The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1881-08-29

lOTWNrl WIN UOuuNt1 lHVlcuSlHB WV
1900 in Ave years, or oyer $40 per cent
This increase stands unparalleled in the
history Of the country, N .r u..l,
The increase since last year Is not 80
easily explained, but in q general way it IL
to be attributed 10 the great rush OF imml
grafton to Kansas and Colorado rs well as
10 Western Missouri. A conviction l.
abroad In this country that there Is to be J.
biz city every three or four hundred miles,
md public opinion hns fastened upon
Kansas CITY rs Tho Chicago gateway 70
Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado. Til,
increase in value this year has been almosl
Is marked us the increase In population
A great deal OF properly has changed
nands at \ tremendous advance on thu
igures current when was last 'hete III
1878, Among the prominent buyers OF
real estate have been the 0glehay Bros,
late Of Wheeling, who gra, a4ia to nhav,
made some very judiciols, Investments
Had they put tho capital Invested in their
grocery business here when they first can,
out thoy would have done still better. Il
Is only since they hHrlel out that they
have diverted thor capital TO real est4te.
President W K. Pendldon, Of Bethany,
holds about fifty Rcres of real estate i'm
mediately adjoining tho CITY, sald toll
,;Urth now 5000 pprtOe, II cost him i'll
10 neighborhood OF $50 per Ncre befon
he war. Mr., Samuel Mathews, formerly
4 Brooke county, llas several acres adjoin'
ny tho property Of y psldDAt Pendletan.
Fhe Adams flInily Of MASSACHUSETTS,, have
ilso invested largely in real estAtc here.
There Il, In fact, great deal, of Boston cap
tal invested IN Kansas CITY Mr., Nettle-
IONS railroad Is largely owned In Boston,
md Boston has but up the money to COM
p etc tito Memphis, BY tho WY Mr. n.
ellis me that one Of tho projects oil foot ID
o connect the line, ut 4 central point In
Missouri, with an extepaon Of tbs Chesl.
cake 4 Ono road from p,8and thus
'euure 4 new trunk limo 70 tide waller for
&ansas City-one that will be Of easy
;rade pnd free from snow. aui t.@
The business boom now In progress here
s ndanger Of u ret back next year, owing
tho comparative failure Of crops In this
cgioh thA year. ShrOwd men acknowledge
Ills and are cuita.llng .thsir building pro-
ects accordingly . aH0litwilE seU by the
igures given that there have been several
FEARS In which the progress made was re-
narkably SLOW, rs frJm tSi2 10 1877, His
DRY wlll'tpelt itsplf'a ID hence values will
luctllate. / may mention tint tue largr
nd handsome building belonging tol tut
,ourndl Pub ishlng Company was put III,
lere two years ago al q total cost Of S2B, OOU
or ground ahd bIilding, and they have re.
used $4,000 for II tuls year. They have
JiIered II at 500, ZOO provided they can oc-
;upy II for o term otyeats, during which
elm they expect business in tho city to
hnne it$lf som wit. In other wr,ls,
they expect tleir prese Il locality to bocomc
/. MO "a Cl4,Llt, winch is not exactly the
locality for newspaper. i ii ~ PthIi
The growth OF tic two PRINCIPAL news.
papers OF this city litly and fully illustrates
It's marvellous strides forward isrufer 10
the Journal Republican, and tho Times
{ DemocntiC). ! alluded to tile fine building
Of the former, and |. could take M half a
column. describing said building md the
general appointments Of the office. promi.
lent among which Is o "Iefiecting press"
printing, us you know, both side. ii once
by tho stereotype process :. 1t Is SCOTS
patent, built at Plainfeld New Jersey, and
the first one put up west OF the Mississippi
river II has d FASTING and folding attach.
lnent and easily runs Of lO, 900 an hour. 1t
~ decidedly tho finest piece Of printing
machinery that ] have ever yet seen. The
7ims' still prints from Hoe four cylinder
machine, but Rs Is u very prosperous
newspaper Il will, l presume, provide itself
with II perfetting press at au carly day,
The people Of Kansas City cdn Congratulate
themselves on getting more teiepubhic
news IN these two papers than Il Evan bv
the papers Of any city Of tho shine size III
the country. They stand to each other and
to tho community as do the 7rtb,ine and
Times Of Chicago and are fast flyaliinp
those two journals iii the iullntss Of ihpir
news. rd ".'nt'a ~ 'l7l "
The weather here Inns been unnsraIlv
hot tllis SUMMER, The sun cdmrs dawn
with intense tliteGthbss dtfint lGn div hi
there Ia pnnorallv A to6I wind 6inwinG lro,n
The South, Tho nights drfi TfFv pni6vnblo
AS In the interior Of kHhs6s van M, sit
oft IN your shirt sleeves Until inidnirht
without danger of dew Of Of cbhit,kiiHS 4
cold. There are many yerandabS siinni1S
out from tlie second story of residantes'
where The TSeople I'M ,intil 4 latr LoSs mn
sometimes thew sleep ihere,lhG Whole n;vhf
Out In Kansas / noticed persons sleepIns
on lie ground IN irontpf thsjr hS,,sSs witS
nothing under tEet, but 4 ouIIt Md pillow T,
Tho ali Il Wonderfully free from ali humid.
ity.9 ~ ,5T9I-T.JTI TTg
fKahsas City Il rather an extensive ,,lnce
70 build II Is located upon d bluff badly
broken into knoils and rilIlies, I'he p1adss
are very abrupt In some Of, the streets and.
d great deal Of titEihRor illling.in Ina 10 H.
done on some OF The streetp!9 The peohie
also labor under the disadvantage al tl6pn
white dust on tile streets nj tiis season ~
the year. ,stlngthey get used % Il "a We do.