Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-02-20
THE COMING SEASON.
The Great Arkansas Valley and Her
Growing Towns and CItles.


Everything indicates that 1885 will prove
prosperous year fol Wichita and
southwestern Kansas, whatever may be
the experience Of other states and
localities. The half dozen coun-
ties of the lower Arkansas valley and the
new counties to the west and adjoining the
Indian Territory have already begun to feel
the swellings of the rising tide of prosperity
which has annually visited this section for
the past ten years. Bankers and real estate
men OF Wichita tell us that never before so
early in the season have the indications of
lively times been SO strongly marked. Which,
ita Is the entrepot Of vast section of country
and whatever Is true touching her life, holds
good with twenty or thirty growing towns
of Sedgwick, Sumner, Kingman, Harper,
Pratt, Mead, Clark and Comanche counties
Not only has the balance of the state virtu-
ally given it up that the lower Arkansas
valley is the most desirable and the richest
section of this great state, but the live stock
and grain statistics of the last half dozen
years leave no reason for doubt. California
fruit growers tell us that they
never saw country cqualing this for
foe quality Of fruits; Illinois hog raisers
comedies that no country ever produced
such porkers; Miami and Scioto bottom corn
raiscrs of Ohio have long since thrown up
the sponge, and as for our wheat IT now finds
its way into every considerable port of
America and Europe. These natural adj
vantages in the hands Of an enterprising,
wide awake happy people, of course. settles
the question of continued prosperity1 Many
fortunes have been made here by ren with
in the past few years, but the chances for as
msuy more are equal to those first utilized.
Hundreds and thousands of farmers have
grown Independent within the last few yedrs
here, but the same kind of opportunities are
still open for Others to secure like indie
pendsndence. To all parties, in whatever
state, contemplating coming to Kansas our
advice would be, come directly to Wichita
from whence you can reach any OF the great
counties named by the most direct routes
as soon as they shall have determined which
are the most desirable.
As for Wichita it lie the leading city of
this section of the state, containing greater
and Weather population. two or three
times over of any city to be found
between Memphis, Tennessee, and Denver
Colorado. 1t is now the fourth, probably
the third, city in the state, and per force of
her own environments and geographical po-
sition must soon be the first. As a wholesale
orjobbing point she already leads all cities in
the west save Kansas City, Missouri, and
Omaha, Nebraska She has all the comforts
and appliances of modern city, as to water
supply, gas, street railways, etc. As for her
phenomenal life and growth, what is true of
Wichita. in these respects, is also true pro-
portionately of nearly all of the other coun-
ties named. No man, possessing energy
and WHO desires home in the West, can
fail of success, either as business man in
any OF our promising towns, or as a farmer
or stock grower on our widespread, beauti-
full and rich prairies.