Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-10-07

edge that they who SOW shall reap,
come thirty. some sixty. and some one
hundred fold. But none have reaped
thirty fold: none have reaped sixty
fold: all have reaped one hundred fold,
and many hundreds of hundreds. On
the spot where the antelope was firisk-
ing and playing, unmolested by the
onward tread of civilization, in 1878,
when the little band of early pioneers
came in sight of the ground upon |
which the county seat now stands, is
to be seen the town of Anthony, un-
surpassed in beauty and magnificance
by any town in the Sunfower state.
No town has finer buildings, no town
where capitalists have invested their
wealth gives more remunerative re-
turns, The little colony struggled
long and earnestly for q railroad to
extend its iron track within the con-
fines OF the little hamlet out on the
plain. Many were the
reports made, many were
the promises given, and
many were the disappoint-
ments and the discourage
ments until the St. L.. Fl. S. & W.,
railroad company took notice of the
hamlet and on the first day of May,
1885, the great Iron Horse made his
grand entrance into the city of An
thony over the St. l.. Fit. S. Il W.
railroad. Since then the railroad has
been unable to carry the freight which
was offered TO it as common carrier.
Millions of dollars worth of building
material has been shipped over the
road and erected into large, grand
and imposing business houses and
beautiful and majestic residences.
Millions of dollars worth of merchan-
disc has been shipped over the road to
merchants to supply the increasing
demand of the inhabitants, the out
growth of that little colony of pio-
neers that came TO Harper county in
1873, where the buffalo grazed and the
antelope played. Millions of dollars
worth of cattle have been shipped
over tho same road to supply the de-
mands OF the great cities of the east.
Since the entrance of the Sunfiower
road the city Of Anthony has at
most doubled its population, and still
the people come from every part Of
the United States to cast in their lot
with Us and become workers in this
busy hive where we have no drOnes.
Every one is awake to his own inter-
est and every one has just pride in
the growth of the city. The city now
has nearly 5000 inhabitants and still
the people come. What attracts them!
The question is easily answered: First,
the town is SO happily situated as to
be accessible by railroad from almost
every point, and IL is only ques-
ton of few short years until the
great trunk lines will extend them
selves to this city to share the traffic
that now burdens the SunflOwer rail-
road. Second, the town Is surround
ed by a country surpassed by none i'll
the inhabited world for fertility of the
soil and equinam;iy of it. climate.
Almost every species OF vegetables,
cereals AMI fruit, can he and l. cult
waited and grown in prolific abundance
Third. 10 country en- prosper without
city TO consume lis products and
purchase it, fruit, and products of the
soil. and no inland city can long pros
per without surrounding neighbor-
hood To support he city. The city OF
Anthony is growing to support the
country. and M country rs fertile and
prolific as that surrounding Anthony
can long remain without willing hand,
to cultivate III soil and produce the
golden grain and rear the cattle on the
thousand hills. Anthony is blessed
BY nature aud by ariitice. and is de-
tined TO be no mean city" on the fer
tile plains of southern Kansas. Those
seeking homes in the west have onl
TO come. see and be convinced.