Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-17

At little after i've o clock last evening
train of twenty-five cars, engine and caboose,
passed through this city, in and about which
is centered a good deal of moment to the
milling interests of Minneapolis primarily,
to the State at large, and to the great
through transportation lines Of this country
and their ocean connections. The twenty
five cars of this train were loaded with Min
neapolis flour, for direct shipment from that
city to London, the following milling firms
being represented with the number of barrels
specified: Hobart, Shuler & Co., 1000 bar
rels; C. A. Pillsbury Il Co., 600 barrels; D.
r. Barber & Son, 500 barrels; and Goodrich
& Co., 400 barrels, a total of $500 barrles.
While large shipments have heretofore
been made from Minneapolis and other
points in the State, direct to London and
Liverpool, there has not before been made
what could properly be called an organized
effort by the milling interest to establish
certain and reliable market for their pro-
ducts in the great English marts of London
and Liverpool. The trouble has been in the
past, that each miller has to certain extent
been acting Independently of the other, and
that there has been no combined effort to
bring the great through transportion lines
of this country, and their European connec-
TONS into hearty accord with the move
ment. As a result of this lack of concert of
action, there has been no certainty when
shipment made would arrive at its destina-
ton, and questions of rates, and many
other matters or vital Importance were sub
ject to SO much variableness as to make the
venture one surrounded with too many I'M
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business men.
The departure last evening represents q
new departure-a combination of interests,
all working together for the establishment
of regular and reliable foreign market for
the products Of the Minneapolis mills. In
addition to the nlillers mentioned above, this
combination is represented by the Erie q
North Shore fast freight, the Chicago, Mil
waukee & ST. Paul, the Michigan Central,
the Great Western and Erie railway COM
panies, the Anchor line of Ocean steamers,
and the forei gn agents. The cars were fur
dished by the Erie e North Shore transport
tation company, by whom the shipment is
made. The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
company move the train to Chicago, and in
order to insure the prompt performance of
its part of the contract, it detailed for the
duty it's ''5oss'' engine, No. 213, with George
Allen as eng lncer MIR. Dan Rich, the well
known passenger conductor, had charge of
tho train: while Assistant Superintendent
Case went along as far as La Crosse, to
watch matters. 1t is expected to make the
run to Chicago in but little less than passen-
turned over to the Michigan Central COM
and the Great Western to the
Erie, and the Erie to steamer of the
Anchor line. The expectation is to have
the train i'll New York in five and a half or
six days, where immediate transfer to steam
er will be made, and in eighteen or twenty
days from the time the train left Minneapo-
lis, it is anticipated the flour will be in ware
house in London.
BY the results of this shipment millers
and transportation companies will learn Just
what can be done. The consequence will be
that foreign agents will be able to make con-
tracts for delivery with equal certainty as
agents in New York, Philadelphia or Boston,
and this certainty secured, the problem
Of reliable foreign market is
established. OF the complete success
of this, as it was an experimental shipment,
none of the transportation companies en-
gagged have the least doubt, and already the
making up of another -four train for ship
!henI W Il'erpoO1 has Deen commenced, and
it is the intention to dispatch such train
weekly for Liverpool or London. The mill
ing interest of Minneapolis, and the State,
has assumed such magnitude, though yet in
its infancy, and exercises such command
ing influence in the regulation of the price
of our great cereal, wheat, that anything
tending to benefit or injure that interest
affects more Or less directly all our people,
and hence the Importance attached to the
shipment last evening.