The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-07
WICHITA WANTS THAT MONEY


Seventy thousand dollars are paid out,
in wages, per week, by the packing
houses and stock yards of st. joe" That
is the remarkable statement made by T.
E. Arnold, who knew what he was talk
ing about, in an interview. appearing in
the Eagle yesterday morning. No wonder
the United States census returns show
such an unexpected increase in that Mis-
souri, city's population. And Kansas City
had St Joe well nigh downed at one
time as a packing point and livestock
market What this sum of $4,000 paid
out per week in salaries and for labor
means for a town, needs not be argued
or explained, means only for the work
ing man and for the business man but
means for property interests, rents and
valuations.
Wichita is naturally as good a livestock
Omaha A greater number of hogs are
more nearly tributary to Wichita than to
either of the points named, while Wich-
ita is nearer the great cattle ranches. AS
for markets, for packing house products,
Wichita is directly accessible to ALL
Seventy thousand dollars paid out every
week in Wichita in salaries and for labor,
connected with packing and livestock in
terests, would mean more than can be set
forth in a single column of a newspaper.
1t would not only benefit the business
man and the laborer, but property hold
ers and owners, of every character, as
well as the merchant, the manufacturer,
the hotel and the banker and every owner
of a house or vacant lot, for the value of
these last would be enhanced.
The meeting of the Cudahy proposition
and the securing of that packing interest
would with little doubt send Wichita
booming TO the front as livestock mar
ket and packing center. The proposition
has but few more days to run, at the
expiration Of which time, if not met, the
golden chance may be lost, the master of
opportunity be gone for good. or at best
all that these mean postponed for years.
As rule the business men of the city
have responded generously, as have
number of the larger property owners.
But there are hundred men Of Wichita
who could contribute from IS to $25 each.
BY doing this the unsupscribed balance
would be made up and to the immediate
profit and lasting advantage of each and
all. The majority of those who have al
ready subscribed feel that they have
done all that they can do. And it is GER
tain that the stock yards company have
loaded themselves up with all they can
carry. It is then up to those who haven't
promised anything but who can do some
thing, and up to all those who haven't
been solicited but whose business will be
increased and whose property will lie
made more valuable. by many times over.
what they would be expected to give.
The time in which it IS left for Wichita
to say yes or no is short. A few ia
viii tell the tale The soliciting c mint
tee as such cannot possibly call upon all
those who should do something. Every
one must be convinced first Of the direct
and immediate advantage TO himself OF
securing an interest which in going some (
whore else might prove this city's IN
doing
Somewhere in this sreat southwest OF
corn and hoss ana catue there IS g..n,
to be livestock ana packing center sec
ond only 10 Kansas city ana Chicago. I:
Two northern Texas cities ara one we
tern city OF Arkansas are amb.uouzly bid F..
ding A. Wichita Is ere blggss. CONNER
olal center between the Missouri rise-
and the Rocky mountains. there is no
seed reason why she should fsn do7n On .
being the biggest packing center. 10
reason why her enterprise should fan o.
proving e2aal 10 a proposition wh-ea .
would be her own making. be u IN
great advantage q every farmer. t. e.
artisan. 70 every working man. 70 eve~s 1
business man. Ne care not What his Inc
or how insignificant, ana 10 every prop /