. 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 . asilyworked in the dough as those of the hard winter-wheat varieties. Minnesota possesses other advantages over Kansas. Its mills are centered atMinneapolis and Duluth, and have easy access to the lakes, which atford them cheap transportation to the Eastern and European markets. Hencethe Kansas wheat-raiser and miller are peculiarly interested
. 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 . asilyworked in the dough as those of the hard winter-wheat varieties. Minnesota possesses other advantages over Kansas. Its mills are centered atMinneapolis and Duluth, and have easy access to the lakes, which atford them cheap transportation to the Eastern and European markets. Hencethe Kansas wheat-raiser and miller are peculiarly interested in cheapening the methods of transportation from the interior to the seaboard. Thiswill come by the ever-reduced cost of transportation which gradually but surely moves us closer to the worlds markets, and by opening the nearerdeep-water ports on the Gulf of Mexico. Only within the past few years have we awakened to the fact that Kansas lies closer to tide-water thauDakota, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, or even Indiana; aud when once the people grasp this fact, our flour, grain, beef and pork will find the greatEuropean markets aud the South-American markets via our natural highway, the Gulf, whose deep waters come within 700 miles uf our .\s SHOWN IN 1896, Enterprise, Kansas. (54) QUIVERA—KANSAS. 1542-1892. In that half-forgotteii era,With the avarice of old,Seelcing cities he was toldHad been paved with yellow gold, In the kingdom of Quivera — Came the restless CoronadoTo the open Kansas plain,With his knights from sunny Spain;In an effort that, though vain. Thrilled with boldness and bravado. League by league, in aimless scarcely where or they uplands drear and dry,?That an unprotected sky Had for centuries been parching. But their expectations, eager. Found, instead of fruitful streams and shifting the buffalo in bands Roamed oer deserts dry and meager. Back to scenes more trite, yet tragic. Marched the kni
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