THIS COUNTRY OF OURS-- THE GREAT SOUTHWEST ^lig JCamsaja €its;lmirttai. ESTABLISHED 18S4 2nd EDITION ^\ '- ^^^ \<>^ -^ ^ »,» — — -{, Iwuwuoies ntxv-;.«u«< \ SEP 3 1^08 I JOKf a. THIS COUNTRY OF OURS-- THE GREAT SOUTHWEST LLUSTRATED STATISTICS OF A WONDERFUL TERRITORY, HOME OF THE 280,000 SUBSCRIBERS OF THE KANSAS CITY DAILY AND WEEKLY JOURNAL. jjm\ HETHER a thing is large or small de- ijiP pends upon the standard of compari- 1 son. That Bunker Hill monument is tall, no one will deny who has seen it rise far above the buildings surrounding Monument Hill, Charlestown. That the na- tional capitol is large, no one will dispute who has seen it clearly outlined against the sky as he approached the city miles away. That the Ivans Syndicate (Park Row) build- ing is large, no one will question who has seen it tower above the great sky scrapers in New York. Indeed, as one looks from the dizzy heights of the Park Row building, it is not hard to believe that it is one of the largest office buildings in the world. And yet that building sinks into insignificance compared with the bulk representing THE WHEAT PRODUCTION IN THE KANSAS CITY JOURNAL'S TERRITORY IN A SIN- GLE YEAR. When you look at the next page, the pic- ture will more clearly carry out the idea. Copyright 1908, by the Kansas City Journal. All rights reserved. This applies to the entire contents. Ivlns Syndicate (Park Row) Building, New York, to the extreme rieht. Is 382 feet hish, not Including flag staffs. Wheat 200,507,000 bushels IVINS BUILDING If the wheat produced in The Kansas City JournaFs territory in a single year were put in a sack, it would be three hundred times greater in bulk than the Park Row Building. Or if it were put in sacks the size of that structure, it would cover a distance of six miles. Immense as it is, the annual wheat crop in The Kansas City Journal's territory is less than one-sixth of the bulk of the corn, a third that of the oats, and less than half that of the cotton. Wheat 200,507,000 bushels Barley 46,908,367 bushels Oats 641,008,000 bushels Rice 8,314,100 bushels Corn 1,284,163,000 bushelsSugar Beet 88,235 tons Cotton 2,123,641,000 pounds Flax Seed 16,918,578 bushels Buckwheat 280,716 bushels Hay 10.750.342 tons Rye 6,897,680 bushels Tobacco. . 2,861,106 pounds The fruit and vegetables produced in The Kansas City Journars territory in a single year weigh as much as Uncle Sam's big fam- ily — the people of the United States, Alaska, the Philippines, Porto Rico, Hawaii, Guam and American Samoa, 90,000,000 in all. Currants 1,226,560 Gooseberries 2,621,490 Grapes 63,093,975 Cherries 3,915,975 Pears 1,840,231 Strawberries 38,837,530 Blackberries 15,118,600 \pples 15,674,586 Peaches 20,965,945 Plums and Prunes 4,359,257 Musk Melons 45,394,969 Rhubarb 2,102,138 Cabbage 77,068,245 Carrots 172,571 Parsnips 56,972 Cucumbers 1,307,840 Radishes 12,283,630 Turnips 737,530 Green Beans 420,926 Egg Plants 183,166 Pumpkins 1,549,146 Squashes 1,063,068 Water Melons 76,131,810 Green Peas 135,756 Sweet Corn 3,457,365 Tomatoes 4,642,498 Asparagus 1,917,220 Celery 1,349,130 Cauliflower 972,510 Lettuce 176,592 Spinach 88,201 Potatoes 3,043,772,820 Miscellaneous Vegetables 619,079 Unclassified Vegetables 381,381 quarts* quarts pounds bushels bushels quarts quarts bushels bushels bushels pounds quarts bushels bushels bushels bunches bushels bushels bushels bushels bushels bunches bunches heads bushels bushels bushels acres acres 3 aftt^^" If the cows, calves, hogs, sheep, horses and mules raised in The Kansas City Journal's territory in a single year, were in line, it would reach from Kansas City to Berlin, a distance so great that a person could not cov- er it in less than nine days, using the fastest methods of transportation at his command. Cows 2,180,491 Calves 242,091 Hogs 2,507,548 Sheep 1,318,968 Horses and Mules 65,582 1? r^ /^ < TWO MILES OF NEW YORK'S 8KY LINE The poultry of three months and over raised in The Kansas City Journal's territory in a single year would, if crowded together, fill a crate of two square miles. Chickens, including Guinea fowls 99,503,640 Turkeys 2,843,595 Geese 2,073,230 Ducks 2,254,972 (These fisrurea apply to fowl of three month* and over.) THIS MAP TELLS THE STOR Located in the great- GOLD COPPER .^.CEINTER CENTER 1 :r| est mail order territory in the world — ''where people have the mail order habit/' Standing as the gateway to the largest farming terri- tory in the world, Kansas City is the leading agriculture implement market; the second largest primary wheat market, ranking first in winter wheat, the second largest live stock market and packing center; the second largest flour market ; the second largest railroad center (first in Pullman business) ; the third largest telegraph center ; the third largest lumber market (first in yellow '! pine) ; has the seventh largest bank deposits in the ' country; the twelfth largest postal receipts; and is fifteenth it population. SILVER/ CENTER SHEEP O* wool/ . CENTER geograph; CENTE 7 THE KANSAS CITY JOURNAL- iT OAT cattle: hog corn population r** :r center center center center center \nMC [ MJNNESC TA y wiSCC/^SlN/ (o\5\ 'HLtt YORK ;--^ KANSAS KANSAS 1 |XROUt*'^> eyzi STTER } ,f,uABAt^A\GtOR0'Aj fLOaiOA COTTON CENTER HORSE"^ MULE CENTER nufacturing and CENTER FARM PRODUCTION VALUE IN I907 $6,000,000,000 (OR a,000 MILLION DOLLARS) THE JOURNAL'S TERRITORY In population The Kansas City Journal's territory is increasing in a remarkable way. It is safe to say that 4,000,000 people have settled there within the past fifteen years, making a total of over 20,000,000 — or one-fourth the entire population of the United States. Among them are those who lived in Illinois, Iowa and other states further east, and learned to cultivate the soil and to raise stock and poultry scientifically. When they found that they could purchase in the southwest land at from $10 to $40 an acre, they sold their former holdings at from $60 to $200 an acre, with the result that The Kan- sas City Journal's territory has a sturdy, thrifty and pro- gressive population, persons who build substantial homes, surround themselves with modern conveniences, and by travel and the education of their children in the best schools of the country, become susceptible to the influence of good advertising. THE WEEKLY JOURNAL, 210,888 Every Thursday The Kansas City Journal's weekly edition goes to over 210,888 homes of the best farmers, fruit growers and stockmen of the southwest and middle west, where people have the mail-order habit — the very persons who are chiefly responsible of the wonderful pros- perity pointed out in this little book. And it is generally admitted that if advertising in the weekly edition of The Kansas City Journal will not pay, it will* not pay else- where. THE DAILY AND SUNDAY JOURNAL, 70,983 The Daily Journal's Morning and Sunday editions go to 70,983 of the most substantial families in Kansas City and vicinity, with whom it is so popular that they pay twice as much for it as for any other Kansas City newspaper, the subscription to its evening contemporary, carryings the morning contemporary free. The eggs produced in The Kansas City Journars territory in a single year would more than cover Fairmount Park, Philadel- phia, Central Park, New York, Lincoln Park, Chicago, and Boston Common. Eggs 525,500,997 dozens Honey 22,083,742 pounds Sorghum Syrup 6,300,027 gallons Wax 518,608 pounds Wool (washed and unwashed) 75,667,500 pOUnds Wool (scoured) 27,679,260 pounds The Kansas City Journars territory pro- duces so much butter in a single year that it could spread the bread of every human being on earth. Butter 1,210,982,106 pounds Cream 30,233,214 gallons Cheese 2,493,373 pounds Ninety-four per cent in value of the lead ore, and eighty and one-half per cent in val- ue of the zinc ore found in this country come from Missouri, while considerably over half of the rest of those ores are found in other portions of The Kansas City Journal's ter- ritory. Lead ore $5,520,211 Zinc ore $6,992,810 Other minerals, including coal (bituminous), lime, sand stone, oil stone, siliceous cement, gas, as- crystalline rocks, fluorspar, natural phaltum, gypsum, iron ore, petroleum, clay, uranium, precious stones, quicksilver, copper, gold and silver amount to $101,324,059 The amount represented by the manufac- tures of a single year in The Kansas City Journal's territory would entirely extinguish the national debt. Manufactures $2,468,265,023 Lumber $71,453,834 There is so much money in circulation m The Kansas City Journal's territory that the bank clearings of a single year would, if in the form of dollar bills placed end to end, more than reach from the earth to the moon a distance of 238,850 miles. Bank Clearings of Kansas City $1,649,175,000.00 Outside of Kansas City $3,000,000,000.00 Total money value of crops in The Kansas City Jour- nal's territory for the past ten years: Yield. Value. "Wheat, bushels. . .. 1,733,934,126 $1,038,218,743 Corn, bushels 10,173,956,902 3,220,116,296 Oats, bushels 2,556,714,336 642,873,667 Hay, tons 171,471,646 655,194,253 Potatoes, bushels 460,667,974 180,161,983 Cotton, pounds 20,031,325,500 1,362,235,439 Cotton seed 283,936,370 Butter, eggs, poultry 453,413,507 Fruits and vegetables 256.692.650 Cattle 44,134,420 993,910,600 Hogs 99,881,890 820,638,260 Sheep 27,297,210 99,520,810 Total $10,006,912,578 TO SUMMARIZE: The Kansas City Journal's ter- ritory produces in a single year in farm products alone over ten thousand million dollars that is,, more than one- half the cost of all the wars of all the nations during the past hundred years; or 21% of the Wheat of the United States. 32% of the Sheep. 35% of the Horses and Mules. 39% of the Hogs. 40% of the Cattle. 43% of the Oats. 45% of the Cotton. 51 %o of the Corn. KANSAS CITY^S PROGRESS IN SEVEN YEARS 190) 1907 Population 250,975 425, 2D0 Births. . 2,866 3,933 Deaths 3,519 3,286 Bank Clearings $770,463,269.00 $1,649,375,013.00 Bank Deposits 69,799,588.00 114,365,493.00 Post office receipts 748,401.00 1,752,499.06 Total grain receipts, bu 46,638,250 59,768,600 Wheat receipts, alone 34,775,450 36,638,800 Corn receipts, alone 8,334,250 16,005,800 Output of flour, barrels 1,291,634 1,974,949 Stock yards receipts- Cattle 1,969,718 2,384,294 Calves 113,077 285,966 Hogs 3,094,139 2,923,777 Sheep 860,449 1,592,148 Horses and Mules 103,308 62,541 Manufacturing capital $ 41,225,266.00 $ 71,255,129.00 Factory output 103,598,573.00 142,912,136.00 Real estate transfers 10,966,600.00 37,822,659.00 Building permits, value 3,605,470.00 9,611,922.00 Building permits, number. . 1,294 3,943 Public library- Volumes 65,003 90,000 Cardholders 24,444 44,000 Total circulation 189,566 285,000 Public school enrollment. . .. 28,280 32,673 Ward schools 50 59 High schools 4 4 Money spent for pub. schools. $ 905,709.73 $ 1,864,647.26 Teachers 673 869 Total miles of streets 470 Water mains, miles 198 * 343 Sewers, miles 160 310 Paving in miies— Brick 36 41 Asphalt 90 17D Macadam 4 34 Total miles paved 248 Assessed valuation $79,410,000.00 $131,140,260.00 Indebtedness 3,284,087.92 4,431,000.00 Sinking Fund 314,714.62 450,003.00 Debt per capita 20.03 16. JO Percentage of debt to val- uation .041 .033 Kansas City is growing faster than any city in the West, and covers 26 >4 square miles of ter- ritory; has within a radius of 75 miles a population of nearly 4,000,000; has 78% of native born white population; has more high school scholars in pro- portion to the population than any other large city in the United States; is second in health; has 63 public schools, over 200 churches, 11 theaters, and a new Convention Hall with the greatest seating capacity of any building of like character in the world. Kansas City has 18 systems and 34 distinct lines of railroads; 217 miles of street railways, with universal transfers ; 223 miles of paved streets, 52 miles of boulevards, 2,199 acres of parks; and has the l-owest rate of taxation of any large city in the United States. It has the largest and best ap- pointed Live Stock Exchange building in the world, Kansas City being the only city in this country where a complete record of full-blooded live stock is kept; has within 150 miles extensive coal, oil and gas producing districts, Kansas City consuming 2,- 000,000 tons of coal a year. Her natural gas field extends over a section 50 by 30 miles, and the gas is of better quality and greater volume than any previously discovered. In the amount of manufactured output, Kansas City surpasses any other city of three times its size in the United States, 30,000 persons being employed in its factories. The great newspapers of the United States are in the pathway -of trade, and a glance at the above map will clearly show The Kansas City Journal's strategic position in the territory lying between Kansas City and Frisco. It is needless to say that no campaign in the West and Southwest would be complete without using the Journal, for it should be remembered that this paper was founded in 1854, when Kansas City was a mere frontier post with less than five hun- dred people ; and the community and the paper hav- ing grown up together, each helping the other. The Journal has a clientele all its own. It Is the only metropolitan Republican newspaper In the vast territory between St. Louis and Denver. ADVERTISING RECEIVED THROUGH ANY RECOGNIZED AGENCY OR OUR SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVES. HAND, KNOX & COMPANY, CHICAGO, BOYCE BUILDING ST LOUIS, VICTORIA BUILDING NEW YORK BRUNSWICK BUILDING LIBRftRY OF CONGRESS llllllllllllillllllllllllllllllllll 014 433 257 P