Evening star., 1919-05-11
Competition for
Wheat Traffic,

Whso< TnA. tne country toH
/ "ne@t Afano' tranc. The Star
Of May 4. 1859. contains the following
news note Of this conflict for trade:
The west 10 in q Torment Just now
over tho question whether whea.
shall be carried from st. Louis down
the Mississippi and thence by sea to
Europe. then New York. or sent by
rail and canal via Chicago and Buffalo
to New York. The St. Louis mer.
chants have 1t very much at heart to 4
rival or surpass Chicago as q shipping
point for grain, and they figure out
that they can move il to New Or
leans for less than 10 cents a bushel.
whereas 1t costs 32k cents a bushel
to move 1t from Chicago to New York
Therefore, they argue that they can
afford to pay the difference between
10 cents and 32A cents for grain and
thus divert IT altogether from It's
present channel to New York via Chi
cago. New York. however, is enlisted
with Chicago in having the grain seek
it's market by the present route. ana
the New Workers are debating how Ia
cheaper transportation SO as to com
pete with the Mississippi line. Some
of the New York papers seem iI-
clined In tho emergency to favor tho
Ruskfn idea that no railroad or canal
should ever declare dividends. but
that these means OF transportation
should be controlled by government.
so that consumers need pay no more
than the bare cost Of carrying prod.
ucts from one part of the country 10
another. There certainly seems to he
something wrong in the fact that one.
third OF the price of wheat should be
consumed in getting 1t to market"
Ak
With regard to the question Of rail-
road transportation nifty years age,
the following
Transcontinental paragraph in Ths
Transportation. 1sss. 4. Of inter.
est In showing tho state Of the trans
continental connections:
Passengers arrived here yesterday
direct from San Francisco, having
made tho trip in eight days over the
Union and Central Pacific railroads.
They represent both OF these roads in
excellent condition. save about 800
miles. which are little rough. having
been laid when the ground was froG-
en-. The frost having thawed. the
bed of the road has become uneven in
surface. Large numbers of laborers
are engaged in reworkins that part Of
the road. and the passengers represent
that in a few days the road will be in
good order over this bad portion and
the trip can then be made from New
York to San Francisco in about seven
days and q half"
The following paragraph in The
Star OF May 8, 1859. indicates that
fifty years ago the
Treasury All in Treasury Depart
on,,. ment was actually
one bullolng. all under one roof
in this city, with the possible e1cep-
winder building. q condition far
different from today.
Hon. Reader W. Clarke. third
auditor: A. B. Mullett, supervising
architect, and G. B. McCartee, chief
Of the printing division of the Teas
ury Department, this morning had a
conference with Secretary Boutwell,
and determined to remove the third
auditors office to the ground floor of
the south wing of the Treasury
building and transfer the printing
division to the third floor Of the west
wing, in the rooms now occupied by
the third auditor. The object of this
transfer is to have the engraving.
printing and money-mak king branches
of the department upon the third and
fourth floors of the buildinA the =
fourth floor being now occupied for
| necessity of sending packages Of
money, plates, ETC., from one floor to
another and avoid the risk of loss by
embezzlement by being 50 carried"