The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-10-24
hop MARKET AT srASDsTILL.
Buyers Ofes 20 Cents, Which Is Re-
fused-stagna:ion. IN London.

fused-stagna:ion IN London.
PUT.LLCP. Oct 22-IsIecisl. IA stranger
passing tArougA PGyg.iup would scarcely recos-
nizs il as hop town, as everyihins
is quiet. No hop buyers are see:s
driving rapidly about in taeir fine ,ure-
outs, end the growers can come and 20 without
Inoes'stion By the buyers. whereas few yeaEa
ego grower co1ld not en:er the town witho,s.
ne was bu-tolhOled. The Only thing stranger
woa.d see 20 indicate large hop business
Is the hop bales constantly going and corlir.g
IRON The large storeho1se on Meridian stree.
near Pioneer avenue. E Aeeker & Co. have az
ready shipped l5J7 tsle> OF hops, about III blles
beicg purchased in Oregon and less than leo
bales here. The rest belong either 70 the con.-
pauy or ere shipp:d for customers, mostly -
London. few only 10 Sew YORK. This wees
this company has shipped four Car loads -
LONDON.
One hundred and forty bales have teen pug
chase! in California al - ce1ts per pound i
telegram received yesterday by E Meeker Va ues
a certain cho.ce lot of hops a: 21-
cents per pound in New York Ils
latest adyices from London iudicass
qdie. market. At New YORK the market u
weak, with tendency downward. L. c. Merrill
has not soli his Oregon crop of SONG
thing over 30 bales, at 2li4 cents,
As was reported in a Tacoma papee
/. is rather !uaicrous to witness the exertioIls
OF this paper 10 supply its customers with mop
'neHs, when there Is no such commodity Ul.-
lees whole cIotl is resorist to.
Il is very unusual, this entire stagne.ion IF
the hop market at this season OF the yeas
when the last years crop has beea
consumed ana this years crop !.
ready for sale, but each side Il
waiting Tor Developments. which is very usu&s
when there is such all uncertainty in the cro.,
AID so many Iunors that no one knows who to
believe. Growers ore very cautious in euies~
tanning propositions. bot for this loud
talk o. a combine, made by certain papers, there
Is no more indication OF i. now than in any yesr
heretofore: as far as combine between the
buyers and brewers, there no more founda.
ton Tor the report than 10 say that there 10 q
Combine between the growers aud buyers or be-
tween the growers and brewers, for the it,
teresis OF any two are iu.t as far apart az
those OF any other two. Ii the growers
could ouly unite, as they ought 20 be able To dc.
like the buyers, they would have nothing 10 faar
from either combines Of buyers or brewers
or both together, for they could hold th:.
crop IN their own hands and do wi,s,
as they chose, providing they
kept forehandsd enough TO harvesx
their crop, without obligation to any
one. This the hop growers could vsrT
easily do if they were only a little
more provident- ii the grower woula
only have patience and provide way L,
meet his obligations without being obliged 10
let his hops 60, things would adjust them,
selves in time, Is the buyer wou9
be just as much afraid OF the grower
with hops and without debt as th.s
grower !s OF the buyer. The grower is aware thas
the buyers can combine. and the buyer knows
that the growers because of some physical OK
mental defect, cannot combine. Hence the az
vantage in favor of the Duyer.
some hrm5 not offering ANYTHING ana
some few Others are Offering 20 cents for certairs
choice lots, but find no takers To-.
night the firm OF Z. Meeker e. Co arr
offering Il cents for certain Oregon lots ana
20 cents for certain Washington lots. A. G.
Campbell is Offering for choice 20 cents. Georee
l. Rose is not offering at all.
L. c. Merrill has gone TO Indepeni ence, Or