| Show THE OUTLOOK FOR WHEAT I 1 an esteemed correspondent writing from richmond cache county utah asks the following pertinent and important om editor deseret news jare are JA re you in possession of any information regarding wheat markets can you tell with any degree of certainty anything about what will be the market price this fall can you tell where our outlet will be for our surplus wheat the general impression here see seems ms to be that wheat will rule very low in price for answers to and views upon all or any of these questions the columns of the NEWS are hereby opened to all who from observation study or experience are in possession u of information that would be of value to our Ric richmond hmoud correspondent and other ineat growers and dealers throughout the mountain country we are pleased to be able to open the discussion today with the views of superintendent T 0 43 webber of Z C M I 1 an institution whose interests are so 0 varied whose experience is so ao ripe and whose sources of information are so ao numerous and far reaching that its ita utterances have come to be regarded as authority of the highest order colonel webber sayi at or about is the most moat uncertain of all times la in which to have decided ideas in regard to the probable price of wheat the average of this years yield in utah from use tue best beat in formation we can get is that it la is belter than that of ninny year and the query in ia natural as an to whether a good crop is ie not rather the product of a favorable season than from any extra care or additional labor in other words we might ask if 25 per cent more grain to ie raised la in the grower growe r as well satisfied satia fied with a lower price as he be would be without that extra sup supply ply then it if production to ia as ae abundant elsewhere and prices rule low there how can an outside market be available for thip sur surplus plue wheat has been sold in C chicago and now new york at a lower price within a week past pant than durigg any previous period of record 66 56 cents being the latest quotation per bushel it il utan was wa shipping to chicago it would cost 50 cents benta per hundred pounds by the carload or 80 cents per bushel that would only leave to the utah shipper the ridiculous price of 26 cents per bushel nor if we turn wee westward is the outlook any richer in promises wheat is quoted in san ban francisco at cents per hundred pounds it would cost from utah common points 88 38 cents per hundred freight and the sacking for that market would cost 6 cents extra so that the shipper would only realize say 29 cents per bushel or 8 cents in advance of chicago prices it if our sanpete farmers were to ship being of what are called the common points 24 cents per bushel is all they would realize a dil dilemma somma to be avoided if it can be done there lie is an obstacle also to shipping wheat which to ia worthy of notice when wheat WM was seventy five cents canta to one dollar per bushel buhel the railroads made the rate which prevails today now the pro rata la Is materially changed it if they could be induced to give a proportionate rate it would look more fair but to insist on a thirty cent per bushel rate on freight to chicago and make wheat here take a competing price of twenty six cents only to la either an anomaly in the railroads or an effectual barrier to exportation if thus completely barred from exportation por tation to is there any nearer and more profitable demand the people have been advised yearn ago to lay up grain but the condition of the labor maraat has been such that but few have means now to invest in wheat so as aa to make any special advance in price some have urged that instead of trying to export wheat at any time it should be lej fel tor lor beef mutton or pork the latter particularly has haa been suggested inasmuch as we import large quantities ot of pork hams and lard anu ana some outside farmers claim to nave have proven that such feeding will net 1 per bushel at least for or wheat moving up town we noted only today bran quoted at 86 85 cents per hundred it this was roller mills bran the price is out of calculation with its value and nd chopped or crushed wheat would be altogether more profitable and better for feed one other method of relief might be originated and systematized la in this Terrt territory tory it would be new here although familiar to all grain growing centers that la Is the erection of storage grain elevators elevator where producers could deposit their crop and so 0 o save gran granaries artes and waste these would need to be in the most central location of a county for shipping and milling the receipts issued by the elevator company would pass current fro from m hand band to hand band finally reaching the storekeeper the miller or other shipper all ane details of such an issue would have to be systematized systematize dl but with so secure a collateral ss as wheat there can be no reason why this should not be a valuable and reliable adjunct to bust ness does and convenience in 10 these dalp n w so seriously marked by the scarcity of cash the anxious farmer and the more anxious storekeeper will ill have to be patient in the interval or for a while some day when we manufacture more largely or mine again we shall have a home market which it has often been said to is the best beat market in the world Is |
