The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-22
ARE GOING SOUTH
KANSAS And OKLAHOMA DOING
BUSINESS With GALVESTON.

Over 900 Cars Of Wheat Bought ut Wiehisa
for the Galveston Market Oklahoma 10
Doing ALI Its Basiness with Gulf Ports
Hsnss.sy. Aieoe. short las Cars of the
Necessary Number to Ship Its Wheat 10
Galveston = Kansas City and Chicago
Must Hustle II They Care TO Turn the
Tide and Divert Business From South
Galveston seems TO be IN the market
in earnest for the grain Of central and
southern Kansas and Oklahoma
There seems to be q revolution in
bushes as well as in politics and Gal
weston is in ii. In politics the south
and west SEINE to be in il, on the re-
ciprocai Idea, but the sincerity OF the
political alliance IS not a circumstance
compared with the sincerity OF the
business alliance.
Mr.. C. A Mountcastle is in the city
representing Galveston. It is said that
he has already contracted for over 200
cars of Kansas wheat TO be shipped to
the gulf. All. or mostly all, of this
wheat will come from the Arkansas
valley. 1t will he 900 cars taken away
from the Kansas City and Chicago
markets and nobody seems TO be sorry
for II. The Galveston people are in the
market paying the best price and IL Chi
cago and Kansas City do not compete
with them 81 is their loss. The western
people like enterprise. If Galveston
does better than Kansas City. st. LOUIS
/ ~
corn win go. and from Galveston will
come the goods that have been bought
heretofore from the other cities men
toned. The other old fogy towns will
stand on their dignity until Il is too
la for them TO turn the tide. In con-
versation with a prominent Rock Island
official last night reporter for the Ea-
gle learned great many things. He
learned that oklahoma, like southern
Kansas, was doing business with the
south. At Hennessey alone the COM
pany was short about 146 cars. The peo-
pie there wanted to snip wheat but
could not get the cars fast enough. II
seems that the Rock Island wanted the
grain shipped 10 Chicago and thus get
the benefit of the longer haul out OF the
people OF Oklahoma are prejudiced in
favor OF southern port and they pro-
pose to patroniZe IL. The Galveston har-
Dor at present contains 22Iz feet of wa
ter and they have arrangements made
to do the exporting for the western
states and territories. II the eastern
seaports want to continue TO do bust
ness with Kansas they have no time to
lose, as Galveston is making inroads
that VIII DE hard TO overcome. IL Is said
that in Oklahoma alone the Rock Is
land is short over LOO cars OF the
amount demanded for immediate use.
OF these 1,100 cars every one of them
Will be billed to Galveston where there
is liner ready to receive IL for the
European market.
The good farmers OF Kansas and OK
1ahoma do not care who gets their wheat
and corn. All they have a concern for
is the price, and if Galveston gives more
than Chicago, Galveston is their friend
and there they viii go. The Rock Is
land road is the only sufferer. Instead
of q 100 mile continuous haul to Chicago
il gets but about 300 miles to Forth
Worth, for as yet Il has no line to Gal
weston. The Official speaking with a
reporter last night said: IT am convinc-
ed now that the west proposes to do
business with the gulf ports and the day
is not far distant when the Rock Island
will be compelled 10 build direct to Gal
weston. They must do that In order to
get the business. The day IS not far
distant when Galveston wiz be doing
the meat expectation business for the
west. Any man who has a grain Of
sense knows that the west has quit do
ing business with the east, especially
the export business"