The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-12
A GREAT FAIR,
One Hundred Thousand People in Wichita in
One Day.

Some of the greatest and in every way
most successful fairs ever held in the state
of Kansas have been held in Wichita
This is true not only to the livestock and
agricultural exhibits, but as to the num-
Der in attendance One year, at a mere
County fair twenty-one thousand tickets
were sold in single day. Wichita is the
natural fair city of the state. The State
fairs, which have been held at Bismarck
and at Topeka, have been held under the
shadow and immediate rivalry of greater
fairs at Kansas City and st. Joseph
Wichita has a clean clear field and a
greater field in some respects than those of
Topeka, Kansas City and St. Joseph COM
bined Wichita is the very center of the
richest and most powerful agricultural
and livestock section in the state.
One-half of all the great wheat
yield of Kansas this year aggregat-
ing from forty to fifty millions of
bushels, was raised and harvested within
fifty or sixty miles of Wichita The
charmed circle is the charmed circle, and
Wichita is its center. Every product of
that charmed circle as whole can be
more readily. cheaply and naturally ex-
hibited at Fair at Wichita than at any
other point within the circle or within the
state. The people of that circle, constitut-
ing one-fourth of the population of the
state, can more quickly and cheaply
reach this city than any other city,
While this circumscribed circle produces
about one-half of the agricultural wealth
of the state, it contains but one-fourth of
the states population, which fact guar
rantees at least a doubling of its present
number of people.
These facts are we'll understood by the
business men of Wichita. They know that
with the least effort and the least expense
greater fair can always be gotten
up at Wichita than at any other
place in Kansas. And knowing that in
no year within the settlement of this val
ley has the opportunity been so inviting
as the present season, it only remains a
matter of the encouragement of a united
pull to see landed in Wichita this fall one
hundred thousand people to see the great
est agricultural and live stock display and
the biggest week of holidays ever seen or
enjoyed west of the Mississippi river.
There seems absolutely to be no single
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the present stringency in the money
market, which is general and not local.
With all their abundance of products for
display, with money in their pockets to
spend for staples and notions, in the
midst of booming fall trade, hundred
thousand farmers and tradesmen of south
Kansas will come to Wichita for a good
time if the people of this city will but see
to it that the fair and all its appurten-
ancies are worthy the city. For a whole
week these streets will be so full of people:
SO thronged with the families of the mer
chants and bankers and professional men
of surrounding towns for hundred miles
away; so jammed with farmers and their
wives and children, of this great valley and
its tributaries, and so lively with horse
men and pleasure seekers generally that
the average merchant and his clerks will
not know whether they are afoot or horse
back.
The officers of the association are doing
all that lies within their power, consider
ing their limited means. But they should
be encouraged; not only encouraged, but
'enthused." And the time is right now
when preliminaries ought to be settled,
and settled for on grand scale. The
work in hand and demanding attention,
now, cannot be put off till August or
September. The world must know what
we are going to have here SO that they can
get good ready to come, We ought to
have such an exhibition of grains and live
stock. of fruits and races, as
would set all the state agog over
the great fair at Wichita,
and all the agricultural papers of the west
to blowing of its wonders All that is
wanted is a little level-headed preliminary
effort and the rest will come just as natur-
ally as that water will run down hill
Wichita has got the location and all the
local conveniences, and all the railway
facilities, and any rivalry is out of the
question. The great fair of this fall as
thei great fairs of the future for south
Kansas, will be held at Wichita or such
fairs won'ti be held at all. Let US then
prepare for one hundred thousand people,
for they will be here as sure rs that they
know we are prepared for them.