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Show Threshers Asked To Reduce Price Believing that the threshing charges in the Gunnison valley are too high and with a view to getting the operators of the several threshing thresh-ing outfits in this section to lower the prices consistent with the prices of wheat, the members of the farm bureaus of both Gunnison and Centerfield Cen-terfield held an Important meeting at Centerfield last Tuesday evening for the purpose of taking the matter up and having the prices lowered. Not only was action taken at the con-, con-, joinit meeting regarding the threshing charges,' but it was voted to have a committee visit the sugar factory officials and arrange, it. possible, to have the sugar beet hauling to the . factory let to the local farmers. More than 200 members of the two organizations organi-zations were present at Tuesday night's meeting. The prices now charged for threshing thresh-ing has been placed at from 9 to 11 cents per bushel and the grain raisers believe that this is too high as compared com-pared with the selling price of grain. The committee appointed will go before be-fore the threshing machine owners and ask that the price be lowered to 7 and 9 cts. per bushel, claiming that in other sections farmers are being accorded the lower prices. A committee was also appointed to confer with President Harvey Ross of the Gunnison Valley Sugar com- pany relative to hauling the sugar beets to the valley factory. It is estimated es-timated that it will require in the neighborhood of $15,000 to transport trans-port the beets to the factory this year and the farmers and others are anxious anx-ious to have this money remain in the valley rather than have it go to any outside concern. The matter will be taken up at once and every effort is being made to have this money spent with the beet growers and others, who claim the work can . easily be done here. |