The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-16
FAITH IN WICHITA
I. S. Naftzger Buys Another
Lot on Douglas Ave.
COMPARISON OF VALUES
What Mr.. Watson Says of
Great Milling Ccenter

John a. Burt and William Chalfont of
Boston have sold lot "A on Douglas ave-
nue. to L. S. Naftzger of this city for
IS. $50. The deed was passed yesterday
and the money paid. Mr.. Naftzger will
build a three story brick block on the
lot next Spring.
President Naftzger of the Fourth Ma
tional bank of this city is one of the
men who has turned his faith in Wichita
into cash, or what is better into business
property that pays a good Per cent on
his investment. Lot "A on Douglas ave-
nue. is the first west of what is known
as the Richey building in the first block
west of the Santa Fe tracks.
The sale of this lot shows how Wichita
property has advanced during the past
few years. Six years ago Mr.. Naftzser
bought the Richey block for $500, 1t
is a substantial well built three-story
brick building. The adjoining lot which
Mr.. Naftzger bought yesterday and which
he thinks he got at a bargain has an
old shell of a one story building on it
hardly worth the moving off He prac-
of what he paid for the other lot and
fine building six years ago.
President L. S. Naftzger and Cashier
j. NJ. Moore of the Fourth National
bank own all of the block on the north
side of Douglas avenue from the alley
west of Santa Fe to ST. Francis avenue
except fifty feet They had the money
and the faith in Wichita and the two
put together did the work One way to
make money without robbing somebody
else is to invest in a growing town and
that is what these two officers of the
Fourth National bank have been doing.
1t would be interesting TO know just
how many people there are in this city
who do not have any definite idea OF the
advancement that has been made in
growth. 1t is said that people who live
in great historic times do not realize
the Importance of what it transporting
around them and to a certain extent that
Is true of the growth of a city. Many
people who have liver for years this city
have driven to the north part. or have
ridden on the street cars and seen the
clouds of black smoke rising from the
Dold and Cudahy packing houses, the
Watson Mills and the Neveling Elevator
and that is about all. Superintendent
Darrigrand of the Dold house said yes
terday that every few days some one
will come up and go through the packing
houses and then they will tell him that
they had been in Wichita for so many
years and never before had any definite
idea of what the packing houses were.
The packing houses, mills, elevators,
stockyards and other interests clustered
about Twenty first street give a good
index to the growth OF Wichita. Dold
and Cudahy are demonstrating that here
is the proper location for packing houses
and the Watsons are convincing the
world that no other place in the Kansas
hard wheat belt has equal advantages
for the location of a merchant mill
Wichita products are winning their way
in the markets of the world and our
cured pork and -four are in greater de-
mand than the ability of these men to
produce them.
The capacity of the Watson Mills has
been increased to one thousand two hun
can not supply the demand for -four
Mr.. Watson has signed a contract with
the Missouri Pacific for the shipment
of forty thousand bags of -four for ex-
port and last week he turned down orders |
for thirty thousand sacks. The mill is |
running day and night and it can not |
fill the orders for -four
kansas hard wheat -four is winning |
its way in the markets Of the world
said Mr.. D. Watson yesterday. I'VE |
would still further enlarge the capacity |
of our mill but We will first have TO build |
a -four house east Of the mills and front
ing on the Neveling elevator switch. |
Just as soon as we can get that done we !
will double the capacity of the mill.
I'VE can sell all the flour we make |
and more. We are getting pretty plenty |
of wheat now but we have only storage |
of thirty thousand bushels. |
When we keep the mill humming day and |
night we like 10 have u pretty good sur |
plus OF wheat on hand. We have made /
an arrangement with Mr.. Neveling for |
storing one hundred thousand bushels of /
wheat this fall and it seems to me that /
the business that is coming TO him will |
necessitate the enlargement OF his ele- |
vator pretty soon"
People are learning that -four made |
from the Kansas hard wheat is better !
than that made from soft wheat and |
they are calling for 1t. Wichita is in |
the center OF the cream OF the Kansas |
hard wheat section and what the millers |
are doing here will induce other millers !
to come here and the prediction made |
by the Eagle some time ago that Wjeh- |
tia was destined to become the great |
hard wheat milling center seems about |
TO be consumated.