, 1875-08-07
CHICAGO CRAlN-lNSrECT1Oy.
What I'LL old Iowa Drain. Dcn1cr
Says,

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SnYs.
S1tffsi Correspondence u iht Chfraan Tribune.
UEs Mo1SEa, 1A., Aug. 4.-THE IniBrNE has
begun bpmbardmcut on tho grain.inRpccti0u IN
Chicago. Iowa grain.denlcss aro hopeful sono
good will como Of It, aul TINT the oMtrngns per-
petrated will bo checked: to stop thom ontIroly
ia seeminglg boyoud possibility. III an editorial
OF Saturday you state case whore portions
Of tho aaine lot OF wheat at starting,
wont into Chicago on two different roada, md
waro inspected into throo different grades. An
old grain. dealer Intercepted your correspondent
on tho street yostorday With. "What's stl this
row you havs kicked up about Grain-shipping
and grain. iuspection7 II you ,magno it Is the
railroads, sou aro d-dly mnhtakon; and 1t Tire
TnrnuxE thnks tho old system, Of Board
OF Trade inspection WAS bctter than TINT
now In force. 1t snd-tl eight worso deceived.
Know all about that; I'yc boen tlIcro; md Sam
Mod,l knows about IL; aud no knows that
Board-of-Irad0 inspection was In tho hnnds Of
tho l--deat set Of .l'ioves you could scare up, !,
md he knows Of at least ono man wi,o srent
two years In vain endeayors to break It up You
needn't call Ills namc. but no knows
l,im well. will give you ono
instance in my OVID expericnco with that Boaad.
purchased several car.loatls Of t!ne wheat Of a
farmer, put it in bins by itself, cleaned it, mud
p,1t In cars, MI at tho Same .ino,, On the way to
Chcago tho cars got separated, and went into
Chicago iii tLroo different trims: That wheat,
ovoly busloI Ut It, Weighed 51lS pounds. The
standard OF No.. . Whcat was thon "a
pounds. That wleat was inspected al
No. 2, rcjecte;l and condemned, but
ono chr goiug rs No. 2. At another t1mo | aent
thoro 100 Lushcla OF earn. It was selected with
g1eat caro- by myRolf. and wns oxtra corn. Whom
il ntrivod, 1 wna notified bY fr!ona that 1t waB
bolng inanectc1 as re- fccted md condemncd. l
wont 10 Chicago, aud rcahpned 1t to Toledo,
Sfnf AZ M trh Nh lint
siino VIVA equal to No. l III Chicago.
10 this thing went on, mud
shippers wero ut tho marcy OF tho rascnls.
There was no Jurtice about it; 1t WAS downright
awlndling and tho wnrohonsemon were M o. thc
truth Was known. It don't tako much to 'a~cot-
en- some mcn nowatlays,--or groat many mon,
for that matter. Tho worst featnte about it r..
| YOU can't detoct It unioss somebody na1eclB. II
may 60 on tor ton years # they please. I'll
| toil you ono Of tho tricks. An Inspector comes
to car which lio is doubt abont as to its be-
| inE fully high gsado or tho noxt lover. lie
ilnally marks tt tho lower grade, tacks hia cnrtl
ol, il, and somewhere on tl,o car pitts a ptivatu
Instead Of going into tho lowor grade, goes into
the next higher which makes quite
tmos lay: Put ,,. ro,G Got H.. even y5, osa, w,t
shippers wont inlo tho business Of so1f-p!Eotoc.
ton. / have seen bushels Of sand poured into
whoat in bins, aud it wont Into Chicago and was
| weighed out with tho wheat. ThAt was tho oulj
| recourse 40 had against tho Id Bwindlots
| Thcy ruined the blHinoss. aud It iB thoY VIII
lnvo given Western wheat such dIsrop
utnbIc namo. It In no woldor shipper!
aro anxious 10 find somo other market, 1tko Nil
| waukco or Toledo, whoto inspection is dono OF
business principles. and tho shipper has som'
rights which Hare!lousomon md inspectors ar
| bound to respect. Don't charge 1t on tho rail
roadB that they discriminate 80 MS to produc,
tuis rosult. Evory grAin-lcaIor hnows batter,
| 0AWREYE.