Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-12-04
PHILLIPsBURG
The Coming Metropolis Of the
Northwest


Phillipsburg is the county seat of Phillips
county and is located near the geographical cen
ter of the county The town site cannot be sur
passed for eligibility and beauty. The surface is
a gentle rolling prairie; the natural drainage is
perfect The town is high ground and can be
seen for many miles from any direction 1t has
a population of about 1.240. 1t has number OF
elegant buildings; the court house is brick ana
cost about $4,000 and is elegant strueturei
the Phillips County Bank is brick and stone and
was erected at a cost of about $4,000; the First
National and the State Bank buildings are OF
brick and cost about $4,000 each. The Gebhart
and Cummings brick business houses are elegant
structures costing about 5000 each, that would
be no aiscredit to the large cities. The VIM
Bissell block is a two story brick, mainly new,
and is a fine imposing building The Bissell Hotel
owned by John Bissen erected in 1888 9, cost $50
600 and is the finest hotel on the Great Rock Is
land route between st. Joseph, Mo, and Denver
Colorado. Our School House is one of the best
in this part of the State and some Of our church
buildings would be credit to much larger towns
The future prospects of Phillipsburg are very
bright. Besides being the county seat OF coun-
ty thirty miles square without rival within thirty
miles it is the half way passenger division on the
main line of the Rock Island between Kansas
City and Denver. 1t is also freight division
We have round house and considerable repair
ing is done here. There are about one hundred
employees on the pay rolls, and about 5000 per
month are paid out to railroad men. The COM
pany has here inexhaustible supply of good
soft water-the best well the line of their road
west of the Missouri river. The bottom of the
well seems to be lake which cannot be lowered.
Some water contains ingredients or chemicals that
are very injurious 10 the engine boilers. Such is
not the case with this water. The engineers all
testify TO the truthfulness of this statement
Parties closely connected with the Rock Island
company own, adjoining near the town site,
1000 acres of land.
The climate of this portion of Kansas is as de-
sirable as any in the great Mississippi Valley.
There is but little snow and no mud. Being
located about 1900 feet higher than the Missouri
river at Atchson, the air is dry and pure. bracing
and healthful.
Phillips is situated in the northern tier Of coun-
ties and is the fifth east of the Colorado line. II
was organized in 1872, consists of twenty-five
townships, is thirty miles square, and contains
$4,000 acres, 800 square miles of territory. In
1886, it contained population of 12,161. 1t is
estimated that our population now approximate
$4,000. At tits time it is estimated that but one
sixth of its lands are under cultivation Good
farming land may be purchased at from $50
to $1,000 per acre. There are u living streams OF
water which mainly skirted by narrow belts Of
timber of the following varieties: Cottonwood
elm, ash, walnu. and box elder. Well water il
tins county is reached on the bottoms at a deptl
of from ten to twenty-five feet, on the higi
grounds at from nifty to seventy-fve feet Mag
nesian lime stone of excellent quality may b,
found il great abundance in nearly every part o
the county, and is extensively quarried. Fir
clay is found Phillipsburg; also potters ella!
the same place, as well as in the northwest
ern part of the county A very fine quality o
brick clay is found within one mile of the publ
square of Phillipsbnrg, that resembles, and
equally good, the celebrated brick clay o
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By reason of its being g
well watered by living streams, it is gaining tn
reputation of being fine live stock county, a
well as good grain producing county. To thos
who are seeking new homes we say take a loo
at Phillipsburg and Phillips county before 20
locate.