Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1885-12-20
WHY SHE WINCES.
MORE THAN A COUNTY
METROPOLIS.
Whole Blocks of Imposing Business
Houses Will BE Erected in Wich-
ita Next Season.

OSS1a@s WIZ nae u to6i Va fAaueA>-
writes u his paper that of all the cities in
the state Of Kansas, Wichita is certainly
the most enterprising, and is destined TO
become the largest, Us it is now the best in
"kansas-" We congratulate the metropolis
of Sedgwick county on this fattering
opinion, and trust that it may be fulfilled to
the letter. But what snys Topeka, Atchison
or Fort Scous-k. q. Times.
Wichita has dreamed that she hiss had
booms in the past, upon which presumption
her people have plumed themselves COM
placently, if not triumrhantly, but Wichita
will boom next spring and summer as she
has never doomed before. Where her popu-
la,ion has increased BY the hundreds in the
past it will increase by the thousands in the
future. The esteemed Kansas CITY con;em-
porary may congratulate "county metrop-
oils if it wishes, for that's its
privilege, but that paper and all
the people whom it represents will be con-
graduating themselves within a year that
| Wichita is two hundred and twenty-seven
miles away, instead of being as close to
Kansas City as are Topeks, Leavenworth and
Atchison. This boom of which the EAGLE
speaks, part of which j, is, and the confines
of which Wichita is now touching, can
be felt in the air, can be
seen upon every hand and in thousand
things. Our hotels are daily filled, and our
streets crowded, with strangers who are not
here at this time Of the year incidentally
sight seeing, but who are solid capitalists
and shrewd business men, who have been
caught by the wave OF influence that has
gone out to every part of the land, carrying
with it limitations Of the coming import
ance OF the young commercial giant which
has taken its stand at the confluence of
the Little and Great Arkansas
rivers. This class of men have but
to see 10 be convinced, while Kansas City
has been convinced without seeing. These
men, many of them, realize more certainly
than do many of the older Of our citizens.
that which is in sure store for this city, tina, |
it is the coming city Of Kansas, and that
Kansas City's uneasiness is well founded. |
Kansas City has but 100000 people; she |
must double that population soon if she
would keep in the lead of Wichita, the |
"Sedgwick county metropolis" Where in |
1884 and 1885 Wichita put up single bust
ness houses, next summer she will erect |
whole blocks-imposing blocks of frst-class |
buildings. While we don't deny that We
have a class of conservative people in
Wichita, who may say now that the EAGLE
Is wild in these matters, vet these same
people have said the same for dozen years
or more, but 1t is an undisputable fact that
this valley, this county and this city all are
Us great, if not greater, than the EAGLE ever
claimed or predicted. These conservative
ones simply failed TO comprehend the en-
yironments and the EAGLE did not SO fail,
and that's ali there is OF it. Those whose
judgment conceded with that of the
EAGLE, and who invested accordingly,
came out ahead. So il will
be for the near future; and
we now tell the Kansas City Times that the
Kansas City jobber who has brains enough
10 take in The situation, and enterprise
enough 10 move down TO Wichita with his
stock, will have taken a good grip on times
forelock which will pay him thousand
fold within ten years. This is as sure as
that Wichita is situsted in one Of the great
,st and richest agricultural countries 10 be
found on the face OF the globe-as sure As
hat every city is built in response TO the de-
msnds of wealth-producing surroundings.
The Times asks what will Atchison. Topeka,
Lawrence and Fl. Scott will say TO the cor
OF the Inter Ocean. We don't
lnow, but We say TO these towns that their
chances in the race with Kansas CITY will !
Dc greatly enhanced by the fact that Kansas
City has got competitor which is bound to
iold the wind-wonder level, and but for 6
which competition Kansas City would COM {
,letely over-shsdow everything in the way
If trading point within two hundred miles
If the Ksw's mouth. II
Wait and see.
The writer of the Inter Ocean SAYS "of al \
b cities in the state of Kansas WIGHT. Is =
certainly the most enterprising, and ia des- r
ined to become the largest, as it is now the !
,est city in Kansas.
What does the Kansas City Times have
o say touching the soundness of that cx- :
,ression? Dare it give a truthful opinion'