Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-10
A GLORIOUS OUTLOOK.
THE METROPOLIS OF KANSAS AND
OF OKLAHOMA.
The Advantages Of Wichita's Location
Her Superior Position Conceded, and
an Unexampled Growth Con-
fidently Predicted by Business
Men and Capitalists
EVERYWHERE

and in a marked manner, conspiring t6
force her to the front as one of the com
ing great interior cities of the continent.
The merest tyro in town building can
not fail Of grasping the advantages Of
her location, the superiority of her posi-
ton over any other city in the west, with
reference to the trade of the new empire
now in process of Inauguration immedi-
ately at our southern door. 1t is prop
osition SO self-evident that none can be
found to dispute it.
Twenty-six millions of acres Of
rich agricultural lands located in
the most favorable latitude ON the
continent, an area which under the law
providing for the division will make one
hundred and thirty thousand homesteads
every one of which under the bill must
be occupied, not only, but cultivated and
all this in addition to our present vast
tributary territory. Besides, the new
towns will embrace even greater num-
Der of additional homes.
A glance at any map of Kansas and
the Indian territory will show where
this area is located with reference
to Wichita and her railroads.
Taking the entire country
proposed to be opened for settlement
west of the five civilized tribes and the
railroad lines constructed and partially
constructed, and it will be seen at
glance that no town or city can possibly
become a successful competitor of Wich-
tia for that trade There is no
town on the border reaching
any portion of Oklahoma that is
not reached by Wichita and by
the same line. Some of the border towns
have two railroads each, but all of the
roads reach Wichita. Caldwell has two
roads, Kiowa two roads, Cofeyville will
have one in the near future, Arkansas
City has one running across the terri
tory, Hunnewell has one, Englewood
one and Liberal one, but Wichita has
all of these roads and with wonderful
Take the new map of Oklahoma and
study it with reference to Wichita and
with reference to the only routes by
which the territory can be reached.
of the territory of Okla
homa, as bounded by the new law, lies
west of line drawn north and south
through this city. Five-sixths of it lies
west of Arkansas City. In the absence
of further legislation the reservations of
the five great tribes on the east and south
cut off any chance of railroad extension
from Texas. Arkansas or Missouri. An
thony, Kansas, lies north of the center
of the domain, from which point south
ward the Frisco will undoubtedly pro-
ject another line.
There is another consideration of ad-
held by Wichita with
reference to her superior railway
connections with the territory of
and which seems to
have been overlooked, and it is this: All
Of the railroads-every one of them
which touch this new territory radiate
out from Wichita, either directly in
an air line, or otherwise very
directly by connecting lines under the
same ownership and management, SO
that no new road can be built from or
through eastern, northern or central
Kansas and down into the Territory
without intersecting and crossing the
railroads already out from Wichita.
That is, if any railroad should
De constructed for the purpose of shut
ling out or circumscribing Wichita's
advantages the effect of snch construc-
ion would be but to give this city ad- |
litional connections with that country.
There is a new life in Wichita. Every
body remarks it. Trade, in all lines. is
The real estate market is
a warmth that is akin to a
very healthy demand. Property owners
along business streets are having esti-
mates made for new business houses. |
of eastern money |
are with us every
lay. Members Of heavy jobbing |
irms from many cities and even from |
Texas, are daily registered at our hotels, |
,nquiring after rents, freight rates, |
switch connections, etc. More strangers |
ire seen upon our streets daily than at |
my time within many months. All /
hese come. understanding the situation
o be just as we have briefly outlined it
lbove, and knowing that there is no pos
ible chance for the city to fail of won /
lerful trade and magnificent growth /
n the near future, they come to esti- /
nate their chances of being factors |
md sharers in q prosperity, whose |
impulses will swell from this time for
ward until the proclamation of the Pres
dent shall be issued from which time /
Onward there will be a flood tide of t
for just so long as that ter
itory shall continue to grow and de-
7eiop.
Kansas City, Omaha, Minneapolis and
Denver, all seemed TO have, and did pos
ess. extraordinary fields which caused.