The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-08-21
HOGS ARE WANTED
SUPPLY OF PoRKERs NOT EQUAL
TO THE DEMAND.
Commission Merchant Talks Of the Pres
ent and the Future Prospects-He Says
the Packing Houses Here Have Been OF
Great Benefit and They VIII Require all
the Swine Onered-Does not Tank the
Account of Combine tions- Reason Why
the Cattle Market Will be Dull
the Cattle Market win be Dull

Notwithstanding the fact that the
price of hogs has been extremely low for
the past three months. yet II is cheering
to the promoters of the Wichita pack
| ing houses to note that the prices paid
for pork, while low. are still mucn
| higher than could have been realized
without the packing house at Wichita
During the past three months the
price at Wichita and at Kansas City
has only varied about Is cents per hun
dred. while every shipper will acknowl-
edge that not tess than % cents per
hundred will pay the difference be-
tween the two markets.
This leaves an advantage TO Wichita
on an average of 10 cents per hundred
to say the least, by the establishment
and maintenance of the two packing
houses at Wichita.
A reporter for the Eagle visited the
two plants yesterday and found that
both the Dold and Whitaker were max
ing valuable improvements and at the
present time they were not only taking
all the offerings but complained that
the offerings did not equal the demand.
During the present time the only de-
mand made for hogs is for the fresh
meat supply, and while large num-
Der are being killed but a small portion
are being packed
In speaking to a commission mer-
chant yesterday as to the prospect for
the fall trade he said:
The market for hogs VIII be good,
but I do not believe the price win ma
terially advance until after the cleo
ton. There never has been an election
which has unsettled matters like the
present one. You see the bankers have
got IL into their heads that they own
the country and nobody else has any
rights which they are bound 10 respect.
and as consequence every thing they
can do is thrown against the market.
Now took at the price Of corn. There
is no reason OF the face of the earth
why. with the present drouth, that it
does not advance in price, and yet
these people who handle other peoples
money have formed a combination
which makes it almost impossible to
secure money.
1.-THE bankers seem determined to
either rule or ruin and there is no ex-
cuse in the world for the present low
prices. The visible supply is less than
twelve months ago and the population
has been increased.
while the demand will be good for
hogs the market VIII be poor for cattle.
The reason for this is that the hogs
and corn are here. but the cattle are
not here and owing to the combination
of bankers the money cannot be secured
with which to purchase the cattle and
as a consequence the cattle market will
be slim.
Now don't wish to be understood as
censuring the local bankers. | con-
slider them as men who would be pleased
TO make accommodations. but they are
held by the higher combination. The
contest this fall is whether the United
States shall be controlled by the people
or whether it shall be controlled by
rings and combines.
The man who says that the packing
houses at Wichita have not been of any
to the country is a man who |
is too ignorant to be troubled by worms |
after he is dead. He is dead here and |
will only dry up and blow away.
II took for a good live stock trade |
al Wichita this fall and believe that |
the packing houses will take all that is |
offered"