The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-06-06

Beaumont and you cast your vote ~
| southern Texas as against northern
| Texas.
You find Beaumont on . boom which
exceeds that Of Shreveport. Beaumon
| IS nearer the Sabine Lake, around which
| the fertile coast land lies. After q
| sight Of Beaumont. the skeptic is nj
longer a skeptic- Two OF the greatesi
sawmills and lumber esta blishments in
the world are located here Lumber fol
building purposes gets down 10 81 9
thousand The marker reaches from the
cheapes: grades to the finest texture
admitting of the superfine finish, such
as hard curly pine. In the immediate
vicinity are the great rice farms and rice
mills, both great industries OF the great
est profits. Rice land is valued very
high. because of such profits. while the
fruit industry is practically without
duplication on the continent.
GOOD OLD SIGNS.
Every evidence OF the growing town.
such as the people OF Kansas saw in
1856. is 10 be seen ar Beaumont now. Tie
trains disgorge a stream Of human be-
ings- The depot platform is crowded
New buildings are IN course Of construc-
ton. The streets are difficult 10 ira.
verse because of building material along
SIDE. while on the business street nearly
every vacant lot is an excavation. Ths
real estate agent, not in evidence a,
Shreveport. comes out strongly at Beau
mont. There are many here and they
are making money. Beaumont is on a
line directly between Houston and New
Orleans
Finally Port Arthur Is reached What
is 10 be seen at this coasr town. the
terminus Of north-and-sou.h line
reaching half way across the nation.
would have doubtful effect were IL not
for what has been previously seen at
Shreveport, at Beaumont and interven-
ing points. Port Arthur Is marvellous.
Its sudden growth. IL i, were alone pros
porous. would warn people Of It's equally
sudden collapse. But Shreveport Is
growing. Beaumont and the other towns
IL the vicinity are growing. the whole
section is growing. and that one town.
by its superiority OF location. should
center In itself the very heart-blood and
essence of this new life in the south is
natural enough 10 be reassuring and 10
breath away the misty doubts and foggy
hesitations which would naturally beset
the mind il Por, Arthur fiourished and
all the other towns in that portion Of the
remained fallow.
HOW 1T GROWS.
Six months ago Port Arthur was moth
Ing. Today II is a furnishing little
city, with depot as comn,odious as any
in Kansas and a great deal more taste
fui in architecture 1t has a large
hotel equal in cuisine 10 hotels in towns
Of fifteen thousand inhabitants. II has
a long pleasure pier and a pavilion out
In the lake, q neat school house, main
street with every business represented;
and newspapers OF course. And there
are buildings everywhere in construc-
ton. That sign OF. growth which never
fails. the surveyors tripod. Is seen
in every section OF the town.
The wooden ssick-in-the-mud real estate
dealers sign fhrives on the corner lot
while boulevards prospective and parks
embryo stretch away over the prairie in
the good old style. Traffic in rising real
estate is heavy. People are coming in
and locating daily.
The insane plunge OF the northern AMI !
western boom. however, is not here The !
investor runs as frigliten-
ed fawn when a first approached with I
A real estate snap He prefers TO look |
Inc ground over himself. And it is the |
mack ard art Of the latter-day real
estate agent 10 let prospective buyers /
alone. The Port Arthur proposition ar
CUES ITSELF II man after looking the /
ground over is not convinced that an I
nvestmen. IS no: only safe but certain /
" increment. no spoken or written word 4
an influence him. The proposition is 1
is own judgment
WHY A CITY HERE?
First and tOremos, Port Arthur Is sit /
lated on Sabine Lake, an oval body OF
water seven miles wide, thirty long.
opening through narrow pass into the I
iulf OF Mexico. This lake is fresh :.
water and IS fed by the Sabine River.
he boundary line between Texas and
louisiana, The Neches River and Tay-
or's bayou. The banks Of the lake a.
veil as the gulf shore g a clay forrna-
ion. making permanent deep water
Without dredging an absolute certainty.
omsthing that is not true OF any other
.Ilf coast city. This formation OF Ss-
'lne Pass has long been known to he
leavy investors OF New York Long
,efore the war land in great quantities