At Chicago Is Found The Nearest Water
Carriage Which Can Be Obtained For The Produce Of A Large Portion
Of These States.
From Chicago there is direct water conveyance
round through the lakes to Buffalo, at the foot of Lake Erie.
At
Milwaukee, higher up on the lake, certain lines of railway come in,
joining the lake to the Upper Mississippi, and to the wheat-lands
of Minnesota. Thence the passage is round by Detroit, which is the
port for the produce of the greatest part of Michigan, and still it
all goes on toward Buffalo. Then on Lake Erie there are the ports
of Toledo, Cleveland, and Erie. At the bottom of Lake Erie there
is this city of corn, at which the grain and flour are transhipped
into the canal-boats and into the railway cars for New York; and
there is also the Welland Canal, through which large vessels pass
from the upper lakes without transhipment of their cargo.
I have said above that corn - meaning maize or Indian-corn - was to
be bought at Bloomington, in Illinois, for ten cents (or five
pence) a bushel. I found this also to be the case at Dixon, and
also that corn of inferior quality might be bought for four pence;
but I found also that it was not worth the farmer's while to shell
it and sell it at such prices. I was assured that farmers were
burning their Indian-corn in some places, finding it more available
to them as fuel than it was for the market.
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