Grain Companies to Herbert Hoover
Title
Grain Companies to Herbert Hoover
Creator
Grain Companies
Identifier
WWP19108
Date
1917 July 9
Description
Grain companies write to Herbert Hoover asking for tentative plans or suggested prices until legislation is passed regarding wheat.
Source
Hoover-Wilson Correspondence, Hoover Institution, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford, California
Publisher
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
Subject
United States Food Administration
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964--Correspondence
Language
English
Text
COPY
St. Louis, Mo.
HC Hoover
New Interior Building,
Wasington DC
Situation regarding new wheat in this district becoming critical many country shippers here and receivers have numerous letters stating threshing becoming general they must do something and ask us what. Millers country shippers and farmers hands tied. Can’t you outline tentative plans or suggest price basis to bridge over period until legislation passed? Serious disaffection among farmers certain. Extreme congestion likely in short time, partial if not complete disruption country grain trade probable unless have something to work on next day or two. All grain firms anxious to cooperate and assist to limit our ability.
Ballard Messmore Gr Co
J H Teasdale
Com Co Morton & Co,
Graham and Martin Grain Co,
Hunter Gr Co,
Langenbert Bros Gr Co,
Schreiner Gr Co,
Nanson Com Co,
Jno Wahl Com Co,
Annan Burg Gr & Milling Co,
Marshall Hall Gr Co,
Elmore Schultz Gr Co,
Pendleton Gr Co,
Wm D Orthwein Gr Co.
3p
St. Louis, Mo.
HC Hoover
New Interior Building,
Wasington DC
Situation regarding new wheat in this district becoming critical many country shippers here and receivers have numerous letters stating threshing becoming general they must do something and ask us what. Millers country shippers and farmers hands tied. Can’t you outline tentative plans or suggest price basis to bridge over period until legislation passed? Serious disaffection among farmers certain. Extreme congestion likely in short time, partial if not complete disruption country grain trade probable unless have something to work on next day or two. All grain firms anxious to cooperate and assist to limit our ability.
Ballard Messmore Gr Co
J H Teasdale
Com Co Morton & Co,
Graham and Martin Grain Co,
Hunter Gr Co,
Langenbert Bros Gr Co,
Schreiner Gr Co,
Nanson Com Co,
Jno Wahl Com Co,
Annan Burg Gr & Milling Co,
Marshall Hall Gr Co,
Elmore Schultz Gr Co,
Pendleton Gr Co,
Wm D Orthwein Gr Co.
3p
Original Format
Letter
To
Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964
Citation
Grain Companies, “Grain Companies to Herbert Hoover,” 1917 July 9, WWP19108, Hoover Institute at Stanford University Collection, Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum, Staunton, Virginia.