The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-02-08
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wlcHu1A's BIG NEW BOOM NOW IMMINENT
M. M. MURD oc'K. EDtTo

WicHITA's BIG NEW BOOM NOW IMMINENT.
Wichita is growing. 1t will continue to grow. 1t
is growing in wonderful way along many lines, and
in many directions. It viii be expanding rap
idly and in many ways in the Near future. New
homes are being erected every portion of the city,
and foundations for additional others be
upon every hand. The hammer nor trowel have been
given but little rest this winter Piles of building
material for larger edifces which cucumber the bus
ness streets are being accumulated. The coming
year will show many numerous important permanent
improvements. Now and then the more timid may
be heard expressing dread of another boom. There
can be no danger in legitimate booming. When logi-
cal all booms are desirable profitable 1t is the
bursted boom which hurts and prostrates. The
boom which in collapsng wrecked many, and
worked so much harm to Wichita was but an insane
speculation in impossible enterprises and in wild
cat additions The shell in colIapsing tainted and
deterioated the real inside meat 1t was easy thing
to understand the superior advantages of Wichita
as a coming center of Importance, but in the easy
comprehension of its selfevident advantages specu
lators discounted that future and at such
odds that the bottom fell out. The magnificent
she was and is still encompassed, was in no way
disturbed adversely affected further than that of
q reflex action on the surrounding towns which had
tried to immtate wichita's gait 1t took time
cover from the explosion of dynamite with which
the town had been loaded by outside gamblers and
SPECTATORS and who in turn, in being bowed up
themselves gave tongue to the cry taken up by thou
sands of others that the town was but bubble and
the great Arkansas Valley no good. But the
vivors the levelheaded the observant in find
ing themselves unable Immediately refute the SIAN
der knowing it to be SANDER, pure and simple,
held on to the wreckage and in holding on landed
in great shape
Speculative additions being longer possible,
at least during the lifetime of the present genera
ton the citys foundations its prestige the GEN.
trail city of Southwest Kansas, its advantages in
rapidly expanding trade and increasing wealth, rem
ders it invulnerable to any bad effects from
booms of whatever character. Each additional boom
will hereafter prove undisguised advantage and
gain Her vast agricultural and bucolic domain with
its hundreds of towns of local markets and of innum
cradle profitable products is equal to, and will sup
port central town or market of the stamp and char
acter of Wichita of 100000 population of 20O-
900 population Did Wichita today boast all the CAPT
tai all the mercantile and manufacturing interests
that ordinarily go with a city of 100000 inhabitants,
her immediate field would be found more than equal
to its maintenance and continued growth as city.
The sun shines upon no fairer, richer pro-
ductive heritage than that which stretches out for
cents have been gained by the advance of realty
values in Wichita in the past dollars will be realized
in the future If within wichitas field of supply of
trade and of marketservice there found any pos
sble rival crop failure and famine should become
the rule possibly the foregoing estimate of this citys
future might be modified but not otherwise.
Wichita born with the air of metropolis.
such as marked the beginning of no other town or
city within her scope or field of opportunities and
operations if indeed within the entire wich-
ita has had her day of small things Her
streets and have the outstretch and pagent
her parks and suburgs the amplitude and the spirit
of her people the aplomb of the metropolis
AS such as have resolved to possess property,
and to do business in the greatest city of Kansas
will be compelled to take up their permanent future
residence in Wichita
THE 'FRisCOs EXPANDING SYSTEM
The st. Louis and San Francisco railway was
originally projected by St Louis men and in the in
terest Of that city. and il was so owned and con-