Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-01-24

Governor also calls attention to the fact thai
| the Pullman Palace Car Company is seeking to
1 avoid the payment Of taxes; directs attention
| to the matter of taxing express COM
| panies: the telegraph and telephone ser
vice is worthy OF attention; recon-
| mends an appropriation to pay expenses
| OF the delegates 10 the Farmers Congress: also
| TO defray expenses OF delegates TO the WASH
ington Inaugural Centennial; the providing Of
| means for the maintenance Of the National
Guard and congratulates the Legislature upon
the unanimity with which it has decided TO re-
tain the services Of Senator Plumb
CONCLUSION
The growth in the output Of our mines and
manufactures, and in the capital and labor
employed, as shown elsewhere, is marked
and gratifying The rece1t discovery
and development of exhaustless deposits
Of pure salt underlying a large portion
OF Central Kansas. is matter OF congratula-
tion 10 the entire State. 1t adds another in
dustry, the importance of which can scarcely be
over-estimated. At Hutchinson alone eight
salt yards or plants are in operation. producing
daily :, 900 barrels Of salt. equal in quality to
any in the world. At Ellsworth Wellington.
Kingman and several other points, salt works
are either already in successful operation, or
soon to become so, and there can be no doubt
that ere long Kansas is to supply a large por-
ton OF the Union with this staple
Coal in profitable quantities has been dissoy-
cred in nearly every locality in the eastern part
of the State, natural gas abounds, and we can
boast OF the largest zinc works in the United
States save one.
The manufacture Of sugar from sorghum cane
grown In Kansas is no longer an experiment,
but an assured success, requiring only time and
capital TO develop it into great industry. The
four plants in operation the past season make
showing that leaves no room to longer question
this fact These four factories, during the sea-
son OF 1885, produced an aggregate of 10l9H
pounds OF superior sugar, and 10000 gallons of
molasses, with satisfactory results financially
Notwithstanding the conditions were in some
cases unfavorable. Those VINO have given this
question critical investigation and constant
study for years. regard it settled, and this
opens up the prospect Of making Kansas, es-
pecially Central and Western Kansas, a great
sugar producing district.
BY way OF encouragement, at least for the
present, Congress should be memorialized on
the subject OF offering bounty on domestic
sugar, to cover any reduction in the duty on the
imported product, in the revision OF the tariff
now under consideration. 1t would seem that
Congress could not refuse some such considera-
ton 10 new industry of vast Importance not |
only to Kansas, but the Nation.
have thus briefly referred to some of the |
chief industries of recent development in our |
state, Whlcn convince me that f1attering as our |
material progress has been, it is but a hint of |
our capabilities as State. The quartz mines |
on our former territorial boundary line now in |
cluded within the limits of u sister State,
have been called the Inner chamber Of |
Gods great granite safes, fastened with |
tme-locks set upon the advent of |
the railway" The tlme;lock guarding tie in
ner chambers where the hidden wealth of Kan
sas hes, are set upon the advent OF Yankee en-
terprise. 1t has come and the first fruits of the
new era. full and abounding. are in our hands.
In the hope and belief that the matters herein
will receive your cordial and careful
that your deliberations may be
by fairness 10 all portions of the
State and TO each Of its varied interests, and
that you will so discharge your arduous duties
as to receive the sanction of your own con-
sciences and the approval OF the Great Ruler of
States and Nations, this is confidently sub
nltted- LYMAN u. HUMPHREY.