Wichita daily eagle., 1886-08-03
WINNING WICHITA!
THE BOOM wHICHIs COMING.
What the People Of this State
May Confidently Count
Upon For 1887.

When things were booming last June, q
year ago, and Wichita seemed in the very
height Of her prosperity, with daily morn
ing newspaper fairly upon its feet, the
EAGLE set out and claimed over and over
again, that "Wichita's big boom was yet to
come" To many the assertion seemed un-
reasonable and illogical, with nothing in
the surroundings to warrant the assertion.
Wichita was booming, booming more live
ly than any town in Southwest Kansas
growing faster than any city in the state,
and if her then lick was kept
up, the most extravagant optimis'
ought to be satisfied But
everybody now sees that the boom of 1885,
was in fact, a very small affair to the boom
of 1886; that where one building was con-
tracted for in 1885 five have been contract
ed for in 1886; that the character and cost
of the various improvements of 1886 are far
in advance of those of last year, and that,
so far as the price of realty is concerned,
the booms of 1884 and 1885 were simply no
booms at all as compared with the number
of sales and the prices of the present season.
swell up with population, bulge out with
business, increase more rapidly and sub
stantially during the coming year than dur
ing any previous year of her existence;
not only actually, that is, as to the actual
dollars and cents, but relatively. In addi-
ton to the many buildings now under CON
tract which cannot by any possible good
luck be finished this fall, but which must
be finished up next season, and in addition
to work on the government building, a
great opera house, the big hotel, the Gar
field university, the Lewis academy and
two if not three permanent depots, we viii
have all the rush, the life and
clamor incident TO three great trunk
lines of railways reaching the city on
a single season and within few week Of
each other, bringing with them not only
their multiplied interests and consequent
and developments, bat many
Others dependent upou them.
The EAGLE has never made representa-
ton Or prophesy touching Wichita that has
not been far more than fulfilled Our
readers may call it luck. intuition or guess
work, still the fact remains that every pre-
liction ever made by the EAGLE for Wich-
tia has been more than realized, just as
ruly as when ten, twelve and fourteen
years ago the EAGLE would produce
broad grin all up and down the rivers by
saying that we would all live to see this
great valley blossoming and blooming and
ruiting with an embowered home on every
quarter section, and Wichita great and
city in the midst, with lands
worth as much as fifty dollars an acre or
more.
As for our prediction for 1887, and its
)oom,-its chatter and swell and Increase
t is not long to wait Almost before we
an turn around frosts Will come, then the
winter, then the spring, and with II the
,oom of which we speak. Outside proper
les and speculative additions may not cut
he prominent caper that they did this year,
md it will be full as well if they do not,
or it is a fool thing at best to 90 on laying
III a thousand or SO acres in new additions
very week, until half of the contiguous
arming lands have been cat up into 25x
90 parcels called lots; but, all inside prop
rty in Wichita will be found to be property
indeed, and sure enough, while the life and
ctiyity of the city will furnish guaranty
which can no longer leave even doubt |
hat the destiny of the Queen of the Prai
les as one of the cities of the west is fixed |
'eyond not only all possible rivalries, but
'eyond any question.