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Some Aspects of the
Farmers’ Problems
ft
By BERNARD M. BARUCH
(Reprinted from Atlantic Monthly)
(Continued from last week J
We have traveled a long way from
the old conception of government as
merely a defensive and policing agency;
and regulative, corrective, or equaliz
ing legislation, which apparently is of
a special nature, is often of the most
general beneficial consequences. Even
the First Congress passed a tariff act
that was avowedly for the protection
of manufacturers; but a protective
- tariff always has been defended as a
means of promoting the general good
through a particular approach; and
the statute books are filled with acts
for the benefit of shipping, commerce,
and labor.
IV
Now, what is the farmer asking?
, Without trying to catalogue the re
medial measures that have been sug
gested in his behalf, the principal pro
posals that bear directly on the im
provement of his distributing and mar
keting relations may be summarized as
follows: —
’ - First; storage warehouses for cot
ton, wool, and tobacco, and elevators
for grain, of sufficient capacity to meet
the maximum demand on them at the
peak of the marketing period. The
farmer thinks that either private capi
tal must furnish these facilities, or the
state must erect and own the eleva
tors and warehouses.
Second: weighing and grading of
agricultural products, and certification
thereof, to be done by Impartial and
disinterested public inspectors (this Is
already accomplished to some extent
by the federal licensing of weighers
and graders), to eliminate underpay
ing, overcharging, and unfair grading,
and to facilitate the utilization of the
stored products as the basis of credit.
Third; a certainty of credit sufficient
to enable the marketing of products
In an orderly manner.
Fourth: the Department of Agricul
ture should collect, tabulate, summa
rize, and regularly and frequently pub
lish and distribute to the farmers, full
Information from all the markets of
the world, so that they shall be as well
Informed of their selling position as
buyers now are of their buying posi
tion.
Fifth: freedom to integrate the busi
ness of agriculture by means of con
solidated selling agencies, co-ordinat
ing and co-operating in such way as to
put the farmer on an equal footing
with the large buyers of his products,
and with commercial relations in other
Industries.
When a business requires specialized
talent, it has to buy it. So will the
farmers; and perhaps the best way for
them to get it would be to utilize some
of the present machinery of the larg
est established agencies dealing in
farm products. Of course, if he wishes,
the farmer may go further and engage
In flour-mlllitig and other manufactures
of fdod products. In my opinion,
however, he would be wise to stop
short of that. Public interest may be
opposed to all great Integrations; but,
in justice, should they be forbidden to
the farmer and permitted to others?
The corporate form of association can
not‘now be wholly adapted to his ob
jects and conditions. The looser co-
form seems more generally
suitable. Therefore, he wishes to be
free, if he finds It desirable and feas
ible, to resort to co-operation with his
fellows and neighbors, without run
ning afoul of the law. To urge that
the farmers should have the same lib
erty to consolidate and co-ordinate
their peculiar economic functions,
which other industries in their fields
enjoy, is not, however, to concede that
any business Integration should have
legislative sanction to exercise monop
olistic power. The American people
are as firmly opposed tcuindnstrlal as
to political autocracy, whether at
tempted by rural or by urban Industry.
For lack of united effort the farmers
as a whole are still marketing their
crops by antiquated methods, or by no
methods at all, but they are surrounded
by a business world that has been
modernized to the last minute and is
tirelessly striving for efficiency. This
efficiency is due in large measure to
Idg business, to united business, to in
tegrated business. The farmers now
seek the benefits of such largeness, un
ion and integration.
The American farmer is a modern of
the moderns in the use of labor saving
machinery, and lie has made vast
strides in recent years in scientific
tillage and efficient farm management
hut as a business in contact with otlter
businesses aglrculture is a “one horse
shay” in competition with high power
automobiles. The American farmer Is
the greatest and most intractable of
individualists. While industrial pro
duction and all phases of the huge com
mercial mechanism and its myriad ac
cessories have articulated and co-ordi
nated themselves all the way from nat
ural raw'.’niaterials to retail sales, the
business 5 of. agriculture has gone on In
much the one man fashion of the back
woods /rt Jhe-. first part of the nine
teenth geaturr, when the farmer was
self sufficlet/t-aipi did not depend upon,
or care very much, what the great
world was doing. The result is that
the agricultural group is almost as
much at a disadvantage in dealing with
other economic groups as the jay farm
er of the funny pages in the hands of
sleek urban confidence men. who sell
him acreage in Contra! Park or the
Chicago city hall The leaders of the
DR. J. J. CALL,
DENTIST.
Office Over Miller Store Co.
ELY, MTNN
farmers TTioroughly understand tills
and they are Intelligently striving tc
integrate their Industry so that it wll
be on an equal footing with other bus!
nesses.
As an example of integration, take
the steel industry, in which the model
is the United States Steel Corporation,
with its iron mines, its coal mines, its
take and rail transportation. Its ocean
vessels, its by-product coke ovens, its
blast furnaces, its open hearth and
Bessemer furnaces, its rolling mills, Its
tube mills and other manufacturing
processes that are carried to the high
est degree of finished production com
patible with the large trade it has
built up. All this is generally conced
ed to be to the advantage of the
sumer. Nor does the steel corporation
Inconsiderately dump Its products on
the market. On the contrary. It so
acts that it is frequently a stabilizing
Influence, as Is often the case with oth
er large organizations. It is master of
its distribution as well as of its pro
duction. If prices are not satisfactory
the products are held back or produc
tion is reduced or suspended. It is not
compelled to send a year's work to the
market at one time and take whatever
it can get under such circumstances.
It has one selling policy and its own
export department. Neither are the
grades and qualities of steel determin
ed at the caprice of the buyer, nor does
the latter hold the scales. In tills sin
gle Integration of the steel corporation
is represented about 40 per cent of the
steel production of America. The rest
is mostly in the hands of a few large
companies. In ordinary times the
steel corporation, by example, stabilizes
all steel prices. If this is permissible
(it Is even desirable, because stable
and fair prices are essential to solid
and continued prosperity) why would
It be wrong for the farmers to utilize
central agencies that would have simi
lar effects on agricultural products?
Something like that Is what they are
aiming at.
Some farmers favored by regional
compactness and contiguity, such as the
dtrus-fruit-raisers of- California, al
ready have found a way legally to
merge and sell their products inte
grally and in accordance with seasonal
and local demand, thus improving
their position and rendering the con
sumer a reliable service of ensured
quality, certain supply, and reasonable
and relatively steady prices. They
have not found it necessary to resort
to any special privilege, or to claim
any exemption under the anti-trust
legislation of the state or nation. With
out removing local control, they have
built up a . very efficient marketing
agency. The grain, cotton, and to
bacco farmers, and the producers of
hides and wool, because of their num
bers and the vastness of their regions,
and for other reasons, have found
integration a more difficult task;
though there are now some thousands
of farmer’s co-operative elevators,
warehouses, creameries, and other en
terprises of one sort and another, with
a turn-over of a billion dollers a year.
They are giving the farmers business
experience and training, and, so far
as they go, they meet the need of
honest weighing and fair grading; but
they do not meet the requirements of
rationally marketing in any
large and fundamental way.
The next step, which will be a pat
tern for other groups, is now being
prepared by the grain-raisers through
the establishment of sales,media which
shall handle grain separately or col
lectively, as the individual farmer may
elect. It is this step —the plan of the
Committee of Seventeen —which has
created so much opposition and Is
thought by some to be in conflict with
the anti-trust laws. Though there is
now before congress a measure de
signed to clear up doubt on this point,
the grain-producers are not relying on
any immunity from anti-trust legisla
tion. They desire, and they are en
titled, to co-ordinate their efforts Just
as effectively as the large business in
terests of the country have done. In
connection with the selling organiza
tions the United States Grain Growers
Incorporated Is drafting a scheme of
financing instrumentalities and auxili
ary agencies which are Indispensable
to the successful utilization of modern
business methods.
It is essential that the farmers
should proceed gradually with these
plans, and aim to avoid the error of
scrapping the existing marketing ma
chinery, which has been so laboriously
built up by long experience, before
they have a tried and proved substi
tute or supplementary mechanism.
They must be careful not to become
enmeshed in their own reforms and
lose the perspective of their place in
the national system. They must guard
against fanatical devotion to new doc
trines, and should seek articulation
with the general economic system
rather than its reckless destruction as
it relates to them.
To take a tolerant and sympathetic
view of the farmers’ strivings for bet
ter things is not to give a blanket
endorsement to any specific plan, and
still less to applaud the vagaries of
some of their leaders and groups.
Neither should we, on the other hand,
allow the froth of bitter saltation,
false economics, and mistaken radical
ism to conceal the facts of the farm
ers’ disadvantages, and the practicabil
ity of eliminating them by well-con
sidered measures. It may be that the
farmers will not show the business
sagacity and develop the wise leader
ship to carry through sound plans; but
that possibility does not justify the
The word penny occurs a number
of times In our English version of the
New Testament, especially in the four
Gospels; for instance, Matthew 20:2,
“And when he had agreed with the
labourers for a penny a day, he sent
them into his vineyard.” The coin to
which the name penny is given, was
the denarius, a Roman sliver coin in
circulation in the time of Our Lord
obstruction of their upward efforts. and th® Apostles. It was the principal
We, as city pebple, see in high and silver coin then in use throughout the
speculatively manipulated prices, Roman Empire. From th 3 parable
spoilage, waste, scarcity, the results of the laborers in the vineyard' It
of defective distribution of farm prod- would seem that a denarius was then
octi- It hot ocw Jo us that the ordinary pay for a day’s labor.
DEFECTIVE PAGE
vre ?ia?b a .'cofirhTon interesF-wTt'h TTie
farmer in his attempts to attain a de
gree of efficlencj in distribution cor
responding to bis efficiency In produc
tion? Do not the reeept fluctuations
in the Mriy wheat option, apparently
unrelated to normal interaction of
supply and demand, offer a timely
proof of the need of some such stabil
izing agency as the grain growers have
in contemplation?
It is contended' that, if their pro
posed organizations be perfected and
operated, the farmers will have In
their hands an instrument that will be
capable of dangerous abuse. Wo are
told that It win be possible to pervert
it to arbitrary and. oppressive price
fixing from its legitimate use of order
ing and stabilizing the flow of farm
products to tlie market, to the mutual
benefit of producer and consumer. I
have, no apprehensions on this point.
In the first, place, a loose organiza
tion, such, as any union of farmers
must be -at best, cannot be so arbi
trarily and promptly controlled as a
great corporation. The one is a lum
bering democracy and the other an agtle
autocracy. In the second place, with
all possible power of prg .nizatlon, the
farmers cannot succeed to any great
extent, or for any considerable length
of time, in fixing prices. The great
law of supply and demand works In
various and surprising ways, to the
undoing of the best laid plans that
attempt to foil it. In the third place,
their power will avail the farmers
nothing if it be abused. In our tlme
and country power is of value to Its
possessor only so long as It is not
abused. It is fair to say that I have
seen no signs in responsible quarters
of a disposition to dictate prices.
There seems, on the contrary, to be a
commonly beneficial purpose to- realize
a stability that will gtva an orderly
and abundant flow of farm products
to the consumer and ensure reasonable
and dependable returns to tlie pro
ducer.
In view of the supreme importance
to the national well-being of a pros
perous and contented agricultural pop
ulation, we should be prepared ,to g<>
a long way in assisting the fanners tj,
get an equitable share of the wealth
they produce, through the inaugura
tion of reforms that will procure a
continuous and increasing stream of
farm products. They are far from get
ting a fal.r share -now. Considering
his capital and the long hours of labor
put in by the average farther and his
family, he is remuneratecTless than
any other occupationdl ;Class, with the
possible exception, of teachers, ride
gious and lay; Though we know- that,
the present general distress of the
farmers is exceptional and is linked
with the Inevitable-economic readjust
ment following the war, it must be
remembered that, although represent
ing one-third of the’industrial product'
and half the ,7 tofal population, of tlie
nation, the rural' communities ordh
narily enjoy but a fifth tp a quarter of
the net annual national gain. Notwith
standing the taste of prosperity that
the farmers had during-the war, there
is today a lower standard of living
among the cotton farmers of the South
than in any other pursuit in the country.
In conclusion, it seems to me that the
farmers are chiefly striving for a gen
erally beneficial integration of their
business, of the same kind atid-’charac
ter that other business' enjoys. If it
should be found om e’xainlnatlon that
the attainment of thjs end requires
methods different from those which
other activities have followed for the
same purpose should we not sympa
thetically consider the plea for the
right to cO-operate, if only from our
own enlightened self interest, in ob
taining an abundant arid steady flow of
farm products? . ... .
In examining the agricultural situa
tion with a.view to its improvement,
we shall be.most helpful if we main
tain a detached and judicial viewpoint,
remembering that, existing wrongs may
be chiefly an accident of unsynirnetrl
cal economic growth instead of a crea
tion of malevolent design and conspira
cy. We Americans are prone, as Pro
fessor David Friday well says in his
admirable book, "Profits, Wages and
Prices,’’ to seek a "criminal intent be
hind every difficult and undesirable eco
nomic situation.” I can positively as
sert from my ..eopjact with men of
large including bankers, that,
as a. whole, they are endeavoring to
fulfill as they see them the'-obligations
that go with their power? Preoccupied
with the grave problems and heavy
tasks of their own. immediate affairs,
they have not turned their thoughtful
personal attention or tlieir construc
tive abilities to the deficiencies of agri
cultural business organization. Agri
culture, it may he said, suffers from
their preoccupation and neglect rather
than from any purposeful exploitation
by them; They” ought mow to begin tp
respond to the farmers’ difficulties,
which they must realize are their own.
On the other hand. my.contacts with
the farmers have filled me with respect
for them—for. their sanity, their pa
tience, their balance.' Within the last
year, and particularly. at a meeting
called by the Kansas State Board of
Agriculture and at another called by
the Committee of Seventeen, I have
met many of the leaders of tlie new
farm movement, and I testify in all
sincerity thht they are endeavoring to
deal with their problems, not as pro
moters of a narrow’ class interest, not
as exploiters of the hapless consumer,
not as merciless monopolists, but as
honest ment bent on the Improvement
of the common weal.
We can and must meet such men
and such a cause half way. Their
business is our business —the nation’s
business.
The Denarius.
Making Good an Old Boast.
A process has been discovered
whereby old leather can be converted
Into gelatin. Such transformation of
fers a ready way of utilizing many ar
ticles after their value to every one
but the Junk man appears to be gone.
Since head coverings are sometimes
made of leather, it would appear that
at least the man confident that his
candidate will win in an election may
literally back up his confidence with
the time-honored promise that he will
eat his hat in the event that bis man
loses.
Valuable People.
The value of a single man or woman
of open mind. Independent judgment,
and moral courage, who requires to
be convinced and refuses to be cajoled,
Is only concerned to be right and not
afraid to he singular, deferring to
reason but not to rank, true to their
own self, and therefore not false to
any man—the value of such a man or
woman, I say. Is priceless; a nation
of such would leaven and regenerate
the world.—Professor James Ward
News From the Honeymoon.
Father —It’s a telegram from daugh
ter; "Having a lovely time, am think
ing of you constantly.”
Mother —There now —he’s taught her
to tell lies already.
Ago of Sheep Told by Teeth.
The approximate age of sheep can
be told by the teeth. All the baby
teeth are present soon after the birth
of a lamb. The two permanent front
teeth appear when the lamb is twelve
to fourteen months old. The next
pair, one on each side of the front
ones, comes at about twenty-two to
twenty-four months. The third pair
appears a year later, and at the end
of the fourth year the sheep has a full
month with all permanent teeth pres
ent. As the animal grow’s old the
teeth spread and show wear and final
ly come out.
Alexander and the Knot.
Gordius, a peasant, being chosen
king of Phrygia, dedicated his wagon
to Jupiter and fastened the yoke to a
beam with a knot that no one could
untie. Alexander the Great was told
that “whoever undid the knot would
reign over the whole East.” “Well
then,” said the conqueror, “it is thus
I perform the task.” And so saying
he cut tlie knot in twain with his
sword. This was in 330 B. 0. A Gor
dian knot means in common use a
great difficulty.
Old Court Has Much Power.
In Liverpool (Eng.) there still exists
one of the very few remaining medi
eval borough courts of record. At one
time there were 215 tn various pans
of the kingdom. The Liverpool court
of passage, as it is called, has prac
tically unlimited Jurisdiction in caus
es of action arising within the city,
and has more power than has the City
of Loudon court which has jurisdic
tion only when the defendant is em
ployed in the cijy itself.
Stone Broke.
“What’s the matter with Jack;
hasn't he the sand to propose?”
; “Oh, yes, but he hasn’t the rocks to
get married.”
Little Dissertation on Gossip.
Western Paper—Gossip is a hum
ming bird with eagle wings and a
voice like a foghorn. It can be h* ard
from Dan to Beersheba and has
caused more trouble than ail the fleas,
ticks, mosquitoes, coyotes. rattle
snakes, cyclones, earthquakes, bliz
zards, gout and indigestion that this
United States has known or will know
when the universe shuts up shop and
begins the final inventory. In other
words, it has got both war and hell
backed up in a corner yelling for ice
water. —Boston Transcript.
The First Secessionist.
The first person to suggest secession
in congress is supposed to have been
Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts. In
1811 be told his colleagues that If
Louisiana were admitted to the Union
“it will be the right of all and duty
of some (of the states) definitely to
prepare for a separation; amicably
if they can, violently if they must.’’
Qtflncy was called to order for his
remarks by the speaker, but on appeal
the speaker’s decision was reversed.
Stretched the Truth.
Hub —What in the world Induced
you tb buy a rubber plant?
Wife—The salesman said if you’re
smart you can grow your own auto
mobile tires.
Quotation of Importance.
The art of quotation requires more
delicacy in practice than those con
ceive who can see nothing more in
a» quotation than an extract. —Isaac
Disraeli.
New Idea for Keeping Fruit Fresh
To keep fmit fresh for months af
ter it is picked an Argentinian has
patented a <1 vice that holds the stems
in water.
Arkansas River Frozen Over.
The weather bureau at Little Rock,
Ark., advises that the Arkansas river
at that point has several times been
frozen to a depth that would allow
teams to cross on the ice between
Little Rock and North Little Rock, the
municipality just across the river.
From January 11 to January 27, 1918,
the river was frozen, the ice on
January 21 being five and one-half
inches thick. From February 7 to
February 17, 1895, the river was
frozen over at Little Rock and teams
crossed on the ice.
“The Panhandle.”
As commonly used in this part of
the country, the phrase “the pan
handle” usually refers to the north
west projection of Texas, though the
name is also given to the narrow,
wedge-shaped strip of land lying be
tween Pennsylvania and Ohio, which
forms part of the state of West Vir
ginia
To Mend Enamel.
Take equal parts of fine coal dust,
fine salt and putty. Knead well to
gether and pack Into the hole firmly.
Put water into the mended article and
stand on a warm stove for an hour.
Wipe carefully and leave for a day be
fore using. The mixture will form a
cement as hard as the enamel, says a
correspondent.
Death in a Rose.
A native of Lancashire, England, a
member of a firin of cotton manufac
turers, died recently, from the effects
of a prick by a rose thorn. One day
he pricked his hand when in ids garden.
Next day he complained of pain, but
an examination revealed nothing. Later
his hand swelled and a doctor told him
he was suffering from septic poisoning.
This caused his death.
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SWEET INNOCENCE
Mrs. Youngbride—l’ll take a few
of those beets If they are' live ones.
Clerk-—Lives ones, ma’am?
O yes, I must have live ones. I
heard my husband say he has no use
for dead beats.
Better Not Experiment.
It Is rumored the jewelers have a
movement on to make November a
month of weddings, the same as June.
If they do, what will a man, who has
married In November, with the taxes
due in three weeks and Christmas
looming ahead of him, have to be
thankful for on Thanksgiving Day?—
Emporia Gazette.
Just Mental Broadening.
We don't believe the worlQ is grow
g worse. We are merely adding to
ir facilities for finding out about its
•ckedness.
Makes Him Anxious.
Caller' —I suppose you often go out to
teas.
Mrs. Bargins—Yes, to tease my hus
band. He thinks I’ve gone shopping.
As a Matter of Fact.
/“You want to have good judgmen
is well as industry.” said Unde Ebon
‘De minister dal preaches de longes
>ermon works de hardest, but he don’t
lit de ’predation.”—Washington Star
Obverse Has Big Margin.
Stfys the Lincoln Star: “For every
woman rhat makes a fool out of a man
there is anotiter woman who makes a
man out of a fool.” We’d like to be
lieve that, but from our observation
the reverse process isn’t nearly as
easy.—Boston Transcript.
In, Vaudeville.
'’’Who Is this flume in vaudeville?”
“A lady who shot a gent.”
“Well, she can’t dance, sing or act.
Why doesn’t she put up a target and
stick to her specialty.”
Too Experienced.
She —Enthusiasm is contagious.
He—Not always. I’ve courted girls
who didn’t seem to share my enthusi
asm l.i the least.
Lim ted R.<!e. p
"Believe /.•urself In.ppy ami youva
.ippy,’’ savs a writer. Unfortunate!?
Lat rule doesn't work when a ma
hlnks lie is wise, for then he is othei
a ise.
What Babylon Handed Ue.
The new system of dividing the day
into 24 hours. Invented by the Baby
lonians, was adopted by the Greeks
and since then it has been handed
down from generation to generation
without any alteration, because no
body has dared to change it. Even
the French revolutionists, who intro
duced a large and elaborate series of
Innovations in the system of weights
and measures, and went so far as to
change the names and order of the
days of the week, did not attempt to
alter the day's division into 24 hours.
Maybe So.
“I think most of us get a square
deal.”
“Well?”
“But sometimes we don’t know how
to play our cards."
NOTICE
of Final Confirmation
of Assessment.
Notice is hereby given that a
resolution finally confirming the
assessment hereinbelow mentioned
was adopted by the City Council
of the City of Ely, Minnesota, at
a regular meeting thereof, held
Monday, January 23, 1922, at 8
o’clock* P. M., in the Council Cham
bers of the City Hall in said city.
The assessment referred to is as
follows: . “ . .. .
Assessment levied to defray in
part the cost of constructing cer
tain cement sidewalks, curbs and
gutters and incidental work in con
nection therewith benefiting,
—Lots 1 to 6, inclusive, in Block
25 of Whiteside’s Addition;
Lots 1 to 6, inclusive, in Block
32 of Whiteside’s Addition;
Part of Lot 11, in Block 1 of
Whiteside’s Park Addition;
Lot 12, in Block 1 of Whiteside’s
Park Addition; being in the City of
Ely, Minnesota.
By order of the City Council of
the City of Ely, Minnesota.
Dated this 24th day of January,
1922
A. 0. KNUTSON,
City Clark.
ORDER FOR HEARING ON PETI
TION FOR ADMINISTRATION.
State of Minnesota, County of St.
Louis, ss.
In the Matter of the Estate of John
Primozich, Decedent. z
IN PROBATE COURT.
The Petition of Frances Mayerle
having been filed in this Court, re-
J resenting, among other things, that
ohn Primozich, then being a resi
dent of the County of St. Louis,
State of Minnesota, died intestate,
in the County of St, Louis, State of
Minnesota, on the 4th day of Sep
tember 1920; leaving estate in the
County of St. Louis, State of Min
nesota, and that said petitioner is
the sister of said decedent and
praying that letters of administra
tion of the estate of said decedent
be granted to the said Frances
Mayerle;
It Is Ordered, that said petition
be heard before this Court, at the
Probate Court Rooms in the Court
House in Duluth, in said County,
on Monday, the 6th day of Febru
ary 1922, at nine o’clock A. M. and
all persons interested in said hear
ing and in said matter are hereby
cited and required at said time
and place to show cause, if any
there be, why said petition should
not be granted.
Ordered Further, That this order
be served by publication in The
Ely Miner according to law, and
that a copy of this order be served
on the County Treasurer of St.
Louis County not less than ten
days prior to said day of hearing.
Dated at Duluth, Minn. 7 January
9, 1922.
By the Court,
S. W. GILPIN,
Judge of Probate.
Attest:
G. B. GIFFORD,
Clerk of Probate.
A. J. Thomas, Attorney for Peti
tioner. 1-13 1-27
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior.
U. S. Land Office at Duluth, Minn.,
December 2, 1921.
Notice is hereby given that Wal
ter H. Borgen, whose post-office ad
dress is Duluth, Minnesota, did, on
the 13th day of January, 1921,
file in this office Sworn Statement
and Application, No. 013298, to
purchase the Lot 2, Section 11,
Township 63 N., Range 13 W. 4th,
Principal Meridian, and the timber
thereon, under the provisions of
the act of June 3, 1878, and acts
amendatory, known as the “Tim
ber and Stone Law,” at such value
as might be fixed by appraisement,
and that, pursuant to such appli
cation, the land and timber there
on have been estimated and valued
by the applicant the timber es
timated 4000 board feet at $2.50
per M, and the land_ $20.00; that
said applicant will offer final proof
in support of his application and
sworn statement on the 14th day
of February, 1922, before the .Reg
ister and Reeeiver of the United
States Land Office, at Duluth, Min
nesota.
Any person is at liberty to pro
test this purchase before entry, or
initiate a contest at any time be
fore patent issues, by filing a cor
roborated affidavit in this office,
alleging facts which would defeat
the entry.
Witnesses: Frank Lyness, T. H.
Little and J. M. Nolte, all of Du
luth, Minnnesota.
ROBERT D. BLACKWOOD,
12-9 2-3 ' Register.
ORDER LIMITING TIME TO FILE
CLAIMS, AND FOR HEARING
THEREON.
State of Minnesota, County of St.
Louis, ss. .
IN PROBATE COURT.
In the Matter of the Estate ,of
James Alby Graves, also*, known
as James A. Graves,
as J. A. Graves, Decedent.
Letters of Administration having
been granted to Jessie G. Graves;
It Is Ordered, That the time
within which all creditors of tne
above named decedent may present
claims against his estate in this
court, be, and the same hereby is,
limited to three months from and
after the date hereof; and that the
18th day of April,- 1922, at ten
o’clock A. M., in the Probate Court
Rooms at the Court House at Du
luth in said County, be and the
same hereby is, fixed and appointed
as the time and place for hearing
upon the examination, adjustment
and allowance of such claims as
shall be presented within the time
aforesaid.
Let notice hereof be given by the
publication of this order in The
Ely Miner as provided by law.
Dated at Duluth, Minn., January
11, 1922.
S. W. GILPIN,
Judge of Probate.
A. W. Nelson, Attorney, Ely, Minn.
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NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Department of the Interior.
U. S. Land Office at Duluth, Minn.
January 16, 1922.
Notice is hereby given that
Mathew F. Franciscus, whose post
office address is Fifth Avenue
Hotel, Duluth, Minn., did, on the
10th day of December, 1921, file
in this office Sworn Statement and
Application, No. 013278, to pur
chase the W% of SWK Section
14, and N% of SE%, Section 15,
Township 58 N., Range 9, West of
the 4th Principal Meridian, and the
timber thereon, under the pro
visions of the act of June 3, 1878,
and acts amendatory, known as the
“Timber and Stone Law,” at such
value as might be fixed by appraise
ment, and that, pursuant to such
application, the land and timber
thereon have been estimated and
valued by anplicant, the timber
estimated 80 M board feet of mixed
spruce, balsam, tamarac and birch
at $3.00 per M, and the land $160;
that said applicant will offer final
proof in support of his application
and sworn statement on the 21st
day of March, 1922, before the
Register and Receiver of the United
States Land Office, at Duluth, Min
nesota.
person is at liberty to pro
test this purchase before entry, or
initiate a contest at any time be
fore patent issues, by filing a cor
roborated affidavit in this office,
alleging facts which would defeat
the entry.
Witnesses: James O’Brien, Du
luth, Minnesota; H. G. Gearheart,
Duluth, Minnesota; A. R. Walker,
Superior, Wisconsin; M. Bottineau,
Duluth, Minnesota.
ROBERT D. BLACKWOOD,
1-20 3-17 Register.
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