The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-27
WICHITA AND DEEP WATER.
GALVESTON'S NEED FOR A GRAIN
MARKET AT THIS POINT.
The Interests Which, Properly Con-
served, VIII Make the Greatest
Grain Market West of the
Mississippi River.


OF the vast amounts of grain that are
annually exported from Baltimore and
New York not a bushel is sold on a New
York or Baltimore inspection or grade,
but on the classifcations fixed at Chicago,
Cleveland. st. Louis and other great in d
land centers. Wichita's delegation to the
Deep Water banquet met with a most
cordial reception, a reception that was
marked, on the part of the business inter
ests Of Galveston, whose people clearly
recognize the fact that the interests of
Galveston as an exporting point and those
Of Wichita as an innitial grain center, are
not only mutual but as directly dependent
upon each other as are St. Louis and New
! Orleans. Galveston sees that the chances
! for her grain export trade are naturally
with Wichita, because at Wichita can be
/ gathered more eXpediciouSly and surely,
! for inspection and grading, the grain, the
corn and wheat crops of Kansas of West
ern Missouri and of Nebraska, with fair
show in competing for the surplus of those
Of the DakOtas aud the northwest, than
at any other point west of the Missouri
river
The people Of Galveston therefore not
only showed the Wichita delegation
marked attention but took the liveliest in
tereat in our affairs. inquiring especially
after the proposed elevator, expressing the
hope that Wichita would be ready to
handle all the grain that could find pay
ing export price by the time Galveston
had her channel Geepened sutIi-
GENTLY TO float the foreign YES
sells engaged in that trade. They
said that they realized that in ali grain
inspected at Wichita, Galveston would at
least have an equal show with eastern ex-
port markets, while their ports would
have lIttle or no show for the grains that
had reached the st. Louis and Chicago eIe-
vatOrs.
In short in an authorized standard
grain inspection and elevator facilities at a
point as far west as Wichita, lies Calves
tons strongest guaranty of becoming
grain exporting port At no other point
could the great grain output of Kansas
and Nebraska be concentrated 50 naturally
for Gulf expectation as at Wichita. 1t is
the only point with the necessary railway
facilities, at which elevators can be erected
that will compel Kansas City to
handle the farm products Of the
west under competition. The only
way by which Galveston can secure "A per
cent OF the grain that goes TO Kansas City
is in making Wichita a grain market
equal to Kansas City. Galveston's de
mand and q Wichita inspection and grade
Will, combined, make " ichita just a, good
a market Tor all the grain of kausa, ana
Nebraska as is either Kansas City or -.
Louis. The Santa Re and Missouri Pa
cific managers lave already answered
Galveston that their railway systems
could just as expediciously and as cheaply +.
concentrate the grain of western Missouri,
Of Nebraska and Of Kansas at Wichita /
with proper elevator facilities, as at Kan T.
sas City. Galveston as port, then, is as
much interested in Wichita as a great
grain market as Wichita i herself
There s another Doint favoriDg Wichita
as a gram market. a factor. in fact. which. .
taken in connection with the Galveston
route, ought to make Wichita as great
Grain center. if Moth greatest grain mar
Eet in the yc.t Memphis and New Or /.
leans and Mobile. all grain exporting
points labor under a disadvantage held I
AGAINST them in the Kansas CITY market. /
which is controlled in the Interest Of Chi 7
caro All Grain ceptered at Wichita .
would as readily and As cbeaplv 90 for
ward to Memphis rs to Galveston or Chi
ca.,o and New Orleans and NIemphis |
,yould both become buycrs in this market
because of its canal accessibility to them. /
In short in these Grain elevator. and |
deem water propo,itfoo, lie another great
oprortuairy for Wichita The more this /
matter is inquired into the more clear viii /
interest lies III the pIo!hpA! securing Oh