The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-11-11
Trade.


- dour values form the OASIS OF the Dfeaa
49, and the former have mot yet touched
Ssrres assording real cause for serious fears
- inst complaint Grain has been 100 per
..rt higher than nj present within the
compsratiyely short period california has
-, Il, the wheat trade. The lowest prices
- : century have been current the past few
vesrs. and compared with some values Of
~ present decade wheat, -four and bread
re new going af reasonable figures. yaiues
.srnot drop back to lowest Levels without
r5nrhIng the producer, so II would ap-
Ear from tine present outcry to be quite
: derIorable situation. in which either the
rbest grower must work without material
nrodt or q large portion Of the bread eaters
- subjected 10 physfion and distress; but
nc picture is inconsistent There has
nothing yet developed TO warrant any
,smentatfon over the advance in prices.
n would be very convenient to have wheat
hiah and bread low, to sait both producers
and consumers, but the millers and bakers
are neither wealthy enough nor 50 phiisn-
tbropic as to have this condition of affairs
exist for any great length Of time. II -four
was q dollar per barrel and bread CORES
poudingly low, there would always be some
people in distress and without the where
withaI to get their daily loaf .--Grocer and
GgaafFy Merchant
THE WESTERN PORK PACKING AND RIO
VISION TRADE.
The Cincinnati Price Current Of oc-
tober % says:
The marketing OF hogs in the West has
somewhat increased, but continues rnoder-
ate In number. for the season, the weeks
packing for all points showing deficiency
OF 5000 hogs compared with the CORES.
ponding time last year, the total being I65.
coo against 10000 last week. and us. 900 Z
year ago. The total from March i Is 1, sos.
900 hogs, against s,35s,0o0 last year--de-
crease, $4,000. Prices OF hogs at leading
centers have aiinsst steadily declined du.
ring the week. and are generally 2a1eSse Per
100 pounds lower than q week ago; Chicago
prices are about 81 Is per 100 pounds higher
than year ago, and about f0c, per 100
pounds higher than the average at that
point all last winter. For the year ending
November the Western packing will not
exceed 100000 hogs-probabiy will fall
somewhat short Of this-eompared with an
average of II, soor0 for three years preyi-
ously, and nearly 1900 900 M the Averages
for ten years ending year ago. The ex
ports Of hog product for the year viii equal
about 3,gl5.o00 hogs, or less than 10 per
cent. OF the Western manufacture, while
the exports during the entire period OF ten
years ending year ago averaged about 20
Der cent. OF the manufacture, the last four
wears OF the period reaching about 60 per
cent. The past year has not been q re-
muncrative one as a rule 20 the packing
interest. which with the evident influence
Of advanced prices In curtailment OF the
foreign demand for product, as illustrated
during the year now closing, serve to warn
the trade OF hazards on basis of higher
prices than last season for hogs. Past
events also suggest that while the earlier
portion OF the coming year may show q
shortage In number. high prices for pro-
due. may he counted upon as reducing re-
quirements for the product Packers the
coming winter season viii be cautious In
operating with view TO holding stocks
against the enlarged supply of hogs
naturally looked for next summer.
The Following article from the Grocer
aud Country Merchant, San Francisco, COM
mends itself TO all who are interested In
the salmon industry on Puget sound The
utter want of consideration shown this FISH
during the spawning season ought 20 re-
ceiye legislative attention, and thus pre-
vent the extinction of what under indieious
management would prove one of our lead
Ing industries In the future;
For some DAYS the quality of salmon re-
ceived at the fish markets has been such
a. 10 merit attention. With all that has
been published with respect TO the desire
of the fish commissioners OF this state TO
protect the salmon industry, there appears
TO be very little, II anything. doing IN the
direction OF practical work. Mr.. Living
ston Stone, United states fish commits
soner, recently called attention to what
might be accomplished at the McCloud
and Clackamas stations IL properly con-
Quoted. lie says:
EITHER of these stations, being both won
derfully adapted by nature for taking sal
mon eggs. could easily secure 100000
eggs season II the parent salmon had
half chance TO get up the rivers. As IL
Is the salmon are SO numerically melted
and trapped up on the way to the statisns
that II seems almost miracle that any of
them get there alive. II Is, unhappily.
very difficult on this Pacific coast TO obtain
any restrictions on the salmon fishing, but
II the fishermen and others who reap a
profit from the salmon fishing would only
exercise reasonable amount of foresight
and self-restrainf In providing an adequate
close time during the fishing season, the
salmon hatchery stations on the Clacka-
mas river and on the McCloud could soon
ill the Columbia and Sacramento rivers
more full of salmon than was ever known
In the best salmon days OF these rivers,
even before white men began their whole
sale destruction of salmon with their traps
and nets.
"This sounds very well. but Is II not the
duty of the state commission to see that
the law is enfofced7 To appeal TO the
class of persons who indulge In Illicit Ash.
ing is absurd, and 10 expect those engaged
in salmon canning win undertake 10 do
for the protection of their business, what
Il is clearly the business of the commission
TO do. Is equally absurd. The fact OF the
business is, the salmon coming TO this
market are not prevented from going to
the spawning grounds, but having gone
there, are taken, without hindrance from
the commission, and shipped TO this mar
ket. shipments are made daily from
Jehama by rail to San Francisco. The
talmon, when taken, are generally unfit
Tor human food. being Shiny, exhausted,
poor, and In many instances afflicted with
sores and almost scaleless. They have not
life enough in this exhausted condition to
offer much resistance TO the pirates
who are destroying them. They are TAX
en-, put into bags aud shipped here TO be
sold In the ish markets, and such as are
not thus consumed, whether from excess
OF quantity or from bad condition, the sur
plus goes 10 city eanneries TO be canned.
The whole thing is an outrage that merits
the severest condemnation. We call the
attention Of the commission 10 this matter
N the hope of seeing Is corrected. They
have only 10 visit the Clay street market
any day before 10 O'Clock 90 verify the