The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1870-09-08
sloyINGTaE GRAIN CROPS


M0yIN0TaH GRAIN CROPS
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milwaukee,, tho greatest wheat mar
Of the world, has six large elevators
able to hold from half q million to ,
million and 4 half bushels. Yet las
week five hundred cars were standing
In the fteight-yards and on the track
ofthat city, unable to discharge thei
wheat. This immense glutis from 'oli
wheat and the merchants estimate 2tba
there are million more bushels Of til.
crop Of SO to come in. In sgener.
way, Fisk's statement before theo Com,
nissee, that it takes ono bushel 0
wheat 70 parket another, b true, III,
wheat crops Of the new States are in
ereasipg Jsatby ysaf, but fscilitiss 10,
moving the crops arc not increased
In proportion. For Instance, Iowa Il
tkis year giving crop Of twepty-foul
millions. Last year these seven oil
gave over twenty million bushels LIN.
nois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, d, Califor.
mia, Indiana, Ohio, Iowa The best
judges in Chicago and Milwaukee
think the crop Of this year may fall
short Of last years ten per cent. !; yet
che quality will be far better. Last
year, about third Of the wheat in.
spected at Milwaukee rose to the grade
Of No. / Spring. This year, only 40
per cent. viii fall to No. 2.
Here then, Is the situation in grain :
Two millions Of old wheat yet to bs
handled j.; great crop of superior quail
~ going through the threshers corn
crop large everywhere, aud the breadth
uuequslsd; the elevators on the Lakes
al oboksd With ehs-old crop; bins Of
hot grain reported every day by the
Chicago Board Of Trade, and the
freight tariffs on the New York roads
going up: the Canal likely to be closed
with leo before all the crop Of 80 is
adoat. Two outlets are possible : one
by the Mississippi River; another
overland. ~ ~
1t costs surprisingly little to move a
Lushel Of wheat from St. Paul to New
Orleans. When 70 wheat train comes
in from Hannibal to above Red Wing,
if track near the river were laid 80
that = or could stsnd shove the hold
of . barge, and empty It's contents, a.
at An elevator, in i've minutes, such
barge ooald aoet oits load to to tidew.t.r'
at eight eentsaa bushel. Once in Now
Orleans, { ouulr, bashsl", en- be- taken 70
Liverpool foe ten cents. The difficult
ties Of this1 oal.s .lsses ihe' arrangement.
at tho Mississippi, River, (which; favor
Chicago .ud sMsllir,'asHlss, ta,hel, than St,
Louis md NsxlO Orleans; the vigor and
vigilance Of these aplsces rs compared
with the huguid zeal ofe,ties 10 sun.
nier climates and chiefly the mud
banks at the mouth Of the Mississippi
River, the busbeir and opprobrium Of
New Orleans commerce, by which
cargo may be Left DOING for weeks on
sluggish tides and under ! bsoilng sun.
The line Of wheat i, slowly drifting to
the North: West-tbat is t. say, to dis.
tauces ever greater from consuming
populations and the se,boards Alrsady..
the farmer $50 miles west Of the river
10 Iowa and Minnesota ,is discussing
whether be shall not feed bis wheat to
the hotses that broke Tho, sod l1pop
which it grew. Grain 'tillags 1t this
line is practically suspended and its
profits all :neutralized blythe distance Of
a market. The relief via the Misssis-
sippi River and New Orleans was &C.
lively and hopefully discussed last year.
Mr.. Highly, an enterprisiug capitalist,
has erected an elevator in New Orleans
Of the capacity Of 100000 bushels az 4
Meantime the glut at the cat grain
murts at the West continues and is in
crcasing. There is delay -andT danger
n shipments via the Lakes end Wei.
I"d Cadil,. though vas, Duality of
%''i' >eeks th,t outlet in preference 10.
'hr E,ie Canal. There IS no reason to
'uppose that the grain crops Of the
West vlbmstari1lly fall off !; and VIA.
the fat!nsEs cd sbat immense region
mainly need is dreg', rapid and cheap:
transit from tho parties 70 the seaboard:
At present the business ID settling into
certain ruts, from which II will be more
and more difficult u move il. The
hour for , enterprise is now: Tho eoun-
try requires syetem Of transit by
which one bushel Of wheat will market
Two other" bushels, and tho capitalist
or the corporation that secs this The
'learest and acts upon the knowledge
with ths most pronpsness will do for
this generation what De W.T. Clinton
did for the last generation, and for this,
tho mer9pohtai sityef the continent:
-1fre teAi]ass ,pees 70 pu. braid -
. coat; doea he always consider tho
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