The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-09-23
FIGURES MUST NOT LIE.
The Wichita Eagle VS.. The Emporia
News.

Jake stotler, the non-gushing. net possess
ing true inwarlness. dixie his brother-in-law
Marsh Murdock. } bui thoroughly practical ed
iior OF the Empora Negcs, estimates thar Kan
sas VIII pay S20.O00.000 to the railroads for cx-
porting Ia ST Louis her surplus wheat anii
corn Parsons Naa.
With all our gushing aud true inwsrdne>,.
we are not ~ the habit Of making >tirh stale
mebts ~ is above credited L. tie Aesrs. Con
Eid,riDg the biggest surplus claimed for our
entire state. the amount Necessary Ia Irei- bt
tho same TO st Louis coulc not he over 81 :
$50. G00.-- Wichita Eagle.
"lIon. Alfred Gray, Secretary of the
State Board of Agriculture, writes 10
the Kansas City Board of Trade thai
the State of Kansas has, of this years
crops, after keeping enough for home
use for year, 100000 bushels of
wheat and 55,000,000 bushels of corn
And we believe the EAGLE has pub
lished this estimate as undoubtedly
within the actual figures, so il of
course will take il as basis TO figure
upon. IL SAYS that the railroad freight
on this grain to St. Louis ''could not
be over $l,750.oo0." Ii is a pity that
il could not be more than that, and a
still greater pity that is about eight
times more.
Emporia is the centre of the culti-
waited part of Kansas, and has two
competing lines of railroad to ST. Lou
is. The freight on grain from this city
to St. Louis is $40 per car, equal, frac-
lions thrown off to p cents per bushel
on wheat, and 10 cents per bushel on
corn. Nine million bushels of wheat
at 2l cents per bushel comes to ST. $780,
000, and $4,000 bushels of corn al
10 cents per bushel comes to $40, 450.-
600: total freight on wheat and corn
surplus $l2,340.000. The San is incor-
rect in stating that we estimated S20,-
100000 freightage on this surplus
wheat and corn. Our estimates will
be found in the News of August eth,
aud show that the Kansas farmers
would get SOC, DOC, 900 net cash for their
corn, wheat and cattle, for 1875. We
estimated the cost of freight, and COM
missions to middle-men, on the wheat
and corn, would come TO $l6,00O, 900,
and there is no doubt that they will at
present railroad freight charges. If
any one doubts the Correctness of our
figures, or of ourre-ststemept of them
we will verify them by re-publishing
our article of August 9th on that very
matter.
Meanwhile, will the EAGLE go to
work again and figure out the railroad
freight on 100000 bushels of Kansas
wheat and 100000 of Kansas corn,
from their various localities all over
the State, 10 ST. Louis? 1t will find
out that our figures are moderate, and
that the railroads are scalping the far
mers of this State TO an extent that is
entirely unprecedented, and unbearable
by free people, whose money and
lands built these very roads.-News.
The editor of the Neys will not take
this bird in any such trap as he has set
in the above. In our estimate VIC took
no account of the corn. The St.Louis
market seldom justifies the shipment
of corn from five to seven hundred
miles. We intended our figures to
cover the surplus wheat, barley and
oats Of Kansas, which we estimated at
5000, 900 bushels at about TWENTY-FIVE
cents average freight from all portions
Of the State. Taking the Necs' edit
or's idea that fifty or sixty millions of
bushels of corn must be shipped and
VIC find no fault with his figures and
conclusions, but very small quantity
of our surplus corn will ever reach as
far east as st. Louis. In all other par
ticulars we fully agree with the Ners. |