The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1870-12-02
Correspondence OF the Emporia News.l
NOTES FROM ELDORADO-SPREAD
THE TRUTH.

and "bilin" over. We havn't contribu-
ted anything pertaining to our growth,
present and future prosperity for your
paper, for 10! these many days /; but we
have, nevertheless, been constant
reader all the while, since "Brix," your
gLdss-eyed correspondent, came down
here and stirred up reading people gem
orally, looking quietly On as the able
corps of correspondents of your paper
climbed to the last round of the ladder
of fame as literary contributors of the
nineteenth century, then retired with
brows wreathed with rich and.oh how
gorgeous laurels, and gave place to q
new, and, perhaps, less foggy, army of
quill drivers, coming forward armed
with goose wing behind each ear, and
in each hand to scrath and fan for hon.
or, fame and renown. Such is the fate
of ''SoRREL TOP" from Eldorado. A
new writer from this place is just born,
and we have seen a few strokes from
his. wizard pen. His name is Mars
the god Of car.
Eldorado is still growing, new houses
looming up, giving Traditional beauty
and strength and for elegance and COM
pactness they can not be surpassed. In
their shining coat of white, they pre-
sent a picturesque appearance perfectly
enchanting to the optics, enticing to the
soul, and as ones eye scans the ho-
rizon, taking in the surrounding beau
| tiful landscape, valley and table land,
he is prone to imagine himself in some
fairy haunt, hidden in among gentle
swells of uplands, that hover around
and protect it from the rude blast of
Boreas.
Eldorado is situated on the west side
| of the Walnut river, and Tor beauty of
location and natural advantages cannot
be surpassed. But little can be said,
dear NEWS, in so small a space as your
paper can afford, of this substantial,
compactIy built town,-her institution
of learning, her court house, and other
public buildings, her hotels, her wide
streets, palatial residences, extensive
water power, and all the varied fea-
lures that combine to make up pros |
porous and thrifty town of six hundred
good, growing foundation, and her
citizens are liberal, generous, hospita- |
BILE, social, intelligent, big-hearted, and
need only the energy and enterprise of
more Emporiaites and Topekaites diff |
fused amongst them, to place this town |
in equal rank among the great cities of
Kansas. With the abundance and va |
riety of all the useful minerals in their |
purest forms of fuel, of good quality, |
at a reasonable price of timber, in great |
variety; of stone, in quality and guam
tity, that cannot be surpassed by any in |
the State of the adaptability of the soil |
and climate of our State to produce |
wool, and with the unlimited capacity |
of this great agricultural region sur
rounding our embryo city to supply all |
kinds of provisions at low figures, for |
the support of dense population
Eldorado is destined to become second |
to no city in all southern Kansas.
Good, pure water can be obtained |
upon the town site at an average depth |
of % feet. Building stone, the best |
quality, and in exhaustible quantity |
within half mile from the town. There |
are in close proximity to the town, |
dozen or more everlasting springs, two |
of which affords ample water-power to |
run the largest ocer-shot wheel ever
manufactured.
Our town is just little more than |
year old, and now it contains over six |
hundred living souls, who find lodg- |
ment in two hundred and twenty-five |
houses. About fifty houses are now
being built, and during the winter will |
doubtless rear up in the neighborhood |
of nearly hundred more. The town |
company are offering good inducements, |
(and will for the next thirty days,) to |
all who desire to locate among us. To- |
day is the day of speculation-now is |
your time to invest. Come one, come |
all, or you are hereafter eternally bust
ed.
We have two we'll conducted hotels, |
three steam mills, and a thirty thous-
and dollar grist mill now in the process
of erection, two livery stables, dozen
general dry good stores, four grocery
three drug stores, two hardware stores,
one harness shop, three shoe shops, four
blacksmith shops, two boarding houses,
one printing Office, two meat markets,
etc.
Next spring we expect to see one
hundred or more residences go up, be-
sides a large bank and twenty-five to
thirty business houses. We expect, al
so to issue a second paper from this
town about the first of May next, pro-
vided, that we receive the promised
support necessary to insure it success
aud paper worthy of the attention of
the people.
There are four religious organiza-
tons at this place, viz: Presbyterian,
Methodist, Baptist and Christian. The
Presbyterians, Methodist and Baptists
expect building churches in the spring.
We would be very glad to see Chris
tian minister here at the head of the
organization, and ali would willingly
throw in our mite to assist in erecting
church. Who will come first? If
Brother Walker visits Emporia this
winter, send him down.
Our railroad prospects are brilliant
and cheering, and the completion of the
construction of the st. Louis and Fort
Scott road to this point, will drain one
of the richest portions of Kansas, and
accommodate a great amount of travel
and traffic, which is now carried on by
stages and hundreds of wagons, and
which will make this a paying road.
This road will probably be completed
to Eldorado during 1871. The day is
not far distant when a second road viii
be completed to this point, bringing US
in contact with the now great unknown
of the world. We hail the day with
joy when we shall be bound to our sis
ter city, Emporia, by these multiplying
iron arteries of commerce, which shall
snake the wilderness to blossom as the
rose" A. G. o. f.
ELDoRADo, Nov. 2Sth, 1870.
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