“Watch Wichita Win”

“Watch Wichita Win” is the city motto that has been adopted byWichita and there is every proof that the community is justifying it.In 1900 Wichita had a population of 25,000; today its population exceeds63,000, and there are good grounds to believe it will soon be a city of 100,000.

The location of Wichita was not an accident. Long before the white man camethe Indians chose the junction of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas Rivers as ameeting place from which to conduct their campaigns and hunting expeditions intothe Southwest territory. Before the railways reached Wichita, it was a center forthe cattle trade of Oklahoma and Texas. In 1872 the first railway train enteredWichita over the Wichita Southwestern, a branch of the Atchison, Topeka & SantaFe, and the city became at once a distributing point for the Southwestern country.

Today Wichita is served by six trunk lines, reaching into Western Kansas,Eastern Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and Mexico.

The development of Wichita in the last ten years has been many-sided. Perhapsits most important growth has been in the live stock and grain markets. In 1912,14,465 cars of grain came to the Wichita market and 10,759 cars of live stock werereceived at the Wichita Union Stockyards. Wichita is the largest broom corn market3in the United States, parts of Oklahoma and Western Kansas being peculiarlyadapted for the growth of broom corn. The city’s standing as a distributing centeris evidenced by its large number of jobbing houses, with business covering SouthernKansas, Oklahoma and parts of Texas and New Mexico. There are more than a hundredjobbing houses located here. Among these, ten firms deal in agricultural implements,six wholesale grocery firms, three dry goods jobbers, three wholesale drughouses.

Surrounding Wichita is one of the great wheat districts of the world and this fact,with the city’s superior transportation facilities, is largely responsible for the millingindustry. The city’s flouring mills have a capacity of 7,000 barrels a day and theirproduct is shipped to California and to New York, to Oregon and to Europeanports. This branch of Wichita’s manufacturing and commercial industry is growingsteadily. Eight hundred men are employed in sash and door factories. In foundries250 men are employed.

The faith of Wichita’s builders is shown in its wide streets. In the residence districta large portion of the street has been converted into parking and at many pointsbranches of the trees meet in the middle, forming arches.

In public improvements the city is remarkably progressive. It has eleven parkswith an area of 416 acres, and a public gathering place, known as the Forum, with aseating capacity of 5,500. In 1911 it ranked eighth among all cities in the United4States in the area of new paving. Its office buildings—among them 10-story structures—arebuilt on most modern lines; building permits in one year reached sevenand one-half million dollars.

The water supply of Wichita comes from cylinders sunk forty feet beneath thebed of the Big Arkansa

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