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Pittsburg Daily Smelter from Pittsburg, Kansas • 1

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Pittsburg Daily melter vol. i. PITTSBURG, KANSAS, DECEMBER 19, 1890. J. JOHN P.

MORRIS PUBLISHERS. CHATTEL MORTGAGE SALE. BMSW Having taken charge of the John H. Anderson Son stock of General Merchandise under mortgages, I will proceed to sell the same regardless of cost or profit. Everything lllust Go And go quickly.

The stock comprises everything in Dry Goods, Glothing, Boots and Shoes, Groceries and Queensware. New goods and good values. Come while the stock is full, the slaughter will be lively. JOHN P. ANN AGENT FOB MORTGAGEES.

estant Episcopal, Roman Catholic, More laboring people living in homes A FEW OF THE REASONS ol their own ttmn are louna anywnere. Lutheran and xoung Men's Christian Association. Pittsburg in the west and the people whe are desirous to prosper and grow up with a wonderful industrial city are informing themselves regarding it as rapidly as possible, hundreds week One daily, three weekly newspapers Six zinc smelters, employing one Thb Smelter, Kansan, and world. thousand men, consuming 50,000 tons of zino ore and turning out 20,000 tons of Two briok yards, selling good brick at K3 in the yard and $9 in wall per thous ly investigating it personally. xatub.il jikakoxs roR obowtu.

zinc spelter per annum. Also a silver and. smelter, capacity 100 tons per day. All over the United States large cities Ia the only genuine smoky city be tween St. Liouis and tue rocky The smell of the smoke and the hum of the factory wheels drive away the blues and inspires the resident to roll up his sleeves and push for the front have boon buildad during the last fifty years.

It is necessity that large com genuine growth, a realization of what men of nerve and intelligence can accomplish when the opportunities are proper, ly presented, and the location for a city discovered. The zino interests of Pittsburg, is the greatest and moat extensive in the world. Those engaged in this wealth producing e.iterprise here spare no pains to put into their plants the best and most expensive systems known to the art, because they know it is not merely an enterprise for a few days or a few years, but that it last and grow for many generations to come. That the present owners will not only become' immensely rich, but that their children's children will be enabled to conduct the same business upon the same sites in'the same years which now seem in the fathomless future. Like the building of a great trunk railroad line through a rich and productive agricultural country, the smelting interests of No one needs wait to come with the blue birds, for Pittsburg is in a sunny mercial centers shall exist in sections to which the rich Bgrioultural districts of run Us witn a wilt.

2552,500.000 worth 'of ooal. at the pres. out prioea, yet beneath the surface of the earth, according to the. lowest estimate inndo by the state geologists, after a tho country are tributary. Tho gi o.vth of these large cities hav'J mndo largely by reason of i ent in! push of the w'i i o.vnjl tin hind upon wMub ihy it one of tin) i.i 1 i.v wm i.ii!., t'luy wifj I'm of clime.

lias no equal in the inducements offered business men in every branch of The lowest taxes of any town or city in K.insas 3 per cent on a 30 cent valuii'lon. O'ia day in the city iH aulllciont to pl niro any one in love with the place vr.A people. locate here to make the perpetual growth of the city a certainty. With population at the present time of ten thousand and a pay roll of $250,000 per month sutHcient is to satisfy those who read as they run even, that the work of developing a great industrial center is under way. Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars paid out every month is sufficient to support a city four times the population of Pittsburg at this time, and it may not be uninteresting to many to note that thiB bread-earning army is increasing much more rapidly here than the population or uoinnercial industries of tho pl.no.

If upw.irds of mo thousand new homos, some of which iuj Htriioliirul, co l' hi I ii.i,Uave boon oro itu.l within th i two boforo tho at.tetitio!) of tiio of tho country id f.iirly b.wn to our all what in iy reasonably bo to follow wil-liill tile rr.rrl. s.l'!- inw ling two with 'l t-'i" roplo, all tho i ivo vLs'lo the pa 4 yi'ar, sinking tho praise of the young ifimit ol: tho wosi-ji country? No in in ca.i paint oi fjrm nil e.ilin to ii" tlngr.j.vt.ii wiiitsh follow wit-iiu tho no 'it ii-i vo.ir.i, nor c.ia tin rnhrl of borg wiiou liu no.v iT.iit.iiy of ia uali.iri? hoiv.T. Thn gain in pvialatio the city io Wi por cent from to lH.kt. VVIm cmi form (in pi a to what, it will bo from to 10r! It out ii rip nny growth nvcr in id ii'iy city i ttte A'aoiio io it.oioiit. I'oo roiuioiM for siu'iti i oiri nm-iily li.i any oho who will ta'ao the iilim to vi lit t'io oity nod inv vil.igate ulva-ita J) tvit o-io half tho n.iVir vl i 1 1 Miij city lif.

Th 1 city, in nun oiVr to i.nluoo nil m.ui'ifr of ni.iiinfa liui-iiii a il iirhiH- mivZthlt Vrotperout FUttburg, a TlirMno Manufacturing, Indttetrlal and Comrner-. Dial Cliff of Ten Thousand Happy People Standing Where There Wat no ltevelop-ment at Late a lull, It Attracting the Attention of the Heading World and of Cap-Uallttt Everywhere. A population of 4,333 in A population of 5,107 in 1888. A population of 8,000 in 18S9. Four trunk lints of rnilwity.

No uciint stores or ilwillings. A population of G.POO lirst 18! X. A great variety of tiiiilorm'jacini. Never records any Tlit! clifiuj cut fuel on U.ta continent. 2 "CO u.tii i liij.lnyc'l in the roiil mines.

Endless quantities of Itad o'ro Will l.nve a populUiou of lCC.fXO in IWO. Roweriige HyBlcin, wit 1 1 0 miloa of I beautiflii to bobolii by flay or by The nioM rutrrpritting people fn tlie woi U. The best ticnltb record of any tewn in KanMio. Hired tiiitioiiul bunks with a capital of 1300,000, An elevation of fcot nbeve llin oa level. A loan mid runt company witli capital.

JT.OOOtO invalid in nwitifKctrn org enterprises. All who will may ton jiml in our future. 1 he Inrres deposit of coal ru of I ho Mins'iieippi. Pittsutirg nre established fixtures which, pulsing time will only enlarge and further enrich. Every one is anxious that tho world should learn of the greatness which must come to Pittsburg, of the carolul calculation.

It surpasses the most lurid imaginations of mich characters ns the picturesque und vibionary "Mullbory There is no basis upon which to actually estimate its further possibilities. Coal, zinc, lead, iron, silver and copper ores, timber, cotton and wood nd-jiiccnt und tributary by rail sullicient to make it the most prosperous smelting, manufacturing and mining city in the world. The streets of this giant city are naturally good, need little cure and are always in the best condition, for pleasure, driving or for the most extensive commercial transportation from one pnrt of tho city to another. Coal at tho price for which it is oon traded here for a term of twenty yeurs -r unincumbered homes than any i i v- uf its size here tlie English ui spoken. v' works supplying gua at 75 cents for and for illuminating per 1,000 feet.

Excellent waterworks, supplying con-eumem at from 50 cents to S3 per month according to consumption. Four big ooul companies owning 10,. trial a itoiyiio 1 1 In U3 hvo nil tlu wiiN cit.o iof tho o.iiin.iut con-, biim J. If. i nnt thea to immense treasure underlying ihosurjiiou of country of which Pittsburg is tho center ami from which its ciiizwn must nwrt tint i.i 1-imj Us iy 't'o 000 acres of and with an aggregute- reap tlie rewards of iU uiilixatiop.

to a pitii of wild ol oritur Coal is tlie and Pittsburg the the grctt citioii that lmo a.iu oiod coal, hence it must command the adinir- Hon, the confidence, the rpoct and a the attention of the western wintry s- lh. t-f i i iu i i a--pecinlly and the entire continent upon pis nr piiin to which it is located, bocuuao of the im- un tho promlnec capital of nearly la able to offer premium for any published exaggeration as to thenntnnil endowments of the great young metropolis. Kioetric light, both arc and incandescent, supylying consumers at from 40 to 8 cents. per month per lamp of 10 candle power. for manufacturing purposes, is cheaper than natural gas in the most favord and best improved section for its utilization.

And it is in no danger of losing its flow, or giving out at fl time when it is most needed. poruuicewr ico win rail, ui t. the wealth that must be centered here in the veil rs to come. Co il at fifty cents 4 't '''rty or Hl.y yiM a ton, is the key to the situation, and uo Tho of city i htrt one in this city ever tires of singing the 1. mi 1 liu noo- I th i a fv inr i r-i p'TorMliy.

With the itoiil oal wjst of tho iit'it iiii from whiu'i inilli.otis or do'lhir4 worth of fuel is iMp H-inu-' ally, im.l t'io in riufottiiririg en- song, unless it may be pnrchnrifo an in-, a-i int dividual who has been fouml hvro e.i iJ K. f- who really could not testify Dm own tt-r fii i o.j i to 5 k-vo-i huu. existence. 1 Hum are ru ray inor i As a city is always respected for the stability of its linnncial institutions, Pittsburg stands without a rival in the entire west. This is due to the fact thnt the 'city is a producer to a much larger extent thnn it is a consumer.

JJalance the booics at the end of each year and it is found thnt the difference is largely in favor of the people here, as we bring in more revenue for what we have to sell add what we manufacture, many times over, than ia expended for those things The growth of PitOibur Ur.ring the o' Uiii cIh. th 1 1 JM.I fomi in pasttwo years has beuu a wonJor exmi oarlbr Ann, um not :fr.u 1 lt put foih Will own people, iniuieuiawiy uu rViUj iiffst titer l.it ioffl1 tho I city now the bursting of the bubble ol the bmms enjoyed for shoi fe isioii by many western towis, this young t-iiy ini lioo nt couvii uprnng to the front, as if by niauic, noil ion tin I hi-itl )1 llil lcon Too ohW of this there has boon no oesnatiou to its grand j-- strides. Never chinning or desirii.g boom or any thing that would be to ai wolf hs luroiiro a' iv grta in to 1'ia ik- termed, the growth of the place ha j) pi ia th.it ar i 1 1 i ti piy roll of tho to a i t-oi in propoi t'on, t'iUirgi in ban-ma tho riijwil iin.l 1 1 nirot.M'i of the il worl to for ita itii-o 'i pnn ui-rj, coatiniious gr.iivlh. -iso'l "lion the 'W!" ilth pro luo- iug ability of lha city wit a wliich looalify can undertake to coin-ieto. l'lttsburg fl'ivcr the blast about tho ur pro I lots of tho country wirrou iJhig it.

Its pros pnty li noV Mji-ia the failorj or the protifl tni ol tho croald of the laoi. Its iuol. in fa otorhvi, it ltrs, its tii'iiiufacturiiig entarpriaes, giving constant and luoratwe euoliyme it to thousands of wagJ imur, ns by the location here of larga wholeoalo establishments, that are as surd ens as time shall pass, guarantee all that any sensible niao. can afk, before investing in the realty, or any industrial en-tervriee witliio the corporate limits. Delay In getting a foothold in this young city is dangeroue, for value and opportunities eunfiet lung remain as favorable tor men of moderate sjieans as they will found at tUe passent lime.

The most advantageous freight rates of iny point in the southwest, making it unequalled for manufacturing and wholesale bumuesn. 6100,000 in cash, coal for 50 years at 50 cents per ton, and sites at glOO per Hero, ns special inducements to now manufacturing enterprises. More general prosperity among tlie people and less want and sorrow than is found in any city of the same number of people in the civilized world. God, in bis goodness, laid the foundation forthegreat oily, anil eneriretic men are pushing the work or biking advantage of the opport unities offered. The best hotel in Kansas the Stil-well, brand new, and is now running under the management of Mr.

Dean, the most popular hotel nan in the state. A city in which labor of all kinds is amply paid and have opportunities to invest savings as safe ana more profitable than the purchase of government bonds. Seven churchee PresbTtsrian. Meth-1st, Episcopal, Baptist, Christian, Prot No mini hint over mado a mistake by locating here. Tim acknowledged queen of tho Kffct-eru liciuicpliure.

There is wealth mifl'cient here for nil ho may come. No mortgages are ever foreclosed upon ony of ils.reuity. Two hnndsome public firhool build-ingis capacity l.aou It leads all other cities with its natu rul, God given advantages. A floe opera bouse, costing $75,000, eating capacity 1,000. Mountains of the best iron ore on the continent rear at hand.

Has the greatest possibilities pt any section known to civilization. Infatuates the visitor as it enriches its people and property holders. Three secret orders Masonic, Odd Fellows and Knjjfhts of Pythias. we require upon which to live ami enjoy life. In all the lame cities on this continent therein not a single locality so universally favored with all the natural advantages from which to build a great and powerful self sustaining city as is this young giant upon a site where twenty years ago the antelope, the deer.the coyote the buffalo and the jack rabbit were daily sought and captured by the Indians.

To look at Pittsburg to-day sh ut the eyea and listen to the hum of the industries here, and try to imagine that all this growth, all this accumulation of people, of wealth, of industry, of civilized advancement, has been the work of but mJo upon them by the arir-roualint or-inSry. They oould not do otlierwUe in m.my in it iu It is poe-siblo at this 1 iy boff.iver, when a city is eoforlumtoly loo-ito-l as Pittsburg, to breuk all tho ratyrit in builjing. This oity is in position to offer the king of minerals, coal, to manufacturers in inexhaustible quantities and at a price that has never been enabled for cheapness id the United States This mast bodice a sufficient number of such enterprise to nevertheless been or such solid and determined nature that those nvt interested in its future have at times been serious lest it meet with some such a setback si had been experienced by inauy other points so recently in the past. This feeling Is soon expelled, when the causes of the rapid growth is taken into consideration. It is a growth pushed by the developement and improvement of resources which of themselves are sufficient to attract the attention and inspire the confidence of every sensible financier in the country, who ia inforomd of the facta.

These is but one dozen years, one feel that it must be dream. But, it is a living reality, a.

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