Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . ricultural region. If no, then the bulk of it must be relegated to pas-toral occupations. Perhaps when we are through, agriculturists and theholders of Western mortgages may take a hopeful view. All the region indicated forms part of the great plains. There are nomountains, and the hills of erosion are comparatively few. But there arenumerous valleys—valleys of erosion—cut out of the body of the have, then, two diverse topographic features
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . ricultural region. If no, then the bulk of it must be relegated to pas-toral occupations. Perhaps when we are through, agriculturists and theholders of Western mortgages may take a hopeful view. All the region indicated forms part of the great plains. There are nomountains, and the hills of erosion are comparatively few. But there arenumerous valleys—valleys of erosion—cut out of the body of the have, then, two diverse topographic features which characterize theregion, viz.: the valleys and the flat or rolling table lands which separatethe valleys. At the eastern part of the region the valleys have their 132 KANSAS. greatest size. They are broad and deep, while the plateaus are elongatedeasterly, with decreasing width. To the west the valleys are less deepand have less running water, while the divides merge into widelyextended plains. With one exception, all the rivers that make and flow through thesevalleys have their origin in the plains. They are not mountain The one exception is the Arkansas. Its head waters are mountain tor-rents, which gather their waters from melting snows of the Rocky Moun-tains. There is always water in the Arkansas in spring and early sum-mer. We shall not discuss here whether the amount in the visiblestream is enough for the irrigation of all the acres already under ditch 133 KANSAS. and the ditches yet to be constructed. This year the Sangre de Christorange, and the high mountains around the Royal Gorge, and thoseabout the torrents that form the Fountain, are white with snow, andthere is reason to expect this coming season all the ditches dependent onthe Arkansas and its mountain-fed affluents will be filled for the fertili-zation of the land. We shall leave the Arkansas valley out of this dis-cussion, except that we may incidentally refer to it in connection withthe que
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