The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1885-01-08
Totals.

Ano aDOVe CaOle, IL VIII Oe seen, III
cludes only shipments of flax, live
stock and hay, Some Of these reports
were sent in several weeks ago and do
not include all shipped to date. We
may safely put the shipments for the
fall and winter at 500 car loads of flax,
100 of live stock and 200 of hay. That
is. 225,O 900 to- 100000 bushels of flax
seed, and 1900 to 1000 tons of hay.
The flax seed has been sold at from
$1.l0 to $1.20 cash. A safe average
would be $l.l2 to Sl.15, showing that
there has been paid to our farmers for
flax seed between $2S5, 900 al d $295, 900.
Besides the shipments above report
ed, Worthingron station reports Is
cars Of oats, 6 of timothy seed, 8 Of po.
tatoes, Is of butter and eggs and one
car each of barley, flour and hides, in
all about 800 cars.
1t should be stated. however, that
tile above showing of shipments from
stations within the county does not in
clu,le all the flax raised. Probably
one fifth or more Of the flax seed pro-
duced in Mobiles county was marketed
at points like Sibley and Little Rock,
in Iowa, and Fulda, Slayton. Edger-
ton. etc, OH the north. Such towns
rs Leota, Willmont, Bloom and Sew
ard do large share of their trading at
points. on the Milwaukee and Black
Hills railroads.
Bigelow reports car of wool, 3 OF
oats and of wheat, in all 81 cars
Our 11ersey correspondent gives 2l
cars OF hay us the amount shipped by
Mr.. Geyermann up to the middle of De-
cember and adds that the station will
ship 40 cars more by spring.
Ellsworth reports, in addition to the
above, IS Cars OF wheat shipped and
2 cars Of barley. Also % cars of coal
and ~ cars of lumber received. This
IS doing we'll when we consider that
less than three months ago Ellsworth
was unknown and the spot where it
stands was bare prairie.
INDIVIDUAL SHIPMENTS.
OF individual shipments we learn
that Col. Z. II. Matson has shipped
between 40 and SO cars of hay, r. E.
Covey As to so cars, and Hansberger
Bros, IS to 20.
OF the stock shipments, Mr.. H. NJ.
Witbeck, the principal Worthington
buyer, furnishes US the following
Statement: Amount of stock bought
and sold during the past year by Wit
beck Il Roche and II. NJ. Witbeck, in
the counties of Mobiles, Jackson, Mur-
ray and Lyon:
Cattle GntI le....so so5 Head.
nogs: s:...............:...H6 ~ .
Sheep.. .S3
The above amount of stock was mar
keted in Chicago and St. Paul, except
about 25O head of cattle sold to Iowa
feeders, butchers and others.
S. Mclean has bought and sold
about 200 head Of cattle and 100 of
hogs, and we hear that Mr.. Pasco, of
Bigelow, has marketed 500 to 600 head
of cattle.
E. Cooper, the principal live stock
dealer of Adrian, we learn, has shipped
and caused to be shipped from several
points about 40 car loads of cattle and
hogs during 13 months ending Jan. l.
OF the flax shipped from Worthing-
ton, the business is pretty evenly divid.
ed between H. E. Torrance and Hen
~ Davis, Mr.. T. shipping about II
cars and Mr.. D. about 38.
We had hoped to obtain statement
of the amounts paid out for freights by
our lumber and fuel dealers but have
not secured a full report. Shepard
Bros. report over Sc, 600 of freights paid
during the year.