The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-26
LINKING THE ZONES
PROPOSED RAILROAD FROM DAKOTA
TO GALVESTON HARB0R
Wichita to be the Center Of q Great Trans
portation Line That Will Giys Us
Two Great Navigable High
ways to the Worlds
Markets.

UakOCa Will De unKeu W Iu0 gull. Auo
frozen north will be welded to the warm
southland by bonds of steel and strings OF
wood.
A north and south road has been talked
of for long time and people have said
| that it was logical.
Hon. Richard George of Brooklyn. n.
Y, the American representative OF an
English combination of capital, Was IN the
city last night and will remain here few
days in consultation with the members OF
the board of trade regarding the
proposed Dakota, Wichita and Galveston
railroad. He is accompanied by Mr.. c. NJ.
Rawlings of Lyons, Rice county. who is
an enthusiast in the enterprise and one OF
its originators.
The proposition is to build line OF rail-
way from Running Water. South Dakota,
the terminus OF the Chicago. Milwaukee
and ST. Paul railway, south through the
central part of Nebraska to Superior.
thence south to Wichita, where the head
quarters Of the company. shops. etc. are
to be located, as per plans. From
Wichita they propose to run south to
Perry, thence to Tecumseh, thence into
the coal fields of the Indian Territory,
making its territorial exit into Texas at
Denison.
The idea i. to run aloug the rich valleys
Of tho Republic, the Arkansas and other
streams where a railway Is most liable to
get support. BY this means they expect
to catch trade going and coming That
is, they will take the products
of Nebraska aud Kansas towards
| the gulf aid in return bring the timber
and the coal of the south into Kansas and
Nebraska. At Running Water connections
will be made with the Chicago, Milwaukee
| and St. Paul, branch of which extends
to Duluth, and in this way Wichita being
equi-distant will have competition OF
water exit to the markets of the world. 1t
will also give the Peerless Princess an
other outlet to the Indian Territory which
her only rival, Kansas City cannot have.
Mr.. George is here looking up the points
preparatory to making report to the
English interests which he represents.
II am astonished at Wichita" That
was his remark last night when a reporter
for the EAGLE asked him how he liked
our city. Il have never seem" said he,
continuing, "a more substantially built
city of its age, in my life. Your streets
are beautiful. your buildings, both public
and private, are far in advance OF those OF
any other city Of its sizs and your get up
aud get is not over estimated by your
fame. Wichita. in my opinion. is destined
| to be a great western commercial city, ana
let me predict also, that fine manufactur-
ing future is before it. The east IS getting
oyercrowded with manufactures; England
is over crowded and in short
time l expect to see people coming
nearer the consumers. Population is
coming west, civilization is coming west
also. and it is but logical to conclude that
industrial enterprises must follow. You
are we'll equipped for a manufacturing city
now; by this 1 mean that you are prepared
to take care of the smaller manufacturing
enterprises and many such small enter
prises will make large and thriving city
something like Patterson, n. j., for in
stance
Mr.. George recently returned from En-
gland where he noted existing Industries
conditions with critical eye. "Manufac
turing enterprises there" said he, 'are
not what they used to be IL few years ago
Then the manufacturer made pront OF
two pence per pound on his cotton goods
today he scarcely makes farthing. The
manufacturers club together. own
their own ships aud instead OF hav-
ing a definite or established foreign
market for their goods they do species OF
msratime peddling. They load their ships
with their mill products, direct thel'
agents to find market for them at some
indefinite place. principally South Amer
ica They are directed to sell them there
or rather exchange them for any goods
scrap iron, rags, wool or anything thai
can be disposed Of on the American mar
ket. They are exchanged. new cargo
is loaded, disposed of in New York, the
money pocketed and taken to England
The only profit expected by the English
manufacturers is the freightage Of tbeil
ships cargo, and with this they are salts
fied-for they have to be. The result i:
that the young manufacturers OF England
are going abroad. looking for new fields
for investments in enterprises, and know
of no better opening for some OF them thar
that afforded by Wichita"
Mr. George is an intelligent gentleman
and understands well the business condi
tioas both of England and America.