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Movement Of Grain

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Day
6
Month
January
Year
1887
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Public Domain
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Wamjingios. Jan. 4.- The report or the enate committec on transportation routes to the soaboard on the subject of railroad freiphts in the United State and other ountries BMkM 500 pages of printcd matter and contaim maiiy valuablo table aud 'aiuch information on the subject of trausjprtation. sathered from nearly every untry La the world. The örst tahli1 preO te Indícate the progress of the UniteJ States for a genoration. Thirty-three jearí ago we proJuced 10(1,(100,000 kushcls of wlieat and about 6tK),000,000 'Boshcls of corn. Twice in recent yearf wc liav.' reached 600,000,600 bushels o! irhest, ani in 18S3 the om erop reachad 1,800,09080 btish.ls i five-fold locrease in wheal and a three-fold incrtasc in oirn. The incrOMO in otlicr oereals has not bem M ïapid. In ttn; export tradi' wheat ranki lirst in valuc ;m.i in fifty-eight ycars tiM added 0,609,000,O0 to the value of OUT National production, a sum equivalent to four times the Talue of exportad oom aud corn-meal during the same pertod. The report shows that the difference in öie prloei of corn betwoen the Atlantic jortsaud the lak' ports has Iteadttf de clined from '-il ronts per buHli.'l iu 1878 to 10 eentsper bulu-l in L888 toetween ilie Attentie ports and tl1 Wistern rivcr port lrom 19 cents ia 1SÏ3 to 11 cents in IiSW. This in a moasure shows the tendency oí treight ratos to deoi i Refrarding the question of long and short Mw iMimniitti ■!■ uní1 ! llj jion thiit local fretght ratcs "uta Mridautty iévied on t.h' -.naicwliat touc.r;il principie f what tlic trafflc will bear." The report ays the cost of transporting a busliel oí wheat is more naarly equltabte Ín hfaimhusctts thaii Ín uny othcr Blata re.preented, although thero it finds a iMser rate lor thirty -six miles thm for ttíteen. Th Mport oontlnues : "Id Pennsylvania local MtM Vto blgtter (han 9) UMUOhusetta. ín Ohlo ÜM rtí li bout th; l'.f nn lüllllllri ai it In M f1, hiln Ihe IOg tou! of '.'l') mili'S. hiiU';k1 of DflfBg n'hitlvi'ly itSK, K rflativily jreiltcr. In MMMCBUMftU I" J883 't 0Ot 1.1 IWBtl to transimrt a kustael ol wliuat (l ihíIps; tüo MM in QeDiK'ctu'in fot tr.iniporting Iha same (uantity of uraiii li.' niilcs m i mata; to PennaylvanU, w nOn, J oínti, aod in Oblo, 60 mil", : onls. Of cour se the coodt 1icnsmavn.it ha' bien ihr Muñe. K.irthir irestwc llml Kansas pBJTlng U i''i'ts rbuhl tor transporting i tñlahal Ol whi;:H i m:l, %ná. Massnchuselts. (or thr turne strvice, i ■tiles, U oent, while GUíornl pays M oent jer fonshcl tor M nfiM." The comuiittr ■ flnd that therc has not teen tho wnifl raduotlon in local ratos asín tiirtragh rstet; in a majority of cuses the local raU-s have not been ÑdttMd "l a"to MasHacliusetts ami Coimcctliut ftfí have stcudily deelincMl inc J874. In Ohio they declinod from 1.446 cent per ton per milo iu 1868 to .8JW of a cent in 1883. In Xichígan the average rate peí' Ion per mile in 1HT4 wíis 1.117 cents, aml in 1863 it had declinad to l.oy oents per ton p-r mlle. On the principal railroadB of lowa, tonsín, Missouri, Miniu'suta, Nehriisk.i Mtd California thore has also been oomtderable iecrease since 18T4. Turning lo tMWtga IMMH Mm ■■nniiiittoe' linda tbat during the terco jrean Crom M96v 14-;, Inclusiva, tho Onited Statat Mipplird los tluiíi one x'.r oanl "I thr wheat importad Into th Cnlted Cingdom; Ib the prrioil trom im:i (o IM, lnolulve, it uppHed iii-arly lifty-fmir l-r íii 1 . ; I rom lessthan 1,000,000 bnshelt it teoroMCd to boTit EOB,(IO(U)OO busheU, or abmit twothirds the total wheal exportad trom the Dnítod Btates doring (he latter pertod. One of tlii' most iiiipui-iaiit fcaturun of tte reiiri litheabowiug n tabular torm í th price of wheat for a terioi ti yesn fa the prini'ipal .■ountvirs of the irorld. The average yoarlv prices of wheat was loweat in India, ranging trom 85 cents per bushel at Culeutta to ÍL0 at Bombay, bet ween 1878 nd 1SS1. Rissiu cornos noxt, the average for the decade being f US per buxhel t Warsaw, #1.17 at St. Petersburg and 11.15 at OdeCM. Austria rank thinlin the following order: liúda Pesth, f 1.18 per ushel; Vicuña, tl. 29; Trieste, W.3B, and Fragüe, tl. 18. The average pri ■ ni wheat t Algiers was íor the entire period covred in tho inquiry $1.38 per bushel; t Sinyrua, 11.29, and at Beirut, f 1 41. Jh Gormany, Bromen enjoyt the lowMt prie.% til per bushál; Stettin, 11.70; Aachen, l.(!0; Cologne, Ï1.50; Breslau, HA9 Lelpslc, $1.4; Stuttgardt, ti. 45. Tlie ■verage priev at the principal grain port of Bnglantl was f l.Wi. In Fraiiio. lbmen and Kant' are the cheapest wheat port, the verape priccs batng fH'' iod fl.ñO per huslK't respe Tlivcly, whilc BofdeMB MMfeMtLMand .ns.MHes 91.61. bih kmarrwo n thk pmriubut, Wahuncíion, Jan. 4 The rrosiilcnl ha pprovcd the billa to oxteud the f roo dBverysyst'iniit the Post-OflkM Deprtmant, nd o modify ttui potl Boaey order system; alsn, the mi proTtdlng for a publio kiiiMiK nt Springfleld, Mass., and the act tor the rclul 1 ilie survivors and relatívcs oí vktims of the JeannctW' artir tipetlltion.

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