The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-30


to page 250, and are open to the world,
indeed the volume will be found in all
the public Libraries of all the counties of
the world. Commencing the report
says.
1.-The territory of Kansas from its posi-
''tion, is the great geographical center Of
''the internal commerce of the United
Estates. The meats
! packed in Kansas are shipped literally to
1.-The four quarters of the globe. The people
''of New England and New York can be
more cheaply supplied with pork and beef
through our great Kansas packing houses
ethan they can manufacture these articles
''for themselves"
The old doctrine of the EAGLE that at
practically uniform distances all about
this continent great commercial center5
! had arisen and that, therefore, at equal
distances in the areas more recently
settled other great distributing points
would be found necessary, and that logi-
cally Wichita was one Of such centers
and for the reasons cited, seems to be the
view of the expert who complies the
commercial data of the treasury depart
ment. Read attentively what he has to
say of Wichita as a distributing point,
excluding from your mind, if possible,
what the EAGLE has always said:
''Wichita is new distributing point
(which has risen into Importance with
''the growth and development of the west
fern and southwestern portion of Kansas.
''She is far enough away to escape the
''overshadowing influence of the older
Clowns of the eastern border, while the
concentration of railroads there gives her
superior facilities both for receiving and
distributing goods. Her wholesale trade
lis already well developed along all the
leading lines of business, such as grocer
lies, hardware. dry goods, -four and feed,
hides and wool, lumber, cigars, fruits,
! land boots and shoes, agricultural i'm
''pliments, etc, and is destined to largely
increase in the near future. "
The compiler of facts then proceeds
with open and evident sequences and
with the inevitable of Wichita's local
environments, saying of the Indian terri
tory, its trade and coming Importance:
1.-The opening of Oklahoma to settlement
"and the not distant occupation of the
greater portion of the Indian territory
must greatly stimulate the wholesale
"tlade of Wichita"
The doctrine so persistently urged by
the EAGLE for years that Wichita in con-
trolling the principal products Of this
valley. /. e. its live stock and grain, must
inevitably control the minor products,
and thus become not only the central
market but the central supply and cen
traI manufacturing point IS fully sus-
tanned by the views and declarations of
the treasury department as gathered
from the facts and figures returned to
its statistical and commercial bureau.
OF the importance of packing interests
and the tendency for this great CONNER
cial industry to seek the supply fields
the report says:
There is a constant tendency on the
part of packing houses to move to the
source of supply"
'The nearer TO its pasture field or stall
the animal can be killed the better will
''be its meat, and the greater return viii it
make its owner
The manufacture of meat products
"seeks its own natural center as imper7l-
lively as any other industry
Packing houses have come to Kansas
Il
quality are produced, and because the
manufactured product can be sent from
there in a better condition and at a less
cost than if the cattle and hogs were
shipped by rail to be killed in the imme-
''diate neighbOrhoodS where the meat is
consumed
a large packing house-that of Messrs
"Dold x Son-was finished during the
year at Wichita. The works are on
Large scale and are now in active opera
'tion"
The enterprise was followed by that
''of the Whitaker packing house.
The establishment of two such enter
"terprises at so commanding a CONNER
'cial point as Wichita indicates the choice
''of a new packing center to which capital
will as inevitably flow rs it has flowed
ito Kansas City. The field is immense
The same reasons which led packers to
move on from Chicago TO Kansas City
will lead them TO make another move; 7
indeed has done So
Extensive stock yards have been es-
"tablished'
aside from her packing houses Wich- |
eta has some large manufacturing es-
Establishments
''All these things indicate the planting |
''of these manufacturing industries grow
ing out of live stock which have made 1
such a marvellous growth at Kansas I,
City"
The report takes up among other
factors of Wichita's coming greatness
her railway mileage and facilities declar-
ing that the products of her packing
houses and grain elevators must. even (
before this report shall have been pub /
lished, be passing from Wichita into Ok .
lahoma, Texas and the Gulf states. The (
manufacturing interests of Wichita, too,