Wichita eagle., 1888-03-18
STURDY WICHITA.
WONDERFUL INCREASE IN REPU-
TATION AND VALUE.
Eastern Conservatism Versus West
ern Enterprise.
WICHITA. Kan. March ). 1881.

the same sweet memories are revived OF
its manifold attractions. While still III
+ your midst. and Vet young man, was
constrained to accept GreeleyS advice,
Go west young man. and my expert
ence has enabled HE 10 fully compre-
bend Its significance. 1t Is but natural
! that the east should be overCrowded
with young men, whose field for opera
ton is greatly contracted by the mlodie
aged. and even the aged occupying the
various calilngS, ana as our TOrefatherS
| developed the east and made il what II
| Is today. it is but natural that their of
| spring should follow their preceptS and
example, and develop and build up
this great empire of the west.
whose resources, SO varied and
inviting, are susceptible Of
the greatest possibilities. and upon which
can be founded both fortune and fame.
and as an illustration | have in mind
several young men who left clerical posi-
tions in Philadelphia and vicinity few
Years ago who are now worth over
800. 600 each. a fortune which they
could not possibly have met with in the
East All this was accomplished by
pushing forward and Selling opportuni-
ties which could not arise in the East
and if they did the young man would be
crowded aside by the three score and ten
wiseacres: men who think the young
man unqualified To grasp important mat
tiers and assume great responsibilities.
Look in your banks and large institu-
tons. and see those hoary l1cks still
| bending over the desk, while perhaps n
promising son is brought up III luxury
and ease, instead OF being installed
in his aged fathers place and
disciplined in the responsibilities
and duties which would develop his
manly nature. and inculCate ID him
thrift. stability and usefulness. But |
digress. | started out To tell YOU Of this
wonderful city of the plains Wish-etah.
Seventeen wears ago the buffalo and
| Indian roamed over the present location
of the city. while the country was styled
The Great American Desert but long
since it has ''biussomed as the roses,
scattering its sweet fragrance Ter all the
/ land iii its generous benefaCtIons to the
needy world. notably in Its thirty-one
cars of coru TO the Ohio flood sufferers in
1884. It's golden fruits of soil and vine
and tree have beautitied the stalls of the
greatest eNposltlons of the country.
carrying away the engravers art, signed
and sealed by expert Judges of merited
reward. Bat there are other fruits,
labor. engerv and that telling enter
prise for which our people are noted,
and the upbuilding of Wichita Is
living monument of what can be accom-
plished in a short time by the exercise of
these qualifications. In 1870 Dutch
Bill" now the Hon. William Greifien-
stein. struck his spade in the rich soil of
the Arkansas Valley. and announced to
his few followers. Here | will found a
great city" Today this honorcd citi-
zen's magnificent $50, 900 residence
adorns the bank of the Little Arkansas
river where it empties into the Big Ar
kansas, which seems to say as they Join
their onward course,
There is not in this wide world valley so
sweet,
AS the vale in whose bosom the bright
waters meet
A vale whose richness and fertility
stand as natures greatest bequest to the
husbandman and homeseeker. In the
years following up to 1852 the city al
avnced Slowly, but the ceaseleSs tide
westward grew year by year. and with
the true American instinct 1t was not
long ere the multitude discovered the
nor did it take them long TO firmly
fix in their minds that Wichita was 10 be
the metropolis of the great southwest
supply point for all Western Kansas,
Colorado, New Mexico, Panhandle, Okla
homa. No Man Land. the Indian Terri
tory and Northern Texas-a field whose
vastness no other young city IN the world
has ever had as the corner stone for its
commercial and moro r,rprp-
ising than Chicago III her palmicst DAYS
The people from Maine TO California see
this, and the statistics which shall gave
clearly Indicate that thousands lind here
happy abiding place. The population
has increased in TINS remarkable degree:
1889. 5000; 1888, 5000: 1884, - 500:
1850, 5000: 1886. ~. 1000: 1851, 20 900;
March 1, 1855, 10000. Valuation OF city
property on basis Of one-fOurrh, 1882.
fl,l45,9 SS; 1883, 81 .2i3, 1jl; 1881. 81
659.OJ3: 1853, $40, 4J3, 1856. $4.Iif.ssS;
1881, Ss,4i9,U93 From January /,
1886, to january /. 1857, over 2, ,J0J
residences and business houses were
erected, costing $1,000, 900. and nclud-
ing those 10 January list. 1855, over $40
OOO.OO0 was spent III public and private
enterprises. Ten railroads, doing al this
point one-seventh Of the entire business
of the State, meet the transportation re-
quirements Of the city, ana three more
trunk lines will soon build here, thus III
creasing our facilities.
The city has nine universities or coli
lege buildings, costing $3.50, 600; FIJI
teen public school buildings, costing
$3.50, go, employing seventy teachers.
tweHty-eight churches. some as line a.
YOU have IN Philadelphia; Young Mem
Christian Association building, excel!ing
that at Chestnut and Fifteenth streets:
thirty hotels, the Carey Grand, the trav-
eiers paradise, 20 complete IN all It's
modern cOnvenIences; manufacturing
establishments without end IN
Guiding the great Burton Stock
Car Works. among the
largest car works in the UnItea state
the JacoD DOli g Son immense packing
house now being pushed rapidly - con-
pletlon, which will nave a capacity ri
1000 hogs and lATg. number Of cattis
per day, the main building OF the seven
70 be nine stores hIgn, large watch FAC
tory, two electric light companies, gaas,
water ana sixty miles ot street car and ,
motor lines. The matter Of sewerage IL
now prominently before the people Nlth
several svs,pLns in view, the ieadIas aud
most favorabiy considered beng the
pumping system, which Is hes; adapted
10 the level country. and has given entire
satisfaction 81 Pullman. Ill. and Atlantic
CITY for a number 81 years. ! might 70
on and give ycu columns OF interesting
facts concerning our CITY. but few more
will suffice Fa-.ern capital has found
its way here in large amounts. Boston
capitalists own a large part Of