The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-06
THAT MATTER SETTLED
Wichita Is the Far Western
Hog Market.
FACTS THAT PROVE IT
Packers Come Here From All
Directions for Hogs.

There were not hogs enough at the
stock yards yesterday to make market,
but this does not discourage the packers
or the men connected with the trade.
Now. more than ever before, are the
evidences at hand to prove that Wichita
has established her claim to be the great
central hog market Cor all the vast transs
Missouri river country
Wichita packers believe this and they
are getting ready for increased business
and the stock yards company are spend
ing vast sums of money to improve the
stock yards. They are pavink all the
hog pens with brick and tearing the roofs
from the cattle pens and putting new
ones on. Coming events cast their shad-
ows before them, and that cast by the
coming hog market at this place is no
dim affair as of a passing twilight but
il is rather like the shadow of a total
eclipse that alarms the ignorant and con-
vinces intelligent people that something
has happened.
This idea is not one originating in and
peculiar TO Wichita alone, but it is al
ready recognized by the packers on the
Missouri river. by the packers in Texas.
by the packers in California. by the butch
els in Colorado and Arizona and they
are sending all their buyers OF their or
ders to Wichita for hogs. The packers
Of the west and the southwest as well as
those north and east of here recognize
and admit by their actions that Wichita
for all time to come will be the western
frontier market of line Of great hog
markets extending westward from Buffalo
TO Wichita
Wichita occupies a position in the cen
ter OF the great hog-producing section Of
the west Any packing house in the fut-
ure locating south or west Of this city
will be getting away from the center and
they will be compelled to come here for
their hogs. because the men who raise
the hogs and those who ship them wel
understand that the place 10 get good
prices is in the central market. and they
will refuse to scatter their trade. This
will, for all time TO come, make this the
great western hog market, because there
IS no country west of Wichita s territory
that viii ever become a great hog rails
d. ing section.
Some Of the order buyers who wanted
hogs for some of these more southern
and western points have made it a little
unpleasant for the Wichita packers for
q week past, but that was because Of
the phenomenally light receipts, the cause
OF which is well understood. The time is
not very far in the future when there
will be plenty of hogs; but one other
fact might as well be conceded now,
and that is that Wichita is the great
central market of the far west, in which
anybody who has the cash to pay for hogs
may buy them here on an equal footing
with all other buyers
If anyone has an idea that this new
condition will injure the Wichita packers
they do not reason correctly. Every pack
er who expects TO do a large business
wants his plant located at a point where
there IS a. Wei established stock market
If he wants to pack hogs he wants to
be where the hogs are, and he expects
to take his chances with the other buyers.
Wichita. Wichita packers and the Wich-
tia hog market are all right