Wichita daily eagle., 1885-04-21
GREAT SOUTHWEST
General Wilder Exhoneratcs
Then Checkmates the
Eagle.
Wichita and the Great Counties OF The
Arkansas yaliey-The Santa
Fe's Empire.

of state aud who - am eiiIor on ihe
leading dailic~ Of the state has been
watching and writing abou' Kansas
sni her development since way back
in the iidies. II present the executive
clerk of the state undrr Governor
Martin. in = letter from Topeka dated
last Friday writes the Atcii>or ti'ain-
pior. With The sole observation 'hat
we were IN Topeka in the int' rest 81:
Wichita ana that General ~. made
our hedge rows. shade ;recs and ai'-
piled a swelling attachment io our
cord wood story. wc take plea ,ufe IN
reproducing and endorsing the letter
which reads - follows:
TOPEKA. April Is.
Editor Champion:
The great Southwest has been the
talk here for a dozen year.: il j more
The talk this year than ever before,
and il is growing faster, by ra'l and
by wagon. When on meet The men
Of the Southwest il Is impossible 10
escape the mania-no quarantine can
keep il oHt And when YOU read the
off ciaI crop aud census reports you
will find that mo Immigration liar" in
his highest flights "f fancy, Ess been
able to keep pace ~ 18th the cold >taiis-
ties from ycar Ia year. Marsh Mu'-
dock has Just been here and hc viii ~
disappointed IL lac j not mentioned
in This connection. la oar talk |
told him that | now believed that
every quafi.r section III Kansas
would ere long be the home of a com
Portable settler. with his family.
"Whv." III Marsh. Il have alrfa "
predicted llar iar da. j. nui far dis
tani when I, uian will hc able tn ride
in his carriage fron HIchiia la Pueblo
on road shaded nn ho.is ei,ir- by
magnificent lf'i- u J. really idle
to make - : concessions - Ihr IaeIi
of Wichita aud tiis ArkaIIsa- valley.
When first saw that toWn il wsS a,
bare a. bald head: now they are
cutting down trees for iircwood.
We shall have 10 Gu ou' at lcsSt
two thousand cords of wood ssvs
Marsh, this wear, IN order To get
breathing room. Too much shade.
Ii j. a forest city. have trees
on NV gronnI>. planted by !nyselt.
since -. that measure eight feet
around. six inches from Iiic grouaf.
Take the bet !: NoG want 10" Thcn
he or senate. john Kelly added that
they wgr. i5hiaE lar ccr-H, and
Wichita ToIij iisye Hca.iy sixteen
thousan pCoplr. The COUNTIES wr-t
and s1utnWs- 0: hcr viii very soon
have ~ ,rt-t ,it- average Iopn,a ION
of a kass>a- cuaniy. Last var couiI-
tics IN ghI- p5rJiol oi tie -daser: -
a. cverr our ag uS believed hat il gyas.
aud mol lunw a"o stood iuicrabiv
well: - igMlrE %, ,S2l: sumner, y ,SSd.
COwiey. % -i3j: Butlar. p ,U25; Reno. .l5.
So: ki2gGgii. : s 5-mpTc than l3G.
eco peoul, the nucleus oi an empire,
the Sdnss fo'- empire, yo'i might ~
well call Il. since The enterprise, gen
crosiiv ard Wisc >agariiy of that road
turned the noses al the p-"plr in that
direction, anu. when the dry season
immediately sci in upon tie settlers.
the road helped them out. The Ham
sas Pacific was earlier on the ground.
in the great kaw valley and beyond,
but she has built no empires: il is !.
history, with her. OF uarrowness and
lost opportunities.
The friends OF the irrigation move |
ment. in Fmncy and Ford counties. |
are full of confidence. The canal Will !
soon be sixty miles long, beginning at .
Garden City, Finuey county, aud I
coming east. They think of coming |
on through Ford. Edwards and Paw !
nee couniig-. to- Larned: Of building l
a reservoir an the high land near |
Dodge CITY, supplying that city with |
water. and building other BASH : |
along the line, filling them when the
river i high and drawing from them !
in the dry season. Ny old saving, I
\ pond on every farm. i possible |
of realization. even in the most west
ern counties OF oar magnificent state. (,
ArtesiaG wells. windmiii>. trenches I
and trees viii follow
The Garden Ci,y people already /
raise immense crops OF vegetables on (
their irrigated fields, 800 bushels of
Irish potatoes 10 the acre and better
potatoes, Irish and sweet, than we
raise here. But il viii not paw. viii
IT, W idi-t " IifstA E'+i u on tfiiHi tI
water? They did ii thou
sands of years ago in India and the
East: they do il now in Utah and Cali
fornia. For Kansas and the Kansas
man all things are possible. Sir VII
liam Hamilton, The Scotch philoso-
pher. used TO have "a motto painted on
the walls of his lecture room: The
chief creation of God is man; the best
part of man is his mind" They now
enlarge this and make the best part of
The mind kansan. and pioneer. and
ocatc in our gloriouSly growing west
,rn counties.
While we in the eastern counties
ire fast asleep. more money l. making
N the west out Of lots and lands than
.ver before. Ii the AtchiSon or Brown
county farmer sells his land for forty
iollars an acre. and re-inye>ts al five
iollars, ne will certainly double his
money. and not have long To wait