The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-03-05
TIE PASSAGE OF THE STRIP BILL
MEANS INCREASED PROSPER
ITY TO WICHITA.
No 0thsr City So Favorably Located to
Command the Trade Of the
New County
Il Viii Add TO Our Commercial Territory
100000 Acres Of Land and a.
Least 100000 People.


less Princess on To that triumphant future
that every true prophet says awaits her.
While in the enjoyment OF a good meas
ure Of prosperity the curtains of the fu-
ture have been drawn aside and at her
very feet she sees vast aud magnificent
pubic domain opening up before her-s
domain that will, in a few years, rival, in
the amount Of its productions and the
general thrift OF its people, any piece OF
land. Of equal size, on the continent OF
America. Il is blessed with a fertile soil,
abundant water resources, some valuable
mineral deposits aud a climate as mild,
solubrious and bealLhfuI as was ever fash
Toned by nature in her happiest mood Ref
erence IS made, OF course, to the Cherokee
strip, the bill for the opening of which to
settlement passed both houses of congress.
In a few weeks this land, that is a desert
today, roamed over By only the Texas
steer and the cowboy and his bronchO,
will be swarming with people from every
portion Of the nation, eager TO make a
home there and 10 build up an improved
ana progressive civilization. Towns and
cities will spring up Ike magic. Houses,
churches, schools, factories and railways
will be built, the sod of s. SIG farms will
be turned TO smiling sun and the hum
Of industry will be heard from one end OF
its borders to the other. Ia order 10 &C
cOmplsd all this and TO bring order out Of
chaos, hundreds OF thousands if not
millions OF dollars viii be spent
and individual necessities from
thousand communities Will be concen-
trated IN one spot TO be supplied
by the nearest capable market. Is it
necessary to state where the nearest and
most capable market IS? To chose who
know the geography Of the country it is
not; to thos. who do not, it is necessary to
state that Wichita is the place. Wichita
is 2.5 miles nearer the Cherokee strip than
any other market large enough to supply
the commercial demands Of such a vast
aggregation OF people as will be gathered
III the strip after the opening. Il can
furnish supplies three days earlier than
any other adequate market and farnis
them cheaper. Ii has more facilities for
carrying It's wares to every portion Of ths
new country than any other market; in
fact il has advantages in this respect so
apparent that a blind man can see them.
On the Frisco road running from here
the strip can be reached in a few hours at
Gale, near Arkansas City, at Hunneweli,
At Caldwell, and at Bluff City. Via the
Santa Fe route running direct from here
all points il the strip south OF Arkansas
City can be reached at from two TO five
hours; on the Santa Fe Caldwell can be
touched in one hour and forty minutes,
hiowa can be touched in three hours,
Ava, and Woodland 10 the strip
can be reached inside OF six hours, Hume
we'll in two hours and EaElewoOd TO the
vest IN five or six hours. By the Rock
Island Caldwell can be reached in little
more than two hours and every point in
the strip between there and Hennessey
can be reached inside Of four hours, while
Liberal, one Of the supply points on the
west can be reached IN less than
ten hours. BY the Missouri Pacific hiowa
can be reached by our commerce in
side OF three hours
II these facts and figures do not demon
s,rate that Wichita is the nearest and best
possible market, and foreshadow that she
will gain and hold the trade Of the strip
why, then, there is nothing convincing in
plain facts. Il IS no exaggeration to say
that the opening OF the strip will, directly
and indirectly, add at least s.. 900 90 to
the trade Of Wichita during the first year
and more in proportion as the develop
ment of the couatry progresses. The
wholesale grocery merchants alone will
sell nearly 5000 600 worth of their
goods there for it viii be
absolutely imp ossib BILE for any other market
to compete with Wichita in this line And
thea, there are the Touring mills; the
wholesale drug and chemical houses: the
candy and CT acker fac oEieS; the Wholesale
produce aud fruit Institutions; wholesale
saddlery, wholesale paper, whosale pumps
and plumbing; wholesale furniture; whole
sale hardware and stoves, Wholesale Inn
Der; wholesale cigars tObacCos and sm0k-
ers' supplies: wholesale liquors; wholesale
trunks; wholesale dry goods; binders,
roapers, threshiug machines and all kinds
or farming utensils. including wagons and
buggies; Wholesale ssshes and doors: whole
sale meats-prOducts Of our packing houses
wholesale boots and shoes. wholesale
stationary. wall paper. etc; architectural
iron works, and tue many other products
sold, and manufactured for sale, by the
various institutions ef the city.
The EAGLE cas been a pioneer II the
work OF oat;ering down the Chinese wall
that has kept the honest homeseekers Of
the country from entering the Indian Ter
ritory Il has worked for that end for
over eighteen long years and, now that
The end : accomplished, it rejoices, and
intending settlers, wherever
CARD FROM MAYOR CAREY.