New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-09-25

Al q glance the wide variations in different
States caused BY great abundance OF scaio"s
q, Weld will attract attention. But large crop
s,,ch os that ~ 1863. sold at farm prices in
1o,a a,d Nebraska only two cents higher tnan
,bose of 1894 and though a wider difference ap-
nears in other States there is nowhere any
.ucb dec,ine as Is seen In the price at New
York which silver men are In the haDt OIL quo'.
,rs II will also be noticed at once tha' VIC
years 1S71-73 with which they are iona Oh s'ai'-
ing were years of short crops ana VIII speou
,ation in which most prices were hosteo DC
xond reason only to collapse when 'he paii0
came Beginning with either OF THESE years "
beginning with fraud But as prices Varieu
differently in the different States the only ea'e
&c, ,s IN compare averages in extensive dis
&ricts. and owing to the important inhuence u
+ransnorting charges. the averages are taken
o. ,ha Az. States first named lying east OF the
Mississippi and for at first the 1our STATES
I'D enal,v the seven States lying west OF the
>s,ss,as,npi To compare with these. the daiiy
-o,ss at New-York as officially reported by the
produce Exchange for December OF each year.
have also been averaged, so that IL appears a'
+. glance that the difference between lar "es.,
ern and New-York prices has shruhh iioi" ~
80 IN 1894 To less than % last year, and only
il in 1894
DEcREAsE IN COST OF TRANSPORTATION
rhe main cause is the decrease in cost OF
....o.o.,o, and there are added from Of
ac,al records the rates charged per bushei from
Chicago 10 New-York by rail. and such oa'a
40 have been found showing the rate by ph
from Kansas CITY, fairly representative polhl
for the region west Of the Mississippi 10 Chi-
Cago In most years the December crarges were
not affected by water competition but In SOME
the lakes and canal remained open unusually
late or had delivered before closing unusual
supp,ies at the seaboard, so that the New-York
market was not wholly governed. nor the DIFF
S4rence between that market and farm prices,
nv the cost Of rail transportation At other
>tnoes "wars" between trunk lines east OF chi
cago or especially In recent years west OF chi
caeo have rendered the official rates no true In
dication of the real charge for transportation
and thus It appears that In lS9Z-94. INCLUSIVE
the difference between farm prices west and
east of the Mississippi was less than the puphc
rate charged from Kansas City to Chicago
But with allowance for all possible made
ouac,es the returns show beyond dispute that
ann greater than the present average price per
bushel on farms either west OF east Oh the
Mississippi has been taken from the cost Oh
.~ansnortation from Kansas or Nebraska to
Eew-YOrk ana the reuu''io" III ION ' " 49,
c,,caeo 10 New-York alone has been greater
than the average cost OF wheat on lai'"s ia TIC
Ave States east Of the Mississippi.
r,n data are shown in the following table
.yerago farm prices for States west OF the
x,,ss,ssnni under West: average farm prices
IN the FIVE surpus-producing States east OF inc
Mississippi under Cent; December averages
here under IN "" differences between Wes'
and central averages in the fourth column dh-
ferences between central averages ana New
York in the fifth: total differences between West
ern averages and New-York in the slxth' ia"
rates per bushel December ] from chicago 10
New-York In the seventh. and rail rates per
bushel from Kansas city to chicago III '"e
sighth. all figures being cents ana oecifnais 30
that 1t4O7 for New-York in 1soo means % IN
and seven hundredths. the average price per
oushsl In Dacenohsr nf that rsSrs