| Show lEITERS WHEAT IN FIGURES He and His Descendants for Twenty Generations Gen-erations Couldnt Eat It torover oll Joph IUr who was curl control con-trol of the wheat market has in file pOI eB lon tin food supply of man nil lion HI people Maybe Mr lelter needs know It hut It he should choose < III divert hit 15000000 bushels ot wheat III Cuelno hnnll8l fit ad would Iou ble iwnMlilj quadruple In price In Chi rage und the Impollo 10 male horlwOI hl loaves oul mould I be offered every ev-ery baker Every mon who owned n bushel of wheat would be tempted to buy corn to grind and mix with Mi iheat Hour old the chances are the consumer would be pi anxious to procure pro-cure read I that ho vault wink nt the numeration even If he knew of It Fifteen million of bushels of what The ms words do nol convey the 1m mnoll or Importance 01 Mr Ieltets speculative venture Never before list one man or any combination of veclI biters hold such an normuu amount or the broad iiraln In control 11s5oty t million ol people are dlrclll and M I tally Interested In tllla gigantic venture ven-ture It would Ice I dUncUIl 10 MY what thin young Napoleon or the whent tilt would 1 do nlth the purchases It he hoolnl a nation of hungry mouths back or hIm Re and l life descendants for twenty generations oulolnt consume II The are not mills enough In ChI cage to grind the grain Into Hour in len Sears nor bakers who would mix mold and t bake rl it into I erlep loaves I la anotbot I t en Y arm teJl Pltteen mlllion oC buehrls 01 wbot I A bulk I nearly lliroo limes lint of the Maonlc Templethe highest and 1011 eel 1lIlIdlug or Its cleaa In the World III that Ignnlle rile towering twenty lour silO rico find covtllny HnCoulh of u lilotk of the most alinllf est es-t in Chicago there are 656 294 cubic feet nf pacoo my thu architect Ilu Mi r Letters little rile of hat would wart l that structure It 101 bode II reaching almost three lime higher with the name orouo < l dIboge ion 00 cuuliiK 1 urooooo cubic foot thi hlRhcnt ntilhorltj Kays them Ore JIKKI Rrniim of wheal tt the pound Th tiforc un Jlr Leltrr own 15000000 Umbels once neighing sixty pounds the trnl eight of his ponseealons r nulol I require a counter lanve o I 800 000 000 round1 n total that would Ieep 1 a family of ne crfonn counting Headilj fir tote ears at the rate of 200 per minute nlthout Intcrmlxiilon to heck OH the weight unit I the total Hum lerrf grains of whiutln this huge urclinse I Is only C3 OOJ 000 010 000 Title rum H I numclently large to perplex even Itronomel wh measure din fences or stores bj the nlliions of mile but trllllonsnjei The mint gazer guesses after he passes the ninth row of ciphers In his romiututkini Let us HUppoBe that Mr Leller wanted want-ed to moo hN wheat to some other point I and determine approximately how many cars he w nil 1 med If he hipped It all bs rail II holds 900000 000 oun < l3 or 450000 toni The aver age rapacity of freight earn Is 40000 pound 1 or twenty ton Therefore 22U00 ems would he needed lo transport trans-port I this bulk ot train The overage length fif the coil ling aPPAratus is I I tlilrt six I tea or M < tulles long Tin li I to My if Mr UIHr eliooses to ship all his grain In one II alt he will hove a string of cars reaching almost from Chlraga to the Jllsnlsilprl river nl Quincy III nut If Mr Letter elo in t want let still his property but chows to grin 1 It up and put It on the market he can sit down with pencil and Piper and figure that as fear and one halt bushels 1 of wheat will malic a 00 pounl barrel 1 of flour lie cnn place 331133333 lone of bread nlthln the leach of the hungry hun-gry U 5 cents n loaf Mr Letter could obtain J10 ecu CCC 05 for his property As him Irokirs have claimed that he fur chased his wheat at nn average of 70 cents wr bushel his prelim i ns a baker I would he a hundred t iou and or so Ocr 6000000 JUI Petitions that Mr Letter wer Plianthrorle anti that he woull be I willing to feel the hungry with his hoard Vital Jj Btatlllcs Ply that one and nnc half pounds of heal bread 10 I the bare existence diet with his mllllo of 100HO Mr 1lIer could give oaacirforrontlter three meats each far one day to nearly 100 000 OO of hungry folk and still keep sonielnlnff for himself The 200000 per sms who Binned to death In India last year could have been kept olive far weeks by l the Judicious distribution oC bread made from thla big I accumulatlo I hat represent llr TII lff specula lion II Cuba had had thin wheat m 000 Ion could have boon sustained for more tl the six 1 o onth end feel dent MeKlnly would nol perhaps have asked a popular uherlntlon do relieve suffering In lint wartllslred Ibis Air Letters hoard wOUld hoe kept alive these vlctlms oC Spanish t barbarity for irA than three weeks If given three meals each per day Ivtry JOO pounds or thin great Ioro 01 heat when ground would provide CorlYlwo pounds oC thc nest grad dour ighteen pounds ecord grade nine pounds i blscV four and the tall lng < middlings bran and other rem nnnts sae fire pounds allowed for loss by evaporation Is turned to account It may b I thaI Mr nltor Is n it aware or the fact but he has In his control food mainstay of the nation Tho nu trltUc value of good hal bread Is I not fully recognized bj 11101 persons who are fond ot the Heel > of a crimp ton more Air Letters of the brtunlimunele title of and < contain bane forming fool thona dozen train loads f of equal length I sftssgcjrssfsfi 1 1 milk million potatoes 1Aidage and fruit Tl re < > fourths of Air Letter wheat is starch and sugn and almost one Bfth Ialhumna quonlllY equal i 10 the albllen in bC or eggs Wllh nut knowing It the youthful speculate I has corners etl brain and muscle for J or the world 1 eople who are In a pull lon to knew l BJJ that wheat is worth more than money In come places II Mr Letter wartA to bo generous he could give his salter tips In orders on life warcbolllTan for n bushel could l carry some of tie grain loon In hl < pocket to hand lot to street beggnrB could cam a null ling to drip In the contribution box on Sundnj and 100 1 more generous thin In distributing the cash Hut Jlr Letter loe nt seecm to he I particularly Intenetcil In Informa lion which shows hat might be done In the way of clarity with Is I own particular IClondlki |
