Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . 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 over four hundred miles, we have climbed ahill 3,240 feet in height. And yet there are no mountains in all thebroad State of Kansa
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . 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 over four hundred miles, we have climbed ahill 3,240 feet in height. And yet there are no mountains in all thebroad State of Kansas. It is a prairie State, an agricultural State. Here, then, at the very outset, Kansas lays claim for priority in thesisterhood of States. The ordinary observer, possessing only a super-ficial knowledge of the economic conditions which govern the settlementand industrial development of the country, will see at a glance, that aState so advantageously situated, must, if soil, climate, or other factorsprove favorable, draw to itself a large quota of the constantly increasingimmigration which is rapidly flowing into the country. The value of. \\i N ..} K • I. Rock Formation Formed from Overflow of WacondaSprings, Cawker, Kas. land depends entirely upon the number of people who want are now less than twenty persons to the square mile in Kansas,including the rural and urban population. As population increases,land values rise; we all know this to be a fact, and we also know thatin the western half of the United States, the free Government landwhich has heretofore been at the disposal of new settlers is rapidlydiminishing in quantity. Further on, it will be seen that Kansas soiland climate fulfill every requirement—that in this respect at least,nothing more could be desired by the farmer, the stock raiser or thefruit grower, and as population is steadily flowing westward, and as thecities, towns and vijlages of Kansas are rapidly filling up, and farmlands are being bro
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