Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-03-07
WESTERN BOOM.
A Section of Country Looking
to Wichita's Railroad
Extensions.
Terry, Finney County, a New
Venture and Aspiring
City.

Venture and Aspiring
City.
Hearing SO many inquiries, while
looking at the country on prospect.
ing tour, Oh the purposes of Wichita
and the kindly and universal esteem
held by the people of this section
towards the widely circulating EAGLE
the writer proposes to give a series OF
articles from time to time on the con.
dition and prospects of the several
towns and aspiring future cities within
number of counties north and south
of Garden City.
There are now so many people com
ing into the city from most every Sec
ton, and as so many of the enterpris-
ing citizens OF Wichita have Interest.
i'll towns and lands, as well as more
general interest in future commercial
relations at an early day when her en-.
terprise and push viii have sent out
her railroads as commercial feeders
the writer is induced to give a more
| than casual letter on the various mas.
tiers and questions that relate to the
public interest in this section.
1t seems that Garden City at this
time is being overlooked with home
seekers and investors TO greater ex'
tent thar at any previous season, and
as she is now distributing TO points
near here thousands monthly, il is q
matter of interest to know the char
acter of soil, climate and a@ricul-
tural capacity of the places TO which
they are directed, and also the
prospects of aspiring localities select
ed for future towns and cities, offering
inducements TO investors and business
| men.
This letter will be confined to par.
tial description of the northeru part
of Finney county aud adjacent town
ships of Scott cognty. the writer hav-
ing made special enquiry, a. well As a
personal visit over the broad prairies,
stretching in magnificent magnitude
unreasonable 10 Tie eye, and seeming
TO defy the imagination to compre-
bend
The writer, behind spanking team,
rolled ont from Garden City on a line
due north towards and upon the road
leading TO Scott City, The wide bot
tom lands Immediately north of the
city seemed TO answer the purpose OF
broad prairies for the writer. but when
the eminenoe of the table lands was
| reached il seemed like a boundless
ocean lay before him. Once on this
altitude, which is perhaps twenty to
thirty feet. gently sloping for ten miles
towards and ending ia basin; then
again ascending TO like altitude
To Terry. five miles south of the
Scott line, when again il descends TO a
basin, midway from this place TO Scott
City, where il reaches an altitude
above The river of perpaps one hun
dred and fifty feet. AS we pass over
this stretch of of magnificent distance
we notice the thick buffalo and gram
ma grass, which, this time of year, pre-
sents that samrne5s of color and ap-
pearance that makes il seem monoIo.
nous and tircsome 10 behold, now and
then relieved by long stretches of
burned. brown prairie. Here, dotted
at long distances. are settlements too
far of 10 observe the character OF
more than one at time; but the
writer learns that each quarter section
has an owner who will make his ap-
pearance in due time TO meet the law
full requirements.
On inquiry and tests, the writer
discovered that the soil has a depth
of two feet and is a sandy black loan,
and in favorable seasons, capable of
the most extraordinary yield of corn,
wheat and other cereals, indeed, the
soils perhaps the NEST productive of
any of our best prairie lands
and an extensive cultivation
is the only thing needed to make this
rank with the garden spot of Kansas.
Sedwick county.
The wafer supply AT no point for
twenty miles north of Garden City is
lower than thirty feet. and at many
points can be had at a depth of ten
feet, and when found is rs pure and
good as TO be found in any country.
TERRY, FINNEY COUNTY.
Is situated sixteen miles due north
of Garden City, near the center of
four township, south of the Scott
county line, having fine stretch of
rich prairie lands in southern Scott
and northern Finney as tributary sup
port, and having two daily lines OF
stages. II has good water at a depth
of twenty-five feet and is on the GEN.
tral divide between the two basins OF
the two counties.
Col. Porter ID. Terry, the founder OF
the city aud postmaster of Terry, is a
native of Waterville. Oneida county,
n. Y. and was formerly engaged in
business there snd in New York CitY.
He first came TO Kansas in 1881. re-
turned in 1885 in the interest of east
ern parties to investigate the advisa-
bility of making an investment in the