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Show WHEAT DAILY CLIMBING JN PRICE That tho wheat growers nro obtaining ob-taining a fancy price for tholr com modlty nnd that tho price probably will bo better beforo the maximum figure Is reached Is a matter of much concern these days, but when a local buyer makes a purchaso of twenty carloads of wheat at fl.25 per bushel the farmers of this section begin to set up and gazo about. G. W. Mooncb, formerly with tho Intermountuln Milling Company, now on his own responsibility as a grain buyer and dea'er In bags, has Just placed an order with tho Oregon Short Lino for twenty enrs for loading load-ing wheat as follows; Two nt Ballard Spur, six at Mondon and fourteen nt Potersboro. Por the moot of this i wheat 11.25 per bushel has been paid, j This is tho best prlco ovor obtained j for wheat in this section alnco the raising of wheat became ono of the leading Industries of Cacho Valloy. Mr. Moench says he predicted last fall that wheat would reach tho mark abovo pnld before tho decline came, but ho now says ho would not bo surprised sur-prised If It went to I1.C0 per bush-ol bush-ol although ho would not advise the furmors to bold tholr wheat for that prlco. Thero is plenty of grain hero yet, according to Mr. Moench, but ho says thero la bound to bo a short i ngo beforo tho fall crop la harvest- i oil if It continues to bo shipped out nt tho prosont rapid rato. Tho most of-tliiausrnln Is-fox exportation .jo foreign ports. |