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one vote at annual meetings. With this single far- 

 sighted stroke the possibility of control passing into 

 the hands of any cliane was removed. \ 



In furtherance of the plans set forth a committee* 

 was named to take charge of the preliminary organiza- 

 tion work until relieved by the election of a provisional 

 directorate at an organization meeting which it was 

 hoped to hold at Brandon the following March. This 

 committee was authorized to conduct a campaign for 

 subscriptions in the meantime, printed receipts to be 

 issued for the same. 



Such was the scheme to which the farmers of Sinta- 

 luta subscribed to a man. Two hues at 



Sintaluta_J;o begin with and Sintaluta only one point 



in the West! The Committee went to work with 



enthusiasm. Ten dollars was spent in printing a 



prospectus. E. A. Partridge got a card and blocked 



\. out on it : GRAIN GROWERS' GRAIN COMPANY. 



\ This he hung in the window of Wilson's old store at 



1 Sintaluta, where a dollar was paid for the use of a desk. 



i Here in the evenings would assemble William Hall, 



\ Al Quigley, William Bonner and E. A. Partridge to 



| send out circulars and keep the pot boiling till enough 



j funds were on hand to let Quigley out canvassing on 



; board wages. 



On February 28th the Manitoba Grain Growers' 

 Association held their 1906 convention and as chair- 

 man of the committee appointed the year before to 

 report upon the matter, E. A. Partridge again urged 

 the advisability of establishing a company to handle 



the farmers' grain. By this 



h ft 



more definite shape _andjhe_pressed.. the claims of the 

 proposed commission company with such logic and 



* See Appendix Par. 6. 



