The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-11-19
THE rRlcEs COMING To WICHITA.

It is said that the wonderfully successful
firm of land sellers and buyers, the Trice
Brothers, known throughout southern
Kansas for their energy aud honorable
dealing are coming to permanently locate
in this city. One OF the brothers. {. \.
Trice lives ia Ei Dorado. The editor OF
the Republican writes about him, the hrm
and their operations in the following
straightforward words:
Ali along in the early history OF Kansas
We had steady flow of Immigration Peo-
pie came from all quarters TO find bones
in our state. Many Of them hal money
and whenever they found u '.lama duck
on place that suited them. they bought
ii. Tnis went on for years and yesrs 50
that our population WAS constantly added
to; times were good and whether or not q
full crop was grown, money was always
plentiful.
In the last few years all this has changed.
Kansas got baa name. and nobody
seemed anxious to come here. The state
lost its credit, railway building stopped
aud public improvements everyw here
came TO a ssantstili. Men who became
involved could not sell and IL consequences
lost their places.
But the wheel of fortune goes round and
round aud the indications are that Kansas
| is to take position near the head CT the
procession again.
4 Butler county farmer. who is we'll off
and who has money invested iu other
| things besides farms. made the remark TO
US Monday that his Butler county lands
| yielded him Il better return for his money
than any investment he had. He owns up
| land as we'll rs bottom land aud figures
them both together. But AS We said before
! we are to have chauca In Kansas for the
| h.tt MT ofa
| farm land III this county that are for sale.
| Lots OF people think they can run farm
| Tney Duy one, try it for awhile aud fail
and then they wish to try something else
! On the other hand men make farming n
! success but for some reason or other they
wish to move to town. For these and
other reasons farm lands are constantly
changing hands. But these changes have
been going on very slowly for the past few
/ years.
Real estate agents have found it slow
| work to negotiate sales or trades and many
! have gone out of business There Is one
| frm, however, in this county that has
never let up aud if men did not come here
| to buy they Went east and fetched
them. We refer, to c. Y. Trice
aud his associates. For the past
three or four years tney have been
| bringing in eastern buyers by the squad,
company and car load, and there il no time
scarcely that some member OF the hrm is
| not some here i'll the county with = CON-
pany Of men looking at lands. An official
informed us yesterday that {. \. Trice
and associates had sold Is 600 acres Of land
in this couney in the lass lew years, aud
| had brought in hundreds and hundreds o!
men with their families, who are today
residents of this county.
| &. " Trioe has been living in thi,
county for u dozen years. He spent his
first night without roof over him, and
actually sold portion OF his household
furniture to get money to buy lumber fol
| roof for his home.
We often meet him on the street and oc-
casionally on the train. He Is always IN Il
hurry but ii he stops to talk with any body
| it is about lands or farms. He carries q
| good deal Of pressure to the square inch
ness under the most uufavotable cOndi
| tions.
/ There are five or six brothers associated
with him now and they are preparing fol
| a big business next year. 1t has been saiC
that if you gave &. Y. Trice a chance b.
would bring 100. 600 settlsrs to Kansas in q
year.
He brings men of money hero who buy
land by the square mile and often theJ
buy even more.
The Trices are known all over kansa.
and the railway people are doing all they
can to encourage them In bringing othe
thousands Of eastern people to Kansas x
hnd homes
A short time ago we met the passenge
agent of one OF our great railway systems
aud he wanted to know about the Trices
He went on to say they were the most Ell
ergetic and successful land men in th
state. Ii they can sell tens OF thousand
of acres Of land in times like these. VIVA
will they do when times come good,
| &. Y. Trice lives in u fine house on Wal
nut Hill in this city, and although mucl
OF his time is spent out of town he seem
to enjoy his home when here.
Every body wants to see good time
again. We hope the day is not far distan
when, il man wishes TO sell his farm, b.
can fiud = cash customer The genera
opinion now is that tho day is not far dis
tant when this can be done.