Lynchburg Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1829-185?, 1850-05-20
Total, 3,37l .3Ol IO2l73 s 534 .43

LYNCHBURG. A PM 70, 1891.
.Messrs Edhor&-The above table was cut from an
able article the grain trade he United States which
appeared in The Washington Union short time since.
send to You for publication, because The facts there
forth derived from the returns made to the British Par
lament establish beyond all question: this great truth
that this country has become the granary Of Europe not
in times Of war and famine, but during periods of low
prices. Every knows that the price of Flour and
Corn meal was low. at all the commercial marls on our
sea board during the whole of S49; the average Of the
year did not exceed five and quarer dollars per barrel
III Flour and sixty cents per bushe for Corn neal
81, dnrlng this year Of low prices the United States
sent Corn meal and Flour t., Europe than ali other
places of export, as 1888 2S4 hundred weight is to one
million SIX hundred and forty nine thousand hundred
and nifty three. When the Chrislansburo address was
published, the position there taken was that if Soufl-
western Virginia ard East Tennessee had railway tran
sit to seaport, they could furnish wheat and Indian corn
TO Europe when the pricps are low and that il
would 20 from all that region less cost than it could
be afforded from the grain exporting countries of Europe
Here, then, we have full and complete confirmation Of
The position taken by the author of that address, (Col
Charles +. NJ. Garneu.)
say the position Of the Chrstiansburg address, is
fully sustained by the returns from the British Paria-
meat say so because all men. at all acquainted with
the commerce and of the cunrv know this
he true, that the Atlantic siIpe of The United SAFES is
moi grain exporting country the contlary it very
aues'lonaole It the grain product of this region aft ds
adequate supply for the population of the cities manu-
featuring towns. and other non producing classes In
deed. believe all concur. that if the lower part of the
valley of the Mississippi where SUI and cotton are cu
tivated to the exclusion of grain, is taken into the &C
connt there be question whatever Of the fact that
the Atlantic slope of the United States does not produce
any grain for export
The question then arises, from whence the mil
lions OF bushels Of grain required produce The 1888 S4
hundred weight Of Flour and Corn meal exported to
England in l649? There can be but one answer to this
question; 1t comes from the Safes West and Northwest
OF the Ohio river, and it to very great extent
too, along the artificial lines of communication which
have been constructed from that region the north
ern cities. say 81, because find, by an examination
OF the returns of he receipts of Flour New Orleans for
le49. and delivery at Albany Of the same article via
the New York canal, that the latter greatly exceeds the
hough the canal naygabebu egh months
and ten days Of that year.
The conclusion to be deduced from these facts is this
That Southwestern Virginia and East Tennessee will II,
once become great grain expiring districts, if we will
only provide t lis grain product cheap transplrtatiun-
nat nothing else can be wanting is sefevilent. The
SOL is fertile the climate good, and well adapted TO the
culture Of wheat aud Indian corn. No man will DENY
thlS' The distance from the prs Of the Chesapeake
bay Is less by than two hundred miles measutl,r,