, 1866-01-01

HE1uIhe
The receipts @! Flour daring the year 15G3 were
1,1s6,5G1 barrels. against 7M barrels received
In 1861, md barrels rrcetyed IN 1aCS. The
increase in the receipts th1s year in comparison
With Last caEnot but prore eource Of grauacadna
to Ill Who arr Interested in the trade During the
present year every fnduCcnent tint could be offered
was extended By the ST. Louis merchants to the
ullIcrz In The Upper Mississippi Valley 10 ship
tler nanufact urrs down the river. Great talk was
made about cheap frel:hts 10 SeW Orleans yia the
mississippi River, and equally cteap rates to SeT
York and lso.tnn By rail or team from the Crescent
City. and by lo.ce or THU talk tho movement That
Uas n the tpr1ns Of ihe ye"r va larse as eompas.
natural drawbacks, which no a1uiclaI means
could miti i.sale. Cousignors had 70 wait For
ncces.ar, length Of iie for theis returns, aud in
s1bI,y Of Northern llourz keeping eonnd and s,veet
on q lassage through the Gulf: New Orleans as !.
ssls w no. able S iS hanae TIC rssP md
with much favor, showing again III" a5surdity OF
enteavoEus 10 change the natural channels anals"s
The yraf has been on lie whole highly iavora..
bic one for Flour manufacturers. TDc st0ck Of
rholce Extras, spring and Winter. has beeu Light
throughout The year, and the market has uot been
subjected to those violent lucGuations and trresu
lnritck which Mesc The d1sting a1ahlng feature in
1s Afr n se,rs Wheat aa Ser ,1 en "a ~ 70 EEL
o! the Flour. The wheat was damp, rrsulting In
1nc 1n.nniar,urc Of danny Flour, which naturally bc-
ElluC uC1lGU MICA paCAE4- 1Hss Applies u1OIt n4f-
1icula.ls to the Flour ulade In iii. STATE. Tbs
spring ard W,u!er ExtAs t1a1e IN Northern Iowa,
Wi:con'in and M,uncsota arc as good as those
made 10 my }rylous year. and We hlot Of very iew
complaints abolt tho receipts from there sections.
Ihe supply Of ST. Lolis 1ou.a has been llchic. this
yenr hl la-t-shc receipts being mostly Of favorte
b-acds for tlt wants Of our loczl and New England
1llde.
t*ne drawback to the prosperity OF the Flour
trade the scarcity Of rasuad ta!Sa1e Eastward,
aud ever sll.cc The harvest, transportation to the
New E1"lR.u S.aie+ has been almost unat:atuahlc,
The Graud Trunk Hallroad, OF Canada, on which a
large tLsre OF dependence was placed, taxed 70
IT. uuost energy By the pressure ot local freight.
and in order 70 MEET TIL. was obliged to decline
through freight. 7 he SeT England Connections Of
the New YORK Eeut1al were blocked to an extent.
tl3i they coa1d not receive tie accumulaIi0n& OF
freight trom t0e latter and IN seu defence it also
had 10 ce.se Gsi.lur Boston freight. The propeller
linef did not make much etort to seclte flour
frciEh,s tr-s Tie past sGalson-c7ain tseighte be-
tnE mo.c r.tncratsc.
Op the tylsoic tho market has enjoyed uDbroken
prosperity during the ycaT. There 11ve becn 10
severe luc.at1ors IN the uanERct e1nce tho capture
OF ldcilmnnd. The ssocE in the EaEt has during
the yeAr been higher thsn Tor Hume ycarr past, and
the ycar closes vih q light elock On hand in thus
city
the following table shown the weekly prices ol
tpring E1,ras, during the yeara 1865, E4 and 'Gs-
WEEKLY r1uCrs OF trnrsu ExrEA FLOUR In cu1cA'