The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-08-11
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M. NJ MURDOCH, Editor.
THE EVOLUTION OF WESTERN KANSAS.

THE EVOLUTION OF WESTERN KANSAS.
The papers are telling of the settlement OF west
ern Kansas noting since the big wheat yield in the
west there mas been of filings at the Dodge City
Wakeeney and Colby offices. This increase OF bust
ness ascrbed to harvest hands brought into
the state to help garner the wheat crop and finding much
government land untakcn seized golden4opportunity
The present growth in Kansas is not due to
IN influx of harvest hands, Notwithstanding this report
Western Kansas has been growing for three years and
practically without advertisement All The have
been increasing in population the people settled there
have been enjoying constantly increasing prosperity
end new settlement by people living further east in
Kansas has been in progress.
This up the proposition that the worst Sian
oerer Of western in the past has been eastern
Kansas The two sections of the state bear common
name their regulations linked the two make single
state and always will During the boom period western
Kansas settled up and some of the people who went in
were impractical and to work on the sections develop
ment in an impractical Within very short time
two years the people who expected tree to grow with
out cultivation on high prairie HILL who planted
corn with an ak and did number of other ridiculous
propaganda against the part of the state next to Colo
RADIO General hard times in the nation shortly
after All Of Kansas was caught in the squeeze Kansas
came in for general denunciaton Eastern Kansas to
save itself saddled the blame western Kansas The
valiant thing thing, would have been for
eastern Kansas defend western Kansas in rational
way But it did not. 1t has entirely recovered
from The habit Of unjust structures on the western two
thirds state the people along the eastern Dor
der insist Butler sedgwick and Harvey counties
are in western Kansas in spite of all maps.
Along the same line the eastern part of the state
views ali favorable news the western section doubt
fully Such thing as favorable mention Of that portion
of the state by eastern papers has been painfully
rare So western Kansas has been progressing without
advertisement and without the assistance it deserves
from the rest Of the state.
A goodly portion of the and women who settled
early in western Kansas have remained. They have
made a success Man for they have been far more
successful than the population of the eastern division
rational experienced Industrious element has been
the original population and the inhabitants by
diversfying their lines by following up the wheat line
the cattle and the forage line the chicken line by de-
veloping the alfalfa output reached high degree
of prosperity.
The valley of the Arkansas from Colorado to Okla
homa is paragon Of beauty and productiveness The
wheat fields along the Missouri Pacific and Santa Fe
lines in Ness Lane Scott Wichita counties this
year wonderful to behold Pratt Barber and Kiowa
garden spots county with its artesan water
Eden.
has true OF the development of all this trans
Mississippi country the has made the west;
that the line of settlement has been moved
westward by the people the frontier. So during the
last few years has western Kansas been settled The PEG
pie county been discovering great things
the land of Barton county; Barton county people
have been discovering that Rush county has
derfu possibilities; county people have been
viewing the wheat fields of Ness county with admiration
and so on each population looking county the
in the counties the east has been increas
ing in value men have been selling and moving into
the next county west.
It is this which is settling western Kansas. not an
influx of harvest hands. The tyros the dreamers and
the incompetents kept the region the
who the country and how to handle it, and
handle it prohtably are in possession.
Eight or nine years ago the eastern part of Kansas
was talking in an encouraging way about possible d
vision of the state into states No thinks of
such proposition now within the next FIVE years
western Kansas is going to develop in such way that
Kansas win be heartily ashamed that she ever
gave the proposition a thought
MISTAKES