing"), each of which is ex- also. Success in a business whose direct pur- haustive of its subject together with a large party of the state if appointed. As to this, and, ; pose is the destruction of profit is unthinkable indeed, their actual merits as inspectors, this number of timely papers, addresses, etc., on to a sound mind. But, then, most farmers" farming topics of a wide range. The report is elevator companies are not projected or deponent sayeth not ; but we notice that the man- in form like the Agricultural Department's aged Southwestern Grain Dealers' Journal is jump V by sound minds. 410 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

number of other catalogues, several of which are NEW TYPE OF MARKET LETTER. devoted exclusively to grain handling machinery. These will be sent to interested parties upon re- The Nash-Wright Company has started a new quest. type of market letter, entitled "Letters to George The Joseph Dixon Crucible Company are manu- from his Uncle Bob," of which the following is the facturing a special pencil for car inspectors that is first and a good sample of what may be expected. C. A. Burks, the elevator broker of Decatur, 111., said by car inspectors who have used it to be in Others will follow at regular intervals. Uncle Bob says has established a record by selling twelve elevators every way suitable. Among the latest Dixon liter- under date Chicago, February 10, 1903: within the past nine weeks. ature is a "Souvenir of An Inspection Trip Made Dear George: So you have at last secured a location. Plans are under way for the enlargement of the by the American Society of Civil Engineers to the I am glad to see you well started in the country grain business, and I feel sure that you plant of the J. Thompson & Sons Manufacturing New Terminal of the North German Lloyd Steam- will make a success of it. Although I have been Company, makers of gas engines, etc., at Beloit, ship Company" and "A Toot for Dixon's Graphite." at this end of the grain trade for a good many years, I Wis. The Kay-Pim Manufacturing Company of St. have always had a "hankering" to get back to the country elevator where I started, and A. C. Barbeau, secretary of the S. Howes Com- Louis has issued its initial catalogue and price list I intend, therefore, to take a considerable interest pany, of Silver Creek, N. Y., is visiting the Pacific in the shape of a 96 page booklet, T^AxBVs, printed in you, and amuse myself by writing you occa- Coast cities in the interest of "Eureka" grain clean- on a fine quality of book paper. The cover is sionally reflections born of experience and reminis- ing machinery. printed on robbin's egg blue cover paper, the back cences which may or may not be interesting or use- ful to you. Failures are pretty numerous in the page containing a bird's eye view of the company's H. A. Nieding, with The "Wolf Company of Cham- ranks of the country grain-buyers and the country illustrates prices bersburg. Pa., has removed from Salisbury, N. C, plant. The book and quotes on live-stock buyers. I don't say this to discourage to Vermillion, Ohio, and will represent the company the extensive line of power machinery made by you, I mention it merely because there is a reason for these numerous failures. That reason is gen- in Indiana and Ohio. the company. erally to be found in the personality of the men The N. P. Bowsher Company of South Bend, Ind.. Anyone that uses a pocket memorandum book who engage in these lines of business. is working its factory to the fullest capacity. The will appreciate the one that J. F. Zahm & Co. of To- I don't know anything about the live-stock business, and I guess you know enough about it to let company is finding the feed mill trade heavier than ledo, Ohio, are sending to their friends. It is it alone, so we won't talk about it here. a handsome leather bound affair and in addition usual at this season of the year. Many a farmer's son who returns from a six to a complete diary for the year 1903, has colored The Chicago Grai:n Machine Company has been months' attendance at a one-horse business col- maps of the United States and its island posses- lege with a profound knowledge of commercial incorporated under the laws of New Jersey with a sions, tables of weights and measures, rules for affairs and a sublime confidence in his own ability, capital stock of $250,000. The incorporators are looks about him to see what particular business he calculating speeds of pulleys, strength of belts, John R. McGurren, Frank D. Wulff and Henry will choose, in order to show to admiring relatives interest laws and statutes of limitations, as well as Wulfl. and astonished friends that he is as full of commer- any amount of miscellaneous information of the cial ability and original methods as an egg is full C. J. Groat has been appointed Pacific Coast rep- kind every business man likes to be able to put his of meat. He probably chooses live stock buying resentative for the Nordyke & Marmon Company because he doesn't like to milk, or grain buying be- hand on when occasion requires. of Indianapolis, Ind. Mr. Groat, who is well known cause he has a weak back, hates to husk or to On February 1, 1903, The Wolf Company of handle a pitchfork, persuades his doting papa to in the territory, will make his headquarters at Chambersburg, Pa., opened a suite of offices at put up the funds, and—there is one of the reasons. Portland, Ore. By the time he really knows anything about the No. 804 in the new Pennsylvania building at Fif- Sprout, Waldron & Co. of Muncy, Pa., are sending business his money is all gone and papa decides teenth and Chestnut streets, Philadelphia, Pa., the that perhaps conditions were unfavorable, but at out an attractive pamphlet entitled "What Our Cus- manager of which will pay special attention to the any rate the boy had best come back to the farm tomers Say." The little book contains the opinions export business, also trade in the New England where his original ideas and commercial knowledge of a great many users of the Standard French Burr can't cost so much. Those who really make suc- states. New York, New Jersey, Delaware and a por- Mills made by the company. cesses are fellows like yourself, who have energy, tion of Pennsylvania and Maryland. The object in industry and a good share of common sense, in Mr. Murle, the foreman of the Canadian Pacific opening this office is to pay more attention to the addition to a quality of brains better than the elevators at Ft. William, Ont., says the new working trade in that territory and to be in closer touch average. Your case, therefore, will be different. You have invested money that for the most part house of Elevator D, erected by the Barnett & with customers throughout that section. The com- you have made yourself, so you know what it is Record Co. of Minneapolis, is one of the most mod- pany will be in position to make plans and esti- worth. It is awfully easy to be generous with ern plants on the continent. mates on short notice for power transmitting, flour other people's money. Bismark Tucker, who formerly represented the mill and grain handling machinery, turbine wheels I don't think you will try to hog the whole grain business of your section, or that you will believe Marseilles Manufacturing Company of Marseilles, and machinery for special purposes. With improved all that you will be told about your competitor and 111., in Iowa, has been transferred, to Indiana, and lacilities for manufacturing, and extensive addi- his bids. I don't think that you will let your mar- will have charge of the business in the latter state, tions and equipment to the already large factory, ket ideas run away with your judgment in buying grain. making his headquarters at Indianapolis. the company is in position to give the trade more We, at one time, had as a customer W. L. Sim- Bros. St. prompt and more efficient service than in the past. Funsten & Co. of Louis are distributing mons, of Sandwich, 111. Simmons was a hard- a calendar that combines beauty with extreme The new office will be under the management of headed, thrifty old Yankee. We would receive bills novelty. It is a hanger, 19%xl3%, printed to imi- our Mr. Jas. J. Pollard, who is thoroughly familiar of lading from him each morning and not oftener than once a month would he write us a letter. tate the popular art of pyrography, and has a cen- with all details of Wolf machinery, and he will be Across the top of the letter would invariably be assisted by Mr. W. M. Nissley. The company ex- ter panel showing a classically draped female fig- written "A grain man what is a Bull is a bad ure. The two outer panels contain the months. tends a cordial invitation to all old customers, and egg"—his way of saying that the secret of success all prospective customers, to make the office their in the grain business is in "buying right." Pretty The Moore & Lorenz Company of Chicago, 111., headquarters while in Philadelphia, and assures terse and pretty true. has been experiencing a good demand for its safety You say that your elevator is now pretty well hearty welcome. All inquiries will cut-off and alarm machines. The machine, which them a most filled with shelled corn, and that you can't get cars. and careful attention, and prospec- prevents chokes in elevator legs, thus saving the receive prompt It seems that the railroads, both eastern and west- purchasers will find it to their interests to ern, haven't half enough cars to handle the business elevator from friction fires, also saves belts, cups tive offered and they haven't half enough engines to inspect the company's line before placing their and the time of employes. Every elevator should haul the cars they have. This may not be very be equipped with these little devices. orders. consoling to you, but it is the ghastly truth. If I were you I would dodge this winter-shelled H. L. Day of Minneapolis, who manufactures dust TIME FOB, DELIVERIES. corn proposition. Wouldn't buy it except at a collecting systems for elevators and other plants, lower price than you will pay for ear corn. Ear is sending out a handsome calendar entitled "The The rules committee of the Chicago Board of corn will keep and this winter-shelled corn won't, and I can't see any immediate prospect of a plenti- Country PostofEce." The feature of the calendar Trade has the following proposed amendment to tude of cars. So I would fight shy of the winter- is a reproduction In colors of the painting, "The xxii. of the Rules and requests that it re- rule shelled corn, get it out as quickly as possible, and Country PostofEce," by Abbott Graves of Boston. ceive the recommendation of the Board of Direc- pray for cold weather. This work of art touches a responsive chord in A great many people here are talking higher tors : oats, the hearts of many of the older generation. It prices for corn and and I wouldn't be sur- 16. Excluding the date of sale, the time Section prised if they were right. You must remember, shows the interior of a country store of twenty-five for shipment, shall of shipment on property sold however, that they base their opinion more on the of receiving full ship- to fifty years ago, with the postofllce in one corner be reckoned from the date scarcity of contract grades in May than on any directions, and shall not include Sundays or and a group of loungers, whittlers and story tellers ping scarcity of supplies. legal holidays at point of shipment. the I never did care to buy stuff on the theory that about stove. shall three The term "immediate shipment" mean someone else would "bull" the market. The Jeffrey Manufacturing Company of Columbus, (3) business days. The car question is of prime importance and the "quick shipment" shall mean five (5) Ohio, is sending out Catalogue No. 75, showing the The term market movements and possibilities are contingent business days. workings of the "Barney Brick Convey" giv- largely on the solution of the transportation prob- and shall ten The term "prompt shipment" mean (10) lem. Altogether, it is an abnormal condition, and ing details of the construction of the system. The business days advances in prices made under such conditions are book is 6x9, with an appropriate cover, and contains Nothing, however in this rule shall be construed not healthy. The old law of supply and demand 32 pages. While it is devoted principally to the as prohibiting special agreements. will ultimately rule, but whether it will be in evi- or is brick conveying machinery, it also contains a num- dence this week, this month, next May, more than I can tell. Your guess is as good as mine. ber of illustrations showing the elevating and con- Free fights to get possession of empties as they In the meantime you will be a heap safer if you veying machinery made by this company for use in arrive at C. N. Ry. elevators in Manitoba are not keep near the shore. elevators and mills. The company also publishes a uncommon. Your devoted, UNCLE BOB. ., H . . . , ......

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garian at [email protected]; German Millet at [email protected] MINWE.VPOIilS—Reported by G. D. Rogers, secretary of VISIBLE SUPPLY OF GRAIN. the Chamber of Commerce. Buckwheat at |[email protected] per 100 pounds. The following table shows the visible su pply of During the week ending January 30, Prime Con Receipts. Shipments. Articles. tract Timothy Seed sold at [email protected] per cental 1902. grain Saturday, Feb. 1903, as compiled by George 1902. 1903. I 7, 1903. I F. Stone, secretary of the Chicago I5oard of T rade: Prime Contract Clover Seed at [email protected]; Hun Wheat, bushels 8,566,320 7,815,990 1,105,;130 815,210 garian at [email protected]; German Millet at [email protected]; Corn, bushels 505,7,30 527,440 150,440 485,770 Oats, bushels 1,944,060 537,060 944,910 337,410 Oats, Buckwheat at |[email protected] per 100 pounds. In Store at Wheat, Corn, Bye, Barley, Barley, bushels 789,290 267,770 640.870 129,940 hu. bu. bu. bu. bu. During the week ending February 7, Prime Con- Rye, bushels I50.2:i0 40,470 29,270 101,320 3i:!.270 tract Timothy Seed sold at [email protected] per cental; Flax Seed, bushels . 609,800 1,037,5:)0 290,310 Baltimore 315.000 1,190,000 113,000 119,000 Prime Contract Clover Seed at [email protected]; Hun- Hay, tons 2,38: 3,065 83 202 Boston 1,025,000 213,000 10,000 bbls 23,900 23,09:! 1,365,494 1,292,332 ' Flour, BuHalo 2,929,000 88,000 72i666 633,000 garian at [email protected]; German Millet at [email protected]; do. afloat 200,000 OUIiEAHIS Reported by Garland Wolfe, acting " Buckwheat at [email protected] per 100 pounds. NEW — Chicago 7,289,000 2,807,000 535,000 33;),000 "i!666 secretary of the Board of Trade. do. afloat 295,000 170,000 307,000 Wheat, hii.shels . 856,807 606,370 1,216,210 730,697 Detroit 551,000 32,000 67,000 76i666 59,000 Corn, bushels . . 3,85«,8;n 120,542 3. 811, .588 .58,298 do. afloat RECEIPTS AND SHIPMENTS. Oats, bushels . . 390,000 91.100 14.102 28,:!90 Duluth 4,196,000 1,000 590,000 "tjsiooo 3i«;666 Flour, bbls :t6,4()5 40,650 92.649 17,627 do. iifloat Fort Williams. 3,247,000 grain, , Following are the receipts and shipments of NEW ORIiEANS—Reported by Fred Mullcr, secretary ot do. afloat etc., at leading receiving and shipping points in the the Maritime and Merchants' Exchange, Lt'd. Galveston "tS45!666 372,000 do. afloat United States for the month of .laiuiary, IDO.i. 1,176,203 Indianapolis. .. 288,000 168,000 16,000 1,000 3,343,806 BAI/TIMOIIK -Kep irled by \Vm. F. Wheat ley, secretary Kansas City ... 1,936,000 513,000 124,IKX) ' of the Chamlier of Commerce. Milwaukee 609,000 44,000 360,000 24^066 379 000 do. afloat 17,143 Receipts. Shipments. Minneapolis . .. 15,367,000 99.000 1,123,000 97,000 434.000 Articles. Other Grass Seed, value. Montreal 55,000 39.000 91,000 4.000 73,000 1903. 1 1902. 1903. 1 1902. New Orleans .. 708,000 815,000 do afloat 234,011 276,245 91,766 179,988 Corn, busheis 3,061,738 453,484 •3,111,540 371,392 Reported by R. 0. Grier, secretary of the Board New York 2,837,000 475.000 463,000 31,000 218,000 PEORIA— 336,428 227,629 720 679 Traile. do. afloat 47,000 of 8,121 1,635 Peoria 813.000 4:18.000 ,320.000 67,000 Wheat, bushels 83,600 225,700| 66,050 175,000 Rye, bushels 128,964 45,684 1591958 Philadelphia .. 66.1.XX) 299.000 105,000 2,000 Corn, bushels . 2,183.2.50 3.386.916 1,173,875 563,4.52 Timothy Seed, bushels .. 2,273 734 Port Arthur . .. 205.000 Oats, bushels . 991,800 1,082,200 984,100 040,100 Seed, bushels 8,429 8,389 5,184 do. afloat Clover Barley, bushels :!29,400 191,200 200,800 172,960 5,176 4,369 1,516 1,216 St. Louis 3,766,000 693,000 91.000 24,000 4,000 Rye, bushels . . 26,700 21,000 14,700 5,600 283,355 300,826 247,240 216,519 do. afloat 37,000 220,000 Mill Feed, tons. 1,425 2,465 3,085 6,780 Toledo 1,W8,000 810,000 'siVitioo iisiooo Seeds, lbs 60,000 30,000 30,000 60,000 BOSTOX—Reported by Elwyn G. Preston, secretary ot the do. afloat Broom Corn, lbs . 30,000 180,000 37,100 15,000 Cliamber of Commerce. Toronto 29,000 hiixio Hay, tons 2,200 4,320 330 661 139,700 On Canal Wheat, bushels 1,477,898 2,295,608 1,526,.')06 1,518,637 Flour, bbls 119,975 107,750 123,093 On Lakes Corn, bushels 773,6:^6 199,394 391,965 87,797 A. D. Acheson, secretary On Miss. River. 106,000 PHIIiADEEiPHJLA—Reported by Oats, bushels 517.144 492,054 24,342 3,020 ot the Commercial Exchange. Barley, bushels 13,637 22,.590 Grand Total . 48,429.000 9.510.000 4,725,000 929 000 2,116,000 Rye, bushels 4,835 5,300 Wheat, bushels 115,230 754,904 302,944 842,000 Coi responding Flax Seed, bushels 9,845 8,209 29,320 Corn, bushels 1,391.972 200,574 1,211,920 86,244 date 1902 56,566 000 11..580,0lX) 4.416,000 2,3,55,000 1,895,000 Millfeed, tons 912 1,634 r3i 92 Oath, bii.shels 378,568 429,551 Weekly Inc.... 1,220,000 695,000 Hav, tons 15,390, 27,290 Barley, bushels 51,200 20,400 "261,066 Weekly Dec is.axi 67!666 Flour, bbls 135,665 152.863 96,935 86,098 Rye, bushels 3,200 8,000 Timothy Seed, bags 66

CHICAGO—Reported by Geo. F. Stone, secretary of the Clover Seed, bags . . 293 WHEAT RECEIPTS AT PRIMARY Board of Trade. Flax Seed, bushels . 35,600 Hay, tons •. 7,7.50 5,980 ,916,106 2,013,197 729,007 1,426,151 Wheat, bushels Flour, bbls 813,651 299,029 195,882 177,789 MARKETS. Corn, bushels ,318,770 3,311,102 5,033,893 2,865,100 Oats, bushels 917,600 5,150,125 5,:?43,966 5,513,875 SAN FRANCISCO -Reported by T. C. Friedlander, secre The wheat receipts at eight primary markets, dur- Barley, bushels 017,404 1,444.620 404,883 588,297 tary of the Merchant's Exchange. Rye, bushels 268,074 217,050 51,915 96,251 the 31 weeks ending Feb. 3, for the last Wheat, centals . 1,139,361 870,715 ng two Timothy Seed, lbs ,338,430 1,6.59.6:14 3,773,600 2,233,387 1,104,461 849,695 years, according to the Cincinnati Price Current, Clover Seed, ibs 821,755 1,000,294 1,920,860 1,285,527 Corn, centals 18,841 12,798 155 1,500 Oats, centals 51,873 10,228 2,572 were as follows:. Other Grass Seed, lbs. .507.791 2,745.945 743,854 770,736 3 Barley, centals . 326,382 140,337 169,504 149,638 Flax Seed, bushels . . 115.800 729,045 64,420 42,407 Rye, centals 18,1'20 2,662 Broom Corn, lbs ,9.59,095 1,777,030 1,034,680 1,276,698 14,419 167 Flax Seed, . 15,470 26,979 1902-3. 1901-2. Hay, tons 23,157 26,506 798 1,7.52 sacks Flour, bbls 562, 05E 938,493 483,665 791,178 Hay, tons 12,284 12,364 400 2,242 Flour, bbls 212,000 88,000 169,008 36,112 St. Louis 27,111,000 14,906,000 ClXCIWWATl-Reported by C. B. Murray, superintendent ST. liOUIS—Reported by Geo. H. Morgan, secretary ot the Toledo 11,766,000 0.082,000 of the Chamber of Commerce. Detroit 2,992,000 2,264,000 Merchants' Exchange. 21.629,000 123,269 107,556 Kansas City 16,508,000 Wheat, bushels 86,417 67,558 Wheat, bushels 1,821,600 428,800 1,638„525 1,607,305 645,956 679,852 298,580 Corn, bushels 295,944 Corn, bushels 3„526,200 2,542,400 3,384,801 1,551,465 63,498,000 Oats, 217,242 327,239 145,694 Winter 39.760,000 bushels 161,380 Oats, bushels 1,934.400 1,998,000 1,465,743 923,155 Barley, bushels 120,903 59,397 18 577 Barley, bushels 519,000 274,500 15,2^10 3,960 31.491,000 38,904,000 bushels 56,819 107„556 86,417 67,558 Chicago Rye, 177,300 :17,500 138,185 47,225 6.075,000 8,265,000 Seed, bags 4,794 3,646 2,229 1,928 Milwaukee Timothy Hay, tons 29,565 27,425 10,210 8,635 67.604,000 65,235,000 Clover Seed, bags 5,823 9,633 9,467 6,337 \llnneapolis Flour, bbls 160,735 173,295 2,34,781 211,710 Duluth .32.236,000 36,429 000 Other Grass Seed, bags .. 8,212 10,404 10,682 7,020 Hay, tons 8,312 20,878 4,520 11,599 TOLEDO—Reported by A., Gassaway, secretary of the Pro- Spring 137,406,000 148,833,000 Flour, bbls 180,684 298,930 148,472 246,831 duce Exchange. 363,000 189,000 151,000 186,000 F. A. Total bus., 31 weeks 200,904,000 188,593,000 CL.EVEIiAMI>—Reported by Scott, secretary of the Corn, bushels 1,601,000 1,004,000 905,000 498,000 of Commerce. Chamber 276,000 418,000 ;)03,000 481,000 Wheat, bushels 162.766 156,826 60,497 64,152 2,000 4,000 21,000 6,600 RANGE OF PRICES AT CHICAGO. Corn, bushels 1,199,633 674,562 571,793 2.51,253 18,000 19,000 11,000 25,000 Oats, bushels 361,965 678,087 230,903 334,304 8,245 12,720 26,801 23,092 The daily range of prices for cash grain at Chicago 23,348 28,293 for ending Feb. 1:.', has been as follows: the month Flax Seed, bushels 1.000 24,000 EXPORTS FROM ATLANTIC PORTS. Hay, tons 4,799 7,682 549 340 NO. 2* jNOl.N0» CORN. ST. NO. 2 NO. N. W. Flour, bbls 70,310 68,110 24,470 12,220 B,W WHT SP. WHT NO. 2 OATS. BYE. rr.AXSEED The export of breadstuffs, as compiled by George F. Stone, secretary of the Chicago Board January I>ETROIT—Reported by F. W. Waring, secretary of the of Trade, Board of Trade. from the Atlantic ports during the two weeks ending Wheat, bushels. 229,7381 87,448 47,331 183,044 February 7, as compared with same weeks last year, Corn, bushels . . 323.812 217,726 53,224 94,740 have been as follows: Oats, bushels ... 292.298! 305,975 14,917 84,164 35 35 12..., 72M72 73M45%l45?g 51H91% Barley, bushels . 176.420; l.>4,588 3,914 15,301 For week ending For week ending 13.... 72H 72 73M 47 47 35HKH Rye, bushels 50,3731 71,796 38,826 76,236 Feb. 7. Feb. 8. Jan. 31. Feb. 1. 14.... 72?i r3M raHl74 47H47H 35 35H 1.24 1.24 Flour, bbls 18,300 20,000 13,600 17,:<00 Articles. 15.... 73 74 73H743^48H48H'36M36M " A. 1903. 1902. 1903. 1902. 16.... 72Ji 74i/j74 75 47 47 36 52 52 DUliCTH- Reported by S. Kemp, secretary ot the Board of 17.... 74 7oH 37 49?Si Trade. 74Hr?55iK6H^6V4|35H mi Wheal, bushels 1,301,000 1,242.(K)() 1,734,000 1,797,000 18... 811,769 1,664,867 40,406 23,085 Corn, bushels 206,200 222,000 2,619,000 337,000 19.... 745^ 76H465I4654 4656 35M35M 152H52H 158,787 80,000 48,000 1 10,000 51,000 20..., 47jB,47'8:ftVs35H bushels 244,249 59,070 7536 Oats, 37,270 19.928 25,000 21,000 31... 77 7656 77% i7Vi 47 y. 35Vi:i6 Barley, bushels 121,809 53.5.58 96,959 3.5,191 63,000 22..., 77 35 |35 25,110 14,860 7m 47M47H '210,666 264,400 414,800 291,000 23.... 77M78« 77M|78K7m i6% i6% Flax Seed, bushels 696,003 375,622 ;583,300 404,:i82 24..., 76% 76% 77% 79H 46H 47 355^ 3S% 86,070 70,2.50 85,585 74,730 25... Reported by C. Robinson, 26... 77H 76% 78 79 H 45% 45^ 35 35Vi 50 GAIiVESTOX— McD. Chief In- spector of the Cotton Exchange and Board ot Trade. FLAXSEED AT CHICAGO. 47... 75 77Ji75J6"' 78H45>6|4::5H 28... '3y^^5 35 745S75H45« 34H 1,112,447 88,370 45 sin The receipts and shipments of flaxseed at Chicago 29... 73% i% 74M75M 45 34H 34H 672,856 30... 74 74ii 74 75HI45« 453^ 35 35 during the LS months ending with Jan. as reported 31 .. 73% 7i% 74 74>^43« 43« 35«34H by the flaxseed inspector of the Board of Trade Feb.- KANSAS CITY- -Reported by E. D. Bigelow, secretary of were as follows: 1... cbe Board ot Trade. J... 43 43 735i 7i% 74«l75 31H35i4 Wheat, bushels 1.899,200 390.4001 909,6001 426,400 3... 74^^76 43 Receipts. Shipments. 74V4 7oH 43?i34 ^% 51 Corn, bushels 2,846,400 2,460,000 2,511,200 2,101,600 Montbs. 4... 1.22 1.22 74% 7o% 75M 76 44 44 SS^SSM 51M Oats, bushels 884,400 58.5,600 672,000l 75ij 738,000 1902-03. 1901-02 1902-03. 1901-02. 6... 7o« 76 76'4 43V. 13'; :55J-4,35H Barley, bushels 1.000 2.000 6... 76 75Vi76'i i:5\ i:f=„ .... . 75H Rye, bushels 28,800 21,600 3,200 23,200 August 411,198 561,000 2,50,496 289,587 7... 75H 76% Bran, tons September . 545,866 360,000 273,292 296,782 8... Flax Seed, bushels 12.800 28,000 October 783,075 554,250 145,142 50,092 9... 76 ,77 43 '., 4:^^36 75X 76% 36!^32Mi52M Hay, tons 17,340 13,160 10,650 4,060 November. 755,833 538,7.50 140,400 106,841 10... 753Si!76y! 44 44 :i6H:'7 52 52H 755!i76 Flour, bbls 85,600 48,800 December ., 408,271 581,243 40,559, 36,918 11.. 75 76 U5% 73^ ,43?i43?,i ,36X37 January 2.58.875 432,000 28,643 34,299 MIIiWAFKEE—Reported by Wm. J. Langson, secretary of February . . 21.5,250 19,899 Nominal price. the Chamber of Commerce. March 159,700 40,988 April During the week ending January 16, Prime Con- Wheat, bushels 618,4001 919,200 53,858! 100.200 114,000 141,126 Com, bushels 217,550| 4^5,100 139,787 May 87,000 63,838 tract Timothy Seed sold at ?4.25 per cental; Prime 250.050 June Oats, bushels 703,600 759,200 377,992; 327,742 63,478 Contract Clover Seed at [email protected]; Hungarian 466,600 July Barley, bushels 1.907.6001 1.291.050 620,397 511.666 41,790 19,504 at [email protected]; German Millet at [email protected]; Buck- Rye. bushels 111.200 209.600 61,4.30: 130.500 Total bushels . 3,972,725 Timothy Seed, lbs 248.900 90.000 1 26.445 30.000 .3,163,118i 878,532 1,162,346 wheat at [email protected] per 100 pounds. j Clover Seed, lbs 446,350 664.6.35 765.430 257,700 During the ending January 23, Prime Con- week Flax Seed, bushels 17.1001 31,175 1,450 tract Timothy Seed sold at |[email protected] per cental; Hay, tons 2,488 3,792 140 14i Feeders in northwestern Iowa have been buying Prime Contract Clover Seed at [email protected]; Hun- Flour, bbls 223,585> 221.150 276,605 231,075 corn in Nebraska. 412 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

two farmers and is capitalized at $10,000. Conrad struction. An eight horsepower gasoline engine Trecker has been appointed manager. will furnish the motive power, and the entire equip- The Mackinaw Elevator Co. of Mackinaw, 111., ment will be modern and up-to-date. The contract ELEVATOR and has been incoriwrated with a capital stock of $5,000 calls for completion by or before April 1. by Jesse S. Wilson, Jacob Hoffman and Frank A release deed, signed by George J. Gould and Harford. Russell Sage, filed for record February 2, releases GRAIN NEWS G. W. West, formerly of Attica, Ind., has bought for a nominal consideration to the Wabash Rail- the elevator of J. F. Rodman & Co., at Deland, III., road Co. the Wabash elevator property at Water- and has assumed control. The sale was made ville and Thirty-third streets, Chicago. The house through C. A. Burks of Decatur. has a capacity of 1,250,000 bushels and the railroad ILLINOIS. company assumed a it Otis McNally, who has been in the grain business bonded indebtedness on for is being talked of at Strawn, $275,000 in 1900. A farmers' elevator at Blue Mound, III., has purchased the Costello- 111. Weiser Elevator at Stonington, III. Mr. McNally is At the annual meeting of the Highland F. M. B. The new elevator at Sharpsburg, 111., is about secretary of the Costello-Weiser Grain Co. A. Elevator Co. of Highland, HI., the capital stock completed. was increased from $8,000 to $15,000, and a dividend The W. A. Spain Co. of Lawrenceville, 111., has of 6 per cent was declared. Reinhart, Louis The farmers' elevator at Delavan, 111., is nearing incorporated to deal in grain, coal and lumber. The Wm. Metz and Albert Kleiner were re-elected directors. completion. capital stock is $10,000 and the incorporators are The following officers were also elected: Wm. Rein- Samuel Wylie has sold out his grain business at John A. Cox, Wm. A. Spain and Wm. Titus. hart, president; Louis Metz, vice-president; Albert Minonk, 111. Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Kleiner, secretary, and John O. Rigel, treasurer. A. J. C. Boyce is going to build a new elevator at Vienna and Belknap Elevator Co. of Vienna, 111. Labhardt was reappointed manager. Mt. Zion, 111. The capital stock is $2,500 and the incorporators The Barnard Leas Manufacturing Co., are L. Williams, L. O. & of Mo- Mendenhall is promoting a farmers' elevator W. Whitnell and J. M. Price. J. A. line, III., sold corn shellers and cleaners to the fol- at Richland, 111. The Northwestern Grain and Livestock Co. of lowing during December and January: Hannibal Seatonville, 111., has incorporated A project is on foot to build a farmers' elevator been with a cap- Milling Co., Elsberry, Mo.; Duckwall-Harman R. & ital stock of $0,000. The incorporators are Ferdi- at Lexington, 111. S. Co., Indianapolis, Ind.; Noble & Jenkins, Wat- nand L. Hamer, John G. Wilson and William S. The building of the Meadows (111.) Grain Dump kins, Minn.; G. W. Hunter, Hudson. Ind.; Holly Wolfer. is nearly completed. Milling Co., Holly, Mich.; Atwater & Nichols, Lima, The Peru Elevator Co. of Peru, 111., nas filed ar- Ind.; C. A. & L. H. Stark, Merriam, Kan.; Straub There is said to be a good opening at New Ath- ticles of incorporation with the secretary of the Machinery Co., Cincinnati, Ohio; H. C. Pollock, ens, 111., for a grain elevator. state. The capital stock is $10,000, and Christina Middlepoint, Ohio; Murphy & Ryburn, Glenwood, A. Oberle Co. have succeeded Adolph Oberle in & B. Ladd, Wm. D. Holly and Frank F. Ladd are in- Ind.; W. W. Cameron, Chester, Neb.; Jaques Grain the grain trade at Robinson, 111. corporators. Co., Stennett, la.; M. W. Cardwell, Osage City, Dwight and Emington, 111., are said Farmers at Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Kan.; Brinson-Judd Grain Co., Neodesha, Kan.; J. contemplate building elevators. to H. A. Hillmer Co. of Freeport, 111., to deal in grain, N. Robbins, Hallowell, Kan.; Frost Mfg. Co., Gales- Jas. McDougall is said to be about to engage in livestock, etc. The capital stock is $15,000 and the burg, 111.; W. J. Gilraore, Nevada, la.; J. T. Mil- the grain business at Shirland, 111. incorporators are H. A. Hillmer, C. L. Snyder and bank & Bro., Chillicothe, Ohio; Elk River Milling Co., Elk River, Minn.; Neilson H. Stocking & Son have installed a new gasoline J. H. Stearns. & Dueland, Slater, la.; D. R. Risser, Vaughnville, Ohio; Sun Milling engine in their elevator at Oregon, III. T. A. Grier & Co. of Peoria have bought the Belsly Co., Shreveport, La.; Smith Bros., Roseville. Ill,; first cars in three months have been re- Elevator at Deer Creek, 111., for a reported consid- The La Jara Mill and Elevator Co., La Jara, Colo.; O. ceived at the McDowell, 111., elevators. eration of $7,500. They took possession February 1. S. Marshall & Son, Sidney. Ohio; S. K. Bergseth. The house is located on the L., E. & W. and has a N. A. Swenson of Glenview, 111., has put in a No. Taylor, Wis.; D. J. Donahue & Bro., Kaw City. capacity of 50,000 bushels. 7 Clipper Cleaner for liandling onion sets. Okla.; Coburn Bros., Portsmouth, Ohio. W. H. Magoon, manager of the Roger-Bacon Ele- Henry Bruns is said to be engaging in the grain vator Co.'s business in the territory tributary to EASTERN. and implement business at Hartsburg, III. Pontiac, 111., is as quoted saying the company's Ira W. Beers is advertising nis grain business The Woolcott Milling Co. of Harrisburg, 111., will business is practically at a standstill on account at Hamden, Conn., for sale. build an elevator in connection with the mill. of the inability to get cars. Warren Hamilton has engaged in the grain and The elevators at Weston, 111., are said to have C. H. Wayne, who has been operating the grain hay business at Chicopee, Mass. quit taking corn, because of the car shortage. elevator at Reynolds, 111., owned by W. L. Crawford, Schnick & Leiby have completed their new grain John Olwin & Co. are said to be closing out their has built a new house at that place. Mr. Crawford warehouse at Germansville, Pa. grain and merchanrlise business at Robinson, 111. has been operating his elevator since February 1 E. B. Clapp has opened a grain and feed store at Officials of the C, B. & Q. have decided not to and reports a good outlook for business at that the Norton Mill in Loudville, Mass. lease ground at Castleton, 111., for a third elevator. point. C. W. and G. W. Nightingale are said to have en- C. A. Burks of Decatur, 111., has bought Hays At a meeting of farmers at BroadIand=, III., Jan- gaged in the grain business at Quincy, Mass. Bros.' elevator at Galesburg, 111., and will operate it. uary 27, $3,600 was subscribed to build an elevator at that town. E. C. Bergfield, representing H. H. C. Rosenstein & Co. of New York City have in- It has not been decided whether the burned Lyon Carr & Co. of Chica'20, addressed the meeting on stalled a No. 7 Traveling Brush Clipper Cleaner in & East Elevator at Geri-o Gordo, 111., will be rebuilt. the advantages of direct shipment of grain by their warehouse. The elevators at Kenney, 111., were compelled to farmers. D. Hatch of Hoi ley. Y., is using No. shut down recently because they could not secure W. N. now a Gridley Elevator Co. of Gridley, 111., a far- 27 Roll-Traveling Brush Clipper Cleaner and an cars. The mers' concern, has filed articles of incorporation outfit of Clipper Picking Tables. The new Redman-Magee Co.'s elevator at Cairo, with a capital stock of $10,000, and is said to be Capelle Hardware Co. of Wilmington, Del., 111., is under roof and will be completed at an early The negotiating for the Holdridge Elevator at that town. date. is putting a No. 7 Traveling Brush and Special Air The incorporators are Frederick Frey, Patrick Clipper Cleaner in its warehouse. is piling in the elevators at Wapella, 111., Corn up Welch and Peter Rich. and there are no cars available in which to ship The safe in the office of Sharpless Bros., grain The Secor Elevator Co. of Secor, 111., a newly or- it out. dealers at Camden, N. J., was blown open February ganized farmers' company, has filed articles of in- 3. The burglars secured no money. Albert W. Heinz has taken charge of the elevator corporation with a capital stock of $8,000. The in- at Mahomet, 111., recently purchased of A. D. Der- The Wiscasset Giain Co. of Wiscasset, Me., has corporators are C. W. Frey, L. R. Diener and M. rough. bought property on which to build an addition to Potter. Plans for the erection of the company's ele- its mill. The firm will also put up a siorehouse. The Bement Grain Co. of Bement, 111., has certi- vator are being perfected. fied to an increase in capital stock from $.5,000 to Frank C. Jones, of McAfee, N. J., has bought the The Odell Grain & Coal Co. of Odell, 111., has $10,000. grain, feed and flour business of T. W. Decker & elected the following officers: D. B. Walker, presi J. building elevator Son at Bullville, N. J., and has taken charge of it. A. Wooster contemplates an dent; S. J. Lyons, secretary; Conrad Trecker, treas- 111., addition to grain conveyor Pier 2, near the C. M. & St. P. tracks at Cordova, in urer and manager. The directors are: S. J. Lvons, The new the on the spring. D. B. Walker, F. Gebhardt, M. Kennedy, H. SchuUz, at Boston, to be erected for the New York. New Haven Hartford Railroad Co., will be 450 feet Stege Bros.' elevator at Tinley Park, 111., has been A. Borgman and E. Gutel. & long. placed in first-class working order by Manager F. W. Rottger has sold his elevator and lumber Wallingford Grain Co. of Wallingford, Conn., Brueggemann. business at Mt. Sterling, ill., to J. W. Burnett of The has been organized with a capital stock of $2.00(1 The Howard Mercantile, Grain and Elevator Co. Clayton, 111. The latter has di-posed of his interests Plimpton. Clara J. and Albeit of Howard, 111., has increased its capital stock from at Clayton and will take posse-sion of the property by David Whitcomb L. $5,000 to $11,000. at Mt. Sterling on March 1. Mr. Rottger retires Whitcomb. It is stated that the recently incorporated Saune- on account of his advanced age. R. C. Snow will put up a building in the rear of his store at Ware, Mass., for the storage of grain, min Elevator Co. of Scovel, 111., will build an ele- The Churchill-White Grain Co. of Chicago has hay, etc. The structure will be 45x50 feet and will vator at Eylar, 111. filed in the recorder's office at Ottawa, III., a trust have 20-foot posts. J. T. Darneille has sold his grain elevator at deed for $130,000 covering a number of elevators Weller Mfg. Co. of Chicago has the contract Plasa, 111., to Masters & Fuller of Fidelity, 111., who along the Illinois, Indiana & Iowa railroad in Illi- The for the madiinery for the new 1,000,000 bushel are now operating it. nois and Indiana. The deed is to secure an issue of $130,000 in 5 per cent bonds. The American Trust grain elevator which the Pennsylvania railroad is It is said that the interests of D. B. and Clyde and Savings Bank of Chicago is trustee. building at Germantown. Pa. George in the elevator at Hull, 111., have been transferred to John Stamey. The Mackinaw (111.) Farmer.^' Elevator Co. has The Niagara Elevator at Buffalo, which has for subscribed the necessary $3,000. The following di- some time been the property of the Western Tran- On April 1 J. A. Klock will take charge of the rectors have been elected: Jesse S. Wilson, S. S. sit Co., the lake traffic branch of the New York elevators at Castleton, III., in connection with his Smith, three years; Frank Morford. August Fasse, Central Railroad, is to be enlarged and refitted. elevator at Wyoming, 111. two years; Thomas Vimont and Jacob Hoffman, one The Electric Grain Elevator Co. of Buffalo has The Mt. Pulaski Grain Co. of Ml. Pulaski, III., is year. The directors met later and elected S. S. elected the following new directors: Ormsby M. building a 20.00i)-bushel storage bin. The elevator Smith president and Frank Morford secretary. Mitchell, Montclair. N. J.; R. Muller, New York; will be rebuilt in the spring. The Burrell Engineering and Construction Co. of Yale Kneeland, Brooklyn, and E. W. Fames, Buf- S. Russell sold his recently W. has completed ele- Chicago has been awarded the contract for build- falo. vator at Minier, 111., to Miles Bros, of Peoria. S. A. ing the new elevator of C. C. Smith and S. L. Mor- The Empire Grain and Elevator Co., of Bing- Haywood of Tremont, 111., will manage the house. rison at Pontiac, 111. The house will be 24x31 and hamton, N. Y., has elected officers as follows: Presi- The Odell Grain & Coal Co., recently incorporated, 54 feet high. It will have a capacity of 20,000 dent, C. S. Weston; vice-president. A. W. Dickin- as reported, has bought T. H. Wheeler's elevator at bushels and there will be separate buildings for the son; treasurer and manager, L. M. Wilson; asso- Odell, 111. The new company is composed of ninety- office and power house, .all to be of fireproof con- ciate manager, T. H. Wilson. The directors of the AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 413 company are: William Connell, C. S. Weston and A. be advisable to build more tanks at any time. The may be conducted in the state of Minnesota or in W. Diclfson of Scranton and L. M. Wilson and T. H. capacity will be 100,000 bushels. Manitoba or any province or territory of Canada, Wilson of Binghamton. Northrup, King & Co. of Minneapolis are adding etc. The insurance on the grain in the burned North- a No. 9 Four-Screen Clipper Cleaner with traveling The Farmers' Mercantile and Elevator Co. of ern Central Railway Elevator No. 3 will be ad- brushes, special air controller and dustless attach- Kenyon, Minn., held its annual meeting recently justed by arbitration. There is a difference bement. and declared a dividend of 50 per cent. Officers the tween grain men and the insurance companies The Atlantic Elevator Co. is building a new house were elected as follows: President, O. F. Henkel; as to the price of the burned wheat. at Elbow Lake, Minn., to take the place of the one vice-president, A. J. Anderson; secretary, P. O. The new 18,000-bushel elevator of Peck & Black recently burned. The now elevator will be ready Ruen; treasurer, S. A. Bullis. The company han- at Providence, R. I., is located across the street for business about March 1. dled 400,000 bushels of grain during 1902. from the railroad and grain is conveyed from cars At the annual meeting of the Northfield Farmers' The Farmers' Elevator Co. of Pine Island, Minn., to the house through an underground tunnel. The Mercantile and Elevator Co., of Northfield, Minn., recently elected the following directors: W. D. Hay- dump is located on the track and the grain is the report of the manager showed that 191,000 bush- ward. Gotlieb Miller, B. T. Vessey, E. Walter, R. L. carried by a rotary conveyor. (>ls of grain had been handled during the season and Cornwell, Sam Closner, James Deverey, Gus Ahne- that a net profit of $1,062.28 had been realized. A The site of the Dakota Elevator at Buffalo has man, A. E. Weckerling. been sold by the Buffalo Elevating Co. stockholders dividend of 10 i)er cent was declared and the fol- The proposed farmers' elevator at Brownton, of the Washburn-Crosby Co. of Minneapolis, and lowing officers elected: J. W. Alexander, president; Minn., is progressing slowly. The site was pur- others, who will build a flour mill. The purchase C. W. Empey, vice-president; J. E. Drake, secre- chased last fall and that is as far as the project price is said to be $200,000. The Dakota Elevator tary, and Nick Lamberty, treasurer. F. H. Shepard has been carried. It is said, however, that the work was burned about two years ago. was again elected manager with C. B. Lockerby as may be taken up in the spring and pushed to com- assistant. The old grain elevator of Swift Bros., located pletion. near the Boston & Maine tracks at Wakefield, Mass., The seventh annual meeting of the stockholders R. A. Gramms of Round Grove. Minn., has will be torn down. The structure was partially de- of the Farmers' Elevator and Mercantile Co. of bought the Foss elevator and feed mill at Brown- stroyed by fire December 24 and owing to the op- Owatonna, Minn., resulted in the re-election of the ton, Minn. The feed mill will at once be placed position of the townspeople a permit to repair the old directors, as follows: R. C. Thom, Pratt; J. H. in condition to operate. Mr. Gramms was former- house was refused by the selectmen. Healey, Steele Center; John Hartle, Havana; N. O. ly at for the Peavey Ele- wheat buyer Brownton Partridge, Joseph Richartz, Clinton Falls; C. P. J. M. Reuter & Co. are completing an elevator vator Co. Sahler, William King, George Parrott, Owatonna, at Elizabeth, N. J. The house will be 75 feet high A farmers' elevator company has been organized and Peter Moe, Deerfleld. The directors met and and 36 feet square. It will be operated by elec- at Hills, Minn., and $G,000 in stock has been sub- organized by electing the following officers: R. C. tricity. The storage capacity of the bins will ap- scribed. The following were elected directors: E. Thom, president; John Hartle, secretary, and Geo. proximate about sixteen carloads. The plant will C. Loose, John Helgeson, T. Johnson, E. C. Dahl, Parrott, treasurer. dividend of 10 per cent be equipped with machinery for feed grinding. A was P. H. Bly, John Nelson, A. T. Sexe, O. G. Qualley declared on stock. The affairs of the Ogdensburg Terminal Co., con- and H. E. Wyum. trolling a large elevator at Ogdensburg, N. Y., and The Nielsville (Minn.) Farmers' Elevator Asso- IOWA. the Rutland Transit Co., operating a fleet of freight ciation has elected the following officers: Nils Arispe, Iowa, is said to have a elevator. steamers between Ogdensburg and Chicago, have new Muus, president; J. C. Hayes, vice president; C. C. been merged and as a result many heads of depart- A new elevator will be built at Clarion, Iowa. Melsness, secretary-treasurer, and L. S. Kolden and ments have been dismissed and the offices abol- A new elevator will be built at Mallard, Iowa. S. C. Hayes, board of directors. C. C. Melsness was ished. few transfers were made and a number A also engaged as buyer for the balance of the season. S. Jaeger has again entered the grain market at of minor employes let out. Dyersville, Iowa. The Hampton Elevator Co. has been organized at City officials of Jersey City, N. J., are said to be The Atlas Elevator Co. will build Hampton, Minn., with a capital of $6,000 and has a house at Buck seriously considering an attempt to sell the Erie Grove, Iowa. purchased the old Delfield Elevator for temporary Elevator for back taxes. The city claims some- use. Officers elected as follows: President, A farmers' elevator company is being promoted thing like $300,000 for taxes and for a long time were secretary, F. Rother; treasurer, at Harcourt, Iowa. negotiations looking toward a settlement have been J. B. Kranz; V. H. Schaffer; manager, J. J. Giefer. Mathias Endres The pending. The railroad company and the city of- Wheeler Grain Co. has succeeded Frank Wei- was appointed buyer. The company is a coopera- Ledyard, ficials cannot, however, agree to terms. It is prob- mer at Iowa. tive one. able that if an attempt is made to sell the elevator J. H. Hinz is successor to Wolf & Hinz, grain the Erie people will take the matter into court. The annual report of the Farmers' Cooperative dealers at Granville, Iowa. Elevator Co. of Faribault, Minn., showed a net There are persistent rumors of a new elevator to profit but the president stated that MINNESOTA. of $1,797.54, be built at Holland, Iowa. most of the sum was used to make up shortages in farmers' elevator may be built at Jeffers, Minn. Chas. T. Sidwell, grain dealer of Florence, A the accounts of a former buyer. The following of- Iowa, is reported out of business. The Farmers' Elevator at St. Peter, Minn., is to ficers were elected: Theo. Thom, president; Chris. be sold. Lowe, vice-president; J. L. O'Brien, secretary; E. The organization of a farmers' elevator company A. Waag has discontinued buying grain at War- Kaul, treasurer. at Davenport, Iowa, is on foot. road. Minn. The annual meeting of the Waseca County Farm- C. C. Buck is successor to C. L. Kinney in the It is stated that Barnesville, Minn., is to have a ers' Elevator and Mercantile Co. was held at grain business at Hubbard, Iowa. new grain elevator. Waseca, Minn., recently and the following officers B. C. Hemphill has succeeded I. L. Patton & Co. elected: Directors James Byron, J. Papke, in The Pacific Elevator at Delhi, Minn., is reported — W. the grain trade at Dexter, Iowa. Wm. Mittlesteadt, George Irvine, A. F. Bathke and closed for the season. The Schley Grain Co. has succeeded to the grain J. W. Conway; president, James Byron; vice presi- The Sheffield-King Co. has commenced business business of Robt. Ivers at Persia, Iowa. dent, Wm. Mittlesteadt; secretary, J. W. Conway, at Montgomery, Minn. Hauley Bros., grain dealers at Vincent, and treasurer, J. W. Papke. AV. H. Roesler is to be Iowa, have been succeeded A new roof has been placed on the Marshall Mill- retained as manager. by J. B. Schmoker & Co. ing Co.'s elevator at Marshall, Minn. Seivers & Son, grain dealers of Avoca, Iowa, are R. H. Bingham, who has a 20,000-bushel elevator succeeded by the H. O. Seiffert Lumber Co. The Hubbard & Palmer elevator at Ash Creek, at Sleepy Eye, Minn., a 10,000-bushel elevator at F. Caspary has Minn., has closed down for the season. Evan, Minn., and a 10,000-bushel elevator at Cob- been succeeded in the grain business at Maple River, The Cargill and the Stevenson elevators at Roch- den, Minn., has admitted his two oldest sons, Am- Iowa, by W. J. Dickman. ester, Minn., were burglarized recently. herst W. and William E., to partnership. The style J. A. and W. Ketchem are successors to Hardie & The Northwestern Elevator Co. has closed its of the firm is R. H. Bingham & Sons. In addition Ketchem in the grain business at Raleigh, Iowa. house at Nielsville, Minn., for the season. to grain an extensive lumber, coal and hardware W. H. Goodenough has been succeeded in the business is conducted. The elevator at Judge, Minn., recently stopped grain business at Gowrie, Iowa, by W. H. Dudley. taking in grain because of the lack of cars. The Dennison Farmers' Elevator and Mercantile S. F. Miller, grain and lumber merchant of Shells- of Northfield, Minn., recently elected follow- The new 500,000-bushel elevator of the Empire Co. the burg, Iowa, hPs sold the lumber end of his business. ing officers: John Miller, president; K. K. Hougo, Mill at New Ulm, Minn., is ready to receive grain. The Atlas Grain Co. of Chicago has taken over vice-president; Eli Farrankop, secretary; John Fer- new elevator will be built in connection with the grain business o!^ C Hanson at Collins, Iowa. A guson, treasurer; J. A. Martin, C. T. Lykken, John the Minnesota Flour Mill Co.'s plant at Stillwater, W. H. Hicks of W.iren, 111., visited Oto, Thompson, Halver Hope and W. W. Bunday, di- Iowa, recently to inspect th'- Minn. rectors. "The report of the manager showed that North Elevator, which is for sale. A. J. Kemp is building a spout from the elevator during the year 183,000 bushels of grain had been at Lockhart, Minn., to the railroad track, a distance handled at a net profit of $762.78. No dividend was A. R. Mead is reported to have sold his elevator of about 50 feet. declared. at Linden, Iowa, to the Neola Elevator Co. of Chi- cago. An elevator is being built at Le Sueur Center, The Miller Elevator Co. of Minneapolis has sold Minn., to supply grain for the Sheffield-King Mill its elevator at Hastings, Minn., to Peter Doffing, J. W. A. Whiting is reported to have succeeded R. at Faribault, Minn. E. Doffing, Chas. Doffing and Hubert Gores for a con- M. Wilkinson in the grain business at Washington, The Farmers' Elevator Co., which -ccently bought sideration of $11,500. The new firm will be known Iowa. the Security Elevator at Lafayette, Minn., has put as the Doffing Elevator Co., and has commenced A farmers' elevator company is being formed at in a new gasoline engine. business with J. E. Doffing as manager. The ele- Lanyon, Iowa. George Peterson is said to be in- The Kansas City Grain Co. has opened an elevator vator was built by Strong & Miller. It was later terested. owned by Miller Bros., and then by the Miller Ele- at Empire Station, near Hastings, Minn., with ElIiCKSon Bros., dealers in grain, etc., at Thomp- vator Co. It was recently rebuilt and Jacob Schuler as buyer. equipped son, Iowa, have been succeeded by the Thompson with new machinery. New track scales with a capacity of 200,000 Implement Co. The North Star Grain Co. of Springfield, Minn., pounds have been installed in front of the Gardner Material and machinery for the new elevator of has been incorporated with a capital stock of $150,- Roller Mill Elevator at Hastings, Minn. the Diamond Elevator Co. at Cambridge, Iowa, are 000. The officers are Wm. A. Anderson, president; meeting of the directors of the Beltrami on the ground. A H. R. Soot, vice-president; Walter Blackmun, sec- (Minn.) Farmers' Elevator Co. was held February L. P. Scroggs, who has been in retary, and K. E. Mo, treasurer. The articles of in- the grain trade at 7 to consider the sale of the elevator. Kirkman, Iowa, has been corporation specify that the company Is to buy, succeeded by the Trans- Mississippi Grain Co. An elevator and cattle buying company is being build, lease, rent, construct and operate grain ele- talked of by farmers near Kanaranzi, Minn. Aug- vators, warehouses, flour mills and feed and cereal The Western Elevator at Ogden, Iowa, will prob- ust Rathjen, Ed. Morgan and others are interested. mills; to buy, hold and sell grain, seeds, flour, feed, ably be closed for the season on account of the The Calumet Grain Co. of Minneapolis is com- cereal products, lumber and building material and small offerings of grain. pleting plans for a new steel tank elevator to be coal, wood and fuel; to buy, lease, rent and sell J. J. Nagle, the grain and commission merchant equipped with a working house carrying power such real estate as may be necessary to carry on of Dubuque, Iowa, has bought five acres of land, great enough to operate a larger plant should it any of said business; any or all of said business near the Illinois Central tracks in that city, and Is 414 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

said to contemplate building an elevator. He has, Updike Grain Co. has a 350.nnO-l)ushel elevator al- MISSOURI, KANSAS AND NEBRASKA. however, refused to confirm or deny the report. most completed at Bonesteel. There is talk of a farmers' elevator at Aurora, The Iowa Grain and Manufacturing Co. has suc- The price of shares in the Farmers' Elevator Co. Neb. ceeded to the business of the Odebolt Grain and Live at Colton, S. D., has been advanced from $25 to .$30. A cooperative grain company is being organized Stock Co. at Odebolt, Iowa. J. W. Kraft has bought the George J. Morton Ele- at Roseland, Neb. The new Pease Elevator on the Great Western vator at Groton, S. D. Mr. Kraft has been in charge Hooper & De Lay are said to have sold their ele- at Lohrville, Iowa, has been completed. It is under of the house for the past .^ear. vator at DownSj Kan. the management of T. Pratt. W. J. Craig of Mitchell, S. D., ha:3 boug'nt the It is announced that a farmers' elevator is to he The Diamond Elevator Co. and the Western Ele- grain business of J. A. Hart at Tulare, S. D., and built at Simpson, Kan. vator Co. have both completed new houses at Ship- will build an elevator as soon a:; the weather per- ley, Iowa. The new elevators have been put in mits. The foundation for the new elevator at Shickley, Neb., has been completed. operation. The Sioux Grain Co. of Jefferson, S. D., has added The J. E. Work has been started on the new elevator at to its elevator equipment by placing two No. 7 Davis elevator and feed mill at Downs, Carroll, Iowa. It is said that this will be one of the Clipper Cleaners in the elevators at Vermillion and Kan., has resumed operations. largest houses in Western Iowa and that it will be Parkston. A farmers' cooperative grain company is being in thoroughly modern equipment. The Bagley Grain Elevator at Garden City, S. D., organized at Dorchester, Neb. At an auction sale of the grain injured by fire in has been purchased by McKee & Minthorn of Brad- A Fai-mers' Grain and Livestock Association has the Spencer Grain Co.'s elevator at McGregor, Iowa, ley, S. D. They have placed Ole Haugen in charge been organized at Belhvood, Neb. only one bid was received and this was rejected as buyer. The Dunwoody Milling Co. of Joplin. Mo., is it thought to be too low. because was L. N. Crill has bought a lot on the Milwaukee building an elevator at Diamond, Mo. The work of tearing down the burned elevator of tracks at Elk Point, S. D., and will build a large Roderick May of Independence, Mo., has been the Great Western Cereal Co. at Ft. Dodge, Iowa, elevator in the spring. The property is the same succeeded by the May Coal and Feed Co. has been completed. A. C. Heath, the local mana- that was negotiated for by the Sioux Grain Co. last L. G. Hepworth of Burlington, Kan., has installed ger, states that the insurance has been adjusted and fall. Mr. Crill plans to establish a line of elevators a No. G Clipper Cleaner in his elevator. that plans for rebuilding are now under considera- in the vicinity of Elk Point. tion. R. Hopkins of Ridgeway, Mo., recently installed a No. 9 Special Brush and Air Clipper Cleaner. O. A. Talbot & Co. of Osceola, Iowa, who have a SOUTHERN AND SOUTHWESTERN. line of elevators on the Burlington system, have W. D. Fulton now controls the elevator at Tal- Irvin Rushing is reported opening a grain been granted a lease on a site at KeokHl<, Iowa, store mage, Kan., formerly owned by J. H. Norman. at Roby, Texas. for a nominal sum by the city council of that place. The Bowman-Matthews Milling Co. of Sikeston, They propose to build an elevator 40x60 feet, and Hotchkiss & Guy are building a mill and elevator Mo., is having two steel storage tanks erected. from 65 to 70 feet high, with a capacity of 45,000 at Kaw City, Okla. Chauncsy P. Coy & Son of Waterloo, Neb., have bushels. A company is being organized to build an elevator installed another lot of Clipper Picking Tables. and mill at Graham, Texas. NORTH DAKOTA. The Peavey Elevator Co. is doing a livestock busi- S. N. Fields & Son are said to have sold out their ness in addition to handling grain at Blair, Neb. Five new elevators are to be built at Lawton, gr-ain business at San Antonio, Texas. M. B. Sherwood of Brashear, Mo., has added N. D., in the spring. E. J. Blount & Co. are successors to Blount & heavy hardware to his grain and implement busi- The Royal Elevator at Voltaire, N. D., has been Montrose, grain, etc., at Timpson, Texas. ness. closed for the season. R. E. & W. E. Pettus, of Huntsville, Ala., have se- Dailey & Easterday have been succeeded in the Heising Bros, will rebuild their elevator at North- cured additional quarters for their grain business. grain business at Hamilton, Mo., by E. H. Dailey wood, N. D., which was burned recently. C. S. Brent of Lexington, Ky., has added to his & Son. H. B. Newcomb has succeeded Thomas Cather- seed cleaning equipment by installing a No. 9 Clip- The Angus Cooperative Grain and Livestock Co. wood in the grain business at Park River, N. D. per Cleaner with Brushes and Air Controller. of Angus, Neb., has been organized with a capital L. Downing has succeeded to the business of Coul- The Temple Grain Co. of Temple, Comanche coun- stock of $5,000. ter Downing, dealers in feed, etc., at Grand Forks, & ty, Okla., has been granted a territorial charter for The Holmquist Grain Co. will build an addition N. D. a period of twenty years. The capital stock is $1,- to its elevator at Lyons, Neb., that will nearly The Powers Elevator Co. will build a 25,000- 000 and the incorporators B. V. Loosemore, D. T. double the capacity. bushel elevator at Tappen, N. D. It will be operated Tandy and J. C. Tandy. The capacity of the Cooper & Dinsmore Elevator by gasoline engine. a H. K. Cochran, a dealer in grain, etc., at Little at Lyons, Kan., will be about doubled by improve- The Minnesota Fiber Co. of Heron Lake, Minn., Rock, Ark., has occupied a new building recently ments now being completed. is installing a No. 7 Clipper Traveling Brush completed. The dimensions of the building are The Olathe Mercantile Co. of Kansas City, Mo., Cleaner Devils Lake, N. D. 75x150 feet and the grain storage capacity above at wnich has been incorporated with a capital stock the first fioor is 60,000 bushels. R. E. Knowlton, manager of the Sutherland of $25,000. is empowered to deal in grain. Elevator at Bowbells, N. D., has leased the house The Wholesale Grain and Produce Co. has been The Griswold Seed Co. of Lincoln, Neb., recently and will hereafter do business on his own account. organized at Amarillo, Texas, with a capital stock added to its equipment a No. 9 Special Clipper of $20,000. The incorporators are: B. White, The Great Western Elevator Co. has closed its W. Cleaner with Traveling Brushes and Air Controller. house at Blanchard, N. D. The State Elevator is W. E. King, L. F. Kirk, of Amarillo, and C. A. A cooperative grain buying company has been or- also closed, the Northern being the only house still Houston and R. G. Love of McKinney, Texas. ganized at Lexington, Neb. A. S. Brubaker is tem- open. The Patton-Hatfield Co. is the style of a new porary president and J. D. Kennedy temporary sec- The Sioux Elevator Co. has suspended business at grain firm just starting in business at Memphis, retary. the winter. Manager Rakness says Tenn. The firm is composed of D. G. Patton and a Minot, N. D., for A branch of the Mr. Hatfield, who have been in business at Jackson, Farmers' Cooperative Union of that the company will resume operations there in has been Miss. Mr. Patton has made application for member- America organized at Kingman. Kan. The the spring. i;romoter says the ship in the Memphis Merchants' Exchange. object of the organization is to The Osborn-McMillan, Iveys and Erne elevators control the wheat market. at Casselman, N. D., have been closed down after a The Burgin Elevator Co. of Burgin, Ky., has Farmers of Davenport, Neb., have organized a satisfactory season's business. The Royal Elevator leased the Burgin Roller Mill for a limited time, Cooperative Grain and Livestock Association. The Co. will keep its house at Casselman open all winter. with a view to buying the plant. The firm of Free- oflicers are: H. E. president; man, Forsythe & Currey, proprietors of the Burgin Rowland, C. S. Bean, A farmers' elevator company has been formed at secretary; R. treasurer. Elevator Co., has been dissolved by the retirement Tweed, Maza, N. D., and will buy or build an elevator. The of J. T. Freeman, who has disposed of his interests C. P. Coy, Son & Co. of Valley, Neb., have incor- company has filed articles of incorporation with the to his partners. porated with a capital stock of $12,000 to deal in following named incorporators: A. J. Kildahl, N. in grain, grain and seeds. The incorporators are Chauncey O. Sather, A. Wagner, J. C. McKinney, F. P. Gehres, Edinger & Co., dealers hay and flour at have bought the warehouse of P. Coy. C. Herbert Coy and Harry Coy. S. J. Atkins, W. P. Atkins, F. H.'ghes and 0. 1\ Louisville, Ky., the Walker. " Hart Hardware Co. at Fourteenth and Magazine The Arkansas branch of the Farmers' Coopera- ^ streets, and will occupy the building for their pres- tive Grain Livestock Association The Farmers' Elevata'" C^. of Church's Ferry, and has been or- ent business. They will also build an elevator. ganized at Topeka. Kan. The object is to buy or N. D., has elected the following: President, H. A. Additional property has also been purchased and build elevators in Kansas states. Noltimier; vice president, .John M. Thomson; sec- and adjoining will be used for the loading of wagons. retary and treasurer, Nornian Nelson; board of The Farmers' Cooperative Grain and Livestock directors—H. A. Noltimier, John M. Thomson, Nor- The Midlothian Lumber Co., the Midlothian Grain Association of Arapahoe, Neb., has completed its Midlothian Milling Co., man Nelson, J. W. Noltimier, C. I. Kirkeide, C. A. and Elevator Co. and the organization. R. B. Chalmers has been elected Studley and Theo. Hanson. all of Midlothian, Texas, have consolidated under president and Smith Paine, treasurer. W. S. Curry the style of the Midlothian Lumber, Elevator and was made manager. Milling Co., with a paid-up capital of $25,000. The SOUTH DAKOTA. The grain, feed and flour business of A. H. John- officers of the re-organized concern are B. F. Haw- Kan., Farmers are talking of building an elevator at son & Co. at Kingman, has been purchased by kins, president; H. T. Holland, vice-president: J. Edwin Snare. Mr. Johnson has formed a partner- Garden City, S. D. secretary. E. Sewell, treasurer; T. M. Dees, ship with a Mr. Sager and will handle broom corn The burned Atlas Elevator at Doland, S. D., will McReynolds & Co., of St. Louis, who have leased and manufacture brooms. early spring. be rebuilt in the Mobile, Ala., placed terminal elevator A, at have The Goffs Grain Co. of Topeka, Kan., is reported Gold & Co. of Big Stone, S. D., have< received Clarence W. Hogan in charge. The house was put to have taken in more grain in one day recently plans for their new elevator. in 25. McReynolds Co., operation January & than it shipped during the entire season of 1901. Siberg Bros, are reported to have sold out their through their Mobile terminals, are to cover the Some of the Topeka elevators are not receiving grain business at Ethan, S. D. grain trade to Cuba, South America, Mexico, Cen- grain on account of the car shortage. tral America, the Continent and Florida. As out- • has closed the elevator Salem, Gust Anderson at Leach Brothers of Salisbury, Mo., are installing has gone to Hartford, that state. lined, this territory will be covered as near as pos- S. D., and machinery in their sible by the following lines now operating out of warehouse at that place to The Sioux Grain Co. has completed its new house convert it into grain elevator. .Mobile: The Munson Line, for Cuba; Elder-Demp- a A Fairbanks- at Parkston, S. D., and is now doing business at Morse gas engine will furnish the power, while the ster & Co., for the Continent; Atlantic and Mexican that place. Gulf Steamship Company, for Mexico; South Ameri- machinery was supplied by the Marseilles Mfg. Co. The office of the Monarch Elevator Co. at Oriska, can ports by the several fruit steamers engaged in Farmers of Ellis, Neb., are considering a proposi- S. D., w'hich was damaged by fire some time ago, the trade; Central America in the same manner, tion by C. T. Peavey of Beatrice, Neb., to build a has been repaired. and the Florida trade by the Florida Transporta- 100,000 bushel elevator. Mr. Peavey's plan is to The Nye-Schneider Grain Co. has completed a tion and Cattle Company. It is said that business get 300 or more parties to subscribe $25 each and 40,000-bushel elevator, brick office building, coal and that has heretofore gone through New Orleans will enter into a ten-year contract for the handling of lumber sheds, dwelling, etc.. at Bonesteel, S. D. The be diverted to Mobile. grain. He agrees to handle the grain for the term AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 415 of ten years for a margin of 14 ceut per bushel, as directors. The following officers were elected: five of Constant's patent Chain Feeders, No. 14 allowing the owners to ship to any market or to any President, A. Mennel; vice-president, Isaac Harter; Corn and Oats Cleaner, three "Safety" Wagon parties they may wish. secretary-treasurer, W. F. Day. Dumps, three water tight Elevator Boots, two Con- stant's Dust Collectors and one No. 0 "Western" The William T. Kemper Elevator Co., which re- George Colby has bought the interest of his part- is the contractor. cently acquired the Missouri Elevator at Kansas ner, James Cuttell. in the Potterville Elevator Co.. Sheller. C. A. Drake City, Mo., and subsequently incorporated with a cap- of Potterville, Midi., and has assumed full control Herbert Curtland of Defiance, Ohio, and Wm. ital stock of $100,000, will expend about $(15,000 in of the business. Ridenour of Wooilsfleld, Ohio, have formed a part- have let the contract for the erection increasing its capacity from 300.000 to 750,000 The Thayer Elevator at Plymouth, Ind., has been nership and Defiance. It is said that the house bushels. purchased by Francis Edward Garn for a reported of an elevator at will be one of the largest in northwestern Ohio. The Laning-Harris Coal and Grain Co. of Kansas consideration of $4,500. The house is said to be the Mr. Ridenour is identified with the Standard Oil City has filed articles to show that it had made oldest in Indiana. Co. an increase in its capital stock from $27,000 to Patrick Crowley & Son. who recently sold their Grain Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, $80,000, all the increase paid. Assets, $79,000; elevator at Hemlock. Mich., have bought the old The Union & Hay its capital stock from $15,000 to liabilities. $79,000. of which $27,000 is dividends City mills at Saginaw, Mich., and have organized has increased 20(1,000 bushel elevator will be declared, but not yet distributed. the Saginaw (Jrain Co. $400,000. A new built at W. Sixth and Carr streets. The new house Work will be commenced March 1 on a new G. F. Ullery of Buffalo, said to be organizer for will cost between $100,000 and $150,000, and bo elevator at Wichita. Kan., for the Stevehs-Scott the "Farmers' Coiiperative Warc>house and Elevator I modern in every particular. It will be of wood Grain Co. The house will have a capacity of 75,000 Syndicate," was in Huntington. Ind., recently with and steel construction and will be completed by bushels, and will be built to permit of. addition a view to locating an elevator. stock of the company will be when more lOom becomes necessary. The Scott- sjiring. The new The old house of the Dayton & Michigan Elevator preferred commcm. The pre- Stevens Co. has a line of elevators on the Rock $150,000 and $250,000 Co., near the C. H. & D. tracks at Toledo, Ohio, is is of the Island road. ferred stock to be sold 10 the customers being demolished to make way for a proposed ex- company and all the common stock is to be re- Hart Elevator at Edgar, Neb., has been The H. C. tension of the railroad company's yards. tained by the present stockholders. Over $100,000 sold to the Farmers' Commercial Co., a recently or- Gage & Oldaker. proprietors of the Hocking Val- of tiie preferred stock is already subscribed for. ganized cooperative concern. The purchase price ley Elevator at Delaware, Ohio, have dissolved part- It is stated that S. E. Willey, C. R. Brown C. was $4,250. The new company is composed of 120 and nership, P. W. Gage succeeding. The firm had been farmers. The following are directors: A. A. Gait, J. Lehne of Venice. Ohio, D. M. Willey of Miami, in existence for about a year and a half. Ohio, and of Okeana, Ohio, will Oscar Kendall, J. M. Gardner, Henry Weick, Chas. Gus DeArmond J. Tidball Co. of Norwood, Ohio, will build establish grain buying shipping at Wiley. Wm. Shiveley and C. O. Heasley. W. & and points Pe- a $10,000 elevator early this spring. The new house oria, Okeana and Sc'ottdale, Ohio, on the C. R. & OHIO, INDIANA AND MICHIGAN. will be in connection with their present quarters at M. railroad. The Model Mills at Fremont, Ohio, Smith road and the C, L. & N. Railroad. will be enlarged and the grinding capac'ity in- Berrien Springs, Mich., wants a grain elevator. John Washburn and E. Brown are said to be at creased. Grain will be hauled from Scottdale to TJiere is talk of a new elevator at Fletcher, Ohio. the head of a company organized to build and oper- the mills and the product reshipi)ed at that point. house at Jackson, Ind.. just completed, is A new ate an elevator at Morral, Ohio. They expect to What grain the mills here are unable to handle will for sale. have the plant completed early in the spring. be shipped from the elevators to the best markets The new elevator at Brown City, Mich., has been leached by the C, R. & M. The company will be Cutsinger & Webb of Edinburg, Ind., are making completed. known as the S. E. & D. M. Willey Grain Elevator repairs on their elevator before the busy season Co. G. M. Benfer of Clyde. O.. has purchased a No. 9 arrises, and among other things are renewing the Clipper Cleaner. chain feeder with Constant's B. S. C. chain. WESTERN. The Lewisburg Mill Co. of Lewisburg, Ind., will Serven & Hiscock of Montrose, Mich., have The grain firm of D. R. Roberts & Co., of Logan, build an elevator. equipped their new elevator with a No. 9 Clipper Utah, has been dissolved. elevator will be built in connection with the Bean Cleaner with Rubber Clay-Crushing Rolls, An The Puget Sound Warehouse Co. of Athena, Ore., flour mill at Rockport, Ind. Traveling Brushes and Special Air Controller. recently bought fiO.OOO bushels of wheat at 67V^ S. A. Warren is reported to have sold his feed A. Boling, of Adams, Ind., who is troubled with cents. business at Ashtabiila, Ohio. water in the elevator boot, bought of the B. S. Con- The J. Alexander Co. has been incorporated with stant Co. of Bloomington, 111., a water-tight boot H. G. Thayer & Co. are said to have sold their a capital stock of $30,000 to deal in grain, wool and last month and expects to remedy the difficulty. grain business at Plymouth, Ind. general merchandise at Lewiston, Idaho. F. Thoraan & Bro. of Lansing, Mich., are building Dr. G. L. Oldham is said to have discontinued his The Baitlett-Foote Co. of Tacoma, Wash., has a new elevator at North Lansing between their grain and drug business at Clifford, Ind. discontinued the retail business and will hereafter mills and the new track they recently laid. The will build elevator at Ritt's Cross- do a jobbing business in grain, hay, etc., in carload Lyman Bell an new house will have a capacity of 15,000 bushels. ing, near Circleville, Ohio, in the spring. lots. The Clover Leaf Elevators at Grand Rapids, Ohio, elevator at Freeland The Barnet & Record Co. of Minneapolis has se- Collier & Songer. whose formerly owned by the late H. A. Davis, and oper- rebuild. c'ured a contrac t for a 50,000-bushel fire-proof stor- Park. Ind.. collapsed recently, will at once ated since his death by the widow, Mrs. Anna Davis, age tank for the Royal Milling Co. of Great Falls, Lawson & Granilich have been succeeded in the have been sold to F. R. Southard & Co. of Toledo. .Mont. grain business at Kenton, Ohio, by Wm. B. Gram- Ireton Bros., whose elevator at Van Wert, Ohio, lich. R. L. Spiker. manager of the Nez Perce (Idaho) was burned recently, as reported elsewhere in this at Peru. Ind.. was the first to build a Trading Co.. says there is between 150,000 and "200,- A. J. Neal liaper, will at once rebuild. The firm also has ele- the part of the G. R. R., located at 000 bushels of grain in the hands of farmers on the house upon new vators at Delphos, Paulding, Tipton and McComb. central prairie that has not been hauled to the Santa Fe. Ohio. railroads. L. L. Cook of Hobbs. Ind., has just completed The Fisher Grain Co. of New Paris, Ind., com- The Kettenbach Grain Co. of Lewiston, Idaho, re- an 8,000-bushel addition and has also added some posed of Benjamin, Henry and Adam Fisher, has cently bought 41,200 bushels of club wheat from the machinery. been succeeded by Charpie & Rohrer. The retiring Eastern Washington Improvement Co. for 61 cents The Postum Cereal Co., Ltd., of Battle Creek, firm built a new elevator at New Paris about a a bushel. The grain will he shipped to Puget Sound Mich., is said to be preparing to build a 50,000-bush- year ago. for export. el elevator. Articles of incorporation have been filed by the The warehouses at Garfield, Wash., received 525,- Weiner & Son have made extensive repairs on Metamora Elevator Co. of Metamora, Ohio. The (100 bushels of oats and wheat during 1902. This their warehouse at Rosewood. Ohio, and are again capital stock is $10,000 and the incorporators are was distributed as follows: A. P. Johnson & Co. receiving grain. F. C. Baluss, J. E. Dawson, E. S. Duvall, Horace received 90,000 bushels of wheat and 85,000 bushels out a permit Tredway and H. H. Tredway. The Braun & Kipp Co. has taken of oats; the Farmers' Warehouse Co., 56,000 bushels built Evans for the new elevator to be at Sixth and John and Adam Gottron, who compose the firm of of wheat and 38,000 bushels of oats; P. C. Elevator streets, Cincinnati, Ohio. Gottron Bros., operating a number of lime kilns Co., 35,000 bushels of wheat and 28,000 bushels of in Ohio, It is understood that .Jossman & Allen, whose Fremont, will engage in the grain and coal oats; Tacoma Grain Co., 62,500 bushels of wheat; elevator at Leonard, Mich., was burned recently, business. A modern steel tank elevator will be Interior Warehouse Co., 21,000 bushels of wheat and erected will rebuild next summer. at a cost of about $10,000. 34,500 bushels of oats; Tacoma Warehouse & Ele- The Milling vator Co., 30,000 bushels J. M. Neer writes us that he expects to build an Westphalia and Elevator Co. of West- of wheat and 15,000 bush- elevator of 5,000 bushels or more capacity at phalia, Ind., has filed articles of incorporation with els of oats; L. C. Carson's warehouse, 30,000 bushels Marion, Ohio, in the spring. a capital stock of $10,000. The incorporators are of wheat. ("has. E. Naney, John Begeman, Loye Begeman, C. A grain elevator will be built at Osgood, Ind.. by C. Stein and Chas. Voile, all of Westphalia. WISCONSIN. .lohn Crum, a grain dealer of Delaware, Ind., and B. Noftzger, with headquarters at Rochester, Ind., The Dixon Elevator Co. of Kilbourn, Wis., has W. A. Vayhinger of Osgood. is operating five elevators. Two on the Erie are sold out to a company represented by Harley Be- of Paoli, Ind., is building an ele- Samuel Stout running their first season. At Walnut, on the L. ment. vator at Salem. Ind. The plans provide for a struc- E. & W., he will erect a new thoroughly modern The S. Y. Hyde Elevator Co. of La Crosse, Wis., ture 30x70 feet and 72 feet high. building of about 12,000-bushel capacity the com- has filed an amendment to its articles of incorpora- being subscribed to build an elevator Funds are ing summer. tion increasing the capital stock from $200,000 to at Monroe, Ind. Wm. Graham of that town is said 1 The Valparaiso Grain and Elevator Co. has been $300,000. to have subscribed $1,000 of the $10,000 needed. incorporated to do a general grain and flour busi- Articles of incorporation have been filed by the Ind.. purchased have i Bittle & Bittle of Wingate. ness at Valparaiso, Ind. The capital stock is $15,- P. F. Boulay & Brother Grain Co. of Fond du Lac,

Henry Bros., l the other elevator at that point from 000 and the incorporators are Chas. H. Linder, Fred Wis. The capital stock is $10,000 and the incorpo- busy sea- and will operate both houses during the M. Linder and Wm. C. Linder. The company suc- rators are Paul F. Boulay, George Boulay and Anna

son. i ceeds Chas. H. Linder. Houlay. is said to have purchased the Emanuel A. Snyder I The Fremont tOhioj Elevator Co. has incorpo- Pullen & Mathews, dealers in grain, feed and im- A. Bell mill and elevator at Circleville, Ohio. C. ! rated with a capital stock of $20,000. The incorpo- plements at Boscobel, Wis., have been succeeded by elevator has been operated by the Crites Mill- The rators are M. Stamm. D. L. Stults, J. C. Smith, J. Foley & Fryor, a new firm composed of James E. ing Co. ' A. Stokes and J. F. Karbler. The company will en- Foley of Boscobel and Michael Fryor of Millville, J. P. Weimerkirch has sold his elevator at Ar- gage in the elevator and grain business at Fremont Wis. The retiring firm have disposed of their I cadia, Ohio, to E. Huss of that town. The latter and Erlin and may build an elevator at Fi-emont. building to the new concern for a reported consid- Cunningnam, of has rented the house to Sneeth & The B. S. Constant Co. of Bloomington, 111., sold eration of $4,000. Tiffin, Ohio. I the entire equipment of transmission, j conveying The W. W. Cargill Co. of La Crosse, Wis., has The Interstate Grain Storage Co. of Toledo, Ohio, and cleaning machinery for F. R. Pence's new ele- bought property fronting on the St. Paul tracks

held its annual meeting January 29 and elected A. I vator at Pence, Ind., a new station on the recent at Fond du Lac, Wis., and will build an elevator Mennel. Isaac Harter, Henry W. Harter, Isaac Bar- extension of the C, E. & I. R. R. from Rossville, and warehouse. As soon as the building is com- I ter. .Ir.. W. F. Day, C. C. Kitzmiller and F. E. Near ' 111., to Williamsport. Ind. This shipment includes pleted the company will do a general grain busi- —

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uess at Fond du Lac, to which will he added a flour already served by the company. Work will start and feed business. as soon as the spring season opens and they will The seventh annual meeting of the Farmers' Ele- be pushed to completion as fast as it is possible, all readiness handle vator Company of Richmond, Wis., was held re- so that of them will be in to COMMISSION this year. cently. Officers and directors were elected as fol- the crop of lows: President, Peter Thauer; vice-president, Jler- The failure of the government to appoint a board man Weihert; secretary, John Scheberle; treasurer, to fix grain and flour standards as has always been deal of un- B. M. Uehling; directors, K. J. Donohue, F. J. Mc- done in the past has aroused a great W. J. Pope of Pope, Bckhart & Co., Chicago, has Call, J. J. Plasil, William Kube, Ernst Krueger. favorable comment on the part of Canadian grain gone to California for the winter. men. Last year the work of the board cost the gov- It is probable that the Carpenter, Cook Co. of Noble Jones has been re-instated as a member of ernment about $500 and the expenditure has been Menominee, Mich., will erect a grain elevator on the the Chicago Board of Trade. He was suspended criticized as being out of proportion to the work site of the new L. W. & V. S. Co. mill at Marinette, several years ago. done. Grain say that this is an example of Wis. This site was bought by the company for men unparalleled parsimony. Col. Isaac L. Ellwood. a special partner in the that purpose. The mill still stands and it is stated firm of Harris, Gates & Co., New York and Chi- that this building is to be converted into a store cago, will retire February 28. house and that an elevator is to be built there. John J. Mahon and Michael J. Brennan have CANADIAN. formed a partnership and will represent Ware & BARLEY AND MALT Leland of Chicago in Baltimore. The new elevator at Killarney, Man., is about com- A. Lloyd, pleted. W. formerly traveling representative for the Illinois Grain Dealers' Association, is now charter has been granted the Souris Farmers' A with Fyfe, Manson & Co. of Chicago. Elevator Co., of Souris, Man. Valentin Lapp of Lindenau, near Leipsic, Ger- The J. A. McDurmitt Grain Co. of McKinney, The Bedford Mills Roller Mills Co. of Bedford many, has been granted United States letters patent Texas, has opened an office at Oklahoma City, Okla., Mills, Ont., will build a 20,000-bushel elevator. No. 719,479 on a method of preparing malt for with O. Saunders and Lloyd Roberts in charge. R. Muir & Co. are doing an extensive grain chop- mashing. Edward L. Brewster of Brewster & Co. has sold ping business in their elevator at Strathclair, Man. The contract for the material for the new barley his membership on the Chicago Board of Trade. The new 2,000,000-bushel elevator of the Canadian elevator of Albert Schwill & Co., at South Chicago, The firm is now represented on 'change by Edward Northern Railway at Port Arthur has been placed has been awarded. There will be twenty-four tanks, P. Russell. in commission. 90 feet in height, arranged eight in a row. Hollow The John Miller Co. of Duluth and Minneapolis The Hartney Farmers' Elevator Co. of Hartney, tile will be used. was recently fined $500 for a technical violation of Man., has made application to incorporate with a J. 0. Smith, dominion immigration commissioner, one of the rules of the Minneapolis Chamber of capital stock of $20,000. who has recently returned from England, is of the Commerce. The Underbill Farmers' Elevator Co., Ltd., of opinion that Canada can do a profitable export Arthur R. Sawers, manager of the El Paso, Tex., Underhill, Man., has applied for incorporation. The business in barley with the mother country. He branch for J. Rosenbaum Grain Co., Chicago, was capital stock is $20,000. says that barley is very scarce in England and is in' the latter city on a business trip during the first The Lake of the Woods Milling Co. will build bringing about 80 cents a bushel. part of February. new elevators at Newdale, Assa., and Fanning and It is said to be planned to convert the outstand- Wilson, Van Fleet & Lowman, correspondents for Hopper, Man., in the spring. ing 6 per cent bonds of the Chicago Brewing and Ware & Leland of Chicago, have opened an office at The Dowd Milling Co. will build a 20,000-bushel Malting Co. into 5 per cents at par. The Chicago Bloomington, 111. The firm has offices in Cham- elevator at Eardley, Que., and also one of 50,000 Consolidated Brewing and Malting Co., the Amer- paign, Urbana and Monticello. ican corporation which owns and operates the bushels' capacity in southern Manitoba. A. W. Lloyd, recently traveling representative plants, has outstanding first mortgage 6 per cent The Barnett & Record Co. of Minneapolis is said for the Illinois Grain Dealers' Association, has ac- bonds amounting to $3,166,000, due July 14, 1910. to have secured the contract for building the- addi- cepted a position to represent Fyfe, Manson & Co. The interest charge is $189,960 a year, and on the tion to the cleaning elevator at Port Arthur. of Chicago in western territory. company's average sales for the last five years this It is Elevator rumored that the Independent Co. interest charge amounts to about 55 cents a barrel. George H. Webster, for many years of the firm of Minneapolis and St. Paul will build a line of In the five years the company has paid only one of Armour & Co., has sold his membership on the houses in Canada during the coming season. dividend of 2V^ per cent on the preferred stock. Chicago Board of Trade. Mr. Webster is now the The Canadian Baling Company of Montreal, Que., These bonds are payable at maturity at a premium president of the Chicago Savings Bank. recently added two No. 7 Special Clipper Cleaners of 10 per cent—that is, it will take $1,100 to pay off Charles E. Lewis & Co., grain commission and with Traveling Brushes and Special Air Controller. each $1,000 bond. Holders propose to waive this stock brokerage, Minneapolis, have dissolved. The The Northern Elevator Co. is building a 35,000- 10 per cent and remit 1 per cent of the annual business will be continued by Charles E. Lewis and bushel elevator at Newdale, Assa. It is also stated interest, taking a 5 per cent thirty-year bond at John E. Fritsche, under the old firm name. par. new bonds will have a sinking fund that an American syndicate will build a house there These James H. Windsor, for over thirty years a mem- provision, whereby the amount outstanding will in the spring. ber of the Chicago Board of Trade, has sold his be reduced to $2,000,000 within twenty, years. The Only 200,000 bushels of the 1902 crop was handled membership. Mr. Windsor is a resident of Des stockholders have appointed a committee to con- at Macdonald, Man., up to the middle of last month. Moines, Iowa, and is interested in the Des Moines report. It is In' previous years the quantity has been from 350,- sider the scheme and stated that Packing Co. bushels. holders of about $2,500,000 of the bonds have agreed 000 to 400,000 H. W. Booth & Co. of New York City have in- to the proposition. The Canadian Pacific has bought property on the corporated with a capital stock of $10,000 to deal in waterfront at Fort William and there is considera- IMPORTS AND EXPORTS OF BARLEY AND grain, etc. The directors are H. W. Booth of New ble speculation as to what use will be made of it. MALT. York City, W. M. Booth of Sanquoit and W. M. The property is said to be very suitable for another BARLEY. Booth, Jr., of Cortland. elevator. Imports Bushels. Value. E. H. Prince made a number of changes in the The E. S. Harrison Co., in connection with the December, 1901 10,839 $ 6,516 arrangements of his general offices in the Royal In- Barnett & Record Co. of Minneapolis, have obtained December, 1902 13,780 6,901 surance building, Chicago, during the past month, the contract for lighting the C. P. R. elevator D Twelve mo. end. December, 1901 57,491 32,521 adding new partitions to make several private of- at West Fort William. The E. S. Harrison Co. will Twelve mo. end. December, 1902 54,137 29,412 fices for heads of departments. also install the dynamos and power machinery in Exports The John Mullally Commission Co. of St. Louis, Arthur. the new C. N. R. elevator at Port December, 1901 •. 1,073,828 490,642 Mo., has engaged Stanley Winterbower to represent W. H. McWilliams, president and manager of the December, 1902 906,223 570,056 the house in southwestern territory. Mr. Winter- Canadian Elevator Co., Ltd., with headquarters at Twelve mo. end. December, 1901.8,606,110 3,873,371 bower comes from .Overton, Mq., where he was en- Winnipeg, is quoted as saying that the company Twelve mo. end. December. 1902.8,712,874 4,712,934 gaged in the grain business with his father. would erect between 50 and 75 new elevators at BARLEY & MALT. Henry W. Brown, grain, hay, etc., 850 West Sixth various points in Canada during the coming season. Imports- street, Cincinnati, Ohio, has admitted Wm. G. During the past season the company built 17 new December, 1901 250 202 Stueve to partnership. The firm name will be elevators along the line of the Canadian Northern December, 1902 106 79 Henry W. Brown & Co. Mr. Stueve has been asso- Railway and would have built more had it been Twelve mo. end. December, 1901 3,295 3,131 ciated with Mr. Brown for a number of years. possible to secure the men and material. It is said Twelve mo. end. December, 1902 3,352 3,831 The McVicker Grain Co. of Minneapolis is re- that some of the new houses will be located at Ca- Exports- ported to have suspended, with liabilities of about nadian Pacific points. Ultimately the company ex- December, 1901 28,436 18,526 $8,000. The firm did a commission business and pects to have at least 100 elevators in operation. December, 1902 32,814 25,701 had offices in the new Chamber of Commerce build- At every point where an elevator is put in the Twelve mo. end. December, 1901 368,892 249,894 ing. It is said that the indebtedness will be liqui- company has established a lumber yard. Mr. Mc- Twelve mo. end. December, 1902 405,124 279,353 dated. Williams thinks this an advantage, as it will enable the firm to keep hands all the year round. When R. E. Brannan has opened offices in the William- not engaged in the elevators they can spend their son building at Cleveland, Ohio, and will do a grain time in the lumber business. and stock brokerage business. Mr. Brannan has been manager at Beloit, Wis., for the Hadden- As soon as the frost is out of the ground work Rodee Co. of Chicago and later manager of the will be commenced on forty-one new elevators for Cleveland office of E. F. Rowland & Co. the Northern Elevator Co. The new buildings will necessitate an expenditure of $1,720,000 and will in- The Dickinson Trading Company has been incor- crease the elevator capacity of the province of Mani- porated to carry on a general grain business at toba and the territories by 2,600,000 bushels. One Minneapolis. The capital stock is $25,000 and the of the new elevators, and it will be the largest, officers and incorporators are as follows: William will be erected in Winnipeg. Fifteen will be put H. Bennett, president; Frank W. Lauderdale, vice- up in Manitoba and the remainder will be dis- president; Adelbert R. Taylor, secretary; William tributed at various points in the territories. The A. Koon, treasurer, and David F. Stanford. elevator for Winnipeg is to have a capacity of 1,- The J. Rosenbaum Grain Co. of Chicago pays a 000,000 bushels and there has been set aside to tribute to St. Valentine in their advertisement in meet the cost of its construction the sum of $120,- this issue. The company's poet has made some 000. It will be at a point adjacent to the tracks of appropriate verses in a very artistic setting of a ZAHM S PUZZLE PICTURE. both the railways. All the other elevators will heart with Cupid at the top aiming his arrow to have a capacity of 40,000 bushels each and they Here's young Mr. Armour. Find whether he is a couple who are seated beneath. The refrain which will be located at the points most needing them not surrounded by Bulls or Bears. —Zahm's Circular. the poet (presumably Cupid) sings is that the J. —

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Rosenbaiim Grain Co. is the right firm for country ing the chief inspector not to certify to any wheat, ANNUAL ELECTION AT PEORIA. dealers to ship to. graded or otherwise, that contains Walla Walla The annual election of the Peoria Board of Trade wheat. 12. Officers were elected as fol- The Garrett-Kenucdy Grain Co. is the style of a was held January new commission house that has commenced busi- H. C. Avery of H. 0. Avery & Co., and R. E. lows: vice presidents, C. ness at Kansas City. The company has a capital Pratt and C. W. Buckley of Pratt & Buckley were President, Robert D. Clarke; Coffey; secretary, Robert C. stock of $10,000, paid up, and W. L. Garrett is suspended for one day by the directors of the Chi- J. Chism and B. C. treasurer, Barker; directors T. A. president and J. H. Kennedy secretary and treas- cago Board of Trade as a result of July oats deal. Grier; Walter — F. urer. Both of these gentlemen are well known in Grier, J. M. Quinu, Hen Warren, Jr., Warren Members of the Kansas City Board of Trade are B. City grain circles. Buckley, P. S. Nowland, Alexander G. Tyng, W. Kansas fighting the raise in rents that has been threatened Woolner, C. C. Miles, Dan Mowatt, Robert Van- the building. The firm of A. O. Slaughter & Co., of Chicago, against the grain men in Exchange tassel. There is said to bo a movement on foot to erect a was dissolved February 1 by the retirement of A. The full vote of the Board was polled. After the O. Slaughter, and has been reorganized under the building especially for the Board of Trade. election Robert Clarke, the new president, tendered firm of A. O. Slaughter, Jr., Co. The head name & The grain section of the Toronto Board of Trade the election board a dinner at Turner's. of the new firm is the son of A. O. Slaughter, and has elected the following officers for the ensuing the other members are Henry B. Slaughter and years: J. C. McKeggie, chairman; H. Shaw, vice- ANNUAL ELECTION AT MONTREAL. Frank W. Thomas. The latter was for several chairman; executive committee—C. W. Band, John years the old firm H. B. Slaughter The Corn Exchange Association of Montreal met manager of and D. O. Ellis. Fisher, John Carnck, S. McNairn and in January 28. secretary's re- represented it on the Board of Trade. A. O. annual session The Slaughter, the retiring member, was one of the At the sale of the sample tables of the Chicago port on election of officers showed that the follow- earliest Chicago members of the New York Stock Board of Trade, January 26, the premiums for ing had been elected: Exchange. He was in business at the time of the choice amounted to $6,228.50. This was $1,800 more President, Mr. James Carruthers, by acclamation; acclamation; Chicago fire and was the first to renew telegraphic than a year ago. The highest premium paid was treasurer, Mr. Norman Wight, by communication with the New York Exchange after $80; Bartlett, Frazier & Co. taking two at this committee of management—Messrs. A. E. Cook, E. S. Jaques, R. Oliver, A. the fire. He is 63 years old and during the past price and Creighton & Co., one. George A. Thomson, W. the B. Labelle, Alfred Chaplin and James Cuttle; board year has been absent from Chicago much of The grain department of the San Francisco Mer- of review—Messrs. T. A. Crane, chairman; C. B. time on account of his health. chants' Exchange was moved January 31 from the Bsdaile, W. I. Gear, Edgar Judge, G. M. Kinghorn old quarters on California street to new offices at and J. B. McLea, by acclamation. 327 and 329 Sansome street. The farewell exer- The retiring president, W. L. Gear, occupied the cises building included address by in the old an chair and delivered his annual address. A number Horace Davis, the first president of the organiza- of matters were discussed. THE EXCHANGES tion. We have received a copy of the First Annual ANNUAL ELECTION AT WINNIPEG. Report of the Merchants' Exchange of San Fran- At the annual election of the Winnipeg Grain cisco, for the year ending July, 1902. This is the and Produce Exchange, held January 14, the follow- H. A. Foss has been reappointed weighmaster new consolidated exchange, which had a member- ing officers were elected: of the Chicago Board of Trade. ship at the date of this report of 474. It contains President, Fred Phillipps; vice-president, A. R. the Superior the usual compilations of statistics regarding cli- Option trading was inaugurated on Hargraft; secretary-treasurer, C. N. Belt; council mate, production, commerce, prices, etc. (Wis.) Board of Trade February 1. —C. Tilt, G. R. Crowe, R. Muir, C. A. Young, S. The latest quotation for Chicago Board of Trade An "Historical Sketch of the Chicago Board of Spink, E. O'Reilly, John Love, H. N. Baird, Thomas memberships is ?3,C25 net to the buyer. Trade Battery" has been prepared for the purpose Thompson, Alexander Reid, W. L. Parrisi; arbitra- The Duluth Board of Trade recently adopted a of perpetuating in some degree the memory of this tion committee—S. Spink, John Love, G. R. Crowe, resolution urging freer trade relations with Canada. organization. The work is compiled chiefly from Robert Muir, C. A. Young, Thomas Thompson, memory and a few records of individual members, Alexander Reid; committee on appeals W. W. The directors of the Chic ago Board of Trade have — as all the records and many of the mementos of McMillan, S. P. Clark, T. L. Morton, H. Mc- given notice that trading after hours must be W. the organization were destroyed in the Chicago Williams, H. S. Patterson, A. Matheson, F. O. stopped. W. fire. Fowler. board of trade is being organized at St. Joseph, A Members of the Chicago Board of Trade voted Owing to the absence of the retiring president, Mo. T. P. Gordon, a grain dealer, is one of the on three proposed amendments January 26. The C. A. Young, M. P. P., the regular address of the promoters. proposition to increase the membership transfer fee president was omitted. The secretary submitted Charles T. Sowle, who had an extra membership from $25 to $100 for the purpose of providing a the annual report of the council, which was unani- in the Minneapolis Chamber of Commerce, recently sinking fund was lost. The amendment to strike mously adopted as printed. disposed of it for $3,100. out the description of "standard" oats from Board H. T. Gubbins, R. P. Kettles, J. A. Costello, H. R. of Trade rule was carried, as was also an amend- ANNUAL ELECTION AT BOSTON, "White Seth Catlin have been appointed official ment prohibiting any member of the regular board and The annual meeting of the Boston Chamber of grain samplers of the Chicago Board of Trade. from doing business on any other grain exchange in Commerce was held January 20. the city. Nor can any regular member do any Paul Jarvis, the retiring secretary of the grain Treasurer D. D. Morss' report of the chamber's, business for a member of the "open board." section of the Toronto Board of Trade, was pre- resources and liabilities showed a total of $516,881, sented with a handsome silver-mounted suit case The annual meeting of the Chicago Board of which includes $500,000 of real estate. The build- by the members. Trade was held January 12. The report of the ing is mortgaged for $160,000. The smoking room of the new Minneapolis Cham- directors laid special stress on the Board's war on The election of directors proved of great interest. ber of Commerce has been thrown open. The de- bucket shops. The financial report showed: Cash For the four positions there were five candidates. sign is in old German style and is a copy of an old on hand $19,411.82, as against $10,815.04 at the Balloting continued an hour and a half, when 359 studio in Leipzig. corresponding date of 1902. Amount received from members had voted, the Australian system being A general meeting of the Minneapolis Chamber quotations during the year last past, $28,277.56 net, carried out in detail. as against $4,342.73 for the year of Commerce will be held February 17, at which ended January 6, Although there was no announced opposition to 1902. is the credit time a vote will be taken on a proposed amendment There to of the Board with the President Lincoln to reelection, tlie ballots showed: telegraph companies under contract to one of the rules. $16,875. The Mr. Lincoln, 297; Thomas Ronald, 31. George H. bonded indebtedness of the Board is .$1,240,000, due Leonard and John F. Crocker were elected first and The Winnipeg Grain and Produce Exchange will in the year 1827, bearing 4 per cent interest. Dis- second vice-presidents, respectively, by a practic- make application at the next session of the legisla- bursements on real estate account, exclusive of con- ally unanimous vote. ture to amend its charter by striking out the clause struction, interest and insurance, amounted to $66,- "The vote for directors resulted as follows: "residents of Canada." John 506.65. The number of memberships transferred M. Hawkins, 284; Albert C. Tufts, 269; Benjamin Orleans Board of Trade has elected the The New during the year was 175, yielding $4,375. L. Colby, 255; Charles H. Farnsworth, 244, and J. Henry Lafaye, president; following officers: Henry A. Johnson, 174. James W. Porch, Simon Steinhardt and William The first meeting of the newly elected directors of the Chicago Board of was held B. Stauffer, vice presidents. Trade January 13. The following officials were reappointed: Sec- William F. Wheatley, for thirty-five years secre- retary, George F. Stone; assistant secretary, R. S. tary of the Baltimore Chamber of Commerce, has Wellington; treasurer, E. A. Hamill; treasurer of retired and accepted the presidency of City Trust clearing house, John C. Black; manager of clearing Banking Co. of Baltimore. FLAXSEED and house, Samuel Powell; attorney, H. S. Robbins; James A. Clark has been elected vice-chairman provision inspector and registrar, John A. Tobey. of the wheat committee of the Baltimore Chamber Other appointments were postponed. The president of Commerce, to succeed William M. Knight, re- also announced the following, among other com- cently elected to the board of directors. mittees, of the Board of Directors for 1903: Execu- Final government -figures place the flax acreage tive-^V. L. Gregson, Thomas C. Edwards, George for North Dakota at 2,160,000 acres, and the yield There is talk of the Milwaukee Chamber of Com- F. Bridge; Rules—William Chad wick, R. D. Rich- at 25,000,000 bushels. merce amending its rules so as to prohibit its mem- ardson, George W. Patten; Membership—W. L. The Ontario Linseed Oil Co. of Owen Sound, Ont, bers from belonging to or trading with the Chicago Gregson, H. M. S. Montgomery, H. B. Slaughter; has filed articles of incorporation. The ca))ital Open Board, or any firm using its quotations. Warehouse—R. D. Richardson, Frederick W. Smith, stock is $100,000 and the provisional directors in- The managers of the New York Produce Ex- J. B. Adams; Clearing-house—H. B. Slaughter, H. clude S. J. Parker, J. Parker and A. Reed. change have framed a strict rule against any mem- M. S. Montgomery, John H. Jones; Market Report The new flax fiber mill at Fosston, Minn., owned ber doing business with bucket shops or any one —W. S. Warren, Frederick W. Smith, Robert Bines; by C. M. Swartz, has now been in operation for associated with bucket shops in any way. The Violation of Rules—W. L. Gregson, W. S. Warren, about six weeks and is doing a profitable business. matter will be voted on February 19. William Chadwick, John H. Jones, H. B. Slaughter, It furnishes the farmers of the section F. A. McClean, Jr.; Transportation—William Chad- a market It was announced February 2 that the New for a product that wick, George F. Bridge, George W. Patten, W. N. has heretofore been worthless. York Produce Exchange gratuity year ends with a Eckhardt, R. S. Lyon, B. A. Eckhardt, H. F. Dous- G. F. Piper of Minneapolis and W. D. Douglas of surplus of $780,000, or $30,000 over the required man, H. H. Peters, Richard Gambrill; Weighing Chicago have purchased a tract of about eight acres amount, and with only fifty assessments. This is Frederick W. Smith, R. D. Richardson, George F. of land on Long Island, to extend their linseed oil said to be the best showing in some years. Bridge; Flaxseed Inspection—William Chadwick, business. The property is in the vicinity of Long The grain committee of the San Francisco Mer- T. M. Hunter, Albert Seckel. P. H. Eschenburg, Island City and about four miles from New York chants' Exchange, by a unanimous vote, has adopt- George E. Alt; Other Inspections—H. B. Slaughter, City hall. It has a frontage of 460 feet on New- ed a resolution that no Walla Walla wheat shall R. D. Richardson, E. W. Wagner; Arbitration on ton Creek, which has an 18-foot government chan- be allowed in piles of wheat inspected by the chief Grass and Field Seeds—T. M. Hunter, C. A. Heath, nel, and is 800 feet in depth. It has also good rail- inspector of the Merchants' Exchange, and instruct- Albert Seckel, F. E. Winans, George S. Green. road transfer facilities. 418 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

ket insurance on the building and contents to the stroyed. The Gilchrist house contained about 2,000 full value. bushels of rye. The total loss is estimated at $100,- The plant of the Ontario Malting Co. at Oswego, 000, partially covered by insurance. FIRES CASUALTIES N. Y., owned by Elliott B. Mott and Wm. A. Waite, The elevator of Collier & Songer at Freeland vas destroyed by fire February 10. The house con- Park, Ind., collapsed January 28. The house contained 100,000 bushels of grain and the loss will tained 86,000 bushels of grain and it is supposed aggregate $100,000; covered by insurance. that the supports on one side gave way under the W. H. Snoody was seriously injured by being The Hoffman elevator at Enterprise, Kan., was heavy load. The structure, which cost $8,000 to caught iji the machinery at the Doj'le Elevator in ljurned January 31. The fire is supposed to have build, is a total wreck. The grain was run through Areola, 111. caught from the electric dynamo. The house was Kirkpatrick Bros, and the loss on this will probably be small. Collier will rebuild. The base of the large water tank of Carrington, \alued at $10,000 and contained $1,500 worth of & Songer Patten & Co. at Monarch, 111., was slightly damaged grain. The building was insured for $4,000. D. N. Dunlap's elevator at Fontanelle, Iowa, was burned January 12. The loss was about $10,000 by fire recently. R. Muir & Co.'s elevator and mill at Gladstone, and was covered by insurance. The fire is sup- The elevator at Poplar Grove, 111., caught fire Man., burned January 28. A spark from a locomo- posed to have been of incendiary origin as there January 20. but the blaze was extinguished before tive is believed to have caused the fire. Loss on had been no fire in The elevator all day, and no serious damage was done. buildings ami machinery, $20,000; insurance, $14,- trains had passed to set it on fire by sparks. A few A cylinder on the engine of the elevator at 000; on grain and flour, $10,000; insurance, $16,700. months ago, it is said, that Mr. Dunlap received Abingdon, Iowa, blew out recently and caused the Henry Schulenberger's elevator at Kingman, Ind., some threatening letters telling him that if he did house to shut down for some time. which was operated by Swain & Madden, was de- not leave a certain amount of money in a certain Beggs Happer, A. F. Happer of the firm of & stroyed by fire January 16. The fire started in the place the writers would burn his elevator. He re- Farmingdale, 111., proprietors of the elevator at engine room. The loss on the building was $3,000, fused to leave the money as requested, and the killed. was caught in the machinery and with insurance of $1,200. The contents were in- fire is supposed to have been the result. warehouse loss, Fred Gushing, an employe in a wheat sured for enough to cover the which was Fire which originated in an adjoining building Wash., was in- at Bolles Junction, near Waitsburg, $2,000. burned out a storehouse of the Empire Hay and pile sacks. jured by the falling of a of wheat The De Smet, S. D., elevator of the Atlas Ele- Grain Co. at Albany, N. Y., shortly before midnight A fire was discovered in the office of Fred G. vator Co. was burned January 26. The fire started January 28. The building was filled with baled Lewis & Co.'s elevator at Binford, N. D., recently, in the cupola and was discovered about 9:30 p. m. hay and this was packed against the doors in such and extinguished before serious damage "resulted. The house contained a comparatively small amount a manner that it prevented the firemen gaining an The main line shaft in the elevator at Rock City, of grain. The loss is $6,000, fully insured. The entrance. F. J. Wands stated that the burned Western Elevator, near by, was damaged to the ex- 111., broke January 24, and the house was shut building contained about $2,000 worth of baled hay down for some time while the damage was being tent of $200. and $500 worth of rye straw. This was insured repaired. A 30-foot addition to the main building of the for about two-thirds of its value. The company Co.'s has a number of other storehouses in the city and It is reported that the Lyons Elevator at Man- Harvard Milling and Power plant at Harvard, were not greatly inconvenienced by the fire. haven, N. D., was damaged by a recent wind storm Neb., collapsed January 21 and scattered 5,000 and that between 400 and 500 bushels of wheat bushels of wheat over the ground. An imperfect Elevator B, of the Eckhart & Swan Milling Co. the were lost. weld in one of the rods with which addition at Carroll avenue and Ada streets, Chicago, was was stayed to the main building is said to have damaged by fire, which broke out shortly after 8:30 Fire at Peterborough, N. H., January 15, destroy- caused the break. o'clock January 19. The house contained between ed a number of buildings including the elevator and 100,000 and 150,000 bushels of wheat, part of which grain mill of Walbridge & Taylor. The firm's loss The elevator of the Merchants' Elevator and Tenn., to was owned by the Northwestern Yeast Co. The was $6,000, fully insui'ed. Warehouse Co. at Memphis, was damaged the extent of between $5,000 and $10,000 by fire Eckhart & Swan grain was insured for $62,500 and Jossman & Allen's elevator at Leonard, Mich., January 17. The blaze started at 7:45 p. m. and the loss was 60 per cent. The grain belonging to was burned to the ground January 24. The loss was discovered at once. It was gotten under con- the yeast company was insured for $57,000 and on is placed at $10,000 with insurance of $4,000. The trol after an hour's hard work. The loss is fully this the loss was 30 per cent. The loss on the cause of the fire is unknown. covered by insurance. building was 40 per cent. The cause of the fire is The Cargill Elevator at .Johnson, Minn., was but is supposed to have been spontaneous Fire January 12 damaged the engine house of unknown, burned recently, together with 4,000 bushels of combustion. The first alarm was followed by a Counselman & Co.'s elevator at Manson, Iowa. grain and three box cars. Agent W. D. Wright call for extra fire engines, and by hard work the Manager Maher is at a loss to account for the fire, saved the books and the horses. fire was prevented from spreading to the mill as the engine was not running. There was, how- proper. Elevator A of the J. K. Davidson Grain Co. at ever, a quantity of slack coal in the room and this Parsons, Kan., was damaged by fire February 3. may have ignited spontaneously. The elevator was A quick response on the part of the fire department saved by good work on the part of the local fire saved the plant from destruction. department. The old Danville Elevator at Ashland avenue and The 90,000-bushel elevator of Ireton Bros, at Van street, Chicago, burned February 6. Fuller was Wert, Ohio, was burned January 17. The house SEEDS The house had been dismantled and was being was full of grain and clover seed. Thomas Ireton, wrecked. The loss is placed at $8,000. senior member of the firm, estimates the loss on The hay and grain warehouse of Ware Bros., at the building and machinery at $14,000, and on the Silver City, N. M., was totally destroyed by fire contents at $52,000. The insurance aggregates $22,- A good trade in seeds is reported from Indiana. January 13. Allan Ware, of the firm, says that the 000. The salvage on the damaged grain will prob- Grass seeds are pailicularly in demand. loss was $1,000, with insurance of $600. ably amount to $15,000. The burned house will be The Vogeler Seed & Produce Co. of Salt Lake The two-story building at Stoughton, Mass., rebuilt. City. Utah, has installed a No. 9 Clipper Cleaner. T. E. Robbins as a ware- East, at owned and occupied by The grain elevator of Lyons & Cerro Wra. Ewing & Co., seed dealers of ^lontreal. Que., house for hay and grain, was gutted by fire recent- Gordo, 111., containing 50.000 bushels of corn and have made extensive alterations in their ware- ly. The loss was $2,500 and the insurance $1,600. oats, was burned to the ground shortly after 12:30 house. o'clock a. m. January 12. The fire started in the An elevator at Des Laces, N. D., was burned Ambrose L. Fisher, a seed dealer of Brockville, collision be- driveway from an unknown cause and within a January 23, as a result of rear-end Ont., has assigned to George A. Dana. A meeting tween two freight trains on the Great Northern short time the entire building was in flames. The of creditors was held February 2. railroad. The fire started from the wrecked en- books and papers were saved, but as the town has The Hathaway-Keath Seed & Produce Co. of gine. no fire protection no effort was made to save the elevator. It was insured for $17,000. Mexico, Mo., has added a No. 9 Traveling Brush Terwilliger & Dwight's elevator at Jefferson, Clipper Cleaner with Air Controller. S. D., containing 7,000 bushels of wheat and 2,000 Heising Bros.' elevator at Northwood, N. D., was 13. fire N. J. Harris, secretary of the Iowa Seed Corn bushels of corn, burned February 4. The loss was burned January The was discovered at Breeders' Association, has resigned and has been reported at $15,000; insured. The cause of the 11:15 p. m., and is said to have originated in the rapidly succeeded by Fred Hethenshaw of Des Moines. fire is not known. engine room. It spread and owing to the bitter cold weather the fire department was not B. E. Martin of Salem, 111., has improved his The St. John Grain Co. has closed its new ele- able to put up much of a fight against it. The cleaning equipment by adding a Clipper Seed vator at Elmore, Minn., on account of the breaking house contained about 3.000 bushels of grain and Cleaner with Traveling Brushes and Air Controller. of the cylinder head of the gasoline engine. Walter the total loss was between $7,000 and $8,000, with The Minnesota experiment station has received McRellar, who was in ( harge of the house, has gone insurance between $5,000 and $6,000. The elevator to St. James, Minn. more requests for seed corn this season than have will be rebuilt. been received before in all the time the station has The elevator at Moorhead, Iowa, was damaged in John Blair's elevator at Sheflield, a station eight lieen in existence. an unusual way recently. Someone brought in a miles east of Huron, S. D.. was burned January 29. quantity of wheat weighted with bricks and when C. P. Coy, Son & Co., of Valley, Neb., who have The fire started from a defective flue and the build- an attempt was made to elevate the gi-ain the ma- incorpoi-ated with a capital stock of $12,000, as re- ing was entirely consumed. The loss is $12,000 chinery was badly wrecked. ported elsewhere in this jiaper, will deal in seeds and insurance $800. The house contained 11,000 in addition to handling grain. The Atlas Elevator Co.'s elevator at Doland, S. bushels of wheat and a quantity of other grain. D. by The Steele-Briggs Seed Co. of Toronto. Out., and D., managed by M. Bannister, was damaged This is the second elevator loss sustained by Mr. Winnipeg. Man., has installed a No. 7 Special Clip- fire January 17. The house contained about 12.000 Blair at the same point, the other incident being per Cleaner with Traveling Brushes and Air Con- bushels of wheat, most of which was saved. The the bursting of the elevator six or seven years ago, troller at the Winnipeg branch. loss is fully covered by insurance. at which time 11,000 bushels of wheat was dumped The Atlas Elevator Co.'s house at Buck Grove, onto the ground. The seed elevator of Rogers Bros, at Alpena, in Mich., has closed its season's operations. The firm Iowa, which was charge of John Doyle, burned Fire at McGregor, Iowa, at 3 o'clock a. m. Jan- January 12. fire reports a good season. Over 100 hands were em- The was discovered by Clarence uary 21, destroyed the elevator of the Spencer ployed during the three months' run. Iseminger, agent for the Nevada Elevator Co., who Grain Co. and the warehouses of the Huntting is having saw smoke coming from the engine room. No Grain Co. and Gilchrist & Co. The fire started in The Griswold Seed Co. of Lincoln, Neb., statement of loss or insurance has been given out. the engine room of the Spencer elevator. The hard work to secure cars. It was stated early in The Atlantic Elevator Co.'s plant at Elbow Lake. house was over 100 feet high and contained about the month that the company had orders for fifty to could Minn., was burned January 7. The cause of the 90,000 bushels of grain. Mr. Davidson, the man- cars of seed corn to be shipped Texas and shipments. fire is not known, but is thought to have been a hot ager, slept in the office, and in attempting to save not get the cars in which to make journal. Within an hour after the blaze was dis- some papers both Mr. Davidson and W. Merrit The annual meeting of the Illinois Seed Corn covered the building was entirely destroyed. Two were injured by the explosion of grain dust. Mr. Breeders was held at Champaign January 28. The box cars loaded with wheat were also burned. The Davidson was badly hurt and his condition was re- following oflScers were elected: J. H. Coolidge, elevator was built in 1899 to replace one burned ported serious. The warehouses of the Huntting president; B. E. Chester, vice-president: John R. that year. The Atlantic Elevator Co. carried blan- Grain Co. and Gilchrist & Co. were totally de- Clisby, secretary-treasurer; J. L. Reid and J. O. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 419

Toland, members of the executive board. A new years between the eastern and northwestern roads statement of the processes of corn breedins and over grain and grain products will not be apparent the definition of a corn breeder were authorized. in the future. From London comes the report of a good demand About 70 per cent of the St. Louis & San Fran- OBITUARY for red clover seed. The general shortage of the cisco extention from Enid, Okla., to Tulsa, I. T., world's crop, the increased demand from the con- has been grade

l onvenience. Some time ago a committee of the years ago. He engaged in the grain, coal and feed TRANSPORTATION Chamber of Commerce called on the vice-president business early in life and continued in this line of the Baltimore and Ohio and requested him to until his last illness. He leaves a wife and one do all in his power to hurry up the delayed ship- daughter. ments. The raising of the embargo was a result George Anderman, formerly in the elevator busi- of this conference. The Illinois Central has plai ed ;in order for ness, died at Palatine, 111., January 7, aged 76 2,000 freight cars of 80,000 pounds' capacity each. The property of the Northern Steamship Co., years. He was a native of Hanover, Germany, I onsisting of six large freight carrying steamers and came to this country in 1845. He located at The western roads have issued blockade notices and the docks and Great Northern Elevator at Palatine in 1869 and engaged in the elevator and because of the inability of the eastern roads to Buffalo, has been transferred to a syndicate of lumber business with J. Slade and H. C. Batter- handle the traffic. rastern roads said to Include the New York Central, man, under the firm name of J. Slade & Co. Mr. It is announced that the Canadian Pacific will Lehigh Valley, Pennsylvania, Eric and Lacka- .AndernTan continued in this business up to a few in spend at least $1,000,000 this season improving wanna. The Northern Steamshij) Co. was organ- years ago, when he was compelled to retire on ac- its lines facilities in British Columbia. and ized by J. J. Hill to give Duluth and the twin count of ill health. He leaves four children. A new schedule of interstate rates on grain and cities equal rates on east-bound freight to the sea- David McKinney, a prominent grain commission effective 10. has been grain products, February board with other points in the lake region. The merchant of Peoria, 111., died January 10, after an issued by the Texas railroad commission. Great Northern Elevator was built a few years ago illness of several weeks. Mr. McKinney was 73 The Lake Shore has removed its embargo on at a cost of $1,000,000. years old and had been a I'esident of Peoria for grain and is taking grain originally consigned to Some vesselmen are taking grain at Chicago for more than half a century. He was one of the or- it, but is refusing to accept cars billed to other winter storage and spring delivery to Buffalo on a ganizers of the Peoria Board of Trade and was roads. basis of 2V2 cents for wheat. One barge hasj been chosen president of that body in 1874. When the A regular train service has been established on placed for clipped oats at South Chicago at 1% Chamber of Commerce was organized he was 2i/^ the recently completed extension of the Chicago, (ents. which is better than cents on wheat. c hosen secretary and had since had been interested Rock Island & Pacific from Lawton, Okla., to Wau- The available tonnage at the lake ports is placed at in its management. Mr. McKinney was a veteran rika, Okla. 8.150,000 bushels, as compared with 13,130,000 of the civil war and had an enviable war record. bushels a year ago. Amon.g the ve:ssels that have He was prominent in politics and had been con- A number of improvements in the freight ter- loaded are the following: C. F. Bielman, City of nected with a number of business enterprises. minals of the Burlington System at Kansas City London. Parks Foster, Germania, W. B. Morley at are to be made. A yard with a capacity of 6,000 T. T. W. Bready, manager of the Winnipeg Ele- Chicago, and W. L. Baun, Ravenscraig, Raleigh and vator Co. of cars is to be built. Winnipeg, Man., died at Houston, Amora at South Chicago. The cargoes are corn, Texas, January 14, of apoplexy. The deceased was The grain men of Omaha have decided to let the oats and wheat. one of the most prominent grain men of Canada. Commercial Club of that city champion their cause On January 12 the C. B. & Q. R. R. issued a new He was 46 yearfe old and came west in 1883 from in the fight for railroad rates that will permit the loading rtile, making the minimum car load of Thedford. near London, Ont., where he had been establishment of a grain market at Omaha. oats 10,000 pounds less than the marked capacity engaged in the grain business. He associated him- for grading 118 The contract has been awarded of the car. This was reported to Secretary Stib- self with the D. H. McMillan Co. and also acted Railway. The miles of the Muskogee Southern bens of the Grain Dealers' Association by inter- as buyer for the Lake of the Woods Milling Co. contract calls for 71 miles southeast from Musko- ested parties, and he took the matter up with the ! In 1891 he became a member of the firm of S. P. gee, I. T.. and 47 miles northwest from that point. freight traffic manager of the C. B. & Q. R. R. on 1 Clark & Co., which was merged in the Northern

The car shortage on the C. B. & Q. continues and January 21. Under date of January 23 Freight I Elevator Co. in 1894. Mr. Bready remained with is said to be causing great inconvenience to grain Traffic Manager Thos. Miller notified Secretary the new company for two years, when he formed and hay dealers on the system. On the Galesburg Stibbens of the National Association as follows: the company known as the Bready, Love & Tyron division alone a shortage of 300 cars was reported "I inclose herewith copy of our special rules and Co., who in the first year of its existence built recently. regulations, which shows, with other matters, the some forty elevators. In 1899 the company was At a meeting of traffic officials of the eastern maximum and minimum weights on grain in car incorporated as the Winnipeg Elevator Co., with and northwestern roads, held in Chicago January loads. We will change our minimum on oats to Mr. Bready as president, a position he occupied until 31, an agreement was reached whereby the rates 30,000 pounds per car by the issuance of an amend- his death. He became a member of the on grain and grain products between the east ment. The shelled corn is provided for, and I Winnipeg Grain Exchange in 1892, and although and northwest will be in charge of a committee think that, with the amendment on the oats matter, he has never held any official position, was always composed of representatives of both interests. It our patrons will be able to load to the minimum regarded as a most valuable member of the ex- is expected that differences which have existed for weights as provided." change. He is survived by a widow. 420 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE-

ninety cents. The officers of the company are for the previous week. The market for Timothy Mayor Julius Fleischmann, president; Casper Hay ruled dull during the early part of the week, Rowe, secretary and treasurer, and William W. but later the demand improved somewhat. The re- HAY AND STRAW Granger, general manager. ceipts of Prairie Hay were large and the demand The Colville Valley (Wash.) hay crop has all was light. been purchased by Seattle dealers to be used in filling orders for the Philippines. The ruling price Henry T. Gubbins has been appointed inspector is said to average over $10 a ton in the field. For of hay for the Chicago Board of Trade. the first time in four years the hay crop of the valley has been exhausted. It is estimated that Edward G. Farnham of Middlebury, Vt., has been LATE PATENTS over $300,000 has been paid to farmers of that sec- .shipping hay at the rate of about 10 cars a week. tion for hay within the last few weeks. It is reported that J. C. McKinley is engaging in The embargo of the Pennsylvania railroad on hay the wholesale hay and grain business at Everett, and grain from to is Wash. Chicago Pittsburg said by Issued on .Tannary IS, 1003. dealers of the latter city to be the result of lack in 1901-2 Machine for Separating Garlic and Cockle from The receipts of hay at San Francisco of knowledge on the part of the railroad officials 1886-7 Grain. John H. Dawson, Oxford, Pa., assignor amounted to 149,464 tons. In the receipts as to conditions in the hay and grain markets of — to Griscom & McFeely, Philadelphia, Pa. Filed were 106,561 tons. Pittsburg. As a matter of fact the shipments of Nov. 27, 1899. No. 718,321. See cut. Rose, Conrad & Sous, dealers in hay, feed, etc., at hay and grain to that city have been far short of Wenatchee, Wash., have been succeeded by the actual requirements during the past few months Issued on January 'ZO, 1003. Wenatchee Produce Co. and it is feared that a big shortage will result from Elevator Leg.—Louis Burmeister, Milwaukee, the present action. R. C. Snow will build a warehouse 45x50 feet in Wis. Filed Feb. 1, 1902. No. 718,907. See cut. the rear of his store at Ware, Mass., for the storage H. H. Freeman & Co., Chicago, 111., report Feb. Issued on January 97. 1003. of hay, grain and straw. 11: If you have hay to market and are not making Bag Holder for Bagging Grain. Hay receipts at Forestville, Wis., are large, but every effort possible to put it on the market now, —Edward M. Gil- bert, Byron, Minn. Filed 1901. dealers there have been unalole to secure cars in you are making a decided mistake. We realize Oct. 24, No. 719,210. See cut. which to ship the hay out. that the shipment of hay has been shut off to an extreme degree and that cars are hard to obtain, Issued on February 3, 1003. A $10,000 loss was caused by the barge Chicago, but by continued and persistent efforts we believe loaded with 2,000 bales of hay, taking fire recently Process of Shelling Peas, Beans, etc.—James P. you will be successful in getting some cars, and at her dock in New York City. Scovill, Chicago, 111. Filed April 12, 1902. No. this write to urge you to do your utmost toward 719,618. See cut. Considerable hay buying is being done at Allegan, end. Owing to light receipts hay has advanced $1 Mich. Dealers are paying from $7.50 for brown per ton on timothy and about 50 cents per ton on clover to $13 for choice No. 1 timothy, prairie. Arrivals to-day are 35 cars, and of timothy Advices from Baltimore state that the B. & 0. practically nothing, bulk of hay coming in being has raised its embargo against' carload shipments Kansas and Indian territory prairie. Prices, ruling other than livestock and perishable goods. It is to-day are: Choice timothy, $14; No. 1 timothy, said that hay was the article aimed at. Shipments [email protected]; No. 2 timothy, $11.50@12; No. 3 or have been resumed. light mixed, [email protected]; choice Kansas, Indian terri- A company has been formed to drain the thou- tory, Nebraska, Minnesota, [email protected]; good No. 1 sands of acres of marsh lands in Portage county. Kansas, Indian territory, Nebraska, Minnesota, $10 Wis. Farmers are fighting the project, as they @11; No. 2 Kansas, Indian territory, Nebraska, Illinois, Wisconsin claim the proposed work will destroy the value of Minnesota, [email protected]; Indiana, ! the marshes for hay raising. upland, [email protected]; packing hay, [email protected]; choice and No. 1 rye straw, $7@8; wheat and oat straw, $6@ Owing to the scarcity of hay South Dakota feed- I: I 6.50. Now decidedly is the time to ship. The ers are shipping their cattle to Iowa. In some quantity of hay in the country yet unmarketed is parts of the range country hay is selling for $5 and larger than usual or needed, at this time of the $6 per ton in the stack and is even being held for year, and when blockades are raised, as they will be $8 to $10 per ton in some sections. soon, hay will come in freely. Do not delay ship- ' ': i , The acreage of hay and crops by tons of the ping if you can possibly arrange to put your hay \ Pacific Coast states for 1902 are given by the gov- on the market now.

' ernment statistical bureau as follows: Washington, 1 L 525,000 acres, 1,181,000 tons; Oregon, 775,000 acres, REVIEW or THE CHICAGO HAY MARKET. 1,472,000 tons; California, 2,400,000 acres, 3,648,000 prices ruling for hay in the Chicago market tons. The during the past four weeks, according to the Daily The total imports of hay during the calendar Trade Bulletin, were as follows: year 1902 were 128,007 tons, valued at $968,662. Ex- During the week ending January 17, sales of ports for the same period were 87,671 tons domes- Choice Timothy ranged at [email protected]; No. 1, tic, valued at $1,413,373, and 970 tons of foreign, $12.00(§)13.00; No. 2, [email protected]; No. 3, $9.00@ valued at $8,270. Value of exports over imports, 9.50; Not Graded, [email protected]; Choice Prairie, $434,981. $12.50; No. 1, [email protected]; No. 4, $7.00; Not A new forage and seed plant is said to have been Graded, $7.00 for State and [email protected] for Kan- discovered in Oklahoma. The head looks like a sas. Rye Straw sold at [email protected], and Oat Straw cross between cattail and Kafir corn or millet. It at [email protected]. The receipts for the week were may be planted in June and will mature before 4,452 tons, against 5,479 tons for the previous week. fall. Some stalks, with head just forming, meas- Shipments for the week were 236 tons, against 156 ured 11 feet in height. tons for the previous week. Timothy Hay was in Grain Weigher.—Clark Sherman, Frankville, There is said to be a shortage of hay in ^e ter- liberal supply during the week and a moderate de- Iowa. Filed May 24, 1902. No. 719,700. See cut. ritory adjacent to Prosser, Wash., notwithstanding mand existed. Prairie was firm throughout the that a larger crop than usual was harvested and week, all consignments selling readily. Separator.—John W. Burton, Maplehill, Kan. that overproduction was talked of at harvest time. During the Aveek ending January 24, sales of Filed March 23, 1902. No. 719,741. See cut. Two years ago Prosser shipped out 117 cars of hay, Choice Timothy ranged at [email protected]; No. 1, Shaking Screen.—George S. Ingle, Indianapolis, but the shipments this year were light. [email protected]; No. 2, $10.50; No. 3, [email protected]; Not Ind. Filed July 3, 1901. No. 719,805. See cut. Choice Prairie, [email protected]; R. Henry Jones, president of the Hay and Grain Graded, [email protected]; Grain Car Door.—Henry V. Kuhlman and George No. 1, [email protected]; Not Graded, $9.50(g)12.00; Rye Association of Norfolk, Va., and W. H. Lumsden, A. Woodman, Chicago, 111., assignors of one-half to sold at [email protected]; Wheat Straw at $7.00, secretary and trafiic manager of the Chamber of Straw Thomas B. Kirby and Frederick W. Renshaw, Chi- Oat Straw at $7.00. The receipts for the week were Commerce of that city, were in conference with the cago, III. Filed Sept. 23, 1902. No. 719,815. See tons, against 4,452 tons for the previous week. Virginia Car Service Association, recently, relative 4,555 cut. Shipments for the week were 161 tons, against 236 to switch rates and demurrage in Norfolk. Grain Door for Freight Cars. John Riley, Minne- tons for the previous week. Only a moderate busi- — Following is a list of states- producing 1,000,000 apolis, Minn. Filed July 18, 1902. No. 719,875. ness was transacted during the week. Arrivals tons, or over, of hay in 1902. The figures are the See cut. were liberal and receivers experienced considerable yields in tons in round numbers: New York, 6,- difficulty in keeping consignments closed out. Machine for Separating Meat of Cotton Seed from 700,000; Iowa, 5,200,000; Missouri, 4,300,000; Illi- During the week ending January 31, sales of Hulls.—Lyman W. Merriam, Fitchburg, Mass., as- nois, 4,100,000; Ohio, 3,900.000; Pennsylvania, 3,- Choice Timothy ranged at [email protected]; No. 1, signor of one-half to George O. Allen, Fitchburg, 600,000; Wisconsin, 3,200,000; Kansas, 3,200,000; cut. [email protected]; No. 2, $11.00; No. 3, $10.00; Not Mass. Filed Aug. 3, 1900. No. 719,948. See Michigan, 3,100,000; Indiana, 2,600,000; Minnesota, Graded, [email protected]; Choice Prairie, [email protected]; 1.400,000; Maine, 1,300,000; Vermont, 1,100,000; No. 1, [email protected]; No. 4, $7.25; Not Graded, "

Colorado, 1,100,000; California, 1,000,000. , $7.25 for State and [email protected] for Kansas. Rye Owing to the thousands of sheep and cattle Straw sold at $6.75 for damaged and $8.50 for brought into the Gallatin valley of Montana during choice. Oat straw at [email protected]. The receipts for OUR CALLER.S 1 the fall hay is advancing in price. A few months the week were 6,440 tons, against 4,555 tons for the ago it was thought that there was more hay in the previous week. Shipments for the week were 193 territory than would be needed, but it is now said tons, against 161 tons for the previous week. The that very little, if will left in the any be over market for both Timothy and Prairie Hay remained [We have received calls from the following Kentlemen prom- spring. Clover hay which was selling for $3 and dull and prices declined 20@50 cents per ton. inently connected with the grriiin and elevator interests, during the month.] $4 a ton in the stack a couple of months ago, is During the week ending February 7, sales of now worth $5 and $6 a ton and is hard to buy at Choice timothy ranged at $13.00; No. 1, $12.00® these figures. 12.50; No. 2, [email protected]; No. 3, $9.00; Not Graded, J. T. Lenfesty, Waldron, 111. The Union Grain & Hay Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio.' [email protected]; Threshed, $8.00; Choice Prairie, R. H. Foat, Weatherford, Tex. has increased its capital stock from $15,000 to $][email protected]; No. 1, [email protected]; No. 2, $8.00 for Harry H. Warden, Kewaskum, Wis. $400,000. The new issue is to be divided into $150.- State and $10.00 for Kansas; No. 4, $7.; Not A. E. Reynolds of Crabbs & Reynolds, Crawfords- 000 of cumulative 5 per cent preferred stock and Graded, [email protected]. Rye Straw sold at $6.50@ ville, Ind. $250,000 of common stock. The entire issue of 8.50; Wheat Straw at $6.00, and Oat Straw at $6.00 Fred. L. Cranson, See. Huntley Mfg. Co., Silver common stock has been taken by the present own- @6.50. The receipts for the week were 5,904 tons, Creek, N. Y. ers of the business, and the preferred is to be sold against 6.440 tons for the previous week. Ship- F. D. Wolfrom, San Francisco, Cal., representing to the customers of the concern and the public at ments for the week were 297 tons, against 193 tons Huntley Mfg. Co., Silver Creek, N. Y. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 421

Senators Hansborough of North Dakota and Nel- SEEDS. son of Minnesota are pushing Mr. Tausan's claim. American grown alfalfa, German millet, Siberian H. H. McCoy, who has been manager at Morse, millet, sorghum or cane seed, Jerusalem corn, milo- PERSONAL Iowa, for the Clinton (Iowa) Grain Co., has been maize, seed corn, onion sets, macaroni wheat, and transferred to Clinton. He has been succeeded at Morse by a Mr. Percy. a full line of other seeds. Samples furnished. Write F.Barteldes Co., Law- Charles W. Estes, Jr., has been appointed travel- KANSAS SEED HOUSE, & S. A. Hayward has charge of the new elevator at ing auditor for the Cutler Company, wholesale rence, Kan. Minier, 111. grain dealers of North Wilbraham, Mass. Mr. Mass. WHAT HE WANTS. E. J. IMatteson has removed from Glenham, S. D., Estes' home Is in Spencer, to Alhoe, S. T). H. Pierre, who has been in charge of the elevator The advertiser wants to place his advertisemenc William Craig, grain buyer at.Kerby, Mich., was at Lena, Wis., for some time, will return to Oconto, before a good class of buyers and before a large Wis., about March 1, when J. N. Bassett, the owner married recently. class of buyers. This service the "American Ele- of the house, will again assume control. H. E. Farnam has taken charge of Ulrich & Son's vator and Grain Trade" gives the advertiser. It of Walnut Grove, Iowa, who has elevator at Pawnee, 111. Anson Evans been employed in the grain and warehouse Inspec- introduces him to a good class of buyers and to F. H. Richardson has removed from Ritzville, tion service at Minneapolis, has resigned and has a large class of buyers. Place your advertisement Wash., to Quincy, Wash. been succeeded by Chas. McDonald, also of Walnut in this department' and be convinced. T. Pratt is in charge of the new Great Western Grove. elevator at Lohrville, Iowa. D. R. Gordon of Abilene, Kan., is a candidate for Andrew Anderson is now in charge of the Cargill the position of state grain inspector. He was post- Elevator at New London, Minn. master at Abilene under Harrison's first admin- F. A. Cornell has succeeded A. Mallory in charge istration and has since been prominent in political of the Peavey elevator at Amboy, Minn. circles.

H. C. Wiest has taken a position with the Great O. I. Branvold has taken charge of the Minneap- Western Elevator Co. at Arlington, Minn. olis and Northern Elevator at Dalton, Minn., which For Sale] Wm. Spike has again assumed the management of has been operated by the Duluth Elevator Co. for the Western Grain Co.'s elevator at Judd, Iowa. the past two years. T. F. Green, who has been in charge of the house, has returned to his home at Steve Mitchell, until recently at Bangor, Minn., White Rock, Minn. [Copy for notices under this head should reach us by the 12th has taken charge of an elevator at Mantador, N. D. of the "month to insure insertion in the i.ssue for that month.] T. J. Treadwell, who has been in charge of the William Hamm of Omaha has succeeded Edward Pacific Grain Co.'s elevator at Fairfax, Minn., dur- Bruen as agent for the Kinsella Grain Co., at ing the past season, has been transferred to the GRAIN BUSINESS FOE, SALE, Blairstown, Iowa. company's elevator at Wabasso, Minn. He is suc- A good point handling 250,000 bushels annually. James Harvey, agent at Walhalla, N. D., for the ceeded at Fairfax by Edward Pehrson, who for- Address Imperial Elevator Co., has recently recovered from merly had charge of the house. an attack of grip. L. HUTCHINSON, Sibley, 111. Blanchard Randall, the new president of the Na- O. A. Klubberud is said to have taken charge of tional Board of Trade, is a prominent grain ex- FREIGHT ELEVATOR. the St. Anthonv and Dakota Elevator Co.'s house porter of Baltimore. He served two terms as at Galchutt, N. D. president of the Baltimore Board of Trade and For sale, a good hand power elevator, suitable for J. W. Wilson, formerly a grain buyer at Dayton, is an ex-president of the Baltimore Corn Exchange. 3 or 4 story building. Iowa, now at Lake City, Iowa, fell on a sidewalk In addition to his grain business Mr. Randall is in- C. S. BRENT, 128-130 S. Broadway, Lexington, recently and broke his leg. terested in two leading banks and a number of Ky. Joseph Wasmek has resigned as manager of the other large financial institutions. State Elevator at Glencoe, Minn., and has been SEED CORN. succeeded by Chas. Fiman. About one-fourth of all the grain and flour Reid's Yellow Dent and Boon County white seed Julius Hanson has resigned his position as grain exported from the states of Oregon, Washington and corn for sale in carloads or less. buyer at Hazel Run, Minn., and has moved to the Idaho thus far in this cereal year has gone to northern part of the state. Australia and South Africa. The shipments to Af- LA ROSE GRAIN CO., La Rose, HI. Conrad Trecker has been appointed manager for rica, July 1 to January 1, were equal to 3,576,292 the new Odell Grain and Coal Co. of Odell, 111., at bushels of wheat and to Australia, 680,604 bushels. OAT CLIPPERS. a salary of $100 per month. "Illustrative of the unusual irregularity now pre- For sale, two No. 9 Invincible Oat Clippers, as Alfred Hayes will have charge of the elevator at vailing in railway affairs, Baltimore complains of good as new. Price very low for cash. Galesville, 111., recently sold by Hayes Bros, to C. the non-arrival of liberal quantities of grain shipped W. D. JUDD, 506 Chamber of Com., St. Louis, Mo. A. Burks & Co. of Decatur. from the West early in November and of more W. M. Walker has disposed of his merchandise shipped in December last. Steamers waiting for business at St. Michael, Neb., and will devote all the grain."—Pope & Eckhardt Company's Circular, FOR SALE CHEAP. his time to his elevator interests. January 26. One No. 10 Bowsher Feed Mill; used but five Fred Axtell of Elkton, S. D., is reported to have months. moved to Canada to take charge of an elevator for One Lone Star Feed Mill; new. Address the Winnor-Torgersen Lumber Co. C. J. BENDER, Warrenhurst, 111. George Hoffman, who has been employed in the Farmers' elevator at Mazeppa, Minn., for the past six months, has given up his position. 1^1 FOR SALE. E. A. Aaffedt of Donaldson, Minn., has assumed ^^/fottce^ I We have a large stock of boilers, engines, steam the management of the Imperial Elevator Co.'s pumps and pulleys for sale. Write for specifica- elevator and lumber yard at Union, N. D. tions and prices to Otto V. Knaak has resigned his position with [Copy for notices under this head should reach us by the 12th PHILIP SMITH, Sidney, Ohio. the Watertown (Wis.) Grain Co. and has taken a of the month to insure insertion in the issue for that month.] position with the C, M. & St. P. Railway. FOR SALE. Samuel F. Kingston, formerly grain buyer at GRAIN WANTED. A new Illinois elevator, feed mill and coal yard. Omaha, for the Armour Co., is now in the theatrical Wanted—Feed barley and new No. 2 and No. 3 business, being connected with Anna Held. Elevator 5,000 bushels' capacity. rye. Two good houses. T. A. Brown, who embarked in the grain busi- Located in grain and feed territory. Address W. H. SMALL & CO., EvansYille, Ind. ness at Griswold, Iowa, about a year ago, expects ILLINOIS, Box 1, care "American Elevator and to return to his farm in Prescott county, Iowa. GASOLINE ENGINES. Grain Trade," Chicago, 111. Robert Risley has returned to Davenport, Iowa, from the northwestern part of the state, where he Gasoline engines for sale or exchange for Min- has been buying grain for the Stuhr Grain Co. nesota or Dakota lands. Address POWER. Fred Roberts, who has been buying grain at McDonald, 36 W. Randolph St., Chicago. For sale, Corliss Engines, good as new. Raleigh, Iowa, has returned to his home in Spen- Contracts for entire steam installations. Iowa, at Raleigh having been closed. cer, the house WANTED. Old plants taken in exchange or bought outright. Manager J. M. Munsinger will continue in charge You to list your elevators for sale In Indiana, Il- THE BONUS CO., 167 Lake st, Chicago. of the elevator at Jefferson, Iowa, recently pur- linois, Iowa and other states. Have cash buyers. chased by the Armour Co. from the McFarlin ENGINE AND BOILER FOR SALE. Grain Co. AARON SMICK, Decatur, 111. A. H. Wilson, agent for the Powers Elevator Co. One 45 horsepower slide valve engine, now in transferred to use in at Edgerly, N. D., has been New I CAN SELL YOUR BUSINESS. and good condition. Also one 50-horsepower D. agent at Edgerly is T. Rockford, N. The new boiler. Will sell very cheap if taken soon. Address H. Ferber. No matter where it is. Send description, state INGRAHAM & BROWAND, Spencer, Ohio. William Jones, a well-known grain dealer of Ta- price and learn how. Established '96. Highest coma. Wash., and president of the Chamber of Com- references. OfiBces in 14 cities. FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE. merce of that city, has gone to Europe for an ex- W. M. OSTRANDER^ 1550 North American Bldg., tended trip. Complete flour mill outflt, J. B. Allfree pattern, Philadelphia. Frank G. Lewis, who has been running the Em- 7 pair of rolls high, 50 barrels' capacity; purifiers, pire Co.'s elevator at Harlem, N. D., has succeeded NO MORE MUSTY CORN. dust collectors, packer, mixer, in fact, all ready for F. Furber as manager of the McCaull-Webster ele- Use Beale's Adjustable Com Crib Ventilators. making flour. Two lower pairs of rolls slightly vator at Butler, S. D. Allows you to build cribs 16 to 24 feet wide. Saves damaged by fire. Will be sold or exchanged for Ole Baade Tausan, manager of the Peavey Ele- elevator machinery. Address vator Co.'s house at Barlow, N. D., is claimant of 30 per cent in building material. No more musty an old French estate that is said to be valued at com. Write to FARMERS' MILLING & GRAIN CO., Mattoon, 40,000,000 francs (about $8,000,000). United States N. S. BEALE, Tama, Iowa. 111. 422 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE.

SHELLEK. AND CLEANER. SCALES FOR SALE. For sale, one Victor Corn Sheller and Cleaner Scales for elevators, mills, or for hay, grain or ROOFING AND SIDING.

combined, Barnard & Leas' best quality. Capacity stock ; new or second-hand at lowest prices. Lists 300 bushels an hour. Guaranteed good as new. free. SCALE CO., 299 .Jackson Boulevard, Price $125. CHICAGO The (iarry Iron and Steel Roolin^ (o. CALLAHAN & SONS, Louisville, Ky. Chicago, 111. 168 MERWIN STREET, CLEVELAND, 0. ELEVATOR FOB SALE. ELEVATORS FOR SALE. MANUFACTDRES Steel Roofing, Four elevators in Indiana, one in Ohio, three Elevator and 360 frontage on side track at Mt. in Corrugated Iron, Tllinois and two in Kansas. List your elevators for Carroll, 111., for sale to close estate. Capacity 40,- Siding and Metal sale with me. 000 bushels; gasoline engine and dump. Good open- Ceiling. AARON SMICK, Decatur, Iil. ing for right man. For particulars inquire of Mt. Carroll, 111. N. H. HALDBRMAN, SEND DO YOU NEED HELP? Burlap Bags!! Grain Bags!! FOR CATALOGUE Through this department we have helped a great many grain men to sell or rent their grain elevators ALL SIZES HADE TO ORDER. SYKES STEEL ROOFING CO. or sell their second-hand machinery, etc. We can help 611 So. Morgan Street, Chicago you. Send your advertisement to-day for insertion W. J. JOHNSTON, 182 Jackson St., Chicago. Makers of FIRE-PROOF WINDOWS in our next issue. TyE manufacture all gauges of corrugated iron, either painted or galvanized. We NEW AND SECOND-HAND GASOLINE EN- make Patent Cap Roofing, Roll Cap Roof- /\. BURKES, ing, Roofing, Metal GINES. C "V'' Crimped Ceilings, etc., etc. .• . We make a specialty of If you want the best gasoline engine built, buy 211, 212 and 213 Merchants' Exchange a Backus—fewer working parts, slow speed, and DECATUR, ILL. Corrugated Iron and built upon honor. Metal Roofing Second-hand 15 h. p. Lambert, 20 h. p. Charter, ELEVATOR BROKER 60 h. p. New Bra, 65 h. p. Foos. For Grain Elevators I have sold twelve elevators during the past nine weeks. J. MONTGOMERY JOHNSTON, Western Agent If you want to buy or sell write me. And take contracts either for material alone or job com- Backus Gas Engine, 216 Lake St., Chicago, 111. All correspondence strictly confidential. pleted. . Write us for prices. We can save you money. GRAIIN RECEIVERS PEORIA PEORIA PHILADELPHIA

FRANK HALL & CO. VAN TASSEL & BUNN L. F. MILLER & SONS, KECEIVERS AND SHIPPEKS OF SUCCESSOKS TO E. S. EASTON & CO. GRAIN commissioN Grain, Feed, Seeds, Hay, Etc. Grain and Commission m&RCH AIN7 S OFFICE 2931 N. BROAD ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA.

324 South Washington Street, Tracck Buyers a.nd Shippers CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. Soecial attention (Iven to ih« bandlini: of CORN AND OATS. ROOMS 44 and 46 1 PPODI A II 1 Manufacturers' National Bank, Philadelphia. = = ILLIISUI^, rcwi^i/A, ll^l^. r>__„__„__.KKFKKBNCics Pa PEUKiA, CHAnBER OF connERCE .j pnlon National Bank. Westminster. Md. MILWAUKEE SPRINGFIELD WARREN iS: CO. Lbman Baktlett O. Z. Bartl,btt GRAIN E. R. Ulrich & Sons, L. Bartlett & Son, Commission Merctiants SHIPPERS OF WESTERN GRAIN, GRAIN AND PRODUCE COMMISSION Especially High Grade White and Yellow Corn.

7 and 9 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, ...... ROOMS MERCHANTS Elevators along the lines of the followinp; railroads in Centra! PEORIA, ILL, Illinois; Wabash; Chicago & Alton; I. C; BARLEY A SPECIALTY C. P. & St. L. and Pawnee, Room 23 Chamber of Commerce BIdg. tAa\x\ Office, 6th Floor, Illinois National Bank BuildinK, MILWAUKEE, WIS. A. G. TYNQ, Jr. D. D. HALL. SPRINGFIELD, ILLINOIS. Careful attention given to orders from Brewers, Malsters and Millers. Wbitb fob pbicks delivbbed. No Wheat fob saxb TYNG, HALL ®. CO., Gra-irv a-rvd Commissiorv ST. LOUiS M ercharvts, p. p. OONNOR M. .1. CONNOR GEO. F. POWELL We Solicit Your Consignments of ROOMS 33 AND 35 CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, BROS. CO. PEORIA, ILLINOIS. CONNOR & Grain, Hay and Seeds GRAIN AND HAY G. L. GRAHAM & CO., T. A.GRIER&CO. ST. LOUiS. PEORIA, ILL. MEMBERS OF (iRAIN DEALERS NATIONAI- ASSN. 301 Chamber of Commerce, ST. LOUIS, MO. RECEIVERS, BUYERS AND SHIPPERS OF WHEAT, CORN, OATS AND RYE DANIEL P. CO. On accouut of tbe peculiiir character of the seaBOn. gralu BYRNE & l8 largely off grade and we advise conslgnnieuts. (Successors to Redmond-Clearv Com. Co.) WE GIVE ALL CONSIGNMENTS CAREFUL ATTENTION ESTABLISHED 1 B54. INCORPORATED 1B87. ESTABLISHED 1875. Graln^ P. B.&C.C. MILES Hay and Seeds Chamber of Commerce. STm L0UISf MOm Grain Commission Merchants Sellin<>- (Jraiii on Comuiis.-^ion a S])ecialty. Experienced and competent salesmen. The head of our tirni has had 3.'^ j'ears' experience in the g^rain trade in this market. BUYERS AND SHIPPERS Lilieral advances on ghipiiients. Prompt returns and remittance of balances. Correspondence and Consignments Solicited. 3o-37 Chamber of Commerce, PEORIA. ILL. AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 423 ORAIN RECEIVERS TOLEDO BALTIMORE PITTSBURG

ESTABLISHED 18^6 SMITH.GAMBRILL CO., C. A. FOSTER. McCance Block, Cor. Seventh Ave. 0 Chamber of Commerce, Baltimore, Md., and Smithfield St., Pittsburgh, Pa. Established 1878 C.A.KING&C GRAIN COMMISSION

THE GOLDEN RDLE Wholesale Grain, Hay and . Mill Feed AND GRAIN AND CLOVER SEED DEALERS RECEIVERS EXPORTERS. CONSIQNnENTS SOLICITED.

Reference : Colonial Trust Co., PIttsburgrh, OF TOLEDO, OHIO RICHARD GAMBRILL, Western Manager, Chicago, III. The Pa

DANIEL MCCAFFREY'S SONS CO., SPECIAL MARKET AND CROP REPORTS FREE. Thos. H. Bolts CSL Co. BE FRIENDLY. WRITE OCCASIONALLY. FLOUR, GRAIN AND GENERAL Leading Hay Dealers ESTABLISHED 1876 Commission Merchants PITTSBURO, PA. W. A. RUNDELL & CO. 214 Spesvrs Wha^rf 213 PstLtterson Stree E.stablislied 1867. Reference: Duquesne National Bank. GRAIN and SEEDS. BALTIMORE, MD. CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. We Buy Delivered Toledo or F. O. B. Your Station. UKFEKENCICS-First National Hank. C. MorUni .Stewart & Co., I. M. Parr & .Son. Balti.more: Dunlop Mills. Warner, Moore CONSiai\MENTS and FUTURES GIVEN SPECIAL & Co.. RlCH.MOND. Va. ATTENTION. GEIDEL CO., " & Ask for our ' Daily Marki-l Lellcr aud Track Bids. Correspondence requested. KIRWAN BROS. GRAIN CO. 33 Produce Exchange, TOLEDO, OHIO Leading Mill Feed Dealers, BALTIMORE, MD. GRAIN, HAY AND STRAW. WILLL\M K. W ORTS AKTllL R 11 EM.MICK BUYERS AND RECEIVERS Members of WORTS & EMMICK National Ha.7 Association. PITTSBURG, PA. Pittsbur)? Grain and Flour Exchange. Grain and Commission GRAIN^HAY WE USE ROBINSON'S CIPHER. 47 Produce Exchange, Toledo, Ohio We solicit your consignments. D. G. STEWART, SPOT AND FUTURES, if you do not receive oui bids, ask for them. We will bid you no matter where you are located. Let us PITTSBURGH, PA. handle your consisnnients. Our motto : Success to nur patron-^. Try us. BUFFALO

. . . WHOLESALE DEALER IN . . . REYNOLDS BROS. W. W. ALDER Grain, Hay I Mill Feed Proprietor Iron City Grain Elevator. Consign Yovjr Grcirv a^rvd Feed CONSIGNMENTS SOLICITED. TOLEDO, O. to a. Strictly COMMISSION MERCHANT NEW YORK CITY OUR SPECIALTIES :—Quick Returns and Careful Buy and Sell Grain, Guarding of uur Shippers' Interests. Correspondence Invited. Write for Buffalo Market Letter BROOKLYN HAY & GRAIN CO. SELL US YOURS. 81 BOARD TRADE, BUFFALO, N. Y. HAY, STRAW AND GRAIN If you don't get our bids, ask for them. Consignments always COMMISSION MERCHANTS welcome. Consign us yours. HENRY D. WATE RS ON ALL MARKETS IN NEW YORK HARBOR GRAIN COMMISSION I. F. ZAHM, F, W, JAEGER. F. MAYER MERCHANT Office ! Borough of Brooklyn, New York ESTABLISHED 1879. " N S IGNM ENT S fii Board of Trade O LICI TE D BUFFALO, N. Y. GEO. N. REINHARDT & CO. J. F. ZAHM & CO., MELROSE STATION. NEW YORK CITY. Con9i(

I Sew York Produce Exchange. Handling consignments and filling orders fo.- QUICK SALES. IMMEDIATE RETURNS. RELIABLE REPORTS. futures SPECIALTY. OUR Members Grain Dealers National A.s.siiclution. SEND FOR OUR RED LETTER. WRITE, WIRE OR PHONE

^61 ME Ajvu.^ylO N.Y., CO. 3uNC^ ciry THE PADDOCK-HODGE IE2!i2 TO IG3ffiST. HARLEM RAILROAD V?MORRIS BRANCHJ Operating Wabash Elev, 4. GRAIN Michigan Central A, We sell on Commission and buy direct. Total Capacity, 200 cars daily- Storage Capacity, 1,500.000 bushels, Clipping Oats 50,000 HAY, GRAIN AND FEED. bushels daily. No Switching Charges from any road, Our bids will reach you dailv, no Storage capacity 8,000 bales, 30,000 buah^ls you're located. Advise if not receiving them. matter where TOLEDO, OHIO. Let us know what you have to offer. 424 AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. GRAIN RECEIVERS CHICAGO CHICAGO CHICAGO

99 KSTABLISHED 1865. •ENTHUSIASM CHARLES D. SNOW & CO., We have it in selling our customers'' grain. L, EVERINGHAM & Qo., COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Let us sell yours. Want a supply' of /Vlorchants our shipping stationery ? Oommission MEMBERS 228 and 230 Rialto Bldg., Orders and Cooslgnments Solicited. CHICAGO BOARD OP TRADE ROSENBAUM BROTHERS. CHICAGO. GRAIN COMMISSION MERCHANTS GRAIN AND SEEDS OF ALL KINDS Our Special Market Letters and Pocket Manual furnished free 77 Board of Trade, CHICAGO For Casta and Future Delivery. on application. Suite 80, Board of Trade CHICAGO, ILL. ACTIONS speak louder than words. WE can convince you. National Starch Co. BAKER 6l TRAXLER, WEARE COMIVIISSION CO. GENERAL OFFICES: THE ROOKERY GRAIN COMIVIISSION, GRAIN, PROVISIONS, Chicago STOCKS AND BONDS. NASH, WRrCHT CO. Private Wires to All Principal Exchanges of the Uoited Stales. BUYERS OF CORN 515 to 519 RIALTO BUILDING, CHICAGO. WE SOLICIT CONSIGNMENTS. OLD COLONY BUILDINQ s : CHIOAGO JOS. p. GRIFFIN, Manager Grain Dept. WILLIAM J. POPE, Pres't. W. N. ECKHARDT, Sec'y

POPE & ECKHARDT CO. W. F. JOHNSON GEO. A. WEGENER. ILLINOIS SUGAR REFINING COMPANY COMMISSION MERGHflNTS W. f. JOHNSON & (0. General Offices: The Rookery, CHICAGO. GRAIN, SEEDS AND PROVISIONS. GRAIN, SEED AND PROVISION Waukegan, II. FACTORIES: Pekin, III. Geneva, III. Venice, III 3I7-32J Western Union Building, CHICAGO. Commission Merchants BUYERS OF CORN

Orders tor future delivery carefully executed. Daily Consumption, e-i.OOO Bushels. Consignments and correspondence solicited. JOS. p. GRIFFIN, Manager Grain Dept. E. W. WAGNER Room 59, Board of Trade CHICrtGO W. R. Mumford, Pres. Clarence H. Thayer. Sec'y and Gen. Mgr. MEMBER CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE Ti]e(ilu(oseSu$iir Refilling (ooipany PERSONAL ATTENTION GIVEN R. W. MUMFORD CO., General OHices : The Rookery, CHICAGO. ORDERS FOR CONSIGNMENTS AND Chicago, III. FACTORIES : Rockford, III. FUTURE DELIVERY SOLICITED: SPECULATIVE ACCOUNTS Peoria, III. narshalltown, la. Davenport, la. MAIN OFFICE: 528-532 Rialto Bldg., CHICAGO. BLJYIBRS or OORIM MINNEAPOLIS, 19 Charaher of Commerce. ST. LOUIS, 60 Laclede Bldg. AND CONSIGNMENTS. Consumption 100,000 Bushels Daily. MILWAUKEE, 113 Michigan Street. KANSAS CITY, 605-606 Board of Trade.

Marl

99 Board of Trade BIdg., Chicago, III. MVELLER

Make Buy and Sell Track Bids for Future Delivery

My personal Your orders attention given for cash and consignments. futures solicited.

J. H. WARE. E. F. LELAND.

Consign your grain and seeds and send your Board of Trade Orders to Sell Make WARE & LELAND, Corisignments Quick Returns 200-210 Rialto Bldg., Chicago.

P. M. BUNCH GRAIN, PROVISIONS, I. p. RUMSEY. STOCKS AND COTTON. RUMSEY & COMPANY Write for our Dally Market Letter. (Successors to RUMSEY, LIQHTNER & CO.) Your interests are our iaterests. Special attention given to cash Commission Merchants. Grain, Provisions and Seeds. grain shipments. CASH AND FUTURE DELIVERIES. 97 BOARD OF TRADE CHICAGO AMERICAN ELEVATOR AND GRAIN TRADE. 425 GRAIN RECEIVERS CHICAGO CHICAGO CHICAGO

CORRESPOND WITH MILMINE, BODMAN & CO., Dei\Uey-JoAes UraLia Lo. GERSTENBERG & CO., Commission Merchants. G R. A I N STOCKS, GRAIN, COMMISSION MERCHANTS BONDS, PROVISIONS, Grain and Commission Barley a Receivers and Shippers. Consignments and Orders for Future Seeds, Merchants. specialty 5 and 7 Board of Trade, 401 Produce Exchange. Deliver}- Solicited. CHICAGO. NEW YORK. 259 La Salle St., CHICAGO. ILL. 73 and 74 Board of Trade. CHICAGO. F. E. WINANS ARMOUR GRAIN CO., Commission Merchant 205 LA SALLE STREET, GRAIN AND FIELD SEEDS Commission Merchants No. 6 Sherman St. ...CHICAGO CHICAGO,

Write us freelj- on all miiitcrs pcrtttlulni; to Grain anil FleM GRAIN, SEEDS AND PROVISIONS. Seeds. Your quesilons fully and cheerfully answered. Par- GRAIN BUYERS AND DEALERS. ticular attention paid to Timothy and Flax Seeil. Orders for future delivery will receive our careful personal attcntlDu. 65 Board of Trade Building Hbnby Hbmmelgabn Philip H. Schiffun CHICMGO HUTCHINSON & SHAW, EBtabllshed 1861 Commhsion Merchants, H. HtMMflGARN & (0., JOHN WEST 6. CO. connissioN hbrchants, 83 Board of Trade, (Albert L. West)

Grain, Seeds and Provisions W. I. HUTCHINSON, Ull^ A r^D Commission NerchaLiits H. B. SHAW. *^ L,rllL,/\LxU,

317, 318 anil 319 Rlillo Bulldin;, Grain, Seeds, Provisions. Rooms ruir Ar^n II 1 Adjoining Board of Trade, ^niVAUU, IL,U. 604 R-oyo.! Irvs\jra.nce Bldg. CHICAGO Consignments Solicited. Correspondence Invited. Phone Harrison 685 * u, \\» "m Ifj STRAW Long Distance * afld GRAIN. WTI.LIAMS TelephLne, 3339 Harrison E. W. BAILEY & CO., M. I.. KARIllCK. <. K. (iUAV. II. 6. KARRICK, GRAY & WILLIAHS connissiON herchants Commission Merchants, Correspondence and Consignments 66 BOARD OF TRADE, .Solicited. Market Reports .r-u i/- a .rrz-v • GRAIN, SEEDS AND GRAIN connissioN on Application, CrllCAUO, ILL.

PROVISIONS Members Chicago, ninneapolis, St. Louis, of Trade 72 Board of Trade, CHICAGO. Milwaukee and Duluth Boards MINNEAPOLIS