Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-14

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years after the counties in which they
lay are organized. There will be a
rigid inquiry made by the attorney
general into the lands so taken, num-
Der of which cases are already in the
courts.
After several days in Leoti, in
which the writer visited several Sec
tions of the county and conversed
with its inhabitants, he is enabled to
saw that Wichita county has more
tillable lands than any county Of its
size in the west. An examination of
the soil shows that it is from four to
six feet deep and that its capacity for
crops in favorable seasons is very
good, and a general confidence is man
ifest among its settlers that a few years
will develop wonders in its products.
The officers and members of the
Leoti Town company are: j. P. Wal
lace, presinent; L. q. Moore, secre-
tary; Milton Brown, treasurer and at
torney; DR.. F. Hall, of the Metropo!-
itan hotel, at Garden City; +.
q. Bates, L. D. Cowan, w.
II. Montgomery, II. L. Hill;
d. l.. Musselmen, Dale Wallace aud +.
A. Persons, all business men and capi-
talis;s of note throughout Kansas.
The company has spent $1,000 in i'm
proyemeDts, and the town looms up
in fine shape. During the stay of the
writer some thirty-five houses were
contracted to be built. and fifty lots
selected. The demand for lumber is
great, and two lumber yards are Just
being established to supply the de-
. mands that are increasing daily.
The writer noticed that a larger
, number of the settlers had commenced
to piow in Wichita county than at any
point be visited off of the river, and
that Immediately around LeOti the
, rich soil was being broken for corn
and oats, and for tree culture.
The writer can mention having seen
6 two wild horses aud ten antelope
: while on his trip, and also
John rabbits beyond count. A boy
1 from Ohio, just coming to the county
having jumped up a long cared rabbit,
+ was fully under the impression that
, it was a goat and spent the larger
part of a day in trying to drive it to
, his home. 1t is unnecessary TO say
that he knows now the difference be-
tween goat and rabbit.
The arrivals at Garden City for the
+, counties of Lane, Scott and Wichita
o are immense and increasing daily, to
I what extent 1t will be extended is be-
\ yond conjecture, but it seems that
n the whole country is pouring in its
9 home seekers into Kansas, and par
!. ticularlly at that point. Real estate
o men are all busy and seem not able tO
talk anything but business. You nay
4 be assured they mean business When
;. they strike home-seeker,ta can take him
I to section corner in short order. II
J, NAV BE- well to mention that grea,
, deal of interest is manifested just now
as 10 the course of the Eagle Line land
= to satisfy the curiosity in that direc.
!, ton. the WEEKLY EAGLE is sought fol-
o with the greatest interest. Indeed
), the EAGLE appears TO be the prevail
=, ing paper out here. Even the new.
corners all know it as soon as they get
here. When you mentioned to the
writer that your lists were rot very
j, large out here, you .nust have made
/ some mistake, since find ii every
, where.
People are anxious to have closer
= commercial relations with Wichita, oil
. whose merchants and Who'll esalt
houses they speak highly. Many
=, goods find their way here from WITCH.
I ita, and it is very desirable that she,
. the chief city of Kansas, and the nat
ural trade center of this section should
push ahead its roads TO meet the grow.
ing demands of this growing country.
The railroad prospects OF Leoti are
encouraging and the lines of railroads
projected through the tier Of counties
from Lane TO the Colorado line are
quite numerous and LeOti may reason
ably expect two of them and look for
the Wichita and Denver, the popular
, Eagle Line.