The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-07-23

business whatever rates the railroads
may make But every discrimination
! which prevents grain from stopping here
for cleaning and mixing, operates to re-
duce the cash returns to the Kansas farm
er and the Kansas shipper. Have the
railroad commissioners of Kansas never
thought of this?-Kansas City Star.
The above calls for no comment. 1t
is in line with a screed from the same
source Which was answered by the
Eagle last Sunday morning. 1t not
only answers itself, but in doing so
eyinces a large dose of genuine Mis-
souri, gall After all her years Of mix
ing. grading and tolling of Kansas
grain it is incomprehensible TO the
Kansas City combine that the Kan
sas farmer should be permitted even
for a brief fifteen days to ship his grain
direct TO a terminal market without so
much as consigning it to Kansas City
for grading. mixing, tolling and re-
billing. The bluff goes for nothing.
1t would be senseless were it not in
sulting. The idea that the Kansas
grain shipper will suffer in not permit
ting his corn to stop at Kansas City is
pure rot. AS for the claim Of quicker
returns, the Kansas man is in no
hurry. He can well afford to wait a
couple Of days longer when by doing
so he can realize two or three cents per
bushel more for his grain. The rail-
way commissioners Of Kansas have
nothing TO do with Kansas City's
claims, just or unjust. They have no
power in the first place, but had they
power they would not dare exercise it
in the interest of Missouri town, as
against the interest of the Kansas grain
grower.
Kansas City, her grain combine, ele-
vator companies and bankers are aw-
fully sick OF the turn things are taking.
In the future Kansas export grain is go
ing directly to tide-water on the Gulf
or to the eastern and lake terminal
hauls. and that without Interference or
manipulation upon the part of Kansas
City. This does not happen out of any
good will towards Kansas but comes
Of self preservation upon the part of
Kansas railroads, which have for years
been dumping all of the grain into Kan
sas City, only to lose the through haul.
They are tired of delivering grain to
Kansas City only to be taken by the
"Memphis" and 'Katy" south or by
a dozen other lines north to Chicago
and Toledo, when they can just as well
take the grain from the initial station
and haul it clear through. The Frisco,
Missouri Pacific, Santa Fe and Rock
Island each and all are seeing the point.
The great grain business once centering
at Wichita from the nearby fields of
south Kansas is coming back here. The
elevators are to be- rebuilt, and on a
larger scale. and these roads viii take
the product direct from the initial to
the terminal point without any refer
ence to Kansas City or to the eastern
and southern roads ending there. The
Stars talk of Kansas City buyers pick
ing up two millions of bushels of Kan
sas corn in single day in spite of the
new arrangement and sending 1t
through without handling it at Kansas
City is not denied. But they will not
do that very long. They will come to
Wichita and other interior Kansas
points or Others will in their stead, in
which last event they will lose the
chances OF handling Kansas grain
Kansas City's game of mixing" and
tolling is up. The animals eyes are
'.sot.'' Wichita will have q public
grain elevator of a half million bushels
capacity right away. 'B' elevator
will follow "a" and the south Kansas
farmer will get the highest market
price for his grain, whether it goes to
the Gulf. to st. Louis or to the Lakes.