The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-27
TALKS OF HIS TRIP
F. B. Thurber Talks to East
ern Men About the West.
ATTENDED THE CONGRESS
Saw Nothing But Progressive
and Energetic Men.

An account Of one of the most interest
trg gentlemen who addressed the com
enercia1 congress during its session held
In this city the first Of this month, is
given very cTeditable recognition in an
article which appears IN the New York
journal Of Commerce. and Commercial
Bulletin, which says:
Mr.. F. B. Thurber, president Of the
United States Export association, has
just returned to New York from a trip
10 the far west, during whikch he attend
ed the annual meeting of the Transmits
sissippi congress and delivered an address
on wider Markets and How to Get
Them" Speaking yesterday of the result
Of his trip. Mr.. Thurber said:
Amy eastern man would be impressed
with the men from the far west who at
tended that congress. never saw a more
able. progressive and energetic lot of men
in my life. and those who gathered there
represented twenty-one states and terri
tories west OF the Mississippi river.
The Trans Mississippi country is devel-
and its resources are astonishing. Agri-
culture is making great strides even in
the arid regions, through irrigation, and
the mining interests in gold, silver, lead,
zinc, iron, copper and coal are also de-
veloping rapidly. The fruit growing inter-
est is an important one, and IN the Pecos
valley. in New Mexico, which until a
few years ago was an arid waste, they
are growing such things as celery and
asparagus and shipping 70 by cypress to
marlAAs in the Mississippi valley. In Ok
1ahOma, which was only opened to settle
ment few years ago, and which had to
rely upon states farther east for its food
supply, they are now raising wheat and
corn 30 an extent far beyond their own
consumption and are seelIig export mar
aets for their surplus. Indeed. this idea
was prominent feature at the meeting Of
the Trans Mississippi congress, the men,
bers OF which all seemed 10 realize that
the capacity of the far west to produce
was much greater than its consuming ca
pacity, and that We must have wider mar
kets.
while the southwest naturally seeks
an outlet through gulf ports, the west and
northwest take a strong interest in the
development Of the commerce Of the Pa
ciac, and the subjects of the Nicaragua
canal. the development of an American
merchant marine and ocean cables were
emphatically Endorsed, as was also the
plan for an international exposition in St.
Louis in 1903 20 celebrate the centennial
anniversary Of the Louisiana purchase.
1t was stated that the magnitude of this
exposition would equal that of the Co.
lumbar exposition at Chicago, and any
one who has a conception of the energy
and enthusiasm Of the people Of the west
will, perhaps. appreciate that this is not
overstated.
The crop prospects in the west, with
the exception Of winter wheat, are fair,
although not so good as those OF the last
two years; but with the general prosperity
in business and the prospects that with
moderate crops better prices will be real
lied there Is no reason why the coming
year should not make good record"
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