Show If Ift I t OUTLOOK IS BRIGHTER t I Henry Clews in his recent market letter in part port says i I L I Notwithstanding some degree of irregularity late in the week recent developments in the market for f r stock exchange securities con contain conI I I tain distinct suggestion of a brighter outlook Were it not for the 1 acute strain in the political situation the financial position as a whole 1 could be considered highly satisfactory It is fundamental that the prosperity of our great country is predicated upon the new wealth produced each year by our our farms Notwithstanding Nott the unfavorable I weather early in the summer the culmination of the growing season has been so highly favorable that taking our great I crops collectively the harvests of 1910 will come very close to establishing establishing jj lishing a now new high water mark Every day that frost is delayed delaye J JI I brings the king of our crops Corn nearer the three billion bushel I mark and the danger point so far as frost is concerned has alread already Y been be passed in by far the major part of the tremendous area of our om great corn belt In other words whatever damage may now be en encountered encountered encountered countered will undoubtedly be local and an comparatively slight and andI it is not at this time counting our chickens before they are hatched hatche d df f 4 to view briefly the benefits that may be expected of a corn harvest t I that for the first time in the history of our country exceeds the three billion bushel mark Corn today is selling in Chicago at more than jt 60 50 cents per bushel on which basis the value of the crop in dollars and cents is very ery close to an almost unthinkable sum Ii 1 I exceeding the valve value of our wheat and cotton crops combined This 1 I 1 will give the west particularly a renewal of purchasing power af affecting I not only its ability to take freely the products of our factories I but will at the same time mean a large traffic for the railroads and andI an I extend to ramifications far too numerous to attempt to mention in detail Corn today enters so largely into food for man and beast that the importance of a tremendous production can scarcely be overestimated over overestimated 1 estimated Its uses for human consumption are so rapidly multiply multiplying ing that the transportation of prepared food products is each year I I gaining rapidly in importance as an item of railroad transportation r Corn too enters into the transportation problem in many indirect I 1 ways As the real basis of cattle and provisions it becomes a particularly 1 large item of transportation to say nothing b of corn itself which h j is one ono of the most bulky of railroad commodities |