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The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1873-04-03
Correspondence Of the EAGLE.
SEDGWICK COUNTY.
GRANT TOWNSHIP. March %

URANT low NSHIf, MdTCH -.
EDITOR EAGLE: As have heard of
no person having contributed anything
to your paper from this section of the
country. and rs deem this part highly
worthy of note. I thought would con-
tribute something myself
We are distance of about eleven
miles north of Wichita. and seven
miles from Sedgwick. When | first
made my advent into this country,
in June, 1871, the government sections
did not average one house to the Sec
ton, now they average from four to
FIVE and is still rapidly improving.
The railroad sections are now in mar
ket and are being bought at five and q
half dollars per acre. 1t is not being
bought by land spectators, such Is
generally manopolize new country,
but by energetic farmers that will in
few years make Young Sedgwick
county second TO no other county in
the state of Kansas. Mr.. john Me-
Crocking bought a railroad section
last fall and has now thenty acres in
fruit of all kinds aud is still planting
trees aud shrubbery When we have
such go-a-hed men as Mr.. McCroeking.
Thos. Master,on, Geo. Ayers, and
others. the country cannot but thrive.
We have four school house. within
three miles of Us We however have
not one in our school district. but have
voted bonds for the purpose Of build
ing. and will have one completed by
the first Of June next. The farmers of
this vicinity are testing wheat raising
this wear. almost all are sowing. The
beautiful prairie Is beginning TO put on
its robe Of green again. Stock viii soon
live on the range We held our town
ship caucus on the - and nominated
Mr.. Jacobs for assessor, John Thomson.
treasurer: Oliver Rulison, clerk. More
anon. NJ I. HEAD.
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Correspondence u the Easts
BRIDGE wITHOUTBOND

EprroR EAGLE: The Santa Fe
bridge is now finished over the big
slough ON the county road between
Wichita and Cowskin Grove. in town
ship q. range west, between sections
10 and Is. and now affords a. good
crossing Tor the travelling community
~ Moses furnished the children Of
Israel through the Red sea. said bridge
was built by the united efforts OF few
individuals owning real estate along
the line. For strength and beauty Of
architectural design iiexeels anything
Of the kind on the slough. e.. "
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From the above statement. which is
official, some idea of the immense flow
of emigration to this country may be
gathered. The rapidity with which
these valuable lands are being taken
up is unparalleled, yet there is plenty
of the choicest left.
BANKS AND BANKING.
The business of Wichita maintains
three banks, ono national, one a joint
stock and savings. and one a private
bank of loan and deposit. The latter,
controlled by w. c. Woodman & Son,
is the oldest in the valley and has the
confidence Of our business men. The
business of the bank during the year
amounts to, in round figures, $l75,0
The Wichita Savings bank, organized
only last August, is yet in its infancy,
but imbibing the spirit Of the town
has had a growth truly wonderful.
The first act of its directors was to
expend $1,000 in building upon one
of the principal corners in town. The
legitimate business of the bank has
been steadily on the increase since the
start, and during October and Novem-
Der, while the Texas trade was here,
the boys found more than their hands
full. A dividend Of ten per cent. on
their capital stock Of $4,000 was de-
clarcd in January, and the prospects
are that it will pay much better this
year. Mr.. Kohn, the vice president,
says if he can't make forty per cent.
for the stock he don't know himself,
and people here usually think he does.
The bank has never had to re-discount
dollar, and ever stands ready to ac-
commOdate their customers and the
public in every safe way.
The First National has been organ
ganized something over year. Ac-
cording to the cOmptroler's report for
1872 it has been doing the heaviest
banking business of any national bank
in the state. The cash business for
six months, as furnished us by it's
cashier, amounted to $3.787,9ll Is
average per month $63l,3l 60. The
deposits received for the same time
were $2,2l7,O4S Al, or an average of
1865, sos O6 per month. These figures
will give business men Of other locali-
titles an adequate idea of the immense
business done by the city of Wichita.
LUMBER.
Timber is a scarce article in this
country and of consequence the lum-
Der trade is not only large now, but
must remain so for years to come. We
were unable to get the exact figures of
the five lumber yards. Kullak, Mills
& Stem sold $4,000 worth of lumber
during the year. G. +. Pierce sold
253 car loads, Shellabarger & Leidigh
255 car loads, Schweiter & Davidson
s. car loads, and Mcclure & Co. 23O
car loads from June LIST, 1871. to date.
The freight paid by the latter firm
alone foots up $29,632.
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Four men, members Of an engineer
corps, were murdered BY Indians on
the Cimmaron river, in the Indian ter
ritory, OH the 10Th Of last month. One
of the parties was Z. H. Deming, son
of 4. y. Demiug, Of Arkamsas City.
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INDUSTRIES.

Although our city, from force Of
circumstances, is almost purely COM
mercial, yet when we come to aggre-
gate the capital and number of the
industries Of our town, we hatter our
selves that the showing is not SO bad
1t should be the aim, as it is the duty,
Of every citizen to patronize home
manufactures aud home industries of
every description. In our ability to
furnish any and every item that will be
wanted by the producing classes of
this valley lies the secret of much of
our importance and wealth in the flu
ture. In the event of the success of
the castor bean and cotton-and who
doubts either-herc we must have the
cotton factories and oil mills. Here
must be put up and manufactured the
raw leaf tobacco into cigars, 'plug"
and ''fine-cut." And when the time
comes, the manufactured article and
not the raw material is what should
be exported. In the subjoined table
we have rather under-cstimated the
amount Of money employed in each
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Shall the Arkansas Valley with
Wichita as it's Metropolis be the
Eldorado of the West2

This question is important not only
to those who are already here, but
equally SO to those who expect to come.
From all the states people are watch
ing for the solution of this problem,
and enterprising men are dropping in
here and making personal and practi-
cal examination, investing their money
and trumpeting our well-merited fame
among their friends at home Already
the nom de plume Of the Chicago Of the
West has attached itself to Wichita.
for he unparalleled rapidity with
which she has grown increased
and assumed the commercial mag
nitude of first-class city. If the
growth of Chicago was wonderful, the
growth Of Wichita has been magical.
Three years ago she was not even a
village, now a city with churches,
schools, banks, stores, hotels, rail-
Dads, etc, etc. with every internal re-
source necessary for continued and
rapid external growth. In a radiOus
Of twenty miles in any direction, from
this as a central point, can be found
any element that practical agriculture
lists can wish for to insure rich returns
for all their labor.
Nature has been prOfuse here in her
blessings soil, water and climate are
not only good, but very good. Our only
want is people. more people. We want
houses built. and farms made on every
l60 acres of land in this valley. We
want the people, and the people want
to come. A glance in any direction
non Rroves this. Two years ago this
valley was a widespread waste of va
cant land.
And the traveller DER the lea
Scarce ever q house could see.
Look now where you may the houses
near and the curling smoke in the
distance prove that have and are still
coming.
But the solution Of the proposition
i'm our caption is not all in the hands
of the coming emigrants. We ourselves
have very important part to play in
it. We must make haste to go slowly
in the management of our city and
county internal improvements-care-
fully avoiding all inflated ideas and
extravagant expenditures of our pub
lie funds, and to be cautious about is
suing county or city bonds. Yet with
all we want a healthy policy cOmmensu-
rate with our numerical forces and our
financial ability. Almost all north
western states have been tax-riddcn
for years. This, more than anything
else, is forcing people to look for homes
where this burden will be lighter. If
we are not careful and judicious in
our public policy we may make
it seem to emgrants that to come
here will be moving out Of the frying
pan into the fire. A blunder now in
this direction will be fatal to our hopes
of success. 1t will lock the wheels of
emigration and turn the teams into
other sections.
Let us, i'm view of these facts. be pru-
dent and economical, and five years
hence Wichita will out-ChicagO Chica-
go itself, and this valley will be the
acknowledged Eldorado of all the
great west.
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On Friday. April n, A. ID. 1873, in front Of the
Southern Hotel, ] will sell at public auction the
following baggage. Terms Of sale cash, the pro-
ceeds TO be applied 10 original owners credit,
they having dccamped without pay ing thrir bills
One large zinc trunk and contents, marked j.
8 Wallace
One large zinc trunk and contents, marked }.
n Royce
One travelling bag, etc. , marked Mate WASH
burn
One lot dentists instruments, marked r. T.
Camp.
One bundle plasterer's tools, no marks.
One vaii-e, y T.. Lutz.
5i-I-S5 80 l.. ID. GUM, Prop
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rRorEssroxs

may not represent much capital out
side Of t'brains," yet they are indis-
pensabIe to the wcll-bciug Of . live
city. No town in the state, or in the
west. can boast q greater amount of
real integrity and ability than can be
found among the professional corps of
Wichita:
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Inc OrluSe, stage company, Srlst
mill, etc, are, of course, nothing more
than stock companies, made up of our
own citizens.
NEWSPAPERS.
The combined circulation Of the two
newspapers published in Wichita
reaches now nearly two thousand five
hundred copies weekly, which papers,
in mechanical execution, are not sur
passed by any journals in the state.
Az to the matter contained in them
and the enterprise shown by both, the
readers Of each must themselves be the
judges. 1t costs about $l60 cash out
lay per week to get them out, which.
while burt per cent. Of it is paid by
the citizens, the whole amount is ex-
pended in the city, minus the cost of
the raw material. That they are do
ing a great work for the advancement
and development Of this country none
will deny who will give the matter a
single lnOIncnt 1ttcEllOn.
HOTELS AND RESTAURANTS.
Wichita being the headquarters for
a vast region lying south and south
west, and the only point at which
railroad can be reached by such terri
tory and large portion Of the Indian
territory, and the fact of it's being the
great mart for Texas cattle. to
which large numbers Of buyers rem
devious, our hotel and restaurant ac-
commodations arc very extensive.
The arrivals at the Southern, Douglas
Avenue and Empire houses for the
nine months ending April LIST, accord
ing to their registers, is l9, 40 persons.
The following table will show the
amount Of capital invested in Wichita
hotels, boarding houses and restau-
rants, and the number Of each:
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CORPORATIONS,

CORPORATIONS,
soullcss or otherwise, come with a
more advanced state of affairs and do
not as q rule flourish in new settle
ments. Outside Of the Wichita and
Southwestern railroad company We
have no proper private corporate
power, but we give the following
schedule to show a class Of property
and consequent investment not shown
In my other Of our tablca:
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Notice.,

L. :. LAND OvvfcK.
Wichita, Kansas, March ID, 1873. J
Complaint having been entered nj This Office BY
" II kirkpatrick against LorenxoJ Truss~Ii Tor
abandoning his Homestead entry No. 252, dated
March 18th, l-i2, upon The sc utheast quar-
ter Of section 2, township ~ south range
west, In sedgwick county. kaHsa-, with = view
to the cancellation Of said entry, the SAID parties
are her,by summoned 10 appear st this Office on
the ID day OF May, 1s.s, NJ 10 O'Clock .
III to respond and furnish testimony concerning
said alleged abandonment.
w ; JENKINS, Register.
j C. REUFIELD Receiver Jo-u
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Roll Mmr,lock. Of Wichita. is in the
city. and 10 warmly greeted by many
old friends. During the senatorial alb
scnce Of the editor Of the EAGLE
r. p. has had charge Of that paper. and
has performed his duties to the entire
satisfaction of the readers and patrons
ofthe EAGLE.-Emporia Ne~s.
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Grand total Of lI6 6oIidIags Tor The year Sl.0 No
A. has been heretofore stated, we
foand it impossible to get all the
buildfnes, ~ from thirty TO fifty men
put up BY dsys labor. and 1t 10 safe to
estimate that not less than 200 build
ings were erected during the year, at
% aggregate cost Of Goo, 900.
MERCANTILE AND FINANCIAL.
or the kinds Of business aud the cap
iisl employed, the following table will
very correctly show. 1t must be re-
membered that figures are only In
tended to represent the average stock
earisd By each kind Of business In the
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Making a grand total Of nine hundred
and twenty-seven thousand dollars of
capital employed in conducting the
business Of a city lacking yet ten days
of being three wears old.
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q. 8. LAND OFFICE.

The .. S. land Office for the Arkan-
sas district is located at Wichita-W.
S. Jenkins, register; ]. C. Redfield,
receiver. Below we give o summary
statement of business at the z. s. land
Office, Wichita, Kansas, for the year
ending December 81, 1872:
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REAL ESTATE.

In addition to the different branches
enumerated above, which cannos prob
ably be properly clsssed as either in
dustrics or traffic, are those Of real
estate agencies and loaners Of money
upon real estate securities. In new
country like this both are very irnpor-
tamt auxiliaries 10 our business. Messrs.
Steele and Levy, whose large descrip-
tive list was unavoidably crowded out
this week, are doing al immense bust.
ness in their line. They show proper.
~, bay and sell real estate for resi-.
dents and non-residents, pay taxes.
make loans, etc. The McClees broth
ere, whose advertisement viii! be found
elsewh here, are in the same line Of bus.
mess. In addition to these there 10
the real estate firm Of Martin, Phillip
& Co. Some six other gentlemen Of
means have Offices here and loan mon
ey on real estate security. The bust
ness Of both We put under the head of
MIscKLLAHEoUs.
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aggregate, and do no. include the

To show the amount Of sales, and
that for the capital invested the real
business 10 large, the capital being
turned several times in the course Of .
year, we have obtained the amount Of
annual sales made by two or three of
our leading advertisers in the different
branches Of trade, which are herewith
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FRED DALEY,
Contractor In
Moving and Raising Buildings!
Notice,

All Orders promptly attended to. Once At
Daley House, corner FIRST and Water ste 36-Sns
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Strayed.

From the undersigned, on south fork Of the N~n-
nescHh, On the 10Th day of March. ISIS. one bay
mare. eight years old, about hfterD hands high,
bi ok name and tail. blind IN iefi eye, and at
time OF escape had u bride hesd--tsii with
about twenty dve feet of thTe. quarter inch rope
Any person giving Information where the mare
may be found will be suitably rewarded by writ
ing to the undersigned q STANLEY,
lie Douglas, Butler county, has
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Proposals..

Proposals.
Sealed proposals will be received ., the 81
Louis hardware store until the 10th day Of April,
ls.s for the building Of school house in school
distric; No s., township y, west. according
To spec fratton- iB that store
The committee reserves the right 20 reject any
all bids. NJ MEAD,
% A LYON.
5i-a-sIss u YORK
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The bridge, stage company, grist
mill, ETC., are, of course, nothing more
than stock companies, made up of our
own citizens.
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Correspondence II the Eagle.
FROM OXFORD.
OXFORD, March u, 1873.

Our rash faults
Make trivial price Of serious things we have,
Not knowing them till we know their grave:
OF. our displeasures, to our elves unjust,
Destroy our friends, and effer weep their dust;
Our own love. waking, cries to see what done,
While shameful hate sleeps ont the afternoon
Ala Well that ends we'll -Skaka
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gin. There ought to have been ten
thousand acres planted this year in
those counties. besides all the corn, etc.
needed for home consumption. which
would bring in at least half million
dollars net over all expense Of raising
and marketing. When we get to rails
ing something worth freighting rail-
roads will come fast enough without
the farmers mortgaging their farms
with railroad bonds that will crush
them into the dust. II looks now as
though our Young aud promising coun-
~ will go slow on voting heavy bonds
for any purpose. unless it lie in mod
Grafton for bridges and school houses,
which are the most immediate necessi-
ties. The road 10 bondage so fashion
able in some sections is down grade
Of thousand feet to the mile. and UNI
less the people put on the brakes and
run with care they will reach financial
ruin before they know it. The argu-
menf mainly used TO farmers is. that
We must have an outlet for our pro-
ducc in order to get prices. Nonsense!
Everything . farmer here has to sell
brings now, aud will for the next three
or four years. . higher p ice than at any
point on any railroad line between this
aud 81 I.ouis or Chicavo- What re
want is to keep out Of debt, keep to
work, improve our lands, and raise
something to buy money with, and peo-
pie, and money, aud railroads viii
come in fast enough Of themselves.
Pile mp three or four hundred thousand
dollars bonded Indebtedness against
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From Mvrcanfeid ts Dixon, 90 miles and
back. once = week.
Leave Morran6eld saturday at . m;
Arrive at Dixon by IL m;
Leave Dixon Saturday at ! p m;
Arrive at Aorganieid by m.
From Morganheld TO Marion, 80 miles and
back once week.
Leave Morganfield Wednesday at a N.
Arrive at Marion by pm
Leave Marion Thursday at a m;
Arrive at Morgxnfeld by p M
Prom Moscow, by Clinton and Spring Hill.
10 Milburn, Is miles and back, once
week.
Leave Moscow Saturday at 8 m;
Arrive at Milburn by II IN;
Leave Milburn Saturday AZ ! p m;
Arrive At Moscow by m.
From Princeton. by ParkersvilIe In o. },
to Cadiz "a miles aud back, once week.
Leave Princeton Friday At m;
Arrive at Cadiz by pm;
Leave CadiL Saturday n a m;
Arrive At Princeton by , p N;
From Princeton by Simm's Store IN. }.
and wailonia. TO Mont gomery. 70 miles
aud back once a week.
Leave Princeton Saturday at ! IN;
Arrive at Montgomery by p m;
Leave Montgomery Saturday at IN;
arrive at princeton by II m.
From Snithiand. by Salem, Marion, and
Fredonia, to Princeton, As miles aud
back. once week.
Leave Smiihland Wednesday at m
Arrive AT Princeton hext day by IL N
Leave Princeton Thursday ut p IN;
Arrive IT Snithland next day by N.
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Negl,hori,nnA Ne.xs.

TIE Columbus Dispatch has an arr
tice on Columbus inauces. aud advo
Gates the funding Of the City debt. II
cites from Mayor Ty report, and
draws the comparison between lick
man paper 81 par aud IN demand and
Columbus paper at 90 per cent dis
iiscoue', aud argues that il Is the
difference between credit and cash
rhe Dispatch is right. II Columbus
sill fund her debt in instalimcnts
which her revenue can meet promptly
her paper will be at par in marvellous
short time.
A S. ARNOLD. writes to the Dis
patch. correcting report that NJ. 5.
Hall 4 Co, Mississippi Central Rail
road contractors, had failed. He
thinks there ase men in Columbus who
would tell that not only Hall i Co..
but every one else connected with the
Mississippi Central railroad, had failed.
Columbus curses every one concerned
in said road-even the carts tba, haul
The dirt.
The Columbus Dispatch complains
that certain farmers are aggrieved by
the Mississippi Central road, driving
niles IN crossin0 tha Ohion river in.
stead of building bridges, which it
says will dam up the stream and over
flow lands in the vicinity. If all things
else fail to stop this "cussed" road
coIunbus City Council should employ
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the real aud personal estate directed TO
he assessed for taxation, shall be paid
by the persons assessed-ten cents
thereof for the ordinary expenses of
government. FIVE cents for the use of
the Sinking Fund. and two cents tor
the Support of common schools.
Thus it will be seen that the bill un
der review proposes tn appropriate t"
the Mississippi River LeVee Coppn
ny" the per centum of the revenue
ars;ng from the enhanced value OF
taxable property in the district speci
fed in the bill. which j. e. apart by
law to the Sinking Fnpd The re-
sources of the Sinking Pnnd will of
course, under the provisions OF this
bill. be diminished, which cannot be-
done until the State debt shall have
been paid without plain violation OF
the constitutional provision above re-
ferred to.
Far these reasons | have felt il my
lufy to withhold my approval of The
bill. aud respectfully submit them for
the consideration Of Your honorable
body r. ii. LESLIE.
The vote on the message was deter
red unit! Monday next We have no
doubt III the log Stature will sustain
the views of the Governor. so far as
the appropriation of the increased rev
euue on Yhc land protected by the con
templated levee. in other particulars
we think the act will not be disturb d