The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1878-08-22
Wheat Notes.


al Department the extreme heat Of July in.
jurcd to some extent the spring wheat of the
Northwest. In the East the condition OF the
crop is fer better. In the Province of Onta-
| ru the croc his year is the largest ever
| threshed there. 1t is the opinion Of market
writer's ger -rsiiy that wheat win advance
! Slowly in price for some months to come.
AMONG THE ELEVATORS.
Tuesday morning yvu- graz reporter took
a ssro!l aToag the elevators, grain bIy>rs and
sellers, and there was universe. Compliant
among the ci., ator men taat they could not
get cas- enough scarcity vi cars on all siaes
C. Ia be Leard. Tie derlah for car l. a.
;5ays Greater bout the middis and |; OF the
month than e sny vth"I time This is, ac-
count OF { Q first halt and last hall of the
months contracts of grain men. There is
cpnsidrra lie hard feeling existing ard S ONE
..ald talk. Annthe: complaint Viii h is caus-
Ing considerable tslk is discrimination m. lie
by the Railroad in favor q certain elevator
in lie supply o: cars Il seems tina: the agcns
has orders TO supply ttat particular elevator
first, smother particular one second, aud 50
on, supplying ali those not thrown open TO
the exclusive use OF the farmers, first.
1t is true that the complaint of scarcity o (
ears is universal throughout the West, at
Kansas City more than any where else. 1t is
charged by some grain reporters that the Chi
cago grain buyers have succeeded in getting
UP q corner on cars by snme process or other.
BE that as it may 1t works bardships on this
market, and even disastreusly in some in-
stances, for it is said that some of the cleva-
tors have hot paid expenses since the short
age on cars began. The fact is the demand
has been greater than the supply. all the sea-
son, and when Will II be different, the elevator
men want to know. When there is great
scarcity of ears and what there Is, under the
control OF one or Two elevators, then the mar
ket is in the hands of one or two buyers, and
the seller is at their mercy-a feeling TO which
they are utter strangers. 1, simply makes a
pool that beats all other pools in existence.
We ask the railroad company 10 give Us
ears and better rates, and in doing SO they
will In ameasure check the storm that is sure
ly setting in against them throughout the en-
tire Arkansas Valley.
WEIGHTS
Mayer Greilenstein, who is always alive to
our city's best interests as well rs the inter-
est of the grain seller, has been looking alter
the weighing business at the depot, and has
made several test cases, entirely unknown TO
the gentlemahly weighers at their respective
posts OF duty and honor. which they claim
has been assailed by this paper. The tests
were made by loading wagon with wheat
and weighing en- four different sets Of scales.
which he did several times. As sample of
how il operated on one load, on Monday last
be weighed on tour different scales getting
these results: the first gave him 1900, the
second. 2,e2o the third, 1905; the fourth.
1855, a difference of one hundred and seven
ty-tve pounds. Which was honest weight?
The names Of the weigher., with owners of
ihe different scales we know. and tho evidence
Is unmpeachsble. There is no excuse Tor
scales beng wrong. for the County Clerk has
test weights aud they can put in order at any
time, aud the man who IS caught giving dis
honest weights is amenable to the law of the
State and can be made to pay the penalty.
RATES OF TRANSPORTATION.
The following are the freight rates ca the
different articles named. from Wichita to
Kansas City:
Wheat, potatoes, fsx seed, and broom corn
IS cents per hundred.
Flour, corn meal, and castor beans IS cents
per hundred.
Barley, rye. corn, oats, and bran /, cents
per hundred.
Rates on grain from ST. Jo Atchison,
Leayenworth and Kansas City It. Louis,
Louisiana, Hannibal, Yves. OUR and Bar
liug,on.
Wheat zoe per 100 poanis; rye, oats,
and barley l5c; -four 4ec Der barr To las:
st. Louis, East Hannibal and Qaia :: Wheat
sic; corn, rye, eats and barley, I6s per 100
pounds; -four 4ee per barrel. TO Chicago
Nhssi, rye, os,S and barley, zoe; -four, Soc
To Toledo: West, Doc: ccra, rye, cats and
barley, sc.
The following arbitrasies VIII apply On BUSH
ness to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New YORK
and Boston. from AichIzcu. ST. Joe. Leayen-
worth and Kansas City TO Chicago: First
class, soc; sceoad-class, eae; ihir!-siass. 45c;
fcurih-c'ass, s5c. From the same points TO
East st, Louis or Ess. Hannibal er Quincy:
first-eiass. as; seeoad-c.Ass, i5s; taird-elass,
SOC; forr.a-eiass. Sc. From same points 10
Toledo: FIrs,-class, sl5i; second-elass, Soc;
talrd-class, DO; tourih-csass, &c.