The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-11-30
SOLID MEN ON A SOLID PLACE.
Some Things That Are as Patent as they are
Interesting.

The unanimous sentiment expressed by
the members of the Kansas City Com
mercial club in their visit TO this city the
other evening, was that Wichita was the
most solidly and substantially built city
of all the cities they had visited on their
excursion, some forty or fifty places in all.
| President Patterson declared that Wichita
even with much less prestige than she
! rightfully boasts, was too great and too
solidly built ever to go back, but that she
must go forward, and that to see the place
was to be convinced. While no one know
| ing aught of Wichita will question the
! correctness of Col. Pattersons declara-
! ton there is another fact of
equal Importance to those who are inter-
ested in this city or contemplate becoming
interested, and that is Wichita has more
people, has a greater amount of taxable
value and does greater aggregate bust
ness for the price of her property than any
city in the west or probably in the coun-
try anywhere. What is meant, is taking
Wichita in all her present proportions and
with all her prospects, property of all
kinds is selling cheaper than in any city
of like size, east or west, and proportion
ately cheaper than towns of a greater or
of a less magnitude as the case might be-
In short Wichita has been so sifted of all
surplusage, so shook down and settled
that there is only left the practical ma
terials and the genuine elements. The re
bound frou initiation has been 10 that eX-
tent that property is as much too
low as it was at one time
too high. The pendulum swung
to the limit of the arc, but it has swung
back just as far in the other extreme, and
if ever there was money, and big money in
Wichita investments, there is bigger and
surer money now.
These facts are generally appreciated by
our people, They feel it in their bones that
the reaction has been much greater
than the continually increasing business
warranted There has not been in five
years such degree of confidence upon the
part of our people in all that pertains to
the city as there is today. They are now,
and have been for several months past,
utterly Indifferent to all lugubrious talk,
from whatever source, for, in spite of the !
financial rockets east, and of the stringent |
markets west, and depression everywhere, |
Wichita is moving upward in every way, in |
every particular and make her interests /
and enterDriSes EVerybOdV seeing and {
understanding this, there has come a con-
fidence which is most encouraging and re
assuring. Still Wichita is a case of the /
most magnificently built city in the state,
replete with all modern municipal facili-
ties and metropolitan appliances, with the
liveliest business streets, the costliest pub
lie buildings, and yet the cheapest prop
erty of any city of half its size in the
country.
How long this state of things will last
probably nobody knows. And 50 far as
real prosperity Is concerned it
probably make little or no difference. But
some day, sooner or later. one or two or a
dozen men Of money from the outside
will measure up thesituation and not only
invest in lots snd in business houses and
in resident properties. but they will just
as surely tell others of the opening, when,
in the absence of fool addition spectators
Wichita will not only steadily but I'M
,easingly move upward in her realty
values.