The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-11-28
WHEAT AND BARLEY
The Former Is Being Largely Stored
in Gallatin Valley.
WHAT GRAIN IS WORTH NOW
Farmers Are Erecting Cranaries
and a Feeling OF Contentment
Prevails - kalispeil Exporters
Supply Western Markets.

Special Correspondence of the Standard.
Bozeman, Nov. 26.-''Moving' Is
feature of home life always to be
dreaded, but II is the word which de-
notes life In the business world. The
Gallatin valley for the past two months
has been experiencing what might De
called It's annual moving season, as 1t
Is one long procession Of two. four and
six-horse teams these days hauling
grain to the warehouses and elevators
along the Northern Pacific.
Oats, do not move much this fall,
with the price at so cents. as every far
mer who can do so Is holding on to his
oats for a higher price. The market for
oats IL principally local and the newer
country, around Kalispell. Is supplying
the markets OF Butte and Helena now.
the ranchmen in that section not being
prepared Tor holding grain as are the
farmers in the Gallatin valley. the old
est agricultural district in the state. A
great many ranchmen in the Gallatin
valley have prepared for this by erect
ing new granaries from year to year
during the past until to-day many have
sufficient storage capacity for holding
two and three years crops " necessary.
This makes a farmer independent and,
although 1t is "speculating in grain"
like any deal In the pit" at Chicago
and just as likely to be a losing game
for the ranchman as one of profit, 1t is
surely very pleasant position for the
farmer to be in. Kalispell farmers are
laying oats down In Butte to-day for
IS cents, but the Gallatin farmer pre-
fers to sell his barley.
Barley finds its principal market in
the East, and the price here is ruled by
the price in Eastern markets and, the
barley crop In the Eastern and Middle
states having been extra fine this year
and larger than usual, the farmers here
figure that the price will not increase
very materially during the next few
months, while the fact that the market
for oats Ia local gives them reason 10
hope for a much better figure for oats
as soon as the fall rush of business Is
over and the market Is not as crowded
as at present Only about one-third OF
the oats in this section have bean mar
keted, while three-fourths Of the barley
is already on the road to Milwaukee,
New York and foreign shores. Barley
stin remains at So cents, a very low
rating surely, and especially so as COM
pared with the price at this time last
year. which was 20 cents: but not only
Is there a ready market for Ga1latin
valley barley. but It is so much superior
to the Eastern barley that IL Is sought
after by Eastern buyers, and had the
immense crop of nearly a million bush.
els been doubled or tripled, II would
have been moved just as readily,
/ Wheat still stands at 40 10 so cents q
bushel here and, although FAR ahead OF
last years quotations in Novem Der
which were IS to As cents. wheat, lik,
oats. Is being held for an advance and
the general belief here Is that a better
| price Is coming.
Henry Altenbrand of New York eft,
is In the valley looking after some des
ert land which he is getting his patent,
on. and his large barley interests here
he being president of the Manhattan
rumor, has IT that he has also got Iii
| eye on the wheat of this valley with q
view to buying heavily and speculatin
in this shifting sand" of the graiI
world