The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-08-02

ness men are napplIy scarce IN EN-
l1oria. With very few exceptions,
our merchants have an, inexhaus-
tible supply of enterprise and en-
ergy, and are ready at all times
to take an, active part in every
measure calculated to increase the
growth and prosperity of this COM
munity. They are not easily dis
couraged-in fact, it is nearly i'm
possible for anybody or anything,
to give them the "blues." They
have faith in the city, its present
and its future, and nerve and cap
ital enough to carry themselves |
right along, whether it rains or
shines. 1t is n matter of congrat-
ulation that this is the dominant |
spirit in Emporia. This spirit,
backed up by our combined re-
sources, insures our certain pro-
gress. Emporia is the best built,
best situated, and most enterpris-
ing city of its size west of the Mis-
sissippi. 1t has passed safely
through the Speculative" period
of its history, has settled comfort
ably upon the "hard pan" of its
business operations, and by actual
experiment has demonstrated the
fact that solely upon its local trade
it will grow steadily, rapidly, and
solidly. Commercial street is al
ready the finest looking and. best
built avenue in tho entire State.
Six brick buildings have gone up
and are going up on it this season,
the magnificent Normal School
walls are rising at its head, and
next year still more will be done.
Substantial residences are started
nearly every week. $4,000 dwell
ings are now becoming plenty, and
$4,000 ones are projected by par
ties amply able to indulge in them.
Our advertising stores carry stocks
thatwould docredittoeastern towns
of four times our size, and which
obviate any necessity for the most
fastidious patron, or for southwes-
tern and local retailers, from going
further east to purchase.
Excepting fall wheat-which is
a failure in every State-our crops
this season are enormous. Fruit
is in abundance. The prairies are
dotted everywhere with fat cattle,
getting fatter every day on their
free pasturage. The new south
west, filling so rapidly by immigra-
ton, holds out hands full of green
backs to exchange for all our sur
plus products offields and orchards
while the carniverous East will
soon call for "more beef" and the
cattle men will be jubilant. Manu-
features are seeking us, and are
welcomed with liberal bounty The
new line from Kansas City via OF
tawa will render this the finest rail
road center in the State, and the
best for wholesale trade. Emporia,
and Lyon county-despite a natu-
raj stringency in the supply of
currency this season-never stood
upon n firmer basis or could more
plainly discern their assured pros
perity, than in this year of good
weather and big crops of 1872.
We make this brief review main
ly for the consideration of our
thousands of eastern readers-for
we know that each of the 400 pa
pers we send east every week, is
eagerly perused by five to ten per-
sons, who are looking every day
with interest and hopeful expecta-
ton toward the green and golden
praries that invite all to take up
their march for the bounteous and
thriving west. Our columns are
to them an index of the develop
ment, the enterprise and tho bust
ness of this section.
We hope next week to interest
our eastern as well as our
home readers with an exhibit of
what can be done here in one of our
great natural ndustries-stoCk
raising. This State, and this part
of it, arc so manifestly adapted to
the successful following of this
great pursuit, that we believe the
inducements it offers cannot be
too often explained or too widely
understood. Emporia, and the Sec
ton of which it is the commercial
professional and educational CEN
tire, offer inducements for iInmi-
grafton not surpassed, if equaled,
by any place between the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts.