New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-12-08
WHEAT IN WASHINGTON.
NOT ENOUGH RAILROAD CARS TO MOVE IT.
THE YEARS CROP ESTIMATED AT TWENTY FIVE
MILLION BUSHELS. WITH THREE MILL
IONS or OATS AND FOUR AND
HALF MILLIONS or BARLEY.

lONS Vi OAlS AND IOSiN NM -
HALE MILLIONS OF BARLEY.
Seattle wash, Nov 2G (SIecaD.-Peturns from tho
great grain regions Of Washington show an astonishing
product of wheat this YEAR. From the best sources
it is learned that the yield Will not be less than
100000 bushels. This for a state 50 new is very
surprising The largest yield of California with moro
than ten times As much soil devoted 70 wheat, was
81 100000 but since that time the soil has grown
less and less adapted TO wheat. until now II does not
average moro than fifteen or eighteen bushels 10 ire
acre. WashingtOn's weld is all the more striking
when that Of last ycarOnly about 100000 bushels
Is contrasted with It, This year, however, very largo
area of new soil was brought under cultivation and
sown to wheat II is estimated that Whitman County,
with only onefourth of it, area devoted to wheat has
produced 900 bushels. the region south of snake
River to the Oregon line 100000, the Big Bend ana
Colve regions 100000 and various other sections
of the state enough more to MAKE the 2o'ooo'ooo'
The Weld of oats Is about 3 900 600 bushels, and Of
barley about 100000 bushels. The Grannerle' oil
Eastern Washington literally bursting. There Is
not room I'm them for "A tenth part of the wheat For
months it has been piled many feet high in sacks IN
the fields and at the railway stations. willie the rolling
stock Of all the railways inadequate 10 take 1t
away But even if the wheat had been brought Z"
tide water to Puget Sound. hOatcd down the Column
hia A. some OF ii might have BEEN on barge, bul
LITTLE Of il could have been carried away, owing 10
many vessel, being delayed with cargocs In Australia,
ownc to the coal miners strike there. 1t might have
hcon stored at tidcwatcr. however and the farmers
paid some money on IT, \, it is, they cannot get any
money and because of the difficulty Of getting cars the
farmers ar, indignant 1t will take til July next 10
move the crop. and il s by no means certain 'm' II
will all he by that time. car hode 3oo o'hcs'
and 10 transport the wheat Of Whitman county A"he
will require 24.242 cars. Estimating elghceh cars u"
a train it will require 13i7 separate railroad trains
incl
officials Of the Union Pacific Railway say there Is
enough Grain along their road IN Eastern Washington
to keen all their available busy for more than a
wear or TIL January, 1899.
Dissatisfaction at the lack Of cars furnished oy u'
railroads is growing apace. one days rcqu'si'oh' Oh
the spokane and Paouse Railroad was for 700 cars
and all they could get seventeen Inc average
amount Of wheat per acre Is about fofN busheI'
There are scores Of Instances where farms Of 200
or 800 acres each have averaged 80 and go bushels
Frank ILL., of Pullman. had Al acres when yielded
66 bu,hel, and 1 pound, per acre. T. Bradley 'i
P.lOire has 40 acres averaging ~ bushels +" Lar
berry Of Watcrvillc In the Big Bend country hdi
vested an average OF T. bushels from tx acres
and - bushels from another acre. samuel Hutcnn
SON Of Adams County produced 92 IL bushels an
acre on 80 acres. Many other Instances Of an a.
hing weld might be cited bnt the SENSATION among
v heat growers was caused this wear when b. j. North
cut produced hs farm lear Pullman loI DI-hoN
Oh single acre This l. the triumph OF Wa'hih-'""
wheat ralscrs These instances u great y1cd spuhd
so large that they scarcely credible vet they are
well authenticated sample, Of thee yields were re-
Gently exhibited IT the Northwestern Exposition lie"
Al Spokane rails. 49,, 49,, ~,
The price at ColfaX, the centre Of the wheat tci,'
carly in the season % cents husArl mn Wis tn
.lN dcrnss scd until sale, made al - cents No"
mo- Wh. /, being bought. and The elevator 'pHpiH'N
arr. advancing no money wheat stored WIN tIcHl'
az ve an small lots In sections ri 40 cents Wifi
i'm Chicago one DAY tbs week Wa quoted II ~ -
u Oh ON the same day Tie elevators n TINS STATE
were paving 40 10 AZ cents. Transportation from hero
T. chicago ~ 50 = cents per bushei. W!cI dnd7 IN.
lrayn I'm Chicago for 20 =, lcAvlur margin ~
~ p cents DcductinG cllt- for commission ana
storage and IL cents f,r difference IL graeo- th"N'
woud stu remain a margin OF l. cents Id laiHci
here IN consequence cl4m they are beng -'rlldl3i
and as,ri that the railroads and elevator cphldics
~. latter CONGRATULATIONS OF u" for'l-iiNc com
ijDed 10 still further depress TIE market .
They have great project afOot t. build rilIrupf
from some point In the PaJu-e country L. udc"atar
ON I'ugct sound distance II about 100 ui'-'. me
railroad would cot about +S},OOO,OOO bil n ulc
present rate Of transportation charged by III" Union
i,aclnc and Northern Pacific road ID" Wuty 0HN7l
ON This years Yield would almost pay Tor IT, fig""V'L,
some state aid vii be ASKED - Start T. FaI1tk
Henry Winston United state District Niorn"' Tor
Washington. VIII 20 before IN" Legislature soon -
meet Al olympia champion ths cau~" anc AK Tor we
Da,sAgc OF a law authorizing the issuance 81 BONDS.
The Farmers Alliance ~ Washington Is strong ana
il is possible that something NAV come Of the m"Ne-