The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1898-12-05
Grand total 1,o7l. s5o.Oss s25a COZ ,78s


Grand total. i ,O71 $50 0ss s252 ,6o4.7ss
Twenty thousand pounds Is a car load
of grain. To be most conservative we es.
innate $4,000 to each csr. To move The
corn crop of these seven States 1880 Is.
cars would BE- required. For the wheat
crop 312,003 cars. For the cats lao. SO.
cars. total of 2.SO2o.S cars. This would
load 76,I6S trains of thirty cars to tht
train, or 14.S2S miles OF solid cars loadet
with only the three grains of seven State;
in one year.
The Kansas wheat crop here shown /:
less than 81, 100000 bushels for 1896, Will.
that State raised 81 100000 bushels in 1897
and has a still larger crop raised in 1885,
awaiting shipment.
We ask the force of thg argument giver
in the above figures.
Nebraska aud Kansas lie side by
side. Kansas. ON the south nearest to
the gulf. has the advantage of being
the dividing point where competition
East and South is sharpest. Until desp
water was had at Galveston, farm
products brought the same prices in
BOTH States. as ali shipments We're TO
the East. Now Kansas corn for ex-
port brings frcm to 6 cents u bushel
nrone than Nebraska corn. and other
grains in proportion. This on account
of the reduction made in freight rates
10 Houston and Galveston by railroads
that come 10 the gulf. and met b. heir
Eastern competitors. shown as follows:
In 1896 Nebraska raised 2oS,-
5oo,o3S bushels of corn, valued
at S3S,Sl7,o53. Kansas raised
247,734,oo4 bushels of corn, val
ued at s44,592, ioi, or $1,000
900 bushels less than Nebraska.
Yet, from the report of the secre-
tary of agriculture at Washing
ton, the value of the Kansas crop
was so,OoO,OOO greater, thus saw
ing TO the Kansas farmer, on one
crop in freight, S2,ooo,ooo more
than would complete the channel
from Galveston to Houston.
This amount (s0,OOO,O0O) was
saved on one crop CORN for one
year for one state. OF corn,
wheat and oats for that year
Nebraska raised }52,oS2,S7i
bushels, value 53,S14,o9i. Kan
sas raised 3o2,337,2l5, but val /,
ued at so7,SS2, 400, In short th i"
with 100000 bushels ntries,
grain, Kansas received theray the
si4,ooo,ooo more money foi,sos,aiet ny {
1896 crop than did Nebraskassrresdi 4 4
es the o
it possible to present a strc. t...,o.
argument why this approprisesu G demon
he count
should be made now, and clle great
be doubted that when the o 'nsoly ,na
are Known we shall have soyernm
cts OF til
earnest support Of the VssssrIt5o 10 !
Northwest for this internathee' ass sss'
re, not
Improvement, so strongly reoFs in til
nended by the goyernmef. G thsn.
cent per
gineers' o. IN an. am
Reporting for the CREST crop oIieit. what
It appears that "cotUos is yet ki owing to
Texas raised for the ccton ne tax "
1867 2.247.54i bales lrproftal
Texas raised for the cotton w woulo
1s97-9S 3.07l.sii bales. Q. our !
An excess for this year OF more cen
bales over last year. gunder 1
Houston received of the crtnks Won =
1862 l.4l5,7 1885 bales. Nlossos.
,,. ,a.es,aa ~ tine crnipnstra
iiouslo" io~s''N 1T That.
1928 i,gss.43i bales. seat org
erured {
An excess of receipts for % the
year over last of oS2,So4 ba,,n III a.,
Taking an average OF for'y Da ,.rad n,
the car. 1t would require 1880 prefert
~ Tayaa cuan Of lSssditors,
transport ihc ,re i'm
myrke. and 1855 cars to bragg viii
amount received by Houston TO " gu
wharyes. This in addition TO an lc poll
mense bulk and value OF cotton m -. So
cotton meal and oil. TRY :,
Other cotton figures: ion v
The receipts of cotton at Hou'ccmpt
t,...., .se.ntapahar 10 NoYember cnenE