The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-17

1t gives some of the Institutions that
go to make Wichita the great metropolis
of South Central Kansas. Tive trunk
lines diyerging in twelve different direc-
tons reaching a population of 10000
within radius of 100 miles; thirty pas
senger trains daily. The Union stock
yards received 6,102 cars of stock in 1903
including 64,s07 cattle. $40, 362 hogs, 2i,9a9
sheep, 3,71s horses and mules. Tonnage
for 1902, 2OO.Sls.sl4. Eearnings s2H756.s6;
and for year 1903 tonnage 500 .253, O23,
earnings s514oi1.22 Jobbing interests ag-
grcgate s1G.0O0.0O0 Taxable wealth So
$4,000. Cost of packing houses S1,0oo,00D
killing capacity 5000 hogs. 1000 cattle and
$500 sheep daily. Employs 80 men, cool
ing capacity for 5o,e00. 900 pounds Of meat.
Wichita is surrounded by a country OF
marvellous fertility, a country that IS
only partially developed II lies in the
heart and pith of the wealth-producing
land of Kansas which has long ago been
given up to the wondrous Arkansas val
ley. While the world at large does not
realize the richness of the Sunfower 1t
does partially recognize that there IS
an untold wealth in the great southwest
country.
The progress of the Peerless Princess
is phenomenal in every respect. In the
midst of the hub of the southwest there
are public buildings amounting to $4,000
private colleges and schools at a cost
of 81. 900 900, newspaper establishments,
800, coo, hotels, 100000, hospitals, SSoo,ooe,
ice plants. 100000. laundries, 100000, mills
and elevators, 1855, 900, and gas and light
facilities 100000.
.. ichita has four national banks with
total deposits of nearly s5,0e0,0o and
four state banks with nearly 1900 900
deposits The fact that these financial
institutions are continually growing and
increasing their capital is sufficient evil
dence that the city is at the helm of con-
summate circumstances and that the
country is prosperous also. Where there
is plenty of money in circulation there is
plenty of business and prosperity looms
in every household.
The wholesale and jobbing interests of
Wichita are factors which are not to be
forgotten in writing about the glories Of
the city This is a distributing center
from which is shipped thousands of dol
lars worth of goods annually. The whole
sale men here cover vast area of coun-
try They sell goods all over the great
southwest The railroad facilities are
such as will permit the business men
here to compete with any city in this
part of the country.
The business energy and mate indus
try of Wichita's citizenship have done
much toward accomplishing valuable
things for the city Organizations have
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the city's welfare. These organizations
have been maintained through thick and
thin. They have done for Wichita that
which could not have been achieved
through any other channels. The names
Of these bodies are the Chamber or
Commerce and the Commercial club. The
former has quarters in the basement OF
the city building and the latter has a
splendid suite of rooms over the Bank
of Commerce. CT. W. Smith is secretary
of the Chamber of Commerce and H.
L. Resting of the latter. Both OF these
gentlemen are untiring in their efforts
10 do something OF which their fellow
citizens may feel proud of and are labor
ing many times under difficulties to build
IN Wichita and make it the greatest
commercial and industrial center in the
West.
The climate of Wichita has been spok-
en- of so much until it is hardly neces-
sary to bring out the fact here that 1T
is virtually a health resort. The beau
tiful and congenial weather of seasons
have been subjscts for poets and ther;cs
for orators. The Italian-like summers,
the stormless, iceless winters, the Cali
fornia- Florida springs and the calm
autumns have been topics for gossip the
world over and yet the half is not told
The actual mortality is less here than in
any other part of the country Statistics
show that there are fewer consumptives
here and less lung trouble than in any
other part of the southwest. Western
peopte are hardy and rough. They
scarcely know what sickness means and
physicians are needed less here than in
most countries.
But where the doctor has to take
back seat the professional educator comes
to the front Schools and colleges, news
napers and magazines, and mediums or
learning have taken such a root here as
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