The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-06-07
FACTS AND THEIR LOGIC.

Wichita is the best city in Kansas,
her greatest city, today, with possibilities
for the future unequalled by any city
in the state, if by any city west of
the Mississippi river. Everybody who
in any comprehensive way is cognizant
of the situation seems to concede the
fact that whatever may be the future
fortunes of Kansas City, Omaha, Denver,
Salt Lake and other western centers,
that big things are in store for Wichita,
that greatness for the Peerless Princess
is assured. The cities alluded to have
expanded to the full measure Of all
the present demands of their surround
ings and can only increase now as the
resources Of their well defined fields are
more thoroughly developed by time and
its demands. But Wichita is compare
lively an infant giant yet, and only
meeting in partial manner the rapidly
increasing necessities Of the environments
which impaired her prestige and which
still guarantees her future ascendancy.
Yet over and beyond this well under
stood advantage which Wichita holds
over other conceded western centers of
Importance is that which lies in the fact
that the bounds of her fields of opera
tons have not yet been fixed. These
can be determined only at some time in
the future by some new center of COM
manding power and prestige to arise
within Wichita's overwhelming terri
tory. That any such new rival is posi-
bic between here and Denver nobody
believes. In all probability it will be
some one Of the present!young cities Of
Oklahoma. But this is.years away. In
the meantime Wichita's original domain,
this vast district of the most wonderful
agricultural and live stock resources,
reaching from the Flint Hills westward
4 for two or three hundred miles, is not
only developing in wealth and
greatness more rapidly than any
other section of the state, but to it
must be added the present Oklahoma and
the millions upon millions of acres of the
new Oklahoma lands just being treated
I for with all their scores of new communi-
ties, and thousands upon thousands of
new stock ranches and grain farms, all
I to remain tributary to the wholesale
trade, to the livestock and packing
trade, to the grain and manufacturing
/ trade of Wichita, until within these
I magnificent bounds the new center
alluded to arises and accumulates pres
! tige and importance sufficient to consti-
! tute a successful rise.
The depression which came upon the
country two or three years since, con-
tracing trade, shrinking values and
crippling cities, towns and communities,
clipped the wings of Wichita. But she
is full plumed again and pre-
paring for a longer and higher
flight than ever before essayed. Conf
dence is with her people again and is
pushing along every artery of her trade
There is no longer any doubt. These
have been giving away before the actual
facts of strengthening life. The re-
newed life and growing traffic of the
<past two or three months will, long be-
fore the summer season has ended, be
swollen into a full tide of prosperity.
Questionings and speculations have
given way before certainties evinced in
many ways and in many directions, and
with such confidence begotten of tang
IDLE certainties the day of small things
will be forgotten in magnitude of aggre-
gated transactions.