The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1891-02-11
SHIPMENTS OF WHEAT.
Interesting Talks That Subject--Lots
of Wheat Gone East.
rportland OreConian.1

Portland Oregonian.l
Speaking of the rapid rate at which
wheat has Eeen shipped east by rali iro.ii
the Inland Empire, for the past SIN
weeks, a prominent wheat dealer salo
yesterday: -
;no here now from east of the mountains
| nor will there be this season, except on
some old contract. 1t is all going east;
There are four or five train loads shipped
daily on the two roads. The trains are
of fifteen to twenty cars each ana eacn
car carries fifteen tons. AT TINS rate ~
will not take long to clear the wheat out
of the Inland Empire. From the closest
Calculation that can be made there is not
over 600. 900 bushels of wheat lett IN
store on the whole of Eastern oregon
and Washington, and probably announcer
900 900 bushels In the hanos Vi
farmers.
q nal movement of wheat, he replied:
ttWell. primarily it is caused by the
q unreasonable prices demanded by ships.
= Sbipowners, thinking there was an eX-
Y ceedingly large amount OF wheat IN tne
: northwest, demanded big prices, think
: ino that they could get almost anything
It they asked. Ships have been chartered
,r here this season as high as 5o sh!ll1ngs
q per ton. This is an outrageous price.
% sIt is claimed that they can carry
N wheat to Liverpool at proht OF 81 snil
ty lings per ton, but II they mad oeeh sa.,s
4. have been taken readily and but htti
ge wheat would have gone east, but owln
A. IN the excessive prices asked Tor charIer
" a lot of wheat has been sent TO oal
=, Francisco by steamer and shipped there
no and the rest from the Inland Empire
do going east. &c ~
of Pacific Elevator Company, was seen by
he reporter in regard to this matter. u
,ns "We are shipping great deal OF whe;
! - east. 1t goes to Kansas City and is oil
tributed all over the north and sout
This movement is the result OF an
normal condition OF things. Snlpo"-
ers demand too high prices for charter
in l-.al there being a scarcity of wheat eas
All II pSss more profitable to- .ship-- tleI
~ here for ships, and by May there will
9 Is ships here begging for cargoes, and the
nay will be none for them. There is a scarci
kes of wheat in Kansas, Nebraska and sor
) :, goes to Wisconsin. 1t goes south
: - Texas, Tennessee and Alabama, in fs
iter all over the country except the caste
cps and middle states. What wheat the
hill is here has been provided for, but the
90 will be more shipped here from the
terror. If the shipowners had be-
ana reasonable in their demands the whe
but crop would have been shipped from hel
anv They thought there was big crop al
ad9 they could get big prices for charter
% %. but they found there is another way
s 1t getting rid of our wheat"
will Being asked if this sort of thing wou
last occur again, he replied:
ing nreosonahle % nr;ceS 49, orc asrnS 'e fo. "be
Dill ters. A great deal of wheat was shipp
late east year before last. Last year the
pon was not SO much shipped that way, b
e. it is liable to go that way wheney
eno charters are too DEAR"
d If Ship owners who imagine they C
g to take advantage of the shippers here a.
des, charge excessive prices, and who n
waiting for the new crop, as has ha
pened here. will find that there is not
lied ing in that way of doing business.