Saturday, June 2S, 1924.
THE LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER
PAGE SEVEW
Grain Growers Have
' Profited $15,000,000
'r lty way of announchu? lo thvi to which tho association hns bom
membership the temporary suspin-' shipping indicates the extensive
sion of the association's operations,) eaio to which It hns developed tin
the board of district delegates of i IttiHiness of exporting its members
the. Oregon Co-operative Grainjwheat and should at onco and for
Grower' association is sending out all set uside the arguments advanc
lo members ft. letlor tho full text ed , by eni'inies that thu associa-
of which is hern reproduced.
lion whs not exporting but was sell
ing the grain to tho samo dealers
who purchased it from tho .farmer
beforo the, . association camu Into
existence. The wheat has beer.
marketed In an orderly manner
throughout the year and tho prlc?
that the association has returned to
tho memlH-rshtp has been the aver
ago of tho year's market value.
Members of Oregon Cooperative
G ruin Growers:
When the association was organ
ized during tho spring of 1921 the
wheat growers of the state of Ore
c gon had n mind two conditions
which they wished to correct. Kirst,
for years tho grain buyers of the
country had insfsieu mat memo -
i const wheat must be Hold on a ba- in (heir desire for a plan of
Bis of the Chicago market Ichs tin operation which would give them
freight charges from the coast to tin average of the market values
Chicago. Second, a study of wheat throunhout the year, however, the
prices over a period of years indi- growers could not foresee that the
cated that tho grain market open- first time in history wheat marketb
cd with a low price in the fall and during the three years that the rs-
consistently advanced throughout soclation has been operating have
the year with, in most ensis. the been higher at delivery time in the
lilghest prices being paid durinp fall than they were for the greater
the .months of May and June. A purl of the remaining ninrketlnii
lnrge percentage of the growers' year; so that an average price
Wheat wns sold on the market pro throughout tho year would neces-
vailtng from August to November, sarily he less than the price that
ntiii nnnomicntlv the farmers wert could have been received at the
selling most of their wheat at the harvest period.
lower prices. . When the association wus formed
In considering tho first of these it wus the thought of many of our
two conditions the growers of the farm lenders that the benefits tncl
Northwest were aware that on the dent to its operation could be rc
averago It cost no more to ship turned to the members without all
wheat from the Pacific co;'st points other farmers engaged in the same
to Kurope than from rhkago" to line of agriculture also securing the
Karope. In regard to tho second benefits, Tho hiatory of co-oper-Ihey
desired to better the returns alive marketing of farm products
received from their wheat by plac- without control of the volume has
ing the grain In a common pool shown that this Is not the case. In
and distributing it over the year's their opposition to - co-operative
market, thus obtaining the uveragi marketing organizations, the old
price paid for wheat throughout line grain companies have paid
On year. much higher prices to non-mom-
During their three years of oper- bers than they would have paid
ating the association the farmers had there been no organization ir
have actually accomplished the two the field, lletter warehousing and
things which they set out to do financing conditions have been
For the past two years coust prices made avnlliible In the territory
for wheat have been held on an served. Tho non-members, how-
duality with the values of the ex- ever lias si-cured ail of these bene-
. port wheats which flow to market fits without having to assume any
::j'i...niif-ti fiiieairii nnd Duluth. They of t he obligations of the ussocta-
Imve also marketed their wheat inltlon member, and seeing that they
forehrn markets, the association have obtained all the benefits whll
this past season having exported "outside tho association the non--wheat
to Hull. Uvurpoo!. Lomfon member has been generally content
and . Avonmouth in Knjjtand. tolto let the association member hold
rn,.an.n- in Sr-nihinH. Antwerp In , t he umbrella over him."
Helirluni. Uotterdam in Holland, toi Proof of these conditions Is In-
Kobo, Ynkohoma and Nagoya in dlcatcd by the fact that over a pe
T..,...n Hhnno-hal in China, and In riod of years prior to the war th
nf.lVirt Vht wide funco of norts Pacific coast farlncr received 8t
(per cent as much for his wheat as;
tho Mississippi valley received tor
hut wheat. (Figures from tho bu
reau of economics of tho United
States department of agriculture).
Today, for the stvnm cIhm of wheat,
tho coast farmer Is n an equality
with tho Mississippi valley (armor.
Tho fact that tho trado on thn
Pacific coast has been operating
without profit during tho last two
or three years in their fight against
tho association Is evidenced by the
following, facts: There are today
only about half as many commis
sion men und brokers operating in
tho Pacific coast grain .. trado ns
there wero la 1920. This Is due to
the fact that the elimination of the
spreads that used to exist between
country prices And terminal prices
has left no room for the broker to
operate.
At a public meeting held In Cor
vallis In March. 1924. Mr. W. I.
Thompson, first vice president of
tho First National bank of Port
land, made thn statement that of
the three leading grain firms oper
ating in Portland during the l!t22
23 season one made approximately
$30,000. ono broke even, and one
lost $30,000 .and that the firm
which made $30,000 made less
than one-tenth of n cent per bushel
on its operations. In handling
sales of mortgaged wheat this past
year tho association hns repeatedly
taken the price as quoted In our
morning cables from Liverpool and
found that the price offered In the
country where those lots of mort
gaged wheat were put-up for sale
was th& Liverpool price less only
tho physical cost of. handling the
wheat from the country warehouse
to Liverpool. There was not a
fraction of a cent margin for office
or administrative expense of the
grain firm bidding for the wheat
or for erode discounts. The denlers
were willing to handle this wheat
tree or even nt a loss to themselves
In their competition with tho asso
ciation. - .
The above foots Indicate to what
length the trade Is willing to go in
the effort to discredit the organi
zation in the opinion of the grow
ers. . k
. In forcing higher prices to be
mild to all irVowers In tho North
west for tho post tnroo years th"
associations have been responsible
for the distribution of not less than
$lfi.ooo.(ion throughout the wheat
crowlnir country more-than would
have been paid for the irraln had
the association not existed.
MONUMENTS
Slain Priest
llev. Michael C. Oilbridiie, Lowell.
'.M:iss who was shot and killed byj
John King, Jr., ns ho was ruhnin-J
iKtoriug the last rites to King's dy.
Ing lather. Inset Is King who Is
wild to have had a maniacal nn-1
Upathy to religion and who tooki
out his fanaticism on the kindly;
j priest. In resisting arrest King)
jRhot and wounded a police captain.1
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A determined .fiRlit was mud''
liv the farmers of the Nor! Invent
thin year for legislation which
would bettor the conditions or thu
grain farmer. Non-members as
sisted tho members In this fight,
and. of course, should receive due
erodlt tor I heir assistance. How
ever, It Is a well known fact that
thn McNary-llaiifc-en bill would
never have boon written nor pre
sented to congress had It not been
for tho efforts of the wheat grow
ers' organizations, and that while
(hej received soma ' assistance
from non-members of the. associa
tion, by fur tho greatest amount of
expenditure of time and money to
further that work MB PUt forth
bv tho . association niemocrai
through their support of the or
ganization through which they
wero selling their wheat.
.
The Oregon To-operative Coun
cil. P.1 organization made up of
representatives of every farmers'
organization In the slate, repre
sentatives of Oregon Agricultural
College, tho chamber of Commerce
and the Httitc Bankers' association,
lias said:
Cooperative marketing should
be adopted as H system by means
or which we can most advantage
ously grade and standardize our
products, develop markets and
slablllzo prices to growers. Al
most Invariably those nfsoclnllons
raise the general price level by or
derly marketing and secure lo tin
grower I ho actual market price ror
his products anil remove, the indi
vidual hazard of a fluctuating
market. They also work for tin
securing of beneficial adjustments
In matters of credit, transportation
legislation, etc., that, unorganized
growers neither can nor will si
cure, and which private agencies
will not attempt to rcndop The
benefits thus gulncd have been,
however, often shared equally by
non-members, who boar none of
the expense, and this tends to Tro
nic dissatisfaction In the runKS 01
uiaoclullon members.
, Whereas, wo believe In order to
obtain greater benefits through
the association a larger percent
age of growers should participate.
anil in order to ufford an oppor
lunlty to secure said Increase In
membership; therefore, bo it
ltesolved, that the Oregon' Co
operative Grain Growers hereby
temporarily suspend operations
until such time as its board of di
rectors feel that It would be to I lie
best Interest or its membership to
resume operations.
This Is not to be -interpreted, as
meaning that the association Is
going to disband or disincorporate.
H merely means temporary sus
pension for at least tho 11124 crop.
Tho grower is therefore free to
market his 1 124--crop himself, sell
ing It at any time ho pleases and
to anyone to whom ho wishes to
soil it. Thu board of directors, will
some lime during the fall or win
tor, notify you as lb their plans re
garding thu crop.
Very trulv yours, .
Hoard , or "District; ..Delegated' of
Iho Oregon Co-opernllvo Uratn
Growers.
J. K. lteynolds, President.
Ji O-runde, Or.,
V. JI. Smith, Secretary,
Wasco, Or.
Howard Anderson, Heppner. Or.
Italph ltonge. Iloppnor, Or..
II. I). Davidhizar, Joseph, Or.
W. II. Downing. Shaw. or.
.1. W. Dyer, Mayvlllo, Or.
V. .1 Kdwards, Condon, Or.
W. Kpplngur, Baker, Or.
T. H. Ilamplon, l'enillelon. Or.
C. A. Ilnrth, Tho Dalles, Or.
l-'reil UruHow, (irass Valley, Or.
Walter W. IliisHill, MoMinnvllle,
tiregon.
A. It. rthnmway, Milton, Or.
J. W. Hmilh. Aurora. Or.
II. V. Smouse, lone, or. .
J C. Sothman, Madras, Or.'
Swedes I'liul New IMihivvi
'I'll Derive. (Ill lliinl Shale
STOCKHOLM, (API A total
of 24. r. noil. mm tons or fuel oil can
bo derived from Sweden's deposits
or- bituminous -Hlmle, according lo
estimates or engineers published
In eonnoetlon with the announce
ment that production of shale oil
is about lo begin on a large scale
at Kinnekulte.
Since Sweden is entirely depen
dent on Imports for her coal and
petroleum, for ninny years atten
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onunilc importance or finding
some way of producing fuel from
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A highly satisfactory siiliiti
The grain associations In Ore
gon and Washington, though orig
inally having 25 per cent ot all
the wheat s gncd on membership
agreements, have Jointly handled
ubout 15 per cent. The Ions was
due to mortgages arfecting deliv
ery. Tills small membership, de
livering 15 per cent or Iho wheat.
has grown weary or carrying th'
entire load of responsibility ror
the benefit of the 85 per cent wb.i.
whTv 3litn:nH the groat benefits
accruing to the wheal Industry as
a whole through the operation ur
the association, hove preferred lo
right the association by placing
their grain In the hands of the
older trade channels and thus al
lowing II lo be in direct competi
tion with the association which.. Is
benerlltlng them. The association
member naturally disapproves or
this altitude on the pari or the
' non-meiiiber, and ruvorcd some
' plan which would Increase the
, membership und the volume or
! wheat bundled by Iho organiza
tion. i After due consideration, there
I rore, and cooperating with Iho
i Washington Wheat Orowors" usso-
I riatlon. the district delegates "f
the Oregon Co-operative drain
, growers unanimously pusicd Hie
rollowing ri-soliillon at their annu
al meeling. l-'rlday, June 2:
Whereas, after a careful survey
' of the Oregon wheat area having
' been made It has been ascerta-nei.
'thai the IH24 wheal crop Is I
than GO per cent or normal, and
; statistics obtained Indicate Hint
j the entire wheat crop of the I 'nil
cd Stales and Canada is tar below
! normal, which will materially re. j
l diiee Iho exportable surplus, there j j
J by raising
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