The daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1884, 1884-05-23
SUNNY KANSAS.

EAGLE, we wish TO call the attention of it
many readers to the inducements offered to tn
immigrant to Wichita and Sedgwick county. w
assume it as a fact that the great Arkansas val
ley is favored spot, that nature has shOwere'
her blessings with a lavish hand, that our fu
ture is full of promise, but word of detail ma.
be of interest to the many contemplating
move to the West The visitor will readily SCI
that in this and the adjoining counties we hav
the largest body of bottom or valley land in tn
west, and it may be said that it is not vale.
hedged in by PERCEPTIONS cliffs, making larg'
percentage of waste land, but the margin i
only marked by gradual slope, every acre o
which may be titled proitably. Our soil is I
rich sandy loan, well adapted to great varie
ty of crops The sub-sOl is a deep deposit O
sand, afIording free passage of water from
the river, and by constant evaporation nourish
es the crop during the dryest season. The visi
tor to our Forest City, will see the effect o.
this by the freshness and vigorous growth Of
trees and vegetation, even in mid summer.
To attempt a showing of statistics, or oul
products OF late years is not our purpose,
though it may be of interest to know that the
Assessor report for the year lSS5 shows re-
turn of SO $50 bushels of corn raised in SedSe-
wick county alone, from which it will be seen
that the IL 900 bushels donated TO the sufferers
from the Ohio food was but drop from the
bucket The crop Of wheat, oats and other
grain the number of cattle, sheep and hogs
shipped during the year were each in proper
ton to the corn product The rich, nutritious
grasses the mild winters aud short feeding
season, afford peculiar advantages TO the stock
..r In hic
branch of industry has spread beyond the linn
its ofour State. Last year We negotiated the sale
of i, 800 of land in the western part of the
county to parties from Buffalo, n. V, to be
known as the ''Jewett horse farm" The pur-
pose is to breed and raise thoroughbred horses,
and the location was selected particularly with
reference to all the necessary conditions, after
having visited many portions of the west in
search of location Men may theorize and
speculate, but the investment of money tells.
For every variety of fruit suited to the eli
mate, there seems to be but one condition to a
sure crop-the planting of trees. Our farmers
and fruit growers are already realizing large
profits from this crop, which will increase with
the growth Of orchards. Our grand exhibit at
the Centennial Exposition i'm Philadelphia in
'7G will long be remembered by the thousands
who there learned with wonder what we had
achieved in the way of fruit raising.
The growth OF our city within the last fsw
years has been phenomenal. From the trackless
prairie Ofl2 years ago she has bloomedintO city
of as many thousand inhabitants. From the
building of gas and water works, a street rail-
way, and, by actual count, 513 new houses last
year, il may be inferred that our condition, to
say the least, is healthy. With our six banks,
with an aggregate capital of over $500, 900, our
five or six fiourishing newspapers, to which we
can now welcome the DAILY EAGLE, with the
associate press dispatches, our five railroad
lines, our supremacy in size and thrift to all
points, we may claim for Wichita
q rapid growth for years to come. Our geo
graphical position is sufficiently remote from
larger cities to make it available as distribut-
ing point. This condition is duly attested by
the building OF rival lines of railroad, giving us
the advantage of competition in freights and
as naturally as results follow causes our Iner-
chants are turning their attention to the job
bling trade, the first venture of the kind being
n wholesale grocery house, with capital of
500, 900. The field is yet unoccupied in many
branches of trade A pork packing house,
wooden factory, starch works and canning
factory, are few of the things greatly needed.
The material and the market are here side by
side, strikngly illustrated in the folly of ship
ping the live hog to Kansas City or Chicago to
be killed and returned to us in the form Of fan
CIV brands of hams and breakfast bacon at still
more fancy prices to the consumer. In addition
to our home market we may always depend on
q ready sale for our surplus to our neighbors in
the non-producing regions of the Rocky noun
tains, saying nothing of the great markets fur
Their east. In the money centers of the country
might find safe and profitable employment in
our yourg and growing state. New industries
are springing mp on every hand; our cities and
towns are growing; the product of the field and
farm are increasing values are tending upward,
backed by the productions of the country, and
he bone and tissue and energy of the people, for
tunes have been made in the legitimate increase
US there are fine opportunities for quick returns
10 money properly invested.
From our partial list, which is but an index
% what we have to offer, il will be seen that the
purchaser can be suited in any class of real es-
ate. Improved farms and wild lands, stock
ranches and city property can he shown in great
variety. Any information sought with a view
given and a circular containing a map OF
scdgwick county, with an extended list of
will be mailed on application to
n F. NIEpERLANpER, Wichita, Kansas.