Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-06-20
PHILLIPSBURG
The Coming Metropolis Of the
Northwest

Phinipsburg 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
a gentle rolling prairie; the natural drainage is
perfect. The town is on high ground and can be
seen for many miles from any direction 1t has
a population Of about 1000. 1t has number of
elegant buildings; the court house is brick and
cost about $4,000 and is an elegant structure;
the Phillips County Bank is brick and stone and
was erected at a cost of about $4,000; the First
National and State Bank buildings are Of
brick and cost about $4,000 each. The Gebhart
and Cummings brick business houses are elegant
structures costing about $4,000 each, that wonld
be no discredit TO the large cities. The VIM.
Bissell block is a two story brick, mainly new
and is a fine imposing building. The Bissell Hotel
owned by John BisseH erected in 1883 Q, cost SO
900 and is the finest hotel on the Great Rock Is
land route between St. Joseph No, and Denver,
Colorado Our School House is one 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 Phillipsburg are very
bright. Besides being the county seat of a cOun-
ty thirty miles square without riyalwithin thirty
miles, it is the half way passenger division on the
main line of the Rock IL land between Kansas
City and Denver. 1t is alsU 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 paid out to railroad men. The COM
pany has here an inexhaustible supply of good
soft water-the best well on the line of their road
west of the Missouri river. The bottom Of the
well seems to be a lake which cannot be lowered.
Some water contains ingredients or chemicals that
are very injurious to the engine boilers. Such is
not the case with this water. The engineers all
testify to the truthfulness of this statement.
Parties closely connected with the Rock Island
company own, adjoining 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 800 feet hig her than the Missouri
river at Atchison the air is dry and pure. bracing
and heathful
Phillips is situated in the northern tier Of cOun
ties and is the fifth east of the Colorado line. 1
was organized in 1872, consists of twenty-five
townships, is thirty miles square, and cOntain
$4,000 acres, or 800 square miles of territory.
1886, it contained a population of 12,181. It i
estimated that population now approximate
$4,000. At this time it is estimated that but on
sixth of its lands are under cultivation. Goo
farming land may be purchased at from $50
to $1,000 per acre. There are a living streams @
water which mainly skirted by narrow belts c
timber of the following varieties Cottonwood
elm, ash, walnu. and box elder. Well water i
this county is reached, on the bottoms at a dept
of from ten to twenty-five feet, the hig
grounds at from nifty to seventy-fve feet. Ma
nesian lime stone of excellent quality may l
found il great abundance in nearly every part
the county, and is extensively quarried. FIJI
clay is found near Phillipsburg; also potters ella
near the same place, well as in the nOrthwes
ern part of the county. A very fine quality
brick clay is found within one mile of the publ
square of Phillipsburg, that resembles, and
equally good, the celebrated brick clay
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By reason of its being
well watered by living streams, it is gaining t
reputation of being a fine live stock county,
well as a good grain producing county To tho
who are seeking new homes we say take To-
at Phillipsburg and Phillips county before y
locate.