The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-14
ARE GOING AFTER
BIG ELEVATOR
Commercial Bodies Will Try
TO Bring 1t Here.
10000 CARS A YEAR
Of Grain Will Originate in
Wichita.
AFTER BETTER RATES
AFTER BETTER RATES
If Railroads Grant Favorable
Rates, Elevator Is Assured.

II Wichita gets the elevator OF the
Farmers Grain and Livestock associa-
ton, which is now regarded by some as a
certainty. it is said she can go 20 the
railroads and assure them that 1000 cars
CT grain ana livestock win be shipped cut
of Wichita every year and can demand
the market rates given to other points
with q tonnage equal to this and the
railroads, it is believed, would hardly re-
fuse to grant that rate.
The traffic managers OF the Chamber
OF Commerce, Commercial club and the
Wichita Traffic association has taken UP
the matter of securing for this city the
headquarters and elevator Of the Farm
ers Grain and Livestock association and.
whit their combined efforts. this city is
assured Of success.
The railroads have realized that this
farmers cooperative association IS some
thing that win make itself felt in the
grain business OF Kansas, and they have
mace number of inducements TO the
various local organizations By granting
them sites for storage elevators, and in
rosdL have built the elevators.
The first Of the week Messrs c. W.
Peckham and H. c. Hawkins, general
organizers of the association, were in the
city and had & conference with the man
ayers of the three traffic bureaus and
associations, and these gentlemen made
the positive statement that this associa-
ten would control Is 900 cars of grain and
livestock that would be given to whatever
Joint was selected as a terminal point,
and they asked what this city could do
for them in the matter of securing freight
ratte for their products. Mr.. Peekham
stated that the selection of site for the
elevator depended on the freight rates Sc
cured for them. The association had de-
cided to build an elevator from which all
their grain would originate, as far as the
railroads were concerned.
The traffic men gave the farmers as
ISOLATION representatives the assurance
that II the cooperative association could
give the freight rate men the assurance
that 10000 cars would be shipped out of
Wichita in the course of a year they
would secure for them the same propor-
tionate rates that Kansas City, Omaha
or any other so-called terminal points
have at present
The railroads assume the position that
Nichite is not terminal point for grain
and 1--we stock; that it does not control
enough grain and live stock to make the
heavy shipments that other cities do, and
hence they cannot give the same rates as
the bis terminal points now enjoy. The
freight managers of the railroads say
that It is not a question OF grain or live
stock shipped in here and through this
city hut it is the grain that goes out
tSat allows them to make the low grain
rates. Tor which this city has been fight
ting Tor so long
They Kay that Wichita needs large ele-
vators. where grain could be shipped in,
cleaned and graded. and the amount OF
this graded grain that is shipped out is
the aTaourt that the railroads consider
when they make their rates.
This is what the gentlemen meant when
they said they controlled 5000 cars OF
grain and live stock. The grain would
lie shipped to Wichita. some Of IL in small
cars. It would be cleaned and graded by
the elevator here and loaded into larger
cars for the longer haul. and it would be
ready for the miller or exporter when it
left Wichita.
The traffic managers feel sure that they
can get the rates from the railroads il
they can present to the freight men the
facts and the desired rates Will be Sc
cured. The representatives. OF the farm
ers' association left this city feeling juhi-
lent over the matter and they stated to
Mr.. Levy Of the Chamber Of Commerce
tnat everything was favorable for Wich-