THE STORY OF THE NONPARTISAN LEAGUE 



A. — Country line on the Northern Pacific and Mil- 

 waukee. The Duluth is a country line; the houses are 

 principally on the Great Northern and the Monarch 

 on the Northern Pacific. 



Q, — Any other line elevator companies? 



A . — Not in that territory. They have a few elevators 

 in Nebraska. Then there is the Belt Line Elevator 

 Company, a terminal located in Superior, and the 

 Globe Elevator operates terminals in West Superior, 

 the Peavey Duluth Terminal Elevator Company oper- 

 ating in Duluth. 



Q. — Have you any terminals in Minneapolis? 



A. — The Monarch Elevator has a terminal; the Re- 

 public Elevator. 



Q. — How many terminal elevators have you in 

 Duluth? 



^.— Three. Not in Duluth, but at the head of the 

 lakes, two in Wisconsin and one in Minnesota. 



Q. — ^How many country elevators are owned or con- 

 trolled by these different companies, in the aggregate? 



A. — Do I understand you mean Nebraska also? 



Q.— All of them. 



A. — In Minnesota we have 64 elevators owned by 

 the Monarch and Duluth Elevator Companies. 



Q. — How many in North Dakota? 



A. — ^About 110 — no, I would say about 104; about 

 6 in South Dakota. 



Q.— Nebraska? 



^.—Fifty-five, I think. 



Q. — Any in Iowa? 



A. — Yes, one. 



Q. — In the aggregate, about how many country ele« 

 vators have you? 



^.— About 225 or 230.* 



1 Hearing on House Bill 14493, Sixty-third Congress, Testimony 

 pp. 432-83. 



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