The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-11
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CHICAGO, ILL.,, June :. 1879.
To tie Editor OF the Eagle.
When we arrive in Chicago from the
Great Arkansas Valley we want Chica-
go. After day we only want part OF
her. In a week, block will do. After
the fair and "a few quiet maps in sly
corner where business secrets are over
heard and the other fellows, landlords,
land men and merchants quietly discuss
the ifs and may bes CT Chicago, we don't
want any of it. For on every hand the
tunlties west? All of our folks who have
rushed pell nell from this beautiful val
lev and matchless city OF her age to
untried things in great city will find
the old rule will apply. One in
thousand will succeed, and they will be
one, the ones who know how and are
adapted to the conditions that exist
there. Remember that some people can
get along anywhere but they are the
rare exceptions. Remember also that
there are tens of thousands now looking
for Just what we have got here in this
section; also that mary OF the same peo-
pie who left us not long since see their
mistake and will return whenever their
dream wears off, for its only dream
that there is any better place than tins
prosperous valley. 1t is true that we
have few things we do not like. lt is
also true that other sections have more
of them.
The worlds fair as a show is success,
but from a money making standpoint 1t
is a gigantic failure. Many hotel man
will wish he had never heard of the fair.
1t has created such a competition IN the
hotel service that rates instead of being
higher, will be lower and such is rapidly
becoming the case. There will be a
getting out before ninety days. The
overdose OF hotels, the scarcity of APP
parently sound saving institutions and
the very rapidly growing belief that
money is safe only when invested
where it cannot burn up, run away, so
crazy, jump into the lake or get into
! Canada is going to send tens of thous-
| ands of people into the western states to
purchase good cheap land. Savings
from all classes of people will now COM
mence seeking a safe lodgment i'll good
productive lands and in thriving cities
like Wichita, Nowhere in our broad
| land can as few paupers and really poor
people to be found as in this valley.
Everywhere you may so away from
here the common beggar Is found. In
Springfield Ills. The other day we en-
tertained six beggars in i've minutes.
| Haven't seen as many in five years III
| Wichita. They are not here and the
people all over the east are beginning to
find this out.
They understand that we had town
! boom, then loan boom, then the
consequent furry of i'll advised advent
ures IN both boom and loans. They
know now that this country goes right
| along regardless of the shortcomings
and foolish understandings of men, aud
that a dollar judiciously loaned or in
vested in the Great Arkansas valley and
in Wichita is as safe and prolific as 1t Is
possible for anything in the world 10 be.
When they talk of a better spot than
Wichita and then go 10 the nation
archives and read IN oaJh-bound lines
from the United States census report
that Sedgwick county, Kansas, raised
more bushels of grain i'll twelve month:
than the same number of cultivated
. acres 10 any other county IN the world
then will they all be looking our way.
The overflow from the fair will looE
Us UP.
The tide will set II. To convince your
self that YOU are in the best country OF
earth, take trip and hear the peopl'
! talk quietly about their condition. Iol
will come home convinced that Kansas
has specks on her not as big as ths
. leprosy en- all other places. II.