Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-03
THIS IS STRAIGHT GOODS.
Tips Taken From the Growth wichita City.

| From the Dubois, Pa, Express
| Among the visitors in Dubois this week
were Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Corbett. OF
| Wichita, Kansas, the guests ofsmerchant
| D. L. Corbett, at the Commercial hotel.
They were accompanied by Mrs. Stanley,
and their two sons, leaving. for their west
ern home Tuesday noon, a journey that
takes two nights and three days to make.
| Mr. Corbett is captain general OF Mt. Oil
! vet commande.y No. u, Knights Temp
LAS, of Wichita, and was..in attendance
upon the recent triennial conclave at
| Washington, D. c., the next one being
held in Denver, Colorado.
| Mr.. Corbett is prominent leader in the
business world of rapidly growing and en-
| terprising Wichita, the largest city in the
Kansas commonwealth He is leading
spirit in the Wichita Mercantile company:
| wholesale grocers, and president of the
board of trade, an organization whose eff
forts and energy have accomplished great
! things for that prosperous city. Their
building at Market and First streets is an
imposing structure of five stories, and is
headquarters for men who mean business
and have grit to branch out in invest
ments.
Talking over the work OF the Wichita
board of trade with Mr. Corbett, Monday
evening, he tell The Express that that or
ganiZation has given over $1,000, 900 to
new enterprises, believing that spirit OF
liberality is the only true way to accom-
plish results alike beneficial to all. There
are 225 members and the admission fee is
500 each, but contrary to a commonly ac-
toH ha nj
upon no transaction similar to those Of
like bodies in Chicago and st. Louis. Our
board of trade benefits no one personally.
That is too narrow a view" says Mr.. Cor
bett. Among the large industrial lnsti-
tutions established in Wichita through our
fundamentally are two mammouth pack
ing houses, the Dold Packing company
and Whitaker's. They employ from 1.500
to 1900 men and pack 5000 hogs day.
No part of the hog is lost except the squeal
and that is even used in running Kansas
Democratic conventions.
AS an indication of the business done in
Wichita, copy of the Wichita EAGLE Of
October Is date, the leading daily in Kan
sas state and one that would be a great
credit to Philadelphia and other large
eastern cities. publishes the mercantile
fact that 600 car loads of Wichita freight
alone stood on the side tracks there the
previous Saturday night, representing ten
thousand tons Of merchandise. Eleven
railroads center in Wichita. Mr.. Corbett
had with him sample boxes Of sorghum
sugar which it is proposed to manufacture
on an extensive scale, its purity being 96
per cent. The general run of sugars
is SIS.
According to compilation of returns
given in the Wichita Journal OF Commerce,
handsomely printed descriptive volume,
the population is given at 10000. the total
,,1, ha tU
and the rate of taxation on the 500 at
1928. The town started in 1870 with $50
population, in 1850 it had ), 4S2 and in 1887
there were 81, 760 hustlers out that way.
There are altoget her 293 industrial estab-
lishments. with 81, $4,000 capital, doing a
business of So, 405. 900, employing 2,4l9 per-
sons and paying out S1.505,000 in wages
yearly. Industries of a commercial and
general character number 1871, have a
capital of S5,S00,000 business of $50 ,520, coo,
have $500 employees aud pay out S6,U2l. OOO
in wages yearly.
Such is a brief view of Mr.. Corbett's
home. Nothing can be said in detail of
the many elegant residences, the miles OF
su bstanUial business blocks, the wonderful
array of universities of learning simply
beautiful in architecture and costing hun
dreds Of thousands of dollars TO erect. The
Young Mems Christian association have
charming retreat built at cost of $4,000,
There are IS churches. The Express has
engaged in an article of this length to in
dictate the value of live board Of trade to
any community. Dubois is especially fay
ored in the way OF opportunities-with
simply remarkable and limitless coal de-
pOsits, timber belts unrivaled anywhere in
the state and water facilities coupled with
cheap lands. These comprise a list that
board of trade can invite the outside
world in to see and although the adversely
brought about by flame swept town is u
check upon liberal spirit heavy advance
has been made in the past two years, the
business section has been partially restor-
ed, we are getting there and have time now
to help others TO come in and join hands
for the common good. What has been
done in Wichita can be done in Dubois