The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1905-10-06
WHAT MADE KANSAS CITY?
Kansas Has Done Much to UpbuiId
the Missouri NIetrODolis.

Kansas Has Done Much to UpbuiId
the Missouri Metropolis
. L. Vandegrift in Topeka Herald.
From a ragged and feeble settle
ment Of frontier civilization, il has in
4 generation become a giant city OF
thrift and wealth. On all sides are
Slgns Of permanent growth and pro-
greSs- 1t Is city Of homes: Of a
people who have come to stay. There
5 so much wealth in the town that
Jne gasps when ne cOntemplates it
Wherever one goes in the city he be-
holds beautiful homes. Their like is
n no other western City-these pal
Ices OF milliOnaires and mansions OF
prosperous traders. They overlook
ne Missouri from bluffs which once
we're the exclusive abode Of the South
Methodist natives, and stretch away
% Brush creek, where wealth and cul-
Cure have built the most beautiful me
COpOlitan suburb in the Mississippi
BASIN. And il all is Kansas. BY a
chance government survey, it is in
Missouri, TO be sure, but there is
IOthfnE like il elsewhere in that
state, and Kansas may identify and
claim her own. Missouri begins at
the Blue river and is cOngested at In
dependence, where Quantrell's sur
living guerrillas annually celebrate
their murders without molestation.
First Kansas and afterward Kansas
City. Other towns had a better start
and were its rivals, but the prestige
u the old Santa Fe trail and the Kaw
ALLEY and its tributaries and the easy
acces they furnished to market by
rail settled the questions, and now
Kansas City is the recognized metro
polls without rivalry. All Of Kansas
wheat and corn pay tribute to Kansas
City. Some Of it may lodge in tran
sit at intervening points, but finally
( becomes a part Of the golden stream
that flows to Kansas City. So, too, all
the hogs and cattle go to Kansas City,
and all the sheep and horses and
mules; all the poultry and the pro-
ducts OF the helpful hen; all the pO-
tatOes and other vegetables. all the
apples and other fruits; the petrO-
ieum and natural gas; the lead and
zinci the cement and gypsum; all that
the soil Of the state produces Joins
this golden stream Some of these
products may be sent on in a manu-
Iactured form, but the gateway Of the
surplus to market is Kansas City.
Kansas even furnishes the greater
part OF the deposits Of the Kansas
City banks, and added to it all the
most OF the progressive business men
Of the city began their careers in
Kansas
Why, the water the people of the
city drink IS taken from the Missouri
river on the Kansas side! And at a
banquet in Kansas City, the cocktail
with which it starts is made Of Kan
5as-grOwn whisky; and without Kan
Sas salt and possibly, Kansas sugar,
and Kansas meat and game and poul-
try, and Kansas frogs legs and Bow
ersOck's hOrnless and Kansas-grown
bread, and so on, the spread would
be stale and inhOspitable. Added to
that, without Kansas men at the ban
qUet IL would be tame and spiritless.
So Kansas City is KanSas-born and
Kansas-bred. The big end Of it now
is on the wrong side Of the state line,
but westward is the Star Of Empire,
and inevitably the population Of the
city is CrOwding over the line. How
ever, il is no less Kansas now than
when destiny Will claim its own, and
once beyond the gates Of the Union
station and clear OF the dirt and vice
OF Union avenue, it is a safe and a
good place to live in.