Wichita eagle., 1890-02-02
BUSINESS FOR THE WEEK AND
MONTH
A Comprehensive View OF the Situation, In
Guiding Interesting Suggestions for
Kansas and Wichita.


is found in the clearing house, was nearly
thirty per cent of an improvement over
the corresponding week last year. The
total for the month just ended shows
SS44, 346. 80 The business for the'month is
nearly twenty per cent above that for JAN
| uary of last year. The figures are S. $685.
935. 3d. While this is not as big show
ing as made by New York city, or posi-
bly, Chicago, yet it is a showing not
equaed by any city of its size to be found
anywhere, which fact may also be observed
by the many thousands who watch the i'm
portance of cities as shown from returns Of
commercial affairs.
Around the board of trade it was quite
lively yesterday; many committee meet
lngs, quite number of visitors and many
things of Importance under consideration.
IL may not be amiss to repeat that the
board of trade is down to work in earnest;
engaged to a man and all anxious for
wisest council to prevail. CHANGING oyer
situation one inquired of Mr.. A. w.
Oliver what do you know" 1t was
sort of a chestnut but he replied by saying:
Il know that there is a good deal more
jealousy existing among the southern
Kansas towns toward Wichita than there
ought. The idea prevails that Wichita
schemes only for herself. which is a very
narrow view, to say the least. Wichita IS
dependent upon her surrounding territory,
and in the expenditure of the hundreds OF
thousands of dollars she has benefited the
surrounding territory as much as she has
herself. know that if there is demand
for city of hundred thousand people
here in the next five years that we have
enterprise enough to build it, and there
will be no such demand unless every town
within 100 miles of Wichita grows and
prospers and nearly every quarter section
is developed 81 know that there never has
been time when there was as many earn
est, capable men working in harmony in
Wichita as there is today. l think /
know that now is the time when
the representative men of the
bright towns of this section should
band together and go for the things we
ought to have. / know the latest Wichita
scheme, that of immigration, is arousing
the whole state from condition OF dry
rot to one of intense activity. l know
what a great many prominent men OF
eastern cities who have had occasion to in
Yestigate US think better of our city than
we do ourselves. know that the impress
sion is gaining ground every day that
Wichita is the coming western city.
know that the success of the country
means the success of Wichita and that if
there is any community about here that
has "got IL inn for Wichita that they can
only hurt us by themselves retrograding.
/ know that Wichita was built and that
all the other bright towns of Kansas grew
and became prosperous largely because of
the loyalty of their people and that there
is no greater stumbling block, no greater
clog than the person who has no use for
the town in which he lives, such person
should not be enumerated in the census
nor occupy space in the city directory"
Fl know that Butler county has 10000
head of cattle that is being corn fed and |
double that number of hogs and many
other counties are in the same fix, and |
that it is only question of a short time
when these same hogs and cattle will set |
tie the 18th constitutional question. l
know that the goose bone and every other
indication point to a big crop year for
Kansas in 1890"
The remarks on the situation were con-
sdered to the point by those who were
present and contained some suggestions
that it would be we'll to consider. Some
of the real estate exchange members were
present and in due time the conversation
dropped to that topic when Mr.. A. w.
Nassau took the lead and in answer
to a question on the real estate outlook in
Kansas and Wichita, said:
"Well, sir, am no prophet nor the son
of a prophet, but / have lived in Kansas
for eighteen years. l might be termed IAN
old settler" and if l am not mistaken in
the signs of the times Kansas is right now
at the threehhoid of a prolonged period OF
growth and prosperity unequaled in her
history WHY, sir, Kansas has something
to show the visitor now. With more miles
of railroad in the union, and still more to
be constructed this year; her vast salt
fields, two hundred miles square and four
hundred feet deep. manufacturing thou
sands of barrels of the purest salt
in the market; with her 276,OO0,OO0
bushels of corn and 100000 900 bushels
of wheat with all other products of her
rich soil in proportion for 1889, most of
which is within her borders yet. and with
her sorghum and beet sugar, cotton, flax,
castor beans, silk and other new and diver
sified products Of the soil, and with the in
creased acreage and the extended condition
of the wheat, the fine condition of the
ground now almost assures even greater
crops for this year; all of which looks in
yiting to the home seeker and the capital
ist, and especially is this true when you
consider the price at which farms can be
bought for at present"
Continuing he said: There are good
quarter sectionssof land in this county for
from $40 to $50 per acre; the price depends
on the distance from the city. improve
meuts, etc, and l believe that within six
months there will be an advance in the
price of land and city property here"
As to Wichita ne said: Wichita is all
right. With her ten lines of railroad in
and out, and from three to five additional
roads to be built this year, she will
look very much like railroad center,
then with her constantly increasing COM
merce public improvements with scores
of new enterprises constantly seeking To-
cation here, many of which will material
ize this spring. which will impart new life
along the line. In my Judgment the
growth and development of Wichita in
the near future will simply be marvellous.
Yes, capitalists and investors generally, so
far as my acquaintance extends, have good
words for Kansas and Wichita. l have
unbouuded faith and confidence in the
future of Kansas and Wichita; more than
had before and that is saying good deal,
but it comedies with the views of every one
else who knows Wichita, what made the
city, the forces at work now and those TO
be felt"
IMPALED ON A PITCHFORK.
Yesterday Mr.. George Funk, of Blue
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