Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-04-02
LONDON MARKETS.

The Enormous Quantity of Food Required
to Supply the Wants of Londoners.
Last year in Billingsgate alone and
its neighboring streets over 10000
tons of fish were landed. In much less
time than it would take lady to fix
herself for an afternoon call l have
seen the contents of fields and fields Of
potatoes and cabbages unloaded in
| Coyent Garden. Tie Monday before
Christmas 2,l39 tons of beef. represent
| ing herd of about 6. $40 bullocks, were
hooked in the Smithfield market, and
on the following day, Tuesday, | had
a capital luncheon on board the Elder
| size, a steamship just arrived from New
| Zealand with 5000 carcasses of prime
| mutton. The day before Christmas !
was loafing in the Leadenhall market,
an ungrudging bazaar, where, accord
ing to your fancy. you can get as little
as dead lark or as much as living
| tiger. The place was so encountered
with poultry, meat, game and other
provisions that the difficulty of the
| buyers to get at the sellers was only
equalled by the impossibllity of the lat
| ter to sally on the former. A Spanish
Ambassador once told Charles II. that
more provisions were sold in that mart
than in all Spain. | bet that if the
Queen would kindly take the present
Spanish representative round the same
place her Majesty would probably hear
| the same speech.
The Englishman lives very wellwhen
he can, and always wastes. specu-
late that twice the actual population of
London, if it were Dutch, would live
here luxurously on what is hardly sutfi-
cient for it's present inhabitants.
Long has England ceased to produce
enough food for her children. In an
average year, say 1888, the London
central markets sold 1S1,O29 tons of
English meat and as much as Az, 1874
which were from the United States.
Each year the proportion of foreign
meat landed here increases. The full
official report for the year 1884 has not
been published. but | know that Aus
tralia and New Zealand have, during that
year, sent over here no less than $685.
1S5 carcasses of mutton. The Ameri-
can trade, which has been dull for a
little while, is looking up again, and
those interested will no doubt hear with
pleasure that the private company,
principally composed of statesmen hav-
nc Their stores at Smthfield Market,
which had built hard by some cold-ar
stores for the keeping of all perishable
provisions, are considerably extending
them. These stores can already take
in from 800 to 900 tons of meat, and
will soon be capable of shelter,ng
double that quantity. Statesmen will.
therefore, be able to keep the meat as
long as they can get remunerative price
for it, instead of having to throw it
away after a certain time regardless of
loss. / have visited these stores. Their
temperature, kept down by splendid
Hazlam engines, was almost S berian
The charges for renting them is two
and one-half pence per week for e ght
pounds, which is cheap. and lower
rates are granted for larger quantities.
In one week only, the week ending
January %. 1855. the United States
and Canada had landed IS, 220 sacks of
flour in London. In the week ending
January %, 1885, 800 cwts. of Ameri-
can cheese were unshipped in the port
of London. exclusive of consignments
BIZ rail. The American cheese is in
great favor in this country. No can
tankerouS gourmet is able now to point
10 Ine led>G ulllerencc DctWteu INC lot
eign article and the best English Ched-
dar, and it is just three pence cheaper
per pound. Many London houses take
nothing but amer can cheese. The
national product is losing much ground.
In one week alone in July last Mr.
Lowell, of the great firm of Lowell,
& Christmas, West Smithfield, tells me
that he has sold 1000 American
cheeses. He kindly takes me into his
enormous cellars, which can easily ac-
commodate 10000 boxes of the article,
and explains that he never procures any
other. -LondOn Cor. N. Y. Sun.