The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-12-06
SOME PREDICTIONS
Being FULFILLED
Fred Dold and John Cudahy
Are Masters of Situation.
FUTURE OF HOG MARKET.
Even Railroad Managers See
Hand Writing on . all.

Since the building Of the new Dold
packing house and the enlargement Of
the Cudahy plant the Wichita packers are
demonstrating that they can take care OF
a good part of the hogs that legitimate
ly belong to Wichita's territory.
Hog receipts last week up to the time
of closing The market last night were
7,11I. and it was expected that enough
more would arrive during the night and
which will be sold at yesterdays prices
and added to Saturdays receipts to make
the receipts for the week S.0n.
Dold and Cudahy controlled the market
last week and shut out all the order
buyers. The demand for the product of
the Wichita packing houses is constant
and urgent and the packers want more
hogs than are coming TO this market.
Cudahy alone put in an order for 1900
hogs last week.
Wher the veteran packer, Jacob Dold,
laid the foundation for his packing house
in this city in 1881 he made the predic-
ton that Wichita would become a pack
ing center and that a hog market would
he established which was one of the con-
ditions necessary for the success OF a
packing house
lie said another thing which did not
exactly suit the people OF this city at the
time. 1t was that packing centers are not
made in a day but that they grow. The
years that have elapsed since the building
of the first Dold packing house in this
city has demonstrated The wisdom OF that
assertion. The packing business here has
grown and like all things of long life il
has grown slowly. Wichita today is one
of the recognized packing centers OF the
country, with a well established market
and any other point that aspires 10 con-
test her supremacy in that line viii have
to go through the same growth and meet
and overcome obstacles before the goal
Is reached.
Fort Worth is today competing for The
hogs in southern Oklahoma, but Fort
Worth is as old a packing center as
Wichita, and her hog market is not to be
compared with the Wichita market for
either the number or The quality of its
hogs. II there is any one thing more
than any other that ought to inspire faith
IN the future growth of this city, it is
the success of the packing houses here.
Fred Dold and John Cudahy are masters
Of the situation, and just as soon as the
railroads can be made to see that it Is TO
their interest to treat Wichita. fairly in
the matter of freight rates hogs viii be
worth as much money in Wichita as in
Kansas City - ~
In the years that have passed since the
Eagle was first published in this city IT
has constantly been pointing out that The
natural highway to the markets of the
world for this section is by way Of Gal
weston. The building of the Panama ca
nal is going to very greatly increase the
importance OF The gulf ports. The time
is almost here when. southern Kansas
will be better located with respect to
the markets OF the world than Indiana
and Ohio. moss
II is lucky for this city that she. has
gained this supremacy in The packing
business before these great events are
coming to pass. The railroads can see
what is coming and they are all seeking
southern outlets. In a very few years
more all the gulf seaports will be COM
peting for Dichita's trade and helpinG her
to get cheaper rates.