The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-07-15
WHEAT PRECISION !, PACIFIC COAST ARE
 SAME AS CHICAGO Remarkable Evidence of ln- creased Acreage West of
 the Rocky Mountains
PANAMA CANAL HAS
 BEEN BIG STIMULANT T
Few Realized, However, That Pacific Ports Would be Exporting Their Own Wheat Through the
 Canal the First Year
Ry HOLLAND

New York. July 14-(Special-) )-As soon es the ranorts were received in this city telling that wheat was commanding 'n1 same price at the export cities oI she Pacific coast which is quoted TOT III Chicago. 1t seemed almost as thous there might have been some mlstaHe the figures. But later reports conh f'ieo the first, which reached this c1y' De hind this new stat ement ii is thoug nc her very significant facts lie- First of all H fs spoken of as a circumstances wmch is sure to become traditional that in the yea of inc onenins of the Panama canal Tor navigation the United States harvested not only its greatest wheat crop pu' "i' l largest ever harvested in any country' That of course is a coincidence due Whons or in great part to favorable ehnauc conditions- But it Is believed nere nat some account must be taken or the HI proved methods of cultivation which cer' tainly to some extent explain the wheat harvest of this year.
 The great wheat growing areas west oi fhe Rocky mountains would. 1t has peen deemed certain, furnish transportatloh sooner or later for vessels navigating the Panama canal But it occurred 10 no oiie that this tran sportation, probably Tn aree amounts, would be carried from the fa' ellie coast through the canal immeaiateis or very soon after the opening or tna' waterway to navigation.
 Although no one here ventures to as sert positively that the opening of uae Panama canal and the harvesting of great wheat crop on the Pacific coast
 %b Ia are now the same in Chicago, or were few days ago, as the quotations al t'he Pacific coast, nevertheless 1t Is presumed that the facilities for cheap transportatoh of Pacific coast wheat through lile canal have caused a foreign demand TOT that which which. if 1t be continued should result in yielding to those farmers of the Pacific slope who raise wheat from to 10 cents g bushe1 more than they have at any time in the past peeh able to get for their wheat
 If this s,1rrnise be a correct one, then 1t Is reasonable to assume that the open ing of the Panama canal to navlgatoh is from the first greatly to stimulate the oonlmerce which hereafter VIII o1slIa'e at the Pacific ports
 The Lumberma View
 The lun1berm en of British North Aner- lea at least two years ago were conhoe .e that the Panama canal w0uld greatly stnnu te the lumber industry of van couver Island and the western part or British North Amersca. The experts made some careful est mates for the iufi- bermen- The figures made appa renty what was a good demonstration mat Us lumber could be shipped from faeiiie ports and tla nsported by way of | he Fan ana ca nal toaAtlantic seaporfs ma then carried to the mid west and sold at profit for a smaller price than was asked for Americancut lumber
 All this may prove to be early indlca- tions of what the expand ed commerce which originates or will originate upon the Pacific coast is likely to be as con eeouence of the construction of he Ia IT. anna canal It should serve greatly 10 increase the cultivation of Wheat m the soil west of the Rocky mountains whicn Is adapted to that culuSauon shouu mt the Atlantic and the Pachc coast upon an equality so far as marKeuns wheat is concerned.
 Already the railroad companies are pre- paring for the transportation or W heA' and the various Alta aric seaports, Boston New York Philadelphia and Baltimore will be in some compel ttion Tor the ua1s- perta ton and eSportation of wheat
 Modern facilities are already so excel le nr that the tctal cost of transportauol oT a bishel of wheat or other small grain from Duluth, Minn., is only Il cents AL Duluth the grain is ca cried by the lightest } type of modern lavor saving apparatus, eleva tors, which load it into steamships. These stea mships for the most part mo their terminal at Buffalo There the great elevators receive the grain and py modern processes thoroushy clean anc dry it, and after that il is aut toTa lea ilN loe ded on freight cars which will haul II agrroxfmately 450 miles to the seaports- Nl-eI1 1t has arrived at the seaporfs 1T is again by modern apparatus lifted out of the freight cars, thoroughly protected and adequately stored until it can be loa ded into a tramp st lamshp by which n Ia to be transported 3OoO miles to Liver pool
 The Pennsylvania .airoad management has recently caused to be constructed al Philadelphia one of the greatest of gra Tn hard ling elevators and has done this witf . Intent to secure for -he railroad a seas enable share of transportation of grsir from Buffalo Or from Erie to Phadel- ,.hia. All railroad mana gers have gooc finders ta ndng of the fact that the move n,ent of grain from Duluth or Chicago tc he sea ports Is influenced entirely by ship ,ers. The shippers base IL cir decson or 1. the facilities offered by the railroad anc