The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-10-31
DaiIg 49, Eaa1e
THE ARKANSAS VALLEY AT ST. LOUIS.
M. Nj. MURDOCH. Editor.

M NJ MURDOCH EoItoF.
THE ARKANSAS VALLEY AT ST. LOUIS.
The Arkansas valley Of Kansas measured by the value
Of its annual products the greatest valley in
while the Arkansas valley in its entirety destined
equal the greatest Of entire purchase which
is to be so Iavshy and extensively commemorated at St
Louis in 1903.
A representative business man Of this great valley
man who watched its growth and participated in its
development fully thirty years. urged the Eagle to
take up and discuss the idea of an independent
display of all the valleys products and enterprises
at the forthcoming exposition ST. Louis which
rnent he thinks Wichita municipal capacity
through commercial club should take the initiative
The idea this portion Of the should fail
in its share for the show large exhibit sug
gested should be an independent local one to the
Of Graduating the erroneous notion held largely by people
IN the east that the Arkansas valley does not equal
ducve powers values the Missouri valleys
The counties and towns from Arkansas City to Car
den City along the Arkansas river and tributaries
make showing Of grain and grasses and of their prod
ucts Of live stock products few sections
Of the world could equal The soil and climate are ours
and the bank deposits tell the rest
course such display being possible would have
70 be under the supervision of competent and well in
formed man. or committee, armed or backed up with
thousands OF finely illustrated folder or pamphlet OF
stuffed with attractivey stated facts and unques-
onable figures and statistics the that the world
might the residents of this ggreat valley have
known for long time, That the Arkansas valley
sn climate and soil and in the value Of her varied
&c oPf Tho .ofs Tho
Kansas has growing fame for the excellence Of her
wheat product the magnnoence Of her average corn crop
and the superiority Of her live stock We need not stop
to tell Kansan that the bulk Of all Kansas wheat grown
in the twenty odd counties Of the Arkansas river and its
tributary streams and that the output cattle and hogs
from this section equals that of any other like group
Of counties to be found anywhere while the yield of corn
IN several Of these counties does not fall below
the average Of best OF the eastern and northern sections
Of the state
Apropos Of in verifcaon Of the foregoing state
have before Us folder compiled by the Monarch
Trust Co." money loaning Of this city which doc
contains the official returns Of the crop reports Of
six counties in the Arkansas valley for ten years
past including present year the greatest wheat
year since the settlement Of the valley The six counties
are Butler Cowley Harvey Reno Sumner and Sedgwick
These six counties raised in the ending with last
year in round numbers, eighty millions Of bushels of
wheat and one hundred and sevenone millions of bushels
Of to be exact sOOs5818 of wheat and 17O938
Of corn at estimated value Of less than one hun
dred million dollars This same folder also gives the num-
Der of bushels Of oats rye barley bucwbeat Irish pota
toes sweet potatoes castor beans sorghum fax tobacco
broom corn tame grasses prairie hay and kafr corn
all for these six counties named aggregate of the
eregaon being astounding or almost beyond belief The
value of the farm products sold by these six counties
alone for last year foos up twentytbree millions seven
hundred twenty thousand four hundred and seventeen
dollars and fftyeight cents or per capita to popula
ton Of nearly $500
In the absence even Of such statement Of statistical
facts no conversant with the growth and prosperity
Of this valley would for moment hesitate in arriving
at the conclusion that there is unreasonable warranty
nothing of profitable enterprise in the proposition
urged for Independent and distinctive display BY the
Arkansas valley at the St Louis exposition which propo
siton Is left to the representative business men Of the
counties and cities named to think over with view of
taking the necessary preliminary steps for its consum
nation
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