Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-27
NEW kIOWA.
To the Editor Of the Eagle:

To the Editor OF the Eagle:
The fine weather OF the last few
weeks has produced veritable build
ing boom. Stores, residences, ware
houses, etc, are going up in every d.
rection-new ones being started every
day.
The city council lately passed an Or
dinauce making il obligatory upon all
property holders TO plant trees upon
the streets at uniform distance, out
side the sidewalks This tree ordi-
nance met with an almost unanimous
approval. and thousands OF trees have
already been set out in conformity
with the law, and a greater number
are being planted inside the
fences and about the grounds.
Ii was found necessary 90 pass a
stock ordnance To protect the trees.
This was also done and in year or
two more our new town will be a for
est city. To any one from a city or
state where these same ordinances have
been in force aud proved 50 successful
this state of affairs here Is very graft
fying.
The kiowa extension OF the South
ern Kansas railroad is being pushed
rapidly forward to the Panhandle and
before another year our wholesale
merchants hone to ship by rail instead
ofthe slow process OF overland freight.
That this extension of the Southern
Kansas 10 Texas will be of great
benefit to us there can be no doubt.
large stocks in every line are carried
here ROW. and when the twenty I'M
organized counties of the Panhandle
of Texas get their quota of emigration,
and small towns begin TO spring mp
over that vast fertile plain Kiowa is
other advantages the most available
and best wholesale city to which this
great country will be tributary. Great
wagon trains are loaded here almost
every day, taking chances in
fording such rivers as the Salt
Fork, Cimmarron and Canadian.
no. TO speak of the Wolf and Beaver,
and a great many smaller streams.
This will all be done away with,
freight train will be loaded here in the
morning. and in the evening the goods
will be unloaded in Texas. The prob
ability that il will also be an exceed
ingly fine market for two or three
years yet, as il has been in the past
for everything the farmer can produce,
is more than possible, and is, with the
demand from the territory, slim
ulaiing our farmers TO plant
greater acreage this year
than ever before. Prosperity
is rapidly advancing and many
transfers are made daily. Yet while
business in real estate Is active, many
excellent opportunities for inye stment
still remain, and especially is the
ftSSNhi bt>tAa ptc itiiit ~ Cpiiic tVE
persons wishing TO buy home or
place TO build in the future. While
We are now A frontier city. Yet every
visitor is pleased with the extreme
good order that always prevails. This
one fact has done much towards build
ing up kiows. Churches and school
building will he built this summer.
Several fine brick blocks are in process
of erection. Particularly noticeable
are the ones of W. +. Campbell and J
w. Dobson. These buildings. when
completed. will be the finest ones
in southern Kansas. Croaksrs are
found everywhere. they would oreak
If dead and by accident landed in
heaven, they croak ii the wind blows.
if il don't blow, if il is cold. If il is
warm, il il Is muddy, if il is dry.
They look up to the sky and croak.
Now while we have had month of
pleasant weather, with snow two feet
deep in Michigan,) and farmers are
about ready TO plant corn one old roos-
ter from Hoosierdcni croaked because
the dust got in his eyes, and croaked
because the railroad was going on,
and because this was the frontier. and
thetow was growing too fast, and