Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-31
THE GRAIN TRADE.

The receipts OF grain by wagon at the
mills and elevators of st. Paul during
the year $780, are estimated to have been
about the same as during the preceding
year, or about $50, 900 bushels. The re-
ceipts in elevators from railways have
amounted to s45, 900 bushels. st. Paul
grain dealers have, in addition, bought
and sold without stoppage at st. Paul
about 2, CSC, 900 bushels, making an aggre-
gate of 4, 045 900 bushels, without includ-
ing commission purchases in the country,
made through st. Paul houses on orders
from other markets, of which order pur-
chases no definite information could be
obtained
The corn deal of ST. Paul operators in
1880 is quite double the deal of 1879,
amounting to 2,753, 900 bushels. OF this
about l, $50, 900 bushels was shipped East,
the remainder being sold for local and
northwestern consumption.
The oats handled by city dealers during
the year amounted to /, TAG, 900 bushels, of
which probably less than 25O, 900 bushels
was shipped East,-the most of the sales
being for the new settlements of the
Northwest.
Of barley 249 600 bushels was bought
during the year in st. Paul, the principal
buyers being the masters and brewers ex-
cept that most of the receipts of inferior
grades have been shipped.
The building of the oil mill has added
a new feature, the deal in fax seed the
receipts of this grain at the elevator and
mill during the fall and winter have
amounted to about 10000 bushels and
about 10000 bushels have been bought
| by st. Paul dealers for Eastern shipment.
The total elevator receipts of the year
have been as follows: Wheat, 1,14O, $40
bushels; oats, 0,921 bushels; corn, $685.
794 bushels ). barley $4,000 bushels; fax
seed, 103, s2s bushels: total, 2,445, 1853
bushels. The totals of the grain deal of
St. Paul, except order purchases, are as
follows: Wheat 4, 045, 900 bushels corn,
2, 753, 900 bushels; oats, l, 746, 900 bushels;
barley, 249, 900 bushels; and flax seed,
17O, 900 bushels.
The wheat trade of the city has tenn
porarily fallen off for the last year on &C
count of alterations and rebuilding of
three Touring mills, which have now,
however, resumed operations with great
| ly increased capacity and are again buy
ers of wheat. The deal in other grains
has increased over 1879 as follows: Corn.
1907, ga bushels; oats, ,512 bushels;
and, barley, IS, 900 bushels
| The operations of the year have develop
ed few special features of interest. There
has been in the wheat trade since harvest
an extraordinary milling demand, which
until a few weeks ago took up all receipts,
and which, with the increasing orders
from mills abroad for best grades, indi-
Gates that about all the Minnesota and
Dakota wheat product will hereafter be
taken direct for consumption, without
going to swell the aggregates and specu-
crease in the coarse grain trade, though
in part due to the large demand for sup
plying the new settlements north and
west, is in corn especially due to a new
shipping movement, resulting from the
extension of our railway system in Iowa,
Nebraska and Southern Dakota Through
out the year the market value of corn and
oats has ranged higher in st. Paul than
in Chicago and Milwaukee, and in fact
st. Paul has year after year paid higher