Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-20
WICHITA AND coLDwATER.
The Greatness Of One-Possibilities of
the Other.

| From the Coidwater Review.
westward the star of empire take its
way" and at convenient distances,
| where natural advantages abound, thriv-
ing cities spring up as if the wand of the
magician held sway over them. The
most important of Kansas cities to
claim our attention is Wichita. Founded
a few years ago by hardy Kansas men,
she has grown from a hamlet to one of
the finest cities in the new west. Her
stately business blocks, her great pack
ing houses. her many manufactures, her
sound banking institutions, her railroads,
her fine hotels, her street railways and
her splendid daily papers all go to prove
that Wichita proudly holds her place
as the finest city in matches Kansas.
Surrounded as she is by great country
unsurpassed for its agricultural wealth
and resources, no wonder the ''Peerless
Princess is the pride of her people. No
wonder that brains and money are at
tracted to her No wonder that her
EAGLE" screams SO Justify for her. She
has honestly won her place among the
cities of the west. People everywhere
admire pluck, courage and success that
succeeds, and accord honor to the Peer
less Princess of the Plain
About one hundred and fifty miles
southwest of Wichita another city is
rapidly spripging into prominence and
from its rapid and substantial growth
bids fair to become one of the most i'm
portant points in southern Kan
sas. Coldwater, ''the superb young
queen" is almost the only south
ern Kansas town showing sub
stantial growth in 1883. Surrounded
as she is by one of the richest agricul-
tural counties in the great west, with
mean elevation of 1900 feet above the
sea; with an atmosphere clear, brisk and
invigorating; with long, genial summers
and mild, short winters, with electrical
influences permeating the earth and Civ
ing vigor and buoyancy to every living
thing thereon; with no marshes to scat
ter deadly malaria and pestilence; with
her pure, sparkling waters, flowing clear
as crystal and carrying life and health
giving qualities, Ill tend to point to
Coldwater as the coming city of this par
ticular section. But five years ago the
site of this prosperous city was a howl
ing prairie wilderness. What magical
change. The spell was broken and a
city sprung into existence as if in night.
If some Rip VanWinkle had fallen asleep
five years ago on the present site of Cold
water and were to wake up today,
he certainly would imagine sleep of half
a century. Costly brick blocks now take
the place Of the bowling coyote of five
years ago. Magnificent stores, banks,
churches, school houses and printing
Offices now claim the attention OF the
stranger, where five years ago cattle and
wild beasts were the only attraction. No
unsightly, wlndowless houses are to be
found in her limits; no whining, dis
gruntled citizens; but thriving, push
ing population, proud of their town,
proud Of their county and proud of their
state. Happy, prosperous Coldwater!
How can we predict the full measure of
thy future prosperity? Who doubts but
the twelve hundred population of today
will be as many thousand in another five
years? Thou hast stood the storms of ad-
versty and prospered and flourished
beyond the imaginations of thy people.