The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-02-20

No statistics are at hand showing the
actual shipments from Oregon, but it is
fair to judge the crop in that state has
likewise been underestimated and that the
total yield has been fully 5000 bales in
stead of 10000 as heretofore estimated by
us in our last circular. making total for
the two states of Is, 100 bales Almost all
of the Oregon crop has gone forward and
into the hands of the consumers.
The shipments since December 81, 1890,
including the stock yet on hand, will foot
up fully 5000 bales-a conservative esti-
mate-and may reach the unexpected
grand total for the crop year of 1880 Of
$1,000 bales.
1t il with no small amount of local
pride we are able to chronicle the fact of
Puyallup standing at the head Of the list
in its hop business and shipments as here
tofore, with quite an advance over any for
mer year.
The disastrous results to both growers
and dealers who scrupulously filled all
contracts. coupled with the threatened loss
of a portion of the crop by yermin and
rendering the quality uncertain for future
crops, has put stop TO contracting for
future deliveries, and it is to be hoped
never to be revived.
Had the growers not contracted any of
the crop of 1880 until in the bale. and then
met the market, there would have BEEN
more than million dollars more money
In circulation in the two states of Wash
ington and Oregon than now and world
of litigation avoided that now crowds our
court dockets.
Notice has been formally served upon
this firm that hereafter no bales will be
passed the scales that weigh over 30
pounds. So growers will please take no
IL h<.fa
will be received by us hereafter, as we do
not wish to purchase that which we can
not sell.
There is a good valid reason for this
rigid ..iron-ciad rule, ;" In that hard pressed
bales never make good summer use hops,
and this desirable quality of the Northern
Pacific growths of Oregon and Washing
ton is that which has given us that pres
tige on the London market-to enable us
to sell freely on that market. An average
OF I10 pounds per bale is better than 1SO:
in fact the lighter pressed hops are the bet
ter they retain their "age" and usefulness
to the consumer.
Messrs. Hothbarth & Sons, New York,
under date of February 9, 1891, estimates
the stock of hops on hand IN the United
States at 5000 bales, all of which will
practically be needed to supply the wants
of brewers not already provided for, as
Stunning there will be no farther import or
export trade.
This leaves the problem of the world
supply" with the German and English fac
tors, the ways of which are past finding
out, hence the future of the market is as
usual shrouded in mystery and beyond the
knowledge of the most wise
Contrary TO all expectation based upon
the known shortage in the worlds supply,
the market has not fully recovered from
the great sag of November, caused by the
stringency Of the money market, at the be-
ginning of which prices were firmly quoted
at from 300 TO 30 shillings per hundred
weight. Now, the same qualities will fetch
no more than from i65 to l75 shillings per
hundredweight, difference of fully Scents
per pound.