The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-12-17
WouA Elesce the Wheat Growers
Of Her Own State.
FARMERS LOSE MANY BUSHELS
Di4Rrence In wheat Standards IL
the Cause Of Much Variety Of
Opinion Among DeaIers-tsrain
Inspector 1.awrie IL Angry and
says Oregon Mast Come Down
Two Pounds or Lose Her Trade.

That the stsfe q Washington should
adopt D wheat starGard differing from fsst
used IN Oregon seems 10 have jus. be-
come known across be boundary line be-
tween the TAO states. where II has aroused
the anifnus Of milling and commission
men- Il Is claimed by Portland people
tina. The legislature Of fflis state has besn
tne means OF preclp.ta tirg No sud of trou-
: bic upon them. In that i; has fixed a stan
= = dard weight OF hfty-clghi pounds rs the
measure Cor IA. ] grades. whereas she
Z cortland STANDARD this year II sxsy pounds
: The effect upon Portland II this differ
& Hnce In weights Is said to be rather IN
pleasant. as IL has caused tire growers %
Eastern Oregon who are the line %
the Northern Pacific 20 favor Washington
smarkets Ia disp0siBg % their proJucs. They
make saving Of two pounds on every
busfe3 In 80 doing. which. In the aggregate
OF great shipments, amounts 10 consaer-
abe, as much on a consignment Of ~ ESQ
bushels as Loo bushels. or Sasi.
The average crop Of matilda county.
Oregon. whers the Northern Pacific enters
ond ends 81 that state. Bas tbls year from
en,p1 10 1900 bushels .ar saca leading
Hrower. That county th. last season rais-
ed 4.s1ct9 bushels of wheat. a saving Of
swo pounds 70 the bushel on this amounts
10 1899 bushels or product valued at
eia.0Js. which the producers would save
kets. But Portland buyers 10 not like 10
lose this grain. ard hence are raising al
Che rumpus about Washington causing so
much intftcacy by measuring tie grain
by a different standard
Always Two Pounds Higher
II 10 a vel! known fact that 10 matter
what is the Washington standard tte OF
egon standard is always two pounds u
buahei higher. This was shown last year,
when fif,y-R'ne pounds was the correct
weight 81 grain In this state, and the Ore
Honlans held that siEty-9Be pounds vas
about the rght figure
II has taken Or sAu farmers several years
10 realize the difference go favorable to
them; but they knQw II uow. as IL shown
b. the Increased shipments over the rail-
way entering this stale. as compared With
the O. Il q N. winch leads 10 porsnnd
II is reported on the authority 81 piomi-
Dent farmers 81 me Oregon country south
Of Naiia NaIia tnas the Washington :,
Columbia River railway. which enters Or
eron q short distance Rom Walla Nalfa
has this year handled fully three aurlaS
OF t'Tn grain Of the region around IIctlx
Warren. fendielon and other wealthy fia-
tfIets I'm Oregon. when In the past Il has
not carried more ban bali. sHd rarely that.
The reason % the gain IS said % be no
OTTER than The great Inducements that
Washington offers 20 the growers
TIL" states having liked tho standard
weight at fifty-eghf pounds. al grain
weighing that must he graded No ana
be paid on that basis: that is that custom
prevails among milling men. and eommis-
sion merchants Nho buy 10 sell again in
tie local markets But I'm Oregon wheat
must weigh sixty pounds to- the bushel IL
De graded No. !. the farmers losing the
value OF the extra two pounds and fire.
auentiy bearing the lowering OF the grad.
TO No. :, aad eutailing a loss OF > cents
= bushei.
How Standard IL Fixed.
Exporters do not pay any attention 70
state inspection laws "a governing weights
and rather favor them than otherwise a.
the laws frequently bear uut the position
they take as 10 the grade ~ individual
consignmcats The exporting standard
for Eastern Washington and Oregon grain
Is this year lfty-nine pounds. This f. ar
rived nj by taking samples Of grain from
ali parts of the district early In the season
nnd sending them 70 Liverpool wher,, tia.
standard is fixed according To the quality
and weight OF the grain.
Hchief Deputy State Grain INSPECTOR
Iawfic is much aroused over the acc,lsa-
lions of unfair play that have been going
out from Portland over this difference I'm
weights. and SAYS that the determine ton
OF Portland buyers ia maintaining the
grade two pounds above that OF Wash
fngton Is merely scheme 10 fleece the
farmers 30 that two-poUud extent ''-rh.,,
get sixty pounds ~ wheat for VIVA. they
would pay for nfty-clsht here" he Favx
and are just th3t much ahead The
standards 81 weight all ovcr the country.
where thcfe are state inspection laws is
asty-eighi pounds 81 the bush.i ssven n,
Minnesota aust tf'e I.tkotse tE5o immense
wheat states hfIy-sisht Sc lbv STANDARD
oregon must COME down TWO fot,n.fs
or as soon as the Ncfthrm P8e.de make
arrAngrmentS VII tha g 70 a. y Nth{eb
Are said Ia b. 81 contemplation. an8 ris.a
Washington SETTER facilities Tor eettaar
the wheat ot tbat state. thefc a4G na; H..
enough grain sohi there - keen ta- ease
toms mills AZ work"