Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1881 — Wheat from North Dakota. [ARTICLE]

Wheat from North Dakota.

The following figures are official: The receipts of wheat at Duluth from the line of the Northern Pacific railroad, from Sept ember to December, were: September, 785,000 bushels, in-* eluding 412 000 No. 1 hard, and 242,000 No. 2; October, 747,000 bushels, of which 77 1-10 per cent, was No. I hard: November, 525,000 bushels, of which 87 per cent, was No. 1 hard; December, 606,000 bushels, of which 88 per cent, was No. 1 hard. at Minneapolis during the same time, over the Northern Pacific road, were 280,000 bushels. The grand total of North Dakota wheat shipped by the ' Northern Pacific road was 2,796,000 bushels, of which over 80 per cent. , was the best quality grown. Massachusetts, has been, since 1874, engaged in. establishing a ten-hour law, for manufacturing establishments. Until recently employes have been able to evade the law, but labor reformers kept on amending the law and have at last succeeded in making it effective. ■