The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-04-19
'SAYS IT WILL PAY
GEO. D0LD GIVES HIS OPINION
ABOUT COAL AND SALT.
City Council is on the Right Track--It Will
OiI--MOney VIII be Well Spent IL Moth
ing hut Salt is Found--His Faith in
Southern Kansas Increases the Longer
He Lives Here--The Richest Soil and The
Best Country He Ever saw--New York
Not In It--AbOut Tonnage.

81 was just thinking of that interview
you had in the Eagle with Councilman
Frank Oliver the other day" said
George Dold as he turned from facing
his desk in the office at the big Dold
packing house last night.
His remark was addressed TO re-
porter for the Eagle who at that time
was nosing around for a news item
and trying to find out whether Charlie
Phillips. the head clerk, knew anything
worth publishing.
Mr. Dold got up and paced back and
forth in the Office while he talked about
having to find coal and once or twice
the head clerk laid down his pen and
proclaimed his approval OF what his
chief said.
Councilman Oliver is right" said
Mr. Dold. when he said the proper
thing to do is for the city council to do
its own prospecting for coal Wouldn' I
Wichita boom though if they would sue
coed in finding a good vein of coal.
THE subject of fuel is a very import
ant one to the people of this city and
while l am opposed on general princi-
pies to the voting of bonds / think the
determination to prospect for coal was
a wise one. This Arkansas valley is a
great country and If we only had an
abundance of cheap fuel the most vivid
Imagination could scarcely picture the
future.
Now. what do You suppose they will
find If they do go down two or three
thousand feet below the surface here in
Wichita They may find coal or gas
and possibility that they may find
oil.
Some Of the doubling Thomases are
in the habit of answering this question
by saying that they will find salt. Well.
suppose they didn't find anything but
salt. Do you know that if they should
discover salt it would be worth a great
deal more to Wichita than the amount
of money they voted for the purpose of
prospecting for coal
Everybody uses salt and / will tell
you why salt works would help Wichi-
Ia. 1T would give some men employ
ment and would enable us to secure
favors of the railroads by increasing
our tonnage. The railroad corporations
are human if they do not have any
souls and they want to get the good
will of the people who have something
to ship. If Wichita had good salt
works in addition to other things that
we now have we would have tonnage
that would cause the railroads to think
a good deal of us.
Hutchinson what it is today. ! have
been reliab bly, informed that Hutchin-
son ships out an average of thirty cars
of salt day and ships in fifteen cars
of coal. That is no mean tonnage and it
is enough to make the railroads think
pretty we'll of Hutchinson.
salt is not such an important item
to a packer but for all that he uses a
good deal of salt. During the packing
season of 1S93-94 we used | 800. 900 pound
of salt That was tons and equal TO
900 car loads of ten tons each.
You see we want To look out for
these things. they all help to make a
city and everything of the kind that
adds to our tonnage brings us into favor
with the railroads and helps every
business man in the city.
There is no occasion for anybodys
getting discouraged in this section of
Kansas. The longer 1 live here the
mare my faith in the country increases.
/ remember once that We did some
fancy farming in the state of New
York We put he ground in excellent
shape and applied our fertilizer and
raised seyenty-five bushels oil corn to
the acre and our wheat made forty
bushels to the acre. Now there is no
such soil in New York as we have here,
but you see they farm better there.
This is the richest soil and the best
I have