Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-01-06
HOG NEAT AND MENTAL PABULUM.
A Pattern for Everybody That Patterns
Nobody.

els. Her conceptions have been original
their execution brilliant, and whatever
TO the contrary may be urged by her i'm
itators, the fact is as manifest as open
day that her successes have been excep-
tional and that her future dorninancy
will be as powerful as her present pres
tige is unique and unquestioned. What
ever Wichita has attempted in the past
has been rendered SO prominent as not
only to attract the widest possible notice
but to effect the entire state. The first
move that she ever made as a city was
one to control the Texas cattle trade.
With but a few hundred inhabitants,
with no credit, and almost unknown,
but realizing the advantage OF her geo.
graphical position, she in 1872 sent
runners out all over Texas and for two
years her cattle shipments exceeded
those of any interior point in the United
States. The extension of railways to the
ranges scattered the business. The next
effort of her people was to control the
grain Of southwest Kansas and she be-
came the greatest wagon wheat market
in the west, and from 1875 to 1881 eight
or nine elevators were built and kept
running day and night. The wonder
full railway mileage Of the state is more
! directly attributabed to the brains and
enterprise of Wichita than to those
/ of all of her other towns
combined The Frisco, the Missouri
Pacific and the Rock Island systems all
were started, when they were started
through Kansas, by the plans. energies
and devices of Wichita enterprise and
brains, and but for which the Santa Fe
and Union Pacific would be controlling
probably, even yet, practically the entire
railway service of the state. The very
fact that the business men of the aver
age town of Kansas don't even to this
day understand how or believe even that
this was done is proof of the superiority
for which we make claim. The great
boom which swept over the west was as
much the reflex of that of Wichita's as
it was of those of Birmingham and Los
Angeles. In fact the Los Angeles boom
was largely set going by Wichita men
and Wichita money.
Take another standard of meas
urement, that of education. Two
universities completed, two col
leges completed, two academies
completed, together with ten public
school buildings, in which are employed
nearly hundred teachers, in town not
yet twenty years old, nor the American
continent, nor the world nor any people
of all history can match Or parallel such
performance. Yet here they all stand.
magnificent piles of brick, mortar and
stone; modern, ornate, absolute verities.
But it was of Wichita's latest under
taking and the marvellous success with
which it has been attended, thatw more
particularly desired to call the attention
of the public in this connection. 1t is
that of making this point the great live
stock market of this new and rapidly
developing corn and grass country. We
have no reliable statistics showing the
beginnings made by Cincinnati, Chicago
and ST. Louis in handling the live stock
of the countries tributary to them. But
the figures representing the first years
OF their live stock and packing interests
are insignificant Outside of these cities
the most successful city in the history Of
that interest has been Kansas City, !
which surpassed all others in the per
cent of her growth as a live stock center. |
The magnitude of her packing business
and its increase from year to year is
everywhere conceded to be phenominal. |
The number of hogs packed in Kansas 1
City the first twelve months after her /
packing houses commenced business as
shown by the statistical tables was thir-
teen thousand and odd Wichita in the /
first month packed more hogs than did |
Kansas City in a year. a greater num- /
Der of hogs and cattle have been exposed /
to sale on the Wichita market for the /
month of December, 1888 than were for
twelve months after the first opening of (
the Kansas City stock yards.
When it is known that for the years of /
1887 and 1888 upwards of seventy per
cent of all the live stock unloaded by |
the railroads at the stock yards of Kan
sas City We're billed from Kansas points, !
and when that fact is taken in cohnec- /
ton with the fact that q thousand hogs |
per day have reached the Wichita mar |
ket for every day since it was first
opened. and that such wonderful num- |
Der have come unsolicited, and which |
number has gradually increased from /
the start, Wichita's ascendency, in the /
very near future, as a packing point,
second to no other III the country, is no
longer left rs matter of promise or
She viii not commence |
with hundreds and grow up into the /
but the statistics will show
not less than million hogs packed the
first year
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