SCHISMS AND INJUNCTIONS 



and three terminal elevators to be built in 

 different parts of the state. A year will be 

 required to erect and equip these, at the end 

 of which time, or eight years after they first 

 voted it, the people may see their will carried 

 out, provided no more courts break in with 

 restraining injunctions. 



Meantime the state had secured one mill 

 ready-made, and began in the summer of 1919 

 to operate it. This was at the town of Drake, 

 where the people were so much interested in 

 the plan that they sold in their own com- 

 munity $25,500 of bonds to buy the property 

 for the state, although the price was only 

 $20,000. When the state took possession, it 

 began to buy wheat solely on the basis of 

 milling value and without regard to Minne- 

 apolis grades, with the result that farmers 

 hauled wheat as much as forty miles to get 

 the advantage of the better prices. Yet if 

 what seems trustworthy testimony from the 

 manager is to be accepted, the experiment 

 quickly showed that even at these prices flour 

 can be, and is, produced at much lower figures 

 than the Minneapolis mills charge. The 

 capacity of the Drake mill is 125 barrels a 

 day, and it has been kept running to its fullest 

 output since the state took it. The three 

 mills the state is to erect will have a capacity 

 of from 2,500 to 3,000 barrels a day, each; 

 and on the basis of the success of the Drake 



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