Show A suggestion good news to the afflicted in cache county EDITOR JOURNAL A few months ago ago I 1 suggested the idea idaa of our people uniting their labor and means in in communities of from one ona to two hundred men and build elevators with a capacity of from fifty to one hundred thousand bushels for foi the purpose of cleaning and storing our wheat while it is only worth from thirty five to fifty cents per bushel thon sell it when it is worth from sixty to seventy and perhaps eighty cents per p er bushel and thereby save from 20 to CO 60 per cent within the space of eight or nine months instead of curnin turning it over to the merchants and ot others hers iv chils i r ile it is so very low priced some may ask how bow can we 1 ay up tip our wheat when we are ow ing cr it all or nearly so to the mere au a 13 t and others fur goods we ive haff bought from them while ty tl 0 ey cy 2 ae t e greatly in ill need of their puy pay f my ly proposition is solidly sim idly y teis let two hundred farmr farm rs imite thema A hes es into a joint f tock ock company otte one hundred of whom are able to furnish th tb airty dollars cah caeli each as it may r e ne needed bcd and another one hundred f I 1 thirty dollars in in lumber 2 ad labor each when needed 41 0 eh will vill buy the T machinery aad build an aa elevator t that will II i bus budr I 1 od 0 d seventy five thousand aels ofir of wheat fleat when built let baci bac n outs de ae of his seed tithing and b W r ad and take a reci recilia lit for the jame ame one good man will attend to wei weighing 0 hinc 0 cleaning and Cle crevatin clev vatin atins and also keep the books booke or of the company and to pay him for hit his nork let each man pay 62 pounds for a bushel whish extra two pounds on bushels will make bushels which will pay for the labor and all loss in shrinkage for one season then when this bushels is on liand hand and the merchants and others want their pay pa ys let the manager niana er go 0 o to the firm that ba has 8 mon money ey 0 to loan and say we haye have bus of good clean wheat in our elevator at smithfield or richmond u upon P on which we ivi wish 11 to borrow if for one year we will turn over the bus as collat colla i eral securely secure ty his answer wi will 11 naturally bs be all right sir you cen get the money at 7 per cent per annum by turning oyer over the wheat rec receipts eilts as ag security secure ty ile he takes the money and pays to each farmer according to his stock and I 1 grain in the tha com company piny which he tile the farmer I 1 wi will it take and pay to the merchant who will be pleased to discount his book account 10 per cent on oa the cash lie he receives which will make a saving of 3 per cent to the farmer and liis his wheat is safe for one year tho the farmers have the benefit of the raise in the market which may may reach 15 acts on each bus and thereby be a ravin saving of six thousand dollars on 10 1 I hus bus and if it should only adva advance nce 10 acts per bus it will sa save ve which would buy bushels of wheat at threshing time which could be put in the elevator as a dividend div ident if it should advance 25 acts per bus as it lid did last year it will aill be a S wirl swirl saving 7 of or equal to bus of wheat at thres threshing bing time which would be over ono one and a half times as much as was paid out to build the elevator and in three or four years in place of this thia farmers being ono one year behind in the stores they might with careful ec conomy be one year ahead and feeling fee linc far bolter better satisfied than they possibly could feel by bv continuing I 1 on in the present slipshod slip shod way oi of doin doing Z business another grand saving 0 t to 0 the farmer would bo be that he could take the elcanie gleanings cleanings clean ings S home chop thorn them up and feed to h his is pigs in place of giving it to the millers and merchants arid and being docked one or two cents per bug for having dirty wheat which to my knowledge is being done I 1 one idy by the millers and merchants ts all over the country A word to tho the wise should be sufficient respectfully submitted GEO L FARRELL oct 20 1893 1 |