Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-10-30
OMAHA BREAKING
OWN GRAIN RECORD
Nine Months Record This Year
Eclipses Twelve Months
of Last Year.
PREDICT 100000 Blu.

Omaha received more bushels OF
grain in the first nine months of this
year than it received in all the twelve
months of 1915,
At the close of SEPTEMBER the re-
ceipts in bushels were $3.50, lao, while
the entire year of 1915 brought in but
53,S55,SoO.
Judging from the volume of grain
raised in Nebraska this year, it is
probable that the grain receipts for
Omaha will approximate 75,000,000
bushels this year
The receipts in the month of Sep
TENDER alone ran practically so per
cetn ahead of the receipts of the
previous September. There were
4,540,20 bushels in September, 1915,
and 6,7s8,200 bushels in September,
1916.
The first nine months of the pres
ent year brought in 47,l43 carloads of
grain, as against 1880 the first nine
months of the previous year.
Wheat's. Big Grain.
The biggest gains in receipts were
made in wheat. In the period of the
first nine months of 1915, 7,436, 400
were received, and in the parallel per-
iod this year, 27,63O,840 bushels were
received.
TIE receipts in oats in the past
! September were alone 100 per cent
greater than the receipts of Septem-
Der year ago.
Oats, too, runs far ahead in re-
ceipts for the spending nine
months period. The figures are:
-. Bushels.
First nine months for 1915. 49, s2, 800
The receipts in corn this year have
thus far not gone as high, as for the
same period last year, but with the
large crop of corn now being gathered
in the state, and the high price being
offered, it is expected that the re-
ceipts will come up rapidly as soon
as the weather gets cold enough to
make. corn shell good.
Rates Retard Growth. =
Thus Omaha is constantly leaping
forward as great primary grain
market, in spite of the disadvantage
Of railroad rates. Omaha has thus
become great grain market in spite
of the rates, not on account of them.
Kansas City and Minneapolis still
have all the better of Omaha in the
grain rate DETERMINATIONS. This is
true to such an extent that very large
quantities of the grain grown in the
southern part of this state, which
should normally belong to this mar
ket, goes regularly to Kansas City,
while much of the grain raised I'M
northern Nebraska goes through to
Chicago and Minneapolis when it
logically belongs IN Omaha.
In shipping out grain through Kan
sas City to the south, it costs Oma-
ha dealers 5 cents more than Kansas
City dealers to compete for the south
ern business In shipping grain north
to Minneapolis, it only costs Kansas
City cent more than Omaha.
One Big Felter. -
Thus, according to the logic of rail
way rates, it is worth 5 cents to ship
grain to Kansas City, but only worth
cent to ship from aKnsas City to
Omaha.
q A day of reckoning is at hand, how
ever, for the grain men here are
starting a case against the roads. In
November a special examiner will be
here from the Interstate Commerce
commission to take evidence on the
big case that is coming up. Many
grain men will tell what they know
about the righteousness OF grain
rates in this section, and when the
Interstate Commerce commission gets
those transcripts it will have some
thing of interest to ponder over.
Ed. p Smith is. preparing the case