The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-08-17
THE DlURUA OUTLOOK
SUMMARY OF TIE MARKET SIT
UATIoN BY'A DULUTH 1NvEsT1-
GATOR.

The question OF market for durum wheat
this tall ts one OF the most interesting problems
before the northwestern trade, and one about
which there Is little OF. no actual knowledge. The
Duluth shippers who are buying 1t every day
only know that they are finding sale for II
abroad, but whether that demand will continue
or whether 1t will stop any minute they have no
way OF determining. The Duluth Commercial
Record says 1t Is able to offer but little en-
nghtenment to that problem, altho it has been
patiently digging into the matter for months.
The principal reason for the doubt concern
Ing the probable, European consumption lies in
lack Of knowledge as to the extent Of the de-
mand for Its use in making macaroni and
whether or not it would not be used as bread
nour ut difference; In fact there Is strong
dour. S 81
Marseilles. which is the principal French mar.
ket has number Of small mills working on
durum wheat that produce, about 1000 brls
DAY, say total consumption Of 5000, 900 blu
yearly. The United States shipped France on
this last crop practically 100000 bu OF durum,
but during the same period France took In
$4,000, 900 bu of Russian wheat, part Of which
may have been durum, and then again it may
moi nave, been. In connection with the French
demand IT. would be well to bear in mind that
Algeria, French province with favorable tar.
lHs ana ! large producer, Of durum, has good
crop this year against 4 failure last year. =
Spain and Italy together took approxima tely
$500 600 bu Of all kinds of wheat Of our last
crop. Italy Is supposed to have very indiffer-
ence wheat outlook and it II more than prob.
able that it Is to Italy, the home Of the maca-
ROM. that We must look for our demand foe
durum. re wv - = = -
Germany ID presumed to have taken about
1,ooO, 900 bu of durum, leaving about 500 900 bu
to account for out Of our total exports of $780,
600 Blu. Possibly this might have gone to some
European point and been reshipped to some other
point. Algeria and Morocco were supposed to
nave imported some, but there is nothing to
show that it went direct.
Not much help can be expected from American
mills, says the Commercial Record as only
about 10 per cent of Duluth's total receipts were
used by Duluth and Eastern millers
Over the entire situation, however looms the
Russian outlook, and our lack Of knowledge
as to the probable amount Of this kind of wheat
produced In that country and whether OF not
the du-um crop in Russia has suffered with the
other Russian wheat crops.'s zr !: .=@s1ss2
Ih1s summary Of the Duluth authority seems
very reliable and It Is comprehensive in all ex-
cept perhaps that the increased grinding Of fu-
rum wheat by northwestern interior -four mills
Goes not appear to have been considered impor-
tant, yet while. the quantity SO consumed or
likely to be consumed on this crop is as much
an uncertainty as Is nearly everything else con.
nected with the disposition Of the CROP it il
generally believed that the country mills are
grinding much more dnrum than they tell about.
and this may take the pressure OF in part
Hhen the crop Is marketed, ;. ,.L%,- : .