The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1891-06-02

q decline in Sedalia's prosperity. For
months her business interests have
been moving toward the goal of the
highest and best commercial suprem.
acy, without a single tendency Of
abatement. The future, when viewed
from the present station. looks
even brighter than it has ever before.
Sedalia has every element at hand fol
the making Of large inland city.
The dsy has passed and the idea has
changed that it is necessary that cities
to become great should be located on
some waterway. This is the age Of
steel and steam; an age too rapid en-
tirely to depend on the slow going
lake craft or the snail crawling river
boats. The men who make a success
in life to-day are not those who plod-
ded along in the rut 60 popular a
quarter of a century ago, but thoss
who economic time and money in the
transaction of their business. So it is
with cities.
1t will be easier for Sedalia to swell
her population from 5000 to 10000
people than it was to swell it from
10, 900 to $1,000. There are more
men and more interests to do the
work, and the burden is lighter on
all.
He who says Sedalia has not the
country to support a population
of $4,000 souls, knows not of what he
talks. She is surrounded by a great
and rich country. the resources of
which are rot known. She is near
unto a land beneath the surface Of
which, has lain for ages copper, iron.
lead, zinc, tripoli, coal and other
minerals, and which only need the
strong right arm of development to
add wealth to her Golfers. On the
surface of these lands stand millions
of trees waiting for the woodlands
ak. She is surrounded by country
the soil of which is 60 rich that it pro-
duces the best, with only slight en-
couragement. Climatic conditions,
equi-distant between the fever infec-
ted districts of the South, and the
cold draughts Of the North. that are
favorable to all pastoral pursuits.
Transportation facilities that are
good and which will soon be 50 much
better, that the people will regret
that they did not sooner develop
them.
Nature has done much for Sedalia,
and it remains for her citizens to COM
plete the work SO nobly planned. The
elements which tend to make a great
city are many and varied. The first
great element or the foundation is
public improvements. This will at
tract the attention Of foreigners and
bring them here. The next is in the
Development of manufactures to
give them employment. The next is
the making of good country roads so
that the products of the farm can be
brought to the market at little
expense, reducing the cost of
living to the minimum. The
next is the development of the !
railroad systems and handling of the |
resources of the tributary territory.
The people are alive to the issues or
rather thsy ave awakening to them
and this is half the battle.
During the past week the decision
Of the people of East Fifth street to
pave with brick and those brick be of
home manufacture, is one of the
strongest arguments that can be pre-
sented that there is bright hope for
the future. The action of those East
Fifth etreet property owners may and
no doubt will be the direct result Of
bringing one or more vitri6ed brick
plants here which will employ . large
Of men, swell the population
and increase the business of the mer.
chants several hundred dollars each