The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-11-28
EXPANDING TRADE.
OVER 1000 BUSINESS FIRMS ADDED
TO OUR TERRITORY
Oklahoma Presents to the World an IN
paralellsd Record = Over Sixty Per
Cent Added TO the Number Of
Her Business Institutions.

Increased over 60 per cent. That is just
what the trade in one section of the COM
mercial territory of Wichita has done
during the last five months.
On the first day of last July the territory
of Oklahoma had 1,60s business institu-
tions within her borders; today she has
2,62l Did anyone ever hear of such
record, and yet it is absolutely true
In that length of time Oklahoma proper
increased her business institutions over
200, while the Cherokee strip and other
recent additions make UP the balance.
Hurrah for the land Of the Fair
God. the youngest aud brightest addition
to the galaxy OF commemorative.
1t is no wonder she is knocking at the
door of the nation to be admitted into full
fellowship in the sisterhood Of states; such
a record is worthy Of her ambition.
In nearly every state in the union bust
ness institutions have decreased in num-
Der, A panic staiked over the land and
crushed many OF them under its foot; old
states lost long established institutions
and here one sees the youngest settled ter
ritory in the nation increasing her COM
mercial institutions over 60 per cent. and
that too in the midst of financial panic.
1t is no wonder that the streets of
Wichita have become full OF life and
hustle Every one has noticed it, but few
have stopped long enough to investigate
its cause Oklahoma, aided by prosper
Gus southern Kansas, has done it.
Wichita herself is also entitled to some
credit. She has the business men who
have rustled. She has boldly stepped into
the territory and has demonstrated her
ability. to stand before all competition.
She has made the prices and taken the
prize.
Some facts concerning the advantages
which Wichita has derived from the open
ing OF the Cherokee strip will be interest
ing. Fourteen new and prosperous towns
have sprung up as if by magic, aud In
these towns business houses have been
established which are permanent and
solid.
Alva has forty-three business houses,
and the number will never be less.
The county of which Alva is the capital
has now $1,000 people, and has room
for $4,000 more. Alva buys her
goods in Wichita and she will
Away do SO because she can not only get
them cheaper but quicker. Goods loaded
at Wichita this afternoon will reach Ava
at 10:41 tomorrow morning by freight.
Wichita has no competition that can lay
goods down at Alva in less than four days,
and this is period of activity and people
want to get their goods rapidly.
Blackwell has forty-seven business
houses, any they can get goods from Wich-
L., ~, z haU n "a
peting commercial center.
Cross has twenty-five business
houses and Wichita can lay goods down
to her business men in less than fourteen
hours by freight; in five hours by express
Enid has 163 business houses and the
freight haul from Wichita only consumes
about seventeen hours. From any other
competing point. four days.
Kildare has nineteen business houses
and is within fifteen hours freight haul
of Wichita.
Medford has twenty.on business insti-
tutions. An order can be filled at Wichita
and delivered to her in fourteen hours.
Pawnee has thirty-seven business houses
and is within sixteen hours haul from
Wichita.
Perry has 2l2 business institutions and
| there is not one of them but can have an
order filled in Wichita and delivered by
| freight to their doors within eighteen
| hours.
Ponca has fifty-fiv business firms, and
| in less than eighteen hours she can have
anything she wants from Wichita at
| freight rates.
Pond Creek has seventy-eight business
establishments. Not one OF them but
what can be supplied from Wichita by
freight in seventeen hours.
Santa Fe has slxty-three firms, and is
within fourteen hours haul of Wichita.
Willow Springs has nine houses, and in
| less than sixteen hours she can be supplied
| from Wichita.
! Wharton has thirteen houses, and can
be supplied from Wichita in eighteen
| hours.
| Woodward has twenty-five firms, and
can be supplied from Wichita in exactly
TWENTY-FIVE hours and seventeen minutes,
being farther than any other town IN the
strip.
To sum the whole matter up, there is
not a railroad town in the Cherokee strip
or Oklahoma that cannot be supplied from
! Wichita, with goods, in ,wenty-four hours
by freight and 10 ten hours by express.
Again. there is not a town in the
territory mentioned that can be sup
! piled by freight from a Missouri river
town in less than seventy-swo hours.
| Wichita has 100 commercial travellers
presenting the claims of Wichita in Okla
boma for her trade. The number will be
increased to $50 before another six months
will have passed.
The wholesale trade of Wichita has in
creased nearly 20 per cent during the past
year and the indications are that the
record will be round 100 pei
cent before the end Of April next,
Il must be rememb ered that
the spring will bring 'actual
settlement" to the Cherokee strip. The
consumers will not be there in earnes;
| ILL the homesteaders return with their
| families. Then business will boom 10
earnest, and as business will boom in the
territory so business in Wichita will keep
pace. The outlook is bright. 1t IS ma,
only bright in the Cherokee strip, bu;
! IL is bright in all the commercial territory
| OF Wichita. Oklahoma proper is as
prosperous piece OF earth as lies
under the sun, and another years devel-
opment will make it more SO. Southern
Kansas is picking mp wonderfully and with
a good crop next year she will advances
farther TO the front than ever before. The
| Texas Panhandle is settling very rapidly,