The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-18
RAILROAD NEWS
Union Pacific Official Pleased
With Kansas Crops.
I'll. G.. Kali of Kansas City on
Visit TO Topeka.
BIGGEST YIELD IN HISTORY
Kali Has Record for Fifteen
Years in State.
Other Items of General Interest
in Traffic World.
BIGGEST YIELD IN HISTORY

Another Union Pacific official of the
Gerrit Fort type of courtesy and hand
This time it was H. c. Kali, assist
ant general passenger and frelght
agent at Kansas City Mr.. Kali pop
ped out figures on crop conditions IN
Kansas Ike a state board OF agrlc Ill
ture machine gun-and he didn't con-
suit q note book or look on his cum
once during the entire bombardment.
For fifteen years Mr.. Kali has kept
a tab on crop situations in Kansas
Without hesitating to collect
thought, he can answer any acreage,
production or percentage on Wheat
and corn in the state since 1897 his
travelling freight and passenger agents
spend a big part of their time Watch-
ing the crops, consulting with the
farmers and small town business men
and taking a census of prospects.
If the records of the Kansas state
board of agriculture are destroyed,
the state will simply take up the mat
ter with H. G. Kaill-he has every
figure filed away in his office.
But figures are not the limit OF MI
KaiIl's crop knowledge. He keeps in
touch with weather conditions and the
effect on Kansas wheat and corn. For
instance-here is what he says about
present conditions in the state:
Il don't believe that Kansas needs
rain lust at this time. AT the end of
the month we ought to have a good
soaking rain. Then again in the MID
die of May. That would just ABOUT
assure the greatest crop in history;
The stiff winds of last Saturday and
Sunday did damage to growing Wheat
in some parts of the state 1t regis.
tered a loss of from to Is per cent
Mr.. Kali thinks Kansas is bound 70
have the greatest wheat crop III heA
history this year.
IT predict that we will have more
than one hundred million bushels, ne
explained. 81 said early in the VIM
ter that if we had At days OF SNOW
and moisture the crop would bring
125.OO0,OOO bushels. Since then we
nave had a bad wind. West OF Sallna
as far as Ellis it is estimated that the
loss will be 5 and 10 per cent We s1
of Ellis it will run as high as 10 per
cent. In other parts of the state on
other railroad lines they had trouble
also. - 4,.,. -,o,,. 10
100000. I see prospects Tor wv
ono 600 bushels of wheat. l belleVe
in II In 1903-the flood year-we
had 100000 bushels yield ana IN
1906 we had 93,O0o,0O0 bushels IN n
1903 the acreage was ISO'oOV less eii'A''
we have this year.
Mr.. Kali gave out several more col
urnns of figures without blinking an
eve but the reporters pencil proKe.
Speaking of a new freight uePot
so,. Toneka. Mr.. kali made no prom
ises though he gave a few hlnts-
sTll admit that you could use new
deDot without any inconvenience 70 70
-voI1r Dopulation and it is possible thaI
II will come some day-possloly pref
Passenger business on the Union
Pacific is good, according to the as.
sistant general passenger and 1relgn5s
AGENTS figures. He said the pao
Weather set back business for two
Tnonths and was a tremendous expense
to the road but traffic %as clearing up
MT. Kali spent considerable time
talking with Topeka business men, ne ae
mas handshake that reminds rope
1tans of the late ]. E. Hurley: genera s.
manager of the Santa Fe in this cltS'
r. is one of those penetrating grips
1he kind that weld the victims hngers
into one fieshy mass But II IS an
aWekening after the fabby, clanny
bandshakes that are dealt out by the
averege every day business man
MT KaiIl is optimistic over Kansas
crons. we'll pleased with company pus-
mess and will always agree that tn i'
Union Pacific is the best railroad ln
the world. If GerSit Fort has any
more ofHcials like the two latest Visit
ors TO Topeka-W. K. Cundin and n
n KaiIl-he would find it prohtaple
10 keep them mixing" with the peo-