The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-08-17

The farmer in this state who is blessed
WITH good farm should be feeling very
happy 1ESt now. Saturday and yesterday
the milling price % No. ! biEesfel wheat
vas ~ cents and the next best vas bring
/ ing = cents. Very Igtle Is obtalls bic az
those figures Farmers look for further
advances. and are holding CT 10 l. Inc
enormous pF1es Of wheat raaznS that the
farmers will make a great prO1t-
Mortgages vii be paid OF and when WIN
ter rolls arourd many OF them VIII have
a nice tat bank account 10 See them
through the year. 1t seems 70 h" said
q weIl-kuowrn Seattle man yesterday. that
the good Lord has brought this great gold
en- shower upon Us just 70 make Us feel
ashamed for cur work az election TINE last
fall"
There Is no doubt that prosperity Is here
and enc who has any doubts on the sub
5sct should do as q good many others have
done. 90 out ia the country and talk with
the farmers. They never were n such
good humor- One well-knOwn grain man
- Just home from the wheat produclng
parts Of the state, where he spent q week
among the farmers. In the Pal9nse coun-
Try farms have advanced 100 per cent,
which means that the farmer and the
mortgage company feel that things are ali
right This year farms that could have
besn bought during the resent dull spell
for sl1 sn acre are now Yielding wheat that
viii pay the.r owners - an acre II =
fact that farms that could have been
bought for 80 an acre could not be ob-
talned AZ present for 50 or for 49, Farms
that last year yielded ak bushels 20 the
acre are now yielding forty to slxty-five.
There has been much speculation as 10
what viii be the wheat crop IN this state.
an Eastern Washington newspaper gath
cred statistics and advertised the fact
that the Washington farms will yield from
:. fEs4 a. tn fsE& h4szE ~ n
who are conservative and who have toured
the wheat producing counties Of the state
are unanimous III saying that such figures
are absurd The most careful figures seem
70 credit the state with yield OF 1880 90,
with more than possibility that il Viii
reach .. -. 09a.
America Furnishes the Wheat.
The other day in New York some one
asked Russell Sage, " hose hbeFality has
made his name a household word IN the
United States. about a deal in which he
was interested, how much he had made
out OF IL and how much more he hoped 10
make Sage replied. What is past Is
history what j. future IS mystery" SAGE
informed his interv.ewers that Jay Gould
once told him that. and he thought ii was
pure truth. Anyhow those words ft IN
when telling or the wheat market. The
past Is history and the future Is mystery"
What the future Of the wheat market will
be no one cares to venture. II Is certain
that England must do en- enormous amount
OF importing this year If she wants to feed
her good people. The foreign crop Is a fall
ure. Russia could probably help out Eng
land but the chances are she viii not.
The United States must furnish the wheat.
Reports from the Middle West seem 20
confirm the feet that the spring wheat crop
Is not what Il was expected il would be.
And so every grain Of wheat viii be in de-
nand. and In great demand. and how much
the farmer will get for wheat before the
year Is ended Is a question that cannot be
answered. The present price is, Of course,
the milling price The export price has not
been hxed. but Il Is common sense 20 say
that the exporter cannot pay as mulch as
the millman.
Good Time to Sell.
Careful and conservative business men,
who are in touch with the situation. seem
10 think IL would be a good idea IL the
farmer would sell considerable Of his
wheat at present prices. He need not sell
Il all, bat Lee him. they say. dispose Of
enough OF IL 20 pay OF his debts. II Is
possible. though not probable. that there
may be some sort OF n reaction. Il Is not
anticipated in fact, no one thinks Il viii
happen. But stranger things have hap
pened The farmer who al the present
time has chance 10 clean UP q great big,
elegant profit by letting 20 o. part OF his
wheat Will. II the Judgment OF SefiSSENa-
tive men. be wise II need not be taken
from this that further rise In wheat Is
not expected. 4 grain man said yesterday
that there Is no telling what price wheat
would reach. lie looked for It 70 go up to
% cents and II IL reached 81 he would not
De shocked. He realized he said that the
crops Tn some 81 the other countries will
be a failure. that the world viii need
wheat ard that the United States viii go
a great way towards furnishing g.
There is one thing" said this grain
man "of which / would ike 10 speak.
some of the farmers OF this state are max
stiu very fresh IN their minds. They re-
member how Just when they were ready
80 begin harvesting, the rain came aud
they lost thousands q dollars For that
reason many 81 them are scared. They
fear that something CT the same kind VIII
happen this year. AID IN order TO save
themselves EnGy are cutling their wheat
when il Is not set ripe " bile Ia Eastern
washington recently ! gathered s0lns
wheat that had been Cut before u was
rtps What viii be tHe result There Can
he bat one The farmer Who IS 80 foolish
As TO 30 il IS weiag 90 flnG himself with
quantity 81 green WtcaI On MS hAnUs
which ne VIII be compelled "a sell for
So. r,..asxes4 In re '.sd not been TOO
haetv 1 thiuk farmers shc0jd he warned
about this Trey Rin lose an enormous
amount CT money a. the present nssh Rrtce
~ wheat 81 they cut toe soon Ia f&ct.
mink everything = go8ug % cof1e cur way
flfs year. and y hen y inter reaches Us We
sell he very happy people.