The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-12-26
WICHITA'S OPPORTUNITY.
HOGS, GRAIN AND CATTLE, HER
STOCK IN TRADE.
Her Ally on the Gull Writes Her on
the Situation and Urges I'm
mediate Action.

fields are undenied, nor does any one deny
that her jobbing concerns will do their ut
most TO take care of the trade as the field
DEVELOPS and widens. But for jobbing
center something more is requisite than
mere jobbing concerns. Large wholesale
houses must be backed up by large bank
ing capital, and large banking capital
must be supplemented by large CONNER
cial interests, which, all combined, con-
stitute a trade center. No matter what
may be the local aud transportation adj
yantages and facilities of point, it can
never be trade center if it fails of being
the market of the surplus products
of its surroundings. The product
market, the mercantile trade, the
manufacturers aud the banks are indis-
soluble and are the factors that make up
central cities. Not a single one of these
interests can flourish in the absence Of the
others, the primal factor of which is the
market control of the initial products
Each hinges upon the other The princi-
pal products of the great territory which
surrounds Wichita are grain, hogs and
cattle These represent the possibilities Of
the Arkansas valley as an agricultural
country All the other diverse and null
hilarious products of the soil are but sub
sidiary and contingent. In the control Of
these three principal interests all of the
others follow, and in the control of these
only are the other elements of commercial
life possible. Jobbing houses and
manufacturing houses and banking
houses come not only logically but
come of necessity where the primal in
terest is controlled. The capital of out
side cities in controlling, from initial ship
ping points, these three principal products
of this vast and rich region, simply would
leave Wichita with no character as a COM
mercial center, and her jobbing and man
ufacturing and banking interests mere
local links Of a great chain of which
neither end belonged to Wichita.
In position and in distance, with refer
ence to other central cities, and in trans
portation facilities, for Wichita there is
nothing to be desired. She is queen of the
the location and commands the situation.
OF the three great products which consti-
tute the primal factor that will build
central city and maintain its markets
with all their multiplied interests; Wich
tia has already taken the necessary steps
to control two of the three, is controlling
them now, and will continue to control
fail in her attempt TO control the third.
The cattle and hogs are marketed here,
and here will they be packed, even when
the present receipts have been many times
indeed it does not lead that interest, is the
grain the millions upon millions of bushels
of it, that goes scattering away from the
tens of thousands of fields TO the
elevators and mills of distant markets,
the profits of the capital for the buying of
which, the profits of the labor for the
handling of which, the profits of the
grinding of which and the profits of the
stands in the very center of the aforesaid
fields whose every station is reached di-
rectly by railroads putting out from
Wichita
In this work and effort to secure the
proper facilities and necessary capital to
establish great grain and milling center
at Wichita, we will have the prestige of
the influence of the city of Galveston and
probably other southern export markets,
whose people realize that the grain Of this
country once hauled mp to Missouri river
points is practically lost to any southern
port. The Galveston News and the COM
mercial organizations TO that city are tax
ing lively interest in the matter and their
tongues and pens have begun to tell of
late. 1t remains for Wichita 10 act, and
to act at once. The following letter from
William Farwell of the Citizens Com
mittee," on this subject to the secretary of
the Wichita Board of Trade will be read
with interest:
GALVESTON, Tex, Dec. 20, 1890.
H. /. Pierce, Secretary Board of Trade, Wichita,
Kan.
DEAR SIR-The people of Galveston are
watching with great interest the earnest
efforts OF Wichita TO become the grain col
lecting center of Kansas. Being TO a GER
tain extent familiar with that richer part
of the "Sunhower' state, it appears to me
that Wichita should be the receiving point
for larger amount Of grain than any
other city in the west You are in the
center of an aggregation of counties which
stand away up at the head OF Kansas
Sumner. Harper, Cowley, But
Ter, Harvey and Reno counties embrace an
area of agricultural land which
for fertility and productiyeness is
not exceeded upon the face of the earth.
Add this 10 the great section, and Wichita
has territory to draw from which should
make the handling of grain and general
products her chief industry. This
same section has almost a national reputs-
ton as the best hog raising district in
America. The portion of southern Kansas,
Of which you are the centre, produces
superior quality of pork. II is a section
which never had any Tazor-back hogs but
from the beginning has paid its attention
ntirely TO thoroughbreds. Wichita has
direct line to deep water at Galveston, and
il appears TO me, that at least half dozen
large elevators could find employment
here and would certainly be paying iu-
yestment. II You can handle the grain in
large quantities and a cago for Liverpool
could be loaded here direct from Wichita,
such movement on the part of Wichita
means that she will enrich the farmers OF
Kansas and advance the price of every
oushel of wheat, corn and oats. and every
pound of pork and beef that goes TO
market. II is the general understanding
here that Wichita is actively at work in
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