Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1891-01-22
PHILLIPsBURG
The Coming Metropolis Of the
Northwest

Phinipsburg 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
a population of about 1870 It has a number of
elegant buildings; the court house is brick and
cost about $4,000 and is an elegant structure;
the Phillips County Bank is brick and stone and
was erected at a cost of about $4,000; 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 $1,000 each, that would
be no discredit to the large cities. The VIM.
Bissen block is a two story brick, mainly new,
and is fine imposing building. The Bissell Hotel
owned by John Bissen erected in 1883 9, cost $40
900 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 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 Il land between Kansas
City and Denver. 1t is also freight division.
We have round house and considerable repair
ing is done here. There are about one hundred
employees on the pay rolls, and about 5000 per
month paid out TO railroad men. The COM
pany has here an inexhaustible 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
testify to the truthfulness of this statement.
Parties closely connected with the Rock Island
company own, adjoining the town site,
1000 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 1t
organized in 1872, consists of twenty-five
townships, is thirty miles square, and contains
$4,000 acres, or 800 square miles of territory. In
1856, it contained a population of 12161. 1t is
estimated that our population now approximates
$4,000. At this time it is estimated that but one
sixth of its lands are under cultivation Good
farming land may be purchased at from s.. 90
to $500 per There are "a living streams of
water which are mainly skirted by narrow belts Of
timber of the following varieties: Cottonwood,
elm, ash, walnu. and box elder. Well water in
tins county is reached, on the bottoms at a depth
of from ten to twenty-five feet, on the high
grounds at from nifty to seyenty-fve feet. Mag
nesian lime stone of excellent quality may be
found II 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
we'll as a good grain producing county. To those
who are seeking new homes we say take look
at Phillipsburg and Phillips county before you
locate.