The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-10
WICHITA, THE NEW CITY.
What has Really Been Accomplished in Sin
gle Decade.

The Wichita of today is not the town OF
1880, but city with metropolitan attrac-
tions, having all the advantages and con-
veniences of cities with five times the pop
ulation, many more years OF experience
and ten times the wealth. The same
spirit which has pushed this city forward
as the commercial metropolis of Kansas Is
still here to exert the same esprit OF prog
ress and enterprise aud will advance her
growth to zoe, 900 people within the next
decade. The changes which have taken
place in and about this city within the
last ten years are perfectly marvellous. The
rapid advance this city has made over all
other places must be seen to be appreciat-
ed. and that Wichita is city in fact none
can deny.
The new city of Wichita, or rather the
Wichita of 1891. starts out on a period OF
greater growth with more advantages,
more territory to pay her tribute, more
facilities 10 handle the trade OF the
west, and better prospects than in
1880. That she will outstrip all her fer
mer undertakings and work greater &C
complishments there is now no question
That her forces are gathering from long
period of depression and with renewed
energy is best evidenced by the more solid
institutions being located here aud the
renewed activity seen everywhere. what
has taken place here in the last decade
may be noted as follows:
First-The street improvements, such as
paving Market, Main and First streets
with asphalt and other streets with brick
and concrete.
Second-The electric railway, extending
to every portion of the city.
Third-The lighting of the business and
residence streets with gas and electric
lights and the residence and business
houses with the ineandescent system.
Fourth-An entire new water works
plant, having pumping capacity OF
IL OcO, 900 gallons daily, which furnishes
the purest of water.
Fifth-The laying of si1ty-four miles OF
sewers.
Sixth-The laying of fifteen miles of
sidewalks.
Sevenvh-The city hall. costing 500, 600,
the finest building Of its kind in the state.
Eirhth-The county court house and
Jail. costing $3.50, 600 The handsomest and
best furnished county building in Kan
| sas.
Ninth-The. United States postofice
and court building, costing S2OO, 1000.
Tenth-Two universities, costing $780,
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Eleventh-Four academies, costing
100000.
Twelfth-Four colleges, costing $780,
0OO
Thirteenth-The opera house. icosting
$4,000.
| Fourteenth-The Y. NJ. c. A. building,
costing $50, coo, a model Of architectural
beauty and one of the best in the west.
Fifteenth-Two hospitals, costing s25,
600.
STANDARDIZATION school buildings,
costing $500, 900.
Seventeenth-Three large brick build
ings, costing over s225,0o0.
Eighteenth-The erection OF two OF the
most complete and best equipped packing
houses in the country at a cost OF nearly
half million dollars.
Ninteenth-The largest stock yards
west of Kansas City, having 10 acres en-
closed.
Twentieth-The telephone system with
100 miles of wire throughout the city ano
telephone connection with all the prlncl
pal towns in the southwest.
Tweuty-frst-The building of railways
in eight different directions.
Twenty-second-T location of twenty
five wholesale houses. among which may
be mentioned groceries, drugs, dry goods
boots and shoes, notions, etc.
Twenty-thrd-The location OF the Bur
ton Stock Car plant.
Twenty-fourth-The location of fifty Of
more manufacturing establishments.
These are some of the things which the
old Wichita secured during the last ter
years and which the new Wichita has t.
start with as basis for her new era o
growth and prosperity. With greatel
developed country back Of her and greater
facilities for handling the trade of TIT
} great southwest. and the prospect ofa still
greater territory to be opened in the neal
future, who is there that will not say tina
the future of this city is beyond the antici
| pations Of the most enthusiastic of our cit
liens?