The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-09-02
HE SIGNS FOR $500
Cash Henderson Tells Why
Whitaker Plant
SHOULD BE OPENED
Committee Thinks Money
viii be Raised by Saturday.


Enthusiasm over the movement TO open
the Whitaker packing plant took sud
den and general jump forward yesterday.
Heretofore it has beeen even more than
satisfactory but yesterday it was sur
prising. 4 number Of the soliciting
committee say that every dollar Of the
night.
The meeting was held yesterday morn
ing and it being the first Of the month
the decision was TO postpone any further
canvass until next Monday. Notwith-
standing this several subscriptions were
voluntarily handed to the committee.
Cash Henderson, proprietor Of the big
white font dry goods store on North
Main street, gave FIVE hundred dollars
without solicitation from the committee.
This is the largest amount given by any
individual or concern outside Of the
Union Stock yards and the banks.
The committee had planned to assail
Mr.. Henderson in a body Monday but the
big dry goods man beat them to It and
put down his name for $500.
Mr.. Henderson regards the plan for
opening the whittake plant as an en-
innetly proper move at a very opportune
time.
"The packing house viii employ two
hundred or three hundred men all the
year round" said Mr. Henderson. what
Wichita need to do is to put industries
into motion that and prosper on
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We can't have mahcine factories and
saw mills here because we haven't any
cak or pine growing in the country about
here. We couldn't have furniture fac
tories here for we haven't any forests.
We have a country about Wichita that
produces the best corn and wheat and
hogs and cattle and horses in the world.
We can have packing houses, elevators,
mills, canning factories, etc. Do you
know that if we had two packing plants
here there would be hundreds Of farm
ers who start fom home with two or
three or four cars of hogs or cattle that
wouldn stop here instead Of going 10
Kansas City. The very fact that there
are two big houses here would influence
him to stop The fact that Dold is here
and would pay him as much or more
than he can get in Kansas City would
not always get him. The Dold is one of
the great houses Of the world It wolld be
the same Il Phil Armour were here with
his Chicago house. It's human nature.
The farmer thinks he has a better show
where there are two houses Of any kind.
When you get two houses here wou viii
see the Wichita market loom up. rs
well as Kansas City or Chicago. but the
farmer insists that he must go where
there are two or more. 1t Will be bet
ter for the houses and better for the
market that there are two houses here
Wichita has got to do something now
if she ever does. We have got to get
out and push. We need the Whitaker
plant. Look at the great Dold plant up
there. Employs two hundred to four
bundled men the year round. Labor
employed. There is more cattle and
hogs and sheep raised in Wichita's terri
tory than thr packing houses could
handle and we want to get them here.
Same way about canning factories. We
could have here and ought to have the
biggest fruit cannery in the world. We
have the fruit. think no man can do
better to advance his own interests or
that Of Wichita than help the Whitaker
piaLt. 1t may be the turning OF a tide
that will finally make this the great mar
ket of the southwest"