Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-04-01

tunes within twenty years her develop
ment and growth came SO near stand
still that as often was it predicted thai
her bottom had fallen out. But after
every such lull there came a more
marked advancement, greater prosper.
ity and more costly improvements. Sc
with Chicago, Minneapolis. San Fran.
cisco, Denver and so on. But these al
| being natural commercial centers, lust
so soon as the measure of any one OF
their Announcements has been met and
filed by the development and widening
of their sustaining fields did they expert
ence another period of rapid growth and
greater increase in prices. In many of
these instances of revival or onward
moves the increase in prices of
property have reached one and two.
and even three hundred per cent. 1t is
said that at one period of Chicagos his
tory and subsequent to the great fire,
that all real estate up one hundred
per cent in ninety days.
Kansas City also furnishes a striking
example of these renting periods in
the history of great centers. A half
dozen times since the close of the war
that city seemed to come to almost a
dead stand still. so much SO that many
of the surrounding towns discussed the
possibility of her decay and their own
possible ascendency. And Kansas City
has struck another leveling up season,
even now. Probably at no time in her
history was her real estate less active or
its owners more respondent than at this
very moment. Kansas City is going
through but another leveling up
process. What Wichita has
cut off from her will
be compensated for elsewhere and by
the greater development of her own i'm
mediate field, and whenever so real estate
and properties which hang heavy today
will start suddenly into activity and adj
vancement in value.
As for Wichita she has met with very
few leveling up processes. With the ex-
ceptions of the graishopper year and the
year after the Santa Fe, our then single
railway, pulled out and away, Wichita
seemed always advancing. Look at
Wichita today, one would conclude that
she must prove an exception to the rule
that the city must of a necessity sweep
right on until she had attained the status
of one of the great cities of the continent.
1t is true that the history of mol city
of the country, east or west.
hers in the point of rapid
and substantial growth. But the op-
portunities have been great, her sur
unusual, her advantages ex-
ceptional and extraordinary.
But whether or not a season of level
ing up shall overtake her, whether the
time of rest, recuperation and marshal
ing of new force, ever comes, to be fol-
lowed by newer and more energetic
and pronounced advancement, it is
nevertheless certain that there is for
in the near future a boom,
growth, an expansion and an advance
in the prices of real and other values |
such as were never recorded in her Won
derful history of the past.
The SO called boom wave
which started from a few
Of the more prosperous growing cities
like Wichita, Birmingham and Los
spread in a few months Ito |
thousands of smaller towns, but in a
|imite3 sense. These smaller booms were |
but a reflex of the larger booms. In the |
end the cities whose expansion warranted !
The movement will receive the benefit of |
all the reflex action, for in the growth of
heir surroundings are these centers de-
,idedly benefited. Nothing would
more decidedly and greatly increase
growth and trade today than
Extra prosperity for the hundred towns
md smaller cities by which she is sur
and of which she is the ack-
lowledged center. These surrounding
owns and cities depend in turn upon
heir local surroundings, upon farm pro-
luctlons-upon crops. One abundant
rop year, therefore, is liable to bring
bout the onward step of which we have
'een speaking.
Touching this very idea of sudden and
apidly progressing steps, and when the
ext one shall come TO this city. the fol-
owing letter received within the week
rom prominent representative man
asst Will be of interest. He was writing
f the probable extension OF the Union
'acific railway to this city ar an early
ay, closing his letter with the following
words:
Il have just been looking over the
of your board of trade dedi-
alton meeting as published in the EAGLE.
here was no letting down. and Judge ,
hat the event shows that the courage ,
I your people and their confidence in the
uture has suffered no diminution. The
howing made. and it seems TO be album !
antly justified. Is a very complete de-
of Wichitas position end
respects. If the state should have a ;
God crop with the present prospects of !
pening up the Indian Territory at an
arly day. the coming year will be the l
host prosperous one In Wichita's his q
,ry.a
This comes from a man who has no di- :
act interest in Wichita, but from one
no has made the development and
rowth of the west study for years. one ;
hose name is familiar throughout the a
nancial circles of the entire country.
When this next upward and onward )
ovement will be taken by Wichita we