Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-09


1t and its success is assured. AS an in
vestment l know Of none more promising.
The harbor will be one of the finest in the
world and ships can come closer to the
shore than in any on the American coast.
We ate meal on a vessel, not q wooden
ship. loaded with Western products and
bound for Rotterdam. That one fact in-
sures the success of the enterprise and
Western farmer and merchant. Port Ar
thur is by all odds the more favorable site
for great city and surpasses Sabine Pass
in every respect"
xtering Of the PaxtSa yierlng yssIdng
proposition l have ever seen. It has
more promising future and the chances of
failure absolutely absent. 1t cannot
fail. With the whole Western empire be-
hind II, ii is bound TO be the commercial
success of this quarter of a century. What
can keep trade away from it? While rates
be brought into competition with a line
hundreds Of miles nearer the sea. No one
who has seen just what is going on down
there can have for single instant any
doubt as to the certain success of this en-
.terprise."
f. l. Dodder. Jr, merchant-"As a bust
ness man. | could not fail to be impressed
with the Importance of the success of the
Port Arthur enterprise In its effect upon
braska- 1t is very simple proposition,
merely matter of arithmetic. For years
the Eastern lines have charged ruinous
rates. which have robbed us of the profit
on our products. Here is line which is
several hundred miles nearer deep water.
OF course 1t will be patronized and this
patronage Will build up a great commerclal
center at the southern terminus, besides
henefiting every town on the line and the
entire territory from which ii draws. Sa-
bine Pass has not the future that Fort Ar
thur has
L. r. Raber. printer-..I was greatly sur
priscd at all / saw on this most enjoyable
trip, and while l am not strictly business
man in the sense of being Il producer or
:lobber, yet can readily see that the Pitts
f.tH1f &c lSnxrig in Ia
and that II opens up great commercial pos
sibilities.'
6; W. Tierney, Omaha Brewing Company
will help all the trans-Mississippi country.
Port Arthur has 4 great future before It.
Sabine Pass is too swampy and anybody
towns will easily see the vast superiority
of Port Arthur over its rival. Port Arthur
tion to its other advantages. Deep water
IS assured and with deep water the trade
of a vast Southern hemisphere is opened
up for the farmers and business men of
the Mississippi valley. l haven't the slight
est doubt that the Port Arthur proposition
Us the most promising IN nj the eeihier eehercia az
failure. for the logic of the situation Is on
the side Of success"
..The Port Arthur route taps an empire
and the commerce of the high seas. have
said this n great many times and l be-
lieve 1t to be strictly true. At Port Arthur
We saw ships laden with Western products
ready to transport them to foreign mar
kets. These cargoes formerly went to the
Atlantic seaboard. and the difference in
rates now goes into the pockets OF the
shipper instead of into the dividends of the
only the kindliest feelings for Port Arthur
and the Port Arthur route"
Revelation to All.
C. NJ Harl, wholesale drugs-"It was a
most pleasant trip and it was profitable.
too for it was revelation to US all as
business men. The opportunities for the de-
.velopment of the almost untouched region
between here and the Gulf are alone suf-
ficient to guarantee the success of the
enterprise
r. c. Peters, real estate-"The PROPOSE
ton to establish deep water harbor at
Port Arthur is feasible. IS is being DEM
.onstrated every day. The success of the
enterprise will help both Kansas City and
to those cities. With good freight rates
4nestimable benefits will be enjoyed by
the entire Western country.
DR.. w. II. Hanchett-"I was greatly i'm
pressed with the proposition. The sight
of great ships loaded with the products OF
this Western. country was an eyeopener.
The whole commercial situation in this part
of the country is changed. Deep water
means the growth and progress of all the
industries of this great Mississippi valley
and that means the prosperity of the large
commerce. Too much cannot be said in
praise of the men who conceived and car
ried out this great scheme of development.
They are entitled to all the rewards they
will most certainly reap.
j. A. Buckstaf. wholesale saddlery-"It
is a wonderful proposition and as a bus
The Port Arthur route will develop every
square mile of the great territory whose
products Will be carried to the Gulf and
thence TO the foreign markets hitherto
a1n Grlfh fh.aF~ .r<sf
liable by reason of excessive rates, There
is wonderful difference in the rates to
the East and South. The Port Arthur
route holds the key to the situation and,
thing"
A. w. Bowman, dealer in shoes-'I ex-
pect to sell a great many more shoes by
reason of the building of the Port Arthur
route 1t is great railroad enterprise and
Kansas City should be proud that it orig
mated there Whether l ship more shoes
myself or not, / will sell more shoes TO the
farmers who will make more out of their
grain and live stock and to the men in
other lines of business who will receive
Try traversed by shis road Port Arthur
Is great town and will become greater
all the time"
n. A. Kuhn, druggist-'It is n great
proposition for the whole trans-M -Mississippi
country and will hoom the exports from
1Tis western country. 1t will add from
~ 10 81 per cent TO the value of the prod
oinerence in rates and every dollar of this
dliterence goes to the owner of the nrod
ucts. There can he nothing but friendship
ana even gratitude to the projectors nf
the Fort Arthur route and that marvellous
proposition at the Southern terminus OF the
road" VI 'iie
{. III. Chisam. coal dealer-.'I cannot er.
press how much / was IMPRESSED b,- al,
! saw at Port Arthur and I only wish i
hao a few thousand dollars 10 take nd,
vantage OF the opportunities presented
ohe can easily see that Port Arthur and
ueep water solve the problem of transpor.
,aion and relieves the great West OF
'TI u,,is ~ mas borne for many years"
4. M Naudain. capitalist-"As n capital.
ist the situation presents itself to me T.
very favorable light. Port Arthur is Ger.
fanny very promising Investment of
iefihS Inducements which are absoIuteI,
tTesistble Its future is as assured IS tba,
OF New York or Chicago and il is onI,
a. Iuts.oh oil tune when great city vii
spiihS up beside the great deep water har
nor that is being built at that point
A. M. Clark. live stock commission mer
Grant Engaged as | am in the live stool
commission business. i cannot fail In Ia.
,IhlI,fessed l with the great future that await.
rnent of a deep water hnrbor M pnr, !. II
thur. Heretofore the farmers of Nehrosit.
hhu other western states have had to sbi,
Iheir stock to New York and other AtIani
nc ports By the time they got TO tn.
.IeI III sIue there was mighty little left 70,
1he farmer As TO Sabine Pass II looks +,
me as II koontz Bros were holding tn,
Dag. see no future for that town com
thur" VI al
Eject on Financial Situation.
A. w. Clark. banker-"There is no ones
non but that the financial situation In III,