The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1872-07-26
Correspondence of the EAGLE
FROM DOWN THE COUNTRY

CLEAR WATER, July %, 1872.
Mr.. EDITOR: We're you ever cOun-
try correspondent? If SO, you can
sympathize with me when you look
back at those days and remember how
you racked your brains and scratched
the top of your scull till the hair came
out, in trying to find a subject to write
upon; where everything is about the
same to-day as it was Yesterday, and
the day before, and week before that.
/ Our crops, under the favorable
growing weather, have every prospect
Of an enormous yield /; superior in ap-
pearancc, we have been told, to many
Ito even that of your far-famed val
ley. Hedges, on many of our farms,
are beginning to assume the appear
ance of fences; in height they are al
ready sO-only needing the strength
given by growth and age. Many of
our farmers have broken ground, var
rying from four to five inches, for the
purpose of setting out orchards this
fall and next spring. The corn crop
will be enormous; in some fields stalks
fourteen and fifteen feet in height can
be seen, upon which wcll-filled ears
were growing to the height of ten feet.
The pOtatOe crop will also be good,
Notwithstanding the great plaques of
flies, caterpillers, gophers and molcs,
which have fallen upon and under
them. The wild plum on the river
banks have been abundant, but are
now pretty well gathered by natives
and strangers from the "Queen City,"
and these, we presume, were happy TO
to escape for few days from her
crowded and muddy streets.
Now. Mr.. Editor, since we have said
something about our home prosperity
about the favorable season for farm
ing-let us turu for moment to our
commerce, especially that class Of
commerce which has naturally sprung
up on account of the locating of so
many Texas cattle in our vicinity. and
when we say vicinity we mean within
a radius of twenty-five miles, for many
of those gentlemen holding stock
within that circle drive their wagons.
we believe, that distance to honor us
with their trade; then, if VIC take
proper view of all these connecting
links in business relating to our gen
eral prosperity, we cannot fail to see
how they connect all our interests with
the interests of the mother city: her
interests are our interests, and her
prosperity, though in 4 less degree, is
also our prosperity; when we guard
our own, we cherish and advance all
her material interests.
The cattle trade to which we refer
is about to assume other aspects: in
stead of grazing, selling and shipping
begin to be the order of the dav. and
give new life and new vigor to all in
terested. We cannot fail to see that
the success of that trade for the next
three or four months is closely con-
nccted with all our local trade and COM
mcrcial interests. ii is now even more
than in early summer, desirable to
foster that trade in connection with
Wichita. Efforts are being made in
several quarters to carry off, by pre-
senting false attractions. no incOnsider-
able portion Of that trade, for which
she has spent her means literally.
While opposition lay mainly between
your city and Ellsworth, the season
favored the former. Recently the en-
tension of the A, T. 4 5. F. L.. II. to
Raymond and Big Bend creates new
rivalship. and one from which Wichita
need expect no mercy. as ii is but ma
tural that that road will open new
shipping points wherever opportunity
offers. Still we think ii both fair and
reasonable that the A., T. 4 s. F. RR
should remain at least neutral in refer
ence to her own shipping poil Is, al
lowing. in all cases. the Texans. who
are undoubtedly the best Judges. 10
decide for themselves from which
point to ship. ID.