The Wichita daily eagle., 1891-09-06
DISINTERESTED OPINIONS OF
WICHITA.

conviction Of everybody is infalible.
The people of Wichita have lost none of
their old time faith in the future destiny
of this city as the leading commercial
mart of the state Of Kansas, but meas
ured by the daily expressed opinion of
competent and disinterested observant
outside judges there is a lack of enthus-
iasm so abundantly warranted by its
many superior advantages of capital, of
location and other admitted prestiges. Go
east or west, any place, and wherever
you find individuals who from personal
observation or from study understand
the positive and contigent endowment
and superior material unifcations pos
sessed by this city there will be heard
the readily expressed conviction of
prophecy of the coming and sure
importance of Wichita. The editor
of the EAGLE has, during the late alb
sence of a month, been the recipient of
number of such unsolicited opinions at
different points and from different
sources. Everybody seems to have been
advised Of the magnitude of our boom
originally, and were proportionately en-
thusiastic and confident, but with its
cessation everybody was just as ready
with their predictions Of collapse and
disaster for the phenomenal city of the
Great Arkansas river. But the same
train of superior elements that in the
first place gave the town importance and
prominence over all Of the other embryo
and proposed cities and centers of South
Central Kansas, so effectually sustained
Wichita's interests when the dark hours
of reaction came, and which paralyzed
all other boom towns, great and
small, that the dumbest doubter
now stands convinced that there will,
after all, be a great commercial city in
the state of Kansas. and that it will be
and is Wichita. There is but one sur
prise, touching her present status, ex-
pressed by strangers when they behold
the absence of all their preconceived
ideas of decay and in their place only
full life, and that is: ''After all, your
town didn't bust" The knowledge of
this significant fact has gone abroad in
the world, nor Alliance mIsrepresenta-
ton of the state, nor distrust by the
money lenders Of the east touching the |
honesty Of Kansas courts, and Kansas
Legislatures, and of Kansas people in
general, can longer effect the conclusion /
of advised people everywhere, that
Wichita viii at least, whatever
may befall other towns, become |
rich and powerful city, without rival
TO her commercial life anywhere from
the north line of Nebraska to the south
line of Kansas, or anywhere between the
Missouri river and the base Of the Rocky
mountains
But to specifically cite instances of the
''vox populi vox Del" referred to in the
first lines of this article. In conversa
ton prominent Ohio railway man at
Pueblo, Colo, the other day, speaking of
Denver, Salt Lake City and Kansas City
and their immediate prospects, observed
in the absence of any knowledge of the
writer's connection with this CITY;
There is a young city in Kansas whose
undimmed prospects for the future are
surely great and that city is Wichita .
Last week a gentleman very intimately
connected with GaIvestons boom.
IN talking of the disaster that
booms had brought to many
western towns said: 1--WE Texas
people have great pride in some of our
big towns in central and northern Tex.
as, but none Of them viii make the in
land city that Wichita viii be within the
next dozen years after the opening of
the Indian Territory" To come nearer
home, two weeks ago today a prominent
gentleman in neighboring city Just to
the north observed. My town Is going
TO hold high position among thecountv
seats OF Kansas but just as sure as any,
thing Wichita Is going 20 enter upon
business growth in the near future that
viii be great and SO marked that out
slders viii call it a boom. but it viii be
a solid and permanent one" A promi-
nent Wellington gentleman said last
Monday. "Oh, Wellington is holding her
own and is q mighty good town aud al
ways vii lbe, but the coming city
of Kansas has all of our county towns
50 firmly and directly tied to her by
trade interests, as she has the towns Of
so many other counties, that / expect to
see more than a present Kansas City in
wichita. A banker in 4 city not forty
miles from here said to the writer the
other day. The time is coming. and is
near, when a certain class of growing
and ambitious mercantile and other
dealers, now located in the several more
important towns Of sonth Kansas. will {
move to your center over there. and il
may be possible that you viii recognize a
new Wichita banker in an old acouaint-
tance."
Two of the osainians ouofa5 ,h.-.