The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-04-03
A City Being Bull. ell at Ones and
Rising as ifby Magic.
A Graz Shipping Professionalism.
migration A Healthy Lo-
cet;on... Business.
Correspondence OF THE TIMES


and pure, fuel in every shape, easy access
to railroads, good markets, good prices,
cheap living, schools, churches, good society
Everything mortal man needs or imag-
ines he needs, is here st his very hand.
The Central Branch of
THE UNION PACIFIC ROAD,
running through the northeastern section
Of this county, is tn. great feeder, and is
doing every hing in its power to build up
| this region The road is Transporting
hundre d. of immigrants every day to settle
upon the lands in the northwestern part of
the State, aud the rush has hardly yet
begun The prosperity of the road is, as
natural effect 10 a natural cause, depend
ent upon the prosperity of the country
through which it passes, but at the same
/ time the road has done a grea. deal toward
making this region az prosperous az it is
BY advertising it extensively and inducing
| immi or alton thereto.
WHITING
| il mated on the lima of the Central
Branch rosd, th'rty-one miles west Of Atcn-
ison, and il located in the center o; the
southern part of the famous Kickapoo
reservation, four miles south Of the line of
Brown county. The town was founded by
The Central Branch railroad company in
1867, but owing to the fact that the reservs-
ton was not until recently thrown
upon the market, the town progressed but
" and n.r fatr
ments made until comparatively recent
date, Ia consequence Of this, which proved
most serious drawback and impediment
to the growth and progress Of both the
town and rhe surrounding county, there il
large amount of uncultivat ed lard in
this section, which offers the finest of OPP
p uni;is- TO immigrants who with to pur-
cha>e at low figures good farm near 8
market Unimproved land csn be bought
al prices ranging from - to SO per acre
according TO location, and
IMPROVED LAND
from SO to so according to location and
the amount If Improvements thereon.
There i. an abundance of good clay for
IN king brick and plenty of blue limestone
ard hroxn sandstone for building purposes,
which eau b. delivered for about 81 per
p.rch. The best Of water can be reached at
a depth RAJ ging from twenty to forty feet
ASA CATTLE MARKET.
Whiting is quite a cattle market and dur
ing the busy season. scores OF car loads OF
h g are shipped east every month. Near
the citv is II magnificent range for grazing |
purp ses, with plenty Of hsy and an abund- |
arce of nav for feeding For a sheep rsi.- |
ir,r rho arnpnl Wh,,,.
cannot be excelled, as the land ia rolling |
thing that could be wished for.
WRITINGS RISE AND PROGRESS.
For some years after the founding of the
city very little progress was made in build
ing or Improvement of any kind, and the
future of the town looked anything but
bright and promising. But after the re
sergstion became opened up for settlement
and the immigration began to pour in, the
face of nature began TO be chsnged and the
little town picked up her ears and began
to go ahead at rapid rate; reaidences and
business houses seemed TO rise from the
ground as ii by magic; everything became
booming all at once, and Whiting from the
dullest is now the busiest little burg in the
People began to flock in and
building lots advanced at rapid rate,
the policy of the people here has
never been to hold their property 50 high
that
POOR MAN COULDN'T REACH 1T;
il man came TO Whiting and desired to
erect a building of any character, either
for residence or business purposes, rather
than let him go away they would present
him with lot and aid him in putting I'D
his house Whiting is energetic pushing
and busy, and will allow nothing to stand
in the way OF her advancement.
A HEALTHY LOCATION.
The town ia situated upon high ground,
upon the divide between Straight and Wal =
nut creeks, aud is perhaps the healthiest To-
cation for a city in this region, which state
nent ia vouched for by the fact that al
though the town hiss been in exste nee nine 4
years death has never occurred there, and I
he grave yard hasn't conss qIently been
yet. There ia not a saloon in
ne town; there are two church organiza- q
ions, Presbyterian and Methodist, the lat q
er denomination having just completed
handsome little edifce TO worship in. be. q
ng surmounted nv belfry and as neat c
truclure OF the kind as one would wish to u
ee. r
WHITING BIAS GOOD SCHOOL,
he daily attendance being something over
ixty pupils, which is pretty good, consid- .
ring that the total population of the town =
> but little more than three hundred. A !,
ub-tsntisl school building has been :
rected, comps tent instructors employed
nd the greatest Of care taken that the best 81
interests Of the educ ,ti"n Of the children !.
re not neglected. Wiring is most prom
merit ILLUSTRATION Of the fact that education !.
n Kansas il the prime consideration and
axes precedence OF all others.
GOOD GRAIN SHIPPING POINT. = =
Whiting as grain shipping point leads a
1any other toNBs ten times her size, and a
De time is not 50 v4ry far distant when she d
i'll be one of the first IN the State. Since to
ugust lat the shipments of corn, wheat, ii
att, rye, sni other cereals have amoun ted fl
abont 800 carloads, which aggregated fu
bout PIP 800 bushels, and the shipments
re increasing day by day. Whiting has W
D elevator, but the two storehouses at the II
-pOt have capacity OF about ID 600 h,
lshels. An elevator, however, is soon to v,
: erected, and surely there il a most
resting need Of one. Corn is the grain of Il,
hich the principal shipments are made, B
though the number of bushels Of wheat AZ
lis and rye, which find their way East ";
ON here j. a mottsr of surprise.
The lumb Der interest of the town ia large,
ID necessarily 30, owing 10 the great num- al
r Ct buildings, which are principally OF
anne, now berg erected in the city and an
e surrounding country. ca
BUIu DING UP RAPIDLY. he
The traveller coming into Whiting very n.
lturally comes to the conclusion that it Is
Town being put up BY contract, the agree
INT being that the work shsll he finished W
thin a specified time. Everything is for
{, hustle and activity; the sound of ham, fol
r is heard on every hand; new houses tn,
E sp.inging up on every hand; piles of
DDS are waiting in the depot for the COM
elton OF the lstore-room they are to occu- the
!; building is no sooner started than ap- wo
cations are made by the score to rent il: the
IRE is not a vacant room in the town, and del
erything with a roof upon it is at a high snt
emium; nobody ia idle for there is plenty in
everybody to do; no one seems to be Tea
Or, for there is plenty of money in circu- Jus
ion, and erybody is too busy to think owe
stopping to remember that they are
u. Ten business houses, many of them
&c and roomy, are nov in process eff
isiructiop, besides many residences; an
hin the past Elk months the town has VA
re than trsbled in size, population and con
nbsr Of buildings and the end is not ep'
Whiting is walking awsy, 20 to VA