The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-21
Rocks County Residents Happy
and Prosperous.
Wheat Shipments for Years Ay-
eraged 1S5, 900 Bushels.
ZURICH is THE MECCA
Establish a State Bank-C. G..
Cochran President.
Fine Homes and Large Barns
Suggest Prosperity.

Zurich, Kan, April 21.-"There are
few renters and fewer spectators in
this section, said one of the old pio
neers of Zurich to your correspondent.
Most OF the settlers in this part of
Rocks county own their farms, live in
comfortable houses. and have well fill
er barns and granaries.
This same man says the two elevators
have shipped of the last crop not less
than $50 carloads of wheat And since
his residence here he claims there has
not peen failure of wheat since 1903
and that year some wheat was har-
vested. AS high as 200 900 bushels have
been shipped our of Zurich IN a season.
And he claims the average shipments
for the last several years have been
| 185, 900 bushels. These facts come from
M. S. Graham. who has bought grain
since 1892, and built his elevator in 1899.
Zurich Located on Paradise Flats.
| Zurich is located on the famous Para
disc Flats, at it's western edge, about
midway between the Solomon and Saline
rivers. Wheat could hardly look more
thrifty. Land is selling for $40 an acre
ard upwards.
! That this is a good section of Kan
sas, the merchants of Zurich claim,
| Sutor Bros, general merchants, own
and farm 1000 acres; James O'Conner,
another business man, farms 400 acres:
a. d. I1OQuS, 1dIHlS ONCA
! l 900 acres; Geo. Saindon. who runs the
meat market. has about one section;
John Casey, dealer in lumber and hard
ware, owns a quarter section, and r.
Deslongchamp, who buys cream for the
Continental creamery of Topeka, own
a quarter section Fine and wen Gull
tivated farms dot Paradise Flats in
every direction the eye can see from
Zurich.
Town Named After Swiss City.
There has been a postoffice here
since 1880. Mrs. Arminda Webb was
the first postmaster, and her husband,
]. w. Webb, had the honor of naming
| the town Zurich. Several names had
| been suggested prior to this, but the
postoffice department rejected them.
There are no Swiss people in this vi
cinity. but it is generally believed the
origin of the name and the naming
| the town Zurich was in memory of the
| town of the same name in Switzerland.
The Union Pacific completed their
branch line from Salina to Zurich in
1897. Bonds have been voted for the
| Nebraska, Kansas & Southern, line
from Garden City on the southwest to
| Zurich Stockton and then northwest
/ to Nebras ska. 1t is believed here that
this line will be built this year.
New Business Enterprises.
Among the new business enterprises
| Zurich will secure at once is state
bank. c. G. Cochran of Plainville will
be the president he being the presi-
dent of the First National in his town.
Among the stockholders are the
names of NJ. S. Graham, A. J. Houde,
| James O'Conner and John Casey rep
resentative citizens, business men and
large real estate owners; John Casey,
| hardware, implement and lumber
| dealer, is erecting a business house;
| NJ. S. Graham, grain merchant has
just completed a $4,000 residence.
Many other improvements are con-
templated.
The Catholics have a resident priest,
Rev. Father A. Harpin. There are
about 40 families belonging to the
| church. Their property in Zurich in
cludes a church residence and ten acres
| of land.
| Zurich has good school building
and 100 scholars enrolled. The present
is in charge of Thos. Hill jr., principal,
and Mrs. Sarah Berry and Mrs Min
ME Patton.
Another Rural Route July 1.
Zurich has one rural route. and ex-
poets another July 1. A star route runs
| twice a week to postoffices in Ellis
county
DR.. L. P. L. Gaillardet, from Wiscon-
sin, is the new physician who has To-
Gated here. He comes well recommend
ed, and brings a fine auto with his pos
| sessions
The town is beautifully situated The
site is level as a floor; the green wheat
and alfalfa fields for which Paradise
Flats has become famous, are good to
roomy barns remind one of the old set