Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-04-07

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The same logic of events and consocia-
ton Of undeniable advantages which
originally rendered this magnificent city
supreme in her own field and the marvel
of the age, continued to sustain her
through the most trying ordeal and are
now rendering more certain the final
triumph and until the most incredulous
are acknowledging the bright in
evitable. The idiosincrasies of re-
luctant railway arrangements, the strug-
giles of not remote but powerful centers,
not to mention the travail of closer
ambitious tributary points, which be-
held in Wichita's destiny a contraction
of their own expectations, have all come
to naught, and Wichita is again on that
high road of prosperity which can only
end in supremacy. The value of her
latest victory is beyond computation,
not only in that it is a victory over Gull
limitations, but because of its undeniably
permanent character. The speculative
or commercial world can never be mis-
led again as to either this city's present
Importance or future dominancy. Be
cause the expectations of the many were
not achieved in a moment or could not
har iy,o 1or to,, Il
were set wagging from one end of this
country to the other, to the effect that
Wichita was an experiment, a bubble
bursted. The magnificent: domain, the
richest and broadcast on this continent,
with which she is surrounded, with hun
dreds of growing community patrons
at her very door, the extension of her
traffic lines in every direction, the unpar-
rallied rapidly and solidity of her growth,
her phenomenal expansion in trade
and industries all these counted for
nothing in the estimation OF the momen-
tarily disappointment. But before the
newer, stronger, wider and more power
full era of development and increase
upon which she is now entering, the
cavil of the defamer and the doubt of
the timid will alike fall UNDECIDED or re-
main unexpressed.
At no time in all her past history were
the prospects of Wichita every so bright
as now. No hour of her most promising
days eyer presented the substantial
assurance Of so wide spread and SO solid
a growth as those which the tangible
existing facts Of the present warrant.
The evidences of it are not so much Sin
the very air" as in the irrefutable ad-
vantages long forseen and expected, but
lately undeniably gained. To recount
them was not the object of this article.
They are so pre-eminently great and
prominent as to be seen and understood
by our people not only, but by anybody
at all or in the least interested. The all
important item of terminal and dis
tributing rate of railway traffic, which in
spite of our great tonnage had been held
to an unequitable schedule, has been of
flcially settled by the railway commits
sioners of the state upon no sentimental
or prospective basis. but upon the basis
of a statistical showing which admitted
Of no gainsay or opposition. The retail
ers and consumers of our vast and rich
territory can now be supplied from
Wichita, and the producers from the
same territory can reach the Wichita
markets at the same tariff rates afforded
by the older centers, while the area of
the territory thus reached and to be
reached is widened with the addition of
Oklahoma ana will stlll become wider
and more valuable in the opening and
and settlement of the entire Indian Ter
ritory in the near future. Thus the adj
vantages, opportunities and possibilities
of Wichita as a distributing center have
been enhanced a hundred, yea, a thou
sand, fold, which jobbers will not be
slow to see-will be forced to see.
But the making the city of Wichita a
wholesale center with jobbing traffic
and differential rates, by the decree of
the states authority, and the opening
up of new and great field for trade, do
not comprise all of this city's late VIC
tories of a marked character. In addi- |
ton to these magnificent and immeas-
urable auxiliaries. in addition to the new |
mammoth packing interests rapidly |
nearing the hour of active operations. |
and the great yeast, high wines and vim
egar plant of Cincinnati, and the half |
dozen lobbing firms now arranging to |
transfer TO this place, and the splendid |
prospects of great crop year with its |
millions upon millions Of bushels of grain /
poured into our market, in addition to /
all these and many other important fac
tors, there is move on foot. /
and 1t is more than a move. that /
has been practically consumated, which
will bring millions of money 10 this CITY