Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1891 — THE KANSAS WHEAT OnOP [ARTICLE]

THE KANSAS W HEAT OnOP

4*' Said to lie Practically Cornered by the Farmers •''Alliance. J. B. French, Secretary of the Kansas State Alliance, says that the Kansas Affiance has completed arrangements by which it will handle three-fourths of the Kansas wheat crop of 50,000,000 bushels. Arrangements have been made to store a t least half of the,crop in the big elevatorin Kansas City, Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore and other large cities for an indefinite period, or until the own* ers desire to sell. Arrangements have been made in the East to secure an advance on the wheat stored of 75 per cent, of the present value of wheat. This new movement by the Alliance practically corners the Kansas crop.