Omaha daily bee., 1881-07-07

when the grain arrives at New Or
leans, in transferring it to the eleva
tors there it is blown, by mean of
perfect ventilating system recent,
established.
To still further show the advantage!
Of st. Louis great river route, it MAJ
be stated that out of 80, 900 bushels
of spring wheat shipped recently iron
st. Paul for export by way of New
Orleans, the weigher atthe latter poin'
reported only about &c 40.100 bushel.
loss, and but 1 1-2 bushels actually
damaged by the barge. The Loss
from western points to New York by
damage and waste is generally on al
average of l per cent.
While the sun vas pouring out its
rays and making it excessively warm
on the levee it was cool and pleasant
and decidedly airy in the barge yestcr-
day, and it will always be the case
with the ventilators, no matter how
warm the weather may be.
This is supposed to be the middle of
the usually dull, dead summer season,
but one would not realize it to see the
immense amount of freight being ship
ped by the barge companies. Gould's
system of railways, to say nothing of
the other systems cente ing in St.
Louis, are bringing in the grain and
other products from all directions, and
when the new crops are ready for
market the hustle and activity at the
freight yards and on the levee is apt
to be such as was never before wit
messed in st. Louis. The barge system
has verify worked a complete change
or revolution in the grain movement
in the Mississippi valley. With these
improvements, which will warrant the
shipper and farmer in sending the
grain
TO THIS MARKET FOR SHIPMENT
to foreign countries, the day is surely
not far distant when st. Louis will be-
come the largest grain receiving point
in the country. With the present
railway facilities being greatly en-
larged, new roads being built, valuable
connections formed and the prestige
which st. Louis has acquired as q
grain market, the increase in this
years receipts are apt to be something
wonderful.
Iowa and Nebraska will ship to this
market this season vast quantities of
corn, which heretofore went to Chica.
go. The press of Central Iowa is con-
stantly working up a boom for the
barge system, and appealing for help
to the break away from Chicago. The
Wabash railway extensions will give
Central Iowa direct communication
with st. LOUIS; and with the Missouri
Pacific and the Wabash extending in
to the state of Nebraska, much can
be expected from that quarter.
The Chicago papers, when they
hear of the ventilation of the barges,
will squirm worse than ever, but their
efforts to drive grain away from st.
Louis will be of no avail. The hand
writing is on the wall, and the whole
world has learned with astonishnlent
of the rapid development of the river
trade and proneunces the barge sys-
TEN the
GREATEST SUCCESS OF TIE AGE.
Speaking of the shipment of spring
wheat from st. Paul, the Pioneer
Press of that city says:
"This wheat stood q magnificent
test. 1t went through amid rainy and
steaming hot weather, and if ever
wheat had a right to get heated, it
was then and there in those barges.
No test could have been better. 1t
settles the question, and turns Jay
Gould's winter route into a summer
excursion business. Further shipments
of wheat for Europe may now be look
ed for at the st. Paul levec, and a
fourishing trade built up that will
make st. Paul more than ever awheat
market. There was great curiosity in
st. Paul yesterday to learn who insti-
gated the bogus dispatches from New
Orleans, reporting that the wheat had
arrived there heated and spoiled.
"Those who have rolled as a sweet
morsel under their tongues the false
report that the wheat shipped from st.
Paul to Glasgow via New Orleans was
heated can take a rest. The grain was
received in good order at New Orleans
and transferred to an ocean steamer
for its transatlantic destination. The
weather was peculiarly bad and the re-
suit of the test is therefore all the
more satisfactory"
The st. Louis and New Orleans
Foreign Despatch company are now
figuring with st. Paul firms for anoth-
er shipment of spring wheat consist
ing of about 40, 900 ushels.