Wichita eagle., 1888-03-18
INDICATIONS OF PROSPERITY.

That a season of great development
and prosperity is dawning upon Wichita
few people who are acquainted with her
surroundings for even a moment doubt.
The people Of Wichita and the men who
have done so much to control the des-
tiny of a young city that in the last two
years has made a record unequaled in
the history Of cities, are better prepared
today to carry forward great interests
and enterprises that will insure the pros
perity and development of the city than
ever before. With ar increased faith in
the brilliant future of the greatest city of
Kansas. and inspired by the courage and
confidence born of previous victories
won, the people of Wichita today are
organizing their forces and making ready
to accomplish greater things than even
the most enthusiastic admHer of a young
city that has won the admiration of good
people everywhere. dared hope for two
years ago. The people who are in line to
accomplish these achievements that is to
rebound to the glory of Wichita are con-
fident of success. Their leaders wear
upon their hearts the badges of honor
with which loyal people have decorated
them for sacrifice and devotion in many
hotly contested battles. We have said
the surroundings indicate coming wave
of prosperity. Shrewd business from
every part of the country are daily COM
ing here to look over the field, and all
around the suburbs where houses We're
erected in such numbers last summer,
that many people said they would not
be occupied in ten years, have all filled
up this spring. People who visited this
city last fall and saw these great num-
Der of houses just finished and all empty
are surprised now when they go out into
these additions to rent good house, to
find them all occupied. Business houses
are in great demand on the best business
streets, and where one is to be rented
there is always lively contest for it.
These things are but the little eddies
of mind that toy with light objects by
the highways. and run in currents across
the fields, nearing harvest time like
great serpents, and follows the calm and
precedes the storm Like waters over
flowing the rivers bank and running
along the depre5sions like silver band
across the valley where soon shall roll
a surging tide. These things indicate a
flood of immigration that is coming to
spread itself over this valley and add
other countless millions of wealth and
other thousands of busy happy people to
Winning Wichita.
Ali over this great country are thous-
ands of cautious business men and
capitalists who witnessed the UMPIRE
cedented boom here one wear ago. and
stood aloof expecting to see crash last
summer in Wichita that would forever
deter people from investing in
new western cities. and fulfill their pre-
dictions that no such rapid growth could
be permanent. The collapse did not come,
but Wichita went right along and even
beat her own former record in substan-
cial growth.
These capitalists and business men seeing
that their expectations We're not realiZ
ed, have Investigated and are inveSti-
eating the causes of this substantial
growth, ana they find upon examination
that the city's resources are many times
greater than they expected. They had
not realized that great fertile country
is tributary TO Wichita and that forty
two county seat towns. many of them
cities Of such business proportions as to
more than compare with eastern county
seat towns. These towns and many
others are all within few hours ride of
Wichita The daily EAGLE each morn
ing reaches more than two hundred
towns in southern and western Kansas.
No Mans Land is being rapidly
developed, and the time is near at hand
when the Indian territory will be opened
and occupied by an industrious people.
ana thus will another country living at
our very doors be added 10 Wichitas
trade. \ country the vastneSS Of whose
territory and value of whose resources is
as yet but partially conlprehended. \
knowledge OF these things are inspiring
confidence in Wichita future: in the
minds of many people controlling great
interests and inSures an accession of
population and industrial institutions
that will in a very short time make this
the one chief city of the great south
west.