The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-04-18
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M. M. MURDOCH, Editor.
THE STATE BINDING TwINE PLANT

THE STATE BINDING TWINE PLANT.
That cotere so bent investigating Warden Jewett
last winter seem no longer evidence They made their
little demonstration subsidized into desuetude ineon
tinentIy They nothing 1t was imagined by them
for it was not much ostensibe suspicion that
the Irvine plant political graft and its function
or operation steal sequestration of the state
monies Resoluely shutting their strabismistc orbs to
the fact that the binding Irvine plant in holding down
trust prices last year saved for the Kansas
wheat grower they howed investigation whose re-
eaIings of corruption and crookedness make
Itca patrios of the instigators The fact that COM
b:ne had cornered the ssal product mitigation
or excuse for not producing lower cost price
Warden Jewett and his penitentiary twine plant
emerged from the scrap without the sign of scratch
and state binding is be sold the coming season
at cents per pound Lansing in lots of 5000 pounds
or over and per pound in small retail guam
titles This reduction of cent from the prices
of last year. and still allows the state small margin
of profit for of machinery in addition
to interest on by the state for the
purchase of the machinery and stock.
The prices established by the Irvine trust the In
ternationa Harvester company 1914 cents pound for
less than car lots Chicago, 1OA cents pound in
car lots The freight rate Chicago to Kansas City
is so cents This makes price Irvine at Mis-
souri, river points trife more than pound in
price charged for state Irvine small lots
and four-ffths of a cent pound more on large lots
The trust price this year is 20 cents hundred I'M
last year, when it sold for IL and ia
cents at City Whether the trust will to meet
the state price Heretofore the trust has
tried to sell Irvine slight advance the state
Irvine on the representation Irvine not
as good as the trust Irvine and that would
many to the pound thereby making the trust Irvine
cheaper though the price per pound was little
more doubtless when the state plant was
first started as machinery and the business
was not as we'll understood it is now, but the
states Irvine is probably just as good any made
The output plant this year will be nearly
double what it has been heretofore will
try to distribute evenly possible through the
wheat growing counties wherever there is demand
for it. so as to give every section the advantages of it
1--WE reserve the right sell to dealers in such
titles as we think best" Warden eff did
not attempt might be by dealers in the employ
the supply and then the very
object for which the state plant established would
be defeated. Then too if allowed the dealers in
few counties have all they want it might cut short
the supply for other part of the state and leave
them the mercy of the trust dealers"
The shipment Irvine from the penitentiary plant to
dealers will commence this week Already number of
dealers have sent orders Warden Jewett has
ceived great many inquiries the wheat belt
concerning Irvine and price to be
this year county dealer has in order for
four loads a starter
The pententary plant will continue the manufacture
Irvine right up harvest time supply of ssal
holds out /