Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-18
Total Receipts Here for Two Months
Exceed Eight Cities Combined.
ONE VERY INTERESTING FIGURES
New Traffic Bureau is Expected to
Improve 0maha's Chances.
POSSIBILITIES ARE TREMENDOUS
solid BEGINNING of Development of
Milling Industry Gives Promise
that Nebraska WIN Soon
Take Front Rank.

Omaha has the baby grain market OF the
country, but It's whale of baby. II
has sturdy underplnnlng and its hands
reach out and grasp very large section
Of the rich cereal pie. When the new
tariff bureau is properly lined up TO take
care of this youngsters interests, II will
naturally want a much larger slice, be-
cause 1t is clearly entitled to more.
Uncle Sans report of the internal com
merce of the United States for February
of this year gives the Omaha market con-
siderable cause for boasting. In the table
showing commercial movement of grain
at interior markets for that month. Omaha
stands third in receipts of wheat giving
precedence only to Minneapolis and Kan
sas City. For the two months ending Febru-
ary It holds the same relative position,
leading ST. Louis Duluth and Chicago.
In receipts OF corn, for the same months.
Omaha stands second to Chicago. As an
oats market Omaha lines UP fourth in the
table, following Chicago. st. Louis and
Minneapolis.
Third in Primary Receipts.
In the table showing total grain re-
ceived during the two months ended
February 1909, Omaha stands third to Chi
cago and Minneapolis, being strongly ahead
of Kansas City and close up to st. Louis.
Omaha received more grain, by almost
100000 bushels than the eight cities of
Louisville. Cincinnati. indianapolis, Toledo.
Little Rock. Duluth and Cleveland COM
bined. Peoria received but little over one
third the total amount brought to the
Omaha market.
| Not so bad for n five-year-old market
| just a kid compared to the forty. thirty
and twenty-five-year old markets at Chi
cago. Minneapolis and Kansas City. And
! this. too, after sleeping on it's possibilities
under properly organized system until
this week. In centralized push, team work
| that moves the load, Omaha has been
sadly deficient. As one leader of the ex-
| change said. "It took us Q mighty long
time to learn the lesson that was showed
under our noses almost every day since
we began business: but now we have
learned II. and mean to profit thereby"
1t will be interesting and profitable to
watch the game in which the newly or
ganized traffic bureau is about to sit in.
! What Government Figures show.
During the month of February. out of
total of 1856, ,OOO bushels of wheat received
at fifteen primary markets Omaha took in
1,254O 600 bushels and out of %. 100000 bushels
received at the same markets during the
two months Omaha took 2.27s,OOO bushels.
2s5OOOO out of a total of 9O.4OOO00 received
at the fifteen primary markets, and during
the two months the Omaha market got
51O4OOO out of 45I1, 600 handled in the fif-
teen markets.
Oats receipts at Omaha for February
were 721 900 bushels out of a total of H.
| ,00c for the fifteen markets. and during
the two months we took In $4,000 out of
a total of 25,OOO.OO0 bushels.
The total of all grain received at fifteen
primary markets during February was ST.
$4,000 bushels. of which Omaha got 4.s23-
700 bushels and of the 1O6, $4,000 bushels
received during two months the local mar
ket received 92Ol, 400 bushels.
Grain receipts at the Omaha market for
the crop period, 1909 (six months ending
February 2S), show that wheat increased
from 4,S43.200 bushels In 1908 to 1853, 200
bushels in 1909. Corn receipts increased
from 5.273.4OO in 1908 to sSos. 900 In 1909
Oats receipts went up from 7.4s7. 500 in 1905
to 9.5S2, 800 in 1909. In total receipts OF grain
at the Omaha market the figures are 90
116, 200 for 1903 against 49, 800 for 1908.
Shipments OF wheat, corn, oats, rye and
barley from the Omaha market during 1905
totsled S5,O6l.5OO bushels the grain going
to Chicago, Milwaukee. st. Louis. Mime
apolis st. Paul, Illinois. Wisconsin, Mis-
sssippi river points. the middle states
southeast and Mississippi valley, the sea-
board. for export via the Atlantic and
gulf ports. Interior points alone took
I 1904 900 bushels. Omaha is in the grain
game for keeps.
Nebraska Third I'm Grain Production.
Among the principal grain growing states
of the country, in 1905 Nebraska stood third,
being surpassed In total production only
by Illinois and Iowa. Far-famed Kansas
was away behind. with total of 262. .34sO 900.
as compared to Nebraska's total OF Sl0.-
27s.OOO
In production Of wheat for 1903 Nebraska
ranked fourth, with H295.OOO bushels; in
production of corn third, with 2O5, ,767 oOo
o bushels; in production OF oats fourth, with
56,O7s,OOO bushels; in production Of rye sec
ond. with $4,000 bushels: In production
of barley sixth. with 2,773,OOO bushels.
= These figures make this state one OF the
h real wheel horses IN the agricultural pulling
J. power Of the nation.
= During the ten years. 1sse-lsOs, inclusive,
4 the grain production of Nebraska has
n amounted TO 2S2s, ,659,7ss bushels OF the five
y cereals: Corn l.7ss, ,5ss 23l; wheat. A7O44 1917;
r oats. S57l,9i7; rye. 29.s6s.575; barley. 26.-
G 64O,s3s
g Marketing the Crops.
e Aside from the Nebraska grown grain
: that comes to the Omaha market. a very
Z large amount goes 10 other markets. be-
cause OF being nearer TO the grower. and
a I'm lesser degree because at times the
price at Kansas City. for instance. may
i seem little better to the shipper. Dis
elimination In railroad rates or advail-
/ tages that have been secured through years
D of effort by the older markets. have also
cut some figure. but a correction OF These
le things will be secured, II is hoped through
Ic the new traffic bureau To correct ans
" existing determinations against the Omaha
e market will not be the work Of . Wesl
or a month. howersr. 1t has taken N