The teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1876-1878, 1876-12-09
WHEAT IN ENG.
LAND.


The following appears in the Port
land Standard:
j. W. A. Wright sends the following let
ter from Green Springs, Ala:
The question has been often asked by
farmers who have been made suspicious ty
many discovered impositions. care Gable
dispatches correct which profess to give
Liverpool quotations Of the wheat mark cts,
as published in our California and Oregon
papers? p To test this very important
matter, | made special inquiry while ex-
amining the cooperative hour-mills-corn-
mills, as they call them-in Leeds, Oldham
and Rochdale. Your readers will under
stand that the prices here recorded were
actually paid in Liverpool at the dates
given for the wheat ground in the mills
named. l give them not knowing how
they compare with cable quotations of the
same dates from Liverpool in our papers,
not having complete lists of the latter. If
they correspond very nearly with our press
quotations for the same months. it will tend
to increase our confidence in such cable
dispatches; if they differ much, We will
know we need more reliable source ofiu-
formation for onr daily and weekly market
operative mills in England and Wales alone
use the following amounts weekly: Leeds,
200 quarters, nearly halt of it from Cali
foruia and Oregon; Rochdale, 1000 quar-
ters, half Of it from California and Oregon.
The Star mills at Oldham, running sixteen
stones, consume about !, 900 quarters per
week of California and Oregon, and about
an equal quantiny Of English and Western
rod " haot Tho l.,tor ~, lilo conouc,o oyar,,
week also some 800 or 400 quarters of our
Western maize or Indian corn, none of
which is raised in England.
The manager of the latter mills kindly
gave me, from their books, the following
prices paid by them in Liverpool for for
eign wheat in March and April last.
March 10, Oregon.......l0s. lOd. per 100 ID.
March ID, California -. g I" i" Z"
Oregon. Cd g -
March 30, Oregon....... I'd. 4"
April l3, California ..... +" +" 4"
April 90, California...~ % /" {"
Another fact Of interest they gave me is
that California and Oregon wheat, when it
reaches them, averages in weight about
62Iib per bushel. This shows no great in
crease in weight after it leaves our coast.
l confess to be very much surprised, as
uIhuy VI NOut IcducTS Will uU uOuUt Uc,
that Oregon wheat is rated by the Eng
lish wheat brokers as much higher always
than Califoria wheat. record the fact as
they gave it to me. could not help won
dering if the accident may not sometimes
happen that they buy a cargo of irst-class
wheat as California and sell it as Oregon
Now, would it not be refreshing, and
great satisfaction, to send, through good,
sound, fair, well-managed company, con-
trolled by Patrons on this side and our CO.
operative friends on the other side, few
cargoes of our best wheat, say thirty or
forty ship-loads yearly, from San Francisco
and Portland to these twenty or more coop
eratve grain mills Of Great Britain.
One more point about our great ship
ments from the Pacific Coast and ! have
done. | found to my surprise that our
English neighbors are doing all they can
to discourage the shipment of wheat in
bulk. They contend most stoutly that it
endangers their shipping and theslves Of
their seamen. While | was there, great
pressure was being brought to bear upon
Parliament to pass law prohibiting fur
ther shipments of grain to them in bulk.
The demand is so urgent that We may as
we'll make up nnr minds in the Pacific
states to continue for an indefinite time our
present system Of shipping in sacks. Then
the sack problem to solve will remain
how to get them cheapest and best? When
we ship to our cooperative friends, we can
no doubt arrange to have the millions we
buy and send over every year returned to
US on some satisfactory terms, instead OF
having them come back rs second ha nd
sacks to be bought by US again at two
thirds OF the price we paid for them the
year before.
Boston woman had prepared to elope,
but when her husband, hearing Of her in
tention, came forward with his check book
and offered her money for her expenses,
while his face was illuminated with Inbound
ed joy; she reconsidered the matter and
concluded not to 60. 1t took all the ro-
nance away.