The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-05-19
RAIN TONIC TO
THIRSTY CROPS
OUTLOOK ALL OVER NORTH
WEST VASTLY IMPROVED SINCE
DRouTH IS BROKEN SAYS MIN
NEAPoLis JouRNAL-ALL or
NORTH DAKOTA oPTIsMIsTlc.

/ A carpet of green all over the north
west and stirring about in the whole
sale district in Minneapolis are two
results of the breaking of the drouth
by the rains that began Sunday, and,
In some portions of the country, in the
vicinity of Devils Lake and westward
were still falling up to a. m. today,
| says The Minneapolis Journal.
| Travellers coming in on Minneapolis
d st. Louis, Great Western, Milwaukee
and Omaha trains from southern Min
J, nesotap said the change in the appear
| ance of the country has been wonder
| full. The grain, they say, seemed ~
have grown an inch in an night. Fields
| that were beginning to look parched
are now green and thriving.
In North Dakota.
| Minot, N. D., the first town at which
the Minneapolis business men who will
leave next Sunday on a trade trip to
Montana will stop, had a drizzle all
last night, and today's wires sent from
| Minot to grain firms, railroad offices
and wholesale houses, told of reyiving
| crops in the country nearby and a
freshening up all along to westward on
the Great Northern, north to the Can
adam line on the 500, and southwark
on the 500. The country that got the
least rainfall and where there are a.
| few spots that are still dry, lies along
the Milwaukee and Minneapolis &. st
Louis roads west Of a line drawn north
through Aberdeen, but there was some
rain all through that part Of South
Dakota
Northern Pacific crop reports today
are favorable. The rain not only wet
the country in eastern North Dakota
but was heavy enough to be of great
benefit at Jamestown and westward.
Wholesalers Are Happy.
Implement and hardware firms re-
port the greatest immediate effect as
a result Of the rains. Statesmen had he
gun to feel little OF the hesitant talk
from the country merchants at places
where rain had not fallen for weeks
but this has passed and orders are
now being placed more freely. Dry
goods firms, grocers and wholesalers
Of the staples had also felt 1t slightly
The automobile trade rs expecting
country orders to increase, now that
suftcient rain has fallen to insure the
growth Of the crop for some time to
come.
Some surprise was expressed that
the price Of grain, which went about
cents lower, did not decline more
heavily after the rains. At the Cham
Der of Commerce some traders ex-
planned 1T on the theory that there ex-
lists general feeling that there is
not going to be any low priced grain,
no matter how big the crop, and that
the farmers are going to get remun-
eratlVe figures in any case These
men say the wholesale and banking
interests need not fear that a big
spring wheat crop will necessarily
mean low prices, for they say the win
ter wheat states do not promise to
raise total to bring up the production
OF the country as whole to large pro-
auctions.
Flour In Demand
They point, also, to an Improvement
in the flour demand and the more ac-
tive operation of the Minneapolis
mills, to shipments out of Minneapolis
for the first three days Of this week
or 146,l51 barrels compared with $780,
s67 barrels in the corresponding three
days Of the week before and 122,054
Tor the same period last year, and to
decrease of 4750oO bushels of wheat
IN storage in Minneapolis which the
mills have had to have, in excess of
what came to market.
The Chamber of Commerce is a CEN
ter of optimism and the point of the
argument made by these men is that
the northwest is not only going to
nave good grain crop. but the prices
are going to be high as we'll, and that
the combination will produce great
prosperity.