The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1871-04-07

Texas, and is situated in
the heart of the finest agricultural
lands in Kansas, being peculiarly and
eminently adapted to both grain and
stock raising, because of the inexhaust-
ible fertility of the soil and the genial
mildness of the climate.
/ am assured that the Park City town
company we're fully cognizant of all
the great merits of their location befoiS
they embarked in the town-building
enterprise, and that a petit speculation
was by no IN cans the object in view.
The hight. of their ambition is and has
been to build up flourishitg and beau
tiful city at the point where common
sense, the convenience of the county
and railroad ingress and egress to and
from the valley dictate that the great
city of the Arkansas Valley should be.
For upwards of three months they have
been deliberately advertising the merits
of town and county, and offering to
give away lots to actual settlers who
would improve the same, knowing that
the car of progress and all its glittering
tram was heading here, and that the de-
velopment of both town and county
was but question of time, the solution
of which would be among the first and
grandest events of an early dawning
future. That solution has already COM
menced, and the brightest prospects of
Park City are being reduced to certain
fx- EnAr, ha EV.of fhnx- ho o1uannn6
the theory that unnatural and enormous
imitation of the price of town property
was the ever-present curse of new
counties, the greatest hindrance to the
speedy development of their necessary
resources and their latent wealth. while
it greatly and seriously retarded the
growth of their towns, from the fact
that men of moderate means were driV-
EN- from their limits for the want OF
funds. To insure the absence of this
great bane besetting nearly all new
towns, the Park City town company
have been giving away lots, and will
continue to do so. Persons desiring to
speculate here must do so by purchas-
ing their lots by the erection thereon
of improvements. They get the lots
for the improvements, and the improve.
ments are their own, SO they have all
to gain and nothing to lose. By. the
erection of buildings for their own use
upon the lots that are given them they
help 20 build up the town and greatly
enhance the value of their own and
their neighbors' property when the
same shall be put in market.
Park City is ostensibIy tie junction o
| four great lines of railroads, tO-wit
the AtcIIison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the
Fort Scott, Park City 81 Santa Fe, the
Arkansas Valley & Rocky Mountain
railroad, and branch of the last men
toned road, beginning at Park City
and running south-easterly to the grea
salt plains, and thence TO the Canadar
river. Park City is designated in the
charter of all of the aforesaid railroad
corporations excepting the first men
toned road, which is already located
here. The missing of this town by any
of the roads aforesaid is not, by AM
means, a probable event for reasons
whereof the writer of this communica
ton can say nothing to the contrary
and the sufficiency thereof he deems tC
be all that can be desired. The Arkan
sas Valley and Rocky Mountain rail
road is a mammoth enterprise, anC
when cOnsummated will save to south
ern Kansas millions of dollars in tn,
way of freight. The road begins at .
point near the mouth of the Big Arkan
sas river, in the State of Arkansas, anC
to which said point any vessel can ap
proach that can land at New Orleans
thus saving the trouble and enormou
expense of unloading at New Orleans
and rc-shipping over various lines o
railroads and thousands of unnec
essary miles, and at rates of transpor
tation one-half greater than by water
in order that freight destined for thi
locality may reach their destination
From that direction we will receive al
our imports and at rates reduced TO hal
their present cost. The interests of thi
road are being actively worked up b.
men of means, experience and energy
from Kansas, Nebraska, Missouri, Ar
kansas, Colorado, and several othe
States, and grand and speedy success
of the enterprise is certainty.
The Fort Scott, Park City and SAINT
Fe railroad is equally certain of bein
built, and the magnitude of its import
ance is equalled only by the Arkansa
Valley and Rocky Mountain road, as
gives southern Kansas a direct line G
communication with the east, by cor
meeting at Fort Scott with the Air Lin
from st. Louis to Fort Scott, Kansas
? And such are the actual railroad pros
poets of the town. Five years ag
many of the now largest and rapid
growing cities of Kansas were but littl
villages, and many of those who the
visited them with the view of locatin
there could not be induced to do s,
though lots were offered them free {
!: charge. And since then these town
have grown up like magic as it werr
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ance of elegant cities, and the men VIII
but few years ago would not receiv
, lots there as gift, have returned an
paid goodly prices for the same lot
And assure you that the prospects {
, Park City are even more fiattering tina
r were those of many of the now largei
towns in the State five years ago. 1t
, unquestionably in the most fertile an
beautiful valley in the State. The va
ley at this point is upwards of twent
/ miles wide. The country is traverse
from its northwest to its south-eal
corner by two splendid streams of wa
ter, with an immense body of rich beat
tiful bottom land separating them, an
at the point at which Park City is stir
/ ated, is six miles wide.
know it is customary with man
: people when glancing over advertise
ments of new towns, their railrods, sc
to receive them with many grains of a
lowance, and as a rule it is probabl
correct. But here let me say that hav
: made Sedgwick County my home an
: that | hope to be able in years to com
TO command the respect, if not the ei
TEEN, of my fellow citizens, and that
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