St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-30
GATHERING FIGURES
Which Show to What Section
Minnesota Wheat Is Exported.

Commissioner of Labor l.. Ct. Powers,
who is now III the East collecting data
relating to the expectation of North
western wheat, has sent back to the
Office in st. Paul the first instaliment of
figures and information relating to the
subject of his inquiry, the investigation
in which these figures will play part
seeking primarily to exhibit the mar
gin of profit on the expectation of
wheat from Minnesota to Europe in the
past five years. IL will show each
month of those five years the eXporta-
ton of Minnesota wheat for all the sea-
board cities handling that wheat. This
exhibit of wheat exported will become
check upon the tables of prices in Min
neapOlis and Liverpool. as the wheat is
exported when and by whatever route
there is profit to the shipper and the
operator. At times Minnesota wheat
moves to Europe by at least six differ
ent routes. At such times there is
practical equality of freight rates for
all those routes. At other times all the
most two lines. There is at the present
time scarcely any Minnesota wheat 60
ing to Baltimore or Philadelphia. 1t is
nearly all sent forward to New York,
and is being stored in that city more
than shipped to Europe, as the margin
or export is so small that the buyers
hold it for an advance, and not for i'm
mediate export. The New York eX-
Baltimore and Philadelphia dealers say
until there is no money in handling it,
hence the little North western wheat 60
ing to those two cities at present.
A significant fact illustrative of
this relative advance in the East of
Minnesota wheat over some of the other
grades is illustrated in this fact. The
mIllers in the East have for several
years used Northwestern hard wheat to
mix with theiI Eastern soft winter
wheat in making their best flour. At
the present time the millerS of PennSyl-
vania are buying the best Minnesota
flour, and not the wheat for this blend
ing purpose. The millerS East say the
price of Minnesota wheat has been adj
vanced relatively more than the flour
made in Minnesota. Hence it is cheaper
for them to purchase flour and not
wheat for their purposes. This fact is
significant tribute to the value of those
Minnesota mills as agents i'll holding up
the price of wheat at this season of the
year for marketing this great staple of
the northwest.
In showing the variations of wheat
shipments by year from the Atlantic
seaboard, the following exhibit of re-
ceiptS of Northwestern wheat at Phila-
delphia is given. From 1856 to 1892:
In 1856 and 1887 there was no North
western wheat Inspected in Philadel-
phia; in 1888 there was one car No. 1
hard inspected in Philadelphia; in 1889
there were twenty-five cars No. hard
inspected in Philadelphia; in 1889 there
was los cars No. northern inspected in
Philadelphia lin 1890 there were six cars
No. northern inspected in Philadel-
hia; in 1890 there was one car No. 2
northern inspected in Philadelphia;
i'll 1891 there were 10Y cars No. hard
inspected in Philadelphia; in 1891 there
were COL cars Mol northern inspected in
Philadelphia; in 1892 there were 1926
cars No. northern inspected in Phila-
delphia; in 1892 there were 562 cars MOL
hard inspected IN Philadelphia; and
very little of any grade in 1899. All
told, for Philadelphia there have been
exported in eight years about 100000
bushels of Northwestern wheat. This
is much less than Baltimore. New York
and Boston. The exact figures of these
exports by months will be given in the
report of the labor bureau for all these
cities for 1885 to 1893 inclusive.