Wheat Growing in the Pacific States. 



shipping point in sacks, is run through an elevator, where 

 it is re-cleansed and mixed with other grades to bring it to 

 the required standard, after which it is re-sacked and loaded 

 on the vessels or cars for final shipment. 



About 30 per cent, of the wheat raised in the Pacific Coast 

 section — or some 20,000,000 bushels — is usually consumed 

 in the same county in which it is grown, the remainder 

 being sent to various miils throughout the country or exported 

 abroad. The average amount annually exported is 27,450,000 

 bushels ; the principal ports of shipment are San Francisco. 

 Portland, and the two Puget Sound ports, Tacoma and Seattle 

 About half of this is cleared from San Francisco. Some 

 2,coo,ooo barrels of flour have also been annually shipped 

 during the past ten years, nearly one-half from San 

 Francisco. The Puget Sound ports have been rapidly 

 coming to the front as shippers of grain and fluur, but more 

 especially the latter, and in 1900 they shipped as much flour 

 as San Francisco, from which city the exports of flour have 

 been practically stationary for nearly twenty years. 



Reducing the barrels of flour to their equivalent in wheat, 

 it appears that foreign markets are annually supplied with 

 about 36,000,000 bushels of wheat from these Pacific States, 

 the amount sent from the Oregon and Puget Sound ports 

 having- increased rapidly, and at the expense of wSan 

 Francisco, which shipped a considerably smaller quantity in 

 1891-1900 than in 1881-90. The total quantity of wheat and 

 flour (as wheat) exported does not show very much advance 

 over the previous decade, so that the greater portion of the 

 increase in production appears to have been required locally 

 to meet the needs of the growing- population. 



