Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-01-29
PHILLIPsBURG
The Coming Metropolis of the
Northwest

Phihpsburg 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
q 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 1.24O. 1t has a number of
elegant buildings; the court house Is brick and
cest about $4,000 and is an elegant structure;
the Phillips County Bank is brick and stone and
was erected at a cost of about SO 900; 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 $4,000 each, that would
be no discredit TO the large cities. The VIM.
Bissell block is a two story brick, mainly new,
and is fine imposing building. The Bissen Hotel
owned by John Bissen erected In 1883 Q, cost SO
600 and is the finest hotel on the Great Rock Is
land route between ST. Joseph, Mo-, and Denver,
Colorado. Our School House is one Of the best
in this part of the State and some Of our church
buildings would be a credit to much larger towns.
The future prospects OF PhiIlipsburg are very
bright. Besides being the county seat Of coun-
ty thirty miles square without rival within thirty
miles, it is the half way passenger division on the
main line OF the Rock Island between Kansas
City and Denver. 1t is also a freight division.
We have a round house and considerable repair
ing is done here. There are about one hundred
employees on the pay rolls, and about 5000 per
month are paid out TO railroad men. The COM
pany has here an inexhaustibie supply of good
soft Water-the best well on the line of their road
west of the Missouri river. The bottom Of the
well seems to be 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
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Parties closely connected with the Rock Island
company own, adjoining near the town site,
1900 acres of land.
The climate of this portion of Kansas is as de-
sirable as any in the great Mississippi Valley.
There is but little snow and no mud. Being
located about 1900 feet higher than the Missouri
river at Atchison the air is dry and pure bracing
and healthful.
Phillips is situated in the northern tier of coun-
ties and is the fifth east of the Colorado line It
was organized in 1872, consists of twenty-five
townships, is thirty miles square, and contains
$4,000 acres, or 800 square miles of territory In
1886, 1t contained population of r. It lis
estimated that our population now approximates
$4,000. At this time it is estimated that but one
sixth of its lands under cultivation. Good
farming land may be purchased at from So 90
to $1,000 per acre. There are "A living streams of
timber of the following varieties: Cottonwood,
elm, ash, walnut and box elder. Well water in
this county is reached, on the bottoms at a depth
OF from ten to twenty-five feet on the high
grounds at from nifty to seventy-fve feet. Mag
nesian lime stone of excellent quality may be
found IT great abundance in nearly every part of
the county, and is extensively quarried Fire
clay is found near Phillipsburg; also potters clay
near the same place, well as in the northwest
ern part of the county. A very fine quality of
brick clay is found within one mile of the public
square of Phillipsburg. that resembles, and is
equally as good, as the celebrated brick clay of
Milwaukee, Wisconsin. BY reason of its being so
well watered by living streams, it is gaining the
reputation of being a fine live stock county, as
well as good grain producing county To those
who are seeking new homes we say take look
at Phillipsburg and Phillips county before you
locate.