The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-04
KANSAS CITY,
Tho Greatest Wheat Market Of the
Continent.

En+repot for Foreign Trade
Tnrough Southern Ports-The Com
provision and Neat Packing City
~ the Whole World.
T-,rsas City, Mo, March 31.-The twin
,'ios of Kansas, City, Mo, and Kansas
Ctr Kas.. the first one with $4,000, and
~. w. second with 5000 people, or 10000
..-.,ber. living side by side, with only an
'r,gipary, yet immovable state line be-
.--,on them. intangible as a film of vapor,
.,+os solid as an eternal partition of iron
!,,xorant cities in different states, under
,.4orsut laws, officers and government,
rat practically one and the same city, of
.to same origin, people and destiny; cos
aoroIitan Chang and Eng-municipal
chinese twins. tied in indissoluble brother
hood are an interesting and picturesque
METROPOLITAN phenomenon,
They have some comical incongruities
# evperience The Kansas place is pro-
bibition and the other allows toddies,
rbHe the Missouri place wars on dice
nnd cards. which the other tolerates
The streets running d4Oll6 bLAC Wv AAkt4b
stata line that separates the twins has
iegai saloons on one side, forbidden on
The other. and vice versa with gambling
rooms, and the two pastimes run in con-
vpDient legal proximity and facile coop
Grafton.
Pnt the brace of cities is a rare one, a
voI,ng giant of the great west with a
fYture of imperial power. l was here in
The winter of 1869 and saw ragged, uu-
gaiuIv town of about $4,000 folks, with
not single city feature, unpaved, muddy
sidewalks, struggling, frontier-like and
rough. and l have come back to find in
twenty-five years one of the great cities
nj the continent, with possibilities that
cannot be es timated.
1t is a big burg with big destiny
Kansas City is the main mart of eleven
great states and territories of the west
And south. embracing some of the richest
of the union. 1t is the first Wheat market
Of the ma ion, and the distributing power
of Kansas, the leading wheat rails
ing commonwealth of the United
States. 1t is the center of twenty-six
radigting railroad lines, that carry it's
marvellously growing trade in that many
directions. 1t is the second meat packing
and provision. commercial and manufac-
turing market in the world, and will soon
become the first at its present rate of
growth 1t is the fourth grain market of
the union, and forging ahead with re
markable rapidity to the lead in that
gigantic branch OF trade.
Kansas City handled, last year, So 000,-
OJ0 bushels of grain and S5O,00O,000 of
meat products, and her trade territory
cover 30 per cent. Of the territory of this
great union. Her Kansas crops equalled
in value the lands upon which they were
raised and the lands grew in value % per
cent. in the year.
Her close proximity to southern sea-
ports. both Gulf and South Atlantic,
especially by that powerful and well
managed railway, the Kansas City, Mem
phis and Birmingham railroad. with her
vast meat and breadstuffs trade, the
shortest line to ocean and gulf, gives her
acommercial power and Importance that
cannot be measured, not only in domestic,
but in the vast possibilities of foreign
commerce through the south, now devel-
opiug through southern ports to enor-
nous proportions. A swelling current of
trade is pouring over Nthis road from
many western states through Savannah,
Ga, by the Ocean Steamship Company
from that place to New York, Boston,
Philadelphia and Baltimore.
the Atlanta, Ca, Cotton States and In
ternational Exposition to be held in Sep
TENDER. 1885, for four months, for which
100000 has been raised TO be increased
to S2,OOO,OOO, is meant among other great
objects to secure for the south and west
the vast trade of the seventeen Central
and South American republics, Mexico
and The West Indies, of which the United
States only gets now about one-tifth, and
which IS ours by geographical demands
IL Is the plain duty and interest of the
west to join the south in this plan for
their common good. Southern direct trade
lines are the needed agencies of this
work, and with western and southern
stun to export, and the return imports to
support the lines, the thing is easy.
The commercial bodies here in Kansas
CITY and the business men of every class
are deeply interested in our exposition
anu southern direct trade, and see in
them, with their practical sagacity, the
golden chance to strengthen their trade.
and are taking right hold of these mat
ters. They recognize that it is a big
mo ement of surprising Importance. The
iheads and directors Of every trade body
mere are looking into the matter and or
gaming full plan of effective and zeal
Gus cooperation, Of which 1 shall keep
you ADVISED. 1. w. AVERY.