The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1879-05-22
TRECO COUNTY.
Wonderful Kansas rnd What Two
Sto-t Years Have Brought
Forth.
A County Of twenty-five Hundred
lnhabitanis--S3ou to Be Organ.
lied.
Wa-Keeney, ths Prospective Seat Of
Governmental Live snd Flour
ishins Little Ciy.
The Chalk Bed, of ;reso Natural
Advantages Of the County.-Set-
Elements, Immigration. Gem
sral Notes.

sFal NOtes.
Correspondence Of The I.eavenworth Times:
WA-kEESEY, May - The remark has
been made in lime gore by, that we are q
wonderful people, living in a wonderful
age, in which said observation there is
much more truth than poetry, and all the
more particularly 81 when immediate ref.
erence Is had to Kansas Two years ago
what is Low Trego county had no local
habi,atior, boasting merely a name; now
there are 900 people within the county's
limits, a county organiz l,ion will soon be
effected and Trego will take her place
AMONG THE slsTERHooD.
Trego il one Of the third tier from the North
and is the third county eaat from the Col
orado State line, the Kansas Pacific road
passing directly throush it. Two years ago
she was regarded as practically without
the pale of civilization now she knocks At
the door OF the Governors room at the
State house and asks admiltance, not az a
handmaiden but as one Of the queens of the
realm. Heretofore Trego mas been
ONE CT THE UNKNOWN QUALITIES
and occupied no place, but now she is re-
org nlzed az one of the strongest, most en-
ergetic and thriving Of all the new counties.
The settlement of the county has been very
rapid, and the settlers being of the produc-
ing, maintaining class especially, who have
come here with meaus, and the will and mus
Gle to win,if not a fortune, at least a compe-
tency. 1t ia something wonderful that q
county SO far removed from the Missouri
river should develope, in single night, az
it were, but az there isn't ANYTHING new un-
der the san, and as Trego is in Kansas,
| everything as it comes and manifest sur
price at nothing.
THE TOWN OF wA-KEENEY,
which will, beyond the peradventure OF a
| doubt, be the county seit when Trego il
organized, il three hundred and twenty five
miles west from the Missouri river, half.
way to Denver, and is SIS pert bantling
as ever grew on the prolific soil of wonder.
| ful Kansas. Not two years old yet, che has
population of five hundred, and a pros.
pect, before the end OF the year, OF as many
more; good business houses are going up on
every hand and fine residences are the or
der of the day; the depot here, when com.
pleted, will be the finest in the State along
THE LINE OF THE KANSAS PACIFIC
| road; il is one hundred feet in length BY
| thirty-six feet in width, with elaborate por.
ticoes supported by co unns, and a tower
| fifty feet in height; platform twenty -seven
| feet wide surrounds the building, which
will be admirably arranged, containing
gentlemen's and ladies' visiting rooms
ticket and telegraph Offices, baggage room
| and freight department. The rooms will
be appropriately finished in wood and fur.
nished with every convenience. The Cakes
House, the erection of which will be begun
shortly, will be a large two story building,
of magnetism limestone, the material OF
which the depot is being constructed, and is
NAMED AFTER GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT
CAKES,
\ of the Kans AZ Pacific road. Wa Keepey il
building up very fast, the new business
houses going up being of a substantial
character and totally unlike the majority OF
the buildings usually erected in the hurried
process of constructing a new town. One
! thing in regard to the business men. of Wa
Keeney, and fact that constitutes one OF
her very greatest advantages, ia that her
merchants, taken az a whole, are better of,
| financially, than those Of any other town in
this western region, each and every one Of
them, with, of course, an exception now
and then,
BEING MEN OF CAPITAL,
and having more than sufficient to bridge
| over to days difficulties without trusting TO
| luck for to morrow. The situation of the
town is beautiful one, the site being roll
ing, and a finer mile-square tract of land
upon which Wa-keeney is situated does not
exist in the western country. 1t is the pre-
valent impression that the name of the
town ia derived from the Indian. and the
impression is surely warranted from the
close resemblance, but the facts really are
that the name is as far from being Indian as
THE RED MEN THEMSELVES
are from the town. In October, 1877, War
rem, Keeney Il Co, an enterprising real
estate firm of Chicago, by purchase and
contract, secured control OF all the railroad
lands of the county, with the exception of
the eastern tier of townships. They founded
a town, and as village bearing the cogno-
men OF Warren-keeney wouldn't, perhaps,
find the favor more euphonious. name
might bring, they cut Oft the "rren' and
called II Wa keeney, and that Is the name
by which it is and shall be known for all
time. From the time OF
TUE po,-SnrSc oE THE TOWN
1t has been persistently advertised IN all
OF the papers OF the East, and II Is exceed,
lnsiy doubtful II there pe one'year-oid
youDgster in the United Estates 70 we'll
know. This advertisement being previous
and well timed had the effect OF bringing to
the county the very best class OF lmmIgra-
Jonh,fni - ,be,e can ba found an unoccnn;eJ
acre of government land within several
miles of the town, while the railroad lands,