Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . BEAUTIFUL BOULEVARD, FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. 103. 104 KANSAS. over those operating at a distance from fuel. This accounts for theincrease in manufactories in this city. About 2,000 men are em-ployed in the mines, and fully $20,000 is expended in wages ofminers each week. Leavenworth has always been a good corn market, and within thelast three years has become an important meat market. Two largsmeat packing establishments are running at full blast,
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . BEAUTIFUL BOULEVARD, FORT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS. 103. 104 KANSAS. over those operating at a distance from fuel. This accounts for theincrease in manufactories in this city. About 2,000 men are em-ployed in the mines, and fully $20,000 is expended in wages ofminers each week. Leavenworth has always been a good corn market, and within thelast three years has become an important meat market. Two largsmeat packing establishments are running at full blast, killing about200 head of cattle a day, and 300 head of hogs. For many years Leavenworth has been the great stove manufac-turing center of the middle West. The Great Western Stove from 400 to 500 men, and is one of the largest stove fac-tories in the world. The Great Western Mfg. Co. turns out a largeamount of heavy machinery, such as milling machinery, and thisindustry employs about 500 men when running at full blast, and thisit does the larger part of the year. The furniture making industryis second to that of stoves and machinery. The Abernathy factoriesare known all over the S
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