Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1884-09-25

WHAT ARE THEY LIKE.
Wichita, Sedgwick County, and tn
Arkansas Valley.


'.>Nhat are your town, county, valley and
climate like" writes man in Southern
Ohio. in a letter received yesterday, ''tell me
in the few,.st possible words" We turned
the letter over and wrote on the back: "I4ike
no other town, county or climate in the
world, Come and see for yourself.
There is no other such town, no other
such county, no other such valley. in Ameri-
ca at least, nor do we believe that, in all
respects there is any match for the climate
of this latitude; a climate of almost per-
petual sunshine, cloudless skies and pure
air. an air that Is ever stirring aud which be-
comes breeze during the midsummer
nights: a climate where the spring opens in
March. and where the autumn doee not close
till Christmas. where the last frost dsap-
pears IN April, and the first frost not till late
in October, where the winters are more of
sunshine than of clouds. In almost the ex-
act latitude of the mouth of Chesapeake Bay
ON the Atlantic and Los Angeles on the Pa
ciiic. yet, being thirteen hundred feet above
from the heat of the summer. 1t is. in fact,
the most delightful climate, in many re-
spects, take il the year round, in the world.
As 10 what the Arkansas valley is and i
like, we couldn't tell our Ohio enquirer all
about its many peculiari,ies aud eNccllenccs
in whole page of the EAGLE. II is to
America what the Nile i 10 Egypt, bearing
many characteristics of the latter stream, cx-
cept lis annual rise from melting SHOWS is
never an overflow. The valley is wide, in
this county. in places, from twelve to four
teen miles. The soil is "a rich, loose, alluvi-
al soil, warm, and in places sandy, respond
ing quickly in its terminating processes.
In the production of wheat, corn rye and
vegetables. in fruits ana in grasses, the soil
and climate combined seems unequalled.
The soil is SO friable and loose that it can be
cultivated continuously in the rainest sea-
sons, and at the same time the severest
drouths seems 10 effect it but little.
Scdgwiek county is situated in the heart
of this great valley, ia fact, at the intersec-
tian of the three valleys. the great Arkansas,
the Little Arkansas and the Minnesota val
leys, I'll three of the rivers named flowing
through the county. Sedgwick county is
known as the "great Valley County
Previous to 1870 IFS only products were
grass, Indians and buffalo. The population
of the county now Is upwards Of $4,000.
The last valuation of property ON basis of
one-third actual value as taken by the as
SCISSORS, was S7,137, 1892. or "a cash valu-
alton of about sd 100000, and all practical
ly the products from of her soil, herds and
wears. Last year Scdgwick county produced
I,1s7, $40 bushels Of wheat, and this year fully
as much. Last year the county produced over
100000 bushels of corn and this year fully
as much or more. Only per cent of the
corn is shipped. the bulk being fed by the
raisers of il 10 hogs and cattle. Last year
1,o09,5 $40 bushels of oats were harvested in
Scdgwick county. The assessors returns for
year shows upward of sixty thousand head
of hogs and forty thousand head of cattle in
the county. About one-haf OF its area is
under cultivation.
As to Wichita our friend, and all others,
might well act on the advice we sent him.
"Come and see for yourself" 1t Is the won
der of this rapidly growing stite. \ mere
hamlet and Indian trading post of fourteen
wears ago has grown 10 be a city Of street
railways. waterworks, gas works, with two
regular associated press daily newspapers,
with a population of fourteen ar fifteen
thousand, against "A population of eighteen
months ago of 5000. Ii is city of eigh; |
church buildings: twelve hotels; six regular /
organized banks, two Of them National |
banks: four large permanent brick school
buildings and four smaller school buildings. |
which are attended by two thousand two !
hundred scholars and conducted by twenty |
six teachers: five Touring mills, the largest (
one of which turns out three hundred barrels |
Of -four per day and another two hundred
and another one hundred and fifty; these |
three all of the new roller process making |
the finest -four in the world, the demand for |
il coming from as far east as Boston and |
west from the city of San Francisco: six |
lines of railway. two cfthcm trans-coniinent- |
al: hundred stores. wholesale and retail: a
dozen factories of various lines: six steam
elevators. in short the coming metropolis,
the coming great city of the great state of
Kansas.
Come and see for yourself.