The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-04-14
TO SOUTHERN PORTS
THAT'S WHERE KANSAS PRODUCTS
WILL SOON GO.
Wiehita's Approaching Grain and
Trade Congress Promises 10 be
Prolific of Immense Benefits to
the West and South-Ar.
engagements About Com
pleted TO Entertain
an Immense Gath
ering Of Del
egates,

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On Tuesday, April II, at 1:30 p. m, a
board of trade hall, will convene the frs
grain and trade congress of the south anC
west. A committee of one hundred prom
inent citizens have the matter in hand ant
will make it hum. The object of this
meeting is commercial economy, and Il
bring into closer trade relations the peopl,
OF the west and south: to do away will
middle markets and unnecessary middle
men; to help the producer and consumer
to endeavor to knock out the long
haul with the short haul; to opeI
the eyes of the roads running south anO
southeast, and show them where there Il
big paying business to be had for the
asking. The rapidly developing west anO
south demand a new order OF things. The
hard times makes it imperative that un-
necessary expense must be Topped OFT. Ii
is believed that it is uncalled for to ship
grain growing west Of the Missouri river
to central states markets in competition
with their products when we are MS neal
tide water as they are. Kansas grain
should bring as much in her local markets
as 1T commands in Illinois. The people OF
the hospitable south are coming to discuss
the question with us, and as Wichita never
does things by halves, let Us entertain
them as our city so well knows how,
THE CALL.
BOARD OF TRADE RooMs,";
WICHITA, March 10, 1894
"The south and west grain and trade
congress will meet in the city of Wichita
on Tuesday, April II, 1894, at the board of
trade hall. The object of this meeting is
TO discuss ways and means to facilitate
business between the west and south. The
growth and development of the south and
west during the past decade has increased
many fold their demands and products,
and left their business methods unchanged.
and IL is believed that new order OF
things will improve the business situation
of the two sections, and direct the products
of that country which lies west OF the
Missouri river to southern ports Instead OF
going double the distance to eastern tide
water, and to supply direct that part of
western products that the southern states
demand instead of continuing in the old
rut of first shipping the products to Chica-
go aud St. Louis, hundreds of miles
out of the way. and allowing
those points to reship grain through
out the south. Merchandise bought at
Boston, New York and Philadelphia can
be shipped by water to southern ports and
Kansas and Oklahoma at a great saving i'll
rail haul, giving an immense tonnage to
southern roads, vet there is but little If
any OF that business done. Kansas in a
single year produced IS. 900 bushels of
W heat and 275, 600, 900 bushels Of corn, over
40 per cent of which had to find market
outside of the state, and yet not per cent
of this found direct outlet to the south.
but took tue long haul of LOO miles to
New York instead of going south one-half
the distance. These and other matters
will come before this congress, and not the
least Importance of which Is the freight
rate question, aud why il costs twice rs
much per ton per mile to haul
freight south as east. Savannah,
Mobile, New Orleans and Galveston
are just as near the graio fields
and there is no good reason why they
should not export this surplus AND supply
much of the goods demanded by the west.
These lines of commerce naturally connect
localities whose products vary one from
the other aud the demand for which rem
der them Interchangeable, ana in addition
the growing manufacturing Interests of
the south create new market for surplus
western food products, and the drawing
together of these interests is "A necessity to
material prosperity of both sections.
The basis of representation will be as
follows: Each commercial organization
will be entitled to five delegates, each
town and city to an additional five dele
gates appointed by the mayor, and one
their connecting lines Joining the trans
Missouri territory with the southern sea-
board"
Executive committee-A. W. Oliver, G..
f. Potts, W. J. WiisoL and A. c. Jobes.
Reception committee-Msyor L. NJ Cox.
president of board of trade G. w. Gle
ment. Colonel NJ. NJ. Murdoch. Colonel
II. w. Lewis. Colonel William lines,
Hon. George l. Douglas, A c. Jobes,
w J. Wilson. A Hess, j. II. Black, w. S.
Corbett. G. E. Lehman. F.. l.. Mcclure.
Charles We'll, J. L. Johnson, j. d. Nc
Evan, Claude z. Bryan, w. W. Johnston,
Jr.. r, L. Stewart, H. 4. Farnum, J. n.
Chapel. Kos Harris, S. A. McClung, c. f.
Barwise. j. V. Seymour, G. W. Bristow,
Charles Aylesbury. Z. A. Davis. G. NJ.
Campbell, ". A. Arey. L. j. Schwartz, l..
ID. Skinner, E r. Powell, a. Faulkner,
Coler Sim. j. NJ. Allen, L. F. Na,tzger,
NJ. w. Levy, f. c. Woods. j. +. Howard,
w. r. Dulaney, George Dold, Oscar Smith,
William c. Little, c. A. Walker, J. B.
Henry Herger, John Mahan, J.
l.. Jacobs. II. Schnitzler. Oscar Barnes, p
u. OcnEInS, u W. Sarty, =. w. ness, q.
Campbell, c. II. Smyth. j. A Wallace. c.
w. Biting. A. NJ. Goldstandt. A. katz. c.
G.. Cohn, George Mathews. I. G.. Fitch.
Charles Mosbacher. Ed Vail, l.. Hayes.
Charles Reckmeyer, George II. Lloyd,
Harry Comley George l. Pratt. Henry
Schad, +. W. Oliver. F. Ross. Cash Hem
dersou, Robert Jacks. J. c. Jennings. r.
E Torrington, J. Myers. G. B. Chapman,
A. S. Munson, Frank Noyes, a. L. Car
penter. S. w. Cooper, l. NJ. Clapp. Ed
c. NJ. Jones, w. X. Fraser, o.
Z. Stocker, T. II. Fritch, Fred Smyth,
John Exton, II. l.. Gordon.
Entertainment committee-LL ID. Skin
ner, NJ. w. Levy, G. NJ. Dickson, Charles
Smyth, f. W. Oliver, Ed. Goldberg, C. N.
Jones, Oscar Barnes, Ed. Vail
Carriage committee-H. L. Gordon, O.
B. Stocker, w. Il. Fraser, E. H Fritch. j.
j. Mcnamara, Fred Smyth, Grant Hat
field.
The committees on entertainment and
will meet the executive commit
tee at the Kansas National bank on Mon
day morning al $50, for the purpose of