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Show OGDEN IS A CASH MARKET FOR WHEAT. Igden has become a cash market I for grain through the local grain ex haii This should be encouraging ' new.s to the farmers of Utah. Idaho, I Montana Oregon and Washington. From all that vast district, grain Is ! .-hipped to Ogden Since last, July : lu.oon ( arloadn have come In to Ogden i t o be .-amp! cel. classified and certifi"d. Here a government force passes on the giade of wheat and on that grad ling the farmers are to be paid. With I the arrival of the wheat In the yards, i where an entire track is given over to the traffic, samples are taken by government gov-ernment experts. Then follows the grading As soon as the work Is completed, com-pleted, the farmer Is paid on world quotations. There is no playing for advantage, no juggling of prices, no sharp practice, no attempt at decep tion. The wheat grower, without information in-formation as to market conditions or knowledge of the quality of his grain, receives the same fair treatment accorded ac-corded to the owner of an elevator. The establishing of a cash market In Ogden should bring the farmers of j '-his lntermountaln region into Ogden to sell their grain and buy their goods. With them should come the cattlemen and the sheepmen, for they, too, have a cash market for their product. Soon tha feeding or livestock In Ogden will be made more Important than It Is and the packing industry will be enlarged. en-larged. The day is not far off when Ogden will bo an Industrial center which no farmer or livestock owner in this interior in-terior country can afford to disre gard. It will be buying more wheat, producing more flour, feeding more cattle and sheep, slaughtering and packing more cattle and hogs than any other city west of the Missouri river. W atCh Ogden grov. ' no |