The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1888-08-02
Kaw or Kansas river is a sluggish

sell against tnc M1SSOuT1 river u1reCt-
ly up stream. But the Missouri
don't mind that little diversion Mt all.
1t is whimsical, woman-like river
which had rs soon run up stream as
down. In one place it will be cou-
pie of miles wide and about six inch
es deep. Somewhere else it will be
800 or 400 yards wide and deep
enough to float man of war. BY
next year all of this may be reversed,
you can't tell. Part of town in the
west bottom is in Kansas but the
bulk of it is in Missouri.
In the triangle between the two
rivers the re is quite a city, with
about twenty railroads running
through it's Union depot, and the
rest of the ground occupied with its
huge stock yards, it's tremendous
packing and canning factories and
the habitations of its laboring peo-
pie. But back of this-south of it
the red clay bluffs rise 300 feet into
the air and on top of them the town
of Kansas city is built. If you want
to get up there, there is n cable road
running cars every five minutes from
station in the air above the roof of
the depot to the top of the hill.
There is also II winding carriage-way
which will enable you to reach the
town. And the big mouth of tun-
mel looks at you from the side of the
cliff when you get off the cars. This
has been finished since / was there
and is now the avenue for another
cable road. l suppose that in year
or two they will have balloon so as
to drop you on top of the hill, or n
pneumatic tube to shoot you up the
craggy steep before you can say Jack
Robson. Once up here you are
more surprised than ever. You did
not expect to see such town, and
you would have been n crazy man
if you had expected it. In lots
worth $1,000 front foot, you see
sunhowers blooming and wild hemp
nodding its heavily laden head, full
of seed pods, before an eternally blow
ing breeze. Sunhowers and buffal o
grass are everywhere. They come
up through the auger-holes in the
rude wooden sidewalks, and faunt
their faces in the very doorways of
palatial residences and cast their
shadows over the carved mountings
of costly stone steps. You are sur
rounded on every hand with surprise
and Inconsistencies. Magnificent
buildings rise out of the earth like a
dream, and miserable shanties worth
perhaps $1,000 squat on land worth
perhaps twice that sum front foot.
You rub your eyes and wonder. On
every hand the most beautiful build
ings are going up and the sound of
the hammer and saw are heard all
night and all day Sunday Every
body is on the Jump seven days in
the week and if you wanted a tunnel
built in the atmosphere some fellow
would construct it for you in long
pavements, and suspend it by cables
from the moon so you could go to u
different quarter of the city every
night. They have no time station
on industry there no brake upon
progress and no burden on faith.
The city has great future, and if
you look around it and keep your
mouth shut, you cannot help but
see it. Kansas, Texas and Colorado
are all behind it with their millions
of fertile acres. For their corn,
their cattle and their hogs they must
seek an Eastern market, and they
can send their products east no
other way so well as through Kansas
city and to save freight, the hogs
must be packed here, and the beef
must be canned here, before it goes
to Europe. And the hides of the
bullocks must be tanned here and
their bones ground into fertilizers.
Even the hog bristles have their
commercial value. So, like a great
net, this city sits here waiting to
catch all the sediment which will and
must come to it from the boundless
and fecund west. And the west
grows every day more fruitful.
Across the Kaw river, in Kansas
is the thriving city of Wyandotte,
which is to Kansas city what Brook
lyn is to New York. You can 90
from here, on the hill tops, down the
cable road and then on the elevated
road over the tops of the houses in
west Bottoms, along past the great
packing houses, and pork slaughter
ing establishments, (where you can
cut the atmosphere in slices with a
dullknife and fry it in its own grease, }
over the Kaw river on substanti a
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