. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . STEAM PLOW TCBNMNO OVER THE VIBGIS KANSAS SALT INDUSTRY. BT HON. FRANK VINCENT. many of Ihe great discoveries thai have inured to the benefit of mankind, the finding of our saltwas an accident. The frenzied spirit of speculation that, in 1887, swept across the Western States like aprairie fire, developed the very genius of optimis
. Products of an advanced civilization. A Kansas souvenir. A book of information relative to the moral, educational, agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and mining interests of the state. Issued by the Kansas immigration and information association . STEAM PLOW TCBNMNO OVER THE VIBGIS KANSAS SALT INDUSTRY. BT HON. FRANK VINCENT. many of Ihe great discoveries thai have inured to the benefit of mankind, the finding of our saltwas an accident. The frenzied spirit of speculation that, in 1887, swept across the Western States like aprairie fire, developed the very genius of optimism. No commercial project lacked substantial indorse-ment. The formation of a syndicate with thousands of dollars in hand was the work of but a fewhours, no matter what the enterprise might be. It was undoubtedly this disposition to tempt fortune tothe utmost that prompted Ben. Clanchard to sink a gas well in South Hutchinson, a bustling suburb,which liad, under the magic of his influence, sprung into existence almost within a night, like JonahsV. gourd. For there were certainly no such data then in as would justify the expenditure of large M sums of money in the search for natural gas in this locality. It was simply out of a disposition to takeyr the chances that the gas well
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