Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-05-12 | Page 24 | Food Administrator to Purchase Flour

FOOOliiSTRH'! TO PURCHASE FLOUR Surplus Will Be Paid For in Cash When Delivered at Railway Stations. CONDITIONS SPECIFIED Offer Is Aimed to Bring Out Any Wheat Stocks Being Held Back. The latest call to the colors is the opportunity offered now by tho food administrator of Utah for all patriotic-citizens patriotic-citizens to turn their surplus wheat flour over to tho government. The food administrator announces that effective tomorrow, he will purchase pur-chase and pay for in cash all wheat flour delivered to him at any railroad station in Utah on the following con-editions: con-editions: 1. Flourjmust be in original mill packages, but may be either 84, 4S or 98-pound sacks. 2. All flour must be "100 per cent flour or better": that is, it must be what is commonly known as straight grade or high patent. Quantity Specified. 3. A sufficient quantity of flour must be assembled at the railroad station to make one or more complete com-plete carloads, based on 60,000 pounds per car. In the event tho total amount of flour assembled at any railroad statiou is not sufficient suf-ficient to make up a carload, such flour will be received and shipped to the nearest suitable station, where it can be combined into carloads, car-loads, and will be paid for at tho price named below, less freight from the originating station to tho assembling point. 4. The price to be paid is $4.75 per 100 pounds, net weight, including includ-ing sacks. (Note that this is a "hundred pouuds net weight," not one, two or four sacks weighing less than 100 pounds.) The food administrator for Utah appeals ap-peals to the people of Utah, consumers, retailers and millers alike, to recognize the imperative necessity of increasing the shipment of flour "to the fighting men and allies in Europe. The administrator admin-istrator believes that there is in the hands of the farmers in Utah considerable consider-able surplus wheat, which has been held either for lack of a system of prompt and convenient marketing, or aB a precaution pre-caution to carry forward the whole stock of wheat until the next harvest. This wheat should be immediately turned in to the nearest mills and ground into flour, so that not only may the flour become available for export, but the bran and shorts may supply the immediate needs of the farmers for mill feeds. Service Is Patriotic. The price will be, in some cases, less than the consumer has paid for his flour, but the administrator appeals to all persons who have on hand a greater quantity of flour than they need for their own use to turn the same in, under the above conditions, as a patriotic service. It is suggested that retail dealers, who have surplus flour on hand beyond the requirements of their trade, make arrangements with the millers from whom they purchased the flour to return re-turn the same and receive credit at the original cost price. So far as possible, pos-sible, flour delivered in less than ear lots will be assembled for shipment at the nearest flour mill located at a railroad rail-road station. Persons desiring to turn in their flour should Notify first their local dealer or their local 'flour miller, who in turn will notify the food administrator for Utah, of the date on which the carload of flour will be ready for shipment, and the administrator will immediately arrange to send an inspector and an agent to inspect and pay for the flour so shipped. Delivery to Mills. All persons having surplus wheat on hand should immediately tender the same for sale to the flour mill most conveniently located. . The mills will be authorized to accept and pay for all wheat so offered, whether shipped by rail or by' wagon, and to grind the wheat so purchased into flour for government gov-ernment account, releasing the mill feeds for the use of livestock. In the case of mills grinding for government account, as above, it is requested that shipment be made in 140-pound jute export sacks, and the food administrator will be glad to assist such mills as have no stock of these sacks to secure a supply promptly. The administration urges upon all concerned immediate and prompt action in this matter. The soldiers need the flour and they need it now; aud, while this is the most important consideration considera-tion possible, it should also be born in mind that the livestock on the farms is in urgent need of mill feeds, which will be released by the prompt grinding grind-ing of the wheat; that the farmer is entitled to the prompt sale of his wheat for cash, and that the miller in turn is entitled to the prompt sale of all flour which he can produce in excess of local requirements. Early Action Urged. The machinery fer this plan is now complete, and it resVs with the farmer?, the millers, and the people of I'tah to' see that the wheat turned in and ground, that all surplus stocks of flour arc put at the disposiMon of the government, gov-ernment, and that the flour is put on the rails for shipment vt the earliest possible moment. The .Tennings-Hanna Warehouse eom-pany eom-pany of this city has been selected as the "assembling point in .Salt Lake, and the Ogden assembling point will be announced an-nounced shortly.