Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-08-06
FROM KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.

FROM KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI.
EDITOR CHRoNICLE,-I write
from city which / predict will
have population of one hundred
thousand within five years. No
city on the continent is at pres
ent growing SO rapidly, and there
is every reason to believe that it
will continue to grow until it reach
es several hundred thousand.
Buildings modest and buildings
imposing follow each other in rapid
succession laborers of all classes
are very busy, and are well paid.
What were corn fields only a few
years ago, are now desirable resi-
dence or business lots commanding
from one to FIVE thousand dollars
each. In fact real estate has adj
vanced so rapidly that many man
or woman who was toiling in pow
erty shortly since owning a little
tract of land which he would have
sWapped for span of horses, now
sells his few acres for a snug little
fortune and emerges into some pros
porous business on the proceeds.
Capitalists from all sections of the
union are attracted here and are
making handsomely on their in
veStments. OF course all kinds of
business is enlarging and growing
from feeble beginnings into mann
moth proportions, while every day
gives birth to some new business
venture. A heavy wholesale trade
has already been built up. The
largest business probably done !
here is in pork packing. I learn
that even Cincinnati is eclipsed by |
Kansas City in this respect.
These remarkable results are not |
after all strange. The Great West
has been rapidly setting up of late
years and some city had to spring
into existence as Il supply point
and as a market. BY her location, |
numerous. railroads, and enterprise,
this city has overshadowed all COM
peting places, and has become that
supply point and that market. The
continuous stream of emigration,
the rapid development of mining
interests, with the natural increase
of population will secure a rapid
growth for many years to come.
Among the many railroads center
ing here is the Wabash, st. Louis
and Pacific. 1t extends from the
great lakes TO the Missouri river,
SPANS the rich valley. of the Mississ-
ippi, and reaches its friendly arms
intoa a territory inhabited by nearly.
ten millions of progressive people.
This railway offers peculiar facili-
ties to emigrants and eXcursionists.
Our Southern people will do well to
that the management
has arranged to sell remarkably
cheap excursion tickets to PUTIN
Bay, Niagara Fails, ST. Lawrence
river, White mountains and vari-
Gus points in Michigan, Wisconsin,
Iowa, Minnesota, and Colorado. |
On their own lines however are
the famous Excelsior Springs of
Clay county, Mo-, whose medicinal
qualities are reputed to exceed the
Hot Springs of Arkansas. The Ex-
celsiOr Springs are located twenty
miles east of Kansas City, five
miles from Vibbord on the st. Jo-
seph Branch, and ten miles from
Missouri City on the main line.
connect at both these points
with all trains east or west. Prob
ably no watering place holds out
greater inducements to invalids or
those needing quiet rest than these.
The people hereabouts were
thrown lately in a feverish excite
ment by daring train robbery and
murder at Winston-a station about
fifty miles north east, on Chicago,
Rock Island q Pacific r.. r.. A
band of desperadoes boarded the
train, killed the conductor, and a
passenger, robbed the express and
then fled. So well was the affair
planned that the villains have not
yet been caught, nor is it known
who they are. The prevalent be-
lief is that they are the famous
James gang that has given Clay
county, Mo-, such a bad reputation
far and wide. These James broth
ers and their comrades are as auda-
cious and as successful in their /,
deviltry as the noted Tennessee
daredevil, John a. Murrell. They |
have robbed and murdered for
years and thus far escaped punish {
ment. Certainly the chief officials
Of Missouri, have Il very plain duty
to perform that of stamping out
such proceedings in her limits or
aside for those who can.
A person visiting the West sees
and realizes as he can nowhere else,