GEOGRAPHY OF WHEAT PRICES. 
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destined for the east and northeast. In six Atlantic and Gulf 
seaports, receipts total one-half of the wheat east of the Rockies 
entering into commercial channels. To this should be added 
about 60 million bushels of Canadian wheat and wheat flour shipped 
in bond via Atlantic ports. A dozen cities around the Great Lakes 
mill one-fourth of the total wheat flour. 
Table II. — Leading wheat markets: Receipts, shipments, and flour production, in Jive- 
year averages (1911-1915). 
[Taken from unofficial returns. Figures for some markets are incomplete; allowance must also be made 
for duplication, intermediate markets crediting themselves with through shipments, etc.] 
(In figure columns 000 omitted.) 
Wheat. 
Wheat flour. 
Wheat and wheat 
flour.i 
Principal wheat markets. 
Re- 
ceipts. 
Disposition. 
Re- 
ceipts. 
Pro- 
duction. 
Ship- 
ments. 
Re- 
ceipts. 
Ship- 
ments. 
Milled. i 
Re- 
shipped. 
EASTERN AND SOUTHERN 
SHIPMENTS. 
Primary markets: 
Minneapolis 
Bushels. 
116,056 
65,453 
(6, 828) 
58, 680 
46,549 
29,539 
8,892 
16,964 
4,433 
6,856 
2,939 
2,235 
3.194 
2,390 
Bushels. 
77,724 
4,851 
Bushels. 
34,445 
60,684 
(6,676) 
49, 222 
34,528 
22, 463 
4,861 
11,079 
3,185 
3,925 
961 
1,066 
1,140 
2,269 
Barrels. 
665 
5,274 
8,394 
193 
3,290 
3,320 
* 
1,501 
* 
696 
346 
2,363 
Barrels. 
17,272 
1,078 
Barrels. 
17, 776 
6,356 
* 
6,671 
1,929 
3,806 
3,641 
* 
1,095 
* 
168 
396 
* 
2,900 
Bushels. 
119,049 
89,186 
(6,828) 
96,453 
47,417 
44,344 
23,832 
16,964 
11,187 
6,856 
6,071 
3,792 
3,194 
13,023 
Bushels. 
114,437 
Duluth 
89,284 
(6,676) 
79,243 
43,208 
39,588 
21,245 
11,079 
8,113 
3,925 
1,717 
2,848 
1,140 
15,319 
(Canadian shipments 
in bond) 2 
Chicago 
4,694 
10,292 
5,643 
3,812 
* 
* 
6,278 
1,476 
3,298 
2,151 
* 
1,043 
2,287 
1,254 
847 
1,395 
328 
733 
478 
* 
Kansas City 
St. Louis 
Omaha 
Cincinnati 
Toledo 
Cleveland 
Detroit 
Indianapolis 
Peoria 
Total 
364, 180 
120, 219 
229, 828 
26,042 
26,715 
44,738 
481,368 
431,146 
Other markets: 
Buffalo- 
Domestic wheat 
Canadian shipments 
3 111,392 
46,497 
55,444 
24,000 
22, 694 
8,820 
21,752 
8,040 
14,273 
10,490 
18,005 
24,314 
* 
3 8, 330 
5,403 
* 
148,877 
46,497 
100,903 
28,374 
33,426 
9,706 
30,392 
8,283 
23,097 
11,768 
27,397 
* 
New York- 
Domestic wheat 
Canadian shipments 
in bond 
4,842 
4 48, 120 
10, 102 
972 
2,385 
197 
1,920 
54 
1,961 
284 
2,087 
1,076 
4 4,929 
4 70, 300 
Philadelphia- 
Domestic wheat 
Canadian shipments 
in bond 
2,826 
4 19, 445 
628 
4 1,056 
4 24, 197 
Baltimore- 
Domestic wheat 
Canadian shipments 
in bond 
* 
4 19, 950 
* 
4 930 
4 24, 135 
Boston — 
Domestic wheat 
Canadian shipments 
in bond 
* 
4 14,391 
* 
4 668 
4 17,397 
New Orleans 
* 
4 16,886 
4 3, 159 
18, 107 
* 
4 1,362 
* 218 
297 
4 23,015 
4 4, 140 
19,443 
Newport News and Nor- 
folk 
Galveston 
i9,8i8 
* 
* 
i9,818 
* No reports. 
1 Flour converted to wheat at 4J bushels per barrel. 
2 Canadian shipments in bond are in addition to other figures. 
3 Lake receipts only. 
4 Exports. 
