The Grange advance., 1874-02-18


And for Monday the 10th total amount of 81. .462
This was the first mention made by any paper of the
wonderful receipts of wheat at this market of the
crop of 1879, in this The GRANGE ADVANCE as it al
ways proposes to he, was ahead, and in this instance
it remained ahead until January lst, when the Re-
publican wrote up its Seven Days in the Greatest
Primary Wheat Market in the World,'' using the
same figures at The ADVANCE, only making the week
end with Monday instead of Saturday. and very justly
said: g The wheat receipts of Red Wing for the
seven days ending with Monday, December 18th, are
without precedent in the history Of this or probably
any other primary wheat market in the world"
The wheat now in store in this city is 844 600 bush
els. At this time last year there was 375ooo bushels
in store and then Red Wing lead all the Of the
three largest wheat producing States, Iowa. wiscon-
Sin and Minnesota, by seventy thousand bushels as
shown by the most reports collected by New
York dealers, and relied upon by all wheat dealers
throughout the country guide in their transac-
tons. The fact OF the wonderful receipts of wheat
at this market has attracted very general attention
The city of st. Paul sent down committee of her
best business investigate the methods Of hand
ling the wheat at this point and the papers through
out the State have given extended accounts Of our
wheat transactions, which we give below:
From the Goodhue County Republican.
We have devoted considerable time
to ascertaining the exports of wheat.
flour and other productions from Red
Wing during the year 1873. We find
the total of wheat and flour to be
greater than the shipments of any
previous year, namely one million
eight hundred thousand three hundred
and eighty-siT bushels. Disinterested
authorities like the WinOna Daily
Republican, st. Paul Press, st. Paul
Pioneer and various other journals
have united in placing Red Wing at
the head of the list of primary wheat
markets of the globe, and they might
in vain challenge the world to equal
the enormous exports of grain quoted
above.
THE FIGURING BUSINESS.
The flour included in this total was
81, ,703 barrels, ground in the extensive
merchant mills of Goodhue county.
This flour finds ready sale in the maj
ketS of the East, West and South. On
the first day of the present year a new
mill company began operations in this
city, grinding and exporting an aver
age of 200 barrels per day. The pro-
ducts of this mill, with the present
magnificent crop of frst-quality wheat.
will make the probable shipments Of
flour for 1874 materially exceed 100000
barrels, turning into flour for export
more than half Il million bushels of
grain. There are in the county sew
enteen mills, with G4 runs of stone.
Most Of them are operated only bv
day. The amount of wheat tloured by
them is about 1,325,O00 bushels an
nually. This shows that the milling
capacity of the county can be doubled
without drawing on any other county
for the supply of wheat. (Those who
wish to investigate this subject care
fully should figure on $500 home con-
sumerS.)
There were shipped by river 30.O03
barrels of -four, and by railroad p. 100
barrels.
The total of wheat shipped (exclud-
ing -four was l,55S,853 bushels: 1.153.-
953 bushels by river and 4O4,9OO bush
els by railroad.
During the last summer four large
warehouses were built by different
firms, bringing the storage capacity of
the city up to 728,OOO bushels. But at
the beginning Of winter even this
large increase was found to be insuffi-
cient, and all the warehouses were
filled. The weather has been very
mild and favorable to outdoor OPERA
tions, and dealers at once began the
erection of more warehouses. Since
the latter part of December eleven
more warehouses have been erected.
several firms having built two OF three
each, besides the completion of the
mill with room for 10000 bushels, maxi
ing the storage capacity over 100000
bushels. F. & r. r. Ives have built
one, Chandler & Sterrett two, Brown
& McIntire three, Davis & Marshall
one, M. Herschler one, T. B. Sheldon &
Co. two, George Wilkinson mainly for