The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1875-11-06
Sending TOO Far 10 viii.

tFrOm the Galveston News
The New Orleans and Rio Janeiro
Company is an iDchoate in
stitutton, chartered by the last Legisla'
ture Of louisiana, and its operations
have thus far been confined to furnish
ing the newspapers with articles in
favor of the scheme, and asking people
to subscribe to the capital stock of the
company. Mr.. Mogridge, Secretary OF
the company, avails himself of the ar
gument used to induce little children
to take medicine-that somebody else
wants it, and he appeals particularly to
ST. Louis to pitch in and put through
the scheme, and thus get ahead Of
Galveston. The st. Louis Trade Jour
nal prints n long letter from him, with
the remark that it is intended pc
culiarly for the eyes of the flour mill
ing fraternity, and that there is enough
in the matter to justify close scrutiny,
and more information on the part of
those Interested. This observation is
well made. Here is the Journals ar
g,thnontitn al honla,em:
"Iexas, for the first time in the an
nails of her history, has this year be-
come an exporter Of wheat, and report
has it that the yield this season has
been over 8,000,000 bushels A very
large amount of this has been land Is
now being forwarded to the st. Louis
millers, and shipments to Europe from
Galveston have been effected. This
kind of wheat is the very grade need
cd for the tropical Brazil climate, and
also for its consumers there who have
ever been accustomed to the highest
grades of -four from the Haxall and
Gallego mills. Texas wheat at this
hour at St. Louis commands the high
est price there over all from other Sec
tons of the West.
"The purpose of this letter is that
New Orleans presents splendid open
! ing for at least four mills, that will
turn out each one thousand barrels
per day. Texas has the yield of wheat
New Orleans is her nearest market
and the flour demand for all that these
mills can grind Is on the spot, looking
principally to the Brazil outlet rs q
customer and consumer. AT present
this city has only one mill, and that
turns out only from seventy-llve tC
one hundred barrels per day. New
Orleans has never been much of 8
wheat market, but Texas now loomi
up to fill the void.
az write to know ifyou will not in
vestigate thissubject; Ifyou will not in
quire into the profitable results of start
Ing one or more mills here. Suitable
buildings, long ago erected, and wheI
Texas was n myth, onea cotton and til,
other Il flour mill, and both on the bank
fright and left side) of the Mississippi
figure. Texas wheat could be LANDED
directly in and at the mill ut Algier
(the eastern terminus of the Texas o
Morgan railroadD, or II it came by boa
or barge, could also be- landed there
If located ON this side of the river boat
would land the Texas wheat at the mil
wharf. Brazil or other steamship
could load direct from the wharves q
either of the mills; thus double dray
age aDdeXtra handling would be avoid
ed, and the barrels would he in perfeC
and clean order on arrival at Kingston
Trinidad, Para, Maranham, Pernanl
buco, Bahia and Rio, at all of whic
ports the New Orleans and Rio ia
metro Steamship Company's vessel
contemplate to touch going and cou
ing.
"The very fact of competent mill
being located here would bring whea
here from Arkansas (of the same grad
! rs the TeXas) that now goes to S
Louis, and wheat from States above S
Louis would pass by her wharves o
the chance of n better market in Ne'
. Orleans. The idea of sending Texa
, wheat from New Orleans to st. Loui
to have II returned here in -four, as hs
been done within the past week to m
certain knowledge, is absurd as well u
2 utterly wrong in principle; yet, it
, so, and with incontrovertible fact
evidencing to the most skeptical tbs
Texas wheat can be procured here 4
less rate than is paid in st. Louis, ths
the Brazil market alone is magnif
cent outlet tor flour for the present de
mand of 100000 barrels per annun
(besides the Cuban, Caribbean Sea an
Central American ports, that it ca
be placed in Rio at less price and i
less time than from any other port.
. "rhe tropical countries and cite
also require and will take all the bral
=. etc., that the mills can furnish, wit
their flour demand, they buying an
producing none"
AS Mr.. Mogridge says, the idea {
sending Texas wheat from New O
: leans, to be returned in flour, is absur,
and it is about rs absurd to send Texa
: wheat to New Orleans or st. Louis ,
; all, when it can be turned into -four |
i Texas, and shipped hence to Sout
America and the West Indies, withol
being sent hundreds of miles out OF til
(; State to be ground. and then payin
: tribute to railroads, ship owners al
, millers, which may be saved by II
/. creasing the number and capacity ,
:, Texas mills in proportion to the In
i crease In her wheat crop. This is b,
ing done, and while our sleepy sist,
a City Of the Crescent is dreaming b,
meath the moon, Texas has born
t away the premium for the best flour |
the very city'of ST. Louis itself.
How Long New York Editors Live.
The New York correspondent of III