The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-27
CRY Is FOR
MORE CARS
MiIIerS Want Wheat and
Farmers Have 1t for Sale.
AREWAITING ON RAILROADS
Watson Mills Want to Run on
Full Time.
AREWAITING ON RAILROADS

not be able TO get al the wheat they
want to grind. because Of lie scarcity Of
cars TO move the wheat crop.
Tn threshing machines are running in
the wheat belt west and south of Wichita
and there is a heavy demand for cars.
The millers here want the wheat to
grind TO I'LL orders for -four. Wichita
-four is more and more in demand in this
country and Europe and II takes about
ten thousand bushels a day 10 run the
wills when they are on fun time. 1t is
also expected that they viii accumulate
wheat when the threshing season is Oh
fun blast. They can not do this If the
railroads can not furnish the cars TO
move the wheat,
reporter FOR the Eagle called al the
big Watson mill yesterday and found
that they were doing rushing business.
and he was surprised to ind that they
had orders enough ahead to keep the
mills running day and night for two
weeks. If any other evidence were want
ed that this new Wichita mill is making
good -four. that would be sufficient Big
sacks OF flour. those Of the coarse ma
terial used for export, We're sliding down
the shoots into the cars. and the most
wonderful thing about the whole plant
was how everything was handled by ma
ehinery. he wheat is unloaded from the
cars into the elevator, and it seems to
never stop until II slides down the chute
in the coarse sacks fun OF -four and
falls into another ear ready for ship
ment. Speaking of the business of the
mill, Mr. ]. Christie, the corresponding
salesman of the mills, said.
Mr.. Watson is doing a fine business
and his flour takes with the public. and It
easy to sell. We have a good trade in
the eastern states. Kansas hard wheat
-four is coming 10 the front and people
want it. The demand for our -four in
Europe is increasing. We are now ship
ping -four to London, Dublin, Hull, Rot
terdam, Copenhagen, Christiana, Glasgow,
Liverpool. Manchester. Newcastle. Ber-
lin, Brennan. Sligo. Belfast and other
cities in Europe. We even sell -four IN
Finland, on the borders OF Russia, and
you know that Russia is elassed as one
Of the great wheat producing countries.
Some Of the milleEs OF this country use
Europe as a dumping ground for their
-four They try to hold UP the price at
home and when they get overloaded with
-four they send it TO Europe and sell il
cheap. MIR. Watson does not do that.
lie makes high grade of -four for tbs
European markets. and he sells it at a
profit or there is no trade. This Europe
an trade in -four from this country is
getting to be a big thing, and we ought
to be running on full time now. If the
weather continues without raiE next week
we expect to be able to get plenty of
wheat, SO that We can run on fun time.
The only thing that is likely TO inter-
fere is the scarcity OF cars TO move the
wheat. We get good deal OF wheat on
the Santa Fe. and I have been informed
that they are short Of cars They had
orders for 175 cars yesterday and could
only furnish nineteen. They were all
wanted south and west Of the city.
We of course hope that in a day or two
the railroads will have plenty of cars. for
We want TO get the wheat We sold
large order OF -four for Norway today.
and good sized order for Liverpool. We
are counting on getting the wheat to
make the flour We have tested the new
wheat. and, while IL is not so plump a
berry as last years crop. it makes fine,
strong flour and it is all right. Flour
made from new wheat is usually damp
and not satisfactory, but We have a
drying machinery, perhaps the only one
in & Touring mill in this state. This
enables us to use the new wheat for max
ing -four for export, because it is turned
out perfectly dry.
The farmers put US out OF the export
trade from the first of January until June
by holding their wheat for higher prices
They held wheat up so high that we could
not even Sc. -four in the eastern states
In the course OF time the farmers
learn that they do not serve their own
interest 10y holding their wheat for specu-
lation nor by selling it all from the
threshing machine. thinking that il VIII
be lower after awhile. The farmer would
get more money for his wheat II he would
throsh it out. put II in his granary and
sell it when he needed some money. That
would make the wheat market last all
the year round like the hag market. and
I presume the farmer would not have TO
be told that h gets more money for his
hogs Ivy keeping the packing houses
running the year round than he would II
an the hogs were sent 20 market in three
months or the year II they hold back all
of the wheat they cause stock 20 aocu-
muiate and that In the end causes lower
prices for wheat while Il they sell IT
eli from the threshing machine 1t goes
into the hands Of spectators and when
the price goes up the spectators make the
money
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