The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-09-17
Local Wheat Goes Up Two Cents
a Bushel as a Result.
LAwRlE's BELIEF.
by the Middle or Latter Part Of Octo-
fnEton VIII BE Getting so to IS
Cents 1T Their Warehouses-Cali-
and Must Come TO This State.

Wheat In the local market has gone up
2 cents a bushel in the last two days and
was yesterday quoted a. IS and 81 for No.
/ club and No. bluestem The reason OF
this advance is that foreign markets are
stronger. there being a better demand for
cash wheat and consequently a rise in
futures. Dealers do not believe that quota
tions win advance more than a cent or two
more: but ]. N. Lawrie. chief deputy grain
inspector for Seattle, thinks there is every
reason to believe that by the middle or lat
ter part OF October farmers OF this state
viii be getting SO TO IS cents at their ware
houses.
II base my idea Of this or the fact that
San Francisco end California VII require a
lot OF grain. and there is no place they
can get Ii except in Washington and Ore
son,'' said Mr.. Lawrie yesterday. There
are San Francisco men in Eastern Wash
ington now looking for grain. where they
have never been seen before. There is no
question In my mind that thisIocal demand
for wheat viii result In raising the price,
although II may not affect the export mar
ket There Is another point, and that Is
that before long there will be lot Of
ships. that have already been chartered.
coming here for wheat-three or four are
lying in the stream at Tacoma now-and
their cargoes must be secured or they will
forfeit their charters. II the farmers are
firm and refuse TO sell / cannot see why
the price will not advance"
Mr.. Lawrie recently returned from East
ern Washington. He says that fully two
thirds of the crop in the Waila Walla dis
tr.ct has been threshed: the Palouse farm
ers are half finished, and the Big Bend
people about one-thrd done There is no
wheat selling there. excep, what must be
gotten rid OF to make room. Only 10 cents
was offered for export there last week The
new standard weight of fifty-e:ght pounds
for No. ! is pleasing 20 the farmers, Mr..
awre says, ''and the standard OF sixty
and half for choice milling ne continued,
gives a premium to the man who raises
good grain
The receipts for the season from August
/ to date amount to 1886 carloads or 235, 300
bushels OF this, fifty cars went to the
West Seattle elevator and the remainder TO
local mills and dealers. In August there
were exactly 1873 carloads shipped into Seat
tie. as against s.xty-eight in August. 1897.
The first fifteen days Of September showed
receipts OF i43 Carloads, fifty-five more than
for the same time last year The reason
Of this increase in shipments is given that
the season this year Is three weeks earlier.
The banner day of 6eattle's wheat ship
ments up to this timeeof the season was
September 6. when twenty-five carloads. or
1880 bushels, arrived, and this was nearly
equaled September II. the receipts OF that
day being twenty-five.
Mr.. Lawrie says that the SAMPLES OF
wheat in all Washington districts show bet
ter than last year The berry is not so
large, but Is harder and dryer and of bet
ter milling quality.
Sales are becoming quite lively IN Eastern
Oregon. notwithstanding the desire to ge.
higher prices. The farmers Of Umatilla
county. the banner county OF that state, ac-
cording 10 the Pendleton Tribune, disposed
Of 1o.oJ bushels at prices ranging from
45ia TO A. cents. The greatest sale was of
loose bushels bought by the Pacific Coast
Elevator Company for As cents Another lot
OF l.ooo bushels went 10 the same company
at like figure: the Kershaw Grain Com
pany bought 500 sacks Of cox wheat at H.
and the BaifoUr-Guthrie Company got a
quantity for i55a cents. Twen;y-six hun
dred sacks OF barley went ~ So cents a
hundred. The Tribune is quoted: Most OF
the farmers say that they want 60 cents 4
bushel for their wheat, but great many
say that from - 10 - cents will make them
consider rather seriously the proposition Of
selling"