The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-07
TRADE RELATIONS BE
TWEEN AAANAAS AND
TEXAS.
From the Lawrence journal.


A few general considerations will
make it evident why trade relations
between Kansas and Texas are so
important to our people. The pro-
ducts OF Kansas are eminently those
of the temperate zone in agriculture
such as corn, wheat, pork, butter,
cheese, apples, small fruits, sc.
Our growth in wealth must be de-
termined by the amount of the pro-
ducts we can export. A conVeDient
market is one of our first needle.
live look toward the East where
our present trade relations exist,
and toward which nearly all of our
lines of transportation point we
find that we come to immediate
competition, and under unfaVorabls
ducing regions of the West. If We
make st. Louis our market, we have
competition with the equally fertile
and more eligibly located farm lands
of Missouri and Illinois. If we go
to Chicago with our wheat, corn or
pork, We encounter competition
from Iowa, Missouri, Minnesota,
Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michi-
gan and Ohio: each of which is
nearer to market than we are. The
moment production exceeds con-
sumption throughout the West, we
are so located that the cost of trans
portion inevitably consumes the ma
jor part of the value of the product.
Unless we can find some nearer and
less burdened markets, the future of
Kansas is not so bright as we have
hoped it would be.
In this dilemma, let us see for q
moment what IL was that built up
the States of Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio. twenty-five years ago, when
their agricultural interests were in
q condition somewhat similar to our
own now. 1t was the Southern
trade. The COTTON growing States
south of them furnished q steady
and remunerative market for all
their surplus products. 1t was the
SoutherA trade that years ago made
Cincinnati the greatest pork market
At that time in the country.
IL Is similar outlet that must
solve the problem of agricultural
success for Kansas. Texas il a great
State. lying directly south of US, and
more easily supplied from Kansas
than anywhere else. The cotton
growing area of Texas is nearly rs
large sc that of Mississippi, AIaba
ma, and Georgia combined. Those
parts OF the State adapted to the
growth of corn and wheat, are al
tbs same time adapted to the
growth of cotton, and cotton is by
| -.
Wherever we went in Texas, from
the north line of the State at Deni.
isoD, to the south line at Galveston,
aud asked what is your staple pro-
duct, there was bat one Teply-cot.
ton. And the production of this
great staple is on the rapid increase
1t il but year or two since rail,
roads haYe penetrated the State
Five years ago cotton was trans.
ported by wagons from three hun.
dred 10 four hundred miles to fine
q market. Now there are nearly
two thousand miles of railroads
penetrating every part of the State
Cotton Is cash. There is always {
market for 1t. The moment it il
groWn,-yes, even while it is grow
ing,-the owner can realize on it
All experience has shown tina
where cotton growing can be sue
cessfully prosecuted, mixed agrieul
ture is neglected, and tor the yer,
good reason that cotton growing
the more profitable. 1t may, there
fore, be assumed that Texas will II
the future require very larg
amounts of those products whicl
Kansas is specially fitted TO supply
We did not see good hog on GU
whole trip. Texas swine are of tn
slab-sided, ragor.noSed, eracer varie
; Itys Little or no attention is pait
to improved breeds. We foun,
Kansas packed and cured pork Il
. the groceries ct Houston. Kansa
-four is sold In all the importAn
towns on the line OF the railroad
Butter and cheese are imp0rte,
. from the North. Apples are ex
posed for sale on the fruit stand:
bqt they are ell from the North
. There seems TO be no reason VIII,
Kansas should not sell every pounI
OF -four, pork, butter, and cheese
that she has to export, in Texas.
To build up this trade, IL lie nee
, essary that the Indian Territor,
|. should IS soon as possible be open
ed TO settlement. That country
/ too, will, especially In It's eastern
part, be devoted TO Gotten RAISING
and will increase the market for o1
i Surplus products above mentioned
} Its settlement Would also afford q 10
cal business 70 the long line Of rail
road that new has to Be supports
} entirely by the through trGffic.
} Was these considerations that Undue
ed the Editorial Association, Wit
hardly = dissenting voice. 10 pas
} 1.-THE resolution IN favor Of The opeu
2 Ing Of the lndisa Territory for 81
!. ftiement. OF course, as the resoiu
lion expressed Il, such moVemar
! should b made with due regaed I