The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1875-06-17
WICHITA.
The Arkansas River at Wichita and
Further West.

The following fragment, taken from
letter of regular travelling cores
pondcnt of the Kansas City Journal of
Commerce explains itself:
After being for week out of sight
of trees, it was real refreshing to look
out and see the old river fringed on each
bank with tall cottonwoods, and the
nice little groves along its tributaries.
The river here at Wichita is differ
ent looking stream from what it is up
in the extreme western part of the
State. Whether the mooted plan of
making it navigable by means of shore
dams from here down will prove sue
cessful time and experiments will de-
terminc. With good boating stream
at her door this town could have pop
ulation of twenty thousand people in
five years. AS it is, this will always be
an important point in Southern Ksn-
sas All the elements of wealthy
country are here awaiting develop
mcnt.
Now as to the crops: The writer
hereof is an Illinois boy, who don't
allow any one to speak q word against
the old Sucker State, bat it is very
doubtful if the most favored por-
tions of that State could make better
showing so soon after their settlement
than this country can for crops of all
kinds.
Texan cattle or not, there will be
plenty of money mere when the crops
come in. Wheat harvest will be on
hand next week, and i'll six weeks the
mills will be running on the new crop.
Times are dull just now. There is
nothing to ship that will money into
general circulation, and the farmers
are very busy in their fields.
During the winter and spring hun
dreds of settlers all along this valley
have supported their families by gath
ering up buffalo bones and hauling
them to the towns. The prairies for
forty miles each way from the railroad
have been CLEANED over till not a relic
of the chase can be found. Heads and
ribs are worth five dollars ton. These
are shipped to Philadelphia and
ground up into fertilizers. Shins and
shoulder-blades are worth ten dollars
ton; these 60 to the sugar refineries.
The horns are worth thirty dollars
the tips are sawed off here and sent to
the factories of umbrellas, fans, pipes,
etc.. the remainder is used by the
to the heads are taken off and sent to
the glue factories. Every fragment of
these animals is made to serve q pur-
pose. The trade has been opportuno
for the settlers, as it brought them the
means of livelihood when the crops
failed; otherwise they would have
been compelled to abandon their home
steads.
The Wichita EAGLE is published
here. After seeing the editors auto
graph on the hotel registerand spending
the forenoon till it was too late to 60 to
Sunday school trying to decipher it, l
sought out his eyrie, and found him
the same clever fellow as when he used
to take pumpkins on subscriptions to
the Usage Chronicle. "Marsh" can
edit first class paper, if his signature
does resemble an inverted handsaw.
Those who say he can't had better
'Iook leedle oud." Some men are
bprn to write, c. @. the EAGLE man and
Milt. Reynolds.
Some are born to rule and some to
keep hotel. Daily, of the Douglas
Avenue, is one of the latter class. He
intuitively knows how to treat guest
so as to make him banker after his
house for years to come. His lieutcn-
ants are Ed Batdorf and Wood. One
glance at Wood is worth the price of
days board to hungry man. He is
aliving, moving illustration of the BEN
efits Of good feed. Beware Of lank
hotel clerks. Daily's clerks weigh a
ton. When they dawn upon you the
effect is electrical. 1t is as though
McMeekin, out Of the Astounding gent
atty of his nature, was about to en-
belIish his countenance with smile.
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