The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-01-11
SECURES THE FAIR
WICHITA WILL STILL HOLD THE
STATE ASSOCIATIONS.

Robert S. Cook aud Charles Irwin who Rep
resented the Kansas State Fair Associa'
tion of this City, Return From Topeka
Having Secured the Fair for Another
Year-Wichita Can Only Lose the Stats
Fair Association in the Future by Legis'
Iation-W What 1t has Done and is Doing
for Wichita-About the State Meeting.
Wichita has secured the meeting OF
the Kansas State fair for the coming
fall, and will undoubtedly be made a
fixture with headquarters in this city,
Topeka spanked up and tried TO wres-
tie the meeting from the Wichita direc-
tory at the recent meeting Of the State
Board of Agriculture, but when the
delegates had all assembled she wit
nesses the futility Of sucn an attempt
and quietly submitted to the inevita-
BILE.
The Kansas State Fair association
was represented at the state meeting
by Robert S. Cook and Charles Irwin
who returned last night from Topeka.
r. S. Cook was met by an Eagle re
porter and in conversation said:
you can say that the past meeting
was the most successful ever held in
the state, and that the meeting of the
Fine Stock association was a regular
love feast.
1.-The Topeka crowd soon realized
that any efforts 10 again get control
of tire Kansas State fair would be hope
less unless they could secure il by leg
islation and they withdrew from the
fight. The meeting of the State Fair
association here IS causing Wichita to
become the center of fine stock breed
ers as well as horsemen and although
the last meeting was not success fin
ancially yet Wichita and the farmers
of Sedgwick county are receiving great
benefits from the location.
Since the fair three large stock
firms have located here and a large
number Of horsemen have made the
Wichita track their headquarters, and
as a consequence the grounds resem-
bic a fair almost the year around.
by Mr.. Dulaney leasing the grounds
II is now opened TO men for training
purposes which could not nave been
the case had the grounds been under
the control Of the Kansas State Fair
tional association The track is one
of the best, and with a little work can
he made the best training track in the
country.
by congregaang these men here
hundreds of dollars are distributed each
Month for labor, feed, provisions, ETC.
which would go elsewhere. Wichita
r as a good thing IN the regular meet
Ing Of the State Fair association here
and 1t can not afford 10 lose it.
Some grand papers were read be-
fore the state meeting but the address
of President Patten was so full of en-
enlargement that should like every
fSrnper and stock raiser in Sedgwick
county 10 read 1t He looks on the
bright side and gives reasons for the
faith that Is in him 1t reads in part
as follows:
only of the leading industry OF the state
but an Industry representing more
ca pftal, employing more labor, paying
more taxes and producing more wealth
than all the other industries of our
state combined
Our lands are taxed upon a valua-
ton of $173.075 1865, while all other prop
erty, including railroads, town lors
AMI personal property was listed at
S162, 454, 759.
IF two-thirds Of the live stock In the
state belong to the farm, and we add
their valuation to that of the land, we
find the farmers OF Kansas paying tax
es on approximately $500, 900, 900, or mar
ly two-tihirds of the taxes of the state.
The crops on OUT farms this year
were worth $77, 663, 664.
Cattle slaughtered or sold for
sla lighter $40, 691,O74
Poultry and eggs were worth 49,
315. O67.
And dairy products were worth s4,-
$40. s26.
Which, with all other products Of
the farm, make a grand total of S12S,-
500. 791, leaving us our farms and i'm
plelnents and about 70 million dollars
wO: tn of live stock with which to enter
upon the work OF the coming year.
IF we set aside TO labor two-thirds
Of eli these products as a fair compen-
sation for the part It took in produce
ing this grand aggregate of wealth,
there will still be left as net income on
the $500. zoo, 900 capital invested in the
farms and stock OF our state, the sum
Of $40. 1881, 5o7, or over q 40 per cent
But admitting brat the basis of tax
alton from which / have made my de
duc lions is very low, you readily per-
ceivs that We can raise il threefold and
yet have over per cent net upon the
cap tal invested in land and stock.
And in my judgment, founded upon
an experience and observation of over
p quarter of a century upon the farm
In Kansas, that the above estima re is
below the average remuneration that
ava IT'S the application of intelligent
methods TO individual surroundings.
kansas! The birthright Of a free
people. the child OF an idea in whom
the hopes of a nation We're centered.
whose wealth is principally from the
soil the most stable of all wealth,
vhOre citizens are largely engag ed in
sri -ulture, The most conservative, ele-
waiting and reliable of all occupations.
&c 'eat in the phenomenal growth of
her cities. her railways and other in
teCnal movements-in the vast accum-
ulatiDn Of her fertile prairies, in her
publ and private institutions of learn
ing and religion, and protection for
her unfortunate and dependent citizens
''B II grander still is the promise Of
the future of this state. whose founda-
ton principles are based upon indi- |
vidual liberty, whose resources are de-