The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-02
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M. M. MuRDo cK, EDITo r.
DO NOT BE ALARMED.

It is but reasonable that a burnt child breads
fire Not a few of those who were scorched by
Wichita's phenomenal boom of a decade ago are
growing quite timd over her second rapid growth
The situation Of the then and are wholly dis
similar and there should be no cause for alarm
The Boom" of the then was predicated upon, or in
spired by the recognizable advantages pertaining to
this city but which were still undeveloped and there
fore unreazable The boom of the then was
speculation in which the future" too enor
rnously discounted The estimate of the value and
greatness of that future not overdrawn, but
was oyercapitalized. Nine of ten OF the enter
prises which could not be maintained kept going
dozen years ago, are being proftably utilized
today The later development and utilization OF
environment has made good former estimates.
In population. in wealth and in business Wichita
is unquestionably increasing more rapidly than any
city in the state OF than any city. old or young,
IN the west, of its size And every day brings
forward It's guaranty Of a still greater spread.
Growth" is the word and in all its spades of mean
ings, applicable to city. While there is marked
increase in population, month by month, the cree
ton Of additional homes keeps fully apace, with
every line of business expanding in still greater
ratio The field Of wichita's business operations
has expanded twelve fold in as many years, and
it is field richest in possibilities and probabilities
Of that enjoyed by any city in the new west save
probably that of Kansas City. Neither the fields
of Denver OF TT. Worth the two other western
tiers Of people and commerce, can compare with
of fho If viii
Wichita has become the recognized center. Fl.
Worth has her cotton and cattle Denver her trade
with wide and sparsely settled territory of mines
and ranches But Wichita reaches out over
empire of which every square yard is fertile and
productive country of two three hundred miles
scope whose every quarter section is being turned
into farms which produce the very things which
bringing the most money, viz hogs and cattle,
and wheat hay and fruit This domain of live stock
and grain supports a greater number of growing
towns than either of the other territories alluded
20 and many more.
The town that shall control the trade, the city
that shall maintain itself the market center and
financial clearing house of the territory of south
Kansas and Oklahoma is bound to be one of the
most pOpul0uS and wealthy CUES OF the
souri, No one denies that Wichita holds such pres
tige at present and any future rival is improbable.
TT Worth nor Denver. nor Kansas City,
the pull of all combined, injure inn
pair Wichita's present trade retard its
rapid future growth. Hence the fact that the ap-
proach Of winter does not stop buildings operations
or the fact that upwards of half million of dol
lars viii go into buildings already planned and
under contract for the next summer should be no
cause for alarm, but rather only OF encouragement.
The country, for which Wichita must logically
stand, as the financial and commercial clearing
house will support city of two or three hundred
thousand, would indeed support such center to-
day So, on with the merry concert of trowel and
hammer and saw, and the chorus of the wheels Of
traffic and the rumble of the whistlng factory for
in these there will be found only the evidence of
warranted growth and unquestioned future great
ness