Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-05-07
WHY WE WILL WAX
Foolish Questions and Silly APP
prehensions.
Wichita's Real Boom Yet in the Future
and Those Who Hope for Cheaper
Real Estate Are Hoping
in Vain.

A stranger yesterday asked US, ''What is
there here to keep up such q city as yours!"
Our answer was the interrogatory, "What is
there anywhere to keep up any city," No
such question would ever come from any
man of shrewdness or of even ordinary OBJ
servation. The reason why Wichita grows
is simply because, with her environments..she
couldn't do anything else. The city simply
expands in response to the demand 0manst-
ing from her surroundings, which includes
the conformation OF the country and her To-
cation with reference thereto, and because
size is q natural center of q vast country of
almost continuous valley, whose productive
ness is unequslled, whose health is phenom-
enal and whose population, therefore, is
growing dense not only, but prosperous. A
big rich country of surplus products, means
dense and rich population, and a dense
and rich population means trade and busi-
ness, and trade snd business means a city.
That is all there is 70 IT, the only secret about
it, and blind must be the man who fails
TO see it. When it comes to soil, climate.
health, and all those things which combine
to make prosperous country. where csn
the equal of southwest Kansas be found !?
Her farms, her crops, her fruits, and her
livestock interests, and her hundred vii
lagos, towns and cities, with Wichita as the
supply depot, the central point, the empo-
rum, the only wonder is that her growth
has not been more rapid. If We except
Chicago and Kansas City, no city in the
west was ever trenched on by such a COM
bination OF sustentation forces. Neither of
the cities named, ct the same age, boosted
half the business, wealth or Importance of
our Wichita Of to-day. Then it's business,
that makes Wichita grow, and growth
means an increase in values. So potent are
these suxiliaries, so rapid the increase of
her trade, and the growth OF the demand
upon her capital and energies, that
but for lack of business
rooms many branches of trade now unrep-
resented on her streets would have been
ere this established and flourishing. With
her central location and pre-eminence, every
new interest brought in, every jobbing line
added, but serves to expand her field and to
bind more closely the one already occupied.
As 10 the question sometimes mooted by
strangers, "Will there not come an end to
all tbis?' VIC answer that such thing is just
as improbable and impossible as it would
have been for Wichita 10 have stopped
growing five or eight years ago, and to have
settled down TO the dimensions OF al aver
age hourishing county seat. With her To-
cation, the result OF lifting and setting down
here St. Louis, with all her stocks and
capital and industrial interests, would cause
or compel her to reach out to and take con-
troll of the greater field which surrounds
us, aud TO establish new and larger arteries
of trade until the powers to supply
had encroached upon o field wide
and great enough to support the
demand. These matters are always self-reg
u!ating and scli-adjusting. Even now we
opine, before Wichita has secured the in
vestment of the necessary capital in jobbing
lines which she will be called upon TO pro-
vide and maintain. two or three more great
railroads will be at her door urging her for
ward, their homogeneous interesting them
selve in getting packing houses, and live
stock yards AID greater grain elevators es-
tablished and built here in their own inter-
est, as we'll as our own.
One word more in this connection. There
are many people, principally new corners,
who are waiting for, and expecting decline
in prices of real es.ste. That time will new
er come There may como lulls or times of
depression when real estate may come TO
stand still or advance less rapidly, but it will
never bs cheaper. We refer, of course. to
inside property.
However great this valley, IFS progress
and trade, and however great the present
growth and business Of Wichita, the posi-
bic, the probable, the certain future for
each will be far greater, and the dirt will
hardly commence to fly on the three
new projected lines before everybody will
see and concede all that the EAGLE has ever