The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-26
SHIPPING FLOUR BY SEA,
That Method of Transportation
Will Be Resumed This
Year.
A Prosperous Season Anticipated.
Sperry Mills Begin to Grind
To-Day.

There is apparently no longer any reason
for the California wheat-growers to look
glum and feel blue over their prospects of
doing fairly we'll with the present year S
crop. The Fair wheat deal has passed
through its Waterloo, and with the sigh of
relief which was given with that announce
ment it is safe to include long-drawn
breath Of hope that prosperity's sun is
about to throw its warmest beams around
them.
With the breaking up of the Fair deal it
was supposed that dark days would come
to the growers here with the flooded mar
ket. But at the right moment the East
ern market fell into line with advanced
prices, and the purchasers of the syndicate
wheat were in position to make advan-
tageous terms for almost every pound of
the wheat which came into their hands.
They had secured unto themselves all the
available shipping, and were thus enabled
to move the greater part Of the wheat
away from the State. 1t was this move
ment that saved the growers for the COM
ing season. The stored-up holdings, rep
resenting the shattered ambition of a
speculative ring, were removed from COM
petition with the new crop.
The good feeling of better times coming
is not confined to the growers alone,
either. Among the milIers and grain
manipulators of the City mart there Is an
exuberant tendency, which augurs well for
the future of the wheat market. In fact,
on change yesterday there was little hest
tation among brokers and others in adj
hitting that mild boom is coming all
along the line.
AS an indication of this feeling came the
announcement that the Starr FIGURING
mills at South Vallejo would begin active
operations this morning. There are two
large mills included in the plant, ana
George w. McNear stated that one of the
mills would be run to its full capacity and
the other would turn out all that was
needed over that until the new wheat came
in, when it, too, would be run to its full
extent.
1.-THE prospects for the coming year
consider exceptionally good" said Mr..
McNear in speaking of the starting up of
his mill, especially in the -four trade.
Everything points that way now. We
will start up one of our mills to its full
capacity tomorrow and keep it running
through the season. When the new wheat
comes i'll our other mill will also be run at
the same pressure.
1.-THE market just now is in q most adj
VantageOuS condition for The millerS OF this
State. Heretofore, the millers in the
middle West have had the best of us.
They have had better shipping rates, and
as as c 2 >! we were getting the worst
advanced price in the East we are in a
splendid condition to hold our own. Con-
tracts have already been made at good
prices and others will come. Shipping
will be resumed by the Horn route. On
account of the Eastern competition this
mode OF shipment was abandoned last
year, but now it will boom again.
"Of course there is no available shipping
now, as it is engaged for the wheat ship
ments, but there is plenty of tonnage on
the way, and within two months, when
flour shipments are ready, we will have
all the shipping we want. No, I do not
anticipate nigh charters, nor do I think
there will be any material advance in the
price of -four. The latter. though, will de-
pend upon the wheat market. The Euro
pean demand promises to be exceptionally
good this year. There will be nothing to
interfere with the new crop. 1t will come
upon particularly clean market"
+; ID. Hausman, who for years has been
we'll known in the flour business in this
City, will take charge of the Starr Mills and
look after affairs generally for Mr.. McNear.