The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-28
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NJ. ". MURDOCH. Editor.
GwBY COME TO wICHITAP'

by the facts and demonstrations found
in the editorial of last Sunday morning,
cautioned as above, and which has at
tracted some considerable attention from
contemporaries, might have been enoom-
uassed by the simple declaration that
Wichita as a center of great future COM
mercial importance possesses unqucs-
toned prestige and accessories which
are of more value to the merchant and
manufacturer of every grade and char
acter than would be found in any bonus
likely to be offered by any city.
If the world of dealers and of repre-
sentatives of industries desiring more
advantageous location but were APP
prised of the natural advantages and
the acquired auxiliaries possessed by
Wichita as a center, not only would the
present aggregated business of the city
be quadrupled, but also that Of her popu-
lation and of all her other industries.
And this would come to pass in the
briefest space, solely upon her superior
inducements of the present and without
reference to the obvious and undisputed
superior chances and unrivaied fields,
which all concede this city will possess
in the near future.
Outside Of the prosperous men of the
greater and older centers of the world,
how few Of even business men under
stand that to do business successfully the
business man must go where business is
done, and that business is done in great
business sense only at natures centers
which in attracting trade and population
acquire all the other necessary adjuncts
and auxillaries to traffic and transporta-
ton. If a commission were empowered to
locate a commercial metropolis midway
between the waters of the Lakes and the
Gulf and half way from the Atlantic to
the Pacific. as near the geographical
center of the United States as practical,
water privileges and feasible sight con-
sidered, and not to locate such city
within the trade environment or precinct
of any other established city,
how far could or would such
commission get away from the
confluence of the two Arkansas
rivers, the site of the city of Wichita?
No appreciable distance whatever. In
the more circumscribed but still natural
sense, as the center of the vast and rich
agricultural domain, bounded on the
east by the Flint Hills, on the north by
the divide between the Kansas and the
Arkansas rivers, on the south by the
Canadian and Red river, where has
Wichita a rival or a possible rival even
in location.
In another way might our question of
"Why come to Wichita?" have been
answered and that by saying: board any
of the principal trains of the great rail-
way systems of the west at any other
recognized central or commercial city
and you will land in Wichita if you so
desire. On the great transcontinental
line of the Santa Fe, just at the halfway
point from Chicago and her ships, and
Galveston and her ships, is located
Wichita. On the same transcontinental
lines, and at their intersection,
just halfway between st. Louis
and Denver is located Wichita.
On the through Missouri Pacific system
reaching from the Mississippi river to
the Rocky mountains, the half way and
pivatal point for that Systems branches,
is Wichita. The Rock Island system
reaching from Chicago to Wichita, and
from Wichita southwark a like distance,
stops at the tide water on the Gulf, with |
Wichita the central midway point. All |
these roads combine to accentuate the |
fact of Wiohita's centrality.
And there are other and more
emergently urgent reasons why people |
should come to Wichita as a |
center; why in the near future
she will become the central
city of Kansas with anywhere from 600
600 to 100000 population. 1t is the
central city of an agricultural district of |
dozen counties whose productions of |
staple cereals for magnitude, have never |
been equalled by like agricultural area |
In the history of the country. And in a |
like sense it is the central CITY of the |
greatest live stock country lying be-
tween the Mississippi river and the
mountains; for that matter it is the live |
stock section, par excellence, of the
American continent, markets and pack |
ing houses in the interest of which are
already established at this point. As a
central distributing point for these grain
products, and live stock products this
city has direct competitive trunk line
systems with the markets of the Rocky
mountains, the markets of the Gulf, the
markets of the Lakes and the markets of
the Lower Mississippi river; with centers
like Chicago, Denver, Omaha, and st.
Paul, Kansas City, st. Louis, Memphis,
New Orleans and Galveston, none of /
which cities in any appreciate manner
can ever overshadow or cripple
the jobbing and manufacturing trade
of Wichita, but all of which