. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. irceived tbat is therefore The "Mas- 873, and the irds, of Ellis, ,tion, in 1875, ithwest from :,vt Dodge, 60 I the Indian ch shipments lison, Topeka Q Kinsley in I, was started tains a large ;zed, in 1874, igue consider- soil are good, air prospects, ilation is still 96. Agricul- le county has lies wide, and 1 is the chief been found; quantity, and [ Santa Fe R
. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. irceived tbat is therefore The "Mas- 873, and the irds, of Ellis, ,tion, in 1875, ithwest from :,vt Dodge, 60 I the Indian ch shipments lison, Topeka Q Kinsley in I, was started tains a large ;zed, in 1874, igue consider- soil are good, air prospects, ilation is still 96. Agricul- le county has lies wide, and 1 is the chief been found; quantity, and [ Santa Fe R ation. There jrs. There is sive at $530. at $2,000, but in value from mized in 1875 ves the name. in which the. M^^^^^ft^^M^L^ CovxTY Sketches. 611 males preponderate 291. Farms employ 83 per cent, and manu- factures and mines, 9 per cent. The increase of cultivation is large, and reports indicate great fruitfulness, as 44 and even 45 bushels to the acre of Mediterranean wheat have been certifiod; as also 60 bushels of corn. Potatoes yielded 366 bushels to the acre. Butter is increasing rapidly as a staple. There are some mills and factories, including a water power grist mill at Union Centre, and a broom factory; a wagon factory in Howard, and a steam grist mill at Paw Paw. There are three newspapers, the Courant, at Longton, and the Journal and the Ledger, at Elk Falls. Howard city, the county seat, is 113 miles southwest from Topeka, but the banking business of the county is transacted at Elk ^..iL T^ere are 74 districts and 59 school houses valued inclusive at $20,907. Libraries in four townships give a total of 1,739 volumes. Howard, the parent county, suffered from the locusts; this county was organized afterwards. Ellis County, named in honor of an officer killed at Jenkins' Ferry, when Gen. Steele was retreating from Camden to Little Eock, Ark., was organized in 1867. It has an area of 900 square miles, and a population of 940, having decreased about 400 in five years,
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