The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-24
NEXT YEAR
THE GREATEST
FinancierS Speculate on Re-
suit of Wichita'S Growth.
CAUSES PRODUCING 1T
Expanding Along the Lines
That Make Great CON-
merCial CenterS.

wichita is expanding and growing along
the lines that make great commercial
centers and populous cities.
s-The man who speaks of boom in this
city is in danger Of getting mobbed by
the victims of the last speculative
period. said J. o. Davidson, in CONVEX
sation with some friends a few days ago.
but Wichita is going TO have another
boom. I hope it viii not come next year,
but am afraid it will''
What caused the above remark was a
discussion of the advancement of Wichita
along commercial lines and the filing
up Of the city in all directions with new
houses. The gentlemen who were dis
cussing the matter with Mr. Davidson all
agreed that growing cities all had their
periods of speculative trading in real
estate, and Mr.. Davidson insisted that
they were unavoidable and that while So
called booms were fatal to a good many
individuals, they were just what made
cities
Far-seeing fnanciers in this city are al
ready conceding that Wichita next year
win make the largest growth in her whole
history, and they are figuring on its re-
suits It is not very hard TO name the
things that justify this faith in the fu-
ture. There are things that are going 10
happen that viii in their very nature
cause the city to grow and bring more
people here. unless all the natural laws
governing business affairs are held in
allegiance for the time being.
one Of the things that viii help TO bring
about this growth viii be the building Of
the Orient and the location Of shops here
A great road Ike the Orient in a city
Ike Wichita viii bring scores of employees
here, and the machine shops win bring
more, and al this will cause Wichita to
expand and grow and help every line of
business
Then. next year the packing houses Of
this city win be employing a great many
more people than now find work at them.
The Dcld house has a capacity Of $500
hogs, go cattle and 500 sheep a day. Man
ager Fred Dold is very conservative
man, and when asked yesterday how
many head of stock he would be killing
a day next year he placed the number at
LOCO hogs. 100 cattle and 200 sheep a day.
That was very conservative estimate
when we come to think about this big
corn crop and in what short time it
will produce good hogs.
After a little reflection, Mr. Dold said
that next year the packing houses Of this
city would be employing 500 10 1000 people
in the houses, and that they would be
sending out about fifty car loads of pro-
visions every day. He said that while the
Seceipts of hogs are now light, that did
not discourage him in the least He had
been in wichita long enough to know that
there would be plenty of hogs when the
farmers had corn.
The people over at the Cudahy packing
house were just as confident of The fu-
ture as was Mr. Dold. Mr. Cudahy has
shown his faith in Wichita since coming
here. He got the Whitaker house and I
II was considered pretty good packing /
house when he got 1t. but he has been /
making improvements all the time since /
coming here
Yesterday they were testing a pump 4
that had just been put in to furnish water /
for the house and to be used in case of +
fire. II is a compound pump with a ca
pacity Of two million gallons Of water a
day When John Cudahy got the house 1t I
had three big boilers, but he has enlarged (
the engine house and added five more (
boilers, more than doubling the steam
power He has built substantial brick
addition for the lard refinery. 1t is forty
light 10y ninety-six feet and is FIVE stories
hie1. with a basement. and of brick and
stone. He has installed an electric plant
Z operate the machinery. He has built
an lee plant and a box factory. also a
new smoke house. besides adding a large
amount of valuable machinery He has
spent over S250oo0. in improving the plant
since It came into his possession
Cudahy is not done improving yet
superintendent W. Brown said yesterday
that Mir. Cudahy contemplates stll fur
Their charging the Plant TO the capacity
Of $500 hogs day next year. Its present
capacity is 1.5o0 hogs a day. AIr. Brown
said they could not set all the hogs they
wanted now. but he had been surprised
ri the number that had come TO market
after The failure Of the corn crop last
year He said the corn this year would
soon make plenty of hogs. and it might
b a lifetime before we would get an
other as Eight corn crop as that of last
year He said their trade had been more
than satisfactory. and recently the city
trade had increased until their teams
were not able TO deliver the goods. ana
they were obliged TO ship the meat down
town on The cars SO as 10 shorten the haul
for The teams
Before the people have time 10 ask
about it the big Nevling elevator will be
nsking music in the neighborhood of the I