The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-08-16
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KINeMAN couNTYs eREAT ANNUAL JUsILEE
M. Nj. MURDOCH, Editor.


Next Tuesday the people of Kingman county viii
begin their annual harvest jubilee at their county seat
Kingman City The feature will be cattemens picnic
and the subsidiary features will cowboy sports and
feats of skill riding bronchos and ropng wild steers
Other attractions and viii consist OF many
bands of music parades horse foot races jumping
and athletic games. An elaborate program has been
prepared and arrangements made for the hosptahe en-
tertainment very large number of expected guests
Sedgwic county the parent county of Kingnnan has
this jubilee and viii contribute
materially making it grander success than II
has ever been before Wichita will send a delegation
there to testify the continuance Of that feeling OF
kinship and friendship which always in the past
characterized the neghbory of the two coun
ties.
Kingman county has justification for outburst OF
enthusiasm manifestation of joy She has gone through
season unprecedented in production of those things
which fulfill the aggregate Of reasons expectations of the
maximum of prosperity fair wheat crop bumper corn
CROP unprecedented oats boundess acres of grasses
have been produced and the county is overlooking with
contentment over the grand reward of years toll and
patience
Kingman county to the student of rural development
is a revelation. Twenty years it was wilderness
loading to what known and regarded as desert;
today it is the home less than $4,000 people, with
room and opportunity for three times that many 1t is
not large county having only twentyfour townships
but last year produced bushels of wheat for every
man woman and child within its borders. 1t produced
four broadbacked fat steers for every human inhab
tan and more than three hogs The productions this
year will be fully $500 for person between $500
and 81 600 for each family This is statistical fact
the Importance of which be thoroughly under
stood except by thinking people who make comparisons
with other similar sections Of the national domain
In the matter of resources Kingman county is boun
fully blessed Everything indigenous to the temperate
zone can be produced from its SOIL it is well supplied
with surface water besides remarkable underfow. 1t
has probably beneath it, one the most remarkable
stratas Of rock salt the world which is being mined
the county and whose wealth alone under proper
development is capable sustaining community larger
the entire present population Of the county has
schools churches newspapers lodges libraries and all
the other things that make for higher civilization and
public utilities unsurpassed for public accommodation in
terchange and intercommunication.
It il not sequestered from the rest of the world. 1t is
midway between and west lines of the state,
almost in the heart Of the grain belt and practically in
the very center of that section which is alike
noted for the production of meat and grain.
The Eagle congratuIates Kingman county the occa-
sion for its jubilee hopes that its people and
their guests Tuesday Wednesday. will enjoy
themselves as only under the stimulus of
3 boundless prosperity