New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-07-23

OF great SIZE being GO deep 20 WIDE and 10 across
containing 12O0O cubic feet The total receiving and
storing capacity of this establishment Is 100000 bushels
or the crop Of 1850 has received 600 900 bushels About
10000 bushels taken into a train OF the average
length. SO 2OO trains have rolled into this elevator and
discharged.
now WHEAT SHIFTED.
Milwaukee has an admirable harbor. TWO rivers run
into the lake, and at the junction Is wide spread OF
marsh grown up with bullrshes and green win aquatic
ranness But the mud il SOFT and canals are easily cut
80 that hundred Of warehouses could he so sta
TONED that while rolled up one sde ships draw
ing 10 feet Of water might anchor the other As soon
az a grain ship Is anchored beside an elevator inc
matches removed and great spOuts extend over them
rom the bottom OF one OF the enormous BINS nave &c
scrbcd The gate is raised and torrent OF Wheat ouLs
down The loading power Of these spous Is 1000 bush
cs an houf Inc orient, Tor OsWS5o, WIS , a. 20 ~ o
other day in an hour and half and her capacity Is 5000
bushels. The Oswego and OgdensbuTg schooners ana
vessels destined for the Weand Canal usually take ON
from u eco 5000 bushels. The Buffalo vessels are
bushels me
It not be supposed that Of those bins Of wheat
stands after without further care III Is the
business OF q good wa-chOuseman To watch his wheat
and that Of is heating II he thinks 1t needs
the floor and lit it Back with the elevator.
Milwaukee has seven such elevators as l nave de-
scrbcd, but this il the largest. They vary IN receiving
capacity from 100000 10 5OOC0 bushels During inc
eE past more than Il o3 s tes nav osPro
the rise Of 100000 bushels, Kingston 100000 bushels
and the rest goes in drbles to Ee, CLEVELAND Ioledo
ACTIVITY IN WHEAT
NapOleons war; though il brings quaking and asnes 10
those Renish provinces which he proposes to conquer
adds millions millions to the pockets of North West
farmers. The large dealers say they expected nOh
ing but decline; large buyer, the largest IN the
Northwest, says he expected to see No Milwaukee
Spring at 90 cents, and falling by this time. But by
curious coincidence wheat sells to-day at just the inquire
1t held on the 18th July, lsG9-that Is 81 30
see large crowds in the Chicago Board OF Trade a
confused blending Of shouts men rocking with perspa
ton making swift entries in little books, ana Dantclg
each other and betting in words ana figures which do0t
wholly understand; and the telegraph wires are loaded
with messages about wheat, ordering, cOuntermandhg
and again confirming the first order. The language IN
which the business conducted Is very much condensed
but IL easy that the fever in Europe brings toss
ing and tumult 10 u.s. but the whole it benefits the
farmer greatly. Milwaukee No. often commands ana
sometimes 10 cents more than Chicago No. 2. That ~
farmer or country merchant has lot ana sends nan 10
city and half 20 the other; that which goes 10 NH
waukce will sell the best Why First, because the more
northern wheat is generally better and pumper than
that which grows in hotter Secondly because the
men who handle and inspect wheat In MILWAUKEE, are
careful and honest and those who have charge OF
the elevator do not let Thirdly these crcum
stances have given Milwaukee wheat reputc and good
position in market, and everywhere good name is bet
ter than rubics." j. u. l.