Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1849-07-26


OENTLEMEN-ln reply to your letter: The portion o
Inc keysors bill, In relation inspection laws was un
der consideration last week. and after much discussion
was adopted In furm adverse your wishes and as il
opponents conceive to the interests Of extensive sec
ilon OF Virginia. As the bill passed the House of Dele
gates, provides that all F par ported from Virginia il
vessels" shall be subject Inspection and that al
Hour manufactured within the State shall be inspected
there be convenient place Of inspection" The resul
Of This aw is to impose inspection upon all flour manufac
tnred upon The James River and its tributaries, because
must be exported in ''vesses whilst it relieves from
specon all the Four manufactured in the Valley of lr
giaia, and sent by Rail Rood to Ba timore which a
mounts TO 23O.DOO barrels about one fourth the
portaion from Virginia. Ituoreove exempts the whole
Of The flour which may be exported from the tributaries
OF the one as there but place Of inspection, west
If the Alenhany mouUtans and that place Wheeling
IS not convenient 70 the section in which heat is grown
The Roanoke country, from Danve down tx bemarle
sound has M convenlen; place of nSpec ion, and the
Savannah and Charleston Rail Roads continue attract
the Wheat Of South Western Virginia. the Flour,
ufactured IL that sectiun, may also prefer route upon
which there is no inspection.
! II Will TINS be seen, that there is but extensive
section OF Virginia subjected compulsory inspection,
and that is the section trading down james river. The
law is hereforefre, unequal in lis operations So far as
the pcy fthe Safe cJncrrned it is nugatory, for II
Inspection be necessary II sustain the character Of the
Flour manufactured in Virginia Ihen that character
non escapes Inspection Ii the inspection, before export
ing the -four coaswse, be unnecessary, then should
he abolished charge upon production. Indeed the
whole system Of compulsory inspection seems useless ,ex
cep, a cert fcate of weight and quality between
buyer aud seller and where every city in the Union has
lis inspection laws. to which Flour must confirm, the do
ste inspection an unnecessary charge and ought TO be
abolished. That the guarantee of honest manuac
lures cnsiss in the reputation Of the manufacturers is
proved by tn manufacture of Tobacco This has grown
10 he most lnprant branch Of manufacturing, and the
reputation Of pirgnie manufactured Tobacco is higher
than any ia the world without any inspection whatsoever
either at home abroad SO with nanufacues Of every
description. hat guarantee has purchaser, that pere
1T MataWan, on Manchester dOmescS contains the mum
Der yards represented by its stamp or that clock,
manufactured in New England, contains its complement
Of wheels? None except that FIR the patry gain of de-
crpton. the manufacturer would ncdr loss OF character
by which he would lose infinitely So with the
business OF milling: the reputation Of brand IS Of great
value, nor ran 1t be sustained without honesty and skill
L think that the qualify of Virginia flour depends up
on fact, 10 which YOU have adverted. 1t consists
in the character If Virginia Wheat 1t has been shown
that the componeut5 Of this wheat differ from that grown
North; that 1t contains constituents in proportions more
favorable to nutrition than other wheat and that it will
resist the influences of Southern climate better than
Nurthtrn wheat The fact has been esobshedby the ex
perence OF all connected with the fl UT trade that the
NiTgina -four will keep in Southern climate. To cite
illy tVlueice al manu- mat SUCH - tHe gtueIdl
lief, quote from the petition Of William Bayard and
others, asking aid from the Federal Government to
>;rnct Ran Road to the Pacific As argument that
such work will be Of great value to the West it is
stated singular fact, the for which has not
been explained that only the Flour of The Richmond,
Virginia, Mills, can be sent around Cape Horn in toll
erable state of preservation. The whole flour of the
Miss ssipp Valley, and especially from that portion Of
tour country with lines base will sour in the voy
age, and, iii be used in this deleterious form, it is al
"mos sure to engender disease" Now, the cause of
this singular fact is established, either directly infer
entay t. consist in the physical composition Of the V
gina wheat II has been directly proven, by analysis
il has been directly proven by experiment. because the
mills of he District Of Columbia, hiding Virgil wbea,
manufacture an article that keeps in the Southern
ketS; whilst the Northern mills manufacturing prncp pal
~ Northern wheat cannot make article that will keep
In Southern market. 1t established nferentIay that
the quality of our wheat gives the reputation the Vr
GINA Flour because there could be such superiority in
the Virginia manufacturer, that the North, that some
mill in the North. could not equal. There is no perfec
ton OF human skill; there is process dependent on hu
man attention that the citizens of the Northern
States cannot attain Their mariners undercarry all
tions-their manufactures are competing with many of
the Oldest established fabrics Of European manufacturers.
They have established reputation for energy, inre
gencc and success beyond any people carth and is it
probable that they would not equal any miller in the
of -four, if the reputation of the article de-
pended skill in grndlng excellence Of machinery, or
abundance Of water power They would spare
pense IN providing themselves with every thing TO
10 employing the very mlers elsewhere and
copying the machinery empoyed-whch machinery they
in all probability have made. The supply Of the North
ern flour market is of nralculable importance to them
Is then probable that The peculiar skill ofhe Richmond
miller the Projections of his machinery the advantage
OF his water power, is tine secret ct superior reputation OF
his flour in the Northern market2 This cannot be-
Much Of his machinery has been made no doubt, OF
Northern materials put up by Northern mechanics: nor
is 1t probable under existing competition these mills
should, under every administration, have sustained
higher reputation than any others in the United States
Upon the supposition, however. that they alone have
ground the Wheat of Eas jern Virginia for more than
halt century, and have from the quantity of -four
the Southern market established their brand as one
which will keep. 81 that the Richmond brand is in
fact, guarantee of Virginia wheat-the whole dfcul-
~ vanlshes and the cause, which is regarded neXp
cabes shown to be that the quality of the wheat, which
grows Southern country, adapted 10 endure the in
furious influences of Southern climate In this theory
there is no disposition deract from the merit Of the
milers. They make good article Of flour, and they
give character tie Richmond Inspection; the Rich
mOnd Inspection does not give character 10 The Richmond
flour Ii the inspection gave character to the flour, then
Gny flour, inspected by them, would be accredited in the
Southern aket, which is not the case Those mills have
acquired their reputation because they grind more Virgin
Wheat than any others and because they have establish
ed an intercourse with the Southern markets, which
no mills in the interior have done. The Richmond Mill
owe their reputation principally to the that
has given reputation to the Virginia manufacture Of 70
tacco-the superior character OF the staple employed
Ii the reasoning employed in this letter has been correct
there is an advantage in the quality Of Virginia Wheat
which should be made available TO the grower. This can
of course be only done by securing compe lion between
a. e IL. l.