The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-07-17
GRAIN ELEVATORS.

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storage grain elevators of sufficient capac-
ity to handle the grain of the country trib
utary to this city presents itself for the
earnest consideration OF those dealing in
| that commodity, That several are needed
| is generally admitted. That the grain is
| here to be handled cannot be disputed
That the money invested will bring large
returns is not questioned.
The question, then, is: Who will build
! them?
Will it be by our own people who are
interested in the development of the best
market in Kansas? or will it be done by
foreign capital? The continued increase
III the grain production of Southern Kan
sas must settle this question sooner or
later
Those directly interested in the erection
of grain elevators, and who will reap the
greatest benefit are, first, the producer aud
seller, and, then, the consumer and buyer
The producer is most benefited, because he
is enabled to put his grain in better condi-
ton through an elevator, to command
better price, and if he is DESTROYS of storing
it, can do so at less expense and with the
chance of better market than if shipped
to a foreign market where it is more
subject to loss in mixing, shrinkage, leak
age in transit, and increased insurance,
elevator charges and interest on the freight
charges to place of storage.
The location of Wichita is such that the
exporters at the gulf ports and the millers
of all states east, as well as the buyers in
other market centers, will pay from 2 to
cents more per bushel here to secure the
pure Kansas grain for their particular
purposes, than to purchase it outside OF
the state where it is subject to Il change of
grade and being doctored.
The reasons why Wichita can be made
one of the best grain markets in the west
for all purposes If she has the elevator
facilities. are:
First-Because Kansas wheat is the best
wheat grown to make the best -four, and
Wichita is in the center of the territory
which produces the largest surplus for
shipment.
Second-BecauSe as exporters and mill
ers prefer TO Luy where it is not subject to
mixing with the wheat of other states
they are willing to pay an advanced price
for this pure Kansas wheat.
Third-because Kansas wheat can stand
the ocean voyage better than any other
and thus is in demand for the export
trade.
Fourth-The peculiar location of Wich
tia il the center of the wheat and corn
fields of Kansas, and directly connected
by trunks railways with the grain mar
kets of the Gulf of Mexico, the Missis-
sippi river. The upper lakes and the noun
tain region particularly fits this city for
the concentration and the holding of grain
for the buyers at all these market CEN
tiers.
Fifth-With large storage facilities it
is made possible for larger purchases of
grain TO be made at less expense than at
present.
The amount of grain raised in several
counties tributary to this city is the best
evidence in the world that there is a de-
maud for these elevators and particularly
SO under the conditions governing the
movement OF the greatest commodity pro-
Guced in Kansas.
In 1891, the seven counties including
Sedgwlck tributary to Wichita raised
81, 49l ,953 bushels of wheat and corn alone
1t is estimated, that the harvest of 1892
will exceed this amount by several million
bushels.
In 1891 Sedgwick. Sumner and Cowley !
raised more wheat than the whole |
state of Texas
The further fact that Wichita has now a !
thoroughly established grain inspection |
for all kinds of grains and established |
grain commission dealers, buying for all 4
markets makes it much easier 10 operate 1
elevators on large scale than at any time |
heretofore.
There is no one thing so important to the !
farming industry or which viii contribute |
so much towards the general prosperity OF /
the business interests of this city as the /
erection OF large elevators to properly care /
for the large surplus of grain which south |
ern Kansas annually produces.
The advantage of storage elevators ar /
this point for the railways. the farmers
and the buyers OF grain are so many that
there Is no question about their not having
Nil they can do.
A large storage elevator here will enable
ali small elevators in towns near here 10
ship here and secure warehouse receipt /
and refill their own during the busy sea-
son IN less time and ut less expense
tnan TO ship two hundred miles or more
TO any eastern or southern market. Fifty
aud one hundred car lot orders will be hil-
ed At moments notice. The farmers will
axe advantage OF the modern methods OF