Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — Few-Line Interviews. [ARTICLE]

Few-Line Interviews.

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has been making a study of the domestic and foreign demand for wheat this year, and in view of crop estimates which experts have made looks for rising prices. When asked for a statement of the crop pros-, pects and the probable prices of agricultural products during the present year, the Secretary said: “The outlook for good prices was never better. We have a shortage in the American wheat crop this year which will probably amount to 100,000,000 bushels. This alone would serve to make the present yield more valuable. There are additional reasons, however, which incline me to believe that wheat will make a marked advance before the end of the present year. 'l’he prima y cause for an advance is the condition and outlook of the home market. Our home market is and will continue to be the greatest wheat market imjhe world. This year the demand for the grdnt bulk o' our crop is at home. The consumption of •tpeat and wheat flour in this country in 1804 fell to 3.41 bushels per inhabitant. In 1896 it increased to 4.78, and ! .n 1898 it was 5.21. while last year it increased to 595 bushels per capita. This year the consumption of wheat per capiti will go abo r *e last year and probably will be nr-.rer seven than six bushels. E. M. Jackson of Chicago said to a Washington Post reporter: “The desire among young men to go west and grow up with the country is not so strong as it once was. In fact, western young men show a decided inclination to travel eastward. This is probably due to a belief that larger prizes are to he gained in the more thickly populated eastern States. New York City, with its supposed multitudinous opportunities for acquiring wealth and fame, offers especially strong temptation for ambitious western men who feel well equipped for the race. Chicago attracts men, it ; a true, from every part of the Union, bul. it lacks that fascination the eastern metropolis has." Baron Fava. Ital'an ambassador to the United States, sa/s of the new king: “King Victor Emmanuel HI. Is popular, eapecially iu Naples, his birthplace. His accession to the Vhrone will have the immediate effect of putting down any revolutionary spirit /hat may exist." Kenneth J. .iinsiey, rt'l’ittsburg seww pipe manufacturer, tolls of success in Mexico: “Th re is an opening for American capital there in many other lines. The Government encourages the investment of foreign capital, and property is as secure as anywhere in the States. We formerly 'manufactured sewer pipe In Pennsylv. nia and shipped it to Mexico, but we-*.ound it would l>e much more profitab' - to send American machinery there a.'.d erect a plant, and we now have « flourishing industry.”