Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1874-07-10
From the Galena Gazette.
Formidable Rival for EXPORT
Trade In Grain.

From the Gaien3 Gazette
A Formidable Rival for Export
Trade IN Grain.
New Orleans promises to be for
midable rival as against New York, in
the matter of grain expectation. The
natural advantages have always been
held by the former city, which has al
lowed the latter to successfully wear
the palm, by reason of a serious lack
of enterprise. The Mississippi river
was Louisiana's birthright; the state,
the basin into which might flow the i'm
mense productions Of the best farming
country in the world. It's avenue for
transportation cost nothing, and its
maintenance has-been provi ded for by
the Great Architect of the Universe.
Aside from the lions of money which
were expended to originate the artifi-
cial transporting lines which hare their
termini at New York, millions are re-
CURED each year to save them from the
rayages Of time and use. The question
as to the best means for transporting
grain from the Northwest to the sea-
board has already been answered in ia
vcr Of New Orleans, and Congress has
wisely provided means for practically
testing the feasibility Of the plan, by
appropriating sum of money to be
expended in nproying the mouth Of
the Mississippi river. In commenting
upon the advantages of New Orleans
over New York as shipping point, a
writer Of the Saint Louis Democrat
says:
An order was telegraphed hereday before
yesterday from New Orleans asking at what
prices cargo Of No. 3 spring and cargo
of No. 8 fall wheat could be delivered free
on board ocean vessels. The reply was
ST. 80 for spring and 81 40 for fall wheat
At this moment No. 2 spring wheat is
brining 81 "A in New York ahoat, and No.
winter $l.65 ahoat Note then the ad-
vantages the great water route offers to
buyers of grain for European expectation
A grade of wheat worth $l.44 in New York
afoat is offered for $l.30 free on board in
New Orleans. Wheat ahoat means in the
canal boat which brought it; same as con
track" means in the car which brought it,
Consequently wheat worth $l.44 "ahoat"
in New York, is worth at least 81 AT free
on board the ocean vessel that takes it
abroad. As the offer of the st. Louis man
is $1.30, free on board the vessel, it fol-
lows that the wheat will cost the purchas-
er in New Orleans II cents per bushe
Tess than it would cost purchased 'free on
| board" in New York, The No. 3 winter
is worth $l.65 in New York ahoat, conse-
quently by purchasing the cargoes at
Saint Louis sellers figures, $1.40 free on
| board, the New Orleans buyer saves Is cts
per bushel For the first difference in price
| is % cents, and then it costs cents per
bushel to pass the grain in New York from
canal boats to the ocean vessels, as it must
be run from canal boats by transfer eleva-
| tors into lighters and then from the light
ers into the ocean vessels. These figures
are absolutely accurate and cannot be gain
sayed, and in the process of time will just
as surely make the great water route the
principal pathway for the cereals Of the
Mississippi Basin taken to foreign parts
as the to world stands. just think Of this
extraordinary difference in cost for a mo-
ment, II cents per bushel on the spring
wheat and 25 cents upon the fall wheat.
Suppose the cargoes Of each consist of 30,
600 bushels, the gain of one would be IS,
| 100 and on the other $8.400, or $780,
all together, OF course it isn't much won>
der that this fact is steadily becoming
known and hat,shipments of grain from S.
Louis to Liverpool are steadily upon the
/ increase.
J Thus it will be seen thata barrel of
-four can be shipped from this port to
New Orleans by river, distance of not
far from fifteen hundred miles, for so
cts, while the same would cost forty
too cents by rail from Galena to Du-
buque, "a distance of about seventeen
miles. Shippers will thus see the adj
vantages of a water route over rail, and
the absolute necessity for opening the
mouth of the Mississippi. Mr.. II. T.
Lawler, one of the most successful
grain shippers in the south, who has
thoroughly studied the practicable
ty of the water route, and who, we OBJ
serve has largely shipped grain and
produce to foreign ports, in the Month-
y Circular published by him furnishes
facts which are indisputable in favor Of
the plan.