Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . three grain elevators, three banks, three mills, weekly newspapers anddaily newspapers, extensive nurseries, an excellent creamery, foundry,planing mill, furniture factory, soap factory, cob pipe factory, wirefence factories, and no saloons. Recently there has been organized anatural gas and development company, which has put down profitablewells. Forest Park is the pride of the city. It is splendidly im-proved and fitted up with buildings of various
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . three grain elevators, three banks, three mills, weekly newspapers anddaily newspapers, extensive nurseries, an excellent creamery, foundry,planing mill, furniture factory, soap factory, cob pipe factory, wirefence factories, and no saloons. Recently there has been organized anatural gas and development company, which has put down profitablewells. Forest Park is the pride of the city. It is splendidly im-proved and fitted up with buildings of various kinds, wherein areheld the county fair and widely known Chautauqua Assembly. Thereare four graded schools, a commercial college and a Baptist university,with a full college course. Ottawa is literally a city of churches,there being eighteen church buildings. The First Baptist Church isone of the finest in the state. The Rohrbaugh is considered thelargest and finest opera house in Kansas. 115. 116 KANSAS. WINFIELD. Winfield is the county seat of Cowley county, which is famed through-out the State for the fine quality of magnesium limestone found withinits limits, and used extensively for building purposes, the postoffice atTopeka being built of it. Winfield was founded in 1871, and now has agood and solid population of 7,173. While its interests are largelyagricultural, and it is noted as a fruit center, manufacturing and mercan-tile enterprises have not been neglected. There is a complete system ofgas and water works, electric lights and street railroads. There are threerailroads, four first-class hotels, two theatres, two colleges, four banks,and the same number of newspapers, three flour mills and two elevators,an ice plant and one large packing house, which, in addition to otherindustries, contribute to the general prosperity of the city. GARNETT. Garnett is the county seat of Anderson county, and has three rail-roads, two large public school buildings, eleven churches,
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