Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-11-25
1t VIII not be . Matter Of One or Two Hundred
Thousand.

J. o. Davidson leaves for the east this
morning, to be absent for some little time
in New York, Boston and other eastern
cities. He goes on business, a business of
magnitude, involving at least one great
enterprise directly affecting the future of
this city-one which is the elimination of
many Months earnest, cereful and COM
prehensive work of himself and others,
whose names, if we could give them, would
be guaranty of success In short, as soon
as the board of trade shall have met the
calls of contracts already concluded, and
finds her decks clear and untrammeled.
then matters will be developed which will
make clear not only the mysterious pur-
chases and COMBINATIONS of last summer,
the Oklahoma move, the late visits from
New England capitalists, etc. etc, but there
will come such rustling from the big
bend up TO the Burton car works. and from
Paramount to Garfield university, as was
never witnessed, for it wilt be made up or
rather will be the result of a combination
of a number of more stupendous enter
prises and interests than were ever con-
centrated in any one season in any west
ern city, whatever the name or in what
ever state 1t was sincerely hoped by the
board of trade directory that such prompt
ness would be evinced as would have ena-
bled to close and clear up all
the matters and interests which they had
arranged for, including the packing bust
ness, before their time expires and new
board elected-which no doubt will be al
most entirely new in its membership-bu
things have dragged ana unexpected him
ORANGES as to location, ETC., have arisen
But for these things everything would
have been ready for publicity by the holt
days. However, matters are moving
along and the end is in sight. These
interests, of which we speak had to
be closed up and assured before the
other more important ones could be urged
forward. Following prompt and effective
work for the next thirty days and 1T is not
going to be question whether Wichita
will be a city OF 100000 or 100000 people,
but a question of her rivalship with
the greatest cities. The state, nor the
management of it's greatest corporations,
suspect or even dream of the things, Of
the cold solid business enterprises and far
reaching magnificent schemes, secured by
and crystalizing for Wichita. no more
than did the people of the state dream what
VIC .Odbbd { was w NC WuCu ~ Obly lCpSu-
ed from Topeka to Burlingame That Mr..
Davidson will prove equal to his mission.
that the Frisco will prove equal 10 her
part; that the directory of the board of
trade will by the middle of December
round up what they have undertaken, and
upon which work the other things so di-
rectly hinge, there seems no doubt-there
is no doubt. Therefore in bidding Mr..
Davidson good speed and hoping that the
board of trade may run up against no other
distractions and that no interested man
will wait to be waited upon in matter
which he was a volunteer, we say to Wich-
tia that while there may be lots of BUSH
ness ahead there is also lots of fun ahead,
in which will be mixed live stock and
grain, packing and sugar, cotton and rail
roads. and besides the million dollars in
sight and already arranged to be expended
in this City. millions more.