The Wichita city eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1872-1883, 1880-03-18
DMULyANE.


HER hAP1O 6BOW1H--l0NENSE DUsA-
NEss-AMoUNT OF CAPITAL H.
vEzTED, WITH A LIST OF
NAMES or HER BCs-
MESS MEN.
| MULvAKE, KAN, March IS, 1880.
To ne EDITOR n IL Eagle:
The scriptures command Us to avoid
even the appearance of evil. 1t has Of
ten been my privilege to note for your
valuable bird the rapid advances Of this
county IN Improvement, and ito unequal
led productions. have tho't sometimes
these faithful records were not entirely
void of fbe appearance Of evil to the
dear readers of the EAGLE whose eyes
have never beheid this favored land.
If had remained back east the same
records would have appeared 10 me
like the productions Of some outrageous
liar. Yet indeed is truth stranger than
fiction. Only seven summer suns have
warmed the great snow-capped Rockies
and sent down the crystal waters that
have only seven times washed over the
track Of the last retreating buffalo that
scaled the western bank of the Great
Arkansas in Se,lgwick county, followed
by the gallant, shouting huntsman Of
Ell Paso. The buffalo has gone and in
his stead along the banks of the Walnut
and Arkansas come the snorting iron
steeds of the Santa Fe with their
chariots loaded with the wealth of
this rising young empire Of the south
west. The iron horses Of the L., LIS G.
have Numbered through Winfield and
on the banks Of the Arkansas -estlessly
sniff the air in the direction Of booming
Wellington, while the San Francisco
steede, like meteors from the earth,
shoot through the Flint Hills with their
fiery eyes bent upon the queen city of
the Southwest-Wichita. The history
of these four counties-Sedgwick, But
Ter, Cowley and Sumner-cOuld it be
written complete since 1860 would be
pronounced by those unacquainted
with the facts one of the most remarka-
bic fictions of this age. The rapid set
Element Of the country aud the building
of Wichita. Eldorado, Augusta, Doug
lass, Ell Paso, Winfield, Arkansas City,
Wellington and Caldwell, with their
thousands and millions Of wealth, would
seem Ike fiction while worse than fic-
ton would seem the true history of
Mulvaue. Six months since, when your
correspondent informed the readers of
the EAGLE that in extending their road
from Wichita into Sumner and Cowley
counties that the Santa Fe railroad had
formed q junction one mile east of
where the line of Sumner and Sedgwick
crossed the Arkansas river he predicted
there would be built great city, giving
q reason that surrounding that point
is the finest corn country in Kansas.
Corn is king, all your wheat belts to
the contrary Notwithstanding. Taking
q square on either side Of the junction
of ten miles and YOU have country
that will produce eighty bushels of corn
to the acre. That would make four
hundred sections and sixteen hundred
quarter sections. Now, suppose every
quarter section is improved, and one
half in corn. and count only forty BUSH
els per acre, and you would have more
than five million bushels of corn in the
country Immediately tributary to Null
vene. The railroad company saw this
when they laid out the city of Mulvanc,
and sent one of their best and truest
men, Elmer Emery, to be agent, with
the best pay of any agent south of New
ton, the gentlemanly w. H. Allen for
operator, and j. o. Bell the eloquent
~. U. b." of Beacon fame) for baggage
master. The agent, Mr.. Emery, in
forms me that the receipts of the rail-
road once at MuIvane average over nye
hundred dollars per day. Pretty good
for town that had not one house in it
ON the Goth day of last August. Now
there is quite little city, with business
and residence houses going up on every
side. Colonel Prather has laid out an
addition to the city and has sold a num-
Der of lots that will soon be occupied.
The country around is also booming.
HILBERT 4 Mahin, real estate agents,
have sold six farms in the last ten days.
strangers can hardly believe that Null
vanc is not yet seven months old. That
your readers may form some idea OF
the progress Of tic city | will give a
list of the business firms and the capital
employed:
DIR. Whitchorn, drugs and groceries,
$4,000.
Beldcn Bros, fancy groceries and wall
paper, $l,lOO.
S.v. X. Bates. boot and shoemaker,
$50.
J. II. Pierce, eating saloon, 800.
jim Crawford, real estate, $500.
Lapin & CO., "Senate Sample Room"
$500.
c. W. vandervoort, tobacco and ci- |
gars, 800.
J. 5. Brown, agricultural implements,
$1,000.
+. Fitsilnmons, delivery and dray-
man, $500.
DR.. S. T. Shelly, physician and sur
geon.
Town Hall Co., $1,000.
Frank Waggoner, blacksmith, $3.50.
c. II. Durham, wagonmaker. 500.
Wier & Bernard, dry goods and gro
ceries, 81 800.
Denton & Sherod. dry goods and gro
cerics, boots and shoes, 81, 500.
w. N. Tucker, drayman, $500.
Heibert & Mahin, real estate and loan
agency, $500.
Mrs. Richards, ,nilliner, $500.
DIR. A. o. Borton, physician.
}. n. & l. p. Trickcy. dry goods,
boots and shoes, $500.
S. NJ. Wilson furniture aud nndertak-
ing, 5000.
Fellows 4 Co. boot and shoemakers,
: 100.
Warren & Herman, grsin, coal, lum-
Der and live stock, SIS. 900.
Pointer l. Whitehor.., blacksmith and
$500.
d. Badger & Co., hardware and agri-
cultural implements, 5000.
J. +. Mckee, barber, 500.