. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. mm' County Sketches. 031 , .1 flour and a broom ervillo, Marya- lekly, at Blue 3 aro 87 school Libraries aro ;,000 volumes, ue of $35,350. ice. Marshall iitation, and is eing named in I, on Sherman's county is 900 ,205, in which the population per cent, of the L7 miles south 3f bottom land Hill river and streams of this quantity nor of liity, have been of good
. A new centennial history of the State of Kansas [microform] : being a full and complete civil, political, and military history of the state from its earliest settlement to the present time. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. mm' County Sketches. 031 , .1 flour and a broom ervillo, Marya- lekly, at Blue 3 aro 87 school Libraries aro ;,000 volumes, ue of $35,350. ice. Marshall iitation, and is eing named in I, on Sherman's county is 900 ,205, in which the population per cent, of the L7 miles south 3f bottom land Hill river and streams of this quantity nor of liity, have been of good quality loubtful. Salt en established, fers are availa- res in operation 3r flouring mill at Lundsburg. r, published at ts, but only 20 gious organiza- only an aggre- suflferer in the vanting rations,. Miami Coun'TY waT organized in 1850, and named Lykons after a among the Miami Indians, but changed to the present appellation in 1801. The area consists of 538 s(iuaro miles, and the population in 1875 was 12,0(57, in which nuilcs preponderate about 500. Farming employs 78 percent, of the population, mines and manufactures occupy 8, and trade and transportation 4 per cent of the i)opulation. Paola, the county seat, is 54 miles southeast from Topeka. Twenty per cent, of the surface is bottom land, and tea per cent, forest. The princi- pal streams arc the Marias des Cygnes, Bull creek, Wea, Middle, Sugar, Walnut and Pottawatomie <-reeks. Springs aro numerous and well water can be foutid r. a 12 to 30 feet deep. Fully one-quarter of the country is ilaid with coal, but the vein i3 thin and poor, and although easily reached is seldom used. Building stone abounds in all parts, the Foatana marble being the most noticeable. Some of the wells give salt water, but there are no salt marshes, and no salt springs have been found. The railroad connections of the county are supplied by the Alis- souri River, Fort Scott and Gulf line, having stations at Baola and Fontana, an
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