Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . sas are generally fed by perennial springs,and, as a rule, the eastern and middle portions of the State are wellwatered. The western part is more elevated and water is less surface and soil characteristics, elevations, and variations in cli-mate divide the State naturally into three distinct zones or belts, dignified 9 KANSAS. as Eastern, Central and Western Kansas. Eastern Kansas, in part bor-dering on the Missouri river, is generally h
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . sas are generally fed by perennial springs,and, as a rule, the eastern and middle portions of the State are wellwatered. The western part is more elevated and water is less surface and soil characteristics, elevations, and variations in cli-mate divide the State naturally into three distinct zones or belts, dignified 9 KANSAS. as Eastern, Central and Western Kansas. Eastern Kansas, in part bor-dering on the Missouri river, is generally high, rolling prairie, hilly andbroken in places, but traversed by wide and beautiful valleys, throughwhich timber-fringed streams find their way eastward and southeast-ward. Near the western edge of the eastern belt, the limestone formationextending north and south through the State marks the line between thehigh rolling prairies of Eastern Kansas and the gently rolling and almostunbroken surface of the great prairies of Central Kansas, so noted for thegreat depth, uniformity and richness of its soil, and the small percentageof waste DROVE Olf JERSKY CATTLE. The .State contains 82,000 square miles ; a little less than Great Britain;larger than New England; twice as large as Kentuck}, or Ohio, orIndiana, and larger than Indiana and New York combined. The exact geographical center of the United States, exclusive of Alaska,lies near Manhattan, in Riley county, Kansas. The whole surface is a continuation of the plains which stretch fromthe Rocky Mountains eastward through Colorado. The north line,along the State of Nebraska is considerably higher than its southernboundary on the line of the Indian Territory. Hence, in travelingwestward we ascend continually. At the Kaw river, at Kansas City, we lO KANSAS. are only 760 feet above the sea level. On the western boundary of theState, where we cross into Colorado, we are 4,000 feet above the sea, sothat in a journey of a little o
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