People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1893 — SCHEME TO SAVE MILLIONS. [ARTICLE]

SCHEME TO SAVE MILLIONS.

Proposition to Ship Western Products to Europe Via the Gulf. Topeka, Kan., Aug. 2. —Gov.. Lewelling on Tuesday wrote Gov. Hogg, of Texas, asking him to appoint fifteen commissioners to meet a commission to be appointed from Kansas in Chicago September 11 to> confer with representatives of fereign governments regarding his scheme to turn the shipment, of products from the western states south and through the gulf of Mexico. Gov. Lewelling will write other governors in the west and ask them to cooperate with him in tins movement In his letter to Gov. Hogg he says that if the products of the west were sent to Europe via the Mississippi river, gulf of Mexico and Atlantic ocean, instead of by rail to New York, it would save the farmers of the west millions annually.