New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-04-14

Inc barge line company are making every
exerti0n to meet the demand now pressing
upon their bulk carving capacity by the
shippers, and will probably be enabled to
meet pretty much all their wants THIS
spring and summer, unless the exporting
facilities of New Orleans should be much
increased beyond present capacity.
In addition to the cargoes we mentioned
in yesterdays paper, the tOwboat Kellogg
will take &C. 600 bushels more corn in three
barges to-day, and the load OF each tow
down from now on will be composed largely
of grain in bulk, as long as it is freely
offered to the line. A sufficient number Of
new barges to increase the tonnage OF the
line 5000 tons may possibly be added during
that this extra tonnage will be more than
absorbed by the rapid increase of the grain
trade.
There are many influences at work calcu-
lated to result in very great increase of
the St. Louis grain trade for the last half of
1872. Among these may be mentioned the
building of a new rail connection with
Iowa. the early completion of the gap be-
tween MoultOn and Abba, and the placing
on the Upper Mississippi of a regular line Of
towboats and barges, whose special mission
is to be the bringing to this market the
large Accommodations Of grain between
Hastings and Lacrosse, on the upper river.
We d safely calculate that this line
will bring out one and half or two million
bushels additional grain; that the compile
ton Of the gap between MOultOn and Alba
will add two million bushels more, and the
establishment of new Iowa connection.
say half million additional bushels this
year. Here are four million bushels in
crease alone, and it is morally certain that
every road now penetrating St. Louis will
bring us an increase over its business of 1871.
We expect the Chicago and Alton to rise :.
about 100000, the Toledo, Wabash and
Western 500, 600, the Rockford, Rock Island
and ST. Louis $1,000, the Ohio and Misss-
lantic and Pacific 100000, ETC., go that the
show for very great increase is good. In
view of this almost absolute certainty
of a very rapid and large increase in
our bulk gram trade, we submit to the
barge line people whether it would not be
well for them to SO arrange their building
plans as to DE able to put barges atloat very
rapidly in case Of a pressure for bulk trans
portatiOn. That grand and united effort
by St. Louis, New Orleans and Liverpool
to turn the grain flow Of the Mississippi
valley down its more natural water courses
to the sea will be made during the coming
season we feel sure.
Liverpool is investing large sum of
money now in iron prOpellers, designed es-
pecially for the carriage of grain in bulk
from New Orleans to England, and efforts
to make freighting for this line will be effect
lively made, depend upon it. New Or
leans, too, has learned more about II e
value of large grain trade during the
past twelve months than she ever knew
before, and she will now be found ready
and anxious to give all the co-opera-
ton in her power. Her own interests are at
stake. II. she would retain fair share Of
the cotton and sugar trade of the South she |
must become great commercial metropolis.
and no city can become great in commerce
by limiting her ambitions to the handling of
one or two leading products. Everything
points to large and rapid growth
Of the grain trade of this city. and we bid
all limited interests connected Herewith TO
prepare for expansion.