Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1905 — THE CORN BLOCKAGE. [ARTICLE]

THE CORN BLOCKAGE.

The blockage and ear famine caused by the enormous crop of corn, has nit hurt our two local grain firms at all seriously compared with firms in other places. Babcock Hopkins had 125,000 bushels sold in the east for December delivery, and of this they have already sent out fully two thirds and anticipate no trouble in getting the rest out as fast as it is due, though they have to watch all the corncis to procure cars. But they already have practically all the corn they can handle for a while, and are buying nothing but car corn at their central elevator, here, while their vaiious branch houses, such as at Paw, Roselawja, and other places, are shut down entirely, until further orders. Coen & Brady have also so far, been very fortunate in securing cars, though they are now getting close to the limit of their elevator capacity, and will have to stop buying in a few more days, unless they can secure cars. They had a large order for December shipment to Baltimore, and have still 10,000 bushels to send on it, and are be ginning to fear that they will not be able to get it all in, in time. Corn keeps up its price well considering the huge crop, and is now 37 cents a bushel here. At Remington we hear that the elevators are in about as anxious a state as Lyons, at Brook. They have a large contract to deliver corn at Baltimore, for foreign shipment, and not only can not get the cars, but it would do them but little good if they could, for the whole Pennsylvania line, from Harrisburg to Baltimore, is almost one solid block of loaded corn cars, and if one more is shoved in at this end, another will be bumped 'from the tracks at the other.