Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-03
WICHITA WHOLESALING.
THE KEY TO THE JOBBING TRADE
OF OKLAHOMA.
Nine Railway Lines Linking the Me-
tropolis Of Kansas to an On
limited Trade.

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| tropolis Of Kansas to an Un-
limited Trade.
Time, Space and Transportation Facili
ties Constituting a Series Of Magnif-
icent Advantages Possessed by
No Other City.
With the passage of the bill, which
provides for the opening of the Indian
territory to actual settlement within the
next few months, no jobbing center
within the bounds of the union offers
such prospects, such sure success to
companies or individuals who are desir-
ing to found new wholesaling houses, as
does Wichita. The opportunity stands
not only unrivalled, but the bill itself by
its provisions gives just time, yet ample,
in which to either build or to rent and
to place the stocks all ready for the
thousands Of retailers who shall do the
business Of the hundreds of new towns
which are TO be laid out and built up in
q day. Five hundred thousand people, a
vast and dense community of consumers,
and of consumers only, will be ready to
form business alliances with the most
advantageous and accessible Supply CEN
ter, which when once formed cannot
soon be weakened or disengaged. So
rapidly will these new towns be laid out,
built up, and filed in, that it will
prove no small task to keep the
run of their names and locations. And
all Of their peoples will be consumers,
including the claim holders on every
quarter section of land for nearly two
hundred miles square. A half million
of claim holders and their families will
be looking to the nearest new town for
their supplies of every character, and
these new towns in turn must look to
some greater center outside of the terri
tory which is reached by the necessary
lines of transportation for prompt filling
of orders.
And in this matter of transportation
lines does Wichita hold the key to the
entire situation, a situation SO vast, SO
rich in possibilities and so inexhaustible
that if she but holds it firmly by meet
ing the demands which will be made
made upon her supplying powers, no
adequate estimate can be made Of her
growth and expanding powers. Three
Of her railways reach directly into the
territory now. three others indirectly by
close connections. and three others
ire waiting upon the border ready
% invade as soon as the word is
given that the country is open, two
IF which last three will have penetrated
he prairies and vallies of the red man
before the whites shall have taken for
nal or legal possession. Chicago, st.
louis, Kansas City and st. Joseph can
,nly reach the new promised land by
wo roads in common except as they
each it through Wichita. Galveston on
he gulf, reaches it only by two lines
md one of these runs directly to Wich-
ia. There Is another line contemplated
~ the st. Louis & San Francisco from
Wichita into another portion of the ter |
itory; southwest from the city through |
Harper and Barber counties, and which |
inc is not included in the number |
Take your railway map and look at
he situation. Wichita is just far enough
Jack from the base or border line to
atch all the roads which we have
an advantage which no
own Immediately on the border can
ossibly avail itself. The Santa Fee, the
,ock Island and the Southern Kansas i
II penetrate the territory with
mes direct from Wichita. The Missouri |
'acific runs from Wichita directly to the
order at Kiowa; the Mulvane extension
uns directly to the border at Engle-
rood; the D., N. & A, with its head
uarters in this city is part of the Mis-
ouri Pacific system, runs directly to the
order at Coffeyville, with an extension
rom the latter point already being con-
tructed TO connect with the Arkansas
alley system at Fl Gibson. The other
hree roads enumerated as linking the
erritory and Wichita by connections
acre or less direct are the Frisco and its
ranch to Vinita; the NJ, X. & T. by its
with the Missouri Pecific.
nd the southwest extension of the Rock
sland from Harrington by its connec-
ION at Pratt and at Greensbnrg with the
Wichita & Western. Here are nine
Dads all of which will be more or less
perated in the interest of Wichita's
and no three of which can be
perated in the interest of any
Their city except as the traffic is hauled
trough or by way of this city.
That which above all other things will
ommand the jobbing trade Of the new
,rntory Of Oklahoma will be such an
feasibility as Will enable the retailer
no makes the order in having such Or
or the most speedily received and the
pods most quickly delivered. No other
ty can rival the advantages of Wichita