The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-21
That She Will Be the Greatest City
in Kansas No Longer Doubt.
Two New Railway Lines, Packing Houses, Livestock
Market, Grain Elevators and FIGURING Mills.
New Buildings, New Enterprises and
Rapidly Increasing Trade.

owners and business men Of Wichita
The very thing which they have all along
deprecated and seemingly really dread
ed Another boom is on. Wildcat addi-
lions are not being plated. nor Is the
price of real estate flying sky high. But
. big boom is on. 1t is felt in the i'm
minent air it is evident in every inter
est, and it is seen upon every hand, and
up and down and along every street.
The conviction, originally inspired Of
the evident superior chances and advan-
tages of Wichita. for becoming a great
city, as exploited, explained and urged
by the Eagle for years. in the first in
stance. proved :. staying conviction and
one that has never weakened. and such
conviction having proven superior to
every reverse, the resut was inevitable.
There was only wanting the opportunity
of tin and the time transpiring the
oppor' nifty did not fail The institu-
tons that were founded, the interests
that were projected. and the enterprise
which were promoted by the stimulus
OF her triliaI boom, stand no longer as
a mocking memory. None of these are
longer a sham or but a hollow name.
Each and al are solid and secure.
During these years of reactionary test
her foundation and stability. Wichitas
retail trade developed in most crafty
ing fashion. her wholesale and jobbing
Interests continued to reach out beyond
anticipated limits, and there being no
longer either emptiness or idleness ex-
pansion and growth became Inevitable
Homes are being built, factories, shops
and industries created and enlarged, new
jobbing concerns added. the older ones
providing themselves with more commod-
ious quarters, and Wichita finds herself
the recipient Of a veritaole boom of such
soHdity and permanence as she never
poasted
And this is boom that has come to
stay. There is no speculative weakness
about it. There is no danger of its
bursting. It is a boom that is not based
on the possibility of the construction of
the Orient Railway. with its proposed
division headquarters and manufacturing
shops at Wichita, nor is it bolstered by
the recent determination of the Frisco
Railway company to extend the Midland
from Wichita to Sapulpa and to the coal
fields. nor yet is 1t a boom founded on
the certainty that the Cudahy Packing
interest viii soon be in full operation at
this point, nor on all these combined.
1t is OF an inevitable and logical growth,
directly traceable to the advantages Of
environment, to the advantages coming
OF her distance from any and every other
possible rival city, advantages attributed
to our facilities as a terminal and initial
trunkline railway station. ali these con-
tributing to a commercial dominancy of
one of The vastest, richest and most
prosperous agricultural domains 20 be
Rounded on this continent.
The Kansas City and Orient Railway
will doubtless be constructed, and It's
manufacturing shops and divisions be 10
Gated at Wichita, as stipulated in the
contract; the Frisco Railway company
having purchased the Midland. outright
will. in all probability. carry out their
present intention Of extending it down.
directly southeast, along the old original
Eagle-Gould line. to Sapulpa. and to the
coal fields. as communicated by one Of
the directors Of that road the past week
to the editor Of this paper; and the Cud-
ahys will soon be on hand. and in con-
nection with the Dolds Will be slaughter
Ing from one to fifteen thousand add
tionaI hogs for this market every week;
and the big grain elevator viii De con-
structed. and Meyer Brothers with their
six hundred barrel Touring mill may &c
on hand next spring.
But aside from these. 70 be, added adj
vantages and important interests, with
out counting them or discounting Their
future value. Wichita is booming, IN
questionably and substantially.
The Missouri Pacific railway is con-
structing and now completing in Wichita
che finest railway station in the state Of
kansas. our new street railway lines
the best in the west are RAPIDLY ap-
nroaohing completion; tive new hotels are
now opened: the Friends University. the
Paramount Congregational College ana
the Lewis and AL HaIlows Academies
were never so full or prosperous: the de-
nsnd for residences can not be supplied,
while along every street and on each side
Of every avenue new homes are being
erected and why should Wichita not
boom. with a water service which for
abundance and purity is unequalied' with
more u>iles of permanent sidewalk than
any city Of p thousand anywhere; with
,,a finest natural streets in the world and
o..erv street empowered with shade trees;
vi,h 3 public parking system only eaual'-
- bv the largest % cities; with school
.s,,antaees and church privileges galore, .
g. II any wonder that men Of competence f.