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run elevators under this model. The SCEC was a joint-stock cooperative company whose shares would be sold only to farmers, who could not buy more than ten shares each. The government guaranteed the company's credit. The SCEC was to provide elevator services for local farmers, and later expanded into selling grain. Farmers could buy shares with nominal value of CAN$ 50 for just CAN$ 7.50. The remainder of the company's capital requirements came from a government-guaranteed loan that the SCEC would repay from its income.
145:, Manitoba on 27 January 1906, with Partridge as the first president. The GGGC was a cooperative marketing company, but at first did not own elevators. In 1908 Partridge published the "Partridge Plan" in which he advocated many reforms to the structure of the grain industry, including government ownership of elevators. Under pressure, the Manitoba government purchased elevators in 1910, but the operation was not successful. The elevators were leased by the GGGC in 1912.
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not a true cooperative. The SCEC alienated the poorer farmers. One of them noted, "Inasmuch as most of the pioneer settlers are too poor to hold shares, it is doubtful if it has helped them much, except as a powerful and keen competitor with other firms." The poorer farmers saw the SCEC and UGG as no different from the other grain companies apart from the fact that their owners were prosperous farmers.
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board, and forced the SCEC to consider the offer. A special meeting of members in April 1926 voted to sell by 366 to 77. The 451 country elevators and three terminals were valued by arbitrators at CAN$ 11 million. The SCEC owners received $ 155.84 per share, a good profit on their CAN$ 7.50 investment.
185:(AFCEC) was created using the same model. By 1916 the SCEC was operating 190 elevators, and by 1917 had 230. In 1912 the GGGC had also entered the elevator business when it began to operate 135 country elevators leased from the government of Manitoba. In 1917 the GGGC merged with the AFCEC to form the
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The SCEC raised difficulties about letting the pool use its elevators, so the pool's leaders made arrangements with private companies, and then started to build its own. In 1925 the pool offered to buy the SCEC's elevators. At the
December annual meeting of the SCEC the farmer delegates overrode the
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The SCEC was highly profitable. It paid 8% dividends between 1917 and 1924, and annual bonuses that ranged from CAN$ 0.50 and CAN$ 4.50 a share. However, it did not pay patronage dividends to non-shareholding farmers. Instead it used its profits to pay for expanding its facilities. It was therefore
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Alberta, began campaigns to sign up farmers in Saskatchewan and Alberta. The two farm organizations in Saskatchewan lent the pool funds, and the provincial government provided a CAN$ 45,000 advance. The SCEC was violently opposed to organization of a wheat
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189:(UGG). The SCEC was involved in the merger discussions, but in the end decided not to join the UGG. By 1920 the SCEC had 318 licensed elevators, and was the largest operator of grain elevators on the prairies, ahead of the UGG. By the mid 1920s it had more than 400 elevators.
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196:(SGGA), a farmer's group, and with the Liberal Party of Saskatchewan. Maharg, president of the SCEC was also president of the SGGA, and in 1921 was provincial minister of agriculture in the Liberal government.
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