Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-11-13
PHILLIPsBURG
The Coming Metropolis Of the
Northwest


Phillipsburg 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 1t has
population of about 1870 1t has a number of
elegant buildings; the court house is brick and
cest about $4,000 and is an elegant structure;
{ lie 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 70 the large cities. The VIM
Bissen block is q two story brick, mainly new,
and is fine imposing building. The Bissell Hotel
owned by John Bissen erected in 1888 0, cost so
900 and is the finest hotel on the Great Rock Is
land route between st. Joseph, Mo-, and Denver
Colorado Onr 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 coun-
ty thirty miles square without rivalwithn thirty
miles, it is the half way passenger division on the
main line of the Rock Island between Kansas
Cityand Denver. 1t is also q freight division
We have round house and considerable repair
ing is done here. There about enc hundred
employees on the pay rolls, and about $4,000 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 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 or near the town site
1900 acres of land.
The climate of this portion of Kansas is as de
sirabe as any in the great Mississippi Valley
There is but little snow and no mud. Being
located about 800 feet higher than the Missouri
river at Atchison the air is dry and pnre. bracinG
and healthful.
Phillips is situated in the northern tier of coun
ties and is the fifth east of the Colorado line.
was organized in 1872, consists of twenty-five
townships, is thirty miles square, and contains
$4,000 acres, or 800 square miles of territory. II
1886, it contained a population of 12,161. 1t il
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 So %
to $500 per acre. There are "a living streams o
water which are mainly skirted by narrow belts o
timber of the following varieties: Cottonwood
elm, ash, walnu. and box elder. Well water il
this county is reached, the bottoms at a dept
of from ten to twenty-five feet. on the hig
grounds at from nifty to seventy-fve feet. Mas
nesian lime stone of excellent quality may b
found II great abundance in nearly every part O
the county, and is extensively quarried Fir
clay is found near Phillipsburg; also potters ella
near the same place, as 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 PhilIipsburg. that resembles, and
equally good. as the celebrated brick clay
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. By reason of its being
well watered by living streams, it is gaining II
reputation of being a fine live stock county,
well a good grain producing county. To thos
who are seeking new homes we say take loo
at Phillipsburg and Phillips county before yo
locate.