People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — ELEVATORS CLOSED. [ARTICLE]

ELEVATORS CLOSED.

Failure of the Corn Crop Looked Upon as a Great Calamity. New York, Sept. 25. —Mr. Charles Counselman, of Chicago, who is here, said Monday: ‘■l have been all over the states o? lowa, Kansas and Nebraska, and especially the Itock Island system, on which I have a large line of elevators. In all my history of twenty years connection with the’grain trade I have not seen such a failure of the corn crop, and at points where they did expect to have a little corn they tind now upon examination ihe cob has but little corn on it. Coupled with the fact they raised no hay it Is in my mind a calamity. I have closed one-half of my system of elevators because there is no grain to handle. Traveling through Nebraska you can see the people moving out of the country.”