The Cairo bulletin., 1913-02-02
CAIRO SHOWS
IMPORTANCE AS
A GRAIN CENTER
When Business Of the Recent Past is
Totaled by Local Inspection
ard Weighing Basaau.
RANKS WITH ST. LOUIS
And Other Points n The Volume Of
Rece pts and Shipments Re-
ported Each Day.

That Cairo gran merchants arc a
most progressive SET OF men amt
that they are reaching out to every
avai able source for new business is
evidenced from the report or Chief
Grain Inspector Powell showing
that 1901 cars OF grain were re-
cciyed in the. local r.ar.5et last
month and l42g were sh pped out.
The figures far exceed those OF any
previous statement issued.
The receipts OF January year ago
were 401 cars and the shipments
were 20 cars, showing the increase
for The first month OF This year. The
tctal receipt OF cars from August i,
1911, to July alst, 1912, as $685.
cars. From August, 1912, to De-
cembef, 1912 the total receipts was
4S12 cars, the six months business
during that time being almost the
equal of the entire previous IL
months.
The movement OF grain on the To-
cal market is furnished by the Grain
Inspection and Weighing Bureau
which was established during the
month OF August 1910 by tho Cairo
Board OF Traaet w l1 sie~teii an
lexpert in he-1udging and inspection
OF grain is in charge of the bureau.
A dozen assistants under Mr. Pow
ellis direction inspect and weigh
every car OF grain that comes in or
goes out of Cairo.
The samples of the grain are
taken to the offices of the bureau in
the Howe bui ding at Eleventh and
Commercial avenue there to be in
spected by the chief to determine
| the grade variety and quality. The
contents OF the cars are weighed on
scales at the elevators, and this de-
termination together with the bu-
reau's certificate OF inspection is re-
ported daily to the grain dealer to
whom it is consigned When the
dealer ships the grain from Cairo,
| the certificate of inspection accom-
panies' the bi Of lading to the con-
Isignee.
| From the report OF the bureau OF
the grade, variety and quality OF the
l'graln, the dealers know exactly
what the shipment should cost them
and what it should bring them when
sold The incoming samples or grain
are held for week SO that chance
error in determining the qua ity OF
the grain occur q re-inspection can
be had. The outgoing shipment
samples are held for 30 days to give
the grain time to reach its destina
tion, the consignec having an op-
portunity to put in his claim should
the quality not be satisfactory.
/ The cost OF the maintenance oI
1.-THE Inspection Bureau is met by
nine local grain dealers, ali OF them
members of the Board OF Trade
They are charged fixed amount
for the inspection and Weighing al
each car that they receive or ship
lThey send each month remittances
to cover such cost to the treasurer
| of the Board of Trade, who place.
the money in a special fund sci
apart for this purpose. The grain
committee OF the Board who have
jurisdiction over matter pertainins
TO the operation OF the Inspection
bureau are Messrs. A. T.. Rust, j. b
| IMagee, John Thistlewood and Jos
,eph B. Wenger.
The bureau has every facility fol
the samp ing and inspection O
!. lgrain, including a special seientiii,
apparatus for determining the ex
Tact amount of water existing Ii
corn this latter feature being an in
teresting experiment to watch.
Il One day last month the receipt,
OF the bureau was as cars which
Twas out of the usual run by a Iarg,
number. The highest number o
cars ever handled in a single da,
tHas los. which kept the force yer,
busya
Il Cairo ranks IN Importance as
!. grain center win St. f6dfs, Peoria
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