The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-06-12
M(lll Eagle
NJ. NJ. MURpoCK. Editor
KANSAS TO LEAD AGAIN.

Her Undeniably Superior Advantages
To Be Advertised by Her Railways.
IT is estimated by many that Kansas
will not take another great stride for
ward till after the presidential election,
and there are here and there individuals
who hold that her next period of rapid
5eyelopment will not be until immedi-
ntely subsequent to the worlds fair,
when investigation and observation OF
travellers and pleasure seekers will set
the world to talking about the superla-
tive advantages and Incompatible beauty
and unquestioned superiority of the great
central state of the union.
But all these may be mistaken. There
are evidences not only, but systematic
efforts being put forth at the present time
which promise an era of prosperity which
will be setting in on Kansas in full
tide even before the gates of the worlds
fair are thrown open. To one of these
promising evidences we desire to direct
attention:
The "Atchisou" has decided to adj
7ertize the farming ard grazing lands OF
Kansas in thorough, but in sensible
and reliable way. The main lines and
the branches of this system reach seven
tv-six ont Of the one hundred and SIX
counties in the state, and the present
management having awakened to the
fact that every additional family added
10 the state by Just so much increases the
permanent tonnage and revenue of the
road, have set about to repeat their early
successful efforts of showing to home
seekers the advantage that Kansas
possesses in soil, in climate, etc, over
any. other state, and to demonstrate
tie possible profits to be realized
from the agricultural lands of the
east half of the state and the wealth that
may be gotten from the grazing lands
and arabic valleys of the west half of
the state. Their first printed folder of
27-pages on one side and map on the
other, Just issued, lies before us. This
folder is largely a record of what has
actually been done. OF successes in money
making, of homes founded and individ-
ual fortunes made.
1t has been demonstrated to our peo-
ole that the railroads can secure better
results in advertising the lands along
their lines OF road than any county or
combination of counties, and this move
on the part of the Santa Fe should be
followed by every other line in Kansas
If they desire to increase the revenue of
their respective lines. 1t is move in
Che right direction and one which will
add much to the prosperity of the state
as well as to the roads.
What Kansas needs most is more peo-
pie and the railways more commodity to |
haul. Every family located along the
Zine of any railway is an added producer |
nnd consumer; which means an increas-
ed traffic TO the railways. The people of
Kansas will certainly hail with delight
This action on the part of the Santa Fe;
because it will add thousands upon
thousands to our population and create
new demands upon those already locat-
ed here.
The fertile valleys of the Arkansas
river were never so well advertised as
they were years ago by the Santa Fe
company, and the other valleys never Sc
cured so rapid a settlement as when the
railways advertised them.
The fertile margins and rolling graz
ing lands Of the Great Arkansas valley
are in time to be the wonder of the world
and the desired of many people. Every
succeeding year but the more clearly
demonstrates the superiority of Kansas
in soil and in climate and the glory of
the state in everything 1t is not only to
the profit but it is the duty Of the great
railway corporations, whose lines trav-
erse the almost illimitable pastures and
fields of the state, to make known the
fact, to the end that the necessary popu-
lation and capital to its fullest
development may be secured.
For, as the EAGLE has often
tried to point out or demonstrate.
whenever Kansas prospers then do her
railway stocks and securities go up in
the markets of the world, and vice versa.
In brief, the sooner that Kansas rail-
ways cease bending their energies in Sc
curing long haulS and advantageous
terms, and traffic concessions from con-
nections, and turn their efforts to de-
veloping their local fields and increasing
their local tonnage, the sooner will these
and the state become prosperous and in
dependent.
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