The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-23
CLAIM WHEAT
may ADVANCE
Twenty CENTS
Experts Believe the Advance
Caused by Defeat Of Reel.
procity Is Beginning
BARLEY WILL ALSO SHOW
DECIDED ADVANCE SOON
Meats and Meat Products win Not Be
Effected While the Prioe Of rlour
aud Its Products Keep Step With
Wheat.

00Q ltS PRODUCTS Keep Step With
Chicago. Sept 23.-Foodstuifs
which might have been affected by
an influx Of Canadian products had
Laurier and his government not been
defeated In Canada. rose sharply In
price In all American supply centers
yesterday. Wheat led the advance
and was followed late in the day by
flour when millers ignored their pre-
vlous price lists and adjusted their
quotations to figures more commen-
surate with the advanced cost Of the
grain staple.
Oats. too. felt tho effect of the Ca
madam vote and as q result consum-
ers may expect soon to pay increased
prices for breakfast foods. The in
itial meal Of the day, in fact, seems
destined to bear the brunt of the
higher living costs within the next
few months as 1t needed only today's
developments in the trading pits to
add force to the recent advances in
coffee and sugars.
The cost Of the consumers toast
and biscuit, wheat cakes and por-
ridge, II. is probable, will but add to
the woes of the housekeeper.
The greatest advance in wheat dur
Ing the day was recorded at Duluth.
There traders were paying as high as
= cents bushel more for the grain
than they did before reciprocity was
rejected across the northern border,
Minneapolis, the greatest milling CEN
ter of the country, showed a maxi
mum net advance of 6 cents, paying
$1.07 1-2 for this months delivery.
Increases of a less sensational
character were recorded at Kansas
City, st. Louis, Omaha and Chicago.
Immense stocks Of grain in the ele-
vators of. this city acted as q check
to severe advance here and brokers
on the board Of trade bought wheat
for about three cents more a bushel
than they had paid yesterday. The
Chicago market was the lowest of the
important grain centers.
Twenty Cents Possible.
It Is by no means certain that to-
days advances in the price Of wheat
and allied foodstuffs indicate that the
maximum has been reached. One of
the most prominent wheat traders of
Chicago advanced the opinion that
spring wheat, the grade used most
extensively for fine flour, is due to in
crease in cost 20 cents a bushel.
There is no guarantee that the extra
ordinary selling, which today held
down the prices in Chicago and in
directly affected the markets in 9TH
er cities.
A further blow to the consumers,
or at least some Of them, may result
when masters have studied the situa-
tion in the barley markets. In some
centers there were wild furries in
that grain today, the price advancing
as much as cents.
This. II maintained, probably will
mean increased cost of materials to
brewers and, as has been the his
, tory of previous similar conditions,
the smaller sized beer glasses may
again become popular with saloon
keepers.
An important factor in the barley
situation is the conviction of many
dealers that the greater portion Of
Canadas ten million bushels barley
surplus will never reach American
brewers. This stock had been relied
upon to relieve the pressure result
ing from short crop in this country.
There Is grain of comfort for the
householder, however, in the meat
situation. While packing house pro-
ducts rose in price today, they did
so only out of sympathy with grains.
Canadian reciprocity, according to ex-
experts, had no direct effect upon
meat products and it is not likely to
add to the cost Of lard, bacon and
ham.
Millers Sore
Duluth. Minn., Sept 23-The out
come Of the Canadian reciprocity vote
is keenly regretted. by the mill men
and commission men in this district.
j. D. Goodman, manager of one of
the larger mills here, voicing the gen.
eral sentiment, said:
"The price Of flour will undoubted-
ly 60 higher as result of the defeat
Of reciprocity. We millers were
strongly in favor of reciprocity in the
hope that 1t would bring cheaper
wheat. The triumph Of reciprocity
would probably have enabled us to
manufacture flour at price that
would have given us a chance at the
foreign markets. AS 1t Is we have
mighty little export business. though
Chicago has some with it's winter
wheat. Some men were saying that
reciprocity would not affect the price
Of wheat In the northwest.
Wheat has scared in Duluth, Min
neapolis and Chicago. Winnipeg
wheat, on the other hand, has had q