Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1920 — PRICES NOT YET DECIDED ON [ARTICLE]

PRICES NOT YET DECIDED ON

Indiana State Prison Will Again / Supply Binder Twine. Granges of several states which group to buy the season’s binder twine supply for their members again will get their supply from the Indiana state prfson, L. «R. Wright, master of the state grange, has announced. Mr. Wright hopes to be able to announce the price to members at the annual meeting of the state grange at Nappanee Jan. 20-24. Mr. Wright returned from Chicago, where state grange masters and grangers from Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan, North Dakota and Kansas met to award the contract for 1920. Mr. Wrig*ht said there were four bidders, the state prison, the Indianapolis Cordage com<pany, the Cooper Cordage company of Cincinnati and a cordage company at Peoria, 111. The state prison 'held the contract last year but Governor Goodrich said the contract price has been canceled. He said workers in the prison binder twine factory wilf work on a card system for 60 days and from the data' obtained, a price for the twine will be worked out. The/Grangers are to take about 4,000,000 pounds, or about two-thirds of the output of the prison. Michigan granges have not definitely decided to get into the agreement, Mr. Wright said, and if they do the grange taking will be somewhat in excess of 4,000,000 pounds. Mr. Wright said the average price to Hoosier granges last year was 19.8 cents, several cents lower than the market price.