Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-03-13

From 1hS ftonssr Prssa. S.s.=s.+ S...= ! !.
s. An examination OF tbs recent move
meal If grain, made in late number Q
r4ss.reet' shows hs,w de,erminedly
farmers aud sAippets held on 10 this
commodity until they we're able u secure.
price u least approximately Satisfactory
md how speedily they rushed to marke,
when the long expected advance in prices
really arrived. From the harvesting
season to the. close Of the year 1884,
current prices were phen 'in:aaIiy low,
Daring this time grain sales were gen.
orally limited to thoss who were forced
'te obtain a supply Of ready money BY
disposing of their only marketable
commodity for what It might bring.
But the tnal hresk in the uan.tural!y
low range Of prices started grain to
market .. primary points Of receipt, ~
he. 4esboarl 1n& a. for4i go points. The
early opace al tho current yesr become
therefor, ! period Of Unprecedented activ.
<itx ID the grain market. "The receipts"
says Bradsueet's, ,"ats primary markets
West and Northwest, from Dec q uaul
Feb. ! (sescn weeks), have never been
exceeded in any similar peri"! in pre-.
ceding years-b>iag twice wha. they
were one and three years ago, aad about
one aod oae.haif as larg: rs tw, years
ago." OF course, the movement Was
most marked in the case Of whett, though
it extended as we'll to other grains: the
aggre gate receipts at primary markets
OF wheat, corn, oats, harley anu rye, for
the seven weeks specified having been
$4,000 in 1882, 30,537.000 in 1888,
80, Oos, 900 in 1884, and 81, ,o74 900 in 1885.
Following this wave Of traffic FROM the
primary markets TO seaboard points 1t Is
found that receipts there were still
heavier in proportion, aggregaling over
81, ,00o,O00 in 1883, as against half til at
amount las, year, and but 1884, 900
bushels in the heavy year Of l8S285
Finally, something Of the same ratio
has been preserved in the export grain
trade, which has been this year almost
double that of last and more than 25 pei
cent in excess of that of the year before
1t will thus appear that the grain move
ment, concerning which so much has
be- en- said discouragingly,has varied from
that Of preceding years less in its aggre-
gate volume. than in the date of it's time
Of greatest activity. Low prices post.
poned the natural gravitalion toward Il
supply Of the foreign demand, but nor.
NAL moment was restored with the frs
appearance of q decidid advance. Th.
effect upon railway earning, though
considerable, has not yet made itself
fully apparent. since great bulk Of the
primasy receipts have yet to be carriec
to the seaboard Bat ths balance sheets
Of the road traversing the great spring
wheat-rrHducing territory disclose The
beneficial OBJECT of such a revival ant
increase of business. Most Interesting
Of all, Of course, isspecula1ion as to wha
may be expected of TIE foreign demane
Tor the remainder Of the season, in view
Of this large increase OF the recent supply.
And here, though no oRe attempts cert-
ainty, it seems not improbable that the
steady andheavy depletion O.: the English
reserves will still afford f*yqraD]e demand
for the large quantity of grain that still
remains avai)abIe.fer immediate export.