Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-11-06
FEATURES OF TRADE.
Visitors From North HOOsierdom at
the Grain Exchange.
REMINISCENCE OF SCHENLEY PARK
Why General O'Hara Wanted to Make a
Gift of These Lands.
A MANUFACTURERS DREAD OF BOON
OFFICE OF PITTsBURG DISPATCH.
TUESDAY, Noyember &. 1889.


Among the visitors at the Grain Exchange
to-day were Messrs. j. D. Thayer, of War
saw. Ind, and J. W. Thompson. of Lees
burg, Ind, both operators in grain and hav.
Mr.. Thayer was formerly grain dealer in
this city. Concerning crops in Northern
Indiana, he said:
"The yield OF potatoes was never before
so large. From one little station near War
saw 900 bushels of potatoes were shipped
TO Pittsburg the past month. The crop Of
oats is also extra large and quality very fine.
The price which farmers receive for their oats
in Warsaw is Is to 20 cents per bushel and at
these figures they are not active
Potatoes are sold by the wagon load at 25c
per bushel. Wheat is more than an average
crop, and quality is far above the average.
Not Much Fruit.
While there is an abundance Of vegetables,
the fruit crop is very light, with the exception
of apples.
Trade is very quiet in our section. there be-
ing an over abundance of stuff and scarcity of
money. We find it best to ship our grain and
produce East, as markets are better this way
than in Chicago. But shippers of potatoes to
Pittsburg this season have found poor pick
ings. Freight bills ate up most of the profits.
Northern Indiana has never enjoyed a more
bOuntiful season, taken altogether, than that
Just closed, but the great trouble is to get any
thing for the stuff. We have had much more
profitable seasons when the crops were mnch
lighter ana poorer in quality"
Real Estate Item.
The following is communicated by Mr.. S
Chadwick a Twenty-first ward dairyman:
THE lards which Mrs Schenley has donated
TO the city for park purposes were at the begin
ming of this century the property of her grand
father. General O'Hara, one time Quarter
master at FIT Pitt. General o'Hara had a
great mania for real estate, and was most of
his life what would be called land poor finding
it oftentimes difficult to pay his taxes, which
were hardly rs large those DAYS as now. Dur
ing the tight times following the war of 1872
father of Mr.. S. Chadwick was the owner of
farm at Oakland joining the Squirrel Hill
tract Of General O'Hara. The latter at one
time offered his possessions in that section to
the senior Chadwick on condition that ne
would assume the tax encumbrance.
Change 'TwIxt Now and Then.
General O'Hara passed away in 1919. From
the close of the Revolutionary War until his
death he was the foremost real estate owner of
this city and vicinity. His faith in Pittsburgss
future must have been very large, but as is SO
often the case, others reaped where he so
!
property which three-quarters of a century
ago was offered as gift to the man who would
pay the taxes is now given to the city without
money and without price by a descendant
when its value is measured by millions"
True Prosperity.
e representative of one of our great iron
industries, which turns out a speciality said to-
day that business in their line was never before
in as healthy a condition, His words are
well worth quoting SAID he: Il have known
seasons when profits were three times as large
as they are now, on the tonnage. But we are
now able to turn out a much larger amount
of products and have ready market for it all
From 1873 to 1888 we had a great BOOM which
in the end proved disastrous, for things kept
climbing up until a collapse came, and there
followed few years of dull trade. The present
condition of things is much better for us and
all than the high kiting which will inevitably
bring a reaction. If business will Just keep
along as it is without any further boom will
be entirely satisfied. What is most to be
dreaded now is another boom, and already
there are omens of this in some lines OF busi-
ness :;