The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-06-30


 twenty-five thousand swine; a county with over five hundred thousand bear ing fruit trees, two thousand domestic groves, forty thousand acres of tame grasses, the largest and most valuable forests of any county in Kansas: & nominal valuation of nearly $6,000,- 900 and productive capacity equal to the sustenance of JOG, ,0o0 people. Very few towns in the southwest have greater
 STRATEGIC ADVANTAGES
 than Oswego. Close on the border of the Indian Territory, it will easily command the richest grand division of that beautiful region when it shall be opened to settlement and develop ment. Forty miles eastward in Kansas and Missouri are the richest lead, zinc and bituminous coal fields in the world. It is only four hours by rail to the magnificent hardwood and pine forests, the coking coals, iron, manga nese and antimony of western Arksn- sas and the Indian Territory. Within full sight of the town, are splendid forests of oak, ash, hickory, sycamore, white maple, linden and black walnut, equal to the needs of good manufac- turing city generation. The entire tributary country is underlaid with coals of superior quality, which are cheaply mined by stripping" and drifting and delivered on track at $1.75 per ton. Lime and sand stones of fine quality for building uses, are abundant and extensive deposits of fire and potters clays and hydraulic cement are found in the near neighbor- hood. The Neosho river furnishes a splendid water motor of about tour hundred horse power already im- proved with massive dam anchored in the bed rock, within the limits of the city, and at the command of mill and factory men on liberal terms. Better still, the enterprising men of the city are thoroughly organized for cooperation with manufacturers and will extend warm welcome and material aid to any manufacturing enterprise that promises good results to the city. A steam fouring mill of 25O barrels capacity is in operation; a pottery and tile factory is in full blast :; a foundry and machine shop of large capacity is about to be established and the strong men of the city are de- termined to make it
 A MANUFACTURING TOWN
 of no common order. No town in Kansas has so promising a location for the manufacture of mill stuff, all classes of machinery, woolen and cotton fabrics, paper, canned goods, furniture and scores of other things in common use, as Oswego, for its central loca- tion and fine railway facilities bring Kansas, Missouri, An kansas, the Indian Territory, Texas and the mountains within the radius of its natural market field. The raw materials such as grain, timber, wool, cotton, lead, iron, zinc, manganese, antimony, cheap coals, cheap woods, hides, pelts, and no end of other crude materials lie all about and within easy reach of this fortu- nate city.
 TWO TRUNK RAILWAYS
 the Missouri Pacific and "Frisco"- embracing nearly ten thousand miles of railroad that practically covers the west halt of the continent, give the city rare industrial and commercial advantages which its live men are bound to see improved. To illustrate the advantages of its central and com- manding position am pleased to quote the following notes from late handbook of Oswego:
 "From a commercial and industrial standpoint, it has strategic importance of no common significance. It is 150 miles south of Kansas City, 150 miles southeast of Wichita, 200 miles south east of St. Louis, 150 miles northwest of Fort Smith and 200 miles north of Texas, within dozen miles of the In- dian Territory, and within all this splendid radius is not another city that successfully rivals it in industrial and commercial advantages"
 Supplementing these favoring con- ditions to material and commercial growth and prosperity, is another and slngularly fortunate condition.
 CHEAP PROPERTY.
 All classes of city property-inside and outside-are cheap by comparison with any other prosperous town in Kansas. The visitor is surprised to find in this beautiful city, substantial stores, pretty homes, suburban fruit and truck farms and the larger out lying farms selling within the range of their real intrinsic value for occu- patton or productive work.
 They
 HAVE NEVER BOOMED OswEGO, and really values are surprisingly low, especially 30 for a town with such location and such surround ings. The present value of proper ties here favor business enterprise, in-