Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1894 — Wheat Coming Around the Horn [ARTICLE]

Wheat Coming Around the Horn

horning Oregonian. * -ju . The ship Reaper is loading wheat tit Victoria dock, and will probably finish today, in which case she will fctart down the river, Thursday. , *r Her destination is New York. This vessel was the first to take out a cargo of barley from this port for tthe Atlantic coast, and she is likewise the first to make a similar voyage with wheat. A great many, people have wonjdered why this cereal is being fehipped to New York, where it can jonly be sold at a loss. The reason ican be attributed to the big fire of ithe 22d of last month, when the Pacific coast elevator and its contents were burned. The Reaper was chartered by the elevator company to Itake barley to New-York, and the (grain with which she was to be loaded was in store at the elevator, iThis was destroyed by fire, and as the ship’s lay days will not permit her to wait until another cargo can be accumulated, the charterers •were forced to load her with wheat or forfeit the charter. It is probable that there is not another cargo bt barley in the country, for the big phip Iroquois, winch has a similar charter to that of the Reaper, will also load wheat for the Atlantic seaboard.