Wichita eagle., 1888-01-29
WICHITA READY
FOR THE COMING INCREASED AC-
TIVlTY IN EVERY DE-
PARTMENT.
More Business, More Building. More
Railroads, More People,
Greater Growth.

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them. Everything in the surrounding
indicate that the participants in the
great coming industrial activity are get
| ting ready for the coming contest. WITCH.
tia and the great southwest, like expert
enced athletes, are ready for the contest.
| The contestants are upon the ground, di-
VISITED of cumbersome, superfluous gar.
ments. They, with elastic step, are re-
connoitering the field. With well de-
veloped muscles, hardened and made
strong by many a hard contested
battle in the arena of
human action, with self
reliance shown in the steady eye that
comes only to him who has encountered
great obstacles-these contestants, who
have won prizes and applause in former
struggles, are waiting impatiently for
the fray.
Coming events cast their shadows be-
fore" Never in the past have all indi-
cations pointed so unswervingly to great
prosperity for Wichita as now. The
farmers all over this valley, with bright
hopes and confidence in the future, are
getting ready for active work during the
coming summer Repairs are being
made in machinery, and at the various
agricultural implement houses in this
city crowds of farmers are daily eXamin-
ing the plows and corn cultivators.
They are selecting the best for their use.
These farmers all proclaim that
the largest acreage ever put to
oats and corn in this valley will be
planted the coming spring They be-
lieve that the poor yield of these cereals
last year will necessitate the consump-
ton of the large surplus usually held
over. and in consequence good prices
may reasonably be expected for another
year. The assurance that wichita is to
be a great center of meat packing. and
consequently a great live stock market,
is stimulating the farmers to give extra
attention to the raising of hogs. This
more than anything else accounts for the
unusual large acreage of corn that will
be planted this year. But whatever may
be the causes assigned, it is on all sides
conceded that the present will be the
most active in agricultural pursuits that
has ever been witnessed in Kansas.
All our wholesale houses and
manufacturing industries are max
ing raady for a heavy trade
the coming year. The unprecedented
growth of the country west of Wichita
last year. taxed the energies of this city
to the utmost to meet the trade naturally
tributary to it. No other young city
ever made more herculean efforts to meet
such a demand upon it. If goods were
lacking. or houses We're not built in
which to store them when demanded, it
was in no instance lack of energy on
the part of the business men of our city.
Their operations were only limited by
the ability of the various railroads rum
ming into and out of Wichita, to meet
the enormous demands made upon
them by our people for the transporta-
ton of goods and building material
There is but little doubt that very
largely increased demand will be made
upon this city. to meet the requirements
of trade this year.
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continue to be developed. Innumerable
cities. towns and villages. will continue
to rise in this vast territory, which in
capabilities and possibilities is an en-
pire within itself. Added to this increase
and growth should the Oklahoma coum-
ry be opened to settlement, which in
the spring and summer promises a surg
ing flood, would become an inundation
of population unheard of in the history
of new countries. Wichita must and will
be prepared for this emergency. she is
the Princess" presiding over the des-
tines of a mighty people. The gateway
of favored Empire. Her merchants
are meeting the now daily increasing
trade which is coming to us, and they
will meet all future increased demands.
Never before in the history of this
young. city has her trade
equaled what it is today. No spring has
ever before opened with such high
prospects for the future, as are now held
out to this people. The building opera
tons the coming summer will undoubted-
ly exceed that of any former year. This
will not only be true as to the number of
buildings erected. but as to the money
invested. We have not yet made an
effort to gain information in regard to
the whole number of buildings and their
cost now arranged for, but can cali to
mind few of them. The Wichita
National Bank building to be one hum
dred feet front, four stories. cost about
100000: government building 500, 600:
the Neiderlander, Oliver and Carey block
corner Emporia and Douglas avenue. one
hundred and fifty feet front. six stories.
cost $500, 1000: Sites Bro, opposite Carey
Hotel. fifty feet front, four stories high,
$50, 900; \. I, q S. f. depot. on Douglas
avenue. 100000; Eckert and Richey
block. East Douglas avenue, one hundred
AMI fifty feet front, five stories. $40. 600:
county court house on North Main street
$500 900; Dold hacking houses north Of
Union stock yards. S900.00o. These
buildings are cited merely 10 show the
character Of the imlrnk ements now con-