The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1870-05-31
Flour Wheat Corn Oats Barley Rye
Whisky Beef Pork Lard Bacon Tallow

Extending the list so as to include all the
staple agricultural and animal productions of
the county. This.would give the merchants
and people throughout the country daily in
formation of the shipments iom each interi-
or trade center to the seaboard trade centers.
respectively, and from the daily shipments
weekly aggregates of each article, with its
destination, could be made. The movements
of bIeadstufls by water from Chicago, Nil
waukee and Toledo with the destination of
the same, has tor several years been given
weekly. This should be continued, and in
combination with the movement by rail,
would keep all the trade centers advised of
what amount of each kind OF property would
come on each seaboard market within a given
period of time. The supply and demand
make the price of all commodities, and the
price in the most important trade center of
the country OF any commodity will determine
its value at all other trade centers in the
country, varied, OF course, at the different
points by transit and other charges
The articles nay be classified under the
following heads: Flour and Grain" "P,o.
visions" Live STOCK, ""Cotton and TobaccoIn
Manufactures"
1t will probably be practicable TO give the
movement OF property by rall to the extent
hereinbefore mentioned, provided the Boa,ds
OF Trade and Chambers OF Commerce through
out the country will cooperate with the Ma
tIonal Board of Trade Tor its accomplish
ment 1t is barely possible that the railway
managers may object-as at Buffalo-lo Civ.
ing the facilities necessary to its successful
carrying out.
There is very considerable movement of
grain, Hour, provisions, &C., from places OF mi
nor importance to the seaboard cities, as well
as to Interior points in the Middle and East
ern States. 1t will not be practicable to give
| any record of receipts at or sh pments from
| these points, or their destination. Each sea-
| board commercial city, howeveE, can, through
| its Board of Trade or Chamber OF Commerce,
by keeping its receipts of property in proper
manner, approximately estimate what Is de-
rived from these sources of supply.
With accurate statistics OF the shipments
by rail and tter, from all the principal in
| terror trade cen .ers, and their destination and
approximate estimates of the receipts of each
OF the seaboard trade, centers from minor in
terror points, the information in resald to the
movement OF property from the interior will
be ample for all purposes OF business AMI
trade.
| In connection with the suggested improve
ments OF the movement of all the staple pro-
duc's from the interior to the seaboa d COM
| merclal centers, there should be organized
through their Board of Trade more thor
| ough and extended weekly and annual record
OF custom receipts and shipments OF same as
| well as of foreign exports ana their oestlna-
| tiop. H. is also desirable that the tolm of
| keenino these records should be uniform at
| all these commercial centers. The foreign
export movement should tecome part oil the
man to be proposed to the different Boards of
| Trade, it being necessary part 20 make
| harmonious whole.
The foreign export and coastwise weekly
movement should include bieadstuffs, proyis-
ions, petroleum and other oils, cotton, ,obac-
co, tea, tallow, oil cake, naval stores, rice,
hops, coffee, coal, domestIcs, live stock; and
of the former, all the more important coun-
tries to which destined