The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-11-28
BUSY AS A BEE.
Which Is Exactly What leavenworth
is at the Present Time.
The Fall Trade Larger Than Ever
Before BuiIding-The In
crease Of Population.
THR PAST WEEK.

THR PAST WEEK.
Bus ness In general during the past week
has been good, both in the retail and i'm the
wholesale departments OF trade, and while
no figures or comparative stat sites In regard
thereto are obtaInsble, still 1t is conceded that
1t IL in advance OF the same period for the
year 1877. In fact, there never hiss been q
rious manufacturing establishments, mills
foundrseS, etc We're SO busy. These latter
are really not able to ke-p up with their
orders, and
Tie SANE aAT BE SAID
Of all the business houses OF the city " no sell
oul 5 de the county, and IN other States and
the territories. The retail trade OF the city
Is in a good condition, and heavier than has
iyd,ca ~. m ,, monet sni,.rans
times easier than they have been. While IL
is an u ldenisble fact that Leayenworth for
four or five years Was losing steadily her
wholesale trade, the past two years have
demonstrated that
THIS TRADE Is AGAIN COMING BACK
to her and the establishment here Of furni-
ture factories, iron and stove foundries,
bridge works and other kindred establish.
ments, while adding 10 the material wealth
OF the city, and giving employment 10 hun
dreds OF men, has BET Il the means OF recover
ing 10 the metropolis her lost ground and
tending TO make her wholesale as well as
manufacturing oint.
THE AMOUNT OF MANUFACTURING
done 10 this city has never been accurately
estimated by many hundreds of thousands
OF dollars, which oversight or blunder or
whatever II may be called, has, in a certain
measure, resulted in harm to the city, and
been the means of binding the State al large
as 10 the real extent of Leavenworth's manu-
featuring business. We manufacture more
stoves, more furniture, more wagons, more
brooms, more engines, and machinery than
all the other cities of the Missouri Valley,
and II We only had the outlets possessed by
hDrS ~ shnnlh s.Ah III
no favors from anything or anybody.
BUILDING.
Owing 10 the approaching cold weather
which keeps approaching but don't seem to
get here very last, there is a temporary
stopped in the matter of building, as build
ers DO not wish TO get the structures half
erected and then be forced TO stop operations
on account of cold weather. he indications
AT the present GnIe are that there will be
great revival in building soon as spring
sets in and the winter is fairly broken up,
and that there will be scores of business
blocks and residences put up in 1873. During
1875 several business houses,
WORKSHOPS AND FACTORIES
in particular, were erected, while several new
residences, the majority Of them brick, have
risen TO decorate and adorn our beautiful
Resident streets. Leavenworth is justly proud
of her residences, aud IN this matter She Is
ahead OF ali OF the cities of the Missouri
Valley. The fact that every resident
street in the city
Is LINED WITH SHADE TREES,
with the exception OF some isolated blocks,
tends TO render the metropolis OF the State OF
Kansas the most beautiful town in the VAL
ley, or In the West for that matter, which is
saying good deal, as their are many pretty
cities and towns in our thriving State.
Leavenworth is famed all over the country
AS being the garden spot OF the West, and
she fully deserves 10 be designated rs such,
while at the same time she is pardonably
proud of the title, as il is by no means mis-
applied.
POPULATION.
The population of the metropolis, as judged
Dy the school census, which shows something
over 5000 children of school age, has visibly
Increased during the past tSO years, and is
now double, at least, that of any other city in
the state The school population of Leaven-
worth IS considerably more than dou lie that
OF any otherc city in the state, and larger than
that o: any city in the Missouri Valley. In
reality II Is the school population OF any city
which tells the story, aud judging from this,
Leave nwOrth is not SO far behind as some OF
her rivals would like to place her.