The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1878-07-05
KANSAS.
It's Manufacturing Resources and
Advantages.
Water Powers-Mills Agricultural
Productions.

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Productions.
Nv Hon. Thos. Ryan, Member of Con-
gress, Third District.
From the Atchison Champion.
NY information from home leads me
to believe that this year we shall prob
ably harvest thirty-five millions or for
ty millions of bushels OF wheat-equal
to about eight millions of barrels OF
four.
A barrel of flour may be shipped to
the seaboard, or to any part Of the
intervening markets, &C about one-half
the cost OF shipping the grain from
which It Is manufactured. at least
am 50 informed by gentleman OF high
character who has been operating ex-
tensige merchant mills 10 the West for
many years.
Merchant Touring mills In this coun-
try usually have from three to ten run
OF stone, with capacity TO manufacture
from sixty to two hundred barrels OF
-four every twenty-four hours.
The famous Washburn Mills, of Min
neapolis, recently destroyed, were the
largest in this country, having forty
two run. / am told that these are to
be rebuilt, with a capacity of fifty-one
run-being one in excess of the largest
in the world.
1t is difficult TO assign any sufficient
reason why we ought not TO flour our
own wheat product, especially when
we consider the immense differ ence in
the matter Of transportation. Why we
should ship twenty or more millions OF
bushels of wheat from the State to be
Toured abroad, when it could be Toured
1t home at about the same cost as any
where else, and the -four transported
20 market for half what IL costs TO
transport the grain from which it Is
mannfactnred, will be very difficult to
explain. @
don't suppose there Is 9 mill in the
State with capacity to manufacture an
average Of one hundred and fifty bar
rels Of -four daily (posslbly there may
be one az SAlina,) and doubtless am
safe In saying that there is not milling
capacity In the State TO manufacture
one per cent OF our wheat product OF
the present year. The maximum ca
pacity Of the average largest steam
Touring mills In the United States will
not exceed two hundred barrels a day,
or about sixty thousand barrels per
annum. In fact, the number In this
country having this capacity is very
limited And yet, i'll have not over
estimated this years wheat product OF
Kansas, IL Is sufficient to employ over
3 hundred and thirty of such mann
moth mills, This wenld give employ
ment TO many millions of capital.
Even II the half of that product were
Toured at home, 1t would save hum
dreds of thousands of dollars to the
producers, and would bring into action
amons ouF people millions OF dollars
In the prosecution OF the enterprise.
The gentleman to whom I have
referred said TO me to-day that since
he had been informed of the magnitude
OF our this years wheat product, and
Of the possibility of our State In respect
to grain productions, he had given the
subject much thought, and had reached
the conclusion that it was the best
field In America for capital to engage
In the most extensive manufacture of
flour. "But," said he, ''I should like
IL still better II you had ample water
way transportation to the seaboard.
Your immense traffic, and its remote
ness from the Atlantic coast, must
inevitably invite the liveliest competi-
ton In the matter of railway transpor-
tation, which of itself is An assurance
Of lowest possible rates. And railway
transportation Is Indispensable, be-
cause 1t affords speedy Intercourse
with all the great markets. But there
isvery much connected with this bust
ness, IS well as most manufactures,
that makes the slower and cheaper
method of waterway transportation of
immense advantage"
believe the fact Is that every we'll
conducted Touring mill in the State Is
paying a large profit upon the money
fnuaafan and HO11hk ~ fhara fc "
other business In Kansas that pays so
well.
In connection with the magnitude
Of this years wheat product, let it be
borne Ia mind that we have not yet
reached TO exceed q one-flfth develop
ment, and we may therefore reasona-
may expect, within the next five years
70 harvest an annual crop of over one
hundred million OF enthusiastically
five per cent more than the United
States exported In 1875.
It is undoubtedly true that manufac-
tures In Kansas would be greatly stim-
ulAted by q sufficiency of water trans
p0rtatiOn. have been at much pains
to talk of our resources and facilities
for manufacturing our various pro-
ducts, with men of large experience,
and have found 1t generally to be
eAAo4A Jug AA4CAt SAA1b ~ VIC neSO dQC4u6BS
transportation to the seaboard, we
would ourselves be astonished at the
rapidlty with which manufactures
of various kinds would spring VI
throughout the State. am one o
those who believe that we shall sooT
be very well provided for In this re-
spect.
Only q few days since was aston
iahed TO see IL stated, in q commercial
journal, that 30 per cent. OF the grail
received In New York the week previ
Gus, arrived by water way. The Hon
Nathan Cole, of Missouri, member O
one of the largest commission house
In Sc. L0uis, one Of the best informe'
men In the House Of Representatives
assures me that line of barges Is nov
carrying grain from st. Louis to NeV
Orleans for six cents per bushel, an
when the 1etties shall have prepare
the way for the passage of sea-goin
vessels, which In all probability vii
Be very soon, bills Of ladiHg will. b
made from Sc, Louis to Liverpool di
rect, tor from fifteeR 70 twenty cent
per buahel.
The Immense agricultural and othe
resources Of Kansas are coming to b
we'll understood throughout the Who'll
oounfry. The East and South are n
ynIa tor our commerce.. This riValr
nstnfally enough finds its way int
Congress; and hence, we shall find
tendency on the part of that body to b
llberal In the expenditure of money I
open water way for rs whenever
may be found practicable. And so
3 that the pending River and Harbc
bIli' which passed the House som
weeks ago, and Is now pending in CD
Sen6to, and will doubtless become
law this session, provides large apprC
pfIa1lon8 for Q thorough survey of Cd
Missouri river and the removal of oil
a1Ercticns 60 les navigation; also q
appropriation tor the improvement
the Usage river; also for q survey /,
the Kansas river 20 Junction City q
- Tor survey OF the Arkansas fiY.
~ ~ Wie17Ea.
1 11nN hear few sswiseaeres'
hans railing agals1t all these project
Ea1 W snail Be told, By them, thi
tAev are ohImsrical sebemes- tn
clsSs has lived Ia all ages 20 proclaim
with an air Of great wisdom, the In
nfaeticablhty Of projected enterpfis
which have NEVERTHELESS reeuited