The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1867-12-19
FOOD FOR EUROPE.-1lfHNRsOTA.
- THE GREAT WHEAT GRANANY. !

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FOOD FOR EUROPE.-1IfHSRsOTA
THE GREAT WHEAT GRANANY.
We clip the following from tho Lon.
don correspondence Of tho Boston Jour
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The h high price =, of sood is beginning
to tell on the prosperity. Of the people.
Wheat has risen, rapidly during the
month ana Gis higher now tha Ia Il has
been at any time since 1856: IT II n il, Is !,
dear again as 1t was last year, and twice
as high as it was in 1864 at the
close ofthe harvest, with twelve months
of consumption before another crop.
There is a deficiency in France, Spain,
Germany and Belgium. F:apcs has
anticipated all other countries 10y pur-
chasing largely. The government has
|'charge Of the matter, and the bullion Of
the bank Of france is nc now on It's way
to Russia, Turkey, Greece and Califor.
mia. As 1 stated last week, the cry
70. bread was heard ia the streets Of
1L1isle, and riots were restrained only by
the police. This week q; cargo Of CAL
fifornia wheat>was brought to Southamp-
ton, but was purchased at once on
French account. 1t is said that almost
e eyerx g lssss} Z e the !; Mediterranean is
taken.ups fsr rsGreece,sTurkey and the
Black Sea ports.
have not beeh able, to obtain any
trustworthy Information relative to the
spcobable"de6ciency. No. alarm is. felt
here. in Eaxland* for it is known that
the haryest is. abundant: IN Russia and
Turkey, also in Hungary and Greece,
and in America. The yield Of wheat
in England: is only fair,' but tie oat
crop is very large. 1t is not believed
that prices will go much higher. -.
= Your commercial readers will not
look to my letters for any statements
in regard to the markets, but I wish to
bring before all Of your readers a few
facts for them'to think over.
England, France, Belgium and Ger
many are not looking to the United
States for supply OF food, but to Rus
sia and Turkey. True they do not ig-
more the fact that there is an abundant
harvest the other side Of the Atlantic.
but they count on California more than
on the Western States. California
wheat and wheat from Odessa can be
put down cheaper at Liverpool than
that of Minnesota under existing
frcights. "A sack Of wheat grown oa
the steppes, Of Russia is carted from one:
to five hundred miles to Odessa, or to
the short line, of railroad running into
the country from that seaport, but from.
Odessa to Liverpool it has sea voyage
Of nearly 1000 miles. Labor lis cheap
er in Russia than ingthe United States,
and Government has nov under con-
structionsa network of railroads, -!by
which that great wheat field Of Europe
is to beebrought in connection with she
sea. Turkey has in contemplation sim:
liar railways, while the Hungarian Diet
has within two weeks passed q biil for
opening railways Throughout Transyl.
vania to the Danube. All Of these
Eastern. nations arc taking measure es to
supply France, England, Belgium and
Germany, tue manufacturing nations
1t has been dream with American
Economists, and also dream Of the
wheat growers of the West, that the
time would come when Europe would.
look to the .prairies as her granar "
But they may bid farewell to any such
illusion, unless ANEW policy is inausu-
rated. 'And'yet America can be the
worlds granary, if. she chooses. Min
nesota, with, her untold millions Of
bushels Of wheat to spare this year, is
as near Liverpool IS Odessa The
farms on the western boundary of that
State, with the Northern Pacific rail-
road open to- Lake Superior, will be-as
near England as the recently manu- nit
ted ssrf oGCentra' Russia. There is
but one thing wanting to enable the
farmers St'the entire northwest of Amer:
lea to con hpete with the whea: growers
Of Turkey and the, East, and that lis d
cheapening Of freight! Unless this, is
done, the people Of the United States,
with . virgin soil, with li,nitless ca pac.
tiles Of production, with machinery q
reaPers:, and mowers, and agricultn nra]
implements superior: to those of all 9th.
er nations, must stand aside and see the
gold England and France flow sast,
ward instead Of. westward. Il
The time has come when there mus'
be ship navi gatio ! from the head 0:
Lake Superior to the Atlantic-a siil
canal around Niagara. Let. that b,
done, and what difference it wouli
make:,with tho farmer of the West
What a difference, too; with the peopl,
Of New England cheaper bread i,
every household-more money in ever,
mans: pocket, east as we'll as west. No
only a ship canal, but freight ra:!foa'
or at lasst from 1oIo rS,,; .nG % '.au:is x
a., o. ~ ia absolutely nesdad " ~
T Fortv m;II;on ea. f.enes a;nh+ ,,;,,;o
aollars2;t 10 s,;d, w;n H. aon. a..
France this ve,r tor WIZ uhoot ~ oTs ",rho 'rtt ntt
er destitnte countries vii, .and !, y H,, wv
millions moro Twontv n;,i;on D aa;1a, %
nerhara viii ho n.;d o,t hr,.hosa -,
Tons for breaj ,pd tho u are.ter ~ ,o nor,;o -
of it viii On ~ R,,ss;, 80 % T,1ra
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