The New York herald., 1869-01-03
our GRAIN INTEREST.

BROOKLYN, Dec. 81, 1868.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD
DEAR SIR-We have read in this mornings edition
OF the HERALD your article entitled "Our Grain In
terest.n We were much interested In your compre-
hensve statements and general correctness Of the
same In regard to the great interests that you so
fully allude to. We were at the same time much
surprised at the very great error that you had fallen
into in regard to -four mills and the milling interest
OF Eastern cities, particularly Of New York and
environs stating that formerly single mill would
easily turn out from 500 to 1000 barrels per day. the
same establishment now manufacturing but between
400 and 500 barrels also predicting that 1.-THE Vest
ern interest would eventually swallow up completely
that OF the Eastern, being only question Of time"
&C. As we are quite sure that your intention is to
state facts in regard to all questions OF such large
local importance as is the milling interest In New
York and adjacent Cities we cannot quietly lay aside
your paper after reading the above mentioned arii-
Gle without giving you few facts, which we hope
will convince you that your statement In regard to
mills and milling interest in Eastern cities Is diamet
rcay opposite the reality. 1t Is true with milling
in all other branches OF business. thar occasionally
parties inexperienced embark largely into it. build
Ing large mills, and from the want OF proper know
ledge OF the business and not from the want OF bust
ness, gradually find their business reducing and
finally make failure OF II, while practical men who
have taken up the business for the past dfreen or
twenty years nave, WITHOUT sACcptlou, hucceeuGu
almost beyond expectation our own experience VIII,
in O measure verify this statement. We hullt in
williamsburg sixteen years ago, the Williamsburg
City Mills. Starting with a capacity OF $50 barrels
per day we soon found that our business required
more facilities, and we increased its
pacity TO 200 barrels per day. This soon
was too small. and We purchased two
years later the brooklyn CITY MIL, az the foot OF
Fulton street, Brooklyn, aud rebuilt the same
giving it a capacity OF 800 barrels day. soon nnd-
ing that inadequate for the amount OF business that
we could do, we commenced and built the Attain
tic Flour Mills at Hamilton avenue, Brooklyn, with
an easy capacity OF 1000 barrels per day frequently
turning out much more than that amount The
above mills are all IN constant operation to their
fullest capacity ar at all OF the year, being
able TO successfully compete with -four manufac-
tured at the West and sent 10 New York TO be Sold
These facts we are sure OF, and we believe our ex
perience 10 be the all other really practical
men who have engaged In the business. We could
give many facts connected with the advantages that
our city mills possess that would clearly prove that
while you Intended TO be correct In your statement
you have been grossly mlsled.
Knowing that you are always quick and ready to
Alright questions OF such importance the above
we take the liberty TO address you somewhat fully
upon the subject, hoping that you win at an early
date through your valuable paper do SO, after fully
satisfying yourself from other sources OF the cor
recrness OF our statement. y. T. SMITH co.