The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-12-04
TuE OUTLOOK FOR LEiSEN-
WORTH.

The Few feature in our railroad matters
lie of great interest TO the business men oil
our city, There il no doubt Of the TACT
that the people of the State prefer to deal
with Kansas merchants and manufacturers
rather than 60 out of the State, for by
doing so they contribute to the wealth and
taxable property of the State as well as
crafty their own State pride by building
I'D h snsas cities. The new arrangement
in railroad matters by which the Central
Branch road and its branches are made
part of the Missouri Pacific gives Leaven-
worth a. direct q communication with
Northern and Northwestern Kansas as
Atchison or any other city, and will furnish
a rich field for Lesvenworth merchants and
manufacturers, from which they have
heretofore been to great extent shut on
by the determinations infsvor OF Atchison.
We have no envy for the advantages which
Atchison has heretofore enjoyed az the ter
minus of this road, but the fact ia that she
will no longer enjoy those advantages, and
much of the business heretofore done by
her on account Of this road terminating
there will now pass by her, and she Will
not complain if our business men DO their
full shsre of such business. When We add TO
this that there will be at least one hundred
miles more Of road added TO the Narrow
Gauge next summer, 1t will be seen that
there is a large and tempting field opened
for the extension of the mercantile and
manufacturing interests Of Leavenworth IN
the coming season. If to this We may add
an extension of the Rock Island to South
western Kansas, as We think We may
shortly, Leavenworth will again enjoy the
supremacy Of the Missouri river cities
What is needed is thst the Board of Trade
ehall resume its work, and that Leaven
worth business men shall work together
for the common good.
The revival OF business prosperity dur
ing the last year and the many valuable
buildings constructed have cured all the
chronic croakers except two or three and
their voices are becoming quite husky
Leavenworth's business men all say-anc
show By their works-that they are max
ing money and are satisfied.
! There is one more feature OF our atfsir'
. which is encouraging 10 the interests OF thu
city, The continuance Of railroads on th'
main trunk lines is driving m manufacturer
!, 10 seek pisces of manufacture, nearer thu
consumers to avoid the exorbitant rates o
transportation. There can be no good rea
son for paying high freight rates te
ship -four and other provisions TO New
England to feed operators while they make
shoes, cloth and other articles TO be AGAR
shipped at high rates back to Kansas. Thii
lis the explanation of the fact thai
while the eastern factories were stop
ped and their owners driver
into bankruptcy during the years of HARD
times which followed the panic OF 1873
the manufacturers Of Leavenworth wer'
20 prosperous. Lesvenworth il the grea
manufacturing city OF the Missouri val
ley, and with her coal mine in the edge o
the city, and with one being developed to
he worked by convict labor at th'
: State Penitentisry. by means of which
: cheap fuel will be afforded for all time
Lesvenworth will continue to be the lead
ing manufacturing city of the Missouri
: valley. Let our people awake TO The ad
vsntages they have, and use them, and i
will not be long till second Indisrspo
liz, sustained by ats rich surrounding coun
try, and built NJ by her artisans and mer-
chants, will be seen on the most beautifu
location which nature has ever made for !
grea: city.