Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1885-07-24
A FEW Pointers AGAIN.
o the Editor Of the agile.

You gave an extract from the Argus Rad
ical, Of Beaver, Pa. few days ago, signet
BY "Jasper" that is misleading in it, styl'
and apparently designed to injure this plac'
under cover of giving information. Frs
we are located southwest of Kansas City
which Is different by far than northwest
Again the town was not started until The
spring of 1870, difference of two year.
from his statement, which lie important in
the age of "queens." This was govern.
ment station and therefore had mail service
but there were not five hundred people in
Sedgwick county, Jan. lst 1870. He says
there are no mills or factories. That is alb
solutely false for we notice several fine
Touring mills, canning factory, two iron
foundries, broom factories, ETC., and several
brick manufactures, tinshops, wagon fac
tories, the largest printing establishment in
the state, employing forty persons, major
ity of whom have families, and other indus
tries all giving employment to laboring men.
Jasper says he looked around and saw the
PcoPiC WV Sodio hoS &c INV bhSy hNCos
Could he have considered the extent OF
country that assists in building up and sus-
tanning the town and the avenues open 10
honest labor he need not have given such q
pointer" We find people east living in
luxury and in sight many in novels who
never have more than the plainest fare and
often suffer with extreme hunger that does
not prove anything as to the merits Of the
country perhaps and yet it may. We know
that country may have paupers and yet
be desirable location. Let us see about
the overdrawn pictures of Wichita. We
deny that assertion in toto. Taking into
consideration this country as we wendell
our way over it fifteen years ago seeing moth
ing but naked prairie for miles and bringing
up on the very site of the present town hav-
ing journeyed one hundred miles on horse
back to reach it we deny the ability of any
editor in Wichita or elsewhere to draw from
his imagination picture that will present
this valley in light strong enough to prop
erly express the contrast between that
lonely camp upon thebare earth snd the
flowers of this now imperial land flowing
with milk and honey. Moreover We know
men now all over the county who came
here penniless and some without a dime
that are now living in comfort and some in
elegance. Ask those who left the crowded
places Of the east and started in life here, if
they have any regrets. They 60 east and
surprise their friends with evidences of their
condition and every day Others
come To share with them in the prosperity
Wichita. II is good saying that the
place TO do business is where business IL
done, and the records do not show failure
among the business men of this town if they |
were educated u their business and but very |
few Mt all, while the successful ones are
counted by hundreds. We say come To |
Wichita and bee for yourselves for you will |
learn something, and II you use ordinary |
sense need not fall into the hands of sharks |
for there are plenty of reliable men to deal |
with, eithefin land or merchandise and in |
no state is it easier to learn il titles are per-
feet. To those who wish to buck the tiger
in townsites and hazardous speculxtions we
leave to Jasper the privilege of giving point
ers. But the country is rapidly advancing |
in population and wealth and villages soon
grow to be respectable towns and the
claim shanties are fast replaced
bye legant homes with fruits and flowers and
social privileges, and the railroad period Of
speculation is followed by steady develop
ment, SO that such towns often prove remu-
nerative TO those who wait for their invest
ments TO mature.
Now Jasper may have undertaken a curb
stone business in real estate here and got
'oured, but being native of the grand old
state, known as the keystone, assure my
brethren that there is room here for thous-
.nds Of honest toilers, and those who ex-
,ect to gain q competence by honest labor
will not be disappointed, but those expect
ng TO find the good things of this life with
,ut eIertion. will fail here as they do there.
Ten years of ones life will accumulate more
here than twenty-five there, is my expert
,nce. An OLD SETTLER.