The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-10-29
WICHITA TO HAVE
ANOTHER BIG MILL
viii Be Located in North Part
of City
CAPACITY 1000 BARRELS
Geo. NJ. Randall Is at Head of
the Enterprise.

It can be stated on the best authority
that Wichita is going to have Touring
mill Of two thousand barrels Il day ca
pacity, and that it viii be located some
the joint tracks, where it can be reached
by all the railroads.
When the Eagle stated a few years ago
that this city was bound to become a
great milling center, because il is located
in the very center of the cream of the
Kansas hard wheat belt, it was regarded
at the time as only prophesy; but now
people are able to see that it was only
a conclusion drawn from then existing
facts
Wichita already has some good mills,
and her flour is in demand everywhere,
but she is going to have more and larger
mills. The man who is organizing this
movement for another big mill in this
city is George NJ Randall He is now out
of the city. but before leaving he stated
that all arrangements have been COM
pleted for the new mill. Other points
have ol4ered him inducements to come 10
them, but Mr.. Randall says he prefers
to stay in the town where mining has
been success for him.
Mr.. Randall was interested with ]. E.
Howard in the Union mills. 1t is small
mill. but one of the best in the west, and
they could always sell more flour than
they could make. Mr.. Randall wanted to
branch out in a larger business and he
sold his interest in the Union mills to
]. E. Howard & Son and at once COM
menced to make his arrangements for
the building of a big mill
George NJ. Randall is practical miller
and understands what he is about. He
knows that the miliers in the southwest
have fought their way into all the mar
kets of the world with Kansas hard wheat
-four and that the demand for it is con-
stantly increasing. His experience has
taught him just what a large merchant
mill can do here. He is making arrange
ments to build a large elevator in con-
nection with the mill, and it is the in
tention to have the mill and elevator
in operation by the time the next wheat
crop is in shock.
1t is sometimes claimed that fortune
knocks at the door of every man once
in lifetime, and the same might be
said of towns and cities. That time seems
to have arrived in the history of this
city There have been times when the
people of this city went out after things
and some of them did not amount to
very much when they were secured, but
now things are coming to Wichita
forced here by the inevitable trend of
events, and 1t would seem that all that
Wichita has TO do now is to open wide
her doors and welcome them IT..
Some people who are not in close touch
with the great business interests of this
city think the railroads try to discourage
the establishment of such enterprises
in this city. but that is a mistake. The
railroads tell the millers that here is the
convenient place for mills and the proper
location is in the north part of the city,
where they can be reached by all the
roads.
Wichita is going to solve the fuel prob
lem by piping gas into the city. and that
is another inducement for the location
of this big mill at this point. In few
days more the readers of the Eagle will
be given all the details of this mill.
The Stevens-Scott elevator is nearly
completed, and when the Randall ele-
vator is completed. in connection with
the big mill, Wichita will have a pretty
considerable storage capacity for grain,
and that is what the millers need