The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-30
VALUABLE vERDICTS.
Men Of National Prominence Predicting
Great Future for Wichita

railway. systems of the west, while stand
ing ON a sidewalk on East Douglas
avenue a few days since in the early
morn. at an hour before the traffic and
life Of that street had begun to make
itself manifest, said: There is one
thing settled in my mind, and that IS,
kansas is going to have great COM
''mercial city and everybody knows that
"Wichita will be that city. And while
wichita NAV be. and doubtless Is, feel
''the effects Of financial depression
(which is general throughout the coun-
'strv. and while some of her citizens may
''be burthened and inclined to grumble,
vet Wichita viii make, nevertheless,
land in the near future, such a rapid
growth as will astonish your own state
"and the west, the uIlimates of which
growth can only be measured by him
who can measure the future live stock
land grain interests Of southwest Kan
"sas ard the effects Of the almost in
spontaneous settlement and swift de-
"velopement of the whole Cherokee Out
'.let. which is to follow this year"
The president Of another Of the great
railway systems Of the west and Of this
state, greater even than the
one first mentioned, said in the
hearing Of several gentlemen only a
few weeks since, while standing on the
roof Of the Sedgwicb block with the
whole panorama Of city and valley lying
before him. "Your solidity as a city, its
remarkable greatness for its years, taken
together with the prestige of its loca-
''tion, power and wealth, no less than
flor the fact with which l am more con-
''versant. its commercial tonnage, which
''is more than double that Of any other
''single city entirely on Kansas soil, and
"Wichita is without a peer or possible
rival in all the territory which is trib-
''utary to it today"
The president of another of the great
railway systems Of the southwest and Of
this state, a man whose name IS one
among the most familiar on the CONT
nent, three or four years ago, in passing
upon the prospects Of the more promi-
nent points reached by his system said:
my people are interested in the growth
''and excellence of all the towns and
"countrys which our lines serve, but if
''were asked 10 name the most wonder
"ful town in the southwest, a town
which viii in a very few years surpass
TN business and wealth every other be-
tween the Missouri river and the base
''of the Rocky mountains, | would take
"a map of Kansas and place
my finger at the junction of the
Great and Little Arkansas rivers,-you
''can read the name for yourself"
These gentlemen are not quoted in
this connection because we believe that /
they any more thoroughly appreciate the /
advantages boosted by this city or that
they are any more thoroughly convinced |
Of It's coming commercial consequence |
than are very many Of the more capable /
and comprehensive men among our own .
citizens. so much as from the fact that .
they are the disinterested judgments of |
men all residence of other states whose !
mental grasp and practical acumen are
of so wide spread recognition and special .
value. Railway presidents become ex-
perts in estimating the advantages of /
one section over another, and their .
reckoning of the possible and probable |
examinations Of the cO-0rdinates that .
predominant in the supremacy of .
a location are not only relied upon by /
capitalists but on their deductions are .
the millions of others expended in the .
construction of railways and extensions
and in the building up of local facilities .
pertaining to transportation.
SO impressive are the obvious adyant-
ages of this city. so incompatible her
immitable surroundings. so distinguished .
and marked the superior enterprise and .
spirit of her people, that not only have /
great railway presidents and capitalists
been thus convinced of her unfolding .
magnitude. but the veriest travelling
stranger once within her gates com /
mences with expressions of establishment /
10 prephesy of her future. And so too.
out OF all Of the two or three hundred
thousand people who compose the towns,
villages and communities within a
radius oi fifty or one hundred miles
there can not probably be found a
dozen disinterested business men but that
would unite in saying that so far as
Wichita is concerned, her destiny as the
great city of Kansas is determined be
yond any peradventure. And to this
very emphatic and emphasized recogni-
non and estimate Of Wichita's present
and future, byrailway marnatcs, by cap
Itahsts. and by travellers. no less than bv
the people of the state, may largely be
attributed the surprising, but well veri-
fed circumstance of the wide spread at
tention which the city has attracted. be-
ing better known today throughout the
country than one-half of the old estab-
hshed cities Of the east. To see the city
once is 70 become Its staunch admirer
and its friend. The site of the city was
an Indian agency. and all the vast region