The Topeka state journal., 1901-11-18
COMING THIS WAY
Texas Capitalists Are About to
Invade Kansas.
Company With S4O,OOO,OOO to
Establish Lumber Yards.
TO BE AT LEAST 200.
EX- Mayor CA. Fellows Talks of
What Will Be Done.
Returns From Houston Impress
ed With Texas Enterprise.

Ex-Mayor c. A. Fellows returned Sun
day from Houston and he brought back
with him the information that Kansas is
included in gigantic lumber concern
which has just been formed by Texas
capitalists, headed by Millionaire John
H. Kirby of Texas
The company proposes to establish 200
lumber yards in Kansas and it is safe
to say that every city of considerable size
in the state will be included in the great
enterprise and will have one of the yards
of the Kirby Lumber company
The plans have not yet been worked out
in detail. so it is not known in which
towns in Kansas the lumber yards will
least 200 yards in the state.
Mr.. Fellows went to Houston by invita-
,o1 1lon 10 10 "a attena a a panque1 OF IexaS pusi-
Der 13 in honor of Mr.. Kirby who had
just returned from New York where he
completed the organization Of the lumber
company with capital of $4O.GO0,o00 The
nation of the purposes of the Banquet:
Banquet rendered to Mr.. John Kirby by
the city OF Houston and the state OF Tex,
awakening in Texas.
Mr.. Fellows is enthusiastic over the
banquet and the enterprise exhibited by
the Texas people To State Journal re-
II always thought we knew how to
treat vi visitors , but we certainly can get
in that great big state have hearts as big
as their state. 1t was never my good for
busy, but, at the same time, genial men
never visited a buster city than Hous-
ton There is hustle and hurry every
where The streets, banks, stores offices
and factories full of people. There
seem to be no idlers 1 met $50 business
stance they had time to be courteous, po-
ute han and o hospItable; }tn tell you it is
men of their chara cter-
THE great industrial banquet given at
Houston in honor of Mr.. John H. Kirby
was not only a result of united action on
commercial al nj
"a tlons of Houston, but of all Texas. The
entire southwest seemed to be working
to make the occasion success. 1t was
a magnificent affair and the man in whose
honor it was gwen is worthy of it all. L
had heard great deal about Mr.. Kirby
through B. F. Bonner. Tom Richardson
c. A: Newning and others, but this was
the devotion of his friends, including the
leading public men and many of the best
was never more impressed with any man.
MI Mr., KIRBY ~ by, has the most magnetic pres,
his power in Kansas, but his plans as to
this; state and the west are not vet en-
tirely completed. All the people of Kan
sas will know him soon
4 am glad to say that the people of
is giving them in securing better deep
as much. if not more than Texas
Houston has great newspapers. and
port of any event than that published in
the Houston Post of the Kirby banquet
L
paper issued a beautiful edition. Mr. c.
A. Newning, editor of the Southwest Of
fetal organ of the Texas and Louisiana
lumber interests, showed me the advance
sheets of a souvenir edition of the ban
quet which will be artistic in the ex-
treme.
'rhey know how to do things down in
Texas and of course Texas centers a.
Houston, or at least it looked that way to
me- Mr.. B. F. Bonner, general manage
of the Southwestern Oil company showed
me through the new refinery and they
making from Texas crude oil a finer quail
ity of refined oil than is produced in
Pennsylvania
II found my friend Tom Richardson,
just as useful and just as popular as he
was in Kansas and it was gratifying to
see his great work for Houston and Texas
appreciated. L thought L had enjoyed
great times in the past, but they don't
count. My visit to Houston puts them
all in the shade
Il am more especially pleased because
such enterprising business men COM
ing to Kansas and it will soon be seen that
they mean much to the state, for 1 am
satisfied that Kansas and Texas will be
more closely related in commercial enter
priSeS time goes on.