Wichita eagle., 1889-01-20

of our shaded avenues lined with hand
| some homes. We do not fail to call at
tention to our universit es and colleges; to
our academies and public school buildings,
our churches and our Y. VI. c. A. build
ing. We are proud of our hotels. our
opera house and orr imposing business
and office blocks; the Sedgwick, the Zlm-
merly, the Fletcher and many others; our
eighty miles of motor and street car lines;
our immense packing houses aud our car
works All these attractions are shown
| to the interested visitor and while they
impress him faVorably, they are things
| that are expected in city OF AZ. 600 PEG
pie But, To the lcng-headed, solid 10 yes
tor there is something more attractive
than all these. Some thing that causes
him 30 have greater faith in the future of
Wichita, and that is the way the men of
Wichita pull together. Work together III
the future as you have in the past and
there can be no doubt MS To the trium-
plant result for Wichita's future.
After the address of the president the
annual report of the secretary was read by
Secretary Clement. The report was fire.
quently applauded and was as follows:
sECRETARY's REPORT.
Gentlemen of the Vic ita Board OF Trade
10 submitting this annual report our
purpose will be to give you a brief sum-
mary, in general terms, of the work done
by the directors during the past year The
year 1885 has been crowded with events,
the most important that have ever taken
place in all the history of this city.
The Industries that have been located
and established the past year have fixed
and determined beyond all cavil or dispute
the future destiny and character Of Wich-
tia. A year and half ago person not
familiar with this southwest country. and
without sufficient knowledge TO forecast
the future might possibly have questioned
whether this was really to be the great
stock and meat packing center Of tha
southwest but now the location of the
immense packing plants of the "Dold
Packing Company" and Francis Whitta-
ker & Sons" have forever settled this ques-
ton, and Wichita stands today without
fear OF possible rival in this line OF in
dustries
And this is not all. The great Burton Car
Works, the Gilbert Plow Works, our
foundries, our iron works, our machine
shops, our, our soap factories, our plan
ing mills, our scores of other manufac-
turing establishments, all settle the fact
that this city now is and always will be
the great manufacturing city of the state.
These interests also guarantee that this
city will be, as it now is, the great railroad
center of the state. The questions that
have been settled, the industries that have
been located, and the enterprises that have
been initiated the past year, have done
more to place this city OF basis or solid,
continuous and permanent growth, than
all the events in all the city's previous
history. The sands have all been washed
away, bed rock has been reached and the
foundations firmly laid upon which we
are building city whose future growth
and development will be marvel
10 the country, and the browning
4 II rpis hca rl of d.
has been the Instrument through which
the force, the energy, the determination |
of this iDvincibie people, has found eX- |
preston, and by such concentration and |
direction have such grand results been &C
But we inYIte your attention |
more to detail work.
Immediately after our last annual meet |
ing committee was sent to Washington |
to secure an additional s100.0o0 for our |
government building, to secure the loca- |
ton here of signal station, and to urge |
upon the president the importance of |
opening the Oklahoma country. The first
two requests have been granted and the
third soon will be Early il February |
parties visited us from the southwest |
asking aid by way of seed for plant
ing. The directors appointed committees to
canvass the city and relief was furnished.
t this time also came parties seeking to
ccate a sugar mill and refinery in the city.
They made proposition, which was ac-
;epted by the board, and the board per
formed its part of the contract but the /
parties failed to secure the capital they
promised: 1t is not the fault of the board
hat the industry WAS not esiab-
ished. The purpose, however has never
,een relinquished, and i'll pursuance
# this end, at later
late, Judge Parkinson, of Fort Scott, WAS
invited to visit our city and present the
Of ba ind, cf To no tpp rR |
which he did The judge assured the
,oard that he expected to be in a position
o make proposition to the board to
stablish an extensive sugar mill aud re-
inery in this city. On March 1st. the con-
titution and bylaws, as revised and
mended, were adopted, and 500 copies
reports OF the officers We're
rintcd
Early in this month the question of i'm
migration was taken up. Excursion rates
we're secured from the east to Kansas. |
agents were sent east to work up eX-
ursions parties A large amount of .
rinted matter was distributed, but owing ,
0 the depression attending presidential
ampaign, the results were not as large
nd immediate as desired.
On march 1st the mayor and council in
tied the directory to appo Mt Il committee
D act in con junction with n committee of |
he council, to investigate the question OF
awering the city. Such committee
AS appointed, aud devoted much time
D the subject urging upon the t
ouncl the necessity o! the work and I
he importance of employing expert
ngineers to devise proper plans that no |
listake be made. and also urging the ad- |
antagrs of the city owning its own sy-- I
N, and not grant tie franchise to s
ny private corporation. The question !
'as settled th,t " lcnita could be econom !
ally severed ana the work l. well under
az. aud ere the present year shall Close {
ie city viii have completed a perfect sys- c
m Of sewerage at cost of S265, 600 {
: n county commissi toner's solicited the i
Twice OF the boa ri as to the acceptance of /
.rtain PROPOSITIONS for the sale of tae e
Jurt house bonds. The advice was given S
nj followed by the commissioners. The O
Oard also asked the commissioners to let 2
ne contracts for building the structure to c
lme contractors, which was done. L
The board took possession of its present C
IONS March 2lst and celebrated the event o
it'll a banquet at which were present the
rgest number of business men, repre-
nting the most capital, that ever assem- p
ed for similar purpose in the state of IL
anSas. C
The first step taken towards securing the
eat Whitaker packing house was in
arch, when the president reported the
suit of an interview held with Mr.. Whit
ker, in ST. Louis
On petition of large number of mer-
ants who were members of the board of
ade the shippers bureau" was on April
taken in charge by the board, and its .
ork was conducted by commissioner IL
pointed by the directory. s.
In the matter of advertising the board v
IS done what has seemed to them wise a
ID judicious. July /, 10000 copies of the
urnal of Commerce were issued at an :,
pense of some s.. 900 These have been u
opecly distributed IN way to benefit a.