Equity Co-Operative Exchange Records

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: OGLMC-086

Scope and Contents

The Equity Co-Operative Exchange Records consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and miscellaneous publications regarding farm problems during the 1910s.

Dates

created: 1913-1916

Creator

Equity Co-Operative Exchange (Organization)

Conditions Governing Access

Open for inspection under the rules and regulations of the Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections.

Biographical or Historical Information

"The coming of the Equity Cooperative Exchange, reputedly the first cooperative terminal grain marketing agency of account in the United States, was tantamount to an admission that terminal marketing reform offered more hope for relief from low prices than did campaigns for lower railroad rates, monetary reforms, and antimonopoly legislation. The Exchange, organized in Minneapolis in 1908 and incorporated under the laws of North Dakota in 1911, spread among the wheat producers of Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Montana, chiefly as a terminal grain marketing agency and to a lesser degree as a livestock marketing firm." Source: “The Rise of the Equity Cooperative Exchange” by Theodore Saloutos. The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, June 1945, pp. 31-62.

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