Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-09-30
BY Hyman H Cohen.


While oregon, Idaho and Wash
ington will not have quite 60.000,-
600 bushels of wheat this season.
the total of the production will
come so close to that figure that tho
estimate made. four months ago can
scarcely be changed.
Careful inquiry among the larger
millers, the smaller millers, ware
house men and grain growers of all
sections of the Northwest give the
total production OF the three states
about 5S,500,000 bushels of wheat.
While these figures are not exactly
what the final moving of the crop
would show, they are about as close
as can be estimated at any other
time. But little of the wheat crop
remains to be taken care of and dthis
amount can be quite safely estimated
at this time. From figures furnish
ed by the best men in the grain busi-
ness and from the personal examina-
tion of some of the best sections,
S,500,000 bushels can be safely
taken as the true yield of the Pacific
northwest for the season of 1907.
Yield Is "a Surprise.
The wheat yield of the northwest
this season was a record-breaker. IL
surprised even the growers them
selves who had come TO believe that
the crop would be a heavy one. The
weather as a whole has been about
as perfect for the growing crop as
could be secured any place on earth.
While there were periods during
which the grain suffered slightly, no
damage OF consequence was caused
by climatic condition. except In the
middle of the harvest, when rains
interfered. Even this damage was
OF slight moment when the years
figures are gathered.
Taken as whole, too, the wealth
er conditions of the year have been
most perfect from quality point OF
view. The bulk of the Oregon,
Washington and Idaho crop OF
wheat this year will break the
worlds record for fine quality, the
amount OF grain grading under No.
being normal in comparison with
the total production.
There never was a time. nor there
never was n locality that produced
perfect yield of any product that
depended uuon man or the climate
20 make. The wheat crop or the
Pacific northwest therefore comes as
close TO being perfect as 1t possibly
could without reaching that goa
that has never yet been discovered.
Even the much-heralded wheat
growing sections OF the Dakotas and
other hard-wheat producers cannot
compare their product with the
states of the north coast this year.
Wheat quality received n new un-
derstanding this year when samples
began TO come from the nearby
wheat fields. Heretofore there We're
regular grades that were hard
others more hard and still others
very soft. This year soft wheat Us
hard to find because the grades seem
TO have intermixed In some way and
wheat that usually is very soft Is
this year about as hard as the ofdl-
nary run.
Much Wealth for Producers.
Wheat producers of the northwest
will this year receive more money
for their wheat than ever before
Up TO this time most Of the wheat
has been sold for foreign account
and In many instances the prices
paid have been from TO &c bushel
over the regular printed quotations
This condition is due TO the fact
that exporters had very wide range
to work upon this season. In order
to get the wheat, however, most OF
them are offering within a traction
of their limits. This has forced mil
lers TO pay the same sum.-oregoh