The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1849-12-05
correspondence of the Miners Express.

10 the Editor Of Tie Miners Express:
SIR-ln a former letter | endeavorcd to give
you an idea of how the produce market is con-
Quoted III St. Louis-but more particularly at the
celebrated ".NNcr's Erchangc.'
With your permission, will take close view
OF the subjcct--onc that seems to me to be en-
veloped with no small share Of mystery, and |
may add, deception
In the first place, the quotations of the St..
Louis market are well calculated to mislead, if
not deceive. You see wheat quoted at 0}c. per
bushcl, to all prices below that-say 5lc., lcavnr
range of 40c. for the purchaser to run on Ap-
parently, there is nothing unfair in this; and
yet no lottery could devise a scheme better cal
culated to create favorable impression on slirht
grounds. We often prize of a large amount
advertised in a lottery scheme as a tcmpta-
ton to buy tickets, but how seldom do we
hear of any body getting it. SO it is with the
top price Of wheat in st. Louis who GETS it ::
But it is important it should be quoted to induce
the farmer to 'thrash,' and the merchant to
ship. This is what | call deception
- - iio' Iic iidllty Vi TIC afLlclc mat guides
the purchaser, but how low he can get it. This
is, to some extent cxcusablc between two ind-
viduals; but when an association, or community
conspre, as | am satisfied is done in st. Louis
for the purpose of getting article at certain
price, it becomes an injustice
In the second placc-as relates to -four and
those who have anything to do in that line, know
that there are two qualities of superior flour
manufactured in St. Louis, and designated LIST
and I'd quality, City Mills. Thissecond quality
of city-mill flour, manufactured out of an article
of wheat averaging Csc, or at most 7Oc,
per bushel, is made the criterion by which the
very best country made -four is atljudced--and
not only that, but the data. on which the highest
price paid for wheat is hypothetical! There is
certainly an I'M uSticc to country millcrs in
this, who, in most, if not all cases, buy the best
wheat in the country, whilst they are contcnding
against an article of flour manufactured from al
most the worst Such is the monopoly St Louis
exercises in the west; and such part Of the
means employed in carrying it into operation.
1t is no wonder, then, that her millcrs and her
property holders millionaircs. 1t is done by the
sweat and toll of the farmers the drudgcry, in
dustry and perseverance, of the merchandise the
North West.
Again. | ask, is there no remedy for this !?
Will the people Of the Upper Mississippi con-
tinuc to dig and dclve and sweat and toll, to ag-
Egrandize purse proud and pampcrcd city? Or
will they rather try and effect communication
with the East by means Of a rail road and
| thereby have outlet for their increasing
productions. There is nothing to hinder us, as
a people, from doing this, if we can only agree
upon it. The Chicago and Du Buquc rail road
will afford the quickest means of communica-
tion with the East; portion of which is al
ready in operation. But there is no reason to
fear that it will be turned from Du Buquc, its in
intended termination. Amy one who travels be-
You'd his own door, almost, will ascertain that
there is--will learn that there are those whose
interests, in this respect, are opposed to ours
and who are using their efforts to effect so desr-
able en- object.
Du Buquc-if she wants to become the cen
tire OF vast and increasing trade, has no time to
lose. Hcrmcrchants, her men of property, and
her citizens, generally, must exhibit better pub
lie spirit, before they can accomplish any thing.
These things are not done by uiiing or ,cishing
them. We must meet and meet and meet, and
keep meeting, until we devise measures by
which we can accomplish our views. But be-
fore we grapple with the g Iron steed, let us
take look at home. Let us begin with our har-
! Dor, and make such one as would be an induce
ment for rail road to terminate opposite to us,
or for a boat to land at. What is the condition
OF our harbor? Is it place, where any sensible
man would say after inspecting it, that it would
be a desirable spot to make the termination Of a
rail road? We, who know Du Buque, think
and believe it great place. But that will not
do. We must convince others that it is SO, and
to do this, we must exhibit the marks Of
a great place-one Of which is, an access-
bic and commodious landing. Travel up
and down this river, and there is not single
town with the exception of Du Buque, but
what you find improving, or have already i'm
proved, their landing. Kcokuk, Burlington,
Bloomington and Rock Island, SC, even Belle
vue, has done more for practical landing than
Du Buque; aye, and so has the newest wood
yard on the Mississippi. To what is this to be
ascribed? say positively, to want of that
unanlmity which is SO characteristic of U.S. If
| the City Council can't make this Improvement
out OF the islands, under the power granted
in the present charter let us have new one.
with power to levy certain tax to construct
this harbor, and to do it when it best suits. with
out reference to the interests of any, but of all.
More anon. .s.@sr IOWA
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