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Show THE SPECULATORS NOT IN IT. Wheat Blockade at San Francisco Crops of the Pacific Coast, Utah and Idaho. Sax Francisco, Nov. 9. Shipping men and wheat operators state that never in the history of San Francisco has there been such a large amount of tonnage in port under charter at any one time until yesterday. Sixty-nine vessels, with a registered tonnage of 115,000 tons, are diseugaged and available j for wheat carrying. The actual carrying capacity of all these vessels is 220,000 tons. Fifty-eight vessels were chartered to arrive here, the charterers agreeing to pay as high as 45 shillings per ton" to the United Kingdom, King-dom, Havre or Antwerp, and very few engagements en-gagements were made at less than 40 shillings, shill-ings, but 35 to 37 shillings is the highest rate talked of at present. Speculators will have to forfeit their charters, re-charter the vessels ves-sels at a heavy loss or load them with wheat, which at present rates in Liverpool would have to be sold at an equally heavy loss. It is reported that the prominent dealers stand to lose about $150,000 eif her way. The operators oper-ators estimate that the crop of Pacific Coast states, and Idaho and Utah, for this year will yield about 857,000 tons available for export. |