The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-11-23
OATS FROM PUGET SOUND.
REMARKABLE GROWTH IN oCT0-
BIER FOREIGN SHIPMENTS.
Month In Exports of Grain and
Grain Products and Of 30 Per
Cent. In the Past Ten Months.

Special Dispatch to the Post-rntelIigencer.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 2z.--Ths ports on
Puget sound. by their commercial record
during the last ten months. have amply
borne out the claims that have been made
regarding the marvellous natural re-
sources and shipping possibilities OF that
region. The Puget sound ports are stead
ily increasing their exports Of bread
sfufrs 10 Hawaii. the Orient and Siberia
In the month OF October there were only
three ports in the United States. except
those on the Pacific coast. that showed
an increase in these shipments over the
shipments in the same month OF last year
The same statement applies to the record
for the first ten months o. the current
calendar year. The gain In exports OF
nearly every kind Of grain and grain
product from Puget sound during the
last year has been enormous
The gain In October. when the ship
ments were heavier than ever from those
ports. was no less than 100 per cent or
nearly three-fold. and the gain for the
FIRST ten months OF the year was 30 per
cent These figures are especially strik-
Ing when II Is considered that the exports
In breadstffs for the country az large
during October declined 5 per cent and
during the ten months just ended 10 per
cent general decrease IS OF course
accounted for by the fact that 1900 was a
banner year In production in this cour-
Try; but the inevitable commercial growt h
OF the Puget sound region far more Than
overcame this natural deficiency in the
nations products of the soil The exact
figures are these:
Exports OF breadstnfys from Puget
sound IN October last. 81. e5a. s45 against
s4os.ss2 In October. ISss; exports ~ hr..a5 !
stufs from the United States IN ortnhsr
~, VI ,slsssz as against s2ioai, iaa in oc-
i sound s exports X ,b O. brsadstufIs from
sesE7. as against S.si5575 for the same
ven months OF last year; exports Of bread
s ,so fr9m the ,o unitsd States n the last
<S1zS In the corresponding months az 1854
Commerce In oats.
The most remarkable contribution TO
these large gains in Puget sound COM
merce was In oats or that grain there
was exported from those ports go i-s
bushels valued al si45.s7I. as agains, II. 7
p" bushels. valued at a.ssa. in the same
this year i.g7so sa bushels, worth sss, csc
was sent abroad. az against f3a 2ss bush
els, worth sso,sss. in the same months 81
tsss. Ever the port Of san Fraurtsrn
where the general grain exparts have in
creased during the last year shows no
such gain In shipments of oats for there
we're only 1851 bushels shipped from
that port In the last ten months. Puget
sound ports also sent To foreign cnun-
tries more barley than ever before and
showed 4 gain In this commerce far IN
excess or the gain al any other port
The shipments Of barley In October
were iib.a5 bushels, worth $50 es9 as
against 1856 bushels. worth 1889 in
october, 1879 For the pact ten months
the barley exports from these ports we're
llss6H bushels. worth S5.gfs az against
-a,9h bushels, worth si2. s3s for the same
period OF last year. THIS table cotepleies
the record IN exports of breadStliffs for
the Puget Sound ports