The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1872-10-12
AMERICAN WHEAT AND ITS TRANSPORT
TION

4 Mr.. Dalrymple, farming on large
scale in Minnesota, raised as, 900 bushels of
wheat this year, selling above all expenses
for nearly 1000. The average yield #
wheat per acre was % bushels, which may
stand until further facts are obtained, for
the average yield of the wheat fields of
Minnesota. Half of the above crop was
Odessa wheat which produces 4 or bush
els per acre more than ordinary kinds. 1t
il plain that had all been Odessa, the yield
per acre would have shown a higher aver
age, say 25 bushels per acre. This variety
Of wheat also weighs three or four pounds
per bushehI more than other kinds, and will
probably supersede all others on the farms
of the Northwest, within a year or two.
This will greatly increase the already
abounding yield of NJ nnesota.
California is said however, to have pro-
duced az much surplus wheat this year, as
Minnesota has raised for home and forei.n
consumption together, namely, 10000, 900
bushels. It il thought however that there
is not tonnage enough in the shipping of
the Pacific trade, nor even in the railway
acr.ss the continent, to move in any suffi-
cient time this enormous mass of three. .ffths
ofa million tons Of acheat. But if the news
be true that comes to Us from beyond the
Atlantic, this surplus of cereal wealth will
be aorely needed during the coming year
in Europe, owing to a failure in many of
the usual crops i'll that pant Of the world
The railway will naturally charge high
rates of freight, having no special competi-
ton, and thus an additional obstacle will be
placed between the bursting granaries of
the golden state, and the hungry mouths of
Europe.
The need Of the two additional Pacific
railways is plainly seen in these facts; es-
peciay the need of the Northern roure,
which for half the year, brings California
and Oregon so near the tonnage of the AT
lanric coast by way of the Lakes. The
contemplated and progressing enlargement
of the SauIt canal, soon to be followed by
the widening and deepening Of the St.
Lawrence canals, will allow the broad and
deep freight bearing vessels of the Atllntic
coast, to meet the surplusage of the Pacific
wheat fields, at the head of Lake Superior.
THIS grea fact so long looked upon as Wis
ionarv, will be accomplished in brief time
by the very necessities of commerce.
As in the countries of the Orient, there
is starvation in one quarter of the land, not
wirhStanding the crops of the other which
cannot reach the needy, owing to a com
plrte lack If means for trans portation, so it
might be on a large scale in Europe, were
it not for the transportation facilities alrea-
dy enjoyed in part And the time may be
whnn The vast yield of the Saskatchewan an
and Minnesota region, now only in It's IN
fancy, will be needed on the Western coast,
and the Pacific railways as urgently called
for to move wheat to the West, as they are
now in demand 10 move wheat to the East.
1t is in the highest degree desirable in any
event, that these great wheat producing
belts should, iike the divisions of an army,
be in communication and supporting dis
tance Of each other, and in case of a con
test with the hosts of Famine in the Old
World, be ready to move together in solid
columns upon so dire foe