The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-12-29
lIRAN COUNTY'S OUTPUT
: SEASONS GRAIN CROP IS
oyER e.5so,oOo BUSHELS.
E ~ TO IS Per Cent. OF Crop Al
10y soId-TotnI value Esti-
x.ted 1t over y.5oo,OOo bushels
vruft Farms Also Productive.

so ra.pafch to the Observation-Disclosures.
ksf'rAx. Dec. 2S-Despite the fact that
,sseat and grain crop OF 1900 was not
80 AZ usual and much smaller than
INJECTED IN the early part Of the sea-
when the prospect was one of the
uromtsing the country has ever
-, and the crop was cut short by the
Gather In June. the total yield OF
i n Whitman county Is surprise TO
- Who have never figured on the Inn
q acreage and fertility OF the county.
- Of the crop of 1900 delivered at va
~ shipping points in the county have
- compiled, and the grand total OF the
~ crop OF the county foots up 70
a six and one-haf millions OF bush
These figures We're furnished by the
p,sted grain dealers Of Wmtmin
ssy. namely. Hon. =. w. Lawrence,
Mase grain inspector and at present
--1sny manager for the Puget Sound
rehouse company; >, q Armstrong,
SING manager of the Pacific Coast
rstor Company, and Aaron Kuhn, Of
~ of,e of the largest Individual ship
4 "a grain in the Palouse country, who
system OF warehouses In Eastern
;.hington and has shipped 100000 bush
q a wheat since September |. 1900. The
- we're compiled with care and are
y conservative. being more likely un-
thar over the actual amount. At
EvsAouscs on the line OF the Northern
fAc,s Spokane and Lewiston branch
II feeders 1870. p03 bushels were deliy-
The remainder 3,s4s,000 bushels,
snarketed at warehouses on the Or
Railroad and Navigation Company's
line and branches. The former goes
Seonna and Seattle and the latter to
nd to be loaded on vessels for ex-
Part Of Crop Gmsold.
uarehouse men estimate that from
s per cent OF the crop Of 1900 has
Sold, the remainder being still own
the farmers who raised II. Mr..
rays that fully 70 per cent. OF the
stored In his warehouses has been
&hile Mr.. Armstrong estimates the
~ stored in the warehouses of the
Y Coast Elevator Company which
I'm sold at 90 per cent. Either figure
&fesf than the per cent. usually sold
III season Of the year The farmers
n held their grain for an advance.
~ never came, during the past several
tnn and this year a large number OF
|n cold early, when the price was bet
harvest season the price Of wheat
1eed from "A to 40 cents, and in a few
~(6nces cent above the higher figure
" paid for choice lots The farmers
- eold then were in luck. for the price
II ed to about 10 cents. and has hover
! / ound that figure for a long time, the
otations for, the past few weeks being
mi - cents The average price oh
ND tor the wheat sold since harvest is
|rat 10 cents per btBshel, yacked In the
fehouse. At this figure the wheat crop
whitman county for the year Of 1890
" worth t2.sgS,6c0 This In more than
fof every man. woman and child In
1lknnn county, as shown by the late
>GW With less than 90 per cent. OF the
Hhle land Of the county In cultivation,
III price and less than mn average crop.
~ AKires. while apparently large, give
n faint idea Of the extent and rich
~ AZ this wonderful agricultural coun-
y when all the tillable land shall have
III placed under cultivation. when a
~ crop IL grown and fair price OBJ
1fasd, the figures will be more than
Nsble those given above.