The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-23
wEEyIL IN WHEAT.
Great Stock of Grain in Chicago
Warehouses May Be Cut Down to
Suit the Bulls-A Serious situa-
ton.

Chicago, Oct. 22-The Post says:
The question whether there is con-
siderable quantity of wheat stored In
Chicago elevators full of weevil is just
now Fostering big grain shippers, and
if the answer shall be discovered yes,
the great stock of grain in Chicago
warehouses may be cut down to suit
the bulls. The matter came up in
most unexpected fashion Saturday,
with the result that the owners of the
steamer Charles A. Eddy and the grain
firm of Norton & Worthington had a
falling out, which resulted in the Eddy
putting off for Erie with a cargo of
SO. 900 bushels of wheat said to be full
of weevil.
This cargo of wheat is owned by no.
body, there are no bills of lading for it,
and the whole problem will have to be
settled later on, when the returns come
from the inspection to which the
grain will be subjected in Erie.
Meanwhile the grain trade is great
ly exercised over what is considered
one of the most remarkable cases that
has arisen in the traffic for many
years.
On Saturday the Eddy was taken
to elevator A, of the Armour system,
on the north branch of the river, and
than $4,000 bushels of wheat This
wheat was delivered on the order of
the grain house of Norton & Worthing-
ton. 1t had been sold for shipment to
the seaboard by way of Erie and the
Pennsylvania railway. The wheat was
inspected by the state inspector in
charge of the elevator and was loaded
into the hold of the steamer
Then the boat left and went to the
Illinois Central elevator near the
mouth of the river, for the purpose
of completing its car go with 10000
bushels of wheat more. 1t was here
the trouble began and 1t ended, as
aforesaid, by the grain strippers re-
fusing to accept the Armour wheat and
the boat sailing for like Erie with a.
nondescript cargo. For some reason
of his own the inspector at the Central
elevator did not like the looks of
things and was suspicious of the con-
dition of the wheat already slowed
away in the hold of the Eddy. He
thereupon insisted upon making an in
vestigation for the satisfaction of his
doubts and did so. 1t was found that
the Armour wheat was literally full
of weevil, and promptly and peremp-
torily refused to allow the good wheat
from the Illinois Central elevator to
be mixed with what the Eddy already
had on board
This condition of affairs was at once
reported to Norton & Worthington.
who entered a protest against ac-
cepting the grain that had issued from
the Armour elevator
The house requested that the
steamer be detained in port until a
full investigation could be made of the
condition of the wheat and the judg-
ment of the second inspector either
verified or reversed.
John Shaw, the managing owner of
| the Eddy. took exception to this re-
quest, and refused to allow his boat
to remain in port over Sunday. He was
DESTROYS of getting the Eddy away, so
as to lose no time. and demanded that
the extra 10000 bushels of wheat be
loaded on the Eddy, that the bills of
lading be given and that she put out
Immediately. Both requests were posi-
| lively refused. Then Captain Shaw or
dered his boat to go out on it's voyage
with the cargo which it already had
on board, which was done.
Now comes. the query: what will be
done with the grain when the boat
arrives at Erie?"
In case the Anchor line, who own all
the elevators at Erie, refuses to take
the wheat on the ground of it's being
weevily, the Eddy, with her $4,000
bushels of cargo will be forced to come
| back to Chicago. What will then be
done remains to be seen.
| When Mr.. Norton. of Norton &.
Worthington, was asked for his YER
sion of the matter this afternoon, he
| did not seem disposed to go into ii
| fully.Nor even to go into it at all.
ooh, that wheat is all right he
said.
"How is it the inspector refused to
| allow 10000 bushels to go into the
| hold to mix up with the $4,000 bushels
| taken from the Armour elevator?"
ooh, we shipped the wheat ourselves
don't know whether there is any
more weevily wheat in the Armour
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