Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . Two sash and door factories, with a business of over $200,000. Starch works, paying in wages $1,000 monthly. Boiler works, brick yards, feed mills, linseed oil mills, preservingworks, cracker factory, furniture factory, cornice works, and establish-ments producing stoves, vinegar, shirts, overalls, cigars, confectionery,mattresses, harness, clothing, artificial limbs, etc. The actual valuation of all real, personal and railroad property in thecity is
Facts about KansasA book for home-seekers and home-buildersStatistics from state and national reportsFarm lands, grazing lands, fruit lands ... . Two sash and door factories, with a business of over $200,000. Starch works, paying in wages $1,000 monthly. Boiler works, brick yards, feed mills, linseed oil mills, preservingworks, cracker factory, furniture factory, cornice works, and establish-ments producing stoves, vinegar, shirts, overalls, cigars, confectionery,mattresses, harness, clothing, artificial limbs, etc. The actual valuation of all real, personal and railroad property in thecity is over $40,000,000. Topeka is clean, well drained, and a healthy city. The climate issalubrious, and with the natural location and splendid sewer system,perfect drainage is obtained. Topeka is well supplied with good hotels, suthcient to accommodatethe largest gatherings and conventions. There are thirty-six daily and weekly newspapers in Topeka. There is an excellent electric street railway system covering the entirecity and operating 32 miles of track. A woolen mill, completed in 1897, is now in full operation, employing150 men a ONE OF THE COUNTRY DRIVEWAYS 102 KANSAS. LEAVENWORTH. The oldest as well as the most historic city in the State. Population,22,991. Leavenworth is becoming a very important manufacturing city,having a great abundance of coal lying beneath the city to feed herfurnaces and make cheap power. There are now three large minesin operation there, and a fourth very near completion, also four veinsof good coal, the first a 22-inch vein at a depth of 713 feet; thesecond a 24-inch vein at a depth of 738 feet; the third a 26-inchvein at a depth of 998 feet, and the fourth 28 inches thick at adeptk of 1,030 feet. The top vein is the one being used. It seemsto be inexhaustible, and from actual tests it is found to cover anarea of at least 200 square miles, and contains 2,000,000 tons of coal does not have to be shipped into the city, it is cheap,a
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