The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1903-11-27
Prosperity.

OldUuue IS uOW CuJpy ing eAS"o
and substantial boom.
Everybody Is busy and prosperous.
Every merchant in the city is enjoy
ing magnificent trade and every
iaboring man has all the work he can
do at big wages. Buildings are going
up on every side and of all kinds from
the single room shanty TO the stately
mansion and magnificent business
| house.
A vast amount of money is bOlng
spent on sewers and street improve
meDts and foreign money is being
brought in by the speculator and
CAPITALIST and realized from the sale
of oil,
The volume from the sale of oil
will broaden and increase for many
wears TO come and will make US a very
wealthy community.
But after while the sewers will be
built, the streets will be paved and
the scores of workmen in those lines
nave to have other work or leave the
city. In a few years the oil field will
De we'll marked 'out and the speculat
lr and the pruSpectOr will seek other
ieds or other business, and his work
men alone will be left. Something
then must be done by the town to get
manufactur interests located here
go give employ ment to labor and hOl0
the speculator and capitalist or there
will come a lull.
Money invested in manufacturing
keeps money moving and labor busy.
The days ofnIgh in crest are passed.
Oar capital $ 5 should put their money
lnto factories when they Can benefit
themselves and nenefittiug themselves
keep labor employed and the town
growing. No town in Kansas ever
enjoyed greater building Doom than
! nds Chanute the past year, And right
now, with winter approaching, new
buildings are started every day. But
the time will come WI this great
activity will ceaSeu provisions
are made for the employment OF the
army of mechanics and laborers now
mere.
We hac hop d that the Dicke' pc
pie would locate here and furnishing
Employment 10 several hundred men
by this time and that the promised
Argentine smelter people would be on
the ground giving employment t to
many men in their building opera
tluns. The Dlckey folks seemed TO
become discouraged over little law
suit and the smelter people were
drowned out.
They both say they fully intend to
some but they do not seem to get
here or make any move towards com
lug SO far as the public knows.
There are hundreds of factories in
the east now that would be pleased
TO locate here and utilize our cheap
fuel did they but know we have it in
such vast quantities.
All they want is to be shown and
they would gladly come and buy the
gas at a remunerytive figure.
We are beginning to be heard of as
an oil town but in the mad excite
ment of the scramble for oil and oil
territory, we have said but little
about our gas resources and are not
known in the manufacturing centers
As gas territory. The Commercial
club of the city should wake up and
get move on itself and do some eff
rective advertising, and do II now.
You are all busy but il you wait till
the lull comes and your trade is gone.
you will not have the snap left in you
10 do anything.
A few thousand neat folders setting
forth our great resources in the hands
Of a wide awake man among the east
cru factories surely would bring re-
suits and the cost would be nomi nal
What do you say, shall we get up
and do something, or shall we lie still
aud let the other towns shake the
persimmOns?
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