New-York tribune., 1870-08-27

swine live and dressed; the Illinois Central almost as
many; the Rock Island, fourth Of million, and the
| Alton Road nearly the same OF these, over million
annually go East the Lake Shore and Fort Wayne
| Roads
Tr-I observe that you note the traffic of each road
| quite carefully.
R-Certanly we do Railroads are the life OF Chicago
This city great it ia the railroad center of the
vast and fertile regions lying west northwest ana
| southwest of us.
Tr-wbat do you estimate your population to bel
P-We have inst published directory which contains
oo oo names The rule found In other cities IL That
each name in directory represents on an average reo
persons rs wife and children, whose names are no'
found BY that rule number Is iooooo' put inc mum
Der OF young unmarried men Is iaree anu Pi''un'
100000 IL near the true figures.
Tr.-Who are some OF the men whose foreslSht ana
energy have made this city such a meropolisi
RI suppose every Chicagoan would agree with me
that william b. Ogden the leading spirit OF the North
Western roads, has been the means OF drawing more
wheat to this market than any other person. John F.
Tracy now the President OF those roads and when
speak OF the through Iowa and Southern Min
nesota as far Yankon much praise must be given to
John Blair railroad man of great sagacty and force
The Burlington and Quincy Road, well as Rock Island
both running to Omaha, admirably managed and In
Kansas there system OF roads building under The In
spraton of James f. JOY Of Detroit by which he pro-
poses 10 make all the Southwest as far Galveston
| tributary to Chicago.
T.-LOoking at the map those regions belong to st.
Louis, and she claims, believe, that she can market
| grain via the river and NewOrleans cheaper than
| Chicago can via the lakes and Buffalol
PIas year the traders and editors OF St. Louis made
vigorous effort TO divert share Of grain trade but
with results not alarming TO The difficulties are as
much climatic as from any other 1t Is dangerous
I'm the Summer months when most OF the crop moves to
fill the hull of ship with wheat and keep it for weeks
in those tropical regions. II it goes out via Florida, 1t
floats for days in the Gulf Stream, with its temperature
OF SO degrees Even in the cool water Of the lakes be-
tween here and Buffalo Oswego often have cargo
heat There are fortunes lost here every by specu
laors who hold grain till it begins to spoil Still water
freight is always cheaper, and wheat train can pour
their loads into boats at Burlington and Dubuque and
Quincy and the boats afford to take it to New
Orleans about cheap the can roll 1t to Chicago
In other words does cost any TO put bushel
OF wheat in Iowa, and Iowa this year produces
2OOoOOO bushels into elevator in New Orleans than
into an elevator in Chicago II business Of this sort
springs up it will be by NewOrleans elevators owning
! boats and taking the grain at various towns on the
river During the last three months Of go quarter
of a million bushels OF st. Louis wheat sought market
through Chicago. II have growing rival that may
eclipse us the grain trade IL is the North MWal-
kee handles wheat than do and she loses less
by fermentation. Northern climate gives large full
berry; much of the Wisconsin and Minnesota grain sold
at Milwaukee will weigh GO and GO pounds to the bushel