The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-17
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M. N. MURDOCH, Editor.
KANSAS AND THE ORIENT.


vast mineral regions of virgin wealth the awakening
Republic Of Mexico the who conceived the plan OF
placing great straight direct artery the markets Of
the Eastwho vetoing the outofheway sanFranclsco
route demonstrated to the world hundred years
after Columbus the world round to railroad
as to a mariner this man those backing him have
not been unmindfuI what development is coming to
that portion of the country which lies about the east
ern end of the Orient railroad
For while the Orient viii strike the fire of CONNER
oial regeneration in provinces Of Mexico viii DO
more for Kansas and Oklahoma Mexico in giving of its
gold and silver anthracite and hard wood resources
New Mexico in giving of its mineral, sheep and fine
china cays Texas giving Of its vast herds of kline
will not and can not contribute the Orient the per
1anency enterprise what Kansas, to say nothing
Of Oklahoma, and will
The community Of which Wichita is the center the
metropolis the concentration of commercial activities
is thirty years old Those thirty have been sig
nalized by marvellous growth. But that development
has been as the sturdy growth of great plant in pro
pous and unpropitious weather The flower is yet to
bud and blow The time is at hand
The end Of those thirty years finds Wichita the
largest city in a section comprising a million nhabi
tants the most populous point in the greatest wheat
belt in the United States the commercial metropolis of
Kansas the wholesale center, the packing cen
ter the grain center implement center of the
Great Southwest Every quarter section in the extens
i've region which Wichita is productive
today than it has ever before foot Of land
is piing up wealth. Every rod Of soil, in wheat corn
cattle porkers viii contribute and more to the
earnings Of the great railroad And what
Is true Of this vicinity in regard to the ORR
ent is true also Of the rest the state. The Orient
runs through the best part 1t through
big. established cities, Wichita Emporia. Usage
City Lawrence It's grade in Harper county today lies
in the shadow of walls of corn It reaches the rich
cereal section of Kngman county, bisects sedgwick
county with all its resources passes through the great
est cattle loading section of Kansas as great
est pasture region the country lying between De GRAF
and Matfed Green halves the rich country from En-
poria to Kansas City, all Of which will impart to the
Orient an immense and unfailing inflow of business
and revenue.
Therefore while Mexico. New Mexico Texas and
Oklahoma will aid in enrchng this enterprise, Kansas
developed sturdy. prosperous the midst Of steady
increment of wealth. viii herself do much-more than
many now foresee
Kansas has become a rich state Her banks TEEN
with money She is increasing this continually through
succession of crops to which is to be added next
month the heaviest yield of the history of
state that broken the cornrecord several times
This can mean only one thing-greater wealth. a con
tnued increase in the value of land quickening
movements in immigration the states Of the
Mississippi
ductiye portion of Kansas but one thing-unexamped
growth the bloom long prosperity Already increas
ing rapidly in population acquiring daily new enter
prises establishing firmly in all whoesalng lines her
commercial supremacy, the home of 10000 progressive
wideawake souls the Orient, the shops the terminals
the cattle and hogs viii bring packing houses
the territory open to our jobbers Will
touch with greater vitality into more
ambitious fields Of wider opportunities make her
city location her accessibility density
OF surrounding population Already the impe
tus given the city by the approaching Orient is felt
IN the increase of realty transfers the erection of
business buildings the uninterrupted arrivals
who purpose to live here and accommodate whom
dreds Of residences are being built
The Orient SO far as Wichita is concerned is no
longer anticipation but a thing realized It has Sc
Iected the site for its shops fine tract of ground.
accessible every way appropriate in the south
section an opposite part from the packing
house districts thus distributing the great indus
tries and balancing the city
These shops mean for Wichita greater population
rnbucket brigade large expenditures not only. but
for that section city decided boom for this viii
become one of the industry with all its can
cOnlitant lines 1t viii build up rapidly and sodly ere
sting values and making for many small fortunes
The Orient and Wichita expect to go hand in hand
When Wichita voted the bonds for shops it was in
that spirit that Wichita being the largest city on
the Orient line, Kansas City would be its prln