Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-20

UP IS CENTS IN FIVE YEARS
Wheat Raises 81 Cents a Bushcl Dur-
Ing the Same Pcriod---Iacts
q And Statistics.

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The steady rise IN price Of wheat
ri cents per bnshel in the last five
wears, in car load lots, is occasionins
considerable anxious comment over
the country, as it is beginning to ap-
pear more and more probable that
these prices are not likely to be any
less in the future, but rather more. In
fact growers have about come to that
= conclusion, 50 tho farmer Is figuring
now on nothing less than dollar wheat,
withsget more. il you call.' There has
been much speculation as to the cause
of the steady advance in wheat, but
experts have about arrived at the fol-
lowing conclusions:
During the past five years, the pop
ulation Of the United States by immi-
grafton and natural increase, has been
growing at such a rapid rate that pros
ducton5 has not kept pace wit It. In
Addition to this, a great deal of the
s land which was once occupied by heat
culture is now takes un with orchard;
bcets, and general garden truck. The
only description of land which has
sgrOWnain productive apacitN5 has been
the dry farm sections + but this has not
i been sufficient to Offset the eXtrasacre-
age required for other articles. 1t
seems as If 1t would be only the ma tier
of few years, before the United
States would require all the wheat it
can grow, to, say nothing of export
, ing. so 1T Will have to draw on Can
ada and the Argentine republic for,
q considerable part Of Its bread
MINING CAMPS, RESPONSIBLE
The increase of prices have also no
Goubt been enhanced materially by the
great production OF gold; and this Is
a feature that has to be reckoned with
in the prices of articles Of consump-
ton.
Fifteen or 16 years ago, the local
mills got supplies largely from farms
Within u, radius of 30 or 40 miles from
Salt Lake City: but now, these same
4 farmers have 10 buy their flour be-
* cause they can use their lands SO much
more probably in raising fruits. veg
.etablas, etc, and these farms are now
too valuable to SOW to wheat. Ohio,
and Indiana do not ship their wheat
TO New Y orll4 any more as the local
millcrs need 1t all. One great result
will be the straining Of every nerve in
the increase of dry farm cultivation
Will slsa1H tEacllOil iploWlnS& ana sQespg
coil CIVILIZATIONS.
A fact to be considered in Utah is
#i3e large number of men now en-
lfoScd in the Nevada mining camps
specially the copper camps) which
: we TO be furnished with flour from
his state, and also grain. for the
herscs at the different camps. Ap-s
.parertly we are not likely to see re-
peated for a number of years, the low
prices OF grain that We're current in 4
] 1861 sol. Seven years ago, the corn
crop in the United States was 2,000,-
100000 bushels, which was thought an
enormous yisld Last year, It was
2,600,o0o0O 900 bushels, and every kernel
of IT was needed and marketed prac-
3ticaily without any decline in value.
Tor 1903 Tho prospects are for a crop
of 5000 100000 bushes and every in-#
8dication point to this enormous ag-
gregate being needed for the ordinary
channels of trade.
FIVE EARS WHEAT PRICES.
& The following schedule of prices for
ING last fScs5yearss shows how the na-s5
Eterial from which is made the staff OF
life has risen in value. The particular
prices are those obtaining at the be
ginning of the season, in Salt Lake
city, with go pounds weight to the
.bushcl:
Jobbng
Carloads. Price. Retail.
1905.., !. $50. "a s So S 81
l905.......... .63 10 30 4
2 90I so .92 1.07a
hoy III Los ]. 10
al3O9, probable 100 liz 127S
IN figuring prices for iobbing and re-
tall, IT Is nece ssary to understand that
,3opners have to stand expense of ware
housing, cost of delivery by teams
and sacks. The 1909 figures are esti-
mated mats; as crops are only beginning to-
move. IS a 5s ~
RISE IN PRICE OF FLOUR.
There was a scarcity of wheat in
1904, hence q rise in price of flour But
thereafter there was decline until
1907, when there was another stringen-
1cys in the market, With corresponding
rise in market quotations of -four There
was a slight further rise lust year, a
factor being the previously recent hard
times. But this season there was a
booming upward OF prices by 60scents.
due to what millers say is the d6sa p j
ipearanee OF the country's surplussage
of wheat Hitherto, there has always
been Il Stock of wheat, varying III size,
left oyer4fronl season to season.. This
year that has entirely disappeared. so.
iIaaL the EcSlllSA tite sCOflllil
son on this years growth. There has
been little exported, as compared with
pre-, ious ycais,Ttlc rapid growth oil the
country $ population consuming an I'M
mense amount of grain. This increase
is due to the enormous emigration from
Europe and the marked excess of births
over the deaths, it being estimated that
in the United States this reaches the
respectable figure Of 20. per cent.
The exporting from this state of
wheat In the past to the complete de-
mutation Of this section, has finally
attracted such attention that several
western millers have built elevators
for storage OF wheat and to that cx-
lent ensure the home people of SUI
ficient flour fol, their consumption.
There are no rangesgof prices In flour
rs In wheat, the millers dealing direct
ly with the retailer to a large extent,
although there are flour Jobbers who
buy fron, the nlillers and sci! in turn
to the retailer. The millers figure on
a profit generally of 20 cents a. cWt.
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