The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-01-30
THINGS LOOKING UP
ENCOURAGING OPINIONS FROM NEW
ENGLAND CAPITALISTS.
Brigh. Prophesies Made by the
Lombards For the Peerless
Princess and kanSaS-The
Only Need is Repub.
1ican Governor.

This is very hopeful country" said
| Mr.. James L. Lombard of kausas City Il
| an EAGLE reporter ut the State Nationa
! bank yesterday afternoon. The bright
| est prospects are before Wichita and Kan
| sas."
NJ. James L. Lom bard is accompanied
by Mr. Benjamin Lombard OF Boston and
Mr.. G.. Lombard of Salt Lake City. The
Messrs Lombards are here on one OF their
regular business visits looking over their
interests in this city.
owe generally manage to get TO Wichita
once year" said Mr.. Lombard, but we
sometimes skip year. lt Is low TWO
years since we were last here.
do you find business conditions better
here than they were before
ooh. yes; some of the fines. land there
is lies around this city aud in this
county. These bottom lands will make
this great city For while Wichita de-
veloped faster than the country on which
she depends, but now the country Is devel
oping very fast and is going ahead of the
city. The city must develop more in Or
der to catch up to the codntry and may at
some future time again go ahead OF the
country and then have to wait until the
country has reached her point of develop
ment. It is thus that they each advance;
first the country and then the city and
then the country and SO on first the one
and then the other"
Has the lowest point in values been
reached in your opinion?
'It has; and values are even now On the
T. yCh haf
the crop will be the present year. as to how
much they will increase.
Just now there are very good indica-
tions."
How long would you place the time be-
fore the increase in values will be very
noticeable?
1T may be year before very great ad-
vances are seen in the city; perhaps more;
but the people of Wichita need wait no
longer than two years at the most before
they realize very increased activity in
business interests.
In speaking of the reported difficulty in
obtaining money for loans:
Eastern money loaners are more ready
to extend the time of their notes than they
were several years ago."
Is uOG UulS OUc W tuo lcuStu VI tluo IC-
quired to foreciose mortgage"
Partly to that, but it is mostly due to
the fact that they have more confidence in
Kansas and Kansas lands"
Mr.. Lombard continued:
''Of course there are grumblers in every
place. You doubtless have them here. We
have them in Kansas City. They can
never see good in anything. A few discOur-
aging incidents can be found in the most
prosperous times. The men on Wall street
do not continually repeat every failure
II they did so, confidence would be de-
stroyed and the effects of it would be felt
all over the country. as it was this sum-
mer A man should praise his own coun-
try when he has such good reasons as the
people of Kansas have"
party has had -
bad. l hope Kansas will elect a good
staunch Republican for governor. 1t
would be as good for the state
as the best crop ever raised.
What the people of Kansas
should do is to show the country that the
Populist party has lost its power.
During the interview Mr.. Benjamin
Lambard of Boston came in and stood
ready to endorse all that was said. When
asked how he found Wichita on this visit
he said:
''Some newspaper reports which have
read of Kansas have not been at all fiat
tering and if one should judge from them.
he would not have very good opinion of
the state. l have been all over your city
and was surprised. There is some of the
finest country around here that | have
ever seen. The building up of large city
here is sure"