Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-09-05


I know, all the brewers in this
country are still running at their
usual capacity and can probably
hold out for few weeks longer.
The growing crop is going to the
bad daily, according to the Ore
gonian and its correspondent, yet
the largest and most reputable
houses in the U. S. continue
offering us 1905 hops at IS cents
delivered east in our breweries.
What does the brewer care
whether the growers are asking
I5c for their coming crop or
whether the fake dealers on the
coast temporarily boost farmers
with false crop news beyond all
reason, when we know by the
action of the eastern dealers that
we can buy hops from good firms
at low prices, which proves to
our minds conclusively that these
firms must be getting crop re-
ports different than certain news
papers get, otherwise they would
be asking higher prices. Very
few brewers need any Pacific
Coast hops in their breweries be-
fore January or February, as they
can supply their immediate wants
with New York State hops. The
'bul1s" write in the newspapers: !:
"There are secret orders from
large short seller now in the mar4
ket for 1000 bales, ETC."
Have the representatives of
this "short'' been after your hops
lately? Have you seen any buy
ers sneaking around with large
orders? Have you not heard of
sales of 1904 hops in Washing
ton and California within the
past week at from Ioc TO I5c?
Do you not know that the
growers in all sections are trying
vainly to sell but are finding it
almost impossible to get offers?
As soon as the growers of Oregon
discover that they cannot get an
offer, and that the actual market
is far under what they seem to
think they can get, and to their
regret that they have been fooled
and buncoed by the "bu1ls" and
their instruments, certain news
papers, worse than any class OF
men were ever deceived, there
may be crash that will carry
down with it in financial and
social ruin the very men who
were the inst1gators of the huge
bunco game that has been work
ed and is still being worked or
the hop growers.
! ( Let US analyze a few possible
motives of the Krebs-Pincus.
! Smith burst combination of phil
anthropists. Krebs pleads love
for the hop grower and the vim
dication of his sound judgment
but incidentally he is carrying
nearly 1000 bales of 1904 hop:
and is growing some 700 acre:
OF the coming crop and the lattel
|still remains to be picked. Pin
Gus &. Sons. until these people
turned "bears,o were directing
their guns at the short seller
but they, it might be remarked
were carrying 1000 bales of 1904
hops and were boosting for Ieo5s
and it is now rumored that thi!
firm has been heavy sellers o
! the crop to be harvested and ar,
consequently the worst ssbears'
in the business.
| M. II. burst, the philosopher
writer and dear friend of th
| down-trodden farmer, has beel
carrying, and continues to carr,
| 1000 bales OF his last growth an,
he has under cultivation nov
about 500 acres in California
) very few of which are sold. Th
; California Hop Co., when ru
down, was found to be a nor
t existent company as there ha
never been sucha company in Cal;
fornia. The circulars mailed III
der the guise of this mythics
) firm were undoubtedly mailed b
some of the Krebs-Durst-Pinc
Smith combination. Anoths
) man who has lately been film
/ the columns Of the papers wit
i bad crop reports is one E.
: Smith. Smith managed to g,