The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-02-06
ANOTHER WORD ABOUT KANSAS

Mr.. A. M. Mcclellan goes back to his
Ohio and Indiana field of work. where
he VIII remain busy for at least a year.
He says he regrets leaving Wichita and
that he would Ike to make ii his per-
manent home, and that he can do so in
the near future. He has great faith
in the future obtainment of this city, be-
leving that there is more outcome to
its property values than TO those OF any
other city in the west CT twice or thrice
its size He called to endorse our words
about Wichita prices of a few weeks ago
ana so he has been buying, quite largely,
of both business and resident properties
He estimates that just as soon as times
lake a turn for the better property will
start TO advancing in Wichita and that
SO far as times are concerned that We
are on the eve OF a prosperous period
for the entire country.
or course he is right. There is no,
can be no question about it. Wichita
will make a commercial city or other
wise this whole region must fail. and all
its smaller towns and cities be deserted.
These wide river valleys with all their
thousands of great grain fields, these
rich prairies which roll away in limit
less pastures must all be abandoned and
turned back to desolation, or, otherwise,
Wichita will be a great center. teeming
with commercial life, humming with fac
tories and buzzing with industries The
innumerable herds of cattle and OF hogs
will all have TO be driven away, for
good, from this vast domain, its
orchards left neglected, its homes pulled
down and all farm improvements de-
stroyed, or otherwise Wichita will, on
in all that name implies. Centers are
necessary, and a financial and market
and manufacturing center, for every con-
siderable territory, is as inevitable in
tie development Of a country as coun
ty seat is for a county-center, or a viii
loge for Observation-Disclosures, or a
school house for school district center.
These, when aggregated, force larger
center, and larger centers still other
greater ones, at greater distances. If
the transmissouri country, with its il
lnitable stretches Of arabic lands and
its millions of inhabitants, is to fail, and
Kansas City and Omaha and Denver are
TO collapse, then Wichita as a next
sized center TO these will fail also with
the rest. But as sure as her surround
ings continue to grow and be developed
just so sure will Wichita grow and de-
velop, and etch new and expansive step
will be married by more than the rela-
tive growth of smaller places. as al
ways is the case with the larger centers.
There are millions to be made by invest
ments in Wichita property at present
prices, as there will be millions made in
the aggregate by those who hold on.
From sea to sea, from lake to gulf, no
where can be found a more beautiful,
more productive country than the hun
dred miles square of which Wichita is
the center. To do away with Wichita's
prestige as a coming commercial GEN.
ter the sunshine and the rains which
cause the luxurient grasses TO grow
that feed her herds, which fructifies her
fields of grain that in turn fatten her
fiocks, will all have to be replaced by
alternating blizzard and drouth without
intermission.
The roads for her commerce are made.
the lines Of her transportation are laid,
the csntripetal trend of her power is es-
ia blished, not only, but all the essentials
and municipal conveniences necessary
to a city CT one or two hundred thou
sand population are already provided,
whether in the way of public buildings,
and improved streets. or in water and
gas mains and sewerage system, and for
such a number Of people, incidents, acct
dents and adverse influences, combined,
have resulted in Stacking for a season
the pace OF her city-race. but these are
not lasting and can not reverse, turn
pack or defeat natural conditions and
advantages.