The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-01-25
ELEVATOR STORAGE, GRAIN INSPECTION
AND DEPENDING INTERESTS.

It's all well enough that the railroads
have given formal notice to the elevators
and commission houses of Kansas City
that rebilling at that point must cease,
and not less encouraging is the active in
| terest taken by the capitalists at Calves
ton In Wichita as a future grain center,
but there are other factors outside of
these and outside of Wichita's own deter
mination in the matter, and outside of the
propositions for building elevators here
now pending, which insures a central
grain market at this point, grain mar
ket to which the importers of Galveston
will not only look for supplies. but which
viii largely supply local, southern and
western consumers. In truth there is not
another so promising an opening for a ecu
trail elevator, storage and commission
market any where in the country, today,
as Wichita. Her location with reference
to the export points of Lakes
and Gulf, her transportation facili-
ties, her abundant banking capital and
above all her situation in the midst of one
of the most wonderful grain producing
areas on the continent, every section of
which area is directly reached by her local
and trunk railway lines. are advantages
such as render her claims and prospects
pre-emiDent. The wonderful yield Of
wheat, oats and corn, produced by eleven
contiguous counties, in lSs9, aggregating
seventy-fve million four hundred and
eighty-two thousand bushels, as shown by
the official returns, was more than the
combined grain productions 0. whole
states. These are facts to which milling
men, grain-eleyator men and railway men
have awakened. Only by expensive and
Improbable efforts can the natural and
acquired advantages of Wichita as a grain
center be overcome, and even in such
sense only for limited period The adj
vantages over others that the elevator
men who first put in plants here must
nave Will be too great TO be met, let
alone overcome, by any re-blling or other
manipulating process at the Missouri river,
so far as the grain product of this section
viii be concerned. The successive crops Of
the coming years will demonstrate all that
and command the necessary capital 20 buy
and the elevator and storage capacity to
handle, even in the absence of any local
effort upon the part of this city. But
Wichita doesn't propose to lose the adj
vantages that would accrue to her trade.
to her commercial and financial life in the
meantime These acknowledged advan-
tages will be supplemented and augment
ed by vigorous and prompt action, and the
far-seeing and experienced men who have
already discovered the unquestioned su-
periority Of this point As the future grain
emporium of south Kansas will be met |
half way with assuring encouragement. |
Tie matter is now in the hands Of men |
who appreciate fully the gains to
be realized in the near future |
by prompt action no less than they |
understand the losses that must /
inevitably ensue from dilatory move /
ments. No only so, but they are fully |
cognizant that within year it would be |
possible TO double the railway tonnage to |
the city, double the bank clearings and /
add dozens of firms to the business roll, to |
say nothing of the other outgrowing inn
portant realizations in the way of added /
and augmented volumes of business effect
ing every enterprise and every individual
in the city,
1t shows Wichita is just as logically and
truly the natural milling and grain center
Of south Kansas as she has demonstrated
herself to be the natural livestock, and
packing, and jobbing center, each and
every one of which interests
hinges upon and supports the
others, as truly as that com
mercial life encourages and supports
varied manufacturing industries. Towns
have their speciaities but no less do cities
nave their universities, in which fact
nheres the fact of centrality.
1t is expected that our representative
md senator will introduce and that the
legislature will pass a grain and inspection
ill during the present session, to the end
hat an authorized inspection of the grains
If any established Kansas market may
AIRY with it the value of a recognized
trade into the markets of the world.
Wichita will be readyto comply with such
aw and the grain growers of south Kansas
o reap the advantages of a near home
market.