Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . 121 KANSAS. ia capacity, flour mill, and a paid fire department. The hotel accom-modations are as fine as any in the State. Five railroad systems pass through Pittsburg, and fifteen passengertrains arrive daily. The city has all first-class improvements, such aspaved streets, gas and electric light, waterworks, and electric streetcar lines extending to the neighboring mining camps. The public school system is unexcelled, churches of all denomina-tion
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . 121 KANSAS. ia capacity, flour mill, and a paid fire department. The hotel accom-modations are as fine as any in the State. Five railroad systems pass through Pittsburg, and fifteen passengertrains arrive daily. The city has all first-class improvements, such aspaved streets, gas and electric light, waterworks, and electric streetcar lines extending to the neighboring mining camps. The public school system is unexcelled, churches of all denomina-tions areto be found, and the social and other features of the city areall that can be KANSAS CATTLE. The cheapest and best fuel ever known is found here in unlimitedquantities. Pine and manufacturing timber is easily obtainable a shortdistance from here, and is readily accessible by railroad. The untold millions of natural resources surrounding the city makesits growth rapid, substantial and inevitable. NEODESHA. The Oil City of the West is the name now most freijuently applied to Neodesha. This city is situated in the Southeastern part of the State, n the valley between the Verdigris and Fall Rivers, and surrounded by 122 KANSAS. a most fertile and resourceful country. Few cities have a more promis-ing outlook. There are fifty-five producing oil wells and three gas wells,which supply the town with fuel and light. The oil industries are beingrapidly developed. A large refinery has just been erected by the Stand-ard Oil Company. The products are two grades of illuminating oil,gasoline, naphtha, benzine, gas oil and fuel oil, this last being muchused in the smelters of K
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