The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-08
EQUALS A GOLD MINE.
This Years Crop Adds 01o,172,bo to
Whitman County's Wealth.


Whitman County's Wealth.
Colfsx Gazette.
The grain trade In Palouse markets is about
closed for the present season, and by the ship
ments that have been made from the various
stations an accurate estimate places the total
product OF Whitman county at IS, SOC, goo bushels
with wheat as the chief factor at 0,750, 900
bushels; barley, 900; oats, 100000; fax,
o0,oO9; rye, 100000 The money received for
this grain has added SIC, 800 to the wealth Of
the countyj for the average price of wheat since
the beginning of harvest has been rs cents q
bushel; OF barley, so cents; Of oats, so cents of
max, IL, and of rye, sL.l0, making the wheat
worth 49, 500 barley, $4,000; oats, 500 600;
tax, $4,000. and rye. $4,000
These figures can be verified In many ways,
but the most reliable method is to take the
actual shipments from each station, the data Of
which the Gazette has Jus, finished collecting.
Colfax stands At the pinnacle among the grain
shippers OF the county as well as of the state,
having sent out, up to Wednesday evening,
sse,75O bushels OF wheat and 276,500 bushels of
barley. At the same time there was stored in
the warehouses total of 495,520 bushels of all
kinds OF cereals. Counting on 1900 TO 100000
bushels yet to come In, the amount that this
station exports win have exceeded 100000 by
the first OF the year. The second heaviest ex-
porter goes to tho credit of Pullman, the amount
already shipped from there being 10000 bushels
OF wheat and 175,OoO bushels of barley
and fax. The warehouses there now con.
tain between $4,000 and 100000 bush.
els OF grain. But there is probably
total of still in the fields that are tribu.
tary to the town. The entire shipments will
not fall below 100000 bushels Palouse City
and Oakesdale are 30 close that neither will
beat the other by more than 10000 bushels. The
Palouse city figures were furnished the Gazette
oy one OF the heavy wheat buyers at that point,
as were also were the Oakssdale shipments by
an Oakesdale grain dealer. Both say that IT'S, 600
from their respective towns, and both add that
the amount in store is near 225,o0o. Their fig.
ures are from the books at the different ware
houses, and are to be relied upon as fairly ac-
curate Garfield is another heavy shipper and
Is not more than $1,000 bushels behind either
Oakes1nie or Palouse. Pennington is about
equal with Garfield, while Tekoa and Rosalia
each falls about 100000 bushels behind The
stations OF Guy, Whelan, Fallon, Elberton and
Diamond have shipped amounts, varying in the
order named, from $4,000 to 100000 bushels
And besides these there are other points, such
as Glenwood, Belmont, Sunset, st. John, Endi-
colt, Winona, Lees Siding, Stonebarger, Garri-
son, Glendale, Saltice, Almota, Penawawa,
Riparia, Pampa, La Cross and Hooper, which
export 10000 to 10000 bushels each.
SO much for the energy of the Palouse. This
wealth 10 the gain of q single year. The grsin
sprang from nothing and has been exchanged
for its equivalent In gold. In consequences,
farmers are prosperous, and their prosperity
puts life and vigor into every other branch OF
business The Palouse Ia independent