The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1882-04-08
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The best article, which would probably CLASS III
Chicago as No ., brought IRON uolinr W
dollar ten There Is great deal OF Caliiotha
wheat being brought Into the state, when mas
tendency to deprcss the market here. Our quo
tatlOns to-day are revised ana are US ioiloWs'
To-DAY's QUOTATIONS..
WHEAT-95@0l Q5 as per grade. Nicaragua
81 90 to l Is on street. 30 from store
CoRs--ln ear, 6Ot1SO; shelled corn, %
OATs--In bulk, i5GDi7c
Ryr-Scaroe We quote per bushel,F
BARLEY-Scarce. Good demand. O. a Csc.
BRAE-We onote at mills 81 200. Is; in store,
FLoua-we quote City Mnls az follows: xxx.
So co. xxx, 81 65; extra 90
Imported; Xxx, per VT 81 95; xxx, 80 IS;
xxx % 90 choice '.mily, 81 70 fancy, % 05.
Mrahan, nour' Jer hundred, 81 co.
This being Holiday in Chicago there are no
reports rom ,hnt market
Inc Nh * Lane Express, In It's review oil inc
b i,iI, grain trade for the past week, says
WI eats are not growing too fast, although the
Gather has been that of May. farmers deliv-
!, cries continue to decrease Fine samples I'M
proved Cd TO IL at the several principal markets.
| owing 10 scarcity. Inferior samples neglected
| Rates I'm London slightly improved. In foreign
point American red and choice white wheats
3 TO Cd better supply heavy, one half Of II being
| American. on coast market steady. sales OF
nine cargoes during the week, four for lhe CONT
/ HVHb ilhhN i'inhih hiib h'he't wa 1919 Us
offer.
Flour steadier. Foreign steady supply.
| Tho quality OF much American ailoat Is me.
| rior; prices stcadier but improved barley
sluggish and rates dropping; foreign dull and
| slow Of sale In oats. demand nominal ut nm.
| changed rates; foreign quiet In maize, mixed
American improved Is Gd in London and Liver
pool .
SALES of English wheat the past week, 8l,6iO
quarters at AIS ID per quarter against 33,9!d
quarters ut AS I'd per quarter for the correspond
| ing week Inst year
| A new wheat region, and one of perhaps equal
| future importance to that of Dakota, Is now
| thrown open TO settlement In eastern Oregon AID
| Washington territory by the building OF NE
| Pacific slope divisions of tho Northern fncihe
\ and the rapid progress OF numerous branches oil
the Oregon system of railroads. This region lies
| between the Rocky mountains and the Cascade
range. Its surface Is principally high, rolling
prairie, covered with brush grass, aud the pres
encc OF some alkali In the soil seems rather to
increase than diminish its productive
ness. Crops Of from ihirtyive to
fifty bushels to the acre arc
frequently reported In the localpapcrs. Last
year the surplus wheat crop of oregon and
Washington was estimated at lO,0oOUO bushels
What proportions II Will attain when the region
east OF the Cascades Is us well developed MS |,
the willamette valley, and when Oregon and
Washington, which together now only contain
10000 inhabitants. support 200, 600 cannot be
predicted without heavy draft on the magma
aggregate wheat yield of the United States Is
destined To be very greatly augmented BY the
opening Of the northern transcOntlnental route
to the Pacific Rapid as the increase of oul
population, and the consequent increase In the
home consumption of hrcndstuls, the surplus
which will seek n market abroad, will certainly
grow larger year by year-a fact of interest to tn,
political economist who study the conditions o
national wealth and prosperity, and Ia railroat
managers and shareholders who look To III,
probable increase Of freight business on tn,
trunk lines which will bring to the soaboard til,
hatyests of the new northwestern grain fields,
! The Chicago Tribune says the Washington
estimate Of stocks OF wheat and corn on hand II
the.northwcst were the subject of some common
saturday The figures indicate that there Is
only a per cent M much corn. and only 81 pc
cent ny much wheat In first hands rs n year ago
These figures agree very well with the indicn
ions presented by the movement thus far u
gagged against the recent returns Of crop short
age. hut there are some unheey0rs who sa,
that farmers yet hold fair stocks " corn Hlonl
! some of the lines of railroad and have all tn
more MS they have sold little TO cribs These oh
; jcct0rs say that there IL now more corn In cen
trail illinois, north of the area of crop failure
Than there was year ago, and that the farmer
arr boarding II us IL II were so much gold
The Indiana department of agriculture report
the acreage OF winter wheat Ut .l0al, and III
condition of the crop III. The acreage of ry
Is reported nj l0l.7 and the condition ut lQl |.