Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-30
PHILLIPSBURG
The Coming Metropolis Of the
Nor Invest

Phillipsbarg 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
gentle rolling prairie; the natural drainage is
perfect The town is on high ground and can be
seen for many miles from any direction It has
q population OF about 1.24O. It has a number of
elegant buildings; the court house is brick and
cost about $4,000 and is elegant structure;
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 $1,000 each, that would
be no discredit to the large cities. The VIM
Bisseu block is a two story brick, mainly new,
and is a fine imposing building. The Bissell Hotel
owned by John Bissel erected in 1888 g. cost SSO-
600 and is the finest hotel the Great Rock IS
land route between St. Joseph, Mo-, and Denver
Colorado Our School House is 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 Philpsburg are very
bright. Besides being the county seat OF eonn-
ty thirty miles square without rivalwithin thirty
miles, it is the half way passenger division the
main line OF the Rock Island between Kansas
City and Denver 1t is also a 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 $1,000 per
month are paid out to railroad men. The COM
pany has here an 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 ali
testify to the truthfulness Of this statement.
Parties closely connected with the Rock Island
company own, adjoining or near the town site,
1900 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 l 800 feet higher than the Missouri
river at Atchison the air is dry and pure, bracing
and heslthful.
Phillips is situated in the northern tier OF coun-
ties and is the fifth east of the Colorado line 1t
WAS organized in 1872, consists of twenty-five
townships, is thirty miles square, and contains
576 600 acres, 900 square miles of territory. In
1886, it contained a population Of 12,1S1. 1t is
estimated that our population now approximate
$4,000. At this time it is estimated that but one
sixth OF its lands are under cultivation. GOOD
farming land may be purchased at from S. OK
to $500 per acre. There "A living streams OF
water which are mainly skirted by narrow belts oil
timber of the following varieties: Cottonwood
elm, ash, walnu: and box elder. Well water il
this county is reached, on the bottoms at a deptl
of from ten to twenty-five feet, on the higl
grounds at from nifty to seventy-ive feet. Mag
nesian lime stone of excellent quality may b,
found il great abundance ia nearly every part.o
the county, and is extensively quarried. Fir
clay is found Phillipsburg; also pOtters ella.
the same place, well 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 Phillipsburg, that resembles, and
equally as good, the celebrated brick clay o
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By reason of its being s.
well watered by living streams, it is gaining tn
reputation of being a fine live stock county, a
well as good grain producing county. To thos
who are seeking new homes we say take lOOl
at PhiIlipsburg and Phillips county before yol
locate.