The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-31
THE CITY OF BEAVER.
A Place With a Prosperous Past and a
Promising Future.

BEAVER, Ok, May 29.-[Special cores
pondencel Your correspondent has paid
a visit to Beaver and realizes that a few
words of truth are due the people who
have stayed with that country for the last
four or five years and toiled faithfully for
the day which has at last come, when they
are to be rewarded for their labors.
Beaver is a nice little city of about 500
inhabitants, beautifully located distance
of about one-haIf nile south of the bank
of the Beaver river on a natural slope,
with the residence portion of the city over
looking the main business thOrOughfaTes.
The city, while little to the east Of the
geographical center of what has formerly
been termed the public land strip, Is, how
ever and is likely to be for n long while to
come, the center OF population and agri-
cultural interests.
Beaver is forty miles southwest of Engle-
wood, the terminus of the Chicago, Kan
sas S Western, or Mulvane extension,
thirty-five miles almost due south of
Meade Center and about thirty-five miles
southeast of Liberal, the terminus
of the southwestern division of the Rock
Island system, with elegant roads from
each of the railroad points aboye-named.
Beaver, as nearly every reader Of the
EAGLE already knows, has been designated
as the county seat Of all the territory
known as the ''public land strip" which
fact of itself aside from their almost posi-
tive assurance Of getting United States
land Office, IS enough to support a city in
the Beaver valley Of some three or four
thousand inhabitants. There are already
under q state of successful cultivation
thousands upon thousands of acres Of rich
lOamy land, and by the kindness of Mr..
Gay, publisher of the Weekly Tribune of
this place. your correspondent was driven
several miles south of the city, and was as
tonished to see fields of beautiful corn
growing where so many people think lies a
a barren, fruItless country. 1t would sur
prise a great many of our farmers from the
old eastern states to be dropped down in
the middle of some OF the COTnHeldS | have
seen in this country.
No town ever needed a railroad cOnnec-
ton with country much worse than
Wichita does with this. and they will have
it when the Santa Fe extends its line from
EngleWOOd down through that country
which time the farmers and hog raisers
hope Is not far distant. The more one
travels over this new country now opened
the better they become satisfied that WiCh-
ita Is to become one OF the most important
live stock markets in the west.
no town in any section has a finer start
than Beaver. In the first place the people
elected such men to Office as were highly
JtSptCidDle anu upright men 10 lOOh aIJcE
the interests of their town. The members
consist of Mr.. Lew Kramer, mayor: T. w.
Say city clerk; council, MeSSrS. Coffee.
Fenner, Thomas and Luman. The mayor
and clerk have kept a set of books which
bears record of all transactions and which
now show balance in bank at Meade Cen
ter of a little the rise of $1,000 which is
prinCiply register fees and which monies
they are now paying part of to grade and
beaUUIfy their streets. They have about
twelve or fifteen teams together with some
twenty men now working on Douglas
avenue.
Space viii not allow a general write up
of the different business firms Of the place
While it was a surprise to see 50 many
gentlemen engaged IN the mercantile
trade here. still there is room fOrmore. 1t
Is certainly a good location for a bank, har-
ness and Saddlery, coal and grain and
many other lines.
One great beauty of this country and one
that people viii look at well Is hat a great
many good farmers are and have been here
farming for several years; are out of debt,
no taxes aS vet, no interest to pay, with
good schools in almost every neighbor-
hood, good churches, and in fact, a first
class set OF citizens.
Beaver IS as orderly a little city rs one
often .jnds, with a good city school, two
church organizations, Methodist and
Presbyterian with Sunday school and
prayer meeting as regular rs in most any
country OF four times her age. ANY one
contemplating going there TO engage in
business need not hesitate on taking his
family right along With him. Beaver has
excellent water at a depth of about thirty
feet. Beavers motto Is welcome" to all
who come to mingle with the inhabitants.