The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-02-25
A Prosperous Settlement Out in
Phillips County.
Men From the Old Country Have
Come to Stay.
ARE MAKIAGMONEYT TOO
About One Hundred Families
Located in Prairie View.
Have Banks, Stores and Other
Solid Business Concerns.

Prairie View, Feb. 25.-One of the
favored sections of northwest Kansas
is that surrounding Prairie View,
hence the one who named it made no
mistake. The town is named in honor
of the township of the same name,
and rightfulIy, too, beause its thou
sands of acres is claimed to be a gar
den, that is, its land has been made to
blossom with growing crops from
year to year by the industrious efforts
of the people who have in drouth and
plenty made it possible to subsist
sometimes on plenty, and then again
on scant rations, until today every
farmer in Prairie View township,
Phillips county, is out of debt, has a
good home, and is making money
about as easy as jumping off log.
The Hol1anders are mostly located
jumping over into Norton county, but
they haul their stock and come to
Prairie View to trade. Upwards of
100 families of Hollanders live in
Prairie View township, and they own
from a quarter section to two sections
of land. Many of them came here
poor starting in as renters, but by
their industrious habits they soon own
their farms, they are opposed to pay
ing rentals. Corn and hogs are their
main products, and it is seldom one
sees them in town with a load of corn
to sell. They raise hogs and feed them
corn, many of them owning from 100
to 800 head.
The Hoilanders of Prairie View
township already own two churches
about four miles from here, one
known as the Christian Reformed, the
other the Dutch Reformed, worth
about $4,000 each, while the former
have recently built a $4,000 parsonage.
Rev. Herman Van Derploeg is the pas
tor of both churches. Here in Prairie
View $4,000 has been subscribed for
the erection of another Holland
church this year.
Nor is this all. there are three
general firms in Prairie View, Mullen
burg & Co., Prinser & VanDerVelde
and Spoelstra & Brewer, who do an
aggregate business of from $50, 600 to
100000; Boogart Bros. carry full
line of hardware and implements;
DR.. G. A. Van Diest and Van Den Berg
& Co. carry drugs. There are rumors
that the time is close at hand when
lumber yard here. Outside of these
two business -avocations they prac-
tically do the business of Prairie View.
The hardware and implement house
did a business in 1905 close to $4,000.
They are good people they pay, their
a D particle Of fattiion between the
Americans and Ho1landers.
During the year 1906 this station
shipped 10 carloads of hogs, 81 car
loads of cattle, g. cars of horses and
mules, 16. cars of wheat and 81 cars of
corn. Grain was cut short on account
of scarcity of moisture, while the
large per cent of the corn raised is fed
to hogs.
Prairie View has two elevators. a
state bank with a capital of $12,0
and over 100000 deposits, This bank
is solid as the day is long, with J. J..
Wiltrout, president, and J. S. CARRIER
son, cashier. The town has been
known for years as one of the best
lumber points in northwest Kansas.
The Methodists are the only denomi-
nation which has a church completed.
There is a fine public school system
and buildings, with over 100 scholars
enrolled. in charge of Miss Edith
Finch, assisted by Miss Clark. The
school population is increasing so that