Omaha daily bee., 1905-09-15
ONAHASEC0ND CORN MARKET
Gate City Still Holds Place Ts1t TO
Chicago for World,
FREIGHT RATES AFFECT LATE SHIPMENTS
For Seven Months Ending with July
Corn Receipts Here Amounted
20 Nearly Eleven Mil
lion Bushels,
LEIGH RATEs AFFLCT NTE sMPRtNTs

Omaha SIN holds its place as the second
primary corn market of the country, as
shown by the last report Of the govern
ment bureau Of statistics, department Of
commerce and labor.
For the seven months ending with July,
corn receipts at Omaha we're 1O,75L00C
bushels. In the same period Chicago re-
oeved 6ss51. 373 bushels. and Omaha's next
competitor, ST. Louis, received 9,443,S7C
bushels. July receipts at Omaha were
light as compared with other cities and
several markets made substantial gains
on Omaha Kansas City received 80 per
cent more corn for the month than did
Omaha and Is only 2,45S, 300 bushels behind
in the seven months total. st. Louis also
took in 50 per cent more corn in July than
this city.
Omaha and Council BIuns.
Receipts OF grain at Omaha and Council
Bluffs during the month Of July reached
a total Of l,5l3, 900 bushels, and we're nearly
100000 bushels larger than a like move
ment in 1885, due greatly TO the increased
inbound movement Of corn, although wheat
and oats also showed large gains. Ship
ments Of grain during July totaled !. 1.564. 500
bushels as against l. $500 bushels in 1904.
Total grain receipts at these cities during
the first seven months OF the current year
aggregated l55lO,5OO bushels and consisted
Of l56400O bushels of wheat, 10, 900
bushels Of corn. 1901, 900 bushels Of oats,
5000 bushels Of rye and 5000 bushels Of
barley. A similar corresponding movement
in 1904 amounted to 7,0261OO bushels Ship
ments OF grain from Omaha during the
first seven months Of the present year
totaled 1ss6s,OOO bushels, and were nearly
double corresponding movement in 1904.
The current years corn output was alb
normally heavy, amounting to II, ,3S2 600
bushels.
July receipts were 144, 900 bushels OF wheat.
as compared with 2s1 900 bushels last year;
900 bushels Of corn, as compared with
$4,000 bushels last year; $4,000 bushels Of
oats, as compared with $4,000 bushels last
year; 1000 bushels of barley, as compared
with 900 bushels last year.
Changes in Freight Rates!
The government report mentions changes
in railroad freight rates, affecting Omaha,
as follows:
From July 8 to August 25, 1906, a num-
ber of important changes occurred in grain
and provision rates from interior primary
points TO Atlantic and gulf ports. on
August n the proportiona leXport rate on
flour and wheat from Kansas City to
Galveston and New Orleans, which had
been Is cents per ,n 100 pounds vas was reduced
same date similar rates from Omaha to
the gulf were decreased from l9 TO IN
cents per 100 pounds The proportional
rates on barley rye oats and corn from
Kansas City to Galveston and New Orleans
changed from II to l5k cents, and those
from Omaha to the same cities from is To
l6h cents per 100 pounds
From Omaha and Kansas City to East
St Louis the proportional rate on wheat
and -four. which had been 9 cents, became
~ cents on August 10. and a rate on
similar commodities from the same points
TO Chicago was reduced from ~ to 10h
cents per 100 pounds