Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-07-13 | Page 1 | Have Lost Millions

HAVE LOST MILLIONS I Kansas and Missouri Farmers Hurt Badly by the Torridity Chicago July 12 Todays advices to I tho Board of Trade and grain commission commis-sion llrms are that the heat and drought In the Southwest Is unbroken It Is said that the damage outside of Kansas nnd Missouri Is comparatively I slight but that unites there is relief within the next ten days the corn crop situation will approach a calamity A me cage from Topeka Han says the prospects an for a crop of but 50JCD000 bushels l ofcorn although last years crop was 163000000 and that of the previous year 2C70QOOOQ bushels I The 1088 of hay and potatoes nlso I creat nerond only to the loss of corn U is I estimated that the farmers of Ivanak nhd Missouri have alrelid lost 550000000 bythe torridity and drought The scorching which the grain crops I I especially corn have received together with tho destructive possibilities of further fur-ther drought was reflected exciting advances in the leading cereals on the I Board of Trade today September corn J I sold at 51c 3 cents higher than yesterdays I yes-terdays close September wheat at I 68c 3ViC higher and September oats at32c 274c higher The closing prices I were firm I