Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-03-23
Grain Notes.

Indian wheat shipments last week were $40, 900
bushels.
The addition to Chicago stocks of contract wheat
yesterday was 21s. 900 bushels.
Letter says that practically all his wheat is now
under shipping contract and that it will be moved
by April Is.
bushels. Of which ZIG. 900 bushels were from Amer
lean Atlantic ports. Corn receipts. IL. s2l bushels.
The exports OF oats from the United States in the
OF barley. 1856. Si3 bushels. and OF rye. 255. s22 bushels.
Chicago stocks Of contract grain are as follows:
bushels. Corn. Il. e23. 900 bushels: decrease. 5000
bushels. Oats. ses. 900 bushels; increase. 5000 bush
els.
q new grain frm. Brinkman & Rinertsen: and will
operate a new elevator with 100. 900 bushels capacity
at Twenty-fourth and Broadway. Main ONCE, second
noor Of the Board Of Trade building.
Exporters took at New York Monday IS. 900 bushels
Of No. 2 red wheat to arrive; also $1,000 bushels at
Baltimore: 1o4. 900 bushels of corn and Sc. 900 bushels
of oats at New York and lbs, 600 bushels Of corn and
81, 600 bushels Of oats at outports.
Advices from California are very conflicting. Some
dispatches indicate severe crop damage and others
report good rains and crops all right. The fact, how
ever. that the San Francisco market was up exc was
vorable.
The primary market receipts yesterday were 43o. $50
bushels. against PIG. 237 bushels a year ago. Ship
ments were 3I2, 672 bushels; last year, 17s. s61 bushels.
Corn receipts. 531. 900 bushels: a year ago. 3l3. 600
bushels. Shipments. 1856. 900 bushels; last year. 2ss. 600
bushels.
Bradstreet's weekly report of changes in the
worlds visible supply of wheat is as follows: East Of
the Rocky mountains in the United States. decrease.
1851. 900 bushels: Europe and aHoat. decrease. 1.0o0.-
900 bushels; total decrease, 1851. 900 bushels. Corn
decreased Isl. 600 bushels and oats decreased 336. 600
bushels.
A Chicago paper says: The wheat pit is very GER
tain that Letter made some sort Of 4 deal with Ar
mour last Friday or Saturday, probably giving Ar
mour May here and taking cash wheat from the big
elevator man in the Northwest 1t is said that / ,O0o,-
900 bushels were involved, and that some sort Of a
compact was struck between the two.
Yesterdays clearances for export at the four At
lantic ports were 27s. 900 bushels OF wheat, 400
packages OF -four. sos. 900 bushels Of corn. 1884, 900
bushels OF oats and q, 900 bushels of rye. In addi-
tion, New Orleans cleared So. 900 bushels Of wheat.
4s barrels of -four and STA bushels Of corn. Gal
weston cleared IS, 900 bushels of wheat and 137. 1i3
bushels Of corn. Total wheat and dour clearances
amounted to 81, 322 bushels, and corn. 76s, s7 BUSH
els.
The cold wave turned out to be as severe as any
body expected. There was zero temperature yester-
day morning in Central Nebraska. IL deg. above in
Western and Northern Kansas. IS at Wichita. rs in
Oklahoma and IS here. The cold wave has not yet
reached the Mississippi. The st. Louis temperature
was IS and the Davenport "a yesterday morning. with
mild weather eastward, but there will be lower tenn
perature this morning everywhere east Of the Mis-
souri,. The rainfall here Monday night was 81 Of an
inch: at Springfield so. at st. Louis 1.3,. No rain
fell in Kansas. except in the extreme eastern part. A
rise in the temperature is predicted for Western Kan
sas and Western Nebraska.