The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1869-01-05

'ure offered every inducement. Her people were
anxlous to welcome capital and enterprise; and
alter twelve Gays consultation in my own
mind, concluded TO help New Orleans to an
elevator and the means to handle grain
ia bulk cbeaply, and make her the
FIRST grain mart 10 America. Consequently I
brought my youngest son here bought a block of
land built q wharf 275 feet long and 200 feet into
the river to A feet water, bought steamboat.
hauled her alongside and made q boarding hou, q
for ourselves and men, took of our coats on Il
LIST of June, and built an elevator which is now
ready to operate and handle 600 bushels Of
grain in twenty-four hours. The building is $50
feet long lC0 feet wide and 100 feet high, end
will hold when completed 10000 bushels grain.
The tower and marine elevator at the edge OF me
wharf is l02 feet high, and the elevator leg so
constructed with arms that ii can take grain tut
of the highest or lowest vessel, in the highest or
lowest water, as the water variation is thirteen
feet. This marine elevator Is connected with the
main elevator by long conveyor, 2IO feet long,
which runs on 200 pulleys, and will convey grain
in or out at the rate of 5000 bushels per hour.
The conveyor frame is made OF heavy timbers
wharf, levee and street. This is the only convey
or of the kind in America. The elevator is in all
respects like those of Chicago and Milwaukee, ex.
cept the roof is domeshaped. The engine is low
by Leeds & Co. The roofs are all covered With
the patent roofing of William L. Potter, made of
Scotch roofing felt and plastic slate, by the South
ern Plastic Slate Roofing Company, Ira Harworth /,
same, 200 by 275 feet building. one story high;
outside covered with sheet iron. This building
will store 60 900 barrels flour, which is elevated
out of barges or steamers and loaded into ships,
by means of shafts and pulles, at the rate OF l.
600 barrels per hour for each pulley and there
four of them. All are driven by shafts connected
to the one engine spoken Of and so arranged We
can run any part or all at once.
The Legislature, under the new Constitution,
gave a very liberal charter in August last,
under which we have organized the New Orleans
Elevator and Warehouse Company, with the privi-
ege to increase the capital stock to $500 900, and
the city has also given us privileges which put US
on equal footing for transactng commercial
business with New York city. We have fixed our
rates for storing and handling grain and other
rolling freight, the same as Milwaukee, Chicago
and New York.. With the above facilities and
natural advantages the Is 600 miles Of water navi
cation the Father of Waters and his tributaries
bring us, with the long lines of railways of the
Illinois Central North Missouri, Central Pacific.
Southern Pacific Great Northern, Opelousas and
Texas, we look for an immense grain trade
through this the pioneer elevator, and expect to
see others rise up more rapidly than they have
done in Chicago, and thus make New Orleans
second only TO New York in population and COM
merce, and rival her in the grain trade. II has
been said the air of New Orleans is too warm to
sdmit of grain passing through here withoutinury.
grain trade at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and in our
experience here since the LIST Of May last, we have
seen bat one day as bad as is usual for six or
eight days in Milwaukee, where the air Is sultry,"
which makes grain sweat. During May, June,
July and August, here, after eight O'Clock A. NJ,
sea breeze of about eight knots an hour springs
up, and keeps grain in better order 10 barges,
elevators and ships. than elevators, vessels and
canal boats North, particularly the canal boats on
the Elie canal where the grain lies close to the
deck and hot san for twenty days from Buffalo to
New York.
This route possesses the advantage Of all water
carriage for the whole year from Cairo, with nine
feet of water over the bars ten months from st.
Louis, and eight months from st. Paul.
Steamers can run from Cairo to New Orleans in
five days-one TO reship, and twenty days to
Liverpool at a cost of ten cents per bushe of
wheat TO New Orleans, two cents - reship, and
twenty cents to Liverpool. All rolling freight
can be shipped in same time and cost. The largest
class ships can ballast with grain, and fill decks
with cotton, and by so doing can realize better
freights than from New York or Boston. Ships
loading and unloading at the elevator wharf are
not taxed with port charges. With the above be-
fore US, we expect TO see all the States west OF
the Mississippi river one half Illinois, Kentucky,
Tennessee, and all Of Louisiana, send their pro-
duce through New Orleans, and in return receive
all their coffee, spices, fruits, sugar, molssses,
SALT and all foreign goods by this quick and cheap
water rout for the reason it is their interest to do
so. Yours, very respectfully. l.. }. HIGBr.