Wichita eagle., 1889-08-25
DIRECTLY FOR WICHITA.
THE PEERLESS PRINCESS SOUND,
SOLID AND ALL RIGHT.
A Glimpse of the Prosperous Days
Ahead and Of Some of the Causes
Which are Conspiring to
Bring Them.

the mayor and addressed by some Of our
length upon the present and past Of this
city and drew some pleasing pictures of
her future. whose colors they heightened
and rendered more indelable by statistical
| facts gathered from Official records and
| other sources, all of or a part of which
were duly reproduced in these columns Of
yesterday.
! The Peerless Princess is all right as
sound as silver dollar and as solid as
| granite, with more wealth per capita, with
greater interests to sustain and further
! develope her values, and less burthens in
the way Of taxation or other obligations.
than are boosted OF complained of by any
city Of her population in this or any other
state, east or west, of which we have any
knowledge The muniicent, the enor-
nous crops, of southern Kansas, and of
the Arkansas valley, were exhibited. Big
crops begets increased business, increased
| business stiffens rents, enhances values
and enlivens the demand for improvements
and all kinds Of labor This is the logical
order, assured by all experienced, and it is
that which will be felt by every town and
community OF this great valley, in the i'm
mediate future, but by Wichita more than
by any other city, proportionate with her
| larger and richer field Of retail trade, to
which must be added her wholesale and
/ m arr int a hpr
and live stock interests, and all of which
now reach not only majority of all the
important communities of southwest Kan
SIS but the Indian Territory, and to some
extent even those Of Colorado, New Mexico
and Arkansas. In addition to these, and
which will add largely to our money
circulation, will be the changing Of the
horse-car lines of the city into electric
service, necessitating vast expenditure
of money and a great amount of labor,
which together with the street paving,
will make lively times locally for many
months to come.
But over and above all these sources of
assured prosperity and good times. and
might mention, we believe the most i'm
portant and by every consideration the
greatest coming good for Wichita. not
even excepting the great matter upon
which the board of trade is now at work.
nor yet the new trunk line of railway to
the Missouri river, is the opening of the
Indian territory to settlement. Into and
across this new territory with
its new people, new towns
and their demands, numerically not
to be estimated, but all consumers. with
the Missouri Pacific reaching them direct
ly from Wichita, with the Rock Island
reaching them directly from Wichita,
with the Santa Fe reaching then directly
from Wichita, with the Southern Kansas
reaching them, and clear out into the Pan
Handle, directly from Wichita, and with
no possibility of any other city now built,
or of any other city which might be built,
to so reach that territory, its communities
and its peoples and demands, either by
these roads as whole or by any other
roads, Wichita would have her CONNER
cial field doubled in day, her trade dou-
bled in a day, the increased demands
upon her resources being such As
would by single impulse send
her along in her course of destiny with
such a feverish rush that her people would
forget that times had ever been uncom-
fortably close, or trade slack or lacking in
lab ha
circumscribed district already opened to
settlement. Wichita won a greater trade
and reaped more advantages, than she
ever expected, the nearest point to US
being one hundred and twenty-five miles
distant, with several intervening towns to
compete for its undeyeloped trade. But
with the opening of the entire country
contemplated, by the Springer bill. in
Guiding the great Cherokee strip Of
seven million acres of rich agricul-
tural lands stretching from east to west
along our southern border and across the
roads mentioned as branching out directly
from Wichita, with no competing point as
to all or as to any two of these roads, and,
we say again, not only will the business
and Importance of Wichita, as a CONNER
cial center, be multiplied by two the
moment that the president signs the bill,
but all her values will double and pros
perity greater than any boom be assuredly, |
undeniably, logically and solidly become |
hers
Wichita is just as much a
city of destiny today rs she |
ever was Her locs or with reference to |
the great valleys and % the great and rich |
counties of the southwest, has not shifted |
or changed. Her ten lines of railway have |
not been pulled up nor their operation |
abandoned. The commanding position |
which assured the world Of her future |
originally, and which her after and con- |
tinued prosperity signalized. is still hers |
simply because ii could not be taken from |
her. Despite the inevitable shrinkage |
which initiation never failed Of producing, /
and despite two years Of short crops /
and the discouragements legitimately fol- |
lowing them, Wichita has within these two /
years made herself enc OF the acknowl- |
edged livestock markets snd packing cen /
tiers of the west, which interests and great /
ness have assured her preeminence of /
which she cannot be robbed by either old |
rivalries or new autagonisms.
At a time, and only twenty years ago, |
when Kansas City, Omaha, Denver, Salt |
Lake and other places now named in con-