. The Street railway journal . ances in the art of sur-face traction or to invent their own improvements on stand-ard practice, the street railways of Kansas City have beenas progressive as any in the continuous process of evolu-tion of the last few years, and are now behind none in theapplication of the very latest improvements to apparatusand methods. Kansas City is located just on the State line betweenKansas and Missouri. This line divides the city into two ings. The population of the two, as given in the UnitedStates Census for 1900, is 215,000. THE CHIEF INDUSTRIES OF KANSAS CITY The cit
. The Street railway journal . ances in the art of sur-face traction or to invent their own improvements on stand-ard practice, the street railways of Kansas City have beenas progressive as any in the continuous process of evolu-tion of the last few years, and are now behind none in theapplication of the very latest improvements to apparatusand methods. Kansas City is located just on the State line betweenKansas and Missouri. This line divides the city into two ings. The population of the two, as given in the UnitedStates Census for 1900, is 215,000. THE CHIEF INDUSTRIES OF KANSAS CITY The city is fundamentally a great railroad center, serv-ing as a collecting, jobbing and distributing point for thehighly cultivated agricultural sections of Kansas, Ne-braska, the Indian Territory, Colorado and the westernpart of Missouri. As these States and those further southand west are to a large extent engaged in the raising oflive stock, Kansas Citys greatest and most conspicuous 908 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVI. No. A TYPICAL GRAZING SCENE NEAR KANSAS CITY industry is stock yards and their accompanying slaughter-ing and packing houses. Kansas City now ranks secondonly to Chicago in the volume of business in this line, andwith the growing advantages of transportation of meat inrefrigerator cars, as compared with the transportation onthe hoof, expects soon to rank ahead of Chicago. It may be well to remark here that, in common withother Western cities, Kansas Citys expectations are very greater part of the city is located on high bluffs, the eleva-tion of which averages about 150 ft. above the low whole area occupied by the city was originally a seriesof sharp hills and deep gulleys, cut by rushing brooksthrough the clay soil down to the limestone have required extensive cutting and filling to getserviceable real estate, and in spite of this cutting and fill-ing the city remains a series of hills and valleys both north
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