The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-07-16
ENLARGED TERRITORY.
The Wichita Office OF Il g. Dun d 90.
blade Independent, with In
creased Territory.

r. G. Dun & Co.'S Wichita Office has
been made Independent and given in
creased territory. The growing CONNER
cial Importance of this section OF Kansas
not only recommended such a change but
almost demanded it. Heretofore the
Wichita office was merely branch of the
Kansas City Office and all orders emanated
from that place. This branch gradually
assumed such Importance that the forego-
ing change became at least expedient.
Its territory includes forty counties, be
ing bounded on the west by the Colorado
state line, on the north by a line drawn
from the south line of Wallace and Lyon
counties on the east by Woodson, Wilson
and Montgomery counties, and on the
south by the Indian territory: The in
cluded section is about 325 miles east and
west and 125 miles ncrth and south. This
increased territory naturally called for
additional travelling men and the force has
been doubled at present receiving orders
from and reporting direct to the Wichita
Office.
Mr. S. G. Ashton, who is thoroughly
familiar with every inch of the territory,
is the manager of the Wichita office and
general head of this department of the
agency He also has had very clear and
knowledge of the commercial standing OF
the various communities coming within
his jurisdiction which of course is the key
to the standing of the county merchants.
This knowledge is verified from time to
time by accurate reports of individual
merchants from the travelling men and as
natural consequence Mr.. Ashton has his
fin CfaD tlITO IN m
of southwestern Kansas.
They say that things are not looking as
well as they might in southwestern Kan
saw" In answer to this remark which
was made interrOgatively, Mr.. Ashton
said That is fact and it is also fact
that things are not looking as well in the
United States as they might and in fact
the entire world might safely be included
in the remark and it's meaning might be
still further extended and still be apple
able to the true condition of affairs in the
past, or in the future either for that mat
ter But he continued combining him
self to southern Kansas things might
! look worse and as matter of fact l think
| they are looking as well as might be ex-
pected under the circumstances. In the
| first place a good many of the settlers IN
| southern Kansas were farmers who came
out here without any money, having made
| failures at home, where if the conditions
were not so favorable they were better I'M
| derstood Every state has its peculiarities
! in climate and Kansas, like any other,
must be understood. Then again, the
| farmer who was very particular about the
quality of the land he bought back east
will come west and allow himself to be
located by some real estate agent on some
! farm he has scarcely seen until he has
bought it, Kansas has much fine agricul-
| tural land but like every state has barren
spots that must be devoted to some pur-
pose other than farming. Then assuming
the farmer is we'll located look at the
chances he will take Without knowing
definitely anything about the climate he
will risk every dollar he is worth in one
crop, corn for instance. What would they
! think of such reckless farming back east
Kansas will outgrow all that in few
years and many of the idiots who came
here will move on leaving only
the more desirable element behind
/ Then as the country grows Older
it will naturally improve so, although
things are not looking as well as they
might, they are looking well enough, IL
fact encouraging.
Some few of the merchants, perhaps have
! lost money and cannot be rated quite a,
high, but they are staying right where
they are, and have gained experience
which is a pretty good foundation fol
credit Although some localities are suff
ering for rain there is every reason to sup
pose it will come in time to enable thu
farmers to make a fair crop. Then again
local showers have visited nearly every
part of the state during the last few week:
and rain is not demanded nearly as mucf
as might be supposed. In conclusion Mr.
| Ashton said he fancied Providence would
take about as good care of Kansas as i
took of other places and, he understood
was always willing TO help those whC
help themselves.