The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-01
WICHITA To BE
MILLING Center
viii Come to Wheat Center
Because They Pay.
GRAIN MEN NOT IDLE
Handle Over 100000 Blu.
in Four Months.

The organization OF the board of trade
in this city which brought the grain men
and millers together was a great for
ward movement toward making Wichita
a grain center The organization is go
ing to cause more mills to be built here
and it is about as good as settled that
| this city is going to become a great mill
ing center
The grain men whose offices are cluster
ed around the board of trade in the Sedg-
wick building have since the first day
of July handled over five million bushels
Of wheat This does not include the
wheat bought on the outside by the Wich-
ita millers.
Very nearly all the wheat handled by
these men was raised in the southwest
shows that Wichita is the natural center
for a great portion OF the Kansas hard
wheat belt. 1t is demonstrating to the
9.isfaction of the millers that if they
build their big mills in this city the
wheat will come to them.
There Is a good deal of talk among the
grain men about the prospect for more
mills but they say that they do not want
to say who are figuring on building
mills for the reason the men who are
going to build desire to secure ground on
which to build before their location is
given ont. All Of the grain men are talk
ing about new mills and it is every day
becoming evident that the millers are
looking TO this city as the favored location
for their business.
One prominent grain dealers said yes
terday that what they wanted was more
mills. He said the millers made per-
manent and regular market for wheat
and that was what they needed. He
said they some times got wheat on hand
they could not sell in a day, but the
demand was constant for the Kansas
hard wheat flour and it seemed that
everybody wanted it.
This dealer asserted with a great deal
of emphasis that we are going to have
more mills in the very near future and
he said they would do more for the city 4
than the packing houses and If the mills
were built here in the next two years
that he expected to see there would soon
be a very marked increase in the bank
clearings Of Wichita.
He then began to talk OF the fine flour
that is made from this Kansas hard
wheat and the millions o. bushels that
is every year raised in Wichitas terri
tory He had some figures showing the
price of wheat and the price that ex-
porters would pay for Kansas hard wheat
-four and he arrived at the conclusion |
that a big mill in Wichita was the best |
property in the world.
That is the whole secret of great manu-
featuring enterprises. If they do not
pay they are of no value TO the city. !
Milling does pay here because this is
the very center of the big wheat fields |
and the miller here gets the cream of |
the crop. While the London or other |
millers in Europe must ship the whole |
wheat the Wichita miller ships the pure
flour and sells the bran and shorts at
home to feed Kansas stock. He is get
ting the advantage in freights by con-
centrating his product It is an cid say
ing that nations that export the raw
material grow poorer while the nations !
that ship the finished product get rich.
There are going to be more mills In
this city because they pay. They viii |
help the city and the Kansas farmer be- |
sides making money for the men that |
build them.
Blue Ribbon Baking Powder. guaran /
teed as good as Prices or Royal, at half |
the price. Made in Wichita.