The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-10-15
pluIIcH GRAIN REPORTS

CHICAGO. Oct 14-An afternoon paper
says: "Aavices from the other side of the
Atlantic are almost uniformly bullish
with regard to the future price of wheat.
A feature of the trade here which does not
usually appear in the daily review of the
markets, and the full scope of which is
not covered by the published figures of the
movement of the crops, is the eXtraOrdin-
ary demand from England, and even
France for American flour. 1t does not
fully show in immediate exports, for the
reason that they take no note of the i'm
mense purchases of -four which are made
by foreigners for future shipment. An
a eent of one of the two big amalgamated
milling concerns at Minneapolis says that
they are getting large orders from Eng
land for their patents at prices which
leave them a good milling profit. and. as
for bakers and lower grades, their entire
milling capacity up to next January is al
ready sold and that If they were to accept
further orders at present prices they could
dispose of their entire output up TO next
June The buying of patents to go abroad
at the present volume was never before
experienced. A Paris flour merchant,
writing under date Of Oct. l, says that
American -four is preferred there by the
bakers and can be had there at such rates
that it does not pay to import wheat for
milling purposes. The result has been
that the wheat bought In this country for
future delivery has been resold. The
writer expects higher prices for wheat,
even il Russia does not prohibit exports,
though the latter is anticipated"
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Oct. 1.-The sus-
pense over the wheat crop of North DatIo-
Ia and the northern and western counties
of Minnesota has grown into positive
alarm. Up TO yesterday there was gen
eral hope that the grain could be threshed
and graded, rejected or used for feed for
stock. During Monday night, however,
heavy rains set 10 all over the north coun-
try which changed to snow. The storm
extended as far south as Minneapolis and
all threshing operations are suspended
and will not be resumed before next week,
even if there is no more rain or snow.
Mil and elevator men declare that from
three to five million bushels OF wheat will
be utterly ruined.
Colonel P. b Walker said of the situa-
ton. Il have just returned from trip
through that section and it made my
heart ache to witness the ruin. In order
TO appreciate it one must actually see it,
There are 5000 acres of simply wonderful
wheat fields almost utterly DESTROYED by
the rains and the mud. IL was perfectly
eXecrable day; we tTamped in the slush
across fields, the slush half knee deep. l
went out with government surveying
party TO establish two lines and the rain
aDu muu broke up our party ana we were
forced to abandon the work entirely
The reports published in the papers do
not half cover the devastation As far as
the eye can reach in every direction are
great bi2 shocks OF wheat, and it would
have graded No. l hard had it been
threshed out before the rains fell Now
nothing eau be done. IL is too late TO save
even amolety. Were the shocks in a con-
dition 10 h. threshed it would be a physical
impossibiiity TO do anything with the crop
for the reason that teams cannot haul the
wheat to the threshers nor haul fuel to
the engines. The difficulty in the first
place arose over getting help to do the
threshing, but though the railway com
panies succeeded in getting the men and
machines into the fields. when they arrived
they were powerless The mud was so
deep that the horses mired to their bellies.
and nothing can be done until the sun
dries both the soil and the shocks Of wheat
1T Is painful 10 stand on a prominence
and survey the situation. Everywhere the
machines are visible, all abandoned, and
the wheat for hundreds of miles ruined 4"