The Wichita daily eagle., 1904-01-24
EFFORT TO COMBINE
LARGE SHIPPERS
Stockmen and Packers Com
plete Organization.
LAY A BROAD FOUNDATION
Would Take in Mi|Iers and
Grain Dealers.
LAY A BROAD FOUNDATION

The Stock Yards Board of Trade ana
Live Stock Exchange has been organ
ized in this city and a charter secured.
Following are the officers elected and in
stalled President, A. B. Moore: vice
president, W. NJ. Paugh; secretary. c. S.
Stuart, treasurer. z. ]. Healy; directors,
W. r. Dulaney, Fred Dold. VIM. Brown,
c. p. Johnson, A. B. Moore, w. NJ.
Paugh. E. j. HeaIy, j. C. Rich and c. S.
Stuart.
The growth of business at the stock
yards and at the packing houses has ne
cessiraled an organization Of this kind.
1t means that the men Interested in the
business are getting ready for, the still
greater business that they confidently
believe is coming.
There is one feature in connection with
The organization that will be passed I'D
to the grain dealers and the millers for
their approval or rejection. The men
who have formed this organization have
made il road enough to take in the grain
dealers and the millers and to absorb the
Board Of Trade which the millers and
the grain dealers organized last summer
Sii-L Nl4lNI iS Ollc VI the STCMGnR business
interests Of the city.
c. " Ferguson is attorney for the new
organization, and when asked last night
what correction there was between the
milling ana grain trade and the live
stock and packing house interests he
said that he did not know unless 1t was
because they were all centered in the
north part of the city. Mr.. Ferguson
said that the charter stated that il was
the purpose of the organization to estab
lish and maintain a board of trade and
business exchange; TO promote all inter
ests in the purchase of grain and live
stock; to promote uniformity in the GUS
toms and usages at the Wichita market;
to promote facilities for the prompt con-
duct Of business and TO facilitate the
speedy and equitable adjustment of dis
putes.
AR. Ferguson said that he presumed
ii was the intention of the men who had
formed this organization to get the mill
ers and the elevator men in that section
Of the city to come in with them and
make a strong organization. The Eagle
q short time ago published an account of
the business of the railroads at the joint
it appeared that the business interests
clustered in the north part of the city had
furnished an immense tonnage for the
railroads last year and that the increase
over the year 1902 was more than 1oo
per cent.
The parties that furnished all this tom
mage Were the stock yards, the packing
houses the elevators and the Watson
mills. 1t can be readily seen that if these
interests were all united in one organiza-
ton they would be in good position to
talk business with the railroads. The
trouble is that people who have nothing
to ship sometimes take a leading part in
the movements to secure justice in the
matter of reight rates. when the rail-
roads always want to talk with the men
who have something to ship. They are
more likely 10 come to mutual under
standing.
The people in the stock yards district
think Wichita is on the eve of a great
business boom and they want to get
ready II take care of it Whether the
grain men and the millers look kindly
on the movement of the packers and the
live stock men at the yards for a COM
hinalion of interests or not. there is no
question that the packers and the COM
mission men al the yards have a patriotic
purpose and their object is for the bene-
fit of all.