The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1863-12-19

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1 shs stresss 81 the wess-side clties nfsn.
| arisk sissscrs slslra 5sast ald fkfng
lhouyes rlysssf ia md are bssiit ID receive,
a. IA faalh employed to ham
die The graln. pork. - Merchants and
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goods 80 ~ass Assd shs assimn i de.
Esnaaa Id 10 exsrniae fhisskiils Sseasss-
fns lines enaar INTO eolnpeaitiom, s5slsl
shss zailroads 10 freishas anooe ahairsrss-
ssla 40 slzs lsVee aad ~sAahliNh aaheiraeenr
oses intths oity. - thsseE fhilfoads hass
bsen extefeled whaAMasa thoss eiaias hsrs|
inrseaspi How will itbe With cousail
Blafsha Let assss6s ffeFsssha pfodnosng
eonnssy III emit ii, tho Bfaasoasi riser. asaai
5shsiiharket afss o6 rissanA asill reanaial 20
fsr nasny yeasss A laiae raicez u grain.
asaar es5 - hsa distance
1 esal spae shes isaien tysi. 10 "a theyI
aincaaae - II Y .sfeassr ratio.
owing 90 ths nsQrn expensiye aaods Ofl
transporeatiou.w ais she Iissanoe. wssfssri
/, fmasshs point Nss very many aars To-
come. the pfoaauction Of food west ii. the
I, Aizseuriwii he sltosesher.ina deqnata to
4 the depAnd inased. fpr tea o. aftAenI
I. ysars as lssss almoesiths ealirs tenaanxl
3 must be supplied from east Of s1he Mis-
sosri. II il hardly possible that blae pro
( ductions Of tho entire State sE iowa. will
be sufficient to satisfy this demand. and
! therefore confidently predict. that tbs
/ lday s-iill come. when aour and pork will
be sransportedfrof2 Illinois 80 the States
tnf Colorado and Idaho. Do the pork-
ltpackers and naillers ut Council Bluff
tsssn now, lock 20 the teastwardfora mar
kAp7 No. FAT least nine tenths Of the
pork, bsse6n, harms and lard frsm the fif
teen or twenty thousand hogs slaughtsFsd
here curing the present. season, wiz ss6o
/ west. Why III il thatswilils wheat brings
bbut IS TO 90 cents per baslel, four sslls
Fat three dollars per hundred poun.dss
Because Che demand from he wesf largely
exceeds the supply! The scarcity or mills
Egives to their propfietors monopoly In.
the purchase of wheat, hence their profits
i Of one hundred per cent, astd sp,saras.. =
viii capitalists long renaain blind To so
h profitable i fed for iHvsstments When
, -four sens for three dollars per hundrgd
sgpiduntis wheat is worth at least 81 90 per
!. bushei. rtwiffnot be long before We shall
have in Council Bluff. not only one, but
sevsral extensive Touring mills. Opera,
tors in this city do not look to an East
: ward market 70 make sales, and hence
the market rates herr are not controlled
: in any degree BY those Of Eastern cities.
4, The rate paid for hogs in Chicago is not.
more than one cent per pound above that
) paid in this city. Certainly the pork
could not be transported 10 that city for
one cent per pound. Indeed 10 The
cost of barrels and salt, the difiergnee is
greater than in the rates Tor the hogs, so
| 'hai . barrel Of pork in The hands of the
i packer here, costs hun as much - one in
the hands OF the packer in Chicago
Butter sells for more to-day in this mar
ket than IN Chicago, While the price
Eof flour is about six dollars per. barrel,
IF say three dollars per hundred there
The. same ~ it 10 here. the price of wheat
is from $l,Os to $I.I5 per bpshel, or more
than twice what il ID here. Potatoes sell /
there for about forty cents per. bushel
less than they do here BY any present.
available mode of conveyance, corn vail
not .bear, transportation from this section
Of country, hence, its market rate is gov |
arned by the rates for live stock. Thee
facts are stated uaereiy to show Ihae ar |
readv, the market for the productions of
Western Iowa. r. Hest OF tho Missouri
liver. While from the railroad points on
the mississippi tire great pFeponderance
of'sfeights tie lNasstwat4i, yet rhkrk Is
a large amount of xuiefehautiise bf0arilt |
Westward Here, At t3sel sgreat central.
tAing poiast sonsathe Missouri ~ 81 riean
here az cpuacit Bluff, the point ~ con-
'necsion wish3tbesiireSt liise OF the PA
eific 'FaIlFoadi att' kas;yretgAts-- .stodacs,
'nerrbaha1ae notwithstanding possibly
1--we ts1ekana weol, viii come from the
Ind taad bstaAFied westward. Trsias sill
come loaasd from the iEasts and posbacg
l n 80 Z 80 IL