The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-12-27
The Emporia News.
t,l.lnAY .l.trION, 1859.
HARTFORD.

HARTFORD.
Haw thr Town Is GrowIag-s "eeessiai
EttsrpFiss Center 81 osOd
Farming and Stock Raising
Country.
n rtford, IN. second best town IN The
roanty, Is sixteen miles ssDSti.eisi III mr"fia,
with n opulasIon of nearly 0. IL Is GA u G
Missouri Pacific rain oaiI. in the fertile valley
slf the SeosLo, surrounded by one Of the beat
sections OF fan ming lands In the state. which
ARE watered ny numerous creeks with plenty
OF timber. There Is coal within three mites
at the town. Hartford 10 enjoying what We
call - boom Within the last two years
che population has more Than doubie'i
Tnere has been built Ntrrn brick store
roOms. one large opera hall. aud one hall
s5x60 by the secret organizations IN the bust
ness part 81 t0Yn all ~ = coat Of $50 100.
The resident part OF the town has made a
very decided And substantial growth over
forty new residences have been built In the
last two years nc = cost OF from 500 TO 5000
each, making n snug little sum or $4,000 in
vesteI In good homes. Temin ling the new
conner that the owners have come 10 stay.
There are three churches. Catholic, MethO-
dist Episcopal amt Evangelical Methodist.
Gbe later com pleeed this summer 1t cost OF
about 81. 600, demonstrating 20 the stranger
ahat the people are Christians in belief.
The various kinds OF mercantile business
are not quite up 20 the real wants OF the snr-
u0undLaR country. aud few western towns
are In IhIs condition. Yet the different
kinds OF basIness arc represented bygoOd live
men, who commenced with little capital and
are climbing up. There Is one bank. one
newspaper, two dry goods and general mer-
chandIse stores, two clothing. bO0t ndshoe
kxwo LUIS "a
atores. two furniture stores, two drug stores.
one book store, one jeweIry store. one restau-
rant and bak cry. one -four and feed stOTe, two
good hotels. one biilsrd parlor, two livery.
taad and sale stables, taree blacksmith and
Gwo wagon shops, two buteher shops where
they kill six 20 eight good, choice beeYes per
geek. two live grain Arms, three real estate
0Gces. one harness ami one shoe shop, one
place where you get shaved, one lumber
yAid, but neei another, one OF the beat water
Touring mills In the state. The town sup
ports nye preachers, four doctors. one under
faker. four teachers OF public school with
over thres hundred scholars aDOve Ave years
Old. The A. y. and A n l., the A. o. u. w..
and q. A. r., and A. d. U. w. Degree OF
Honor. also. 1. q. o. y. have all iourishing
lodges here.
About four years ago W. p. Gould in lit
ale 19xis room placed 500 stock Of hardware
and much comment was made. Old foKIes
said he viii nevar sell hardware enough In
Hartford 20 pay rent. March. 1881. W. p.
liould q Co. sold 81 500 worth OF goods for
cash. Wolf Rogers opened n hardware,
stove and tlnware store In the summer OF
EssI. In March. 1854, W. r. Gould a Co. sold
an cash nearly $3.50 and Wolf 4 Rogers
about 5000. thus showing the country
needed that class OF goods long before they
got them In Hartford. Old Togies. ayi
HARTFORD BANK
Late in the fall OF 1881, three or four of
HArtford's enterprisinG citizens. figuring on
che territory naturally contributing 20 the
town, a radins OF twelve miles or la square
unLles, eoncladed II = bank could be organ
aEed u would more than double the trade Of
the town. In the language OF one of Its di-
rector, a solid farmer with 10000 bushels OF
corn for full feeding cattle: "When Taylor
a Snediker came 10 me 10 take stock iP IL. ]
Just told them Il would not pay expenses.
We could not loan enough; no business In
HArtfora. But they insisted AMI showed it
would pay and help the town and country,
So IjOiDed In ana by hard work We got stock
enough subscribed and paid In to organize
state bank aad opened for business January
and. 1851"
.Does it payr'
Eyes, &c pays a II per cent dividend aud
lays up n little snug surplus Tor n rainy day."
''Do the people have confidence in tina
banGT''
81 should remark they did. Our deposits
che frst month were nearly $4,000. LAST
month they were over So 900"
~HAve you many depOsitors2''
-Yes, we have over $50; there are bat very
few men near Hartford that do not do bnsi-
ness with ns. We working up slow but
nkn hoI af7O anr
citizens and farmers They are worth $780,
100 TO 3175. 900. That new brick there. Is our
nsw bank, Two years ago would not have
believed such prediction rs n hank In Hart
y Md
z lrbe cashier says the deposits for the year
will be over 100000
u "GoodP'
''I should say so; but 1t is t94ne to feed them
j aeeers. Good day"
} WAITE FLoURINa MILLS.
Taylor, Wenger q Co., proprietors of the
water mills. have one OF the most desirable
p1eees OF property in the county. tho best OF
j water power, three run OF burTs, with all the
I iatest machinery for smAking patent hour.
u The largest part OF the year the mill runs
u day and night. Their market Is al &C home.
anA takes the aour rs fast as made, which
speaks we'll for the nour they manufacture.
Thcy have about 5000 bushels OF wheat in
WHAT Is BACKING HARTFoRD.
We have Travelled over large section Of
tn east and west, bat no where have We seer
better farming country than that around
Hartford. as the following facts and ngnres
given BY responsible citizens will prove; With
IN q radius OF twelve miles,th have raised
Loo bushels Of shelled corn; 20. 900 bushels
OF this Will be fed to 500 two and three-y year
oil steers. full fed. or 100 bushels shelled corr
per head. 10000 bushels will be fed to l,2O
two Cand three year-Old steers, half fed, o.
n 50 bushels shelled corn per head.
lt will take ut least 100 900 bushels to fattei
no hogs that arc not following cattle. an,
gintsr the young stock, cows. and 1890
sheep. leaving abont 100000 bushels for eK
port. Corn In this eection averages from
II forty TO frty bushels on the upland an,
sixty-nve 20 seventy i've bushels shelled cor
II oA.I good bottom farms Data this year are
N little extra, averaging any to soyenty-nv
II buahels per acre. aud any one who does NJ
think this Is q fact will DO shown ground tw
miles from town where they yielded 10
bushels per acre. While they do not make
business Of raising wheat in this sectioH
eAey export some. The wheat last year an,
this has been good. @. W. McWhorter. thru
miles northwest Of here. had an Averaa
yield OF thirty Ave bushels per aero. JAmt
Jacobs. ave miles southeast had an averae
OF foEty-ny bushels per acre, but the generi
II Yield was twenty-five to twenty eight baShe
WOOL AEAA HARTFORD.
Wool growing and sheep hnsbandry IL on
X ofthe great Industries opened Up in the Ia
4 Six or eight years. There Is no place In Il
United States where sheep do better this
n IN southern Kansas. There was over 70 U
pounds Of as good wool as grows anywheI
shipped from Hartford which netted an ave
age orseventeen cents per pound.
4 There Is splendid water power here. whic
Hutilizcd 10 work mp this Weol which W
shipped TO Boston, Mass. would save % p
cent on cost OF raw material Besides. tho
employed In the industry could live At les
- per cent. cheaper here than in the ca
At least 10000 pounds OF wool would
brought TO Hartford In wagons II we on
had a factory hereto use It..
when We consider the amount OF produ
raised and number OF cattle and hogs Ahipp
III lrnp- Hartford tt is no great wonder
al sbFn Is booming. We paid the Hartie
III Weekly Call Q short Wall. This paper Is 81
III fdiled by Eaaphear q Rtxler, who have J
You'll DO credit 70 = much larger town, 4
has ne support and god WA Of me Wn
Hi % june. Isss, the rat brick was made
III thls plAcS. Since then the two brick va
have manufactures ov er ooo.00o good bri
Ssis3 sSoO co. ars s, IN S saSs sssa wa
Arss Ess s fsss and Gs'1,,
hemea, AZ price, ranging from % % els
lara per acre. which the i've real sat
aeenia Of Hartford ahgW g neY esners
I'll cry AND COUNTY osFIOERs.