The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-04-07
GOOD AS
VERMONTS
PRODUCTS
Oklahoma Granite Shows Up
on Severe Test.
TO BE FULLY AS GOOD
As That Quarried in Vermont
For Building.
TO BE FULLY AS GOOD

Granite, o. T., April 6.-what was
conjecture nine months ago as to the
cit yof Granite is now shaping up as
facts. The resources are daily being de-
! veloped and in a substantial way. This
! town probably has more natural re-
sources than any town in the southwest
and promises to be one Of the biggest
shipping points in the territory. To a
stranger it IS hard to tell what the peo-
pie Of Granite fancy most-the red gran
ite, the hard brick material. the oil or
gas. Capital is right here on the ground
working it all and it is not at all IN
reasonable to predict population Of
! 10000 for this city inside Of the next six
years. and sooner If a big flow Of gas or
oil is struck. The pressed brick plant is
not hot ali" as some say OF it, but
the machinery is being set and more
than any brick plant probably in the
world can boast OF, on foundation Of
red granite The brick machine is the
latest improved, manufactured by the
American Machine company, Bucyrus,
Ohio, with capacity Of 5000 in day
and night run. Mr. W. c. Kurhn is
here setting everything in frst-class
shape and informs your correspondent
that by April 1 they VIII be making the
finest pressed brick in the west, and it
is common talk by the business men
that IN the not very distant future they
viii be replacing their frame buildings
with ones built of home pressed brick,
trimmed with polished red granite. The
brick company have erected immense
sheds and have a number of teams and
scrapers taking the dirt, which is found
about three feet below the surface, IN
der the immense sheds. ready for i'm
mediate use. Your correspondent, in
order to find how thick the strata Of
brick clay was, asked the superinten-
dent its depth, and all he could say was,
I'VE are down thirty feet and it is get
ting better the further down we go.
When the present plant demonstrates to
these people the quality of brick they
can make, it is believed that there viii
be a number OF others put in and try to
have a supply Of frst-class brick on
hand 10 furnish the people who viii
wish to put Up good. permanent build
inks in the Kiowa and Comanche towns
when that country is opened this sum
mer
AS the plan of selling the townsites
will give to every man q perfect title
and no chance for contest. hence there
viii be more good, permanent business
houses built in those towns than ever
was built in the same time in an agri-
cultural country in the history Of the
United tSates, and they viii be built
largely from the output Of Granite
The polishing company are putting in
square columns for monuments and
building ornamental columns. The gram
tie. to the delight of all Oklahoma, af- |
ter being sent to Vermont and finished |
by the best of workmen. is pronounced /
70 be as fine IS any granite in the /
United States. The RocA Island will /
run q switch two miles northwest, /
where the granite making the finest /
finish viii be taken out Of the great /
mountains by the trainload.
Mr. Pauline. the big oil man of eastern /
Kansas, has his outfit just about ready /
to begin work and is fixing to go down |
to depth of $500 feet.
A Mr.. A4cCandless is to furnish the /
town with a splendid water system, the I
most novel of any we have ever heard /
Of He takes the water from springs /
in the mountains and builds a reservoir /
about $50 feet above the level of the /
town. runs the spring water into the /
reservoir and pipes it into the various /
yards or buildings
Granite has no knockers of her own, I
but instead they all pun together. and /
their example was the founder OF the /
town. k c. Cox demonstrated how
easy It was to get along nicely together /
and his keynote was honest. upright /
dealing with everybody.
Mr.. Cox now owns the Bank Of Gran
ite c. D. Rowe cashier Granite has
many good business firms. The Hocka-