The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-01-09

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sosl lo s1sa probabilities Of the fulfl-
fin lisaz s III u rreza IONS made therein, rel.
I affsJ ts he 1lafs 1re of this city. Ali ap-
pessr III aerss With my views HI regards
l 1hs Il 90 Ion at slsis foiNs Of IS aas
i three 6f the great railroads which age nos
1 stretching from fiie MEssissipM river
Iacross this State, and they eoHrede Ehat
tire Platte Waller road from st JOSEPH.
/ No. To klsis place must OF necessity be
completed. III have eoEyegsaA nth Those
who doubt THAT Council Bluhs Is to be-
come tile great commercial mart on the
Missouri, ahsvc Sk Louis, but they have
heea,. generally, residehfBef our neigh
lhof5na d Ey aefpss the Missouri. The az
Ignnaerlt presented by them, has haer.
| that as along tile Mississippi, the cities or,
| it, west bank have become Tho largest. 80.
iit will be- wikh th0se Ga tisp Missouri bs,t
! they have altered no. good reason why
| tile should be so. "A view tho matter.
Fall the causes which serve to build ap the
citfss on the west bank OF The Mississippi
are, hefc on the Missouri, reversed Let,
ng see. There, the producing country.
from which they derive their support, IS
lnest Of them, and their rDarkets eest.---.
The railroads feeeigs their ffeigllts from
| shs country west of thsriy their tof1-s
mage eastward being many times that Of
| The westward bound. 70 secure these
freiehts The railroad companies make
thniE fsceiYing depots on the west side.
establish their own ferries. ard assume
the labor md risk Of transferring the
property. The ri9eris Il Barrier to the
producer on the west side, who may de-
sire DO offer his load IN the streetsiofg the
town. on the east side. Trade and the
competition attending it, Is thrnwn into
the streets Of the westsfao cities. Gran
aries. elevators. store.homes and packing
houses must be and are built 70 receive.
and hl1adreds OF men employed te ham
die the grain. pork, &c. Merchants and
manufacturers here find sale for tlfeir
goods aud wares, and the artizan, asde-
mand for the exercise of his skill Steam.
boat lines enter into competition with
the railroads for freight, na5ef their yes
sells at the leyee and establish their agen-
| cies in the city. As these railroads haye
been extended westward those cities have
| increased, How Wilt be with aCouacir
BlEas2 Letus see. Hare. the producing
country is east of the Missouri river, ,and
| tlieinarket scest of it, and will remain so
for many years. As the prices Of grain,
-four. pork, &C., increase with the distance
Efastscard from the Mississippi, 80 do they
increase, but In much greater ratio,
owing to the more expensive mode Of
I transportation, with the distance tcestsrdfd
from this point. Forvery many years to
come, the production Of food west of the,
Missouri win be altogether inadequate to,
the demand; indeed, for ten or fifteen
years at least, almost the entire demand
must be supplied from east OF the Mis-
souri, It is hardly possible that the pro-
ducticils Of the entire State of Iowa, viii
| be sufficient to satisfy this demand, and
| therefore confidently predict, that the
day will come, when -four and pork will
he transported from Illinois to the States
of Colorado and Idaho. Do the pork
| packers and Inillers at Council Bluffs
even now, look to the eastward for q mar
| ket? No. At least nine tenths Of the.
pork, bacon, hams and lard from the IF
teenor twenty Thousand hogs. slaughtered
here during the present season, will go 20
west: Why is it that while wheat brings
| but IS TO so cents per bushel, -four sells
lat three dollars PEI hundred pounds -
| Because the demand from the Dest largely
exceeds the suppl. The scarcity of mills
| gives to their proprietors q monopoly in
the purchase ofwheat, hence their profits
laof one hundred per cent, and Rpacaras.-
| Win capitalists long remain blind to so
profitable field for Investments when
| -four sells for three dellars per hundred
pounds, wheat is worth Il least 81 90. per
bushel. It win not be long before we shall
have in Council Blaffs, not only one, but
several extensive Touring mills. Opera,
tors in this city do not look. to an East,
ward market to make sales, and hence.
the market rates here IRE not controlled
in any degree by those of Eastern cities.
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 tf+ nsported to that CITY for
one cont per pound. Indeed, in the
cost of harrels.and salt, the difference is
greater than IN the rates for the hogs. so,
that . barrel Of pork in the hands of the
packer here, costs him as much. as one in
| the hands of the packer in Chicago
Butter sells for more today ia this mar
ket, thah in Chicago. While the price Of
-four is about six dollars per barrel
or say three dollars per hundred there.
the same as il is here, the price of wheat
is from's ,os to s.. Is per bushel, Or more.
than twice what it is here. Potatoes sell
there for about forty cents pr busheI
less than they do here. BY any present
available mode Of conveyance, corn will
not bear transportation from this section
of country, hence its market rate il, gov.
erned by tile rates for live stock. These
facts are stated merely til show that
already the markets for the productions of
I Western Iowa, is Hsst of the II iaouri.
river. While from the railroad points on
the MISSISSIPPI the great preponderence