. 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 . exhaustible. Vast areas are underlaid with petroleum. Its salt mines are richer than those of New York and Michigan. Its treeless and unwatered plains sent the biggest walnut log to the Worlds Fair, and have a subterranean flow that is capable of irrigating anarea more fertile and extensive than the Valley of the Nile. The indescribable splend
. 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 . exhaustible. Vast areas are underlaid with petroleum. Its salt mines are richer than those of New York and Michigan. Its treeless and unwatered plains sent the biggest walnut log to the Worlds Fair, and have a subterranean flow that is capable of irrigating anarea more fertile and extensive than the Valley of the Nile. The indescribable splendor of the palaces of the Exposition, with their white domesand pinnacles, and statues, and colonnades, and terraces, and towers, came from the cement quarries of the Saline and the Smoky Hill. And this is but the dawn. We stand in the vestibule of the temple. Much less than one-half the surface of the State has been broken by theplough. Its resources have been imperfectly explored. It has developed at random. Science will hereafter reinforce the energies of nature, andthe achievements of the past will pale into insignificance before the completed glory of the century to come. Atchison, May 10, 1896. (7) RESOURCES OF KANSAS. BT GOV. K. N. Kansas, in common with other States, has suffered severely in a financial way from the busi-ness depression which followed as a natural result of the great panic of 1893. For several yearsprior, immigration and capital flowed in an uninterrupted stream into the State, seeking homes andinvestments. Agencies were established in almost every county for the purpose of loaning moneyon real estate. These agents, having no interest in the loans save the commission they were to re-ceive when the transaction was consummated, freely urged all who could give security to makeloans, and many farmers were induced to mortgage their homes to improve their farms and to in-crease the number of their acres. Towns and cities were growing rapidly, real es
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