. 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. ' ail aggrogaUi ii'crrt froii\ llio of mliona ami for iho icing built up. l875 was 1,00^5, ing employs 07 uid traiisporla- Tiariifcd is tbo n tlio Arkansas Hailroad, wliiob or Fort Larned. 3d Pn' One- ry little timber. ;o 1'ork, arc the oni 0 to 2i foot. s abundant, and c Atcliison, To- •fiold, as well a3 it there are good •c arc no banks, there 11 organ-
. 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. ' ail aggrogaUi ii'crrt froii\ llio of mliona ami for iho icing built up. l875 was 1,00^5, ing employs 07 uid traiisporla- Tiariifcd is tbo n tlio Arkansas Hailroad, wliiob or Fort Larned. 3d Pn' One- ry little timber. ;o 1'ork, arc the oni 0 to 2i foot. s abundant, and c Atcliison, To- •fiold, as well a3 it there are good •c arc no banks, there 11 organ- to the extent of ) destitution in named in honor 1, who was first in that city, in and the popula- nderate by 280. cent., and about les anJ manufac- miles northwest bottom land, but ^orth fork of the Covs'TV Shi-rrt iiks. an. Solomon, and Doer Cn'ok, about thirty-live miles long, with many Iribularios. Tlicro are many s|)rings on iiill sides and well water can be obtained by deep sinking. There is no coal dis- covered, but good limostoin) is found in all parts of the county. Pottery chiy is found on l)et'r crock and its tributaries. Thoro are no railroads. Water powers are on the North fork of the Solomon and on I'rairic I)og creek. Hut two mills only have been erected, at Kirwin a llouring mill and at Logan a saw mill. Besides mills there are at Kirwin, a water power grist mill and a steam susw and grist mill: at Phillipsburg, a steam ihiuring mill, and at Logan, a water power saw and grist mill. There are no banks and but one newspaper, the Kirwin C/ii>f, at Kirwin. There are forty-three districts and twenty .school houses valued at $8,£i2(). There are no church buildings and no libraries. One-half of the population were left destitute by the locust plague in Phillips county. Pori'AWAToMiK County was organized in 1850. The name tells its own story. The area is 8-18 scpiare miles, and the popu- lation in 1875 was ll),o-i:-t, in which males preponderat
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