Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-06-24
WICHITA'S WAY.
BOUNCING BIG BUSINESS BOOM.
A Touch Of the Unprecedented Life
and an Earnest of the Impair
allelled Activity Into Which
Our City is Rushing.

Whatever of booms of various degrees and
characters Wichita may have experienced
in her brief but brilliant history, and they
have been many and unprecedented, she is
now on the eve of business boom which
will, for magnitude, rush, profit and i'm
portance, never have been approached by
any city of her age and population in this
or in any other country. A hundred diff
ferent things are conspiring to make
Wichita the liveliest city this fall that
anybody ever saw. interests which have
Jagged for want of capital, enterprises
which have been hampered by unforeseen
and unexpected happenings, are now all
every one, so far as we know-on their
feet. There is now no longer any uncer-
tainty banging over any of them. The
great packing and live stock interests are
now well in hand and assured beyond any
possibility or competition. The machin-
cry Of the plow works and that of the
watch factory are going in. The walls of
the great wire nail factory are going up.
Ali the buildings of the great educational
institutions started last year have been
provided with the funds necessary for COM
pletion. The great car works will add two
hundred more expert workmen TO their
present big force within two or three
weeks. All the new business blocks and
rooms being finished up-every one, we be-
lieve,-has been rented to new firms that
are bringing large capital to add to the
business Importance of the city. And, as
the summer comes on, with abundant as
surances of immense crops, and with the
price of hogs and cattle advancing, collec-
tons easier, and trade in all its branches
growing and increasing every day, the
dullest man feels it in the very air that
there viii be lively old times in Wichita
this summer and fall, which will inevitably
be followed by another onward sweep by
the city-a sweep which will bring another
degree of that magnitude which as a
central city is SO soon to be here.
Building operations are reviving in
all parts of the city on both residence
and business properties. In addition
tolthis general feature the county will ex
pend two hundred thousand dollars in the
finest public building ever erected in any
city or county in the state, Then there is
the sum of two hundred thousand dollars
now provided by the general government
for the federal court building and post
Office, making four hundred thousand dol
lars more of clean hard money to be ex-
pended in our midst
But why mention these details. They
are known to everybody, and their enliv-
ening effects are to be seen in increasing
life upon the thoroughfares of the
west side and the east side, of Oak and
Market and Douglas and Main, about our
depots elevators. factories and mills, and
everywhere.
Wichita is getting ready for an onward
and upward step. whose measure and mag
nitude will astonish not only the state of
Kansas, but the entire west.
THE SANTA FE'S POSITION AND ADvAN-
TAGE.
The Santa Fe management has unoues-
tionably done the nice thing and the wise
thing by Wichita in her late new passen-
ger schedule. Six first class passenger
trains in and six first class passenger trains
out every day is the present service which
that road is giving Wichita, the principal
city of the state and which make close
connections for western Kansas and the
Pacific, and solid through trains for Kan
sas City and Chicago and solid through
trains to Galveston, besides close connec-
eions for the panhandle of Texas, and with
the western extension from Mulvane,
which last road is a very valuable one to
Wichita. In the way of passenger, express
and mail service they could have done no
more, and the management is entitled to,
and has, the thanks of the business men
and people of this CITY, Besides their
switches to the packing house and stock
yards, they put in a switch to the Burton
car works within few days. If the Mis-
souri, Pacific and the Frisco roads get in
permanent buildings before the
Santa Fe does they will have to
to get about it, as, we understand, the de-
tails for the Santa Fe improvements on
Douglas avenue have been approved and
the other matters nearly all arranged for
Within a few weeks President Strong,
Manager Robinson, Superintendent Sands
and General Traffic Manager Goddard
have given the city a careful personal in
spection and each in turn arrived at the
same conclusion touching the city's neces-
stiles and the roads interests. 1t is fact,
but probably known to few persons SIM
ply because they have not looked the situa-
ton up, but fact all the same, that the
Santa Fe has so built her extensions and
branches and main lines that, when Wich-
tia shall become the great metropolis of
the state and the greatest market west of
the Missouri river, that road can cover
almost the entire state with her trains in
and out of Wichita, and not only the
state, but two lines across the Indian ter
ritory and two lines into Texas.