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" THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: OCTOBER 1, 1916.
Omaha Forges to Front as One
- of Nation's Greatest Grain Marts
t Predictions Hade That City
win Soon Pass Any Point
. Jn Land as Primary
i Market.
NIW EEOOED THIS TEAS
1 Thl. Trmr. Tmrt Yar.
Whal JMHIMOO is.417.jih
Can n,M:,m S4.sss.sns
OsU .S"MI ll.OM.ll
Kj. ........ 051,100 1,178,000
Balis? 5SS.80S 544,400
TatalS ......S4.097.10S 1MM.M
Th. 1m)t taMo show la .tMhel. th.
quantity of grain iMrired on the Omihi
markM dnriac that portion of thl. rear np
to a WHk at, and for tb whole jmt
of UU.
. Ai t primary grain market Omaha
is making a record this year. In fact,
it has about made a record, and three
months of the year remain. Long be
fore the end of that time the receipts
on the sales, has found its way back
to the farmers pf Omaha trade terri
tory. Last year the total corn receipts
were 20,219 carloads ,6r 24.262,000
bushels. Of course, the receipts so
far are behind the total of last year
by 6,880,800 bushels, but with more
than three months remaining and the
corn shipping season not yet com
menced, it is freely predicted that a
new record will be established long
before January 1, 1917.
Oats Outlook Favorable. .,,
When it comes to oats, the portion
of this year that has passed is behind
the whole of)ast year to the extent
of 918 carloads, or 1,674,300 bushels.
Grain dealers assert that this handi
cap is one that is going to be over
come before the end of December,
and that so far as oats are concerned
1916 is going to be the record-breaking
period. '
This year the oats have netted the
will pass those of any former year, I farmers good returns, ine average
Jll llC llHO UEUl ' M-lllO p.. u HOI. 1, J I
a total of $3,565,500 for the portion
it is almost a certainty.' Long before
the close of the year, if the grain con-
tinues to come at the rate set two
months ago and that still continues,
as a primary market it will pass any
of the other markets of the country.
: A primary grain market, ' be it
known, is one to which 'the receipts
' come only from its trade territory,
j For this reason Omaha is not in the
! class with Chicago and Minneapolis,
I they each receiving large quantities of
I grain, not only from their trade terri
I tories, but frern other markets. How-
aver, while Omaha is not expected to
get within reaching distance of Chi
cago this .year, it is in a lair way to
pass Minneapolis, Kansas City and
St. Louis.
., Figures for Nine Months.
; i During Die nine momns oi inc year,
f or to be more exact, for the period of
I the present year and up to Saturday
night of last week, Omaha from its
l trade territory received 43,264 carloads
of grain, as against 41,814 carloads
during the whole of the year 1915.
J The receipts for the period from
' the beginning of the present year, up
;.to and including last Saturday, in
i bushels were 54,697,100, as against 53,.
,498,500 during the. whole of 1915. In
I other words, the total receipts so far
! this year have been 1,198,600 bushels
more than the total receipts for last
J year, and they are pretty close to the
1 receipts of 1914, the banner year in
; the history of the Omaha gram -mar-
The total Brain receipts for 1914
were 66,464,100 bushels. The receipts
of this year are already only 1,767.000
bushels behind the record year. There
remain more than three months in
which to reach out toward the record
year, and as the receipts so far this
year have averaged better than 4,000,
000 bushels per month it is pretty cer
tain that the recora win oe passca
long before the end of October, and
; greatly exceeded when the corn crop
j commences to move during November
and December. ,
- Bumper Corn Crop.
.' This year the Omaha . trade territory
; has the greatest corn crop ever raised
" and it is predicted that the high prices
, being paid, and which are expected to
! continue, will start corn to moving
.- pretty freely as soon as the husking
' season starts during the latter part of
.' October, reaching its maximum in.No
, vembef. ' t J ? ' ' '
, , While Omaha hat set a new record
" ui the matter of receiving and han-
dling grain during the nine months Of
! this year, it has done something else.
Omaha as a grain market has" paid out
- and turned back to the farmers of its
' trade territory 'in 'ound numbers $59,
i'iKUIO, as against about $50,000,000
during the whole of last year. , v
Figures Are Staggering."
For a man who does not juggle
with large sums of money, it is dif
ficult to realiie what such an enor-
mous amount means: " Getting down
' to details, it means this: During the
; eight months, and a little more than
, a half of another month of this year,
wheat on the Omaha market aver-
aged a little better than $1.25 per
bushel, but . for convenience sake, it
i is figured at:. the figure indicated.
During thi time, 22,375 carloads of
! wheat, averaging 1,200 bushels per
car came to the Omaha market. This
. mint 26.846.400 v bushels, and in
( round numbers, it sold for $33,556,-
i 75a Aside from the carrying cnarges
j and commissions, ' this much money
went back to' the farmers in return
I f nr thr wheat. , , '.
) . During the whole of last year the
( wheat receipts were 13)731 carloads,
1 or 16,477,200 bushels.
1 Fiiurea on Com.
f So far this year the corn receipts
are below the total of last year, but
Y the next three months will bring
I them up, and by the end of the year
i they will have passed any corre
' sponding period. During the eight
. and one-half months of 1916 the
Omaha corn receipts have aggre
v gated 14,485 carloads, figuring corn
on the basis of 1,200 bushels to the
car, which is the universal rule. But
even this is some corn, it aggregat
' ing 17,382,000 bushels. This corn has
; been sold at an average of 70 cents
per bushel, or in round numbers, $12,
" 167,400; all this money, barring the
freight "charges and the commission
of the crop coming ' to the Omaha
market. ,
Omaha has never beln a big rye
and barley market, probably due to
the fact that wheat raising has
brought better returns to the fanners
in the trade territory. Considerable
of the two classes of grain, however,
reaches here. , -
During 1816 Omaha handled 501
carloads of rye, or 551,100 bushels.
It sold lit an average of $1 per bushel,
or a total of $551,100. Di- '" the en
the year of 1915, the receipts were
980 carloads, or 1,176,000 bushels.
When the present year closes it is
possible, that the rye receipts will be
found to be below those of 1915.
.New Record for Barley. .
This year is going to establish a
new record on barley receipts, for,
already 382, carloads, or 526,800 bush
els have come to market, as against
391 carloads, or 544,400 bushels, for
the whole of last year. Barley during
this year has sold at an average of
70 cents per bushel, bringing a total
of $.168,760. , - ; ,
While receipts have been enormous
in connection with all kinds of grain,
the shipments have been correspond-
'. tllC.V I EIIIOII1IIIM III IIUI'
age in the Omaha elevators out 3.264,
000 bushels at the beginning of busi
ness last Monday morning, when
the chief of the warehouse bureau
submitted his weekly report to the
Omaha Grain exchange.
The Omaha Grain exchange has
kept pace with the growth of the
Omaha grain business, and during
the period of the year already past.
practically all the space in the $250,
000, eight-story building, situated at
Nineteenth and Harney streets, h.a
become occupied. Grain men, indi
viduals and firms connected with the
grain trade, occupy all of the build
ing above the first floor, and al
though the exchange has been In the
building less than a year, there is
beginning to be tome talk of the
necessity of more room in which to
carry on the business., ,
SOLDIERS WHO GOME
' OF FIGHTING STOCK
Eentnakians on Mexican Bor
der Lire Up to Reputation of
Being Some Fighters.
TRAINED ON RIFLE RANGE
El Paso, Tex., Sept. 30. In the
great army of guardsmen from all
states scattered along the Mexican
frontier, there is one .regiment that
stands apart from the rest by reason
of its individuality. The others are
more or less of the same mold, with
the same manners, speech, slang,
songs and jokes. But the Second
Kentucky infantry goes its own
quaint way, unaffected by rag-time,
fox trots, vaudeville jokes and sen
sations of the Sunday supplements.
"In no other regiment could you
see a thing like this," said one of the.
officers. "A long-legged, long-armed,
lanky sentry, swinging his rifle from
a shoulder, squirrel hunt fashion,
while with his free hand he held a
testament, which he read to himself,
with a weather eye on the colonel's
tent he was ordered to guard."
Takes Things Seriously.
The idea that military regulations
would interfere with his devotional
duties never entered the head of the
sentry, the officer explained, adding
that he had in the sentry a soldier
of old fighting stock, who took his
call to arms in the same seriousness
as he took his religion.
The Second Kentucky is encamped
with the Kentucky brigade on the
sagebrush plains back of Fort Bliss,
six miles from El Paso. Its rows of
ihiki tents and other externals are
quite like those of any other well reg
ulated camp. But, approaching the
lines, the stranger is likely to be sur
prised by a cordial greeting .from the
entry to come in and make himself
at home. It is the old tradition of
mountain hospitality.
From Fighting Families.
Officers of this command say that
no other regiment in .the service can
show a muster roll of men whose
Americanism goes back two . cen
turies. Colonel Allen W, Gullion, a
Kcntuckian and West Pointer, trans
ferred from the Twentieth United
States infantry, affirms also that no
guard regiment boasts so many old
regulars. Soldiering comes natural
to the natives of the Cumberland!,
accustomed to bearing arms from
boyhood, and brought up in the fight
ing tradition. , . .
' No squirrel, no breakfast," still Is
a fact, and not a joke with many of
these mountaineers when at home,
' This accounts for the excellent
shots the men become after getting
used to the high-powered army rifle.
They can hit moving targets, which is'
a thing that soldiers, trained on the
rifle range fall at.
The mountaineers brought with
them the reputation of gun fighters
that It not aitogetner pleasing to
them. It it true that many of the men
come of families celebrated for
feuds. But the feudists belong to the
older generation, before "moonlight"
schoots carried readingwriting and
new ideals to the mountains. The sons
of the feudists are interested only
in being good soldiers of Uncle Sam
and of honoring the Kentucky brig
ade. :
Business-like Men.
They are a quiet, business-like lot
of men, these mountaineers, good na
tured, but with a large intermixture
of seriousness. At night they gather
around log tires and sing hymns in
low tones, with one of their number
at evangelist. v Whenever they come
together, their speech is quaint with
Elizabethan words and pronuncia
tions, including the ancient pronoun,
"hit" for "it
Relations between olficers and men
are so friendly that one officer, used
to the discipline of the regulars, said
they were too much so. But there
is scarcely an officer who can not
claim kinship in the ranks. So, after
all, they are in a way one large
faThe'men say they enjoy soldiering
and have no compairrts to make not
even against the climate.
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