, 1880-05-08

Il: SATURDAY., MAY 8,
Another sensation In wheat crc'caI II Ia well
known that n r,thor lnrEo quantity was recently
bought In Milwaukee for shipment to this city,
ard somo Of 1t hns already arrived. Tho total
contracted for Ia Rtatcd to exceed 400 coo bu. It
WIS bought thern aud sold here ut ritne whom
Milwaukee WINS about DO hctuw Chicago on spot
wheat, tho difference permitting n profit of
about lhc per hu nftcr paying tho cost Of trans
portat3on and placing iu store here, It Is undtr-
stooa that only few Ut cur grain
warehouses arc provided with ma.
chincry by which they cnn tako
in grain from vessels; and It IN stated TINT tito
proprintors Of souo III those house havo refused
10 receive wheat coming from Milwaukee. Tho
reason nRsgnod for tho refusal Is thnt their frBt
duty Is 10 tMke caro- Of Eratn arriving from tho
country, md that they eantiot tako in both III
tho prescnt crowded condition Of tho elevators.
They do not propose to 1eopardtzo their con-
tracts with tho railroad companies by filling up
what little room they hive to spare with wheat
that ought 10 90 East when ia moved out OF stnro
at milwaukee,. Thore arc, however, people who
hlnt that this Is only au ostensbo reason. having
another nt the back Of It, which gives It force.
Ono explanation volunteered yesterday was 10
the effcut that tho wafChouscnOn do not feel
sure that the wheat would bo Inspected out
aHnin ns No. 2, tho quality not betng cq0nl to
ours. This Ia indeed a novel idca, especially
when It Ia remembered that for many years
Milwaukee, wheat wns quoted at n higher prco
than Chicago whoat In certain markets further
East 1t Is truo that our Inspection Department
haa recently been conducted With IN eye to tho
obtaining OF high hstandRrd for grain, and whcat
buyers Mro now pretty generally satisfied
that Chicago No. wheat ls fully AS good ns MIL
waukpo No. 3. HUT 1t has yet to be proved that
tho first ls bottcr than tho second; to sny noth-
l7r nff fha thnt I'm anNn 11ttr Inf
to tho lrst. Plainly this Ia not n good roason,
whatorer othur fnct nlay po assigned ns rea-
son for tho refllsal above noted.
1t may DO worth nuttce in this connection TINT
tho shipments from Milwaukee to this city do
mt lncrease tho Visible supply Of wheat, though
thoy appear rs doing 80 IN tho figures rs pub
lishcd.
1t Is fair to presume that Ell Perkins has been
nsrcpresontcd by tho types. Tho Brooklyn
Edgle makes him claim TINT this years crop Of
wheat will be A5,000,0UD bu, OF which "ono
county In Indiana, north Of Evansville, will pro-
duca 1900 600. Coo bu." It a,so 1n1kcs him to sny
TINT "Jamcs kcene has II, 600 bu Of wheat
now In Chicago; It cost him over S1a0 per bl,"
when It ls known that there ID less than ,a00 600
bu Of NIL grades OF wheat here, and that lnrgc
part Of Kcono's purchases were nndG at below
$i.00 per bu. When q nun writes about solno-
thing TINT he does not understand, and tho
printers do not know anything concerning whRt
the man Is writing about, there ia apt to bo
little Of what O dry-xoods man would call q
"fancy MIXTURE"
ar,AIN INSPECTION.
II tAs Editor Of The Uheaqo Tribune.
OFFICE CHlEF INSPECTOR or GtkAlN, CH1CA0O,
hay 7-Your market report OF this morning
contains reference to tho inspection OF
"piuggcd," "mixcd," and "doctorcd cars of
gn1iu, which, may be extended for tho benefit
ot tho country shipper and Of tho ttado gou-