Western news and the Libby times. [volume] (Libby, Mont.) 1920-1933, 1932-01-14
NORTHWEST CARRIES OVER
SMALLEST SURPLUS OF HISTORY

SPOKANE-Surplus wheat stocks in
the Pacific northwest will be the small
est at the end of the present mid year
of any time in the history of this re-
gion-
Grain men stressed the northwest
position of wheat as all the more re-
markable because the new crop season
last July was entered with a carryover
from the previous season of 100000
bushels, double the carryover of nor
NAL years.
This carryover and the 1881 wheat
crop of the Pacific northwest belt with
Montana arrivals, combine to form the
imposing wheat picture of 83,150,O00
bushels out of which there remained
as of January l, 1882 only 1O,754,12l
bushels.
ssThat is all the wheat there remains
in the region to work on the next
seven months for export and for all rail
Shipments east Therefore, we feel Chat
by that time the next crop is available
for movement, our surplus will be the
smallest ever known on the Pacific
coast" commented Henry w. Collins,
Portland, vice president in charge Of
the Pacific coast division of the Farm
ers' National Grain corporation, in a
grain surplus survey embracing the
foregoing data, made public this week
by Albert c. Adams, general manager
and treasurer of the North Pacific
Grain Growers.
The belief was expressed in grain
circles this surplus may be whitfield
down half or two-thirds by the time
the 1882 crop starts to move.
The Washington 1881 crop was 49,
5O0,000 bushels; the northern Idaho
crop 100000 bushels, and the Oregon
crop, 100000 bushels Montana wheat
arrivals were 2.45O,OO0 bushels.
The tabulation gives total 1881 crop
for Washington, northern Idaho and
Oregon of 100000 compared with q
normal for this territory of around 3d.
100000.
The report sets total wheat and flour
shipments to date this season at &c.
036,413 bushels. including 8,063, 031
bushels shipped on the $4,000 900 bushel
sale to the Chinese government for
flood relief purposes
Listing the remainder to be shipped
on the Chinese sale at 6,813,966 bushels;
wheat sold but not shipped to Cali
fornia by Farmers National Grain COR
poration at GAS, 500 bushels, and by
others at 100000; and estimating Cali
fornia requirements for the remainder
of the season at 3,5O0,OO0 bushels and
home feed and seed requirements at
q, 100000 bushels, the table indicates
a definite consumption Of 1885, 1873
bushels out of the 99,15O,0O0 bushel
supply for the season.
Of the total shipments already made
on the Chinese sale, 4,864,962 bushels
have been shipped as wheat, and 3d.
198,069 bushels as flour.
Exports to California this season
where a short crop in the southwest
belt increased the demand for Pacific
northwest wheat, already have totaled
8,376,253 bushels, of which 5,783,319
bushels have been shipped as wheat
and 2,592,934 as flour.
Wheat shipments to Europe and the
orient to date are set at 1858, 795
bushels, while flour shipments to all
foreign countries and to Hawaii and
Alaska are set at 1,251,2O7 barrels or
5,421 1897 bushels.
The unusually large California de-
mand together with the federal farm
boards wheat sale to the Chinese gov
eminent are indicated as largely re-
sponsible for the shrinkage in the wheat
supply now existing in the Pacific
northwest