The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-09-27
Prospects,.

The Agricultural Bureaus statistics
bear out the strongest statements that
have been made in the newspapers in re-
lation to the unprecedented bountifulness
of the crops of the country. Taken as a
whole, such a yield has never before
blessed the land. The crop of winter
wheat exceeds anything ever known; the
spring wheat promises to be equally
good both as to increase in quantity and
excellence of quality. Then the corn
and oat crops are in no wise behind hand
I in their lavishness of promise a prom
Use which is now nearly fulfilled. The
cotton crop canno: possibly fall short of
four and half million bales--nearly a
million more than the best yield of
any previous year. For all of these pro-
/ ducts-except cotton = unusually high
prices are paid AS Nation we are
placed in that singularly fortunate posi-
/ ton that all we have to sell is eagerly
desired by other people, while We want
but very little that we do not produce
ourselves. We must, therefore, receive
large amounts of money which will stay
with us.
A more perfect system for the rapid
diffusion of the money through the coun-
try could not be devised than that which
now exists. If it were any manufactur-
ing or trade interest which was receiving
the revivifying influence of a plentitude
of currency. the beneficial effects would
not be felt by the country at large for a
long time; the sums expended would
slowly trickle through the immediate re-
cipients into the general circulation--it
would be like thawing an iceberg with
heat from single side. But in this in
stance the rays strike everywhere at once
like the rising sun shining upon frosted
field Within fortnight after the Kansas
farmer drove the reaper into his field of
waving grain he had the price of its pro-
ceeds in his hands. The month of July
saw the grand distribution of money to
the farmers begin in Kansas, Missouri,
Texas, Tennessee and Kentucky. This
month sees the grangers of Ohio, Indi-
ana, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa,
Minnesota and Nebraska commence re-
ceiving their share.
A million wheat raisers west of the AL
legheny mountains, are now, or will within
the next few weeks, be marketing their
grain, receiving direct from the hands of
buyers amounts varying from ten to thou
sand dollars each, in return for the harvest
of their farms. In the coming four months
millions more corn, oats, fruit, and pO-
tato growers and cattle raisers will re-
ceive similar sums in ready money for
their produce. Between now and Janu
uary 1st, at least forty million dollars in
money will be paid to the people west of
the Alleghenies for the things that they
have to sell, and which Europe and the
East want to buy. The amount may
reach fifty millions. Some of this will
find its way into every mans pocket. 1t
can not help producing as great an &C
tivity in money as the paying OFT OF the
troops at the close of the war, because
the amount is nearly as great, and the
diffusion among individuals is as general.
The effects of this are already felt in
the East. The large jobbing houses at
New York are noting with pleasure that
their orders from the west are coming in
earlier than usual, and greater in guam
tity than for years past All express
universal satisfaction with the outlook,
and entertain no doubt that the Fall
trade will show us all that we are again
on solid ground. The southern mer-
chants are visiting New York in greater
numbers than for years, and buying lib.
eral lines of goods. The New England
factories are busting off their machinery
and getting into shape to fill the orders
that are flowing in. Never has there
been time when the prospects seemed so
cheering to all, and when there were
such good substantial reasons for that
cheertuluess.- Blade.