The Southwestern Grain and Flour Journal from Wichita, Kansas • 20

THE SOUTHWESTERN GRAIN AND FLOUR JOURNAL. AMERICAN WAREHOUSE COMPANY ENTERTAINS. kansas basing points, such as Fort Smith, Little Rock, Arkansas, and Membhis, Tenn. The rate from southern Kansas points to Little Rock and Memphis, Tenn. The rate from south-while from Renfrow, Oklahoma, just across the state line the rate to the same points is only 18 y2 cents, a discrimination in favor of the Oklahoma millers of seven cents.

On the local rates to Oklahoma the rate to Purcell, Oklahoma from Wichita, a distance of 205 miles, is 15 2 cents while the same milage in Oklahoma, under the same competitive- conditions, takes only a rate of ip.7c. The discrimination complained of grew out of an agreement between the corporation commission, attorney general and governor of Oklahoma, and On Thursday evening, July 30th, the American Warehouse Co. gave a barn dance at their warehouse at Amwaco, to 3,000 guests from Wichita and surrounding towns. The company provided a special train over the Santa Fe for the conveyance of their guests to and from the dance and in every way possible provided for the comfort and entertainment of their guests. Ever since the company remodeled these immense warehouses they have wanted to give an entertainment to show the people of Wichita what an enormous plant they had but until last month there never was a time when the warehouse was empty enough to 18 ent minimum makes the proposed advance unjust; 4.

The great preponderance of state laws in your territory are for 24,000 lbs. and these minimums should be advanced to your present basis before a change is contemplated; 5. The eastern and western situations are widely different in the character, financial ability, and training of the buyers of the two sectios, and in the wide difference in freight rates within the official and western classification territories. We have so educated the flour miller of this country that an estimate of 10 per cent horizontal increase in the per car loading is conservative. In times of car shortage we are loading 10 cars to their capacity where we formerly loaded one.

Our export business all goes at the car capacity. We do not use the minimum carload on one-tenth of our shipments and it is used on this one-tenth only when absolute necessity requires. You have at the present time ample equipment, and with the efforts which are being made all along the line to a greater conservation of this equipment in times of shortage, without a question of doubt, you will continue to have ample equipment for the handling of your business. We cannot believe, therefore, all things considered, that the proposed advance is justified by your necessities. It is most seriously antagonistic to our best interests, and, considering the temper of the people, just now being gradually quieted to normal, these advances, it would seem, from every standpoint to be most impolitic.

We pray you, therefore, gentlemen, that you will deny your petitioner, and that the minimum on the commodities enumerated may be maintained on the present basis. Very respectfully, A. L. GOETZMANN, Secy. Where American Warehouse Co.

Entertained. the railway trallic officials, at a meeting in Kansas City, whereby the roads, in consideration of the dismal of all cases then pending against the roads on freight rate matters, agreed to reduce the rates from Oklahoma common points to Arkansas basing points. Prior to this rule of the roads, Kansas milling points enjoyed a rate comparable to that of Oklahoma points, with mill-in transit privileges, but since the reduction the Kansas millers have been virtually shut out of their former markets in Oklahoma and Arkansas. permit of an entertainment on this lavish scale. This company own five large warehouses S0x250, having a capacity of one thousand cars of broom corn, the largest exclusive broom corn warehouses in the country.

Resides its warehouses this- company own a mile and one-half of railroad trackage. The American Warehouse Co. was organized in 1904 to do a general brokerage and commission business in broom corn. They buy broom corn all over the southwest, principally in Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, and Xew Mexico, the chief broom corn states. II.

Iv. Rindslcy, the president of the company, was formerly in the broom corn business at Sterling, Kansas. FOOD TRUST NOW HAS ALL. -The carlot receipts of grain and hay in Kansas City in July each year since 1897 are here shown: Wheat Corn Oats Rye Flax Hay The Atchison Oatmeal and Cereal Company of Atchison, Kansas, has sold its mill to the Battle Creek Food Co. of Battle Creek, Michigan.

This mill was the only mill in the west outside the trust. KANSAS MILLERS ASK RELIEF. The Southern Kansas Millers Club, through its attorney, A. E. Helm, is preparing a petition to file with the Interstate Commerce Commission appealing for relief against discrimatory rates on grain from Kansas milling centers in favor of Oklahoma points.

Under the present rates, Oklahoma points have from four to six cents the advantage over Kansas shippers to Ar Twenty-eight new banks have started in Kansas since the first of the year, nearly all of which have been in the past few months. Every new bank started is a help in the marketing of Kansas great grain crop, and an added indication of the soundness of her financial standing..