Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-05-02

From the Atchison Champion
just at this time PhIlIipsburg is get
ting a big advertisement because she
is truthfully entitled to it. The build /
ing of the great Rock Island road as
matter of course doomed all the /
towns east of here so much so that
when the road was completed to this !
place there was no more boom left.
and our people have quietly waited
for the time to come when there was
room to start a few substantial enter
prises to keep pace with the growth
of the country. The time has come,
and with the opening of spring
there has developed a wonder
full amount of activity among all
classes Of her people. It can truth
fully be said that Philipsburg never
had a mushroom growth, and it was
better not.
Among the most important enter
prises projected is the building of a
north and south railroad. a Rock Is
land enterprise, which if built will
make Phillipsburg a division. The
several hundred acres of land which
! the company bought here has never
been put on the market. yet this is the
most important passenger and freight
division on their Kansas line, it beng
half way between the Missouri river
and the mountains.
Another important project has been
woke up recently. One of the best
| posted men of this city informed your
correspondent that committees were
at work with the Missouri Pacific
officials, hoping to impress those Of
fcials with the necessity of the early
building of a branch from Marvin to
Phillipsburg, Woodruff, and north
west to Orleans and Lexington form
erly Plum Creek, in Nebraska, max
ing the line about 100 miles long and
tapping the Rock Island, B. & NJ. and
Union Pacific roads. Besides open
ing a rich territory, 1t would doubt
less be the best feeder the Missouri
Pacific has yet got Surveys and
estimates for this road have already
been made from here to Orleans
Our Board of Trade has been re-
organized, on account of the splendid
business outlook for this year, and the
prospects securing several important
industries. One of them is a Touring
mill, for which the board are in cor
respondence.
Another is the water works plant
. The company who put in the system
? here has got to be a good one, for oul
E people Will stand no foolishness. Cor
{ respondence has been going on fol
weeks with every Mayor in all the
q towns in Kansas and Nebraska, with
s a view of inding out the best anc
q most economical plant in use. Oul
people will know what they want be
fore the contract Is let.
l. Should the season prove as favor
able as it has started out, Phillip.
county will receive a Dig immigration
g and PhilIipsburg will increase yer.
near one-ha1f more in population
n During the past three years he
l. growth has been slow and certain
n and no town in all the glorious North
Is west Kansas can point to the com
T. pIeti0n of so many lovely and desIra
?. BILE residences as has PhillipsbUrg
d That she will keep on prospecting
B. the belief of all who visit the town
10 Either the farmers around Phillips
10 burg take care of their implement
g or they only buy just what they ca
t. successfully get along with. You
correspondent asked the Messrs. Al
u bolt Bros. what would be their sal
y of implements this year, and the
% cheerfully SAID from $4,000 to SIS
IF COO; last years. sales were $500
t. They have been IN Phillips count
% over a dozen years. Besides this fri
there is Geo. W. Young, the phone,
hardware and implement dealer
in the county.
y Phillipsburg has the largest an
4. finest hotel on the Rock Island ro5
rs between the Missouri river and Il
ne mountains, the massive three stol
Re brick, erected and operated by Il
ed Hon John Bissell, a prominent ca
sr- didate for Congress in the Sixth d
nj trict. We have the pioneer real c
n tate man In the county, VIM. Bisse
5ia gbo has at all tinee boon one of n
~ foremost citizens IN. every enterpri