The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1901-10-18
LARGE WHEAT SALES
Millions of Bushels UnlOaded
at Forty Cents.
Over Haif "A Million Dollars Worth
Thrown On the Market at
COIfax Alone.

The week has been an extraordinarily
lively one in the wheat trade, and nearly
1,500,0 bushels had been purchased
at 40 cents bus eel by Co!fax dea lers
alone up to Thursday afternoon.
At late hour Monday afternoon the
price bounded from 3Sk cents bushel,
at which it had closed Saturday night,
to 40 cents. Many farmers, both with
large and small holdings, had author
lied various dealers to take up their
crops whenever the price touched 40
cents. For this reason it was not Deces-
sary for the holders to be on the ground,
and, Notwithstanding the lateness of the
hour, heavy sales were recorded just be
fore the close of business hours. Through
out Tuesday and Wednesday the price
remained firm and sales continued heavy,
not only at Colfax, but at all points
throughout the county.
While foOtings have not in all cases
been completed, close and reliable esti-
mate of the purchases of various COlfax
dealers, at 40 cents bushel, is az fol-
lows: John Hart, agent for the Pacific
Coast Elevator Company, 100000 bush
els; Wheeler, Motter d Co., 10000
bushels; A. NJ. Scott, agent for the In
terror Warehouse Company, and Aaron
Kuhn, 100000 bushels; &. W. Ford,
agent for the Northwestern Warehouse
Company, 100000 bushels; Julius Lip
pitt, $4,000 bushels. This makes the
total Colfax purchases for the first three
days of the week 1885, 900 bushels,
bringing $514,000.
If the price holds good at 40 cents or
better, there will still be large sales, as
plenty of wheat yet remains in the hands
of growers. Some, however, refuse to
let go under As cents.
Wheat Firm, Potatoes Down.
The wheat market held at 40 cents a
bushel Thursday afternoon, barley So
cents and oats rs cents hundred. The
potato market dropped during the week
from 80 cents to IS cents hundred,
cash. Butter remained firm at 40 cents
roll, as did eggs at % cents dozen.
Harvest At an End.
With the exception of relatively
small acreage of bundles in the later dis
tricts of the northeastern part of the
county, the great grain crop of the Pa
louise country is safely in the sack, and
nearly all in the warehouses. What
little is still left in the head would have
been threshed out week ago had it not
been for the laying up of large part of
the machinery during the past two
weeks. The season has been long and
continuous one, thanks to the splendid
weather which has prevailed throughout
the entire harvest. Those machines
which have laid up during the past week
made runs of between so and 60 days,
actual running time, and while there was
still some work for them to do, the
crews and owners were weary with their
arduOus and continuous labors and
anxious to quit. The season has been a
money making one for threshing ma
chine operators, because of the we'll
filled heads and splendid yields; but this
has not been so true with the headers
cutting by the acre, on account of the
extraordinarily heavy straw, necessitat-
ing increased forces to handle it.
The weather remains delightful for fall
work, and the farmers are getting in
splendid shape for the winter. The
weather wise predict a cold and snowy
winter, basing their representation
upon the accepted fact that present
good weather begets future storms.
Feed is abundant all over the country,
and many say they prefer heavy snow
fall and frost which will penetrate and
pulverize the soil, because of it's we'll
known beneficial effect upon the follow
ing crop.