. 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. i. 618 Tl'TTLbfa IIinTour OF Kaxs. rutiM to AVicluta in Sodgwiok county. Winter wlioat is to Imvo given returns of tliirty bushels per noro, iiiul Hixtyfour pounds to the busliol, in this eounty, nt n cost of $ per ftcro. The hcrtl hiw is liighly approvea in Ilarvoy co>inty, ami has been in operation long enough to tost its applicability well. The Littlo
. 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. i. 618 Tl'TTLbfa IIinTour OF Kaxs. rutiM to AVicluta in Sodgwiok county. Winter wlioat is to Imvo given returns of tliirty bushels per noro, iiiul Hixtyfour pounds to the busliol, in this eounty, nt n cost of $ per ftcro. The hcrtl hiw is liighly approvea in Ilarvoy co>inty, ami has been in operation long enough to tost its applicability well. The Littlo Arkansas gives good water powers, but they are little used. The inanufactures of tho county arc in llalstcad township, a water power flouring mill; in Sedgwick, a steam flouring mill; in Newton, a wagon and carriage factory; and in Alto township, a water power flour mill. There aro two banks with a capital combined of $10,000 in Newton, and in Sedgwick City. Thcro are two papers in tho county, both published in Newton, tho Newton Kansan and tho Harvt'i/ County Keica. There aro sixty- soven school districts and thirty-nino school houses valued at $43,807, with furniture and apparatus. There aro more organ- izations than churches, the edifices numbering only three, with a valuation of $8,600 in all. There are 113 libraries, public and private, with 5,022 volumes. Harvey county suffered heavily under tho locust plague, as 1,109 persons were reported in want of rations, and 662 in want of clothes. Jackson County was organized in 1867, and named in honor of Gen. Jackson, the seventh president. The county had been established and named in honor of John C. Calhoun in 1855 with the first batch of organizations. The area is 658 square miles; the population in 1875 was 6,681. Males predominate to the extent of over 800. Farming occupies seventy-nine per cent, of the population, mining and manufactures six per cent. Bottom lands make up thirteen per cent of the area, and forest five per c
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