Wichita eagle., 1889-01-08
YES, WICHITA PROPOSES TO CON-
OUER

s'In hogs signo vinees' is the latest
motto adopted by the Wichita EAGLE.
Marsh is pulling hard to make the Peer
less Princess the great hog packers of
the southwest.-Capital-C Commonwealth.
Hogs not only sin signo vinces" but
hogs in any shape or style that may be
demanded by consumers, Mr.. Capital.
1t is not little surprising thata market,
which for ten years has been shipping
more live hogs to Kansas City and to st.
Louis markets than were shipped by any
other town or city in Kansas, should at
all once be distrusted as a hog market
and only because she proposes to pack
instead of ship. The EAGLE is not COM
PEELED to do any further pulling on the
hog to make the Peerless Princess the
great hog packing point, for she is al
ready that. For the first seventeen days,
or the fractional part of the month of
December, or for thirteen actual working
days the packing plant now in operation
here slaughtered ninety-seven hundred
hogs. or at the average rate Of seven
hundred per day. The rate per day since
that-for which we have not the fig.
ures-has been much greater. Kan
sas City for her first year
in the business packed thirteen
thousand head Wichita's first month
will show greater number. Inmodern
improvements and in approved facilities,
a dozen Chicago and Kansas City pack
ers have declared that the Dold packing
afT NioI,i+o 10 loH Inv
concern in America, and in capacity
second to very few. The Whitaker's
of st. Louis, who are building close
along side as fast as men and money can
do the work, will be the greatest pack
ing plant in America. As for the hogs
and cattle and sheep which are to sup
ply these mammoth plants, in sufficient
numbers, and as for the salt with which
to cure them-and of the latter the
Dolds are now using fourteen ton per
day-there is not a question. Between
twenty and thirty local markets not yet
utilized, and ali located west of the west
line of Missouri and north of the north
line Of the Indian Territory, are ready
and anxious to send their hogs to this
market and as soon as the word
shall be given out that they can be taken
care Of. There Is no secret to this mat
ter. Taking the length OF the haul, the
time the stock is on the road, and Wich-
tia S superior yards and market prices,
and it is money in the pocket of every
local shipper who lives within hun
dred miles of Wichita, to ship to this
point. Look at your railroad map, Mr..
Capital, and in minute you will see that
Wichita is the only city in this section of
the state that reaches directly with her
own roads every section of the southern
Kansas corn belt, and corn means hogs.
AS for the Wichita packers, they are
men who not only command millions Of
Dolus paid out for their va
rious houses, in December 1888, one
million two hundred thousand
dollars in money-but they
are packers whose selling
markets are already established-have
been established for years; SO that if
they could afford-they say
so themselves-to go into the markets of
any smaller packing point and clean
them up daily of every hoof. The Paci-
fic and Gulf markets Of the Whitakers
and Do!ds are already so firmly estab-
lished that these firms say that for their
Wichita plants, located as they are with
reference to these selling markets and
as to salt, that they could go right into
the Kansas City and Omaha markets for
hogs to be slaughtered and cured at
Wichita for the consumers named.
Yes, the hog is one of the signs with
which Wichita proposes to conquer. and
the EAGLE don't know of an individual
or newspaper outside Of one town in
Kansas that even questions the assertion.