Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-02

means. In this article in the Argus to
| which alluded, have comparison OF the
| difference in the time that will be consumed
| by vessels pursuing the route Indicated by
| the bill 1nder consideration, and pursuing
| the route now taken, the Erie canal, and L
| ask the attention of the committee to these
| figures, because while they exhaust the ar
| gument they are not 50 extensive as 10
| weary YOU. By the way of Canada and the
| Champain canal, a cargo of SOC tons could
| be put down from Duluth TO New York IN
| twenty-four days. BY the way OF the lakes
| and the Erie canal it will take the same
length of time, twenty-iour days, to put
| dow. a cargo of go tons. Mark the DIS
tlncuonl Nearly four to one IN 1ayor OF
| the Champlain canal. by steam 1t Will take
| twelve days to put down cargo oi 9OO tons
| from the city of Duluth to New York. 1t
| will take nineteen days by the way Of the
! lakes and the Erie canal to put down
cargo of go tons | ask you, gentlemen,
| to view this measure in the light OF these
figures. Whether YOU consider the amount
| or the distance Of the time you Will hnd
every consideration vastly in favor OF the
route which is proposed in this biI.
But there is still another point which Is OF
| still more consequence and entitled 10 sun
| greater consideration than that already ad-
yancod. The wheat-prOducins district oi tins
country is constantly receding to the west
| and the northwest Some OF the gentlemen
present can perhaps recollect when New lork
was wheat producing State. ! dOn { see
the representative of the city Of Rochester
| (Mr. Fish, here, but dare say he recollects
when the Genesee Valley was white with
waving fields of wheat. and when the flour
mills of Rochester were run to their utmost
| capacity to put into flour the wheat that
| was grown in that valley and yet, to-day,
gentlemen, the wheat produced by the state
Of New York would not last her population
one month. Its wheat-growing capacity
has been exhausted The whole wheat pro-
ductlOn of New England would not last the
population two weeks to-day. In lobO, the
wheat production Of the State of ONO only
yielded Il surplus for expectation of three
millions of bushels. and to-day Ohio has
! ceased TO be a wheat exporting State. We
are passing for our wheat fields to the west
and northwest We have gone beyond
Ohio; we have passed out of Indiana and
Illinois. Oar wheat to-day comes from
| three States mainly-Michigan Wisconsin,
Minnesota and in Minnesota, - rapid has
been her extension of wheat culture. sixty
| two per cent ofcntire area is now ~own to
wheat. and these wheat fields must obey the
State. Lavc obcvcJ and c,r.p,ne tbrn-
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