The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-11-19
FACTORY AT HOME
CORRESPONDENT SUGGESTS L0CA-
TON OF COTTON MILL HERE.

No Reason Why the Cotton in Territory
Tributary TO Wichita, Should Not b
Made Up Here Instead of Shipping 1t {
England or New England and Buying i
Back With the Freight Two Way
Added-TraveIing Man Gives Reason
for Considering Investments Safe Her.
A Comparison of Transfers in '96-'97.
Good words for Wichita are heard or
every side. Last evening the Eagle re-
ceived the following Communication from
Kingfsher, Oklahoma:
Kinghsher, O. T., Nov, 1S.(SpeciaL y
In the hotel office here on the evening
travels for one Of the big manufactures
in the east, whose name is T. ]. Smith,
and who lives now in Fort Worth,
Texas, made the sta tement tina; If he
today had a hundred thousand dollars
ne would go to Wichita and invest ev-
cry dollar Of it in real estate, as he
considered that ii had the best future Of
any town he knew Of Mr. Smith spent
and said il was the first time ne ever
was there. and mis- conclusions were
formed as above stated. He assigned
a 5 mis- reason, location, territory tribu-
tary, clheapness OF property at present,
and such a beautiful resident city. The
merchants here say there is no rest for
them until after the first Of the year,
and If any one doubts this all they have
to 60 is TO just spend any one day Of
the week on the streets.
Kingfsner people, like all Oklahoma
people. wonder why it is that city like
Wichita can't interest eastern capital
with what help Wichita could give TO
locate a factory there which would
make all the cotton grown in Oklahoma
and the Indian. territory up into goods
and thus keep TIE money out here where
it belongs, and give them good market
for all the cotton grown close at home.
The correspondents suggestion that
large factory be built at Wichita with
capacity TO handle all the cotton OF Ok
ia1homa is pertinent and on two or three
occasions has been considered by men
prominently connected with the most
vital interests Of the city. Only recent
~ a gentleman interested in a gin at
Norman was On Wichita looking up the
matter The railroad facilities are here
and the local business is here TO sustain
the operation of so large a business.
There Is no reason why the cotton in
the territory tributary to Wichita
should not be made up here instead of
senGng It to England or New England
and buying il with freight both ways
added. The travelling man is right in
his belief that the future of Wichita oc-
ours at this time in a light that invites
the investment OF large sums Of capital
and people OF means are coming TO real
sze the soundness Of this proposition.
Men of money are investing here, and
men who have only their days, weeks
or months wages are saving it to put
into homes In all parts of the city.
The real estate transfers will show this.
The number OF transfers printed in the
Eagle since the 22nd day OF July to the
Doth of November IS nearly four times
the number given for the same period
in 1896. And there Is a difference in the
character Of the transfers. Last year a
great part Of the exchanges were fore
closures and such character or business
as would indicate a shift to pay obliga-
tons. Now it is principally the pur-
chase OF homes by people OF limited
means and the clean purchase of the |
larger realities of the city by men who |
know how to use their money.
Wichita as a railroad and manufactur- |
ing center will be the headquarters Of
the big cattle interests of southwest |
Kansas and the west Indian Territory
and northern Texas. This support will |
come only as supplementary to the great |
agricultural richness Of the city's sur
rounding territory immediate and the |
great fields and mines Of Oklahoma and |
the Indian territory. Results of given |
territory will center as surely as natural |
laws hold anywhere. Wichita has the |
territory and must become the center. /