Wichita Daily Eagle

CLEARWATER.
To the Editor of the Eagle.
As railroad centers and new towns are being built all over the west, it is not egotism in your correspondent to say something which may interest the reader in regard to our young city and the surrounding country. With the Fort Scott road we had become a thriving town, I may say the pride of the county. Now the Leroy and Western is an assured fact. The grading is being pushed ahead with commendable zeal, and by August we expect the cars will reach this city.
This will give us a main line of the Santa Fe to Kansas City, and also when completed a direct line to Colorado. With the crossing of these two main lines of road owned and run by different interests, who cannot see what the possibilities of Clearwater will be in the near future.
With our first class church and school advantages, our unexceptionable class of business men, and a moral, industrious class of people and surrounded by the best farms and farming lands to be found anywhere, and also the most healthy spot in Kansas. Why may we not say "excelsior," of this whole valley.
Mr. R. W. Sparr, one of the contractors has one hundred teams at work just east of town.
The O'Donnel Brothers have the contract through the city and several miles west, with a large force of men and teams with their tents located in the city. The bridge at Mulvane has been completed. The work on the division east of here is in charge of C. H. Cratzenburg, chief engineer, and west of him in charge of I. T. Emmett chief engineer.
Corn is looking fine but wheat and oats are suffering from chinch bugs and all are needing rain.
Thos. W. Wilson, our efficient mayor, has bought forty acres of land adjoining the city and has had it platted and it is now an addition to the city.
It is beautifully located for residences. We have a fine hall which is used for the Masons, Odd Fellows and Post.
All the orders are doing well. We have a fine city hall, well finished, and is used by the city council, the Building and Loan association and for lectures and entertainments.
A Cincinnati firm have rented a fine store of I. M. Tracy and will put in a large stock of clothing in a short time.
Our two papers seem to be doing a thriving business keeping the outside world posted in regard to what is going on in the second metropolis of the county.
We cannot expect your prices for lots yet, but the time may come when you would feel honored to be a humble citizen of the city on the Ninnescah.
ALPHA.