Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-12-12
hAZEL1ON.
HAZELTON, Dec.

HAZELTON, Dec. 10.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
Winter struck our city day before
yesterday, but is in hurry to go, so
took the train this morning for Da-
kota.
We are surprised to see the amount
OF improvement which is going on
here at the opening of winter; new
buildings are everywhere in course OF
erection. Among them is large bus
mess house on Main street for 5. +.
Pools drug store, and large block
TO be built to the building of the bank
of Hszelton, making building 100
feet square. of which the largest city
in the state would be proud. What is
now going on is only the forerunner
of what is to come in the spring.
We are not enthusiastic on any SUBJ
icct Just now, but from signs every
where visible we feel safe in predict
ing for Hazelton a growth next sum-
mer which her most sanguine citizen
scarcely expects to see realized, and
we have been aware that for the last
three or four months two or three
car loads of lumber have been I'M
loaded here every day, which has all
been consumed in making improve
ments. mostly in the surrounding
country, which must react upon the
city in short time.
We can give no idea of the number
of farm residences and barns which
have been built within few miles of
town. But we counted twenty-five
going seven miles in one direction.
The pork house has been opened
with complete new outfit through
out and is now not excelled for acco-
modations in the corner of Kansas.
The elements of prosperity are every
where becoming more and more ap-
paren. and the most conservative be-
gin TO see that an area of action of in
dvancement are close upon u.s. Yet
while the correspondents from other
towns with which we are acquainted
are constantly hauling abou; wha;
they are driving and what they are 60
ing to do: we will be modest, not con-
tradicting any statement they make
but will be CAREFUL to tell only what
any eye can see and what any one can
deny. ANY falsehood that we would
assert would only disgust any who
came here expecting to see what none
of us prospect OF becoming, great
railroad and commercial center, and
we will not therefore claim
that we have. We are
not going TO become the metropolis
of Southern Kansas and we will not
assert il. We already have lived long
enough to know that if new kiowa,
Medicine Lodge, Attica. Anthony,
Harper and Wellington. are each and
all going to be the said metropolis; we
can never be, so will camly submit TO
be subordinate city. Subordinate
to what city? Not to any of the be-
fore named tows, but to Wichita.
That Wichita is TO be as she is now,
the commercial and railroad center OF
Southern Kansas, is TO our little mind
a foregone conclusion, and we do no,
admit il because this shall appear in
the EAGLE, but because it agrees with
| our opinion after a careful survey
of the growth of all the great cities
west of the Alleghenies. We are sat
isiied that there will be greater city
than Hazeltou in Southern Kansas.
but we are not satisfied that it will be
Wellington, Harper, Medicine Lodge,
Attica or Anthony. We however adj
nit the evident fact, that city is 10 be
Wichita. We know of no other city
in which we can put our trust, and
a. soon As the other town acknowl-
edges the invinciblc the better for
them