New Orleans Republican., 1872-05-22

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Set In-GOing Across the Ocean and
''AerOss LOts'' TO Macon.
Here in New Orleans it has always been
contended is the mule or vehicle for cheap
grain transportation to Europe. This con-
veyance has lately been harnessed up after
"boots and saddles" persistently blown by
the savans of the Chamber OF Commerce
| failed to wake the mule from his hiberna-
ton. Think Of the speeches gentlemen of
this commercial college have made for the
past four years, the practical suggestions
and enterprise of Elevator Highly, the COM
mercial law interpretations Of General
Harry Hays, the calculations Of OglesDy
about the grain trade from New Orleans.
| How many subscriptions were opened that
never reached their limit How numerous
the resolutions passed in the mercantile
convention on this subject. all without
realization, all without enough for the
elevator to do to keep its machinery from
being eaten away by the rust. All of these
gentlemen and their corps of disciples
have done their level best to wake up the
interests in New Orleans to something else
beside the handling of cotton bale, and
without avail until now, when no talk is
made about it, when the subject has been
dropped like the babes in the wood to die
while birds of passage plucked each leaf
from these experiences to bury them out of
sight; the bulk corn business, beginning, by
the way on the very day the eOlOred con-
vention met here, in the elevation of about
80, 600 bushels into the new Morgan-Atlan-
tic Freight line, has now swelled to such
proportions that barge load on load have
been sold to arrive" the negotiations being
in someinstances conducted by telegraph,
while say 2O0,O bushels (excuse rough es-
timates) are already going to Liverpool in
bulk.
Bulk corn is shipped by tow Of barges
down the river to this city. In case it is
intended for foreign expectation the barge
is towed alongside the ship, the elevator
pushes along between the two, elevates it
directly into the hold, registers the number,
and when the right figure is reached the
barge floats gently down stream, ready to
60 back TO the Western ports. Is it bought
for the Southeast, for home consumption
The elevator pushes in at the pier edge, the
barge is tOwed to the outside, and the ele-
walton begins into chain of box cars, which
are filed car after car. Lieutenant Maury,
the greatest living authority on winds and
the currents of the air, is wont to describe
the sources of winds and the track of a
storm by selecting a single atom of air from
its starting point, or where it is generated,
all through its voyage, and by so doing he
renders himself understood without the aid
of any more mathematics than falls to the
lot Of an ordinary school boy. In the same
manner the route of a single grain of corn,
from the point where it is grown to the
wharf at Liverpool, will best tell the story
of its passage. Whether intended for ex-
port or use in the Southeast, a
grain of corn never stops in the
city. 1t has through ticket from
the Western port, where it is elevated into
barges to this city, where it is elevated out
and into box cars or ships clear to Liver
pool or to Macon and Savannah, for it is
bought and paid for at its home, and the
route it shall take is mapped out. 1t is not
exposed to the weather. If good and not
"soft" it never sprouts any more than in its
own quiet nook, as one of the family found
on each ear. 1t needs no ''india rubber
Overcoat" any more than it needs a wooden
one. All the Climatic influences" that it
was supposed would operate to destroy it
or render it feverish and gummy, mOuldy
and bad, are shown not to exist in the prac-
tice of transportation Here, in the past
few weeks, have we practical demonstra-
ton of what the enterprising business men
among us have been theorizing upon in
vain for three years and using any amount
of persuasion. a-..-..---..
As to the transportation Southeast
Three railroad companies have formed the
Anchor Line Of freight cars, which carry
the grain from the riverside, opposite Notre
Dame street, through the city, by Mobile to
Macon, where it is reshipped. Hundreds Of
thousands of bushels have already gone by
this route, and it is now a part of the regu-
lar business of the city. We append the re-
suit of several interviews upon the subject
of bulk corn:
"WiIl you please tell how the bulk ar
rives here ~
By the Mississippi Valley Transporta-
ton Company's barges."
What amounts have arrived recently p
a lot of 10000 bushels-two tows"
What's the average for tow ?"
Say 10000 bushels
How is it purchased2'
By the cargo. 1t is also sold to arrive"
What are you giving}'
Buyers offer sixty-three cents by the
barge load"
"Do you call that good price ~
''Well, yes; think it's enough He
was buyer)
"How do you sell it ?"
'Held at sixty-fve, delivered on board
ship
"What is the rate of loading!
zone cent bushel-paid by seller"
fWhose elevator do you use ~
"Higby's portable; believe it's the only
one here"
"Then there's no use for the big concern
up townw
ooh, yes. 1t is stored there when in
tended to remain
'.Have you heard of any reports, directly
or indirectly of damage in the hold of
vessel! If so, what portion of the cargo is
damaged :"