, 1879-07-26

FLOUR MILLING IN CHICAGO.
4 rcportotiat conversation With T. W. Dater,
Esu, day or two since drew out tho following
ideas:
The current change In the -four trade with
Europe, which has been two or tllrco times re-
fcrrcd to in these columns, bids fair to DO rnd-
cal one. Within few years from now there
will be very little Of our wheat cs.
ported IL tho shape OF grain, most
Of 1t going forward as. flour. There would ho
mora Of this NOW but for the comparatively
primitive way In which Hour ts ha'illcd. The
exporter nho wants to buy a cargo OF wheat eau
purchase 1t all at once, aud Of uniform quality
without raising the price on himself during the
operation. But II he wishes cargo lot Of 1lour,
ho generally haa to pile It up IN several pIaeos,
anu not tnirequently the country owpers have
to bo tclegraphed to In regard 10 1t. An offer
to take two or three thousand bags from ono Of
these gentlemen il ycrs apt to DO re-
garlcd as d sign Of an extraordinary
demand, which juat!lcs him In nsk!ng IN
advance Of 10c per brl, or be declEnea to sell on
auy terms. What Ia wanted to suit the altering
conditions II q 1arga Increase In tho milling
capacity Of this city. Tho mills now running
have manufacture mostly for their own select
clrclo OF customers, and as d rule do not ecll
much on the general market. This city is tho
best point In the whole Northwest for
profitable milling on largo scale. Mills
aro, aud othcrs can be, located 90 TINT
they can receive and ship directly to md
from cars md vessels, ayofding tho expensea u
storage and drayace, except on city trade, whilo
they hare tho immense advantage Of being
able to select from all tho wheat that
| comes hesc, and could achieve uniformity OF
quality uni supply attainablo nowhere else. Il
VIC hnd ono or moro mills hero, with say fifty
run Of stone, the result would DO vast Increase
in our -four trade When an exporter or COM
mission firm hero received an order for 5,0U0 or
10000 bags Of flour tho order could be llcd I'm
mcdIately, mud tic stnf1 bo on the wny to Eu-
ropo long before It could bo made IN dozen dif-
[erent mills In the country oI sHall capacity,
With no uniformity In the quality obtained. For
cleu aealcrs would soon find out that they could
opcrate in 1]our to much better advantage than
| now, and would order flour anl olGal whcge theY
NOW order wheat, saving in tho transportation,
| nutl paving the cost Of manufacture hero Instead
OF ut lome
At no other point could tho same business be
douu With 80 good profit and so small work
Ing capital for the miller hero could rcceiyo bis
i Order buy bis wheat at the same time, hare Il
ground md baggcd during tho process OF un'
loadlae the wheat, placed on the cars, and drawn
against III time 10 pay for the wheat. Another
important point Is tho fuct tllas Chicago hat
NOW attained prominence as q market for win
ter wheut, aud cannot ba competed With In thtE
respect by milwaukee, or Minneapolis whEci
places now supply largo quantities OF flour tt
Europe. There It no doubt that we could bea'
them In spring wheat ind st. Louis In wlnte'
wheat flour-making II no Ind the milling capacl
tY to do 1t.
puTtAnLu GOODS nEcg!ynD
at Chicago Custoul-I1ouse, July e5, 1870: l.
Cohou, 10 bales Leaf tobacco; Fowler Brothers
lis eac'sa salt; Root s. Sous Music Company,
case musical inaisumenta. Collections
sas,53a.slL sas,53a.2slL