Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-11
WHAT 1T MEANS.
Facts and Figures that are Pat
ent to All.
A Pointer on Wichita's Present Supre-
macy and Future Magnitude which
Will Satisfy the Most Skep-
teal

have our readers, or any considerable
number of them, ever noted the list OF reai
estate transfers as published in this paper
from day to day, especially for the past Elk
or eight months, and considered its purport'
No other city or county in the state pup
I;shas any such a list. Take the last SIX
DAYS, which represent about an average Tor
the past six months, and we have one hun
dred and sixty-two sale of rea! estate Tor
single week, at an aggregate of upwards OF
two hundred and forty thousand dollars or an
average of twenty-seven sales of fifteen hun
dred dollars each, and forty thousand doll
ars for every day. Or take thepast week, day
by day. On Wednesday the 3rd, the number
Of real estates published in the EAGLE were
thirty-fiye, for the SUN Of SCI. 600; Thurs
day twenty-seven, for $4,000; Friday,
twenty-seven, for S51 COO; Saturday twenty
three, for $4,000; Monday thirty, for
$4,000; Tuesday, twenty-five. for 1000.
This would give an average of six hundred
and fifty sales per month, at an aggregate OF
nearly a round million of dollars, CT for the
| past six month, three thousand eight hun-
dred and Lightweight sales for sum tota! OF
five million seven hundred and sixty thou
sand dollars These figures are very close
to the exact facts as shown by the records
being an average made up from the list
published from day to day. As we stated in
the outstsrt no city or county III the state has
or can make such showing. There are
towns whose papers pretend that the boom
Of their respective places very closely rival;
that of Wichita, and ether towns whose pa
pers say that the EAGLE makes the most OF
everything for Wichita, but we challenge
the best of them to make even one-half such O
showing in real estate transactions. What the
investment of one million dollars per month
in real estate means need not be dwelt upon
The investment of forty thousand dollar:
per day in real estate speaks in louder tone:
than are ever employed by the EAGLE, and
in way 60 definite that to cavil would be
idiotic. If anybody in the state of Kansas
or in Kansas City, Missouri, even, has beer
led by misrepress ntation TO believe
that the boom at Wichita il
not the most solid aud substantial that evel
lifted any city in Kansas, let him study thess
transfers as published by the EAGLE but fol
q single week. Let him not only look a
the number and the aggregate but not
their averages, which shows them not to b.
outside lots or speculative additions. BLOW
is cheap and bubbles collapse, but th'
boom of Wichita is based upon the most sub
stantisl trade of any city in Kansas, upoi
the undisputed fact that shc has the hes
railway system and the closest com
petitive system, and upon the abiding falti
the day she was founded, that at the conflu
ence OF the two Arkansas rivers in the mids
of the greatest valley in the west there
mus: be great commercial city. To deny
Wichitas present ability or past wonderful
growth is but to kick against the pricks. Ev
erything points TO her present suprem
acy and future magnitude. For the mex
few months so rapid will be her growth, no
only in new houses and new business homes
but in new additional mercantile firms snC
various industries that it will bother the old
est inhabitant to keep the run of the devel
opment. In the meantime two more eastern
roads will be knocking at our doors, and two
more lines or feeders will be projected ives
and southwest.
If the undisputed fact that Wichita i
doing to-day twice the business of any city
in the state, as shown by her clearing house
footings; if the fact that prominent jobber!
and importers of the larger cities o.
the continent have concluded that tht
demands of the country will build city
here, are but guess work; if the fact that We
already have more independent and compel
ing railroads than any interior town in tho
state, and that two more will be here within
Few months, is not worth naming; if al
these things weigh as nothing in the estima
ton of those who would have il that Wichi
Ia is not necessarily the coming city OF tho
state of karsss, if not Of the west, then LEI
them dispose of or explain away the faitf
and facts as represented by this real estate
transfer table and IFS undeniable figure:
which occur from day to day, month in snd