The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-10
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has been for the past ten days. Dealers
and manufacturers, having arranged
their business for the usual annual mid
winter slump, are surprised to find their
places still full of customers and no fall
ing off of orders.
What does it mean?
Within two weeks two great nipple
ment firms of national reputation have
leased business houses in this city for a
term of years; new jobbing concern is
now receiving and unpacking its goods
preparatory to opening out for business
within ten days.
What does it NEAR?
The express companies are erecting a
receiving depot near the railway tracks,
of cold storage walls; grain building is
being erected by an exporting firm of
Galveston; one of the best known and
substantial merchants of Missouri river
city has leased a fifty foot front
three story business house on Main street
for a term of five years and bought FOR
himself, outright, one of the finest resi-
dences in the city; two of the greatest
brewing companies, additional to the
Anheuser-Busch company's building,
have purchashed large sites near the
railway tracks. one of which is now pre-
pairing to build.
What does it mean?
a prominent business man of the city
is making arrangements, which are to be
signed and sealed by Feb. /, for a big
jobbing, manufacturing and shipping
concern whose western trade is already
established and which will open out in
Wichita before spring; two of our big
gest jobbing houses want new quarters
and are negotiating for the erection of
new buildings; two other big business
blocks are being figured on-one of
them five stories high.
What does it mean?
Within few weaks past the Santa Fe
management have concluded to extend
the Wichita and Western to Dodge City
when solid trains VIII be run through
Wichita from st. Louis to the Pacific,
with both a night and morning
service connecting this city with
the western towns; within a week
a proposition has been made to build the
Wichita and FL Paso road southwest
from this city to connection at Harper
city; within three days the Rock Island
has let the contract for the extension of
Its Wichita and Southern line on
through the Indian territory to a gulf
connection.
What does it mean?
Several of the principal owners of the
Burton car works, men who are inter-
ested in our street railway system, spent
a number of days here last month fgur-
ing over the Feasibility of turning out
great number of additional new stock
cars; representative of one of Chicago's
6ASopC5b BetChAIS 1AbSlGobS was uGI6 InlS
week looking out grounds and prices
: and over the work of our packing
houses, holding at the same time a COM
mission of a proposition which took
away the breath of the owners of the
Union stock yards when made known.
What does it mean?
Within the week Judge ADV, United
States attorney, has brought suit to dis
solve the Transmissouri Freight associa-
ton under whose rules open competition
was impossible, and following close on
the heels of which the railway
commissioners of Kansas rendered
q decision which gives the wholesale
houses, manufacturers and packers of
Wichita all that they ever. desired to
successfully compete with Kansas CITY,
st. Joe, or Chicago; gives them the state
for field and an equal show in Okla
homa.
What does it mean?
There is livelier demand for real es- |
tate; more farms and lots are selling for
spot cash; larger number of seekers of, |
and more persistent inquiry for bust
ness rooms and residences to rent. dur |
ing the past month, and right now, than
at any time within three years,
What does 1t mean?
Fully two-thirds of last seasons mag |
nificent crops remain in the hands of /
South Kansas farmer; debts have largely /
ceased TO embarrass the debtor; the /
creditor is more cheerful and hopeful; |
the Board of Trade is going TO
get in lot of new blood and new di- |
rectory who will take hold of the
proposition for making Wichita a great
initial grain center in connection with a
gulf export trade; all our manufac- /
turers are running full hours with IN /
creased forces; the wholesale spice mills I
have reorganized for bigger business,
End the cracker factory viii be forced 10 I
open or find a new concern in its field:
new people from surrounding towns and /
distant states are daily moving in. while /.
the streets of no city of its size east or /
west shows such active, earnest life as |
do those of Wichita.
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