Wichita eagle., 1886-08-20
IF AND If.
A Howl From Poor Old Mis-
souri,.
Wichita's Boom to be Destroyed and
Our Values Swallowed Up.


been en- joying for several months is not very
slowly but very surely toppling over into thu
bosom of a never ending eternity. Sensible
lCen who invested as they would III option
are pocketirg their profits and retiring t.
other fields. They see the crash coming The
smoke is curling from the mountain top, it
bosom begins to heave and the rumbling
though seemingly distant bursts ftfully up
on the ear. The eruption, which will swal
low the boom and destroy untold thousand:
of dollars worth OF property, can ROT be Ions
delayed.
The envioIs idiot who wrote that, and
which was copied with such evident avidity
by the Kansas City Times, never saw
Wichita, and he has as little conception Of
the grand agricultural empire and the
hundred tlourishing towns with which
Wichita is surrounded, as he has of para
disc or of the eden Of Adam and its foul
rivers
The only crash that Wichita sees coming,
and il is close upon US, is four more trunk
lines of railway and the smoke Of their rum
bling engines. The only ''bosom heav-
ings' that we know of are located in such
towns as Springfield and Kansas City, both
| in the state Of Missouri
Poor old Missouri
/ Now, if the fact that there are a greater
number of really magnificent business
houses going up in this city than in any
other city in the west, is am indication Of
'busted boom then is Wichita toppling
over Ii the fact that more money has
been expended during the summer in this
city in permanent improvements than in all
the towns in Missouri, Kansas City eX-
cepted, is any indication of topping over,
then is Wichita gone up. If to be
the central market of district which will
produce more corn, more fat hogs
and more fat cattle than any district Of
1856 is the eruption which is to swallow
Wichita's boom, then we are already COB
bled If the fact that within The next year
upwards Of fifty splendid agricultural
counties with all their thriving cities, towns
and villages, will be directly connected by
rail with Wichita as central or leading
market, is any indication of slowing up for
an eternity topple, then Wichita is a goner
If thirty OF forty metropolitan business
rooms, ali being rapidly completed and all
leased by heavy jobbcrs of
other cities for term of years
even before the foundation stone Of single
one of the buildings were laid, is an indi-
cation OF expiring life, then is Wichita
dead already in the shell, If the life on
her principal business streets--a rush Of
vehicles and a crush and jam OF moving
humanity on her sidewalks to the extent
that policemen are necessarily on hand to
protect life and limb are pointers to the
cVming desolation, so graphically portrayed
by the Jack Oak scribber of southwest
Missouri, then is Wichita going inevitably
to the dogs If the support Of the great
est daily morning paper in the state which
with large lists reaches seventy
eight towns and cities Of south
west Kansas with u circulation un-
by any daily in Kansas, if a
clearing house-the only one in the state
showing from half to one million dollars
TRANSACTION weekly; if the addition Of new
industries, and the accession of new lines of
business almost daily. and the continued in
crease ofpopulation by every incoming train
are among the signs Of Wichitas coming
catastrophe then indeed are we already
ruined if, in short, to be the envy OF all the
cities and towns Of Missouri is 10 be fail
ure then beyond all question is Wichita
''busted' community
The Springfield Herald and the Kansas
City Times, and all other enyious sheets
and their editors. to the contrary notwith-
standing, no town or city in the west or
elsewhere, within the memory or observa-
ton of the present generation ever enjoyed
so solid. substantial! and wonderful a growth
as marks that of Wichita today. and no
city ever offered more sure guarantees of an
uneXamplod and prosperous future. So
plainly evident is her destiny as Il CONNER
cial metropolis to every one who beholds
the city and her surroundings, who under
sands her location and inviron-
ments, appreciates her spirit Of
enterprise and the develop
ment of the country which beyond any
problem Of political economy must become
tributary to her, that though all the pa
pers and all the people of all other places
should believe and quote the yawping idiocy
of the shee; named, still would Wichita as
inevitably sweep onward to her imperial
destiny as a great western commercial city
ani as irresistably as flows the turbulent
waters of the murky river, at her feet, on to
the great southern gull
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