The Smoky Hill and Republican union. [volume] (Junction City, Kan.) 1861-1864, 1862-12-06
A DUTY OF LEAvENwoRrH MKN.


DUTY OF LEAvENWORTH MKN.
There is no gainsaying the fact that at this
time Leavenworth city is the grand commercial
emporium of Kansas. How long she will re.
tain that position depends much on the energy
aud activity Of her business men. They have
doLe much to place Leavenworth in the business
position that she now occupies, but much more
remains to be done than has already been
accomplished to have her retain that position
1t is well known that one of the great causes
Of Leavenworth being in the pre- eminent posi-
tion she Eow occupies, is the utter prostration
of her rivals, St. Joseph and Kansas City, by
the desolating effects Of the civil war now raging
Bat this drawback On their prosperity cannot
last foreyer-this war will end. 1t may end in
six months it may not for FIVE years, but it
will surely have an end, And then, unless
Leavenworth has done her duty, these places
will again be rivals, and as formidable ones as
ever.
There are many methods of attracting business
from consuming point to q producing point
One Of these ways, and o most promine one,
too. is by good and direct roads. And this is
one of the duties of Lesvenworth, and one of
her safeguards in the future, to establish good
and direct roads to all those points from whence
she derives her business.
The Santa Fe trade for years has gone to
Kansas City, until within the past year. during
which it has been gradually centsring at Leav-
enworth. 1t is useless for us to give statistics
to show the magnitude Of that trade those to
whom we address ourselves, the business men
of Leavenworth, know that 1t is enormous
How is Leavenworth to retain the immense
trade thus thrown to her doors b. the fortune
Of war! 1t is simply by establishing Q good
and direct road to Santa Fe. We propose to
show where this road should be. The trains
from Santa Fe, as q general thing, now travel
the old Santa Fe Road, o road renowned for
having been established in the " Long Ago."
and being most scantily supplied with VOC d aud
water The point where they now leave this
road for Leavenworth is about fifty miles from
that place, ana the same distance from Kansas
City, and herein lies the danger to the former
city. Let peace once more smile upon US, and
Kansas City will begin to have . glimmer of
that bright prosperity which once attended her,
and would, no doubt, soon be able to offer Is
good bargains as her rival to these Santa Fe
traders, and with the same distance to travel,
what will hinder them from returning to old
associations: Nothing, unless they are put
upon q road from which there is not the came
facility for turning of. The policy Of Lesveu-
worth, then, should be to place this travel on
a route from whence it could not be easily at.
tracted to any other point, and this We believe
can be done.
From Leavenworth to Fort Larned the Kansas
Stage Company is now running line Of stages.
via the Smoky Hill, in competition with . line
on the old road. The difference in the running
time Of these two lines will 60 far towards
showing the relative nearness Of the two routes.
Both stages leaving Fort Larned at the same
hour, the one by the Smoky Hill road arrives
at Leavenworth ONE DAT II ADvAScE. This is
vast difference on road only about $50 miles
long, and can only be accounted for by the fact
of its being so much shorter than the other.
And it is on this road that the Santa Fe trains
should be induced to travel. Fer, with the
advantages which it possesses of being nearer
to Leavenworth from Fort Larned by many
niles than by any other route, Of being abund-
antly supplied with wood, water and grass, the
road running for the most part through the
fertile valley Of the Smoky Hill. and being
peopled the whole distance of this valley by
enterprising settlers, it has this advantage, that
after the traveller is once on it, at NO point is
he as near Kansas City ss he is Leavenworth.
and consequently viii not be easily induced
to turn from his course to the latter city.
Once travelled always travelled is the motto Of
the Smoky Hill route, and no person after hav-
ing once passed over it. VIII take any other in
preference. taf
Hon. Josiah Kellogg, one Of the Representa-
tives elect from Leavenworth County, 10 rromi-
nently named for the next Speaker of the House.
The Bulletin and Conservative speak Of him -
being eminently qualified in every respeek
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