The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-07-13
KANSAS CROPS.
a YIELD OF sO.oOO.OOo BUSHELS
Railroads Planning 10 Avoid Transport
taiiOn Troubles OF the Past.

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this season: The wheat having Teache'
perfect growth. the ingatheriug of IN
harvest being now assured, the question
Ut marketing the crOp of $1,000, 90
bushels Immediately interests both buy
er and seller. The former Remembering
the difficulty in previous year q
plenty hesItates in his Confidence, Iii
latter being on the ground just now j
| more eanguine. He sees himsclf sur
rounded by numerous evidences of pref
aration. He is in less haste than las
| year To dispose of his grain. and so add
to the ease with which the railroad vii
handle il. In my letter of "Wednesday
| were menli'ntd the occasional doubts
have heard expressed ON this subject d
transportation. | said a!sa, | think
that personally | did not share in such
| fears. / wrote this not in q merely
| speculative mood, for guessing Yields
| no special delight To me. but because /
had investigated, SO far as Journalists
could do what the railroads were doing
in the matter. To day have made
| further inquiries
The AIchison Topeka and Santa Fe
road, running as it does along the wheat
belt of the state, will probably, with the
lines it controls, have the largest proper.
| ton of the wheat tO ship. | found Mr..
Leeds, the assistant general freight agent
of the rOad, busy IN his Office.
1--WE do not anticipate" said he, ''the
least difficulty in moving the great crop.
OF course, if all Kansas wanted to mar
kel its wheat in thirty days, We could
not do it. No line could. Nor could
We move it in sixty days, although We
have made every preparation. We have
double the amount of available rolling
stock we had in 1878, and think there
will be foreign cars enough To replace
such as we send out of the state loaded
But l do not believe the farm rs will
this year be So anxious 10 market their
crop at once as they were ON fIrmer
occasion. They, too, are III better
position TO hold for an advance"
/ asked as to thc destination of the
grain.
Formerly Kansas City. Chicago. To
ledO and Baltimore were objective points
for the Kansas shipper. The changes
made by the Chicago board of trade, re-
moving certain distinctions which have
hitherto operated against Kansas wheat,
will tend to draw more of il la that city.
Kansas City b ing on our eastern state
line, and with its TERMINAL facilities, will
receive its share. and large one. too.
Toledo with its capaclOus elevators, will
no doubt put in its claim but Chicago
will he the destination of II greater part
of all that goes east OF the Missouri river.
None of the whole grain is shipped
westward The principal local shipping
points are florence, Peabody, Newtnn,
Hutchinson, Sterling, EllinwoOd, Great
Bend, Larn, d, Kinsley. EidOIado, Au-
gusta. Douglass, Wichita. Wellington,
Winfield, Marion Center, Mcpherson
and Lyons. OF these Wichita is rrJba-
bly, the most important. II has, | be-
lieve, greater stnrngr capacity than
other towns located in the midst of
grain growing region in this country"
1T Was Ihcrr," remarked, ''Ihat IN
the great harvest year al 1873 50 much
of the wheat was stuck" The town was
fairly goIged with the crop"
''True: II t>>Ik nearly the whole of the
rest of the year to get the grain out.
Nothing ot that kind, however. can hap
pen now, for the Santa Fe has double
the number of engines and cars it then
had, as ! have already said, and the
farmers will not be SD clamnrOus. | re-
member some years agn-I was then on
the Chicago. Burlington 81 Quincy
rOad-when the Des MOines Valley
company ran short of cars and tel.-
graphed almost hourly to the Burling-
ton for empty freights. They succeeded
in getting one hundred extra cars, but
not enough. The president of the Iowa
road then telegraphed 10 the president
of the Chicago. Burlington u Quincy
for sill further help. tclneaFbeF,
say, the reply that was sent back. Ii
was something like this: However
anxious you may be, we can't market
the whole Iowa wheat crop in one day
So, ii there were to be Il wheat corner
created, and our farmers wanted to get
their crops all into Chicago on the same
day, we should be powerless. We do
not expect any such hosts this year, and
barring n panic of that kind, we shall
have no trouble"
"Do you know what steps other lines
are taking?"
"Only in a general way None of the
freight agents apprehend any unusual
delay"
"Can you give me some idea
ABOUT PRICES,
and what the farmers are counting on 2"
mo, cannot. / follow the market
as reported in the Chicago papers and
that is all know about it. Just now it
is little difficult tor any one to speak
certainly on that point. The heavy
shipments have not yet began to pour
in. VIVA. may be realized for the earl
Ter consignments is not fair criterion,
for there is usually somewhat of furry
at the outset, buyers wanting to pur-
chase low and growers to sell high"
next sought Col. johnson, the land
commissioner. He said:
az should be glad if you would cor
rect a statement which has gone forth
with my name attached thereto. have
been made 10 say that / estimate this
years wheat crop at from 35,OO0, 600 To
10000, 900 bushels Tn statement is in
accurate, for do not believe the yield
will amount To more than so 600, 600
bushels; will say 81, 000, 900 as u maxi
mum figure The stale board of agri-
culture re, .orI 1 ,500,000 arr s yielding
twenty bushels u the acre, and believe
the official statistics will prove il but
little out at the way. Thirty million
bushels is
VAST AMOUNT OF, CHAIN,
and the state Is Inst as proud at it as If
IL were 81 900, 900 or 40,OO0,00O l will
say this with reference To the present
harvest, that, in addition To the merit of
quantity, our 1882 wheat possesses that OF
quality. 1t is an altogether better grain
and will grade higher than any Kansas
has ever grown before We may Eeason-
ably expect it all to.radp as No wheat,
The chiai dafr6t OF growth in Kansas
wheat has always been tina; the crops
grew tao fast Last winter as mild and
pleasant. Ii was followed by an early
spring with scasOnable showers and
cool weather, which gave the hlade y
steady though not rank growth, aud the
heads time % Gil peFfecily. The recent
hot weather came when iL was welcome
TO the farmer, and has Fipened his grain
as if by magic. Indeed the berry has
ripened so quickly that night harvesting
is in progress in most districts along our
line, the barvesters working Though
day and night in six houI relays. No,
do not think the farmers will be In great
taste to market their crop. There are
always q certain number of men in every
agricultural community who are
HARD PRESSED FOR MONEY,
and such as they will endeavOr TO real
iZe Immediately. But TIE majority of
our southwestern farmers are in q salts
factory poaition, financially speaking,
and can afford to hold Last year the
best corn crop was grown along the
Santa Fee line, and other cereal yields
were fair. This years plenty viii add
to their store and make thsR more in
dependent. They will sell their wheat
for what they think It is worth, or they
will keep il until they can get a fair
price"
"Will you tell me in a general WY
something about immigration prospects
| in Kansas"
at is not difficult to do that. We are
| doing q better business now than We
have done in three years, and We look
for the sale of q great deal more land
this fall. People are no longer asking
| for facts about Kansas, hut are
coming here from other states, and
other countries even, 70 look for them.
selves. When they come they usually
stay. The splendid harvest of 1882 will
drive more settlers into the Arkansas
valley, and more acres of farming and
stock land will find purchasers THAI
Is ALL