Lincoln County times. (Jerome, Idaho) 1911-1919, 1917-09-06
WHEAT AT 1920 PER BUSHEL
This Is the Price Fixed by the Wheat
Committee, for No. 1 Northern
Wheat
The Price Not at all Satisfactory u
the Farmers of the Northwest.

Tie II hlIntfs VI tiic NoItiMtot.
After deliberating for several days
fix fair price on the 1917 wheat
crop, concluded their deliberations
last Thursday. and announced that
the price OF No. / northern wheat
delivered at Chicago. would be $2.2O
per bushel. The same price will
prevail at Galveston and New Or
leans, which are named as basic
points. Omaha and Kansas City Will
be cents less New York 8 Cents
more. This is the price at which the
government will purchase the crop
for its own use and for export to the
allies.
The announcement OF the price
comes far from meeting the aprov-
al OF the farmers of the northwest,
who believe that Portland should
have been named as "a terminal point,
as most OF the wheat from this sec
tion finds d market at that point. AS
will be noted the price ismade for No.
l northern wheat. OF which Idaho
produces not pound. and It is stated
that the price for Idaho wheat Will
be several cents less. To this must
be added the freight charges or 81
cents per hundred to Chicago. and
leaves a very small margin for the
Idaho farmer, and the fact that the
1918 price as made by congress Is
sill lower, IL gives very little induce
ment for the Idaho farmer to put in
a crop OF wheat next year.
The dispatches quote some OF the
farmers of the northwest as refus
ing to sell at the price named, beliey
ing there is more money to be real
ized in feeding the wheat to stock.
At this writing the elevators a
Jerome refuse to make any price fol
wheat. awaiting instructions from
those higher up. Thousands OF bush
els OF the new crop are now In tn
elevators awaiting the fixing OF
price for the same.
There will be strenuous effor
made to have Portland and Seattl
named as receiving points. believing
II this is done the farmers OF tn
4. H., rt.a
footing with his neighbors In tn
eastern and middle western states
Mondays dispatch to the Statesman
says
"WASHINGTON. D. C.-Senato
Borah will take up with Presiden
Wilson and Food Administrator Hoo
yer the question of having Portlan
and Seattle established as primar
wheat markets at which the 191
price of $2.2O shall apply.
"The senator argues that whea
from the northwest does not move {
Chicago. butw estward through mort
Pacific coast ports. Further. he oil
jects to having the Chicago price ap
ply on Idaho and other northwester
wheat, as northwest farmers will ge
not the Chicago price. but S2.20 les
freight to Chicago. or price som'
where about Sl9S II the so 2
price applies at Portland and Seattl
farmers of the Inland Empire Will ~
higher price than they would und,
the original plan. because freight
less to the Pacific coast than to Oh
cago. Borah will insist that as tn
northwestern wheat all goes to II
Pacific coast. il is unfair to apply II
Chicago price less the freight rate
Chicago. In this he has the co-ope
alton OF Senator McNary of Orego
who is working to have Portland de
ignated as the northwestern primal
market"
To sum the whole matter up, Il
farmers in general are about as mut
at sea as ever, and will await Il
result of the protests that are goiI
into Washington against the action
the wheat committee.