The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-02
WESTERN GRAIN FOR EXPORT.
The successful shipment of the trai

The successful shipment of the train
load OF wheat from Sumner county TO
New Orleans by Mr.. S. Dixon two weeks
ago, was an event of sufficient import
ance and significance to attract the at
tention of Bradstreet's, which publica-
ton last week contained the following
observations touching the event.
The increased Importance of New
Orleans and Galveston as ports of
export for wheat and corn has been
brought prominently forward by Brad
streets reports of export of those cereals,
by ports, each week during the past six
or eight months. The strength of the
movement of grain south for export
is evidently greater than many had
anticipated, and promises to raise
those ports to more prominence in this
respect than they have heretofore en-
joyed. Grain shippers as far west as
Wellington, Kan, according to the St.
Louis Globe Democrat, are trying an
experiment which, if successful, may
go far toward turning the movement of
western crop transportation from east
ern to gulf ports for export. 1t APP
pears that delegation Of Kansan5' are
shipping twenty car loads Q0,00O
bushels) of wheat to New Orleans for
export to Europe. They are travelling
by easy stages only by day, in order TO
arouse an interest among the people OF
the west and southwest in the expert
ment. The cars are decorated with
bunting and streamerS such as Western
Products to Europe through the Gulf of
Mexico Then follows an account of
how this movement is expected to cause
all western railroads to furnish connect
ing lines to Gulf ports, and to bring the
reeded influence to bear to secure
national legislation to obtain deep water
harbors at gulf ports. The Kansas train
with 10000 bushels of wheat was to go
from st. Louis to Little Rock and re-
main a day, thence to Memphis for a
day, and after that to New Orleans"
Following is the New Orleans Times
Democrats editorial reference to the
arrival of the grain train in that city and
to the prospective transatlantic grain
traffic via that port:
''The wheat train came gaily decorated
with bunting and stredmers, as on a tri~
umphal march. 1t is the nrst large
shipment of wheat in bulk from point
nearly so far west as Sumner
Kan, and the decorations were
intended to indicate, and did indicate,
that the train which they embellished
was the pioneer i'll movement that Is
certain in future to develop any extern
sive dimensions.
''The kansans who shipped the wheat,
and took care to advertise the shipment
both before they started and while en-
route, are receiving such a welcome
from the grain dealers and other bust
ness men of New Orleans as their enter
prise and the inauguration of a move
ment of so much consequence amply
entitle them to. 1t is Il movement from
which both the great grain-producing
states of the west and the
ports on the Gulf will obtain material
latter in the shape of
profits accruing from large increase of
business and the former in the
shape of profits arising from cheapened
freights to the seaboard.
''Once they see that it is going to as
sumo considerable proportions, the diff
.erent railways running from the west
in this direction will begin to compete
keenlY with each other for this grain
business, and transportation rates will
fall to the lowest paying point. This
fall of rates will react in its turn on the
shipments, which will increase in pro-
portion as the rates decrease. And in
This way the business, now in its infancy,
will grow to such size that the l, zoe, 900
bushels o. wheat per month which we
are now exporting will be mere hand
Jul in the comparison"