New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-11-12
NJ orssa.s & sAs Graas rs.

u The people q New Orleans seem % be
| moving with moro spirit in tho matter Of
acquiring trade il Westesn produce thaa
they usually manl16St. We presume that
the company they are forming for the con-
struction Of iron barges will be fully
| equipped with capital in the course of the
next twelve months, if not sooner, and that
the first fleet Of iron barges put afloat by it
will be ready to carry away the grain crop
Of 1880 at the far:hest. Well, this is pro.
gress anyhow, and we are not going to
grumble because New Orleans wants to
take little time. She is an eminently
respectable and quiet old soul and don't
want to be hurried.
In the meantime it behoves St. Louis to
push ON the enterprise Of shipping grain to
Europe via the great water route, without
any reference to New Orleans. We need
only recognize the fact that Mr.. Highly has
erected good grain elevator and package
warehouse at New Orleans, and is quite
ready to receive. store and forward grain at
rates fully ~ low az prevail in Chicago or
here. We have the Mississippi Valley
transportation Company, With it's towboats
and barges plying between this city and
New Orleans twice per week. and thrice, if
need be, and there are . sufficient number
regularly between Liverpool and New Or
leans, owned by English proprietors and
built with an especial view of carrying
large carg0es Of grain in bulk from New
Orleans to Liverpool, to carry away at least
100000 bushels Of bulk grain per month.
Thus the exciting facilities for doing grain
trade between this city and Europe, via the
great water route, are perfect and ample,
not only for the present proportions of the
cent.
We will guarantee that if any responsible
party will agree to furnish the Mississippi
Valley Transportation Company with all
the bulk grain they can carry for the next
twelve months. they will agree to deliver it
to Higby's elevator, in New Orleans, or free
on board of any designated ship in the har-
Dor ready to receive il on arrival, at eight
proposed iron barge line company now
forming in New Orleans will ever be able
to carry grain from Cairo, even, as low as
that for the year round. The expenses of
Southern companies always absorb greater
percentage of their earnings than the ex-
penses OF Northern companies do. The
officers are paid larger salaries and perform
less effective labor than persons holding
similar positions further north do.
The Southern man lie BY constitution and
and education . luxurious and expensive
idler. He must be paid large salary and
furnished with an army of assistants to do
his work, the pay Of each Of whom is about
the pay of the ''head man" in Northern
companies. All this sort Of thing enlarges
the minimum rate at which such Southern
barge line could carry freight and make |
money for the stockholders. New Orleans
work the wrong way to get it. She can get |
one by cooperating with St. Louis, and in |
no other manner. Let her send the money |
she has raised to invest in barges to the |
Valley Transportation Com |
pany. They will issue her stock tor it, and |
put feet of iron barges and |
wbOats afloat. which will be able to carry
grain to New Orleans at six cents per
Dushel, and perhaps less. Then, if New
teep cut across the bar at the Balize, lower
port charges, lower pilotages, etc., we will
yive her all the grain, at Q minimum rate Of
expense, she can find money to handle.
There il money IN shipping grain BY the
yreat water r0ute-plenty of it-and we are
lad to know positively that three shippers
# this city, at least, have determined to
.eep cargoes pushing along via that route
lively the coming season.
Last June . cargo OF Is, 900 bushels of Hi.
lois river corn was spOuted out q: Higby's
levatOr into . steamer at New Orleans.
The thermometer stood ct $40 ON that day.
he passage to Liverpool occupied twenty
our days, and no corn ever passed through
he guilt in hotter weather. Yet not ker-
eel of it was damaged. 1t reached Liver
DOL in good order, outsold Chicago corn of
he same grade q cd per quarter, and
cited the venturesome shipper q profit Of
l447 60, the market in Liverpool not ad-
ancing q hair from the time Of it's depart
re from New Orleans to its arrival and
ale in Liverpool. This shows what may
9 done on . steady market. and we trust
nat the Through grain movement" will re-
GIVE an impetus the coming season which
I'LL cause it to 80 enlarge in proportions
nat it will become one of the leading fea-
lres in the trade and commerce Of the Mis-
ssippi basin in less than five years.