The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-12-26
MILLS MAY BE
CLOSED DOWN
Because Market Cannot be
Found for Their Flour.
FREIGHT RATES TO SOUTH
Shut Off Principal Points
Where Wichita Flour Is Used.

We are naAIng only daylight runs
Nov said J. E. Howard, of the Union
mis-, yesterday, and it is all because Of
the discriminating freight rates. For
M ny days we have not received an in
qU.-y about flour from any of our regular
Teas customers, while usually we get
nony letters and several kilograms each
DAY making bids and asking for prices.
Ve used to run night and day before
IT, raise was made il freight rates. and
wee then behind in our orders. Now we
rUa only during the day, and viii ship a
car Of -four TO New York tomorrow that
W. be at a less unless we get a higher
pee there than is now quoted. We are
sil ply up against it. We have 10 mar
LEI but the local one open 70 Us. The rate
&. -four IS 50 high TO Texas and other
ia .hcEn points lat our regular custom
ers viii not buy Of Us. The eastern mar
! - i've seen OF little profit to Us, and
.1se Try 20 fad a buyer for our product in
ot1er directions. bat on account Of the
e>urb.tant freight rates We cannot finj
buyer anywhere except locally. ard
th-t is not enough 40 keep our mill run
mig half the time. and ] am of the opin-
ioa that is the case with other mills in
TINS city and the surrounding country.
George II. Hunter. president of the
Hunter Milling company. ut Wellington.
yesterday said in an Interview:
we viii be compelled to shut down the
mills unless there. is d discrimination in
our favor and believe the Aetna mills
vii meet the same fate.
Since December -, we have been com
relied to reduce the price OF corn from 80
cents to y cents a bushel. showing that
the rates are exertne an injustice 10 the
farmer. 1t is an outrage and something
thet the incoming legislature should take
Ccgnizance OF. 1t is a matter that should
IT, remedied or the ultimate outcome Will
be the closing down Of every jobbing in
tercst in the state. including the mills.
NVe will have to close down our mills. for
ye cannot operate under the prevailing
circumstances. and from talk have had
with Kramer Bros. today, | am inclined
10 believe they look at it in the same
light. II is bad state of affa rs
1t was stated that wherever the Santa
Fe and Rock Island do not go the local
-four output cannot be shipped. Texas
and Louisiana. as well as other southern
states. into whicn great deal of Wichita
four has always been shipped. are now
closed 10 it. The shutting off of other
Ports to Wichita millers and the jig
would be up.
From Wichita to GAINESVILLE, Tex. the
rate is 3lh cents hundred on corn.
From Kansas City TO GAINESVILLE. pa miles
farther away. it is 221a cents hundred.
The rate TO Kansas City from Wichita is
J. cents. All stuff must he sent by way
OF Kansas City. because Of a discrimina-
ton which the railroad people lay TO river
competition.
There is no proportional rate between
Kansas City and Kansas points. Because
OF the distance the rate TO Newton from
Kansas city should he less than ii is &c
Wichita, yet it is the same. So it is be-
tween Anthony and Harper ard Wichita.
J. costs % cents more = indred to ship
fom Wichita to Anthony than it does
from Kansas City. Wei i gton is on the
same schedule.