Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, April 17, 1875, Page 7

—— - B GRAIN. Statistics Concerning Chicago’s Chicl Interest. Tho Hen and the Trade---Extent of the Business, and Ita Exponents. What the ]len.vy Commisslon-orchants Are Dolng-=-Mlllions of Bushels and Thonsands of Mllifons . of Dollars, Our Olty Leads Amorion in Commorofal Tm- portance—An Exhibit That Qhal- lengos Attentions INTRODUGTION, Thers can'bs no doubt antertstned on tho roint that tho Landiing of grain and flour, the receiving, atoring, and shipping of tho cereals, whoat, corn. oats, rye, snd batley, a4 Clicago, fnvolva sums of money vastly In axcess of thoso used in any oiler trafiic iu any other oity on thla continent. And there Ia no dieputing tho fact hat tho men engagod in the grain busiuess [n Clicago are, a3 o clnse, tho ropresentatlve com- morcial meon of tho natlon, pre-cminent for in- tegrity, enorgy, onterprise, and ability ; thoy do- velopin tho higheat degres tho qualities of ghrowdness, decision, aud industry, and sre singulaly unostentatious in all their relatione. o by brought into contact with thom Is simply to sdmiro their manners and methods, and, with- out nuexception, to acknowledgo that on them prosperity 18 woll beatowed. Tho trado 1o gralo must Lo divided {nto two ‘olasaos,—tho ono dealing in roal values, tho other oporating in purely speculotive values. In the ‘formor class, over $200,000,000 are used annunl- “Iy,—purchaso and sale,—and in tho Iatter clasn {ho trading raprosonts poatly or quits 83,000,- 000,000 & year. On consultatlon with soma of hio loading men on 'Change theso tigures have Dboon reviewed, and In evers instancoprononnced withip, ragher than aver, themagk. This axhibit showa totals far oxceading tho whols smount of tronsnoliops in valucs apd chapcosun Wall atracy in ona year, nud mora thap tou times greator than tho sums involved in any nller intorest, commergial or manufgeturing, 1 the couutry. 1In faot, during ko yosr 1674, thero was handled in graly, flour, provisions, snd cottle, in tho ity af Ohicago alone, oyer 300,000,000 warth— asamojusl to tho Governmontal expenditurcs af iho nation for the flical yonr. In porsennol and capital thero t8 no interest, trado, or “trafiie in tho Uniled States the equsal of this ons of ourg, ‘The quality of tho giain handied oo iy being advanéed by improvements Ip ipspoction and storago, ono inatanco of which is tho grad- ing ond fuolation of suporior Minnesota hard whent, devieed and porfected by McCormick, Adams & Co., an BXImpIO likoly to po imitated. T'his priciplo fully cariied mz{. wi)} operato boup- ficlally for grower, merchant, and ‘miller, and and give Chicogo Ipepection a' world-wido ‘e~ nosn. From first to tho hneiness and busi- noss men, the vast pnqunts of mapey and grain tu:ped ayer, aud the ucbie standing of oty grain comnmissiop’ merchnuly, oro totho Lowor’ snd crodit of our city, and ad such thoy Abould b ro- garded and bonstad of. In the succeeding lines sro presented skolchon of some of the loadjug houses gmong Lhe fe- colvers, abippers, aud option uyy-. Ofll_f: mall part of tho numbor are included in this articlo, owing ta 3 lack of paco and time, but future articles will bo devoled ta thosp nesspsarily left unmeptionsd Liprein. S. H, M'CREA & CO. Prominent among tho leading commission merchants of Chicago, & represontstive rocoive fog bouse, I8 the well-known firm of 8. H. Me- Cron & Ca,, 167 Bast Washington siropt, consist- ingof Mcssrs, 8. H. MoCrea, W. E. Jobnson, and A, N. Youyg. Theso gentlemon have ail mado the grain trado thejr special busineea for moro than fifteon yoars, the eonjor mpmber havs fug heen activoly ongaged thoreln pa & prineipal forover twenty years. Tloey hogan whon the groin trade pf Chicsgo wasin its infspey, gly- jog but n mera promiso of I8 present growth and proportipns, by bnying slong tho line of tha Chicago & Northwestern Railway, and sbippivg to this market. Tho oxperionco aived in this purauit, drawn fram the very oors of tho farmo:s, and followed through tha chiangos of transportation and ownership all tho way to the seacoast, gavo ench of thesé gentle- mon the insight into and *intimato acquaintance wnlthu ingricacles and varfed details of gran Luylng and Landligg, whicly t8 nocossgry jn the cn: uck of po viat & Lysiness pa they now traug- = ‘1he firm commuenced operationa {n Chicago in tho yoar 1862, Although tho firat years' agros gates wero pomparatively small, owing ‘to the cautioun and conaorvatiyp proceduse of tho firm, ‘which sought tuo ‘moderate profits of” eceupity, ather than larger gainy with copresponyling riska, uineey proseod staclf rapidly upon them, and compolled the gradyal nbandoument of side oporations ss they choge 'to cop makjpg varmanont logation jn tho cij {ness increaged it demandad tho ontleo 8 cnecgy of all the mombors of 't fifm hore, 4heir elovators and warchonseq at Rackicljo, Bfur- liog, Morrieon, Do Kalb, mid other poinis wero either gold or rented, and tho commissidn busj- R Eiog of agcl post 91 'zgm 4 showing of agrlipr years of shont §1,- 00T e e T f ohont Bl ngiupss which thoy admit covera from ©7,000,- 0 to $8,000,0000 yoar, cashi actually usod ln tho recciving of tho vatietis and grades of cercals, but fvliich all reports and_ stgtements to opr’ rg- L)orlex ng tho street agreed in potting ot & moch igher Ogpre,—oven to the doubliug of theflim's wmodept admiealoi), Thojr snccqesful expe- glouco in thp grafo trade, toxiouwr with their undoubted - integrity, ssslduity, and abllity, sud thrir prudnacq and forathought nvd ongbled Meaers, MeOrep & Co, tobuitd up bis business, in shich tbny'gknu&l nocond to ponp ‘I tharr Jup fn this city, atd turif; condition of their cpstomors indicates that wn& dutarcats sro well sttouded to, Lho firm's na- asual caution has alwayd savad thoir correpond- ents from tho jnost disastrons consoquencea of {ives, fnl.;lum. corners, ud panjes. This fa'well ‘ozomplitiod Ip the great Hro of 1871, I ‘Which tho"coublgndra’ of ' grain to MeCren & Co, lost littlo or nothing, comparajvely, in tho destrite- tica and ruin whichi involved 8o many thoueanda of othiors.” Tho roceipta of (Lo ffin ato maiuly from" fhe country adjapent to the Chicago & Nozthywestorn Itogd, Letwoen liozo sud Omabs, flnlrln?;pnggldqmbw amount, bowaever, from tho Elkhoru Valley spd southwapds from Omsba; the district sonding them & probablo -vbar:nun of fl!xycsr 3"““' of g{hdu a dsv tho whole yesr round. jis area, thoygh pot vest, i fortile, and tho ;mfwm\p o contpaliod 1F pot motiopolized, b ¢Crop &' Co., Who havo compelled the confldente'and prosperity thos on- Joy, and who from eholce ‘alona occupy only the dispricy described. s M'CORMICK, ADAMS & ¢ Thoss bl P R ths intereat, aro in possomsion of tha dots, and are compotont o '‘judgo of the courso of tho trade, 'place the louss of McCormick, Adams &'Co. among-'tho {iva great focolving houses af Chicsgo,—the five which yecetvo fully ‘one-Lalf of all the graln comlag to tha city., Thers can bo Iittlo doubt bot that tho name of the sonior 'partuey I8 a towor of ulroogih to the coucern and lh;u is no doubt but thot the commerclal asumen and supervision of tho Piber tyo membarg arp to (i croditad with tho =olig %mndmo& ayd’ ngwut eomluu of the flim, 0. JT. McCormick, Egq., I kyown through gut tho length sud breadth of ‘theland as {hn r_nllf rexpar MeCormick " ¢ aud, in commercial ED“:ZI“’A 3 g,"n‘rlm" Mri !l‘x‘:gh -:SW\’O nlnd \;x . 31 Ada: recoguizpd sy thorougl, gafe, m lrnum: ey aon, Thia honag Had ifs ”fls noing'tn 185D, tha original ‘partuers Lohig Tiasoh, C- HL. blclarmick and ueh Adems, he lattar lsu}lumln 1 ono pf the oldest, most 5}“‘[{}" gyc e m.;m&, cyteemed momhers & 19 Hosrd"“of ITade.” Dr, Cyrus 1IJ. a nmp bo. mitlod * fn ° 1872." Thoy “: e statod, wu imniouss recpiving baul- (awing from Wisconsinn, Jlioly, lis- ng).mfinuml Iows, Npbragky, m{]l)nuou, Somilng coudieport s fur en, o Uiy 1 that' the houds Las' attained ‘s’ position lace thom at tho licad of tho wheat- terewt, 8 thoy sxo controlling e !f‘f‘ onp of the largest whoat-nlaip- pations jp° Mignesoly or the I\'p‘r}fi: 1 options, they transact Ing né‘mné.hn“.:“h the largest ";fluelg suol out- o aftor 8re, - Ol - com! salon sl irduiging e phoix lpunllml Euln wh’shvu?”l}finm l&u'if» THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE: in honsos, they can afford A A el B n{ul find mors eh, by 1t tat- & Keop alouf from fetitious valion ) t (n n logitimate busineas, nl E;:{lgrnwth R id ronown, demands ail Lhcit caro. All businoss is personslly{ attended to hy tho Monsra, Adams, tho recelving branch belog iinder the cara of Mr. Hugh Adams, the aption branch heing condnctad by Mr. 0. if, Adama, a gentlaman {1y \whosn favor, na & oareful oporator and [re: eminently cloar-hended tnan of business, all ro- porta nnite. MeCormick, Adams & Co. fa ad- mitted to be ono of tho Atrongest, if not alio- Tutely * o ntrangest,” commission fonsos in the Woat, and 18 justly rogarded by krain won ssone of tho atrongest bulwarks of the interest, MURRY HELSON & CO. Qront grain honses aro charaeterintic of Chi- cago, wa having tho hoaviest and keenent donlors in cereals, snd moro of thom, than auy other city in tho world, and tho general probity and financial soundness of thess houses aro justly tho prido aud boast of our citizens, Among the farcinost operators in the gratu hueinesa in the city {s tho firm of Murry Nelson & Co., No. 161 LaBallo atreot, & concern which ranks, in all par- ticulars, abronst with tho fimt; and, in varioty ot operationg and interesls, takos precedonce of most of tho trado. This conaideration ia hatght- oned by their conservative mothods, and the rospority which has followad thoir couduct of [;umunus. ond by the benofiis they have confor- road on tha comniselon Lusiness of tha city through thalr dectded stand for tho rights of traders, aud the nncceesful opposition they of- forad to a grinding and unjust mosopoly. Mr. Murry Nolaon, the soolor parinor, bogan busmnoss in Chicaxo in 1850, Iis firat opora- tiona covored but & amall portion of tho ground now oceupied by tho firm, but, through the im- portanco of his Lastorn connections, “the busi- ness trangacted was, for those days, Yery cone sidorsbla, In 1801 Mr. Nelson was joined by Mr, E. B. Stevens, n gentloman of supatior aptl- tude for tho buainoes, who brought ereat activily and enlargod connieetions into tho concern; hio Dbears the roputation of being the guickest and rafost operator, and of earrying tho clenrest Tiaad, on 'Chango,—qualitics 58 advantagaons to consiguors and cousipnees as to the firim jteolf, ‘The rapidity with which thoir trado grow soon put Murry Nelson & Co. in the position thoy mow huld, ond oponed tho way lo other engngemonts, outside tho oxciuwive elipping business ta which thoy hsd hitherto confinud themaolves, sud which ipeludod buving for and shipping to partios in Naw Yorlk, Phila- delpbla, Boaton, and Duffalp, such gralps as whent, corn, and oats, the bulk of tuoir businoss, Lowevor, boing in corn. As shippers, the mom- Ders of the firm havo distingmshed themselves Dy caution. promptoocss, aud shrawdness, sud smong thelr extonsivo busineps acquaintauco aro accordingly most highly cateopned. Mo firm of Vincont, Nolsou & Co, was or- anized in_ 1806 for eariying on tha elevator finulmwn. Thay built the old National Elevator, ot the foot of Adama stract, snd connestod it with the tracks of the Alton & BL. Louls Hoad. At that_timo thors was ncastom in voguoin tho handling, olovating, and wurehousing of gram, which, Loing deamed o strotel of priviloge, was combatted vigorously by Viucont, Nalson & Co,. with tho elfpct of removipg tho practice, Tho result was not only to tho adrantage of tho en- terprising prorcentors, but rolieved tho whola trado from an ovil ngamat which tha Board of "T'rado had protested in vain, and ono thatscomed destiied ta sngcessfully defy indjvidual offart. “his poa In ho firm's bivtory is opo of which tho gentlemen haye reason lo bo proud, and which can only ba _roforred to with credit o them. Since the favorable conclusion of tho mattor tho warobousing businoss ly open to ov- ory oye deeiring to opgage in it. » Pnoir old elgvator, snd dryor counected thore- witly yero dcmi‘oyud in tho great firg, but thn firm' fmmodiately” erccted another, larger and mora porfact, on Archier avonnie aud Ogden slip; in lgcation sud cousiruction tho only really fire- proof cql‘?vum in the gity, furnisling storage for 1,000,000 busliels of grajn, swhile iho facilities for receiving aud dugharglng ara oqual to guy other [u (hik region. Laat Junuary, burry Nolson & Co. associated with themselves Mr. A. H, Pickeringto do a Westein receiving businces, that gentloman de- voting his tima and gttontion sololy to tho col- lection avd purchnso of graln fu tho territory west aud mnorthwesu of lhere. Liko thio otber mombora of thoeso tirms, threo in unmber, oporating togsthor, d1r. Piekorlug i ona of the mqgt carcfyl apd experipnged meu in {bo buginess, Our rapprter ascertaingd from va tlous squrces that §¢ s safo to nasert for Murry Nolgon & Co, o business of ovor 8,000,000 cash ‘Por annnm, somo {nformants belng much mora hberal In their cstimptes, and it 1 pertain that thege figures are yather wpderthen pver the Feal pmoupt. S. D, FOSS & CO. Undeniably tho largest veceivars of Alinnosota whost in this ejty, and probsbly tho largest ro- colvers of that grain genarally, oo 8, D, Fosa & Co. Ths **Compauy " {1 Mr. AL II, Toss, Theso goaticmen are from Now Hampshire, and aro distiogulshéd by -tho - characioris- tica of New Eogland entorprise and thrift. Tho senior, Alr. B, D. Foss, came to Chicago in 185, and for olght yoars aoted in the capacity of Grain Inspoctor, thus galuing a prac- tieal knowlodgo of the trkde, which Lisa been of incaleulablo advantego In lila calling asa grain commisulon merchant. In tho tima nol 3 3. 1i. Iops wna carpyipg ou o comipispion busl- ggn, iho firm boing Hlada & Kosg. In 1867 Afr. 8.D. Fopg astablished tho' houss of which ho'is sonior, aud, phortly aftprwards, jvaa joined by his brothor, on the dissolution of the copartner- ahl}x of 8, & F, For soveral yoars thoy did p lght bub puse bwsl‘nMT. and restod tholr {I“L\I’B on tho l?‘llldjlg gn of rado on tho soundest of sl bases—safoly and comprelension.’ They navo ‘omploysd ho trave oleie, nor have thoy rosortod to porsonal solicita- tlon, and tho magultude of thoir present bLusi- news in pntiroly owing to their exactness and clagenass of inspoction, and tho ‘glirowduosy of their oporations, Last gnnr thelr cash paymients for car-lots of grain rccdjyed lore woro abopt £6,000,000, i1 addition to which thor option pur. chases wero in’ tho mefgliborbood orgz,oau,m)a Lugholy, Moeurs, Fosy acp hern for tho largpst grafo-fitma In Minnesotn, ows, and Wiscotsin, and soll oxtensively of the celebrated '+ Minne- sota mllling wheat™ by the cargo, Besidos ‘the Htates slipady enpmeraied, thpy rocuiyp grent Bnancmou of grain from Nobrasks, ovor the uplington & Quinoy aud Chicago & Northwest- orn railwaye, a8 woll as'much comiug over the Iilivols Central ; somo days as high as 200 par. loads are rocolved. Continliig thoir" businoss fim{lflunlly to whoat and bariey (bifgged), tho ighest-pricod of tho coreals, the tatals in cagh of their tra jops for o yoar aro magaificent, In addition 'to” thiir grafri-téade, Mosvrs, B, D, Toes & Co. aro largo racoivers of dresuad bogs, dolng g thes line o husiugss hyrdly sacond to that of ‘any othor comuusslon-liousg in the clfy, CULVER & GO, In 1853 Mosara. O, I, sud I, . Culver began the huainess of recolying graiu, In o emall way, haviug on ofiiep o tbe pld Hilliard Blagk, nepr tho Clark plropt bridge, Af fhat time tho futer- £8h which has jew repchad guch wpadorful @ng magnificont proportions, was atruggling an: nndoefined, ad the sydden fortyncs of lajor dpyp imnossible o repllzp. Tho sfeuspy. Culvers' exporionco was that of most of tho hoayy liouscy the} Lavo peaisted tho shocks 9 o i and atood sgafost tho brestly'of panle. Tholg operalions wore cond\lmmd on soynd commercial rinciples ; they avolded hugto, and simply ar By dehns e bt a8, 0 consoquouce, the uncertain and modest trado, with beakby puce, grew kg bo l»éz and thos oxtogaivo, Ju 1804, Mr. I T, pfu-r 'rouuid from'the flem, and his position was fillod by Mr, Gaorgo ‘M. Culver, the ** Compaiy " of te con- l.‘ern“;ltpr;l&:!. thio 0 ot & , 873 000 0f 0 five 9 xey O A R R R i 15 way to this market, as ‘clsowhero noted, and are inown o Wostern grain-mon as one of the fawdr& hoysos in the tradp, o} anly in that bfl Lgve feat <o) fa) pnd E;Porlnnn ; Byt bo- canbe $hoy at nndrmnnlny o busines nd 'in all commorcial rolatidnd muy bs most fmpHoitly xoliod pn. ‘Floy do nothing buj comnission busf- uoag, with gn pys sipglp to tho welfarg and futop- egts of conyighora snd ‘corresroudonty whode ‘donlinga aro muck moro largely'in actusl proper- ty than in puroly speculative values. 'Fhey re- colve iho produats of & vest mnd sostiered &l&r!lll:’ry, fip):;pclkun unru:x;g of lani Nallug)a}h. T shipmen! ra for ount o W Yorz and " Bamalg, 'bat the Bull of wefr recelpts aro placed on the market in this city, lfwfi:n the gtrict graln Une, Messry. Culyer & Einatind e ondo prors i sl cloyer aud timogly, joir convpnlent ' pfilces in’ tho’ Gbawber 6t Commoree: Duldfig e gentlemon keop employed a largo staff of clerks, aud traugapt $he hywnoss w‘lmnlch tbey davota thamiglsed, and jn” which they havg piialpnd prosyierity sod general yegard ¢ D. W, IRWIN & CO, Datiog baok ¢a 1554, D, W, Irpin & Go., {§ que of the grajn ivafipytlons, gpjaying » larso trade 5d 30 enviaklp reputstion iy p city yuomy life lni;“gg’%!fi‘; 'a!;: l‘TM::, ).uv% b o £haugos 1hel from the ariginal Loyss thiough theso 0508 have not ulogl’ul tho nf;i = 0 or the regard it early earned for fajr deal- 1ug, ovtorprine, and commercial honor. In fact, thesa have beon tha watchwords of the flem through all mutations. As now constituted, tha concern was organizod [n 1808, In which soar osnrs. D, W. Irwin, 1L C, Kow, and A. WV, Graon bocamo assacinted. ~ At that timo the busincss of the houae was falr, and hiad go continued for many years, but this acesseion of now elemants infuned new Rtrength, and tho flim soon began to extond their businoas until their present high standing in the grain trady and tho commercial world waa attained, and thelr groat businens was butlt up. The bulk of thoir trade is that of Dil- ing sbipping orders for Lastorn account, tio principat citlea roached boing Tffalo, Oswego, Albauy, Now York, Pbiladeiphis, Detroit, and Tittaburg, togathor with amallor pointa be- tweon lioro and tho Auantic seaboard, in New England and Pennsylvanis, In ail- dition thorato, they trade largoly with Caoada. Last yaur Ilmspur:hlull for tho lumbering in- torost in the Ottawa and Chaudiers River dis- tricts mevoral heavy conslgoments, which wero sent to the Dominlon Capital. ‘I'ho celobrated Hudeon Bay Compsny, in its day ouo of tho greatest corporntions “on tha earth, have pure chasad brandatulla and moats for thoir Lake Bu- perior dependoncics through this Louse, which numbara likowisa among jts corrospondents tho Canadipn Governmont, which ling obtained sup- lios for its troons and emnloyas far the roglons olweon Fork Willam and Yort Garry through them. Tbis houso iv one which biasachioved em- inenco on its merits, and can only keop itn record grood, Telglabove tho ** nacidentsof trade” ariring from laxnose or lack of surowd comproliension, As Irwin & Co, aim at all times to make their customera’ interoata paramount and lheir own of secondary importanco, theic clionts raust in- oroaso in numbor and prosperity; and the gentlo- men thomaelves cannot fail Lo rotain the regard srhidch now attachos to them, PHILLIPS & CARMJCHAEL. Ono of tha six loading receiving houses of the clty, in point of heavy raceipts, rolvency, and so- cority is that of Phillips & Carmielisel, 90 La- Hallo streot. 'Tho house was first established in Chicago In 1859, the firm being kuown as Phillips Droa, & Co. 'Tho senior partner, Mr. William N. Phillips, and bia brother, Thomas 8. Phillips, haad been ongaged, for somo ten yoars provious- 15, {n the grain trade through Uentral Illinois, but on o complofion of tho Chloago, Durling- won & Quincy Road, traversing the regions in which they bad Lot oporating, thoy came into tho eity. In 1861 the firm waa changed to Pull- lips. Brothers, and in 1862 Mr, George 8. Car- mickwol was asacolated with Mossra, Willism N. and Thomas 8, I"Jl!illlpul sipce which timo it has continued withont change. Tho busincea of this houso 18 extensive and permonent, fluctuating but littlo for tho paat fivaor sjx yoars. Thoy recoive mofl“ wheat, corn, ond oats from Illinois, Nebraska, and Tows, ood sell in tho market here, thelr businoss being exclusively s commissiou one. At the prosent wmm&; Phillips & Car- micliael contral ovor 500,000 Lusbpls of corn, actuslly in erib, and over 100.000 bushels of oats, hosides corrospouding quantilies of other corenls. Ip tho conduct of thoir oxtensiya husi- noss Lhoy liavo warehiouses at numerous poiots, awning 'large and commondious structurcs st Galya, Woodhull, and Now Windsor, and Ell‘ly owniug, and wholly controllipg, gthera at Gales- burg and Aledo, ‘Their option business s fully equal to that of any raceiving boyso in tho city, some nuthorities placing it at tho hoad of tho Jist, 'Thess optipns aro purchased or sold excluaively for acconnt of coustomors. The {utelligent and coosarvslive caursa pdopted apd pursued by thoso gontlemen liog tmm:d their wisdom, for, dunur E“ aud tight times, in tho stosdy currout of trado, or amidst tho rush of panie, their papor Las always Dboen worth its fape, and their drafts and chocla liavo alwnys commandod cash,—n record scarcely {o bo bonsted by oven tho heaviest of their con- tamporarics. In business and social relations, Mpsars. Phillips & Carmichool, lndividuglly snd collectively, command she Liglest respect,” and bear 8 most enviadle roputaticn for endrgy, re- Hiabitity, and integrity, JAMES H. DOLE & CO, James i, Dolo & Co, are said to recoive the Targest amount of corn among the many heavy nandlora of that staple in the city, and have for wnany vasra enjoyed that profishls diptingtiop. In gua papert this fiem s p docidod adyentage: it bag stood tho ceacial test of time, has lired tlipqugh paolo and fire, and, beipg probably tho oldess house in the grain-commyseion bumnops In Chicago, has made a record and roputation that hina oven outaurippod ts finaycisl aucuess, proe- perops w4 shal hes beep, ‘I'ng concarn was establishied in the year 1852, bys émm.wnhlp botiwoen tho brotliorw Jumes If. and Charics 8,° Dolo, and - thd namo aud atylo Lavo heop coptipued oyer gince, A;slin start, thio Mosars, Dolo hnd slready formed an ex- tensivo circlo of aequaintancoa” and conusctious fu tho country, which g turned fo good srcoun! xrorr iho baginn g and which hag widenod untll now thoy seil over 0,000, worth of cora consigned to aud rocoived by them sunpslly. Daring the husy wpon ¢ js npt nu- common for thom tp ocpiye 100 cap-loada o day for days topetlicr, the’ wiiich'they put futo mat- ket hore: Irhog do titlg or no aptian lbnlinn‘n; on their p¥n aceonpt, proferring to doa) ouly in Jegitjmatp yalues, thau':;la‘ lu:«:‘{;!l commjssion- mon on 'Clhiange, they engago largoly in transac- }imll; #r?nummi\dagui ur;:'i‘ omexr g“llaumnn' n oy recoived in the borliood of 15, 00,00k "a{x:lmll et o aiphborkiond of reat portion bofng from' 'the “Burlfngton” & uiiy Road. Iu somp, of. the psst fosr yoars noro |hlnhh:lt of n{l the BEI;:! m:;ruiug qu; th city over that yaportant rasd has hpan copsign, ¥ osara. 7. 11 Diala & Co. "Thorfitm Ja' fora most among the rellable, monoyed receivers of tho city, nnd Is honored wherever kuown,' ~~ * E, F. PULSIFER & GO, Tho widely-kngun pyd emipently prosperous Lougp ot E. F. Pulgfor & Co. w738 chtahli 1864, the firm belug Pulsifor & McOeoj; | cember, 1867, tho firm namo was chapged, and, Mr. McQoo withdrawing, Mr. O. A. Palsifer, son of thie aonior partner, took part in the business, At that time tho trade of the Louso Lardly mnmld ma;!'llhlrld f_t lhoédpowumwp%?d. the acconpion 0 lagl-pamed gontloman bajng s e orelon BF Visar ko “latolirraat ettort, b concern i3 ono ‘of tho leading corn Ldiises' of $oo city, almost monppolizing the canpl ang IUj- nola” Iivpr racejply, besides rocofving largely by rall. ‘Binglo day's recoipts by canal have boeh as Lighas 180,000 bushols, and by rail 45,000 busbels, B nlgifer & Co. trade mostly iu carn pod ol olng probably the Tighest roceivers of thoto coreals ‘at thls point ;'bealdes this they Liandle from 18,000 o 20,000 bagu of soeds 8 ypar, and pongidorablo wheat from Iows ppd lfiquim Tholr :{fl!an busingss fins {urc'n dtsalf upon them, sad, a8 mighs be’ expeoted from thoir po- #ition in the copsmercie) world, is vory largo, apd s gl for correspondents, thoy hofinq strctly from gpocujution on thelr own gecoynt. “The firm rates 1:!1 in h‘i;l“"l‘ sod th&gumlsnbn:n com= Pown| pro psloemey) for problty, 8 QXOF- cisg of tho h(gm_ufiuufinuflmfl{fl&l" i) ISAAG N. ASH & CO. Ay back in 1850, vhon tho Boprd of Trade wpd proud of & gmall yoom pp threp pypirs of alaigp at tho fool pf LpBaljo street, Bir. fm- N Ash, then a yery yogug man, becamo engaged fn 0 pommisglon buainesg, o continned slono I tho year 1802, whion'hio boeamo sssociated Mr, W, 8, Beaveros, and theso two gontle- ro st Drosont the eole partios juterostod in thom, firgy aro hnnv{ roceivors on sfi"\‘u rouds centeriug {u Ohleagoand on thelinoof the ngd lionoa transack 8 Jmea § Ifl: afo suyd prolitablo trade coptrol 0 Jilinojs & Alichigen Cp eénml uamuuz? Tows, Minncgots, Miggouri, Wlaconsin, gnd [iuols, and ure nlvaye ready to make adyances on’ il kinds of ¢ They, y {llfllq'"&n ;:qlg: o control a4 puich Nobrania 8 0! the city, o fir] '8] shobial atbantlon s Witag efass for sil Kindd of fin-t;-ud; apd nial vory ‘large r;:.-,m:an :1{ othy evary VATpt; ra93 §padp (10m) al ey the Wert, P of i Tohhon ava foutid keir bLusines conatantly fncressing as the res gul of tholp gouservativa matiod of dualipg, and bécause thay rely for canmgnuients upou regnlar ouxtomers, some of whom have deplé with the fi5mn sjuca jts organizatiop. ' M'DERMID & OERTEL, commission mercheutp, sro locatpd st 133 La- Halle pirgpt, oppouitq ho Chsmber of Cpmmarce, inquo of .tho mgst favorablo positiong ip the city for s commlssion offjco. ‘Thid lrm g beon cstablishod for about ton yoars, and o to ila success in trado av a proof thal experleuce on tho Wall 8troet of Chicago has nob been deatituta of rich roauits. The firm’s busi- nose bas slown & steady lucrease nor Laa its pd- yancement ta s prominont position boun elow, 3 proved by o fact shat phe vear 1874 foynd hem tho hoaviest receiverw of dressed hogy jn Chigago, & digtinction whict muyt commy the hiousbto countey uhip‘eurl and dealord. “Over the Ol , Burlington & Quincy load jhey rank socoyd a8 receivors, pesidos ”.“f copuigumenty fr ber districlg ‘jhr which other roady pai e firio bag & o Nobraska frade, probably seaond ta uans i she cit wholo amount of their aunual trade wor Ab, fally 8,600,000 busbel onnt in opttons, Tho houso of McDermid & Ocrtel len enpecinl attantlon to bitying and selling all inds of grain on margins, sl & thorough acquatniance with the daily markel lias mado them uniformly nuccensful. CARL 0. MOELLER & CO This firm s -ona of the fow i the city who make a pecialty of barley, sud to whow the ex- tent to which this coresl I8 roceived by tha houso itin anly necessary to ntate that from tha first day of Aprl), 1874, to April 1, 1875, aver 373,000 bushols were shipped to them, Almont evory barley-growing Btato west and mouthwest of the (ireat Lakes contributed tnora or loss to- ward anpplyiog the firm with #hipments to fill their orders, They hiavo alwaya paiil especial at- tention to supplylug home conwumplion, snd but & vory sroall porcnnufu of the barlny recoived by them fa ont aut of tho city, but their whola on- crgios are dovoted to srtisfving tha demnand wade upon them by the brewors and maitaters of Chicpgo. CLEVELAND & ASPELL, the firin heing composod of J, 1. Cleveland and . 3. Aspoll, do a striotly commlssion businasw. For nixteen years they bavo borno an enviabla roputation for ability and jutegrity, 'Thoy aro large reaclvers of grain and othor produce, sad In addition buy and ship laggely for Fastern scoount, and lhave mu.m; an honorabla distinction- only possible in the pug- suil of an axtanslve snd legitimate Lysiness, ANl consignors to thin houso hava su assur- ance, scquired by timo and experience, {ihat thair infereats will ba esrefully guarded, G, P. COMSTOCK & CO. For many yoars Mr. G. P'. Comstock wan en- gagoed in tho gratn business in the country, and in 1867, with amplo copital and experionce, sought this city a8 & now theatro for bis enter- pilse, 1Io weu mseociated with Mr, Baker, who, last yosr, rotired with a lsrge fortune, leaving tho extensive avd profitablo trado and connec- tiona to the senior pasiner, The uuccens which has attended M. Cowstock's oporations (s tho bost indication of his ability and solvency that could posaibly be given, and the maguitude of Lis business jn nrnr]’thlu[f claimd admira- tion, This house combines tha recoiving and shipping branches in grain; deals on commis- elon escinsively, in optione, and ban- dles groat quaniitics of balod hey yearly, ~ each varfoty of Lusiness being oondacted separately, baving ita own espceisl staff of clerks, the wholo being directed and saporvisod by Mr. Comstock. The grain. sorn belng the epocialty, is drawn from Illinois, Towa, Minnesots, Wisconsin, snd Nebrasl slupped mostly to {\D\»\N in ;L nd, this houeo being tho hicaviest shippers in thoe city to that district, Evory year, from the meeption of the business until now, has shown successivoly o largely-in- croased and proaporous business; they osn ele- vators at Maoteno, with a umufia capacity of 225,000, sud own sod control others st Oho- bansp, Peotone, Clifton, Kasukskes, and Tucker, and do businesd with all the important arteries of trade loading into or aut of the city. At Mat- jon the; nwza &n qleyator which iy used sy & railrand distribntiog-polut, sod iy of nuusual im- portanco to partied in the Kast who order graln, 23 G. P. Comstack & Co. also own or control mpny_warohouses on railrowds connectin) at ’llltlnmu ith through li;’oxs l% all parts of tho East, thercby goarsntecing to rumhmng correspondoita bigh quality at the oywest market quotations. The liouss couse- uently ‘recofves conatuntly-iucreas opders for sk, BGeg, PEOVIRIONA, le., from Now Ene tand and the Middls and Boutliern States, and n receiving and ahlmuns daey businoss with thirty States of flie Unlon. i 1n'so Jargo and varied o business, each de- papiment ip pf ikeol! sufliciently important to roquire the whols atiention and time pf sovoral men, ond belng sclected for filuess and enorgy, they can, in their Boveral departmonts, accopuplisly marp gnd 8t 1osa cost than if each wore eallod upoq to bn; and gell jp all of tho Jines the house ia called upon to operate 10, Desidas this, the Westorn consignor and Egstern consignee are both: aseured of tho services of oxpert, compptent men in their bobalf, Thus, having an extonmve busluosy, ample capital, and oxperienced asaistants, O. P, Comstock & Oo. aro ablg to fransact bysinass at 8 saall percont- #ge of oxpenso, and, dealing Jargely, alvoys wo- curo the "lowest gomfi Troight rates, the mini- mum charges for Landling, tho speadicst transit, and many othep ‘:Llunucu only obtainable by licavy 'houeos, tlis wame being to the manifost emolument of their customors. i e ‘fbis brief apd ‘burried epitomo Is merely & sketoh of G. P, Comatock & Co.'y b}ulnm‘ ne will serve to copvoy a slight idea of ite oxtont and lmportancs, s WILLIAM YOUNG & CO. The pecaliar excellonco of Chicago na a busi- neee polot, tiie adyantages It enjoys, tho oppor- tuniticg it offers for tho exercise of commetcial shility and enterprise, and the suro and satisfac- tory xeurm, prp evidences in (ho riso, growth, and prospority of tho grost firmy of Willla Ypung & Cq. Altliongh jta location n this city but ntly, tha atgndi ropptatioa and otont of businchs it has acéampilahod hiare Al roady.put it whoro it {y,—among the heaviést sod west reapougihle, well sa tha wealthiest, in hojisés of Chicago. To bo e, jts eatab- fshment waa disfioguished by tho pos- sossion of mmple capital ond tho direction of tunu;_u:o!u thopaughly conversaut with tho grain rado, {te fluctuations and probabilitios, yot even these qualitios would have requirad congiderable timo to assert themsalvos and acquire the wide roputation of the house, bad they been unac- companjed by tact apd entorprise. 0 biatory of tho firm begive with the patab- lishment of tho business of Willam Yomig' & Co. in hll)ulmuken,a\‘lu‘d,‘ ul‘u the d'eu 15%7.1!‘:. paripers beivg two Cansdisn geutlpmen, broth- cvm,wlq T8, &gmm ;;nd . NeD, Young, Tho hduse built up aud conducted ah emiuontly eat- lufactory 'businoss with' profitatle conn apd, fluding the sphpro of thojr aKa somewhint contracted in Milwaikoo, shoy clated with thomecives Mr, It W, Danbam, and the houso of Willlam Young & Co., Chleago, eprsug Into vigorous exlstepco ip Decombor, 187L. Mr. Oupbam, & netive of Mussachu- meits, liad -boen sinco 1880 conneoted with the grain-trade of thia city in variong ca- weitisy, and brought to bis new connection nowlodgo And cougorvatiye impulse. Undor such puspicos tho fututcof tho concorn was fully naur_nj. snd tho very )lru ypar'a businees far oxcooded that of mauy of thooldest and most oxtensivo hotises. From tho boginniyg the firm havo conflned thelr gperations Lo a safg shi) th: bissiness and tha - pupchsso and sale of optione, airictly shd’ only on commlsslod, Durmng 1673 thiey handled, in reality and opions, sbout 16,000, 000 busliols of graiu of all kinds; in 1873 rather over thau undoe 10,000,000 bushela; and ip 1872 thioir trailio included 20,600,000 bushols of corals and atoub 1,000,000 . warth ef pravisiops. Those figures, 'l‘m,"v admifted by the firm, and morp theu - indoraed ' under matk™ by {wo or fhres of the pepviesh operafors c_ni Chpqge, w?:o arg jnp p,u,a{;lou to Jndgp’ pearly’ ace l_'{!fl i t tho firm's trans- actinng, will gervo (o Indoato (ha magultudo of & buniuioss ow only 1 1ts Afth your, ~ The graln sliipmonta of Messra. Willsm Young & Oo., from thia polut, are mostly to Canada and Now York, From Milwaukes, how- ovor, the shipments are heavier, espacially to Oanads, the grain bein, buu;{‘bz thiero by millers for homp uso, priucipally; the ares covered i oxtopeivg, embracing almost all tho "S‘I' cibion sud largoy towns from Loadou to Montreal, In provisions, thelr shipplug tradp, mainly' palt meats, ensbinoét nearly 'all the Southiern Statés; onsignmentd reachiop puéh points as Norfolk, Ya.; Momphip, Nashvillp, aud Lebanou, Tou. | Now Orloans, “Lg.i I¥iimington, 0.1 Bavannah * © Weat DToint, and gtil.xr c%l‘.lpnfiq "6 m;-un, Belma, § It aw o y Bivy' s Tablfion Dalfjmote and Puiladolphia With thiy éxtensive odrreapondenco, and the ggg.lgn '}'fi""x’&’ 74 euuflmmm for yllnom the A4 O] apd, an iF Moyio| - ngronu tg th: eéurfi of nm.° kglllm-%nfiunl‘ ness, {tis not surprising that weslty has flowed iuto thely cqffers, or that thoy enjoy s coptldenca which’ po chzne]n tide of flyetuation fu the mérlkot or on thb strect can disturb. 'Ihelr orders in tho option branch of their businysg gro not goniinod alone to the grpvtug or 'g“‘fi“'l“" distrlcta of tho West gnd Nor h- west, iat come from Bt. Y.ouls and Now Yor business coutres, and ewpracs wido rauges 0 Egsb and Houth. Tho businoss of Willinm Young & Co, In" Chicago is comducted by 3T, Dunbium, at 93 LaSalle strect, where thov bave tho largost sud most handsome suib of otfices in fhe city; o Mjlwankeo tha Messrs, Yopug attond personally to the jytprosts of the houss a¢ No. 87 Mickigan street. For probity, parson- sl Lonar, sud saalel qualitics, tho Messre, Young and tho posidont partoer in this T’ hgar tho bighost reputatfoli’'And regard, sud on’ 'Change ar6 eonsldersd sa worthy exponents af the busi- ussd of frading o grain, sud sre lodicsted a4 Topregentatiye men of the frude. ROBERT WARREN, A hauge whase oame and opprations bavs ex- tondod hoyond tho ses, (8 tuak of Boberk Warron, e, §,0r Duildiog. ‘The greln-sbipping R B L s o 2 finod to domestic poln| arrau slands In the rolation of ploneor to atraffic which must eventually prove enormotts. That this particu- tar branch has grown importsnt is dus rather M=, Warren's keen -rnreei-llon ts and poseibilities of tho ~facilitica for it operations, wiuch offered themsolves, whan, 867, lio eatablisned his headquartera in this fr. Warren was connected, far many , with tha well-known house of W, P, Me- Laran & Co. in Milwaukee, whera ho first begeu businoss on his uwa account in 1863, Hoon of- ter hia removal to Chicagzo he canvassed the queation of direct exportation to Great Britain, and beaama convinced of the fossibility of tha project. Iu 16G8 tho first nhipmeut was tnade, and since then the Irade has thriven and in- oransod, =Eegular consignmeats sra forwarded, y Mr. Warren, to London, Liserpool, Glaegow, nand geveral pnt-portsof the United Kingdom, Theso uhl‘rmunla embrage provisions, flour, and geain, snd ara purchased hero iu conspusuce with orders, mostly telograpbed by cablo, from ummcoxrenpanden 8 on the otber side of tho water, Whila it wonld ba dificult to give exact 97- ures in connotion with this direct export, it{s nafe to say thet lart year it amounted tofully four aud a guarter millionw dollars. The atle raport of sho Beorotary of the Board of Trade makes uo moution of this intercst, an oversight which appears singular when the exhaustive nature of that rapore i coneidored. In addition to this shecialty of trade, Mr, Warran buys largely for account of New York, Philadelpuin, and Boston ratu-doslers, and possessos in (hat direction s neiess groater than s majority of the ship- pera from this eity, involving » largs capiti with yesults flattering to his menagomont, Ca- uadian centrog, notably Montreal, draw consid- erably for their grain through Mr. Warren's sgoncy, and will soon incrosss their or- dars. ' Tho propoasd now huo of stesm and salling vesseln, in which Mr. Warren in a sharo- holder, will afford him enperior advautages in that direction. If to all these Lis option busi- nees bo added, aome idaa will bo canveyed of the magnitude of the operations in which Lo {s an- gaged ; these option4 are entirely and sitogether deait {n on commission, Mr. Warren has ottained s digmty and sc- quired fuformation fitting him for tho position of an suthority on the mnbjoct of Direct frado with England, through tho “various chianuels of communicstion, aud his statoments and tucories aro most bielly regarded Ly gentloingn and ofllals * immediatly inorosiad - therein. the present time he in baing con- sulted by Qov, Devoridge on the mubject, with o viow of maturing opinions 0 ba promulgated bereafter. In tho necessarily re- strictod limits of this article, it {s impossibla to fully desoribe o businnea of the variely sud extapt” which characterizes this ono of 3Mr. Warren's, Suflico it to ray that it intotho advan- tage of Limself and tho whole grain intorest, and that jt iv conducted on such sound finaucial rrluciples that its pm&pomua fature ja_sssured. s exnmplo 18 ono that cannot but exciie others to try tho maguificent poswibihties, and give Chieago the banefit of the whola proiii of o vast raln export to foroign countries. Mr, Warren has Leld office in the Board of Trade for the past five or six yoars,—acting a8 an erbitrator or Directar,—and is most hlafily regarded by hia asgociatoes, 4 POPE & DAVIS. This firm—William J. Pope and Richard L. Dayls—have beon in business hero for soversl years, pud have slways done p eirictly commis- wlon trade 08 receivers aud ecllers of graio and provisions. Probably no other firm in tho trade isso falrly entitled to be credited with having special features in the conduct of their commis- sion business horo, Firat, this firm does not so- licit puroly specnlative margin orders, and it hos alwaye been their castom o se stato in their ad- vertisements and busincss circulars. Nevertle- less, they aro always ready to oxecute all the jo- gitimate’ orders of thair rogulsr_sbippers who ms! wish _to order graia sold to arrive, &c. Under this method, & very large and safo bosinees i mccahnlnll{ mansged Dy this firm, whoso llet of customerg 18 undoubt. edly the most froe from tho genus epoculator of any known pern. Socondly, Messre. P. & D. wero tho pioneora liero1n tha' {nauguration aod developmont of the now enormous trade dono in the selling of grain by samplo for shipment in butk from %oi_nta West ta any avd il ppinta Fnt reached by the numerous }h[lnugh freight inea_ropresonted here. Thus,” the buyer iy saved all oxponses hicre, and {8 ready to add 0 much to the price of the griin to the benefli of tho sellor, In tho selling of whita ogts, barley, and fine samplds of wheat, thfs motliod of goll- ing bas woll-nigh bocomo o necpesity, if best ricod pro sooured. Dpring she winter monthe ho same rule np[lfllen to tho salo of corv, and thia firm aro thio Jeaders {n this epecial branch of tho graig trade bero. : ‘Iheir businees hes sieadily (l-rown 10 i}8 nres- ent largo proportions through fho application of untiring personal industry abd attoution, ® thorongl, practical knowledge of their businoss, » large mn}I popular acquaintanco here, and the application at all times of the best principles of infegnity ip all thelr affairs. Thoy rpfuso to sc- cept imo _drafis, and only maka cagh advances againet bills of lading, and, therefore, with ample capital, they ars plways ready to advance agalusy w)l copsignments ymdn to them ; and this ability was not disturbdd )f the great flre, or greator panfe, when wli drafts on thom wero paid on presgntstion, fo their great credif, also & “fithug compliment to thelr ablo’and consorvative business manage- ment. Thoy do not employ any travsling agents, Lut lhgy uover Josp & customer, and tho **good words ™ of thesa lattor tesdily ndd to tho ligt of their shippers.” The firm do a very Iarge busi- noes through tho elovators, sud probably no Loysg bero receives and handles more sctual grain {ban thog, thejr cash uilos ‘of gisin for Westorn account exceeding '§2,000,000 anonaily. Such of our readors a3 wanh & prompt, active, faithfal, #nd llmmufi)nly cqmpotent and respongible com- missfon-house hero will find snch in Pope'& Davls, 168 Washington streot, Chicago, . RUMSEY & WALKER. The list of loading flour and grain commia- sion houses in tho city contains, prominently, thatof Rumsey & Walker, known for mauy years, under ita slightly changed firm names, 88 an ox- ponent of honorable and enterpriping doaling, The concern is the continuation of the firm of Rumeoy, Williama & Co., who began busincas iu the city sbout the boglnning of the year 1865, Tho original direction *of" tho Lugincss of tho house has boen materia)ly gltered b of capifal, and's’ trangpozition hag n tho matter “of leading ‘lines. * Formarly," the houso paid especinl attention jo transactions iy flour, making thoro in whoat and other cereals meroly pybsorviont thpratg, bht at longth tho graln” bimodied through thelr sgonoy hita como abrosst, in tho matter pf dolisrs, with their tigde jp flour. The extont of phelr busiocsy Is shadowed in fho facts that thoy are in recsipt of over 1,000,000 ‘busliols of wheat snnuaily from their pogular and gopatant cnrmnpcuxiuutu. ok u increaup n mado In clugiyo of fraurient and oceagional shipmonis & thev ‘aleo recolvs flour from twenty duferen! mills, ono of which alono sonds thom as high as X(i.Ln)b barrolg & ypar, A moment's yoflection i necgseary §p fuily comprehend the extent of this buwmnoss, and fally appreciato tho akill nocensary ta tlo rmpnr and protitable disposal of ko wucl propaify. - : 0 gontlomon composing the firm Elvo thojr personal supervision to the Interosti of thelr correspondants, sud are ssaisiod jn tho condnet of tho bugingss by » campotant stafl of elorks, Mr." Rumsey Is most Inw,mlgl;kunwn s Capt, Rumsey, “of ‘tho famous "faylor'a lattory, ;rsl‘x‘nleh left ‘lwlro 'lflr d‘the frany um , and which pcbjoved & dustiucto ihat nncc?- x.fi'nir' up'on' ever oMcnsAnd mng whoso namea wero borna by fts rolls. And {n the moro peacatul wplkn of commaroisl lifv, Iir. Ugmsor'a hlace ls edually anviablo and fistin- [shod.” Mr. Wallier is the youngeat sgn of tha ato Cliarles Walker, Esq., Whp, with il ‘elder son, asgociated fu’ business with him, were smang the pioneory in the commisslon and fors warding livos fu Chicago. Tho pzparlgncp thug oarly ghingd niust nocoasarily bo of the last fm- partancy to tho judicious purdult of & grain-coms wiggjon busipesy. Iy commepreisl ciroles the Lougp of Rumsoy & Welker rafos desarvedl high, sud every day incresseg ita progperity ani for the filturo. b DALCH & CO., whone ofiice Laat No. 164 Washiagton atreot, arp among the hieaylost purchasing conynlsulon mor- chants in our clty, ‘Tho sourcea whouce thelr trada [s supplied are cooxtonsive with the great Weat, and tha poluts to which thewr oonsigy- ments sra seut luclude nearly every prominont shippiog point on tha Aflantic sga-hoard, “Fhoir Eastorn tradp during thq last Ew can bo ndo- &\xmwdced from tho tact that oyor §3,000,- wortt of grain and provisions passod through thoir hands, and thioy report a steedily-lncroas- fog trada thus far duriug the prosont vosr, 1t ig such) petablishmonts pa this thet baye con- tributed ko laranly m‘lntli;u comnierelal pros- perity of our city by ‘mal h.fi hor tho greatest gralo dopot In the wozld, sud by giving her ub- Jountod ‘u(&u‘dhl{ hlu [of'o)gu pl;tm alwn: S‘" %r:- wanug exipts fof the produces of tho (reat West. M, % Dalch, ‘m-.‘lfiiur member of tho firm, :“smm;l% of Detralt, w“hnr; ul]- lf-&l‘l:;ll_l':l A‘l: g clrvlon wah of undoubted credibjlity, 8 “m ”wn:l Mxfi.‘u ’Chlusa. In ‘the former clty o tha Dothoit Mills, of which Mr. 1. Tiay nioprietor, ~Mr. Balch, of thia city, wana! that timo a Lieavy dealer In grain and flour, aud also a beavy shippor. Thoir former substantial and well known hionna Tias Iately been eniarged snd streogthened in husinesn eapacity and reacitocs by ths accession of Mr, 3. D, Wondford, late Amsistant Genoral Buperiutondont of tho Cireat Weatern Railway of Canade. Mr, Woodford, a gentleman well koown and highly estoamed In railway etrolex, will, oo doubt, prova » valaablo acquisltion to tho wide-avako and onterpri-ing houne, and all tho oxperienco and energy of the several mem- bora will be dovated to carefully extanding their connorvalivo aud well-astablished trade, and all Wentern dealers who wieh to benefit by long 0x- S,‘;’{,’;.’{S,","'{.' lipright buninews princlples, ¢an do hsn correspond with of Bllch & Can Chigago, T ™ the Bouss EGGLESTON, HENNESS & €O, Away back {n 1639, when very many of the sucopesfil commiszion men of tho day were citber juat atarting in business, struggling with a clarkship, or it may be too juvenile in sppear- ance and oxperience to walk the dizzy board; twenty-novon years ago, when Chicago was burdly of sufiicient fmportance to causs & pang of jealousy in tho breasta of hor preasnt malavo- lant rivals ; bofore this city could boast of a Boord of Trade, and before any person had coutidenea In her ability at that time w form such an organwzatiop, Mr. D, Iiggleston, tho renfor partner of tha present honko of Lpzlestan, Honness & Co, beasme eogaged in tho commis- #ion Lusiness in Olnainnati, and soon attained o prominent plaeo among hor daalore. 1), Egglea- on, W. T, Henneus, aud C. B. Eggleaton, com- priaing tho prasent firm, located s Lranch house at Chicago in January, 1869, The fleld occupled by them includes Lhe principal products boaght aud sold on_commission.—i, c., sall kinds of griin, different brands of flour. and provisions generally. Oneof tho priucipal features of their businsad, hawaver, is fhoir heavy trade in provisiope. Their dealings ara sd extended In this direction ~ that they aro probably ma well acqnainted with Chis trads pe any firm fu tho ecity, In faat, ther kuowledgse and facilitics are snch that they aro zccustomed to {asue a weekly cirenlar, contain. iog s careful and reliabl roviow of the woek's trade, togelher with preyailing prices. This firm transaots hoths a reoeiviog and ship- pitg; barinees in all the promincut branches of the commineion trado. Thav alaa huy largely to £ill outside orders, and racsivo wany orders to buv snd sell upon this markoet, Kvery Westorn shipper must bo woll aware of the fact that a house of the ago and standing of Eggleston, Heuness & Co. hayo not arrivel at thoir prasent pitch of prosperity mavo through cateful attontion to all tha basiness intrusted to them, and an upright mapoer of dealing with all cus- tomers, sod we aro plad to stalo that with present {uformation the house can be safely recommonded to the trade and public genorally, foeling patisfled that any business inirusted :l:lu:r earo will be faithfully and honostly attend- 0. UNDERWGOD &: GO, As early 88 1856, the firm whoso name heads this sletch was organized nod doing business in Chicago. They have been promiuently identitied witl: the intorest over sluca thal date, sud, al- thouglithere have been somo ohianges in mombors, the firm-name Lias romalued for tha ninetoen yoars laal past. B, W. Underwood, ono of tho original fouuders of the house, withdrow about five years ago, and embarked in the hardwape trade, but last January ho again united with bia brothet, P. B, Underwood. aud brouglt to tho business froeh ceital snd emergy. Por ycara the firm Los baen pscking pork quito oxtensivelv, but now coutemplate disposing of their eajeblieh- meot for the purpose of dirceling their wholo sttention to roceiving and sbipping on 8 large scale svery varloty of rain snd provisions which tho great Northwest produces, ' Thoy slso trade in option coutracts, s largely dealt in on oar Board of Trade. As sbove intimated, the parties s} prespnt comprising tho firm are P. 8. und B, V. Under- wood, both rosidents of this city, W. NORTHUP & CO, About twelvo yoars ago W, Nortbup rotired from the banking buainess and associnted Lim- solf with the commiseion businoss in this city. During tho first cight years of thelr commercial life, in fact,—until fhis fire of 1871, —thoy trans- scted & Inrge receiving bysinres, put sipce phat tipe tho house baye turnod taelr ttontfon to s general commiesion husiness for the purchase 8, pie., aud also buying and selling uppn margins. ‘Thoy hopo to merit, patronage by close and caro- andshipplog of grain, pork, proyisions, 8 Il attention to” onlers. Tho members of the the firm, gnd their Lo jef o tiipat gt J. B. REEME & CO. Tbe hiouse of J. B. Reemo & Go., syccegsor to Hord, Reemo & Co., Las been ideptifiod with tho grain and provision commiyson busjugss of this city for tho past ten years, spripging ab tho first into a largo'snd profitable trado, each year xdd- Ing to” its importanco and extent. Mr, J. B, Reems formorly conducted s fHourlehing graln bualuesa jn Cincinnati. In tha conrao of trude J. B. Beoms & Co. a3 oftico fa locpted lings in provisions. As thoy b ¢ the connections which are thus turning in car- tain and assured pryfits yeor by year, thpy tako 10 chayces ip spoculative operations on pheir own account, snd, in tho years pnat, bave pur- nued the safo and conservative courdo of con- fiping their «Enqn)’nx- 1o the enhnne 4 of tho interests of their customers. Thus, capjfal must incrcase, as it (8 mot endangored ar joopardized nuduly, and the policy and record of ho hiouso is an jnducaman} to customers and o highest indorsement of 1t trustworthigeas. ARMOUR, DOLE & CO, are engogod oxcipsively in (e plovator and grain sjarago husincss. ‘The firm wou formod in 1§0] fqr $he purpose of buildipg pn eleyator and handling the grain seceived oyer tho Cbicago, Buplington & Quincy Taljroad, 3 In tho year 1801 thoy built tholr firgt ware- houso, on the grounds of the Chicago, Borling- ton & Quiney Kallroad Company, neer Sixtecnth stroet. Tho capacity of this firat houso of 800,- Q00 bushels was. then suppoped to ko sufliclent for tho wauts of tho Iallrond Comppny for & lopg imo b 0 ; pup it was saon found ghat this he ‘n‘;clze;l?il:npm‘dlluwlsnfiq'n sioaad et ahos abiout the same' capnoity was bullt, 1t was soon again found that with tjua ndditional warchopse they woro (Tquomly cramp- ed” for * etorage-room, spd whon roplac. fug their olovator **RB " (whick was burncd {:u lga’e Lb} cwnlclly wuxlncxiued lto I‘.)'fifl.:flng uspols. ‘This, too, oyivg ta gxtenn Db ondh vy abon fornd. Inguficiont, aud, in tho falf of 1873, the present ¥ lionse (ck- pacity tor atorage, 1,800,000) was pommpncad, and comploted abouta voar aga. - Thyy it wil Do nqen ghat the' Chieago, Hurllugtop &' Quincy Railroad Company has eecurod, for the acvom. modatiop of the pgople along 1s lines, 4korage capacily of pourly 4,000,000 bpgpolus t would not ho conslderad by thp managor any vory groat exploit i€ theso clevators unload« 530“.‘,’&,"‘},'“ Iln & ufiy. -m{ uifi:fixqr ';"1“': w‘nnl- X clg—tho oply diffioylyy 18, that po e alirid was wolt iandio 600 car of ' grala n » dnfl.md vassoly cannot take gralu s fast as it ean bo givgn thom. ¢ Tho “elovators of this firmg aro bullt, with ail “the safety-applianco: usual or that can woll bb lutroduced 1 such tructures. ‘Tho sanjor momber and manager of tho firm ig Mr. Georgo Armour, tha present President of lau Reurdxogil‘fldu 7*! ghicuzu. n:lnjl fqrmfi;luy’ ‘olf 8 flrmy unger mour, This geytley; 4 rufnmgl {0y 1 qbareota and o tho Losrtiost terma au a ropresentativo and chsmplon of tho commercisl konop and integrity of the grain trade, oy} bog tho cordial and frequony- resand regard aud oslosm Of every niag gon [:ecle'd wnfi Ilw ‘giin intorest In Chicago. —_— Ramp of tha lato hoognzs hullating are in estipg yoadiag. The daily Bmduct from the (Jnuublllfillud Virgiuls s 400 tops of ‘oro,—an amount sufficiont tv_keop the big milt and the yoven wmallor millg of the Compsyy Iy copkiang operatiop, Tha yield of byllion for Merol from this miao will "be '$1.500,000 ; aud tho ustal monthly dividobd of 810 per sharo will bo pald. 1u thp Califoruia mine s cross-out of o_nmmlé. yichnesy hos beon mado, Exporty pstimata Hat o ore through the ‘whole lengthi of {t will orage 81,000 fiur tor. Very favorable yeporty h madoby pll the qther m!u-utm Houp of them &ro 80 marvelous ag thosa we havo given. firm bojd thomselyes 1n readinesy Lo impart any DEARBORN STREET ASSESSMENT. An Unexpected Declston by Judge Jameson, How to Get at People Who Are Asiessed Too Little, Altention han been rapeatedly called totho fact Lat the aasossment of some of tha lois on Dearborn strect was grossly Inoquitable, some boings sssessod for benofita st Lalf tho amount that othera wore called on to pay, A deoision, or raling, however, was made by Judge Jameson yes- terday which will go far, it it is not entirely suffi- clent, to obviate thexo difenlties and Inequities, and rava the cily from heavy ozpenso, in the opinlon of {ta law ofticers, ‘Tho Judgo said that complaint had baen made by mome of the counsol in the eass and alao by tho prees na to sonia portion of tho nsspssmants roported by the Commissionerain the present Deatborn siroot agsa. 1t had bean alloged that by mirtake or by some fraud smessments had been lald on certain property on the ling of the improvement much leea than they should have been; that oroperty which ought fo bear aascss- nienta of 820,000 or £30,000, . JIAD BEEN LET OPP with & vory much lesssum, Tho Jndge sald ba bad not beon deaf ta thaso eomplaints, and bad been engoged fn wtudying: the atatuten to seo it thev providcd any reniedy. The rosult waa that Lo thought the atatute did provide one. THELE WERE TWO QUESTIONS under the statutea authorizng the vresent pra- ceeding, which were to be answered by tho jury, The first questiou was, whether the proporty of any of the objectorn had been ansoesed for hone ctitn, more or fcss, than {4 has been henefitod. ‘Tho second question waa whetlier it had bacn as- raseed mora than its proportionate sharo of the cont of tho improvement. Thers questions, and no others, wera to bo considered in tho case, The statute provided The boaring shall be candacted ts in other cascs al law, and {1t sl mproar st (s proiveauf tlo obe Jector are assusnod more or los shan they will bt benclited, or mare or Tess than thelr proporiouate whare of tho cost_of fhe improveinent, the jury suay w0 flud, and alxa find the amonunt for which much prer- Laes ought to b navessed, aud judgment shall be ren dercd accordingly. Now, whore asssasmont npon property wert DISPROPONTIONATLLY BHALLy it was not probabio that the awners wonld make a0y objectious, and in thoso easos there woula ba no finding of the jury in respect to them, ex copt_to contrm tho assossment. Accordingly, the Judge said that whenever an objector ilnd olfered oyidenco to khow that soma otuer lot, not owned by him, was assossed too little, he had nnll’argfly ruled it out as irrefevant to the issuca, X" the Job of the objector wus pot aesessed moro thon it was benefited, or more than its praportionato share, it did not goncern him, a8 tho pleadiugs stood, that snother man's lot was sssosmed too little. "Chia was tho strict legal aspect of tho Eunamm. But if there wera casea in which lots liad been auacszed £o litte ket tho ownera had not ap- peared to mako objections, there ought to be #ome remedy. o thougl TOR REMEDY might bo stated as follows : Supporing that all but eneof the lots had Leen arses=ed their proper amounts, aud that tho jury so found, but that tho one Jot hod beau sescesed inuch lees than it ought to bLave beem, tho necessary cnasoquence, undar the statute, way, that the de- ficit. must' bo mado up by goueral taxation. It wis clenr that tho taxpa of overy man paying taxes iu_the city, inclading tho objoctors Lere, wero enhanced, and that uojustly. Hec. 141 of thostatuto provided: Any person intareated {nany resl estata fo be affected by atich asreasment may appearand gle objections to ch report (of the Commiesioners), and tan may make such order iy pegard fo the timo of " filuz such oljections a8 may bo mada 1 coses st aw b pegard fo hio timo of dling plpa, s 1o all lot, Liucks, tracte, and parceln of land to {he'as- sexvment of whict: abjections are not filed within the time ordured by the Court, defsult may Lo entarsd, 3nd tue aesesament congrmied by the Court, From that etatute it was very clear, that TIE BIOUT OF MAKING ODSLCTIONH was gol coufined 1o thoss who werp tho oWnors of lotd mavessed for beunefits, but that thoy might be made by any one interested in anyroal- esfato to bo affected by such assess- wment. It is opporent that lands upon which the taxes wore enhanced would be affected ; and that the Legislaturo had fo’ view objectious by owuers of property npt assessed for benetits sapmed ovident from tho fact that tho tesues to bo tried by the jury wero whothor tho proporty hadbeen aescasod more or less than booofited, “or than its proportionate sharo ; cpnaidering that tho luspe of lesu than benefljor would never be raised r [ : m in tho pleadiugs by tho information roquired jn copnoction with the gon- l ert; ithor the cib b Ore] Comiation buatuots; and 0 Faaials B ajl | Owmore of properiy. eithor ho aiy er toe times full and correct reporta of the conditfon ot :“,'(',m'mef, ;'leu biheslot-suys iy s thiy market, which their experienca and sucooks | *\vliat, thersfors, was proposed to tho (orthalz_ t twelve years onable thom 'to dao, a ublic at large, os woll s to tho ob- ol as (o give completo eatiafaction in oxecuting | foviors “hers, © was. to permli sny pno sll ordera,” Mr, J. A, Casyldy has beon admibted | 4 et ontd make it eloar by alfidavit or tho ogth of witneesos that he was the owner' of proporey to ba Inlnllnunléu!acud hy the aesepsment, (o sugges} to the Court ghat eerfain lote, naming thom, were paséssed fco little, This ought to bodona oven ot this stage of the case. ‘The Court would then Isgue & notice or citation ta tho owpors of such lats, and elther raquire au Issuo £o bo mado uv, and tricd beforo tho jury, or mm‘thtl.;u unnssmmlx‘tl aa to puch lots, aud pubmit tho ivauo upon tho report of new com- misgjoners fo anothier jury, as shquld %m ({:’ov;hs most proper under the circumsiances. Frauds on Austrinn Itaillway §hores * holders. The Pall Mall Gazlie of March 20 saya: 1*'Tha reyolations muia in the courso of thy Ofenholm trial as Lo the complicity of certain eminent persons in the plunderivg of tho Lem- berg-Ozernowitn phareholders, have wot, it zcome, been yhplly paesod over willoul official notico ‘st Vienna. Tho most noted of those whoso names wore _compromised weg ur, Giekra, the well-known Marayiau Libs vn’ Toader, whp, from boing o papular Bugo- maater, rose to bo Minister of Commerco. 1o waa montjonod ns baving rocoived £10,000 in cauls for lengiog bis pamo 28 8 M‘mpnrur{ cons cesslonairo without tho knowledgs of tho sliareholders, who Lad (o pay ‘the feo; aid, in & spgech st the committeo« room of the Biock Exnlm_nE:, ho peknowl- édped o fact gouorally, bist doclaed 'that it o biad thas taken from the Cotapany wed recelved withi tho personal ganction’ pf the Emperor bimmelf. On this anr‘[ng heing brqught to illon ervation of Fraucis Joscph, o sort of semi-ofti¢ial notice has beon publistied in Court circlpsd cxplaining that lgm ll;jns!y ‘whiosg gount Qmory ol ojuts ol o~ e et taationlody romombernd Wall that, on Dr. Giskra's taking office, ha'eipressly stated that lio bnd certain pecunlary relations with n:l}nu fiyancial copeorns, spd prowmised to renk thqu off #o sqan a8 hg received tho arrear: due to him, ~ Tlie Empéror, it 18 added, know o! such thiugs as Dircotars’ attondance foos aud tho hiko pruoluments s bptthe consapt ho gavo was toyer contomplated Dby him s extending to any such ~dublony transactions us & concessionaire’s socrot promotion money. Count TLorigeh, tho High Marsbal of tha Court, \raw - thefaforo diractod” 'to acquaing Qlukra ‘oftictally that " his presenco was longer acesptable ot any Court rocoption, —And 9n thg ox-Mipister remonstrating and polntio, Ut thiat (hla Amotints to a docreo Jysucd pgaia Bl péraoii withont Auy judleia) process, o' wau informed, according tatue Zagecpresse, that the Jigl Bershal only rcfmz:od that tho lawyep-likp bunien which prompfod thls objéction ‘was not comblued with such personal sonsitivaiiess’ as to rendor tho subjoct of such an onler awaro that it weu gfticient for it purnose, and must bp held fo ba gux}.ucrntn;)vn apd flua! ————— . Majlap ¢ Noblomon.!? There Lus hean s Probky piaco -of scandsl in Nice tyls yor. Abou gix pionths gga twe youug Italidu gontlemen of ‘rank’ came to Nico and made themselyos yory counpicuous in Bo: ciety. ‘Thoy woro Biudgomb, clegant lu thelr maauers, woll-iressed, and very amusing. Ono way pammed Marquin Laureati, tho ojhor Oount Uggollug, The other dsy Uggplino recolved an auohymoua letter, telling him that unlegd o sont 600 francg tq the post-ofilce to tho writar, cortain ocrets of ks lifg weuld Lo published | whleh’ wauld' m;(inp hls impediato withdrayal from Kica 'imperative, "The ‘nublo Quuut took tho lptter tg tho Chel dp Follep, who told bim to sond a bank-note fo tho pddress fl“u hioh Lig did, A dojoctlvp was on haud,’and lmmedi- ately selzed upon tho porson who ssked “for the lotfer, whp, to the gurprise n!aisry,bgdy turned qut ko bn‘ (o Marquis LI‘I:\D:HL" ,Ll‘ai:“n;mw; Wa8 upnt to prison at oncs. , B0 in thfle cnum- of us proceedingd 1t turned ayt tnk tho Marquis wes p hair-dr r‘h-m%. uw}x ’ml., Count ~ » " Jaqu ontiomen ‘were pngaged to ing American oa ! at the [;nm An Eiglily Oauey hsa doclded ty 1o hiopses deatroyed or pArtally by f)fs -‘:g:‘.’.‘i"‘.” e uy!nlofllng it m{:"unm t4 e . i W