| Show I jugs 1 TO CHECK GRAIN AIN f FRAUD A D DW W tO N fA FARMERS MR M. M H. H Greene Grain Corporation Corporation Corporation Corpo Corpo- ration Representative to Take Field in 6 Western States to Aid Farmers of the fact that the theD BECAUSE D wheat heat crop has been so short in the intermountain country that no wheat is being offered to the government and because wholesale frauds in the buying of ot grain from the farmers farmers have been practiced by dealers Jn the wheat centers centers centers cen cen- of the Middle V West st a drastic change chango in the operations of the United States Grain corporation InI in inthis inthis this zone has been ordered As a result M. M H. H Greene local district I representative for the government will abandon the grain corporation headquarters offices In the Newhouse building and will take the field in I six Western Vestern states I After a four weeks' weeks trip through I eastern Colorado Mr Greene has Just I returned to Salt Lake and is making preparations for a tour of Texas Oklahoma Kansas Colorado Utah and New Mexico He lie is bringing to book dealers who have been taking advantage of farmers who have been unable to move their wheat by reason of the car shortage As a result of oC i I I his investigations in fn Colorado the United States railroad administration l' l is making earnest efforts to get cars into that section to relieve the wheat congestion PRICE GUARANTEED The government has guaranteed the farmer a certain price for his wheat at certain points said Mr Greene to to- to day The licensed dealer is also guaranteed a certain price and under his license the dealer must protect the he farmer when he buys the farmers farmer's grain Since last July there has be been n a n marked car shortage in eastern Colorado Colorado Colorado Colo Colo- rado in a district t that produces about ten million bushels Thinking that they were going to get cars the farmers dumped their grain on the ground or orIn orin orin in open bins in the fields Then they found that they could not get cars and they became anxious I to dispose of their grain at almost an any r price And that's what the dealers gave They paid them any price getting getting getting get get- ting the grain below the government guaranteed price and holding it for fabulous advances above the guaranteed guaranteed guaranteed guaran guaran- teed price to them INSTANCES MANY East of Sterling and Brush on the Burlington in eastern Colorado I found numerous instances ces of this kind I found where the dealers paid the farmers a bushel and sold the I wheat for There are arc hundreds I of thousands of bushels on the tile ground right now and the railroad administration I tion is doing everything possible to get cars there to relieve the situation I am working out a report of my investigations investigations in investigations in- in there and I am convinced we can force the repayment to the farmers of that district of as much as Mr Greene Intimated that the same condition exists in other grain centers in the West Vest and that his investigations will take talO a wide scope UTAH BLAMELESS These things have not occurred in Utah however because the crop has been short here and the Utah mills have been taking p practically all the grain offered During the entire season season season sea sea- son the government has purchased only six carloads of Wheat in Salt Lake There being nothing offered the grain gram corporation will close its offices and Mr Greene will simply maintain headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters at his home Wilson avenue avenue avenue ave ave- nue for the closing up of the business He lie said that he did not expect any grain would be because farmers and dealers are getting more than the guaranteed pric but It If such should be bethe bethe bethe the case the graIn corporation is still willing to take It From reports said Mr l Greene it seems proba probable a that Utah and Idaho will have only half a crop crop this year due to the great greaf drouth of last summer Washington and Oregon also suffered and Instead of W Western stern grain coming I to Utah as formerly Eastern grain is isnow IS now going through to the coast |
