Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1897 — BIG HAUL OF GRAIN. [ARTICLE]

BIG HAUL OF GRAIN.

Railroads Fring Chicago Over 5,000 Cars in One Day. The roads running to Chicago from the West and Northwest are doing the largest business they have ever done before at this season of the year. Monday was a record breaker. Over 5,000 carloads of grain were brought in by the Western roads. This means over 100,000 tons of grain in one day, or more than three times trs much as the ten east-bound roads took from the city during the whole of last week. Of the above mentioned 5,000 carloads of grain, 3,500 carloads were corn. The Burlington brought in 1,100 cars and the Rock Island over 900 cars, and they ran short of rolling stock. While the lake lines took out of Chicago last week nearly 200,000 tons of freight—the largest amount on record--the Chicago east-bound roads are carrying no more through freight than they did at this time last year. The reason is the rates charged by the railroads are higher than the traffic will bear. Total shipments of flour, grain, and provisions from Chicago through to seaboard points and for export by the ten eastbound roads last week amounted to 44,349 tons, against 40,153 tons for the week previous and 41,117 tons for the corresponding week last year. Flour shipments last Meek were 2,510 tons,’ against 5,328 tons last year; grain, 30,488 tons, against 20,<851 tons; provisions, 11,351 tons, against 14,938 tons.