The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-04-06
A RRIEF SUMMING UP.
For People Who Never Saw but Who
Want to Know About Wichita.

that the people of our own state OF Kan
sas from the Missouri river to the line of
Colorado, and from Nebraska to the In
dian Territory, practically unanimously
| concede that Wichita is the only city in
the state boasting a purely commercial
and manufacturing character; that it is
the only jobbing center and general grain
and live stock market outside of Kansas
City and west of the Missouri river, the
aggregate of whose trade, as verified by
by the weekly bank clearing house re-
ports, is from two to five times greater
than the showing made by any other
city in the state, great or small; that, in
brief, while business center of metro
politan life and especially marked
activity Wichita is as unapproach-
able and as free from any
possible future rivaIship in her great,
though specific field as Kansas City or
Denver respectively in their particular
fields, yet these truths have not been
demonstrated to everybody everywhere.
There may be, and undoubtedly are,
people of other states contemplating new
homes and a greater business, somewhere
in the west, whenever thoroughly salts
fled touching all the matters of climate,
health, etc. as also the general desira-
bility Of some town or city which seems
to size up to or parallel their precon-
ceived or entertained notions of what a
country or town should be. There are
still another class, less numerous but
more valuable, a class of business men
whose ambitions and capacities are pent
up by the fosilized condition of an old
settled country, who desire to find a city
not only equal to their present needs but
which will grow as they grow; in short,
such men as desire some true, prosper
Gus center of population, with multifarious
interests, located in some grand country
Of Unreasonable possibilities. To such
as these we would offer some declara-
tons touching Wichita as it is today,
which declarations can be verified, en-
phatically and completely verified, by
any bright business man in the briefest
time. Some of the more prominent and
particular points and advantages boosted
by Wichita, many of which cannot and
are not claimed by any city of its age,
east or west. and which we desire to i'm
press on every reader of this paper who
has never seen the beautiful and Peerless
Princess of the Prairies, are:
That Wichita though very new is
nevertheless a city, and a city
in fact, more solidIy built, of
grander proportions, and is better
equipped with all modern appliances
and conveniences than any city of its
size between the Mississippi river and the
Rocky mountains, if not, indeed, than
any city of its size between the Atlantic
and Pacific oceans.
That in the way of desirable modern
facilities and resources the city is most
completely served, it being severed with
siXty-five miles of outlets, mains, sub
mains and laterals; that it is equipped
with forty miles of electrical and other
street railways; Melted overhead by tele-
phone, by district and other Geographic,
and by electric power and electric light
wires; that it is underlaid by gas mains
and water mains, the water being mex
haustible in quantity, clear as a crystal
tense and as pure as the mountain SHOWS
That in beautiful homes along delight
fully shaded, broad, smooth avenues:
that in churches, in schools, public and
private, in grand public buildings and in
splendid and artistic places of amuse-
ment, and in all that contributes to the
moral, social and aesthetic sides and ele-
ments of life, Wichita is supplied in an
assuring and unsurpassed way, and is be-
yond even criticism.
That in taxable wealth and in low
taxes, two of the most important CON
to every business man, Wich-
tia surpasses all the cities and towns and
villages of Kansas.
That Wichita, having more railroads
than any other city outside of Kansas
City, Missouri, in the west. is not only
the railway center of the central state.
but that she has distributing iobbing
rates awarded by the railway commits
sioners, and which rates are identical
with the rates at Kansas City. and that
therefore, for such as desire to do
wholesale business in any line. or in
commission business Of any character.
offers facilities equal to any
other city, an opening which is superior
to that of old established places in that
the field which surrounds her is a broad.
new, mdeveIoped, but rapidly growing
one.
That while the busted booms of
western and coast towns discouraged
many honest people. and laid out thou
sands Of speculative adventures.
that the volume of business be-
ing handled by Wichita today in
spite of the depressed times and low
prices which have been ruling with farm
products for a year or two past. is great
er than the volume of business ut any
time in her history.
That while Wichita Is unoustionahlv