Wichita eagle., 1886-12-16
BLUFF CITY, KANSAS.

BLUFF CITY, KANSAS.
To the Editor Of The Ea.ie.
We read Bluff City letter yesterday in
the EAGLE of the 9Th, that must have been
written some time ago. 1t says there are
mine or ten good buildings up SO there
was then, very likely, but time works won
ders in this electric town. Today there is
nearly forty; thirty of them better than any
town of the same age in Kansas, can show.
There are fifteen or twenty business houses,
none of which cost less than $500, most of
them considerable more The hotel will
cost $1,000 without furniture. 1t will
have a large, fine office two dining rooms,
large parlor ON the second floor and about
thirty other rooms. 1t is the company S
intention to build fine house and have it
kept IN frstclass style so that visitors to
Bluff City may have grst rate accommoda-
tions during their stay. By the plan OF
the yards in the engineers office, we see
there is to be g passenger and freight de-
pot, round house, engine repair shop and
car repair shop. There are eight or ten
teams at work grading the main street and
the depot grounds. Nothing that money
and good taste can do will be wanting TO
improve the town. The railroad people
from here to st. Louis are investing
in property, and many of them will make
this their headquarters. The building
boom keeps right along and nothing will
check it but very bad weather. If it stops
at all this winter it will break 0 It early in
the spring, as there are seven or eight brick
and stone houses going up as soon as spring
opens With the possible exception of XII
owa no town in this part Of Kansas ever
had such boom. The wise regulation OF
the town lot company that no business lots
would be sold unless the buyer contracted
to build in a given time building not less
than 20x40 feet, are putting lots at what
some might consider a high price, has
brought in people with means, and kept
out mean little buildings. Already Main
street shows better lot of fronts than
many towns of ten years of age. The ac-
tive men of the town company are John A.
Young, of kalamazoo. Mich., who is hav
ing plans made for a fine house which he
expects to make his future home, James \.
Young, of Chicago; l.. D. Latham, of
l.. D. Latham & Co., builders Of the X. G.
& s W railroad, and Ed 2. Green, of
Winfield Mr. Latham is having plans
made for house to be built in the spring,
when he will remove here These gentle
men are energetic, have plenty Of money to
back their good taste and have enlisted to
make a fine. town of Bluff City. In the
hands of such men and by the great
Frisco railroad and surrounded by such a
country as southern Harper county, to look
for big town is to be consistent, to cry
failure is malicious and displays jealousy
rather than Judgment.
Over thirty thousand dollars worth Of
lots have been sold and the demand con
tinues Snyder, Glover 81 Co, are receiv-
ing orders and inquiries for lots from all
directions and in every mail. Parties de-
string information should write them at
once
For business, for health, for a home,
Bluff City has many Inducements to offer.
Plenty Of pure, soft water, a lovely coun-
try. productive soil, and Southern Kan
sas climate are among the advantages this
favored spot possesses. While our friends
in the north are waliowing in snow with
the mercury below zero, we are enjoying
almost summer weather with scores Of
mechanics at work, building a town that
will soon find together in friendship and
traffic, thousands of people that now are
strangers. Enterprise and money are al work
changing this once quiet spot into a bust
ling city. Already commerce seeks new
channel; societies are planning to build new
churches, schools will be provided, homes
erected and beautifed, and in two years
mOTc will be accomplished than thirty
years would do in an old eastern state. II
the world was full of Kansas men, the Al
mighty would have to create an addition
inside of a year.
With all our hustle and boom, and con
gregating of SO many that were so lately
strangers, there has been nothing but the
best of order No violation of law; not a
drunken man has been seen on our streets,
except fool that came over from Cald
well, that should never have been allowed
to drive a team.
A letter that describes Bluff City this
week. will be too old the next, and if thu
mail delays this letter it will not be full
description Of what is done here by the
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