Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1890-10-02
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lPHIDLIPsBURGi
The Coming Metropolis of the
ss sEea lt.'r Eorthwest 4 is ~, zs


Phillipsburgs is the county seat OF Phillips
county and is located near tie geographic CEN
ter Of the county The town site cannot be sur |
passed for eligibility and beauty Fhe surface is
a gentle rolling prairie. the latural Drainage 5si
perfect. The toxin ia on high ground and gan be
nEfor many miles from any direction tt has
population ofabout 1.240. 1T has g number, Of
elegant bulldogs; the court house Is brick and
cost about $4,000 and dsi an elegant structure;
the iPhnIfps County Bank is brick and stone and
was erected at q cost of about $1,000 the First
Nasionai and rz State Bank buildings are of
brick ana cost about $1,000 each. The GebAart
and Cummings brick business houses are elegant
structures costing about S6sO0oe each. that would
be no .diseredit 10 the large cities. The. VIM
Bissell block is a two story brick, mainly new,
and is fine imposing building. TheB isseil Hotel
owned BY John Rissen erected in 1888 Q, cost $50
600 and is the finest hotel on the Great Rock Is-
land route between ST. Joseph, Mo-, and Denver,
Colorado. Our School House ia one of the best
in this part OF the State and some Of our church
buildings would be a ereditto Hnnch larger towns
The future prospects of PhiAipsburg are very
bright Besides being the county seat of \ cOua-
ty thirty miles square without flV within thirty
miles it is the half way passenger diVisOaEO the
main line of the Rock leland between. Kansas
City and Denver. 1t is also freight division,
We have round house, and considerable repair
ing is done here. There are aboutiOne hundred
employees on the pay rolls, and about 5000 per
month are paid cut TO Failread men The COM
pany has here an inezhanstible supply efIgOod
soft water-the best wen on the line of theft road
Westof the Missouri river The bottom Of the
well seems to be q lake which cannot beaoEEersdz
Some waIeF contains ingredients or chemicals that
are very injurious TO the engine boilers Such IL
not the case with this water. The engineers all
~Ifs
Parties closely connected with the Rock Island
company own, adjoining or uear7the town;site,
1000 acres Of land
The climate Of this portion of Kansas is as de-
sirable any in the great Mississippi Valley.
There is but little snow and no mud. Being
located about 8e0 feet hfg thar the Missouri
river at Atchison, the air is dry and pnFe braeing
and healthful. -ti1i-s' ='l'iiiii
Phillips Is situated in the northern tier cf eouni
ties and is the fifth east of the eoioradoline. Il
was organized in 1872; consists of twenty i've
townships. is thirty miles square, and contains
$4,000 acres, 800 square miles of teEritoryi In
1886, 1t contained population OF Il, ISL: = It's
estimated that our population now approxima tel
16,0O0. AT this tins it is estimated, that butone
sixth of It's lands are under cultivation Good
farming land may be. purchased AZ from IS, X
to $500 per Reres There are "a living streams o.
water which are mainly sklrted by narrow belts ol
timber OF the following Varieties !: : Cottonwood
elm, ash, walnut land hox elder. " ell 'Wsaterir
this county is reached on the bottoms Gta pit
Of from ten to twenty-five feet, ON, the Ihigf
grounds at from hftyto seventy five feet.i.M Mag
nesian lime stone of excellent quality may b'
found il great abnndanee ia nearly every part Q
the county, and is extensively quarried. Fire
clay is found near Philhpsburg also potters clay
the same place. as wei as in the northwest
ern part Of the county. A very hne quality o
brick clay is found within one mile Of the public
square of Phillipsburg1 that resembles and. il
equally as good As the celebrated brick clay o
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. BY reason of its being 81
well watered by living streams, it is gaining TIT
.reputation OF being fne live stock county. a
well -, a coed grain producing county. To thos'
who are seeking new homes we say take q lool
= at Philiipsburg and Phillips county before Ynl
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