. Hardware merchandising August-October 1912. overn-ment to advance further its work in re-gard to new comers. The resolution wascarried. Interior Storage Elevators Wanted. Resolution No. 13, on Interior Stor-age Elevators, read as follows: WHEREAS under existing conditions thereis every year a great congestion in the nan- HARDWARE AND METAL dling and shipping of grain from the W< siera Provinces to the head of the lakes, andcontinued and aggravated shortage of carsand motive power; and WHEREAS the handling of grain fromthe Western Provinces to the head of theGreat Lakes involves long hauls
. Hardware merchandising August-October 1912. overn-ment to advance further its work in re-gard to new comers. The resolution wascarried. Interior Storage Elevators Wanted. Resolution No. 13, on Interior Stor-age Elevators, read as follows: WHEREAS under existing conditions thereis every year a great congestion in the nan- HARDWARE AND METAL dling and shipping of grain from the W< siera Provinces to the head of the lakes, andcontinued and aggravated shortage of carsand motive power; and WHEREAS the handling of grain fromthe Western Provinces to the head of theGreat Lakes involves long hauls of both graincars and motive power, thereby producing aminimum of service, RESOLVED that it be urged upon borlithe Provincial and Dominion Governmentsthat they establish interior storage elevatorsat convenient points at short distances apart,so that grain can be taken from the field tosuch interior elevators, thereby increasing theservice of the existing equipment. In moving the resolution Mr. George-son, of Calgary, admitted that the remo-. WILSON, Fort William,Elected Fourth Vice-President. <ly of interim storage elevators mightnot be the exact one as he was onlyaware that there was an evil and he be-lieved everybody was trying to find thesolution and overcome it. He believe:Ithat the railway companies wore criti-cised too severely, and if the public eoulddo anything to overcome the congestionor car shortage and agitate for lowerfreight rates they were obliged to do was a great commercial loss lie main-tained when the farmer had no farmers were a generation behindthe times as it takes a generation to edu-cate them up to providing themselveswith proper storage facilities. If thefarmers had barns of their own therewould not be such a great loss in theWest of grain, but it might not be a solu-tion to the present problem if the far-mers had to sell their grain and placeit somewhere in order to get their money. If elevators were placed throughoutthis count
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