MAGIC OF THE MIXING-HOUSE 



alence of the system there can be no doubt. 

 It has been testified to many times in many 

 investigations;^ it has never been denied. 

 We have for it witnesses of miimpeachable 

 veracity : including bankers. 



If there be one league or society of business 

 men more conservative and careful than an- 

 other it is the Bankers' Association. Yet in 1906 

 the North Dakota Bankers' Association, im- 

 pressed with the growing discontent of the farm- 

 ers and aware that the prosperity of the state 

 was the prosperity of its farms, appointed a 

 committee of five to investigate the farmers' 

 complaints. The course of its investigations 

 led the committee to Duluth, where it found 

 the magic of the *' mixing-house" or terminal 

 elevator rather more highly developed than 

 even at Minneapolis. It discovered one eleva- 

 tor that in three months had made this record: 



Received Shipped 



Grade of Wheat (Bushels) (Bushels) 



No. 1 Northern 99,711.40 196,288.30 



No. 2 141,455.10 467,764.00 



No. 3 272,047.20 213,549.30 



No. 4 201,267.20 None 



No Grade 116,021.10 None 



Rejected 59,742.30 None 



Total 890,245.10 877,512.00 



On hand, estimated 12,733.10 



890,245 . 10 



* Sixty-third Congress, hearing before Conumttee on Rules on H. R. 

 424; hearing before Senate Committee on Agriculture on McCumber 

 Grain Grading bill, January, February, April, 1908; before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, etc. 



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