Wichita eagle., 1886-12-10
IUKA LIST.
To the Editor Of the Eagle.

To the Editor Of the Eagle.
Iuka is situated eighty miles west of
| Wichita, on the Kansas Southwestern rail-
road, j. j. Burns, president, which runs
direct through Panhandle. Iuka will
have the terminus for at least one year, and
as Iuka is the county seat of Pratt county,
no doubt at the end of twelve months will
be town of some 1850 inhabitants. The
railroad company have reserved space of
300x1500 feet in the addition which they
have laid out, for side track room, this
being the end of a division. The road is
now being graded from the Reno county
line at the rate of more than mile day.
The company promises and expects to run
trains into Iuka by January 5, 1887.
The Fairmont Town company. of which
Mr.. S. II. Mallory is president, have
plated three hundred and twenty acres,
and sold in three days over twenty thous-
and dollars worth of lots. Already twenty
four buildings are contracted to be erected
in this addition. The contract has been
let for hotel building, 60x90 feet, three
stories high, and ten of the buildings con-
tracted for are in course of erection
Iuka is situated in the midst of the most
fertile portion of Pratt county, and the
oldest settled. Corn, for instance, will
average between thirty and forty bushels
per acre.
Iuka is a nice town of 500 inhabitants
and at present is enjoying a substantial
boom; has quite number of good bust
ness houses,
W. S. Badebaugh & Co., are the leading
dry goods merchants Harrel & Harrel
are also enjoying liberal trade in the
same line.
Lowry Bros. are large dealers in hard
ware and agricultural implements. Their
business building is being doubled in size
in order to accommodate their growing
trade.
G. A. Sheldon is making deserved
success. He is proprietor of the Pioneer
drug store.
S. W. Taylor is one of the oldest firms
in Pratt county, and is the leading grocer
of the town.
G.. P Green is the principal contractor
and builder; has at present fifteen men in
his employ.
j. F. Metcalf, banker, is just erecting
his bank building.
Chas. McAnarney is district clerk elect,
and a very genial gentleman.
Mrs. Poppenhouse is running nice pri
vate boarding house. The capacity of her
house is crawded to its utmost all the time
D. G. Lewis is county attorney. He is
a man who has done more for Iuka than
any other one man in the town.
Quincy Lewis, county clerk, has just re-
fitted his new Office, and has cosy quarters
J. r. Harrel is one of the prominent
farmers near Iuka.
W. P. Finger, register of deeds, is one
of the cleverest gentlemen we have in our |
travels anywhere.
DR.. J. N. Mccoy is the lead physician of
Pratt county.
Thr State Lumber company, of Wiscon-
sin, is just receiving lumber to stock their
arge yard here, the first they have estab-
ished in the state. Mr. Frank Congleton
S general manager.
j. E. Childers is the genial Boniface of
he Iuka hotel
J. A. Eggleston, proprietor of the Capt.
al Livery stable, is at present erecting a
new barn, 60x100
A. w. Ellis is deputy district clerk.
J. A. Slime, eX-county treasurer, is as
'isting the present county treasurer as dep
ly.
w. V. McCOnn, editor of the Iuka Trav
lie, is building a new office, and when it is
it will be one of the largest in
he county.
Paris & Tregellis. livervmen, run hack
rom Pratt to Iuka
Everybody in Iuka says the EAGLE is
rood flying bird, and that she is going to
light at twenty places in their town from
low on. p. B. d.