Wichita eagle., 1889-01-23
THE WICHITA SENATOR.
From the capital-commonwealth.

FROM the Capttal-Commonwealth.
Senator Bentley looked up with smile
from deskful of papers yesterday and
| IN reply to question said:
Yes; pretty busy. I'm an agricult-
ural bureau this AFTERNOON, sending out
| information to Sedgwick county farm
ers"
'How are the farmers down Wichita
way"
well, they are feeling better. We
had our two years of poor crops like all
the rest of our state, but the corn aver
aged half crop both years, so it was by
no means as bad as it might have been.
The rain came in streaks, and while
some places suffered. others did we'll
Eagle township, for instance, had full
crop. We are trying an experiment with
seed corn from Ohio, Iowa and Michi-
gan. 1t natures earlier than other vari-
cites. and SO avoids the devastation of
the dry winds that come late In the sum-
mer. This corn averaged forty bushels
on the Ninnescah bottoms last year.
Wichita: No, there Is nothing the
matter with Wichita. The .'boom of
course was mistake, but when it flat
tened out the only ones to suffer much
were those who bought cornfields for
suburban lots Inside property never
fell much and is now as high as it ever
was.
1--WE are making Wichita big pork
packing city. 1t draws away from Kan
sas City Its best country for the supply
of hogs. Dold & Son have $500, 900
plant, half of which and twenty acres of
ground were given by the city as Boz
nus. They are slaughtering LOCO day
and The plant has a capacity of 1900
day in summer and 5000 in winter, and
500 cattle. F. Whitaker C Sons, of st.
Louis. are building still larger plant
just adjoining Dold on the northwest,
with capacity of 5000 hogs in winter
and 5000 in summer We gave them
the same bonus. Then we gave $780,
600 for the Burton car shops, all within
year. Three months ago the board of
trade appointed committee of 200 men to
raise permanent subscription fund in
land and money and they secured $780,,
eco. So you see we are prepared to take
III anything that comes along.
''Who appraised the value of the sub
scription fund.-
"a committee of Chicago gentlemen.
o, it's all right. We have $700,G0o
ready to invest IN any thing to help our
town. Wichita has sure enough popu-
lation of 10000 and Sedgwick county
has $4,000 people in it. By next fall /
expect to see things as lively as ever, in
a legitimate way, and firmly believe
Wichita is on the straight road to the
stars"
Senator Bentley is one of the young
men of the senate and got in and out of
the Wichita boom just in the right
time. By the consent of the Con-
vention of representatives of cities of the
first class, and by the appointment of
Lieutenant Governor Felt he is chairman
of the committee on cities of the first
class in the senate. In a convention
held last Friday at Wichita a bill for
cities of the first class was drawn up
and will be presented in the senate by
Senator Bentley on Monday or Tuesday.
1t contains 12S sections and covers forty
eight pages of foolscap.
Senator Bentley's committee on Fri
day reported back, recommending that
it pass, S. B. 10 which gives cities of the
first class the right to condemn the right
of way for sewers outside the city
limits This benefits only two cities,
and Topeka. 1t will enable the
sewers of the north side to empty into
the Kaw near the mouth of Soldier
creek.
REPRESENTATIVE Er,ctor,e hill ,oror;J