Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . van-tages offered here, that they are certain to attract large numbers of theseclasses to the State, who will quickly take up the lands which can nowbe had so cheaply. Lands which on a basis of $10 to $20 per acre payfor themselves in one crop, cannot long go begging at $5. LASTING PROSPERITY. Supplementing the favorable local conditions is the great revival andimprovement in the general business conditions of the country. We 97 KANSAS. have evidentl
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . van-tages offered here, that they are certain to attract large numbers of theseclasses to the State, who will quickly take up the lands which can nowbe had so cheaply. Lands which on a basis of $10 to $20 per acre payfor themselves in one crop, cannot long go begging at $5. LASTING PROSPERITY. Supplementing the favorable local conditions is the great revival andimprovement in the general business conditions of the country. We 97 KANSAS. have evidently entered upon a continuing period of higher prices foragricultural products. We shall not again in this century, and probablynot in many years, if ever, see such a period of excessively low pricesfor all farm products as we passed through in 1895 and 1896. Prosperityis here. The bank clearings of the country for the last week of the oldyear showed an increase of 42 per cent over the corresponding week of1896. The balance of trade with the Old World is largely in our number of business failures and accompanying liabilities during. PLOWING IxX KANSAS. 1897 were much less than in 1896. Railroad earnings show a largeincrease. Our foreign commerce is increasing. Our exports for 1897 arereported to be the largest in our history, and excess of merchandiseexports over imports is estimated at $350,000,000. Prosperity has cometo stay; the outlook for Kansas is most promising. Although during the year 1897 the people of Kansas have paid off$30,000,000 of indebtedness, the deposits in Kansas banks show anincrease of 50 per cent at this time over those of one year ago, nowaggregating about $50,000,000, and are heavier than at any time in the 98 KANSAS. last ten years, and what is more important, they belong almost whollyto individual depositors, Kansas people, rather than, as during the boom,largely to loan companies and Eastern people, who sent their money outhere for investment
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