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Show Farmers Union Urges Bulk Oil Plant in Delta Definite plans were formulated by farmers of West Millard county to establish a co-operative bulk oil station at Delta at a Farmers Union meeting held in the Delta high school auditorium Wednesday night, January 12. A committee was appointed by the farmers to set a membership fee and raise $20,000 within the area for the station. They will form a corporation, name a board of directors, and start immediately to form an organization. Wallace Holman was named chairman with the following committe members, mem-bers, Blaine Robinson, who is the county chairman of the Farmers Union; Dean Harder, Jack Nelson, Val Styler, Layton Dewsnup, Ben Robinson and Lyman Finlinson. The men represent varous communities in West Millard county. The meeting was called by the Farmers Union organization who mailed out 600 invitations to the Millard county farmers. A representative represen-tative group from each town of West Millard were in attendance at the meeting. President Blaine Robinson was in charge of the meeting and introduced intro-duced the following speakers, W. Wallace Holman, West Millard county representative of Utah Cooperatives, Co-operatives, Jim Kamas of Salt Lake City, who is the organizer for the Farmers Union, Rod Egan of Jensen, Jen-sen, Utah, who is the oil representative represen-tative from the Co-op owned refinery re-finery at Jensen, Utah and W. B. Robins of Salt Lake City, who is the manager of the Utah Co-op. Mr. Kamas explained the plan of Farmers Union and co-operative to the farmers. He told of the three local Farmer Union organizations that have been set up in Millard county, as well as a county organization. organ-ization. He said that the Oasis-Seed Oasis-Seed plant at Oasis hadles about 2 million pounds of seed a year and if the Oasis co-op wasn't there the high price of seed wouldn't have been held up to 51c. In Myton he said where there was no cooperatives co-operatives the seed bought up by buyers never went above 46c a pound. Last spring and summer a group of farmers in this area tried to set a price on hay. It was alright al-right until some farmers sold too soon and for a lower price. "The farmers must co-operate from coast to coast," he explained. "Farmers get 2c a pound for their potatoes and the merchants sell them out for 4c a pound, which makes a 100 profit for the middleman. This year the Oasis Seed cut out the middleman and dealt tlirectly with the buyers back eash and were able to get a higher price for their seed." Mr. Robins commended Mr. Holman Hol-man as being an enthusiastic and friendly representative. He told of the 20 organized co-ops in the state, which supply wholesale goods to its members. ' Gas was (chosen because it is so widely used. Mr. Robins told why the refinery was purchased at Jensen, Utah, and of the unlimited possiblities that will be realized in a few years by the .co-ops. Originally they were getting their supply of 150,000 gallons a month from Wasatch, Wa-satch, but Wasatch sold out to Phillips company, who cut to coop co-op allotment down to 60,000 gallons gal-lons a month. It was then decided to buy a refinery at Jensen to have an adequate supply of fuel. In September the co-ops took an option on the Jensen refinery which is now processing a million gallons of fuel a month. The bulk station in Delta will be supplied with fuel from Jensen at a wholesale whole-sale price to the farmers. Rod Egan who was bought with the refinery and who has been in the oil business since 1928, told to the farmers the quality of the product at the Jensen refinery. He also explained how the various products were processed. Farmers at the meeting realized the need of a bulk station at Delta and many expressed their opinion before the meeting was over. Advantages Ad-vantages mentioned by the farmers as they could see it would be to beat monopolies, to cut out the middleman and lower prices as well as set a standard price and to be guaranteed an adequate supply of fuel. By Sebrina Ekins |
