The Nonpartisan Leader Newspaper, June 7, 1917, Page 16

ADVERTISEMENTS Annual Clearance Sale of Pianos WONDERFUL BARGAINS In famous makes now offered at re. duced prices. We have a large stock of exchanged pianos which we wish to close out be- fore our annual ‘inventory and have marked them at_ special low prices. Stock includes Hallet & Davis $75, Hardman $48, Kimball $65, Fischer $100, Radle $90,- Kranich & Bach $85, Decker Bros, $150, Mason & Hamlin $150, Chickering $175, Steinway $250, and many others. We will send com- plete list of these bargains and full information if you write us. Monthly payments can be arranged. Pianos shipped anywhere. Satisfaction guar- anteed. Write at once if you would like to secure one of these special bargain pianos, before they are all sold. Ask for Bargain Bulletin No. 59. W. J. Dyer & Bro. Dept. 88, ST. PAUL, MINN. Get Your Traction Engine in Shape before the big rush for threshing commences. Rebore those cylinders and have your engine thoroughly overhauled now. Have the broken parts welded. 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BECKWITH SPECIAL AGENCY Advertising Representatives St. Louis The Leader solicits advertisements of meritorious articles needed by farmers, Quack, fraudulent and irresponsible firms are not knowingly advertised, and we will take it as a favor if any readers will advise us promptly should they have occasion to doubt or question the reliability of any firm which patronizes our ~ Copy for advertisements must reach the Leader office by Saturday previous to publication in order to insure insertion in current issue. Guaranteed Weekly Circulation in Excess of 65,000 Copies Detroit Kansas City A State That Owns Its Terminals (Continued from page 5) surance, he-borrows money at a fraction of the interest he formerly paid. The cotton is not dumped on the market during a few months, allowing European and American mill buyers to beat the price down. It is held in storage and shipped out as needed, and the farmer can control his product from the time he harvests it till it is sold to the spinning mills. The capacity of the state-owned warehouse is to be doubled by the port commission at once. Its success has been so pronounced that the de- mand on it has made this necessary, for it is at the service of the whole cotton belt on equal terms, not only of the state of Louisiana. STATE ELEVATOR TO BE DOUBLED The state of Louisiana did not stop when it had put the cotton warehouse into operation. It has since built and is operating also a million-bushel grain elevator, costing $1,250,000, one of the most complete and modern ele- vators in the country. It is of con- crete, fireproof, and looms as the ‘tall- est building on the waterfront. It is equipped so that it can pour 100,000 bushels of grain per hour into the hold of a ship. Or it can load four ships at once, each with a different kind of grain. One might devote pages to the mechanical equipment of this state- owned plant. It has only been in oper- ation a year, but so successfully ‘that its capacity is now being more than doubled. Additional storage capacity of 1,600,000 bushels is being provided for, the foundations of the addition now being under construction, so that it will have nearly a 3,000,000-bushel capacity within a year. .One can not look at this great pub- lic utility, a reality at New Orleans, without wondering how much longer the northwestern states will have to fight politicians and private greed and monopoly before they too own their own terminal elevators. The existence of this state-owned elevator at New Orleans is all the more striking be- cause Louisiana produces no grain ex- cept rice, and this is not handled to any extent through the elevator. The same is true of the other southern states. The elevator was built by Louisiana to handle the crops of northerri and western states. The southern states had no need for it to adjust economic- abuses that affected their own producers. It was built merely to provide the most modern handling equipment for the port of New Orleans, and to attract the grain business of the North and West to New Orleans as an outlet to foreign lands. THE NORTH NEEDS IT MUCH MORE KEENLY It seems remarkable that a state can build such a public utility under these conditions, when northern states have not yet been able to do so, although they need such facilities much more than New Orleans. They need them to break the elevator-mill monopoly and the grain combine, the great incubus that is taking hundreds of millions from the profits of northwestern producers every year. They need them to solve acute economic abuses of the present system of marketing—to help their own citi- zens, producers and consumers. But they have not got them. Yet a southern state gets a state-owne ed elevator when it does not need it for this reason, but needs it only to bring port business to the lower Mississippi metropolis. Before the state,, through the New Orleans port commission, built this elevator, two railroads and a terminal company owned grain elevators. These - elevators were cheap firetraps, mak- ing insurance rates on grain high dur- ing storage and transit through the elevators. But the chief abuse that made it necessary for public ownership to step in was that these elevators were ~built by the railroads for their own business—to handle grain only that came in over their own lines. They accepted grain coming in over other lines, but they charged higher rates for it. As there are 10 or 12 big rail- roads running into New Orleans, most of which brought in grain from the West and North, a large part of the crops going through this terminal had to pay excessive tolls, besides putting up with poor storage and handling facilities. GET NORTHWEST GRAIN AT NEW ORLEANS This was what influenced the state to put up a grain elevator of its own. Now grain gets the same treatment, no matter what railroad it comes in over, and the port is greatly increas- ing its grain business. While I was at the state-owned .elevator they were unloading a train load of sacked wheat from the state of Oregon, which was to be exported by ship from New Or- leans. The sacks were cut open as they were taken from the car and the grain elevated into the big bins, from which it was later to be drained into ships. The public elevator does a big business in grain from the Minneapo- lis-St. Paul and Kansas City markets, but most of it has passed out of the the hands of the farmers long before it reaches New Orleans. While North and South Dakota and Kansas wheat goes through this port to the tune of about 50,000,000 bushels a year, it is not shipped by producers, but by middlemen who have bought it up. However, the Louisiana. publicity owned elevator is there to do business for any owner of grain, be he farmer or grain buyer or exporter. Owing to - limited capacity in the past, which will be solved to a certain extent by the doubling of the capacity of the ele- vator at once, the port commission does not invite grain for storage except in transit, though it accepts such grain at a higher rate. - (In the next article Mr. Morris will discuss some of the other interesting features of state-ownership of termi- nals at New Orleans.) AFTER THE PROFITS Potato shipments from the South are larger than last year’s, but the prices are HIGHER. Last week twice: as many bushels came North as were shipped during the same week of 1916. Wholesale prices ranged from 25 cents to 40 cents per bushel higher at the end of the week than at the beginning. With a bumper potato crop in the South, and with every Northern gradener and farmer growing spuds in field and backyard, why is the price ascending? The best guess is that speculators are buying all offerings, intending to hold them for hand-made high prices next winter. Food Administrator Hoover ought to learn .if that's the answer, and to act, if it is, 5 Storing food for winter consumption is fine business; cornering it to force up the price is the meanest gambling device concocted—ST. PAUR DAILY NEWS. SIXTEEN ADVERTISEM S FARMERS Ship us your eggs, poultry and veal. We pay highest cash prices. Fat hens 20c Ib., alive. 7 EGGERTS MARKET 105 Broadway, Fargo, N. D. 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