The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1878-04-03

from the New York Public.l
Put shingle into the Mississippi river at It. 81
Che waters without propelina power. it viii le
found within forty days lying off the harbor OF
New YORK Why shall no. barge loaded wih
all the needed power. The river sweeps IL
downward by New ,,rleans, and thence to the
within with 100 uni miles Of New York Artificial power
Is needed only to keep the loaded barge in the
current. BY that route the loaded grain Is 1ar
on the way to Liverpool. and 1t has only to tol-
low the same stream. and in due time 1t viii be
landed without human aid on British soil. New
York i In hs Srat q araep 10 make
q better. And there are men who think it
folly to say that grain can never pc moved &c e
years ago. When a writer declared that grain
could be regularly moved from Ut m"uls ne ep
bushel, laughed at his wild enthusiasm. Yet a.
this very time, rs a St: Louis paper states. the
St Louis to New Orleans ia only s cents per
bushel. When the same. writer asserted that.
after fair at that rohte he
many thought the statement absurd But now
It is claimed by the officers of the most i'm
portant transportation, companies or the Mis-,
sissippi that the bushel of grain can be moved
at a charge of not more than cents, with ample
cargoes and fair stage OF water or an i'm
From St. PanIto New York. by way Of New Or
leans, is about $500 miles. But nature furnishes
distance. Art and co,nmerne have only to put
the wheat into something that will float and
keep It dry. Only few years ago 1t was
enormous receipts at New Orleans, this year
show that it is done with profit and a safety AS
/ long will it be before the great highway, OF
nature, from the, chief wheat fields OF the West
to the chief markets and greatest consuming
cities of the East: will be utilized?
n New York may be- assured that It will !, not be
very long If this city insists upon handling no
grain for export that does not come by canal or
railroad there is much the more room Tor
New Orleans to EXPORT grain. Already the
movement has become SO large as to attract at
ent The ha from that port
gress and egress to vessels OF such tonnage as
Y TO provide economical TRANSFORMATION. Cotton
can pay almost any freight, Wheat and corn
are worth less than one sixth as much per ton.
and must seek economical routes. The begin
ning has been made The barge os move &c down
of grain. with only a singh, ,tngboat to give
direction and New Orleans suddenly takes rank
as port Of the first magnitude for the ex-
railway from St Paul to New York, and thence
made from ST. Paul to New Orleans and thence
New Orleans passes within few hours sail of
this harbor. Is this not an opportunity for the
capital Of this city and is it disloyal T. the Erie
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Missouri, II moved
by the river, pays no tax to Chicago railways Or
Chicago elevators?
way Already more than half of the wheat that
is sent to market comes from regions beyond
the Mississippi The ri river Is Highway and h
greatest grain fields directly TO the chief con-
Stunning regions Of the Atlantic coast and TO the
New Torkers they can
these facts? By somebody, sooner or later. these
same facts are sure to DO turned to account