Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1906-03-01

of - vast increase in the volume OF
business for the year to be found in
the western livestock industry. Dur
ing the summer and i'm the fall OF
1875 the tourist on any of the big
western trunk lines caught flying
glimpses of stock pens filed with long
horned, ferocious looking steers,
fiocks of huddled sheep and carloads
of horses and mules. All these pens
were filled and emptied many times
during the year, each contributing it's
quota to the enormous total of live
stock that was shipped from the trans
Mississippi territory to the markets Of
Chicago, Kansas city, Omaha and St.
Joseph, a total that Appropriated 49,.
100000 head. This multitude of ami
mails constituted 678,369 carloads, 30
600 more than were required in 1904
and 10000 more than in 1902.
In the grain trade the American
farmers are still increasing their out
put and adding to the strength of our
claim to be called the granary of the
world. The reports for 1905 from
twelve primary grain markets show
that there has been poured into them
from their tributary territory the en-
ormous quantity of 750,000,000 bushels
OF grain, to be distributed from these
primary markets to all corners of the
globe. American grain to-day is fight
ing to supplant rice among the Ash
aties and has already partly displaced
rye as the food staple of the peas
antry of Europe. Within a few years,
at the rate our crop is increasing, and
with the extremely low rates the rail-
roads give ON grain for export, Ameri-
can Ioaves viii be, indeed, the staff of
life in every country OF Europe.
A comparison of the amount of grain
received during eleven months of
1905 at a few of the primary markets
with the amount received for the
whole year of 1904 brings out clearly
the remarkable increase in grain
traffic. Chicago, the greatest primary
grain market. received 0,759,2Io
in 1904. During the first eleven
months of 1905 the receipts We're
239,133,3e2 bushels. Louisvilles rec
ord for 1904 was 73.555.61S bushels,
while up to December /, 1905, S3,916.-
80 bushels had been received. The
receipts at Kansas City for 1894 were
5S,S39,9O0 bushels; FOR the eleven
months of 1905 they were 6o,121, zoe
bushels
On the Pacific Coast, where fifty
years ago a few gold-mad prospectors.
acting as an advance guard for East
ern civilization, carried on a dlsultory
warfare with Indians, they are today
thriving, hustling towns and thickly
settled farming communities. One OF
the most important factors in this
prosperity is the huge lumber traffic
that originates in the vast forests OF
north arn California, Oregon and Wash
ington. Annually for the last three
years more than a billion feet of red
wood, pine and fir have been taken
from these almost inexhaustible timber
tracts and shipped to California coast
points. During the year just past the
arrivals at these same points averaged
more than 100000 feet a month, a
record that no former year can sur
PASS. In 1904 lumber shipments from
= lshington to Oregon reached total
rCf e06.000,000 feet, 195,500.000 feet OF
which went to foreign markets. The
completed figures for the lumber trade
Of 1905 from these two states have not
been issued as yet, but as moye than
100, 0oo.0 900 feet passed into domestic