The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-08-16

an upward tendency, and when that is
the case money seeks investment. An
advancing market stimulates the
buying of grain and Wichita is
the center of this great grain country
and the place where the buyers of grain
from Galveston, Memphis, st. Louis,
Chicago, New York and Kansas City
will make their headquarters here if we
only make it possible for them to do
| business here.
Do we want to see repetition of the
old times in Wichita? Then let every
man put his shoulder to the wheel and
it will be accomplished. Every whole
sale house and manufacturing establish
ment is interested in increasing the tom
mage of this city. Every merchant is
interested in increasing the volume of
business. Every bank and loan company
is interested in doing that which will
stimulate and increase the general bust
ness of the country. Every farmer is in
terested in doing that which will facili-
tate the handling of his productions to
his own benefit and profit.
Whatever can be done, should be done
to increase the value of the raw pro-
ducts of country, because it not only is
directly a benefit, but it stimulates an
improvement in other directions, What
we want to see is large storage elevators
erected here as early as possible to clean
the grain of Southern Kansas SO it can go
out into the markets of the world in the
best possible shape and receive the best
possible price.
We need elevators of sufficient capaci-
ty to enable the farmers to hold their
grain so they can take advantage In the
quickest possible time of the rapid
changes in the market. We need large
elevators to accommodate the smaller
towns directly connected with Wichita
that they may be able to unload them
when filled and again refill without their
being forced to ship to eastern markets
at aloss.
It is as necessary now that there should
be central point in Kansas to take care
of the grain as it was necessary at
Chicago and st. Louis in the early history
of those cities. AS the country outgrew
these cities and new railway lines were
built, Kansas City became a necessity,
and now that this country has developed
so rapidly similar condition arises and
a similar demand is made that this city
become a concentrating and distributing
point for this business. History is ever
repeating itself, and the demand of the
times ever asserting itself. Wichita has
everything but the elevators TO meet the
demands of the grain business. She has
the railways connecting her with every
town and county seat in southern Kan
sas. She has every railway in Kansas
which will distribute it to every market
She has the telegraph and telephone
lines to reach every shipping point.
In fact, there is nothing lacking to
make Wichita a grain market
which will be of advantage to every
shipper, and every farmer.
If Wichita is the largest city in south
ern Kansas and she has those advan-
tageS not possessed by any other, then it
is duty that every town and city owes
to its best interests to do what they can
to improve their own interests. AS our
packing houses and jobbing houses have
been a benefit to the merchants and far
mers of this country, so will Wichita as
a grain market be of equal benefit. If
we expect to be the city of Kansas we
must do that thing which is necessary
to do to be that city.