The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-07-19
AN EMPHASIZED FACT.

Wichita's railway facilities and mark
cts are going TO count in the interest o
every farmer of south Kansas, adding
price to his commodities and value t.
his land Every reduction in freigh
rates which the extra tonnage of Wichitt
is continually bringing about is as much
in the interest of tie farmer, who il
both q producer and consumer, as it il
in the interest of the dealer. In fact
more. The dealer gains by lower freight
rates Only as it enables him to do a
bigger trade through successful COM
petition with some other market. When
a rate is lowered it is the consumer and
the producer that reap the direct benefit.
The benfit to the commercial man, to
the manufacturer, is only an indirect
one by which he is enabled to sell COM
modities lower and pay higher for
products by just so much as his freights
have been lowered.
Wichita in all her established con-
veniences and advantages, as city, and
in her railway facilities, equalsa any other
city on the continent of enc hundred
thousand inhabitants. This is SAID en-
phatically and unequivocally. There is
not another city in the United States
containing one hundred thousand popu-
lation OF less to be found possessing the
railway transportation facilities, and all
the other adjuncts and conveniences,
and all the necessary appliances and I'M
provements of a modern city possessed
by Wichita. This is not only true as to
her superior railway service, but is just
as true as to her public buildings. her
water supply, her paving, her sewerage
and as to all those things which a city
of one hundred thousand and upwards
usually have. Such another era Of rail
road building as gave this city three
transcontinental trunk lines and her
other several local roads, will not Oc-
cur again in a quarter of a century if
ever. Wichita's railway facilities, in
both service and connections equals
those of many of the largest cities Of
continent. There are cities of from
one hundred 70 two hundred thousand
people that will not in the next fifty or
hundred years boast an equality with
the railway mileage now built and ope-
rated within a circle of fifty or hun
dred miles of Wichita and all dong her
direct service. These roads are here to
stay and to continue to directly con-
tribute to Wichita's welfare and growth
until the place shall have become a city
great enough to keep each and every
road proftably busy. These roads touch
every community within hundred miles
of this city. traversing and girdironing
the richest and most delightful agricul-
tural region of all the west, region
every rod of which is susceptible of the
highest productive results. All this,
while it means big city in Wichita, is
directly in the interest of every farmer
in south Kansas. In these facilities for
quickly and directly reaching a central
market, which Wichita is bound to be,
the prices of all that the farmers can
produce are increased and the value of
his land and holdings proportionately en-
HANGED. To build another city for equal
ling WichIta's present yard trackage and
live stock and grain market priv
Tileges and other city facilities
would take many years and millions of
money. Thus it becomes of Just as
much business importance to the farmer
that Wichita continues to hold its pres
tige as the commercial city of south |
Kansas as 1t does to the immediate prop !
erty holder and business man, TO the !
manufacturer or the merchant. All /
alike are interested in Wichita becom- |
ing as great market for south Kansas |
as Kansas City is for the people of the
Missouri valley, The great and neces-
sary enterprises and improvements, in
volving time and capital, are all al
ready provided at Wichita, which has a
capacity and facilities for transacting
ten times the business of the present
without single additional expense.