El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-09-30

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| A New York paper says war, famine
and mi fortune have combined in En-
rUpe to give the American farmer such
market for his wheat as he hes no,
| N love for so long that he has forgot
| zen when it was. Dollar wheat is not
| MY an established fact, but there is
| every prospect of the cereal reaching
he ST. % figure. The mortgages which
| nave been sapping the western and east
EN- farmers of their life blood are
ioomed The crop of the United
States is estimated at, in round num-
| oers, $50 000, 900 bushels This means
| 54OO, 900, 600 for the farmers.
The easiest answer to the question
| where is this wheat going?" is found
or word, every where." Ships are
now on the ocean bound ID almost
very port in the civilized world where
sh ps la. and take in cargoes- Wheat
| is wanted al over the world, for the
| very simple reas Ga that the demand for
bread exists in the same proport on.
The crop of India, which has really
been the factor that has heretofore
operated 10 the d rection of low prices
for American wheat, is cipher this
year. The yield will be comparatively
,othing, for just now and for some time
oast India has been the hOtbed of re-
oelliou, and in the face of what will
probably be one of the greatest con-
| diets the world has ever knOwn the au-
thorities. either native or Engl sh, are
lot paving much attention to the size
of the crop or mourning their loss. In
stead they are trying to get supply
from somewhere, and just now that
somewhere happens to be America
lust think of exporting wheat to India.
Il is like carrying Goals to Newcastle.
midas SHORTAGE.
To begin with, the acreage devoted
TO wheat this year in India is d million
less than last yer. The land that was
cultivated has yielded co nparatively
little, so little, indeed, that it really
amounts to nothing, and what there is
the natives will sequester TO- the n
selves, whenever possible. England
Cannot look to othec porto is OF her
dominion 10 supply this shortage. and
as much as she will dislike to Go so she
must turn 10 this county to help her
prevent famine. This means that the
American farmer will pocket a very
handsom amount of what the enemies
of England are fO1d OF referring 20
as "British god :" France must take
our wheat because her own crop is
practically failure. This, in the face
of the Or esent tariff, will be a rather
bitter pill to swallow, but the medicine
must be taken, and in order to &C
complished the task more easily France
is going to- reduce her own tariff on
wheat
FRANCES HUMILIATION.
Surely bread is the staff of life
when the proudest of nations are all
compelled to eat their own words, as it
of the country whom { late they have
abusing
particularly the case with France, for
in view of her Russian alliance she has
boosted that after this she would i'm
port what was necessary in the way
of breadstuffs from that country, where
she would receive aid in proof that The
friendship of the car was genuine.
But Ru STA has many mouths to f, ed,
and, indeed, will herself be compel ed
to call on the United States for
portion of the wherewithal to form her
own bread supply The grain fleets that
have hitherto departed from Odessa
and threaded through the waters of
the Black Sea their various ways to
other ports of the world. will be absent
this year to a great extent Odessa in
1897 will not be able to make good her
famous boast that she is the greatest
grain market in the world.
Germany, too is falling into line,
and despite the fact that she believes
herself Disseminated against in the
newest of ever-changing American
tariff alterations, is bumbly seeking q
supply of grain through mercantile re-
prese natives in the United States, and
like the others, is getting 1t. The
United States is not viudctive, but
sells even to its enemies, snd all the
| time the American farmer profits.
IN SOUTH AMERICA.
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great quantities of wheat have hither to
been raised and exported, we fDd that
| the Argentine republic, a ways for
midable competitor, will need our
| heat this year instead of exporting it
as usual A very large amount is want
ed, too, for the South American has a
good appetite, as we'll as his European
cousin. All along the coast of South
America is heard the same cry where
ever wheat is known: give us mater
| ial for bread." And the American
farmer is giving it.
From South Africa comes another cry
| for wheat, and vessels have already
sailed for several of the South African
ports with huge cargOes of wheat.
Others are preparing to sail laden in
the same fashion. Even the Trar svaal
republic in Africa wants American
wheat this year. and it will be supplied.
There are many ships W bich constantly
sail between the United States and
South Africa every year. This fall
| there will be more.
| The grain elevators in New York are
totally unable to hold the vast amounts
of VIII at which are wanted for trans.
shipment abroad. Even those unwieldy
affairs k own as floating elevators,
which float about the hsrbor aud the
east and north rivers, have all been