The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-10-06
SEDALIA'S FUTURE.
A Retrospective and Prospec-
tive View.
A Few of the Certainties Held In
Sore For the Queen City.

As The We 3dvanceS the CLOUDS seem 10
lie breaking away and tie 81 om aud dull
mes, which pervs, ed Ssdalia the p S; sum
m.r seems iss falling away. As the vel
lifts IL IeEeals much that IS encouraging
aud srousss the hopes OF even The M st
de. % nde as 10 the inevitable onward
progress of ,he Queen City Of the prsiIies
and the ack. ow lodged pro lily OF weste n
WINS. Tweoty We rs ago Sedal WIS
little village dressed in tie swaddling garb
that chsr er'zes a backwOods pO,tOtfice
town, but fiom then until now she has
steadily grown until she now stands the
fifth city in the state. For the hrs, me In
It's history Sedslia was this year somewhat
affected by the dull times which have per-
vaded every part OF the country from the
Atlantic to The Pacific ocean. Rut II Is
mistake TO think that ste has been more,
or even as much aft cted, as other LOCALITIES.
The only reason for such lei being
| that Ter twenty years Of exIs'eHce havlr g
| been free from the resHlts 81 the prsssu
| inciient periodical Y TO other locI'ltIes,
| h made this her ifs, ex .erieuce OF the
| kind more no iced and frlt ty her peope
| liz Is true that the unsettled and u C rain
CO... dItICn of affairs during 'he past sum
mer caused the temporary aDaudon-
meat of bali million dollars of city i'm
proyements contemplated and much OF
With had srssdy been contracted f-r;
also that it has
DELAYED UNTIL NEXT SEASON
the bui ding of a Lorthern exclusion, b. M
psred and prevented the construct on oil =
| southern outlet, thw n ej tine construct IN
Of a Lew a: handsome union depot, for
hidden the CO.. struc ion oil u new snd more
effici, nj w4ter works system a, d in many
other WAYS withheld the adv .nc-ment that
| would have b. en- made under more pro
p'ticus circumstances BIT IL is also T. ne
mat no civ in the United States has this
s-a. ON made as vast and extensive Improve
meuts and advances in proportion to its
SIZE as has Sedalia and it liSewise Is a
mat er of congratul ,tiCn, that while The
many and marve Gus uLdert k ngs above
enumerat have BEEN mporarily del yej
not a single one of them has been alb m
doned or is likely TO be, md the sudden
energy and disoCsi ion TO forward matters
which is now being displayed is guarantee
III It the coming summer will rot be waited
for until many of them are placed in for
ward state If prosressiven. IS and thai
when the sum ner does come, Sed liza will
witness such a boom rs will attract uni
yersal stteniiOn because Of It's unparalleled
magnitude. In the past Sedalia has never
undertaken anything which she f'iled 10
carry out 10 triumphant sue and 1t /:
fair to presume that the ambition to pre-
serve such a record aud the pluck which
. has in the past proven the talisman OF sue
cess, will bear her people triumphantly
ON TO THE GOAL OF VICTORY
IN all that she row has under con- liberation
that il is desirable, should succ ed In Ordel
to advance her TO the front rank OF western
cities, Her resources and her energies art
, alike iuexhaustable, and under these cir
cumst .nces it requi es neither the brain OF
a prophet nor the vision OF seer to predl
cate the srandesI success for Sed lila In The
near future and 10 understand that sh'
will within the next year have completed
or ON the road 10 completion both a north
l ,rn and sIujhern extension railway, one o
| The f =, 81 ua.on DEF. rs in the lan9, Que o
: the Ue,t and pur,st water works In TIT
: world. as perfect a state fair and exp 81
1 ton as can be found anywhere, many new
f,cto,ies. and at least 3 mi Ion dollars o
E new business blocks butt. This certainl!
is a cheering picture, but it is not over
J drawn and all that is necessary tor It's ful
, development is that the people take hear
5 and GO to work. And when this Is done
Wnat then?
E Then surely the Inducements Sedalia car
offer Lew corners who mean business, viii
: be ten-foId what they now are, and the.
e are even now equal to aoy point, and t.
: argument in f.vor of Sedslia as IN
state capital will be beyoni gainsa..
S ard must carry and IS on
r after another of th,se advantages al
gained Others will be presented OF ever
" greater magnitude. But Pettis county II
t isrge, its prairies are broad, and within
its borders lies room for centuriss wor
o vet to come. Then away With croaker:
e who talk of Sedalia having reached he
zenith. She has not We, attained one pc
" cent. of her possibilities, nor 1.-THE OF tina
: which lies even now within her grasp, beg
ging 10 be taken. Then let Sedalisns b
up and doing, satisfied that their fate IS
Z their own hands nature and God hsvln
done their 1T, aud it remaining oaly 10
Sedal:a's people to DO theirs.