Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1883-08-09
TINE GREATEST CORN COUNTY IN TINE WORLD

fails to reveal any county In the United
States with such a corn area as that Of Sedg-
wick. We have nearly 1000 acres, and
the present prospects are that the yield per
acre will be unprecedented. The late sum-
the prospective aggregate. The usual av-
erage OF the county has been from % to A
bushels Every seven and n half bushels
added TO this years acreage makes a million
bushels 10 the county. Many estimate the
average at from GO to so bushels. Sixty
three bushels to the acre will give us $780,
900 of corn, which would make 800 600 wag-
on loads, at 30 bushels to the wagon. At
400 bushels TO the car 1t would make 22,5l0 |
car loads, or 2, 251 trains OF ten cars each, or |
six trains day for every day in the year to |
move IL. Put into half-bushel measures set
by side, they would reach from here TO New |
York City. Occupying % feet each il would |
take II train of wagons over 200 miles long |
10 move 1t. The ears laid end to end would |
reach from Wichita TO London.
There Is a gentleman of evidently fine |
tastes, who owns rather imposing resi- |
denee on the corner opposite A. A. Hyde's, |
or rather opposite Col. II. w. Lewis, or
more especially opposite Mr.. Pittenger's.
The house is stately, and is surrounded by
many residences Of taste, but in the front
lawn are allowed TO stand and grow, a lot
OF old scraggy peach trees, too old 10 bear,
that are the remark and wonder OF every
body. II Is said that a banker, travelled
gentleman owns the place and lives there,
but there must be some mistake,or else he Is
OF in Europe or elsewhere, for no travelled
man OF taste would allow those old scraggy
stumps to mar the otherwise beautiful sur
roundings.
Mr.. David Fox returned last week bring
ing with him from ADDISON county, Vermont,
forty-five Spanish Merino rams. He went
from farm to farm and took his pick and the
day OF delivery the men Of whom he bought
acknowledged that the lot was the finest
they had ever seen in one shipment, taken
rs whole. lie returned by way OF Cana
da and purchased some imported Berkshires
which he knows to be une xcelled for purity
Of strain. lie also brought back with him
n number OF game chickens. IL will he re-
membered that MIR. Fox sold his old home
place few weeks ago to a Mr.. Hoffman.
lie says he will buy n place nearer town and
continue the thoroughbred business.
Mr.. G. Wood Davis returned to this city
last week. This Is TO say thst that gentle
man is evidently working up another rail-
road scheme, but from his reticence we fear
not In the interest Of Wichita. Whether IL
is the Diagonal or Octagonal or some other
cross-purpose railroad from north 10 south
Is uncertain, but II any road Is brought
from the north within reaching distance
Wichita must be ready 10 do the reaching.
A railroad running from Salina, Clay Gen.
ter or Mclhersou 10 Caldwell or other point
must not be allowed TO cut Ia west fourteen
or twenty miles, il IL can be helped. and IL
most always can.
Our readers will be RECALLED shortly, thro'
these columns, with a letter favOring pro-
tective policy aud an answer on the free
trade theory. These communications will
be from two Of our old correspondents, each
of whom has farmed ten years In this val
lev, and are 10 be written In the interest Of
the producer. As for ourself, believing that
free trade is pretty theory to presch but
protection the sensible thing to practice,
we loaded up our protection friend TO the
muxxle and urged him to take such aim rs
would knock the free trade fellow higher
than the stand-pipe, and be said be would
do Il In next weeks EAGLE, sure.
In the matter Of township bonds voted in
aid Of the Fort Scott road, the commission-
ers, who met last Friday TO deliver the same
and receive the stock Of the road In lieu,
refused 70 Issue more than el0,0e for the
| township Of Wichita, under the law which
prcscribes that not more than ". 600 per
mile shsli be issued. The Fort Scott 4
wichita built but two and half miles in
Wichita township. For the twelve miles
built, Including the city, there were $4,000.
The coupany's attorney claims that SUI
preuc court decision will remedy the mat
ter ~ soon As they have built additional
miles west.
The cspasi, Of Topeka, sends OUT with =
great neurish Of srumpsls An associate dis
patch setting out among other things that
heid Of oats il Harvey county had yielded
| l0s bushels 70 Tie acre. We don't know
that he railroads would have permitted
Mn, but if be had locked ut last weeks
EAGLE he weuId have found that Aaron
Solver, o. Ibis county, threaded 10 busAes'
l-measursd ground and whsat-:o Tie sess
Niss Bulleck, VITO has ben down At Geo.
d. eprings sse svo - three wesks, say'
quite number q lDdians wers up freu
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