The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-09-01
KANSAS GRAIN INSPECTION.

W. w. Haskell, state grain inspector,
made a visit to Wichita during the week
( to look after local inspection. Several
cities Of the state talk of engaging in
local inspection, but they seem slow to
organize and start. Kansas City, Kan,
urged the passage of the present law
| because the principal business Of the
state of this character was being done
| across the line by the officers of another
state, and Kansas grain, being nine
tenths of the grain they handled, passed
in the market under Missouri inspection
certificates. So far, the point aimed at
by this city has been gained. The
receipts of Kansas grain at Kawsmouth,
which is the principal grain mart west of
Chicago, now count on the Kansas side
of the line four and five times as much
as on the Missouri side, whereas all pre-
viously went to the Missouri side. Last
Monday the inspections in Kansas City,
Kan, exceeded the number in Chicago
on the same day. The law has been in
operation Just five months, and
the crops of this year have just begun
to move. This business will end
in the removal Of all the grain
dealers from Kansas City, Missouri, to
this side, and the erection of a great
board of trade building. On yesterday
State Inspector Haskell had a call from
farmer in Cloud county who repre-
scented several thousand acres of wheat,
which the owners desired to store
When he learned the terms of the law
relating to storage, the value of an eleva-
tors certificate, and their responsibility
as to grade, quantity, ETC., he was greatly
pleased, and thousands of bushels of
Cloud county wheat will be stored in
Kansas City, Kan, eleyators.-Kansas
City Gazette.
1t is gratifying to see, at last, the peo-
pie of Kansas awaking to matter of in
terest like this; matter which through
apathy OF lack of appreciation of its inn
portance to the agricultural interests of
the state, has been permitted to drag to
the incalcuable detriment and cost of the
state for years. And what Kansas City
is to the northern and northwestern por-
tions of the state in this respect, Wichita
is TO the southern portion, and in fact to
the entire state, for it is now generally
conceded fact that the bulk of the
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beyond the state VIII ere long find its
exit to the south, and Wichita being the
commercial gateway, shippers will save
at least the difference of the local rate of
freight one way between Kansas City
and this point, to say nothing of the pos
sible compromise of the grade of the
grain by reason of the consolation of
the Missouri and Kansas inspections
when sent to Kansas City. Wheat from
northern Kanfas intended to go north or
east will more naturally go to the north
eastern poiHt of inspection, but that to
be sent south will as naturally come to
while the product of the south |
ern half of the state Will naturally come
here, 70 difference whether it is to go |
north or south.
And another gratifying point in this
is certainty of the establish |
ing of elevators, which is rendered i'm
perative by the location here of state
grain inspectors.
The logical conclusion of the matter.
therefore, is that Wichita must become
he great grain entrepot of and for
Kansas.