The grain review began with two numbers that appeared to disagree: sacks recorded at the gate and sacks weighed in the Lower Market Hall before first bell. The clerk now posts both from the same day, a small change that lets carriers and buyers describe the same route without pretending they stood in the same place.
The first comparisons showed that some sacks reached the gate before the night bell and the hall after it. That is evidence of a delay on those consignments, not proof that the lift explains every price movement. Merchants still point to a smaller harvest; the carrier chits still show loads waiting below the cliff lift.
Nella Voss says the paired board has changed the morning conversation. Buyers ask whether the number is a gate arrival or a hall weight. Merchants can answer with a record rather than a general assurance that supply is tight.
The change leaves another gap: neither book describes when a sack became available to a stall. A weight at the hall is not yet an offer to sell, and a gate arrival is not yet a sack a household can carry home.
The next review is expected to include the lift queue by bell as well as the two weights. Until then, the market has a clearer count and an unfinished explanation for the price.
