Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-03-16
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SURELY COMING.
A Matter That is Understood by Many
but Which Interests Wichita IN
Particular.

Money is becoming more plentiful ant
collections are easier. All branches o
trade have a brighter outlook. Their,
are strengthening hopes and renewa
Of confidence betokening good times
Despite the depressing prices of al
farm products, the great aggregate O
corn and wheat and of oats sold since
last harvest is being sensibly felt. AND
besides there are vast sums Of money
which have been paid out at the Union
Stock Yards in this city during the WIN
ter by buyers Of cattle and hogs, the
largest per cent of which money has
gone direct to the farmers Of southwest
Kansas. and which IS swelling and en-
larging the volume Of currency and
stimulating all branches Of local trade.
or course the largest and most
prosperous commercial city III the state
would be the first to feel the impulses of
renewing activity and life. Business
rooms are scarce and hard TO get and
vacant houses are scarce and growing
scarcer daily. In number Of instances
dealers have doubled-up in the occu-
pancy of the central business rooms.
Wichita, like all western cities such as
whose futures are, on account of their
location and prestige, known and under
stood by every passer by, has been sub
iected to occasional rushes, and Will be
again, especially so because Of the IA
vorable prices at which property is now
held, but nevertheless holders realize
that there is more money in Wichita
realty at the prices at which it IS
going now than ever before,
which renders the market staple
and steady. Moreover, there is no prop
erty holder in Wichita but that is fully
convinced not only that there is more to
be realized in the future on the present
prices Of property here than on the
property of any important city in the
west, but that to sell property at the
present prices for the purpose of invest
ing money in the boom prices or inflated
prices of towns and cities of not half the
prospects and which are totally lacking
in the solid backing that Wichita boasts,
would be worse than foolishness.
There are not only prosperous times
in the near future, then, for Wichita, but
great things in the way of growth and
development, and none so thoroughly
realize that fact as her own
people. No city in the west,
not excepting either Kansas City,
Minneapolis or Denver. has suffered so
little, and none has in fact held their
own, during the depression of the last
gear or two, in the satisfactory way that
Wichita has. There is not a city in the
west, and the cities named are included.
that does not show a greater number of
failures Of business firms, more empty
business roor's, moro deserted tene-
ment houses, than Wichita has shown. |
For a truth Wichita has not had a bust |
ness failure worth mentioning in three |
gears, while the number of her firms and
Of other business interests have gone on |
increasing. The prosperous times ahead |
therefore is not only I'm the air." but
there is an assuring logic and q multi /
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diction and conviction. Outside people /.
may, and no doubt will, rush in upon /
us again and Wichita will more than
ever be left without the posi- (
bility of that stimulus afforded .
by competing rivals, as Wichita
rs a commercial city no longer nor can
have any rival on the soil of Kansas, vet
she will nevertheless gather to herself a .
momentum and solidity which Will COM /
pensate for the rewards that have come
IN the past through sacrifices and the +
victories that have come Of extra exer-
lions melted by the ambitions of others.
And, so, while our own people actual /
~ know from a demonstration that
comes of their every day experience that
Wichita is feeling the impulse of re-
newed life that rests on the solid bed /
rock Of steadily expanding business.
it Is equally true that the more observant
people Of the state at large are not only
convinced that such is the case and in a
degree shown by 40 other western city.
bat the whole state is looking forward
with lively anticipation 70 the time. in
The near future, when their own towns
and cities viii again catch reflex Of
Wichita prosperous example, coneiuc-
ed as they are that Wichita will be the
first city IN the state to throw of the
depressing influences brought about by
the low price of our agricultural pro-
ducts, and, being the most important
commercial city in the state. therefore
viii be the first city 10 show reliable
signs Of returning prosperity to Kansas
and the west.
II transpires that the energy expended
by certain of the state press in Directing
10 the appointment of the Minnesota