The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-07-16
THAT IS WHAT A WHITAKER
REPRESENTATIVE SAID.
robert Hamilton, Secretary of the Francis
Here to Start Up the Big PIant-He Says
They Want all the Hogs They can Get
at Legitimate Prices-DoId is Going
After the Hogs to Bring Them to WiclI-
lathe Two Best Packing Houses in
the West Running Here.

HIS - true, Dut IOr All lndl, every
body knows that for some time it has
not been doing business so extensively
as in former days.
Some men in Wichita who keep post
ed on all the great financial and bust
ness affairs of the city whispered yes
terday that Robert Hamilton of the
Whitaker packing company was in the
city.
thing of an unusual nature was on
hand at the big Whitaker packing
house because Mr.. Hamilton Is usually
around when there is a big business go
ing on at the Whitaker house.
In other words it was taken to mean
that the house was going to be opened
on large scale.
Mr. Hamilton was found az the big
packing house last evening and when
asked what his company were going to
do. he said:
I'VE are going to buy hogs, slaughter
them, cure the meat and then sell il.
That is our business. What did you
suppose we were going to do?''
Are you going to run your house here
on larger scale than ii has been run
for year or more past?
Yes"
"When?"
We'll, right now we are on the mar
ket for all the hogs we can get at what
they are worth.
i do not want you to do any blowing
in the Eagle for ME but you can just
say that we intend to pay such prices
for hogs that no shipper can afford 10
run past this market.
We want the shippers to know that
they can bring their hogs here and go
home with more clear money than they
can get by going to any other market
and that is enough to say.
What is there in the report that you
have entered into contract by which
you are bound to run your house here
to its full capacity for the next two
yearS?"
There is nothing whatever in it. l
heard some Of your papers here had
published that We had bound ourselves
up that way to parties who furnished
us money but il is not true.
THE Francis Whitaker q Sons Pack
ing Co, are going 10 run this house be-
cause they want to run it and because
it is to theirl interest TO run ii and not
because they are bound to run IL.
'Will you continue to cure meat in
St LOUISE"
Yes, we will cure meat there for the
reason that we have some advanta ges
there in supplying the eastern markets
that we cannot get here but we do not
kill any hogs in st. Louis. We buy
the mans ana cure tnen.
The hogs slaughtered by us here
at Wichita will be cured and the prod
uct marketed from here and our bust
ness at St. Louis will in no way inter-
fere with the business here.
There are a good many young hogs
IL the territory tributary 10 Wichita
and / noticed along the road that you
have great prospect for a corn crop.
Il think the farmers pretty generally
understand that they can get more
money out of their corn by feeding it
than by hauling it to market, and they
wiz feed the most of it.
when the farmers get a good crop
of corn the pigs are not put on short
rations and that means good hogs and
every hog brought to market will be a
good one. If the corn crop turns out
as expected and / can not see how it
can fail now there viii be lots of hogs
to market in the next eighteen months. p"
Mr. Hamilton said he did not want
to do any blowing about what they
intended to do as he explained the way
to satisfy people in regard to what
you are going 10 do is 10 go and do it.
This is all very modest talk but the
way things were being moved around
In the big packing house and the new
men at work indicated that something
unusual is on hand.
Some of the boys over at the stock
'
had sent a buyer to the country and
was also buying by telegraph.
4 reporter for the Eagle called at the
hig Dold packing house last evening
and found Mr.. Dold at his desk with
coat OF and his shirt sleeves rolled up
above his elbows. He was writing with
his right hand while his left swung
a fan vigorously.
Pretty hot isn't it?" he said when
the reporter entered his office.
The reporter admitted that II was
somewhat torrid and asked Mr.. Dold
in regard to.the report at the yards.
Wen. | will tell you all there is in
that" said Mr.. Dold. I'VE were not
getting - many hogs as We want and L
sent one OF my buyers. Charley Smith.
out on the road to present the advanta
geS - our market to the shippers.
Il believe in advertising and when I
want To buy something somebody else
has ii is a good way to let them know
it, The Eagle has been telling the ship
perS that l wanted hogs and I sent out
a man To emphasize what you have
been saying
"A farmer at FL Dorado asked me
today what | would give them for a car
load Of hogs and they described their
hogs. | sent them a bid and they an
swered back that they would ship me
the hogs.
These men have been shipping to
Kansas City and l suppose they had
been reading the Eagle and concluded
that they could get more money here
if their hogs suited me.
Shippers south or west OF here can
stop on the Wichita market and il pri-
ces do not suit them they can go on
without extra freight charges, but the
FL Dorado people being east Of here
cannot do that. | suppose that is the
reason they asked me to bid op their
hogs
we want more hogs than we. are
now getting and must have them Our
paw roll is now about $500 week and
with that force we can take care OF 2.5o1
hogs a week and we would be At the
same expense if we only get 500 or a
600 a week.
We are now paving the best prices
for hogs that average 240 70 25o pounds
because the domestic trade that We are
supplying requires that kind OF hogs.
Some Of the commission men claim
that Whitaker and Dold are not sat
lsfied 10 take the hogs south and west
Of here but that they are gong 10
move the eastern line OF Wichita ter
ritory up a little nearer Kansas CITY
and ST Louis
George Dold is sending out bids on
car lots and having a buyer east and
north Of here rather seems TO connrm