The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-07-05
NORTH AND MIDDLE WEST WHEAT
Will Be Large, But Not a Bump
er, Crop.

Chicago, June 27.-After making q
careful canvass of the northwest terri
tory and preparing conservative esti
mates upon conditions found through
out the grain belt, traffic officials of
several railroads are agreed that the
grain yield for 1901 will be the largest
ever harvested. Figures procured by
the st. Paul, Northwestern, Northern
| Pacific, Great Northern and Burlington
| cover the entire northwest and middle
| west and the traffic men of these lines
| unite IN declaring that the railroads will
have grave problem to solve in mOv-
ing the great grain crop now heinr hPr-
HafNesUlng. Hcc0rGIng"to TO ff1g 'b9sff rdataf
| Obtainable it is estimated that the two
DakOtas and Minnesota alone will h6r-
vest between 1875, 100000 and 200, O,OOO,-
| 600 bushels of wheat, as against 100,
| 100000 last year.
The crop is not what is termed
bumper" crop, and the enormous in
crease is due largely to the fact that
| various railroad companies have within
| the last two years made extreme efforts
| toward cOlOnizing the northwest terri
| tory. 1t is stated that within the last
| six months the northern fines-the 500,
| Northern Pacific and Great Northern
have taken over 10000 immigrants and
| homeseekers to northwest territory.
| The greatest previous yield of wheat in
| the states named was in 1898, when
| ITO, 100000 bushels were harvested ,and
with the great increase in settlement
| since that date it is not unreasonable to
| look for an addition of 25,00O,000 or
! 35 100000 bushels this year.
| Wheat on the Continent.
| Much interest Is manifest in the
reports from Paris stating that the
| shortage in the French wheat crop would
probably necessitate the importation of
at least 36,000,000 bushels this year.
France gets wheat from outside, chiefly
| from the United States and the Argen-
tine Republic, but the duties imposed on
| American wheat and -four have been
practically prohibitive for several years.
The figures of the expectation of Amer
lean wheat to France show that in 1891
the total was 13, ,843, ,054 bushels, valued
at 12,590,322. In 1892 the exports
rose to ~, ,139,4SS bushels, valued at
$43, $685. In 1900 there were l.
237 PAT bushels. For eleven months OF
this fiscal year America has only ex-
ported 1,OO6,611 bushels of wheat to
France.
French wheat has sold during the last
year at from So At to $500 per 22C
pounds net to the farmer. Imported
wheat sold for 81 53, duty added. The
fact that foreign wheat can be imported
during years of French plenty and sold
for more than the domestic crop arises
largely from the application OF law re
mltting the duty on wheat made into
-four for export. By imposing a duty
on wheat imported for consumption and
remitting the duty when it is made into
: -four and exported, the home market
was protected and the export market
preserved when the domestic crop was
short. In seasons of plenty, however
French millers continue to import wheat
and to secure the rebates. 1t has beer
proposed to abandon this system anC
to substitute bounties on exports o
French wheat and flour.
Germany is also in danger of heavy
. shortage in her wheat crop. Mr.. Mason
the United States consul at Berlin, hal
sent a request to the state department
saying that the unfavorable condition O
the wheat and rye fields OF Germany hat
grown more and more ominous unit
: it is now recognized as inevitable tina
the cereal harvests of 1901 in Prussi,
will show the largest and most dis
astrous deficit that has been recorded il
. recent years.
/ "From the most careful estimate
that can now be made the winter whea
crop of Prussia, which was 2,245, 81!
metric tons in 1900, this year will no
exceed l, 1872 900 tons, leaving a deici
of 1,O53,515 tons, which will cost $43
, 1872, 500 to replace with imported grain.
Including the deficit in the rye Gro
Mr.. Mason says that in Prussia alon
there will be shortage of 1865
tons of bread-producing cereals value
at $67 ,246, 500.