The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-25
If the Market Settles Good
Flour Demand Will
Follow.
"A Number of Strong Things Show
Up in the General Sum
mary.
g,t Wheat Continues Pouring
Into Chicago and Buyers
Are Few.

II NinnespoIis Chamber of Commerce, April 25-
Before the wheat market opened tnls nolh,iis
something of plan was arranged ior i"li :y :.
If was figured that with the market so heaYhy
oyersold as many believe it to be- good Duy
or bluff at it would start an upturn But whlle
there was check to the decline, ana 10 MON
no further material loss had been mace IN an Amy
option, the market was still heavy as lead. Inc
Milwaukee loss was the sensation, of the day In
Chicago and the effect was to make new buying
light Even the traders who had held on
all thru the great decline and who believed that
wheat might Go to buy for upturn of several
cents, did little There was chill over the
pit Then the market got under way and the
Chicago posting went up and showed 10 cars
received there against 10 year ago. This
was enough to dampen the enthusiasm still
more To noon the market was cratic in a
range ordinarily wide, but narrow compared
with the big changes of late. 1t was a guess
as to the next move, chance favoring rally. but
with the general trend Of things still downward.
The movement in general was nothing to scare
anyone, Minneapolis getting IS cars against
Co. Duluth Is against 16, Kansas City 81, 600
bu against $4,000 and ST. Louis $4,000 against
10000 The big Chicago run was different. That
indicated that the talk OF flooding Gates with
wheat had been the real thing, and that the food
is on and while 1t Is probable that now that
the corner Is broken the rush Will stop, there
may still be considerable on the way that will
show up for day or two yet.
Weather map shows 1t raining in Nebraska
northern Kansas, Iowa., Missouri, Illinois In
diana, Kentucky; clear in the northwest. Rain
fall-Valentine, so; North Platte, 81; Omaha
60; Concordia .6S; Dodge City, .02; Wichita,
.16; Kansas City, 10; Springfield, Mo-, 90;
st. Louis. so; Sioux City, ~; Des Moines, 40;
Cairo, .O6; Evansville, Ind, .OS; Louisville,
trace. The forecast reads: Illinois, Indiana
Michigan-Rain, colder; Missouri-Rain east
colder. Iowa. Observation-Disclosures, warmer. Kan
sas-Fair, warmer. Enthusiastically, possible
showers. Wisconsin-Threatening, colder. North
and South Dakota-Fair. warmer.
The weather bureau weekly crop report says
spring wheat seeding is well advanced. Germi-
nation of early very slow, and some In
jury has resulted from freezing in South Da-
kota and Nebraska. Growth of winter wheat
has not been rapid owing to absence Of warm
{wenther, but condition continues epromis1ng
Corn planting has been carried on actively In
Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois.
Broomhall's weekly foreign crop summary:
United Kingdom, France, Germany-Conditions
continue generally favorable and unchanged from
week ago. Hungary-Good general rains have
fallen. Rou1nania, Bulgara-Prospects excel
lent, ground we'll soaked. Russia-Semi-officia
report states that the winter crops in sattsfac-
tory condition generally, and in some cases e2-
ceHent; spring seeding progressing favorably.
May closed at 96c and July at 94a4 @947sc.