The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-05-06

Another reduced rate has been made by
the railroads.
Wichita seems to have at last reached
the ear of the corporations or their eyes
have been opened to its Importance as the
great supply point of the southwest.
Today rate of % cents On iron piping
from Kansas City goes into effect.
Iron piping is no small item of the bust.
ness done annually by Wichita. In fact, it is
n business that has outgrown nearly every
thing else, comparatively speaking, in i'm
portance. ~ The opening of the Cherokee
strip and the rapid development of Okla
homa, southern and western Kan
sas, and the Panhandle Of Texas
has created great demand especially for
such piping as Isl used IN pumps, wind
mills, etc. This is the kind of piping that
the reduced rate has been made on. There
are now In this city five or six institutions
doing an enormous business in this species
of commerce and even with the old rate
they have literally driven the dealers of
Kansas City, St. Louis and other points,
Out of the southwestern market. To be
sure they did il On lighter margin of pro-
lit owing TO the fact of paying higher
freight rate, but the new rate will enable
them to make a better margin, for it will
actually save them about S5S on the car
and this will amount to good deal in the
course OF years business.
The old rate was So cents and the de-
msnd of the dealers was for a rate of "a
cents, so 1t can be seen that they got near
~ what they asked for.
EX-Councilman A Il. Buckeridge took a
very active interest in securing this re-
duction. Speaking about the matter yes
terday he said: when / met those rail-
road men and asked them for the rate
do hnr. afGt, fall
thought of their action with reference to
their discrimination against Wichita.
They were inclined to treat US as little
way station, but we opened their eyes by
showing them the amount of business
We are doing and the rapidity with
which it is increasing in volume.
We also gave them to under
stand very plainly that the people built
their roads and that they perhaps had
still something to say about them. 1t was
"A shame the way they were treating U.s."
With the new rate she pnnp and piping
business will increase very much in this
city. The western counties of the state
are filling up with cattle and windmills
are being put up there very rapidly and
thickly for to furnish water to the pas
lures. 1T Is the same way in the Cherokee
strip. 1t is estimated that there are Fl 600
farms Ia the strip, and these will require
that many pumps or wiudmills, to say
pothing of the number of pumps
That Will be needed by the growth and inn
provement of the towns. Then
again there is beginning to be demand
for windmllls in western and southwestern
Kansas for irrigation purposes which will
keep on increasing. 1t is surprising TO
learn OF the experiments that are being
made in this line. Many western Kansas
farmers have studied the subject of irriga-
tion by windmilis and the experiments
they are making and have made are so
successful that there is no doubt but what
windmill irrigation will become very
general There is a probability that Wich-
ita may become one of the greatest pump
and windmill markets in the country