Wichita eagle., 1889-08-28
WICHITATHE GREAT CITY.
HOW THE PEOPLE OF KANSAS FEEL
TOWARD TEXAS.
Great and Mutual Good to Come From
the Establishment Of Closer Com
mercial Relations - What
Deep Water VIII Do.
From the Galveston Daily News.

Deep Water VIII Do.
| From the Galveston Daily News
A News reporter yesterday met Dir. F.
Cannon, who has just returned from an
extended trip to the northwest. During
his absence Mr. Cannon visited number
of the cities and large towns of Kansas,
and expresses himself as much pleased
with what he saw and heard everywhere.
In reply to an inquiry as to what i'm
pressed him most during his trip, Mr.
| Cannon said:
''The Importance and necessity Of an
early movement on the part Of our peo-
! pie to establish the business relations that
! naturally and must exist between the
city OF Galveston and the several states
lying west of the Mississippi river
"Do the people up there realize the
importance of this as well as we do down
here:"
"Yes. The deep water port on the
Texas coast is an idea as familiar to
them as to us and they are looking this
way. They have some very erroneous
impressions, however, about Galveston.
/ found the people Of Kansas, with
Whom | took occasion TO converse on
the subject, looking for al outlet for
their wheat, corn, -four, ETC., through
the gulf but many OF them have no
doubt, COMPOUNDED Galveston with some
other gulf ports and are under the i'm
preston that we have only four TO six
feet OF water on our bar instead of four
teen and half. which we now have at
mean,tide. With the present depth of
water on our bar, | believed it is feasible
tor our merchants to at least inaugurate
an interchange Of business with the
west, and if commercial companies or
individual firms were organized for the
purpose of soliciting consignments of
grain, -four, ETC., and see that we had the
orders or buyers here to purchase such
shipments, the city OF Galveston in a
few years would as q grain and -four
market rank second to no city in the
United States. The question of freight
would have to be considered, but with
the three or four direct lines (Atchison
system, Kansas and Texas, Frisco, Fort
Worth and Denver, and Missouri Pacific
connecting Galveston with the west, 1
do not doubt but what the necessary
competing rates could be secured when
ever the railroads could be assured Of
large volume of business. It's certainly
TO the interest of several, If not all. OF
the above roads to get the long haul to
the gulf from the west, rather than to
let it go to Chicago, ST. Louis or the At
lantic seaboard"
''Asiee from the large, well informed
merchants do the people take much in
terest in the establishment of closer COM
mercial relations
THE Kansas people are willing, and I
might say anxious to do business with
US, and are ready to buy our coffee,
sugar, rice, fruit and fish end
oysters, the consumption OF which
in that section is simply immense,
and | feel confident that our new fish
and oyster company just starting in bus
mess will find a market in that direction
for nearly if not all the fresh fish and
oysters they may have to offer, whic Il
would make large business for them.
Should this company not add the line of
fruit Us their business 1 hope some OF our
citizens or merchants will undertake it,
These western people are great Iruit
eaters and at present draw their supply
mostly from New Orleans, which city
has some dozen or more large steamers
engaged in the transportation of fruit,
and the greater part of the New Orleans
imports are distributed to this western
territory, which Is tributary to Calves
ton, being nearer aud more directly con-
nected. With the establishment Of an
Interchange of grain, flour, mineral, ETC.,
from the west TO Galveston, and our re.
turn shipments Of fish, oysters, fruit,
sugar, coffee. rice, etc. all OF which may
be accomplished within the next few
years, we would have o city of 100, 600
TO 100, 600 population instead Of 1000 to
30, coo.
Until our people come to fully appre- /
ciate the Importance and magnitude of
this vast western business which is al
most thrust upon us and only waiting
for us to accept it, we can not conceive
the future of Galveston, which / consid-
er more pOrmising today than any city
in the south"
(Which OF the Kansas cities DO YOU
consider the livliest and most wide
awake"
Wichita and Hutchinson, both of
which are favored with progressive peo-
pie, and the latter5 large salt manufac- |
turing interest will certainly add to its
population and prosperity and make |
Hutchinson one Of the leading cities of
Kansas. Wichita, | think, is destined |
to be the queen city of the west. They |
are already far in the lead in the way OF |
railroad facilities, pork packeries, manu- |
factories and brick and wafer, all of /
which are necessary to build up city, |
and predict for Wichita repetition of |
what we have witnessedin the growth Of !
Kansas City.
There is 10 be large city west OF kaG- |
sas City, and " ichita, on account OF pres /
eur advantages and geological position, /
believe Will be the place.
Texas no doubt viii have strong dele |
gation az the Topeka Deep Water couven- |
ton, and Galveston should send there l
large and well selected committee 10 ex- /
plain to the western delegates the adyau- |
tages possessed byGalveston over any other /
OF the points frequently mentioned as the 1
prospective outlet. Galgeston's population. /
facilities and S5000O,U00 to so !
600 Goa Of annual business should be sufii- |
Gent argument why this port VIII and /
should be selected over any OF our compel
itors, neither OF which at the present have /
over SIX to eight feet Of water, only small |
village population and no commerce"
EXCHANGE SHOTS.
Well, Why Not7
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