MAGIC OF THE MIXING-HOUSE 



alence of the system there can be no doubt. 

 It has been testified to many times in many 

 investigations; 1 it has never been denied. 

 We have for it witnesses of unimpeachable 

 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 12,783.10 



890,245.10 



1 Sixty-third Congress, hearing before Committee on Rulea on II. R. 

 424; hearing before Senate Committee on Agriculture on McCumber 

 Grain Grading bill, January, February, April, 1008; before the 

 Interstate Commerce Commission, etc. 



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