White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1866-03-15
WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS:
Thursday, :, March Is, 1856,
big Cities.

C9eye uh01OA A0e bOVVe
Big Cities.
It is amusing to read, in the Atchisop
and Lawrence papers. the Qualifications Of
their respective towns, and the daily
obituaries they write for Leavenworfh.
Lawrence has railroad running past her,
half mile on the opposite side of the
river, while Atchison is similarly favored
-or, rather. there is spur or branch Of
. road approaching the opposite side Of the
river, where lrhin Of cars was never
known to come front foremost, but al
ways shove in hind end first. Both places
have magnificent railroads in contempls
tion. Bat in this respect. they have no
grester advantages than any other towo
in the STATE. for there is not one but has
magnificent system Of railroads planned
out. But We hazard the prediction that
Lawrence and Atchison combinsd will
never see the day when they can number
over half the population Of Leavenwortb.
except 10 fictitious figures placed on pa.
per by the census-takers. for the gratifica.
tion Of the vanity Of the people.
Lawrence is 9 live town, and will sl
ways comma and handsome trade; but as
soon as certain railroads are completed
not paper enterprises, but roads actually
under wsy-Atchison will be about the
deadest town out of doors. Before the
4.h Of July. Lesvenworth will have di.
rect railroad communication, at Lawrence
and Wysndotte, with the western part Of
the State and with St. Louie; and before
the 6rst of next January. the Cameron
Road will be built, placing Lsavenworth
in closer connection with Chicago and
the East than Atchison now is. By the
4th Of July. the Union Pacific Road
will be completed to Manhattan. and will
be finished to the junction with the main
trunk, years before the mythical Atchisou
and Pixies Peak Road, which, we are
told, is already graded for twenty miles
west. but is lost sight of in eight miles.
Atchison and Lawrence are clarifying
over the contemplated abandonment o.
the military post of Fort Leavenworth
and the transfer of it's business to ForI
Riley. The same reason which induces
it's removal there. (the completion of tht
Railroad. } will deprive Atcbison Of It,
very life - the freightiDg business
Frsigbtsrs are already preparing to shir
their goods on the railroad. as far ss
completed. to be wsgoned thence; th'
Dispatch Company are doing the same
and it will not be long before the Over
land Mail follows suit. The Railroad
west from Omaha is pushing rapidly
westward, and will be completed to th'
msin trunk years before the Atchisor
and Pixies Peak Road. The Denver
and Santa Fe trade with st. Louis viii
60 by way Of Kansas City; with Chics
20 and the East, the trade from Santt
Fe and Western and South Westerr
Kansas will 60 BY way of Leavenwortf
and Cameron; while the Western ani
California trade with Chicago will 60 BY
way Of Omaha and through Iowa. Will
the Atchisou and Pixies Peak Road 6n
ished. the only outlet to the East is BY
backing train Of cars rear foremost NJ
to the river opposite Atchison. and ther
taking it by round about route, for .
longer distance than If it had been sem
by some other Road. What, then, viii
Atcbison depend upon for support +? Shs
has not the back country to depend upon
and she has done her best to win the en-
nifty of Northern Kansas. whose trad.
will not help her. 1t will be seen. tbs
just to please Atchison. We have not men
toned the Northern Kansas Road. Ever
admitting that it will never be built
Atchison will be dead enough for al
practical purposes; but with that road
built, she would be desder than any MS.
for; for the direct Eastern route from
California would be over that road.
All things considered, we fail to SET
how Atchison can go to Lesvenworth's
funeral for yet few months. In fact,
she has already run herself go deeply into
debt, to maintain her temporary advan-
tsges, that her best business houses will
not rent for enough to pay the taxes or
them; and when her strong hold, The
freigbting business. departs, - it speedily
must, business men would not accept hsl
city property ss gik, and sgree to pay
the taxes.
" LAND FOR SALE.-A quarter section o
land. near Roy's Creek. about four miles
Osst nf White Ola.I 2. .a..~1 f., al