Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . nd steadily increasing, being now 7, city will repay investigation. PITTSBURG. Pittsburg has made remarkable gains in the last few years, tnepercentage of gain in population (which is now 13,116) exceeding thatof any other city in the State, and raising its rank among the cities ofIhe State from ninth to sixth in the last year. To this large number ispractically added the population of the adjacent mining camps, makingin all nearly 20,000. Pi
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . nd steadily increasing, being now 7, city will repay investigation. PITTSBURG. Pittsburg has made remarkable gains in the last few years, tnepercentage of gain in population (which is now 13,116) exceeding thatof any other city in the State, and raising its rank among the cities ofIhe State from ninth to sixth in the last year. To this large number ispractically added the population of the adjacent mining camps, makingin all nearly 20,000. Pittsburg is situated in the center of the great Kansas coal fields, andthe annual tonnage of Pittsburg coal product exceeds that of the com-bined wheat and corn crop of Kansas. There are five large zinc smelting works, railroad machine shops, thelargest vitrified brickworks in the State, wood-working manufacturingmills, and further, excellent opportunities for the exercise of businessability in all lines. There is also a packing house, ten big wholesale houses, a foundryand machine shop of considerable extent, which is now being doubled 120. 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 desired.
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