Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . uresque views, while the same distance 105 KANSAS. north of the city is stately old Fort Leavenworth, the most im-portant military post in the United States. The government iserecting the great Federal Penitentiary between the city and thepost, and a score or more of new government buildings are inprocess of erection at the fort. Several millions of dollars will beexpended here in the next ten years. One of the best additions to Leavenworth is the Ka
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . uresque views, while the same distance 105 KANSAS. north of the city is stately old Fort Leavenworth, the most im-portant military post in the United States. The government iserecting the great Federal Penitentiary between the city and thepost, and a score or more of new government buildings are inprocess of erection at the fort. Several millions of dollars will beexpended here in the next ten years. One of the best additions to Leavenworth is the Kansas City-Leavenworth Electric Railway, running between the city and Kan-sas City, which city lies 25 miles down the Missouri from Leaven-worth. This road has made the city. Home and fort very attractiveexcursion points, and thousands of people visited Leavenworth lastsummer. As a manufacturing center, Leavenworths future is assured, andany manufacturer will do well to consider this city before streets are well paved with brick and asphalt. Her people arelargely Eastern people, and are refined, cultured, and A\iriIITA DErOT. 106 KANSAS WICHITA The county seat of Sedgwick County; population, 31,549. Twenty-three miles of electric street car lines. Wichita is one of the best railroad points in Kansas. She has no fewerthan ten lines running to all points of the compass. The MissouriPacific system gives her direct connection to Kansas City, thence eastand north ; also with Denver, Colo. It has likewise a line running intothe southwestern part of the State. The stock yards are now doing a fine, steady business. These yardswere first opened in 1887. They had hardly got started when they wereburned out on the 18th day of October, On the 1st day of November,1888, they were again opened. They cover sixty acres of ground—fourteen acres under shedding. They have a capacity for 5,000 cattleand 10,000 hogs. They have 125 hydrants. The capital stock, $600,0
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