The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-06-01
JOHN CUDAHY
PLANS AHEAD
Will Get Fifty More New Re-
frigerator Cars.
is ONLY WICHITA LINE
He Speaks of the Future of
This City.
is ONLY WICHITA LINE

1T is my opinion that Wichita is going
tc make great packing center. and at
I the present tine I have the only tank
and refrigerator car lines on the rail-
reads of this country, every one of which
bears the name Of Wichita. have fifty
cars now and expect to put on fifty more
Il. a very short time"
The above were the words Of John
cudahy last evening as ne sat in his
office at the Cudahy packing house. He
came down from Chicago yesterday to
visit his big packing house. and the broad
smile on his genial face very plainly con-
Teyed the idea that ne was satisfied WITH
the outlook here
Mar. Cudahy thinks that southern Kan
sas and Oklahoma IS the Eden of
America, and he always has some good
words for the great new southwest.
What do you think OF the wheat
CROP he asked reporter for the
Eagle. When told that some of the
farmers are claiming that their wheat
viii make twenty bushels TO the acre,
ana in some sections OF Oklahoma they
viii have more than last year. he said:
when ! rode along on the cars in
Kansas L looked out at the wheat, corn
and oats fields and I thought they Ger
tainly looked very promising. The corn
IS simply fine, and 7 never saw better.
prospect for big crop at this time of the
season. II the corn turns out what it
promises now there win be lots of fat
hogs and cattle in Kansas, and then the
packing houses here at Wichita can do.
business.
when I was here last summer you
published an interview with me in which
l advised the farmers 10 feed their cheap
T
for 1t that ] could not see any cheap hogs
IN the near future Well. they fed the
heat and hogs are not very cheap yet.
are they? What do the farmers now
think Of feeding wheat TO hogs. WIN they
continue to feed it2''
He was told that the farmers who
ground their wheat and fed il dry 20
their hogs generally said it paid 70 feed
wheat to hogs when they could get
cents for them.
'Avhat do you think of the beef trust?'
asked the reporter
.syVhy, there isn't any beef trust, unless
the packers refusing 10 cut one anothers
throats constitutes a trust They have
black list that prevents people buying big
bills of meat from them and then refusing
to pay for il, and then 80 down the line
and beat all the packers. They try TO
take care of themselves in the matter Of
collections. and that is simply business.
People who suppose that the big beef
packers have trust that enables them TO
make great fortunes are simply mis-
taken They do not have anything of the
kind. From my knowledge Of the pack
ing business in this country / do not
hesitate to make the statement that the
packers for three years past counting
from today, have not made a profit TO
exceed p cents a head on the cattle they
have killed. Cattle are high because the
feed required to fatten them is high. and
anybody can tell that these two condi-
TORS are bound to make high-priced beef
on the block
There is no sense in blaming the pack
e:s for condition Of the meat market
that is brought about by natural causes
The farmer cannot afford to sell his cattle
cheap with present prices for feed The
packer cannot pay s. to 81 n hundred for
cattle and sell the carcass to the retailer
FOR any less than he is now doing, and
the retailer must get big prices for the
fancy cuts of beef or quit business.
There is nobody making rluch money on
these high-priced cattle. and this talk
about beef trust making beef come high
TO consumers is all rot. There is nothing
in IL