Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-29
NorHrNc BUT SENSE.

For the past four years the Mems has
been urging upon our people the advisa-
bility of turning attention to securing
manufacturing establishments, and par
ticularly those adapted to the conversion
of the products of this country into mar
ketable form. We have written on this
question in season, and possibly ont OF
season, believing that we could never
have an important trading point, founded
upon nothing save bleak and barren
prairie. Neither did we believe the SIM
Die plating of the land into lots, streets
and alleys, and the building thereon of
innumerable houses, large and small,
would result in the upbuilding of popu-
lous city. unless steps were taken to
provide employment for her citizens. For
nearly four years our arguments in this
line met with anything but a promising
reception, until finally we were almost
led to believe that there was some
truth in the statement made by some
''cranky" upon the subject. People who
were wrapped up in various schemes to
extend the city limits, until it seemed as
If they would ultimately become cock
tensive with the boundaries of the county,
only "poohedr' at the idea of building
factories of any kind, and usually dis
posed OF the matter-and at the same
time annihilated the person who had the
hardihood to suggest the propriety of
securing factories herewith the ques-
ton: "What the - can we manufacture
here" 1t is possibly somewhat easier to
answer that query now than it was few
years ago. We can manufacture -four,
we make very fine article of butter, and
in sixty days we will make sugar. In
addition to these articles we believe we
can make oil from millet seed and sor-
ghum seed; paper from bagasse and
straw; doors, sash and blinds from lum-
Der shipped in in bulk; windmills at less
cost than they can be shipped here. The
list may be extended almost indefinitely,
and still there are branches of industry
that can be introduced into western
Kansas to the advantage of the persons
instituting them and to the community
in which they are located. We believe
that Ness City is now fully alive to the
line of policy which will secure the build
ing up of an important manufacturing
center, and that she has already made
such strides in that direction as will
assure her being the metropolis of western
Kansas if narrow-m minded counsel is
avoided. People of Ness City should be
united now as they never were before,
and they will have the cinch on all the
rival towns of this part of the state. If
we would maintain our hold on the pos
terror part of the raiment of the world
we must pull with will, and all pull
together Ness City Nezus.
There is nothing but sense in the
above article. The WORLD has
pleaded by the year that a town
without manufacturing enterprises
is poor affair. If our people would
well nigh forget politics for a year
or two, and rally together as neigh
bors for the accomplishment Of bus
mess results which are within reach,
they could have windmill factory;
a factory for the compression of
straw, hay, weeds, etc., into tangible
fuel; a broom factory, and perhaps
every thing else advocated by the
Ne,os for Ness City. Extensive
capital is not required for the estab-
lishment Of plants like these. The
great need is the fraternity Of the
community in the fullest and best
sense.
There is another important con-
in this direction: Manu-
featuring enterprises are naturally
to a locality where shops
and factories are already in opera
ion. The principal work lies in
securing the first few enterprises.
J. B. SPIDLE, Of Ness City, who was
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