The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-11-25
Prices. StifIsu Psrceptiby - Char
ter Rates Decrease.
THREE SHIPS ON THE SOUND.
ualsssr. Gsshrie \ CO. Report Ar
rival Of Vessels with Aggregate
Cspsefsy Of Wine thousand Toms
OssSsek Favorable for Better
Prfe~s-s~svcisy of Grais Car
ssevs Du~ "a werid-wtae casses.

n the Inwer charter rates that have
ruled during the past week or ten days,
the Eastern Warrington wheat growers
have good rrason 90 see rtft IN tne
clouds which have hung over them tor
seine time past Charters ara now 70 d.
had al q shsIiingr. whercas the rate ten
days ago WIS 80 shilling A. the char
ter rates have fallen, the price Of wheat
has sArsnd~d and yesterday exporters
we're frecsy offering IS to E cents Tor
ciub and Is TO 70 cents for bue~tsm
me net gain over prices week ago -
~ least 2 cents per bushsi
wheat exporters say that charter rates
are higher than have been known on the
PAcine rusft for years. In is9S II was
10 diTicnit matter 20 get wheat shipr at
= shffhngs or a trine over ships were
plentiful and the crop wHs moved freely
In washington and Oregon cond tinrs
are exactly the revarse Of those two
years aeo. The AnGio-Boer war, the de-
msnd for steamships for transport SIR
v1ee by the United States government.
and the world Wide activity has hrcughs
mo commission every form a. seago'ng
vessel There IL work for sailing chips
and for steamships AMI work IN plenty,
too II In said by nen who beer close
watch on the commerce os the wfrld
that there has not been sach worif-v
activity tn shipping and commercial lines
IN years AZ prevails today
Ths drop in charters from 10 10 y rhi-
linss per long ton y . point dffines'y
n favor Of the Washington WheasKruwsr.
ror weeks past the market has been
weak and vacIlist'nx. but today u 70
Arm. with the osi,fssk gocc for cpnsin-
uAnce ~ favofabts conditions. No very
high prices are promised but II charters
% lower. NJ IL probah.,, there is no rea
son. N the optntsa ~ iocal grain men.
Why wheat should not make start on
the upward scale and te~p ei'mb'ns
wheat warehouses IN both Seattle and
facoma ere full and the warehouse man
ayers can DO nothing 70 reIitvs the press
81 grain. Hundreds ~ cars are Allied ana
scattered on the various sidrtraeks IN
WASHINGTON OF the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern The railroads have. Il
n sid. given orders that M more cars
shall b~ loaded. because ~ the fact that
hundreds % cars have been practically
put out ~ us siresdy. owing TO the SON
rtetion AZ the wheat exporting ccnters.
The eausa ~ this congestion. as the Post
int~iilrc ,4asr foinisd out several days
aao. IL cue 70 the scarcity Of whent ships
Manaeeg nIiii.an, 81 Bsifeur' Guthrie
has three ssii'nG ves~e's On the ronrd
which VIII take carKD~s within the nsxt
few DAYS These are shs cart the ~
Msry's Hay and the kMmaile Tns..
l0x tons each. AZ least one o. them VIII
psssnSssne ~ statement ~ Niles G.
Moure. Wha recently sAid In the Pnst-In-
tefiigcn<eF that the rasUmercssi bedirs ~
the eopns cities should set shlrs TO come
10 The Sound, = weii-kno~a wheat buyer
ssid yesterday
s'It u idss to talk about tho chsMbsr
~ Commerce ann the husinss~ men of
Seattle working 10 get additional wheat
ships In order 10 move the washinEton
crop Tfe price Of charters 10 controlled
~ conditions which are world wid@ in
their character The scarcity or abun+
dance AZ wheas-carrvlng shlps depends
on commercial conditions all over the
world No one wants lower charter rae.
and mssc v~sssis worse than the wheat
huyef. and expost~wss
Tho buvsnE that has been done during
sbs past month or six weeks has been
chiefly by the nanr mtltr ~ Seattle and
Tarona. These have taken advantage ~
the famine IN wheat carriers TO lar IN q
large supply of the best quality Of grain
al D tnw tixurA.