The Wichita daily eagle., 1903-07-31
NEEDMORE SWITCHES
Railroads Must Have More
Room in North End.
BIG INCREASE IN BUSINESS
Joint Office Receipts Increased
$4,000 in Six Months.

How to handle the business at the
Etockyards and the packing houses is :
problem that the railroads of this city
will very soon be called upon to solve
The increase Of business in that section
Of the city is 50 great that the railroad
switch yards are insufficient 10 handle
the cars.
Shippers who consign stock to the union
stocByards are complainins that the in
ability of the railroads to promptly de-
liver their stock to the yards after they
arrive in the city IS caJsins hem con-
siderable loss on account OF hogs be
coming overheated and dying in the cars.
Then the cars that belong TO the Watson
mills and the NevIing elevator are pushed
onto the packing house and s,ocsya d
switches frequently caus ng blockade
IL that section
There is not only no prospect that less
switch room viii be needed IN that section
OF the city but on the cort.ary d ce-ta n
u that more viii soon be a necessity
The Watson mills are being enlarged;
the Cu1ahy packing plant is beins in
creased in capacity ard n Stevens
Scott grain company IS build a Ia g
elevator between the packing hon es and
the Watson mills al of this - mo. 2
business for the railroads.
When asked last night wha raii-
roads were going to 90 to relieve the
pressure Of business Fred Chain, the JOINT
railroad agent said:
4 cannot teH unless something is done
a. the way of securing more switch room.
The trouble recently has been that cars
accumulate at he Watson mills and then
have TO be run onto the packing hou e
switches and that causes a blockade In
that section The Watson mills. can only
handle nine cars on their switches /
think one trouble is that Mr.. Watson is
doing a good deal more business than ne
expected at The time he built his mill.
When it comes to bringing in twenty to
thirty car loads OF wheat at one time
and get the -four out and fuel in good
dead more switch-oom thar h has is
needed Mr Nevling is dong bic Jusi-
ness with his elevator but he h ; emo. gh
switch room # n is allowed the free
use Of his own switches.
Something VIII have to he done to
keep up with the increase of Business in
that section of this city. I noticed the
other day in boxing over the books that
our business for tha first six m~nths Of
this year amounted to over one hundred
and thirty-seven thousand dollars more
than for the same time last yea. The
situation has been relieved by the pack
Ing houses bringing all Of their order
business TO the down town depots SO that
We at the joint station have only 10
handle the product of the packing house s
sent out i'm car load lots The rail; o9Cs
are all doing the best they can. There
IS simply an immense growth Of bus ness
of the roads in the north pat of the
city and it looks to me as if it is going
10 continue to grow.
Mr. Chan has nut the whole thing in
q nut she'll wi h.ta is growing and
needs more room. Stock is sometimes
held down town because all of the switch
engines are busy making up trains AMI
f. Is some zines necessary to let stock
consigned To the yards stand on the
switches urtn train Is sent ou: No
body can blame The railroads if they fail
t. keen race with he RAPID er5w,h Of
business in the pack ne, hoj Sc. lives ocI.
grain and milling center OF Wichita.