The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-27

experienced dealers. Being situated in
the very center of the last possible great
corn belt Of the west, packers did not
hesitate 10 invest their money in perma-
nent plants and to arrange for millions of
dollars to meet the demands of the new
market, but all Of their calculations have
/ been surpassed. Touching the item of
/ grass cattle, being located equally
/ accessible to the great ranges Of
/ western Kansas, TO the Pan Handle
and to the Indian territory, the
/ plainest logic pointed to time in
+ the near future, when canned beef con-
{ Germs, dressed beef firms and extract enter
| prises would find Wichita a profitable
/ point at which to operate; but, not only
! from the growth Of the TWO stock interests,
/ as shown by records, but from the fact that
/ the government, itself, has designated
/ Wichita as the very center of horned cat
tie, it IS becoming plain to friends and enc
mics alike that within two or three years
both Kansas City and Omaha will have TO
be looking TO their laurels as live stock
markets and packing points.
The horns go with the hide" That
which Wichita has ever calculated upon as
due her location and geographic position,
in short, that which located and gave the
town an existence, and for the Upbuilding
of which she has so persistently striven,
/ e the iobbing traffic of the tributary,
territory is not only now assured but
the principal products of al the
vast expanse of corn fields and native pas
ture are here also 70 find their most con-
venient and surest market That Wichita
viii not only be the supply city for the
mercantile and manufacturing trade of
the southwest, but the initial market for
the grain, for the hogs and for the cattle
and sheep of all the southwest is no longer
questioned by competent judges or by any
unprejUdiced man of average intelligence.
The packing business Of Wichita, meas
ured by the Iightest market month of the
year, just closed, shows d business equal TO
I'D. 900 hogs per aunum. Measured by the
growth of the past year and the business
for the next year, ending July l, 1891, will
reach from $4,000 to 100000 hogs.
As for cattle any estimate
would likely prove foolish. Taking
Wichita's position with reference TO the
most important cattle ranges of the west,
and the way those ranges are reached by
her railroads, and the way the same roads
reach from Wichita to the terminal mar
kets, and Wichita is liable at any time to
find the greatest dressed meat and canning
concerns in the country concentrating the
energies and capital at this point. That
the first who shall occupy the field viii
reap the surest reward, Is already evident
to every man who has given the situation
serious study. 1t IS very sure that not
only the pork packers on the ground now
know this to be true, but the beef men of
Chicago and of Omaha and Kansas City
have suppressed its truth for months.
There were received and sold in the
Wichita live stock yards the past week, or
for SIX days ending yesterday, 10 250 hogs, (
or IS, 500 for the month. Yesterday alone
there were 1850, or for the week an aver
age of :, zoo hogs per day, every head of
which number was raised within one hun /
dred miles of this city. By these figures /
and in the failure of any increase in the /
ratio Wichita will take the position of the /
fourth place as q packing center in the /
United States for the year 1891