Wichita eagle., 1889-06-23
PROTECTION AND WICHITA.
PROTECTION, Comanche Co., Kan,
T,,o on 1890

PROTECTION AND WICHITA.
PROTECTION, Comanche Co., Kan,
June 20, 1889.
| To the Editor Of the Eagle.
Being a reader of the EAGLE. the
paper that talks for the great southwest,
and as this town is tributary to Wichita
as are many other towns in southwest
ern Kansas, our dry goods and groceries
coming from or through your city
while scarcely a week passes without
some of Wichita's commercial men In
terviewing the merchants of Protection.
(And by the way I have heard our mer-
chants say that they can buy cheaper OF
Wichita houses than any others, such
being the case) few items from this
place may not prove uninteresting to the
readers Of the EAGLE.
This bright little town is located on
the Mulvane extension of the Santa Fe
railroad, little over a hundred
miles southwest from WIGHT, in the
Santanta valley, just below the junction
of Bluff and Kiowa creeks, while to the
east Cavalry creek flows past the town
within half mile.
| fine valley of splendid farming and
miles wide and about twenty miles long.
This valley of well watesed. Aside from
the streams, wells of pure, soft water
can be had by digging from ten to
twenty feet.
Midway north and south in this valley
is Protection, surrounded by fields of
70 Tt,4 xvvhn
which is now mostly in shock, has sur
passed all expectation both as to quantity
and quality, and there will be several
thousand bushels shipped from here as
soon as it can be threshed.
Oats are doing we'll at present, and
corn, of which large acreage has been
planted, is very good and promises an
abundant yield. A large amount of hay
Of a superior quality was pressed and
shipped from here last year, and the out
look for fine crop this season is very
tlattering.
The Santa Fe railroad company is now
at work erecting large and commodious
stockyards here, the largest on the line,
the old ones being inadequate for the
large shipments of cattle that are prom
Used to this point from the territory. Cat
tlemen from the west of Englewood will
drive here and ship, Es these yards are
easy of access and there is an abundance
of good grass and water near by to hold
cattle on. Parties that are posted claim
that there will be 1000 carloads of cattle
shipped from here this season.
Protection stands in need of one or
two things just now that would mate
rally assist in her development-thing
she is bound to have in the near future.
But her citizens are very modest in their
aspirations. They don't want sugar
plant, as many other towns do. Neither
do they want salt well-that is not the
hight of their ambition, as salt wells are
so plenty few miles south of here that
they just bubble up out of the ground
of their own accord and
tons of the preserving element
crystalizes on the surface of the earth,
no digging or boring nor costly machin-
cry but natures own refinery working
for nothing all through the long sum-
mer months.
But what Protection does want is some
live energetic man to come here and
build a grist mill to manufacture our
surplus wheat into flour. And another
man of the same makeup to start good
creamery, as we have all the accessories,
plenty of good pure water, an abund-
ance of the finest kind of grass and more
cows than we know what to do with.
To parties wishing to engage in the above
business good inducements will be given.
Yours truly, OLD SETTLER.