Tama County Republican. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1867-1872, 1871-05-04

large amount OF wheat, the margi
which Me Milwaukee market " ouIs
bring to him. over that of Chicago
would aggregate much more.
Competition in rnilroad freights !,
not the only advantage offered by til,
Grinnell, Cedar Falls & Winons
railroad. There are other benefit.
20 BE obtained by the farmers Of Ia
ma county, not alluded to in the Ga
zette article above. This is the qaes
tim OF new markets. Nav, the farm
ers have but one market, for thHil
produce, andthat Is Chicago. The
monopoly held BY Chicago is dex.
trously made an engine Of oppression
Legislation may to some extent rem
|1edy this evil, but no cure can be sx
pected other than that OF comp Ell.
ton. The contemplated road. will
open up two new markets both Of
which will be competitive st. Louis
and Milwaukee,. ssi essi fiil Tef
The experience Of the grain deal.
ers OF Tama City has been that Chi
cago grades wheat sent them oss x,ms-
Jr 5sloU the one to scAich it jeiosgs,
while Milwaukee gives a fair, honest
grade, Chicago steals twenty to
twenty Eve bushels cut Of every car
Ioadrsent. while Milwaukee gives
honest weight and measure xAtpfes
ent it costs more to send wheat to
Milwaukee SO that the extra expense
will balance thssstsaLng.. This new
road will give our farmers easy and
cheap access to Milwaukee giving
them, as clear gam, all they now lose
by Chieago's stealings. Here is what
the'edItor Of the Eldora Ledger sass
on this mattel - ~ ia assiGas aai
Milwaukee,, is indeed 4
lively place. II has between. seventy
and eighty thousand inhabitants
This is TN. great, wheat market of the
west. It leads Chicago BY hundreds
Of thousands of bushels; and it leads
it by its own citizens, instead OF New
Workers being the purchasers. There
were one Million and six hundred
thousand bushels of wheat In store
when | was there, and they had, ship
ped about zoe. 900 bushels since nav
igat.op opened. They shipped 10000
bushels the, day ] was there The
paying price, too, the day was there
ranged from two TO four cents bush
81 higher Chan in Chicago. The cheat,
too, which is disguised by the name
OF "shrinka.e," is less in Milwaukee
than in Chicago. Ask any shipper,
aud he will tell You that inshipping
to Chicago, he loses from six to ten
bushels in a car load. One farmer
from Iowa told me he shipped two
car loads to Milwaukee, aud his loss
was only 5S pounds on one. and ~
on the other. Then if wheat is No. l
they don t mix it with low grade ~
they do in Chicago, and call it No. 3,
but they pay you for the first quality.
Our merchants, too,s wilt fluid 1t TO
their interest to see the inside of Mil.
waukee before they deposit their
cash in Chicago, and especially those
who deal in heavy goods, such as
harGwares and groceries.
In matters Of RAILROAD interest Mil
waulec is the next point tor US to
make. +* Being already.
united with Chicago, we want a Inc
owned, and operated by 4 different
and to different market.
Then we have competition between
the rival tows OF Chicago and Mil
for our wheat and between
two rival companies 10 carry 1t to mAr-
ket. 1t will make q ditferance Of
probably from eight to twelve cents
on bushel in, this place en-, wheat;
and the same ratio OF advantages on
many other things. s..a
Falls, Eldora, Marshalltown,
GrinneIl and other places on north
and south roads have had experience
that may be Of benefit to other places,
The G. c.. +. a. w. road will do, for
lama county farmers what the B., c.
r., & NJ. road has done for the Black.
hawk county farmers. Of this, the
Cedar Falls Gazette says:
Since the completion of the Bar
I'm ton. Cedar Rapids & Minnesota
Ry. to Cedar Fails. but few months
since. there has been y saving in ship.
n,enis cf ,chsat a1oae from this place Of
S. 900, and this has gone to theii farm
cr. It has enabled our grain buyers
to pay that much more for wheat 70
rcplenish the pockets of the farmers
instead Of the Golfers of the Railroad
Companies. Those who see this &C.
that the Burlington road
has been OF incaIcutable benefit TO the
people OF Cedar Falls aud this vicini-
", aud yet, i've find some refusing to
nd new projects because railroad
are rich. The man who
sees only that side OF tie question:
would cut OF his hose to spoil his
Ease. There is but one way to regu.
late tariffs, and that is by competition
Railroads are the great pioneers in
this western country, but instead OF
their controlling the producer, we
want 70 see them controlled by the
IA Tf3sn,ofYie along this line