The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-04-02
SHORT WEIGHTS.
now THE GRAIN TRADE is De-
ING DRIVEN FROM CHICAGO
SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST q
RAILROAD ELEVATOR.

fFrom the Chicago Imc-I
P1ArTsNouTn, NEE, March 2i.-Iiav-
hoon \ constant reader Of your paper ever
over since It's establishment 10y Nike NooH,I
know it's independence in exposing wrong
a,d unfolding right. desire to call tho
s,,aation of your one hundred thousand
-ssders TO n matter that is materially |
.Faotinr the Interests ot Chicago and |
driving a trade around !. to thc cast ! |
allude 10 the gram trade. You will re- |
member that the shipments alone from
Nebraska are getting TO be an extensive
business, though it is now ~
its infancy. Our soil and climate
seem 10 combine TO make The wheat crop
certain and remuncrativo, and rs this is
emphatiually an agricultural state. as 1t
flls up With settlers tho shipments mus;
increase yearly nntil--wsD, | dare not
predict their vastncss. | havo boon in
the grain trade several yoars, not contn-
ing my purchases TO this place, but ship
rinc from several other points, and up TO
about six weeks since | WAS sending grain
exclusively 90 Chicago, for the following
reasons: !. II is the natural shipping
poin, from this portion Of the West, we
being on the line controlled by the CD. and
O. ?. I. always has been much ehsier 20
than from the Eastern cities, and cener-
ally the shipper has only been required
20 psy exchange, whilst shipping to the
eastern cities the delay in transporting
TO aud getting returns from New York
mas made It necessary for the banks here
20 charge interest on the drafts, and some
times the delays make the purchaser meet
with disappointment; and though ! could
have fold IN New York 50 Ma 10 have re-
allied Eve per cent per bushel more yet,
all things considered, We In this city
thought il best to mske your city our
market, and / for one should never have
thought Of changing my place Of selling
but for the reasons following:
made up my mind su.uu tiIuo since
thst there was something wrong in the
weighing At tho elevator scales, into which
the c. Il. and @. road runs its wheat. To
satisfy myself, therefore, in December
last, in Ashland, in this state / had some
cars loaded and the weights carefully noted
on FIVE cars. The weight tell short II
your city 295 bushels. l then called OF
my men who weighed and loaded tn
wheat, and took their slh3Hyitg, " h,ch
laid before the elevator company, .hrourl
Low Bros. * Co. Of your city, but IL,
wsrehousemen refuse TO make any COY
~
ing my partner at Ashlana, in his simple
ity, believed that even Chicago Clivato
company would correct 80 glsrin- "a mis-
take The Efldavits / have sent to yo
10 publish if you see IL. i hsvo booI
driven out OF Chicago into the Now Yor
market, and what / am doing many othe
merchants are doing, and in tho end
will effect your city not little.
You may asi: why 1 do not ship by on
OF the other roads leading into your city
and ono OF your other elevators. | ans
wer, must ship over the b. and NJ. in
Nebraska to reach either Of the other
roads, and | must pay local freight TO
reach them, and, as a matter OF course
this would take away my profits. Per-
haps you say / had better sell by sample
and 10. my consignoes tako from track.
This l cannot do las in this case tho ware
houses would loso two cents storage on
every bushel), rs the railroad company
charge heavy domurrago for tho doton-
tion of cars, which again drives the ship
per into the elevator, whore the wheat i
unloadod by steam, and at such II rapi,
ratio that the same locomotive that tool
in the loaded cur next day starts Yves
with tho empty ones. have been in tn
grain trade for sixteen years, five OF thon
in Nebraska, and tho rest not ono han
dred miles from Chicago, and l hav
handled large quantities, ana know where
of speak.
This exposure is On unpleasant task f,
me, but when see trade AS largo u3 ia
Arain shipments of Nebraska thrown on
% its natural channel, and sen. loo
miles further To- seek market, by roaso
OF short weights, whether II oiiginat,
from gross cRrelessness or rascsli,y, E,
ono believe in ough, TO be exposed. T.
pecially as il affects the character an
good name OF your city, as well as TO .ur
large trade into another place.
JosEPH A. CoNNon