The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-09-28
Some of the Wonderful Sights To
be Seen i'm the Twenty
Year Old City.
Her Manufactures, Mercantile In
duStrieS and Educational
Facilities.
What Sedalia Must Become i'm the
Near Future as Mis-
SOuri'S Centre.
A GREAT CITY

Situated In one Of the best agri
cultural counties in the state and sur.
rounded on all sides by well settled
counties, full of wealth, agricultural
ly and minerally. Sedalia is by
right the business center of a country
embracing a radius of over fifty miles
east, west and north. and one hun.
dred miles south, which radius com.
prises the territory of eighteen coun.
ties, embracing within their limits ia
towns and cities, ranging in popula-
ton from 20, 200 to 100 inhabitants
each, besides quite a number of
smaller villages and mining points.
The balance of the country being
well settled with farmers and miners.
sEDALIA
was first founded in 1857, by George
r. Smith, then a plain country far
msr, owning and occupying the
greater portion of the land upon
which the original city was plotted.
At that time the Missouri Pacific
railroad had not been completed to
this point and the country round con-
sisted of rich. rolling prairies, with
now and then farm, and there were
many who, if they did not laugh out
right, smiled quietly to themselves at
the founder, who imagined that
be was laying the foundation
for great city In the
near future, but the wonderful devel-
opments of time, facilities and de-
mand have proven that he built wiser
than even he dreamed of. The past
history and career of the "Queen
City" of the pralries has, however,
been too often written and is too well
known to need repetition here, and as
it is Of the present and the future the
BAzoo has TO deal with, it will begin
with the present.
sEDALIA TO-DAY,
With less than a quarter of century's
growth Sedalia to-day contains about
q 900 inhabitants, disathe center
of one OF the greatest railroad combi-
nations the world has ever produced, |
which stretches out its long arms to
every point of the compass and gath
ers from the far tOrrid regions Of the
equator to the frigid lands of northern
Canada and Alaska the products of
the soil and the millions of toilers who
inhabit all climates; all of which find
their way into and through Sedalia as
the key and center to the great traffic
and commerce of continent. Sur
rounded as Sedalia-is by. vast and
rapidly increasing population, with
every facility and natural requisite
for every kind and variety of industry,
il is not to be wondered at that her peo-
pie feel the Importance of her mission
aad see in the future some evidence
of the grand destiny must be hers as
surely as the sun runs her course, and
In order that others may see it and
that those who are seeking a desirable
home and lucrative investment. where
their capital and their labor can be
to their own best advantage,
and that of the general welfare in for
10 successful fruition the All.
wise Creator has in contemplation as
the mission of the great people he has !
brought up and given the possession :
Of the new world, which as far sur. !
passes the old as the bright plains and !.
Of Italy surpass the barren !
Tigid wastes of the north pole. The !
BAzoo gives TO its readers today g
some slight description of the coming :,
metropolis and its surroundings. =
WHAT 1T CONTAINS. .
Well built up with massive and n
substantial edifces supplied with every a
modern Improvement in the way Of d
water works, gas works, electric light. @
,ark boulevard and pleasure resorts, G
a broad era of re. W
sources and having the fines
air grounds In the west.
Sedalia to day contains the following b,
and other necessary W
djuncts of a frstclass metropolis. b
which for convenience are alphabet W
ally arranged: VI
Abstract Offices, four agricultural ca
Implement manufactures and sales ri
ooms, six architects. one art goods to
enc; artists, three OF
rtists supply establishments, four d,
ucfianeors three. hakorios Ton T.,