The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-28
HOPS DULL AT TWENTY CENTS.
twenty-five Paid for Choice-London
and New York Quiet,

PUYALLuP, Oct 27.-[SpeciaL l-E. Meeker &
Co seem TO be the only hop buyers that are
doing any business at present. They have Just
received cablegram from London, stating that
500 bales OF our own crop had been sold on a
basis OF 2l cents on the London market This is
the first sale OF Washington hops effected by
this firm this season in this market and the
only sale with the exception of 100 bales OF Ore
gon. These 500 bales are now on their way to
their destination. The firm has at this date re.
ported Glib bales Of hops bought in Oregon and
California at from Is cents TO q cents. Twenty
two cents was paid for two fancy lots, 1924
bales being Oregon and only us bales Washing.
ton, owing TO the baekwardness OF the Wash
ington growers in selling. This firm has Just
purchased Ed Dana's crop, which was ranked
as choice Washington, at 20 cents. George
Hedges crop of eighty bales was purchased on
the 2ith inst. ut 20 cents. On this same date -
cents was being offered for strictly choice
Oregon hop, which, for some reason. is better
seller on the boards OF the London market than
Is our own product The reason is hard to tell,
but doubtless ii is owing to the color of the
Oregon hops being preferred, and therefore the
buyers are willing to pay several cents mora for
them.
The growers in both California and Oregon
are selling freely. and Meeker &c Co. are filing
an ORDER of $500 bales for the London market
Gene Pettigrow who. Mr.. Meeker saws, is the
Oregon receiving hops which Will help to fill
this order
The latest cable is to the effect that the Lon
don market IL firm for strictly choice hons and
dull for medium grades. The Continental mar
ket is declining, ani the New York market il
lower. Capt c. VI. Cove. superintendent Of tho
SnCQualmie Hop Ass1 citation, was in Puyallup
yesterday looking up the hop market. He has
1900 bales to sell this fall tho association hav-
ing raised 100 bales, 20o OF which have gone to
San Francisco. This company sold to f.
Meeker last year
Il is reported here upon the streets that the
published statement that English buyers were
purchasing in Germany at present was not the
cause OF the low offerings Tor our CROP a. a
grower up the river has received adyice4 from
London to the contrary. stating that the buyers
were holding back and the brewers were buying
only from hand TO mouth 70 force the growers
to sell at lower rate.
The report this morning in Tacoma daily of
an interview with Mr.. Short, q comm ssi on mer-
chant from London, Is not believed by many
growers, as he states that ii Is his opinion that
hops will not be high this season. The Wash
ington grower has his mind firmly set that hops
are going 10 be high. and many growers who
can afford il will wait developments. and be-
leve no reports except those in accord with
their own opinions. II seems a little unjust
that when anything is wrong with the hop
business so many people, and sometimes those
who It would be expected were better informed,
lay al or most y! the blame a. Ezra Meeker's door
A wall comes from a little paper up toward the
mountains, that because no Washington hops
are sold in London IL is this gentlsmans fault
when In reality some growers here are very 10th
10 give samples. and hops cannot now be sold
without samples Where are the other eleven
buyers? They not doing ANYTHING. a. no
transfers have been reported except By this
firm.