Wichita eagle., 1888-11-04
DEEP WATER MOVEMENT.
The Future Triple Meuropon.

There is nothing more certain than tn.
| truth of the old adage THAT. comins
events east their shadows before al
though not everyone can discern tn.
shadow of coming event. either grea;
or small. 1t requires the inspiration Of
foreknowledge OF the subject embrac-
ing the event, with the possession OF
this the shadow is more or less distin-
guishable
Taking Chicago as the commercial To-
Gus of the great Northwest seeking an
outlet by the great Lake region, we have
| Kansas City, Omaha and Minneapolis
as great marginal feeders in her system.
There are many other thrifty cities with
in this natural commercial division but
the four named are the metropoli
and always will be in their natural or
der. Upon consulting the table of dis
tances it will be found that all of those
cities are within far less than one thou
sand miles of Chicago: a distance it
would appear which Is normal in COM
| mercial and social concentration in other
countries besides America.
Away to the south and west of the
great commercial division referred to
We have the richest undeveloped section
OF the union, or the world for that mat
ter. 1t contains half of Kansas and Ar
kansas, all Of Texas, Indian Territory.
New Mexico and Colorado. 1t should
be borne in mind that on an average per
one thousand square miles of all this
vast territory civilization has scarcely
laid the foundation of what she is to do
III the future. But that civilization has
so far progressed i'll the foundation
principles of its great future
that its leading cities and
great exterior commercial lines
OF travel have made their appearance.
In spite of what may be said to the con-
trary, Galveston, Tex, is the point of
natural outlet to the seas of all this great
region. With the building of the Flor
Ida ship canal and great harbor at Gal
weston the commercial highway of the
western world would fork at New York
and all that portion coming naturally.
and through its attendent competitive
power to the great region referred to and
would pass through her gates both ways
a little less than one thousand miles
from the city OF Galveston is Denver
into whose lap now poars with increas-
ing richness that wealth which is BELT
Ting that Of the famed Indies. She is
destined to become the largest purely in
land city and the finest on the continent.
Trinidad, LeadviIle, and Pueblo are on.v
necessary satellites of hers-a part
of her. Less than six hun
dred miles to the southeast of
Denver. IN the great alluvlal food pro-
ducing region is Wichita, the magical
growth of which in the recent past, the
present and Its promises OF the near
future has COMPOUNDED and confused the
wisdom OF more sages than anything in
history. And yet it Is now one of the |
triple cities of the commercial division |
of the great Southwest. There may be /
other cities develope in the territory and /
Texas as there will be, but Galveston, /
Denver and Wichita are now and ever |
will be the leaders The experience of /
moving stock to the south for butchering |
and packing III the north Is not very sat |
But south of latitude 80 to 81 |
degrees it is a failure. Because the |
stock being necessarily fat. the climatic |
effects are felt at once and fevers set in
and diseased meat is the result. This
fact, coupled with the great abundance
Of salt produced about Wichita, its
already being the only stock
market and packing place west and
south of Kansas City, plainly points her
out as the last and final great city of that
kind which will probably be established
south. She has about her today every
element for the future control of
5he cattle and hogs of southern and west
4rn Kansas, southwest Missouri, north
west Arkansas, the Indian Territory and
Texas. Her latitude is as far south rs
packing can well be done, and southern
stock can not be brought further north
without that necessary loss which though
under the old order, will
lot be under the new. The thrifty sur
towns of Kansas are the adj
uncts of Wichita future. She will yet
De the greatest buyer of Hutchinson's,
Aingman's and Anthonv's salt.
In further proof of the proposition
hat Galveston, Wichita and Denver are
he principal coming cities at the corners
If the great undeveloped commercial {
riangle of the southwest, | call atten-
ion to the fact that the Fort Worth 81 ;
Denver railway, now completed between ]
hose cities is entirely controlled by Den ;
-er capitalists, with ex-Gov. Evans. as {
resident. Every attempt of Gould and :
thers to secure the road has and will 3
all, for it is Denver's life string. There :
5 the best of feeling between the people
# Colorado and Texas and the road is s
aging finely, The Galveston people, {
ut of the sale of the Gulf, Colorado &c | I
ANITA Fe, are going to build an air line /
rom their city to a junction with the F. I
V. & ID. at Dallas. There is a strong /
that a company, not to be t
Mentioned now, will build from Dali \
IS via Denison through the rich Q
oal and agricultural region of the \
arritory to Wichita. while the Rock O
sland will so on to the gulf. The Fort a
Worth & Denver and the Galveston Air O
ne will be entirely independent of the y
astern systems as they are now. The n
bad coming 10 Wichita is doing so 10 o
eli out of the tolls of great combina- c
alton and is Texas road. At Wichita O
lese developing independent south h
'estern railway systems can and no u
oubt will come to time with the grow !,
lg St L. & S. F., which is the special n
lend of this city and whose interests I
i'll be IN common with them. A Frisco Il
ranch to Trinidad from Wichita will n
1mpete with the great east and west Q
mes in freight matters at least. :,
The great and only danger to Wichita C,
her proximity to Kansas City in the a.
lie matter of a too early open @,
< up of the territory. The supply Fl
z of the demands of that coming II
egira from other places TO erect great c.
ate in n twelve month Is TO be the ~