The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-25
KANSAS FLOUR.
Kansas Wheat as Good as Any That
Grows in This World.

The Omaha World-Herald has been
agltatIng the question of freight rates to
Omaha. When interviewing prominent
| citizens, 1t had the following interview
with Mr. Garneau, the great cracker
manufacturer;
The distance from Minneapolis to
| Chicago IS 415 miles and the Chicago, st.
! Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha railroad
| handles the flour from Minneapolis to
Chicago for q cents per 100 pounds, in
! other words, for fOrty-two miles longer
hauling the rate is less than one-third of
what Omaha and other Nebraska towns
have to pay. This is an unjust dis
elimination, an unnecessary and I'M
called for burden to be borne by the peo-
pie Of this state. The people have the
redress IN their own hands if they will
only apply it, and it is this: The produc-
ton Of hard orwhat is commonly known
as Turkey wheat in the state of Kansas
has increased over 500 per cent in the
past two years, in fact, some mills today
are running three-fourths of their pro-
ducts from this class of wheat.
Flour made from this wheat will pro-
duce as good a loaf of bread as any
northern wheat that was ever raised and
1t Is matter of fact this -four today is
commanding as high a price in the Liver
pool market as the best brands of Mime
apolis -four.
During the past season we consumed
between 800 and 400 barrels of flour per
week in manufacturing bread alone and
until the past few months we have used
only northern flour, but excessive prices
asked prompted us to give the Kansas
flour question careful investigation with
the result that we are now using it eX-
clusively and find it in every way salts
factory.
1T produces as large, as good and
as white bread as the northern flour and
at very much less price. You can buy
Minneapolis flour as cheap at the mill as
Kansas flour sells at the MILL bit the
difference is, in one case a freight rate
OF 20 cents per hundred and in the other
10 to - cents per hundred. the net result
being the northern -four costs, laid down,
great deal more than the Kansas. 90
into this explanation of the relative
value of northern and Kansas flour to
show the people that they are not
bound to use certain goods; Just as
good goods are coming into the
market, but the trouble is they are
not known. What is the use of a
man paying s. for a sack of flour
simply because it has the Minneapolis
brand on it when Just as good a sack
coming from Kansas can be purchased
for S2.75? A number of your readers
will recall the high prices asked for Min
neapolis flour one year ago. This was
when Mr.. Pillsbury issued his famous
circular predicting flour would go to so
per barrel. This was owing to the short
age of the crops in the northwest. The
northern millers did not have enough
wheat to grind to supply their demand.
Business was coming in faster than they
could get wheat to mill, yet what did
they do:
They did not refuse orders and say we
cannot make the goods, but sent their
buyers down to Kansas and bought hun
ireds of cars Of Kansas hard wheat,
ground it into flour and sent it to Omaha
and other markets in their own sacks
and branded with their own established
brands.
People here and elsewhere used this
-four preSuming, of course, they were /
getting that made from northern wheat. |
This illustration only proves that peo- !
pie viii often bind themselves by preju- !
lice and not by facts; simply because !
his flour was in a Minnesota sack it was /.
all right If it had been in Kansas /
sack the cook probably have said she
could not use it.