'1""%' THE HUSTED INVESTMENT CO. KAN5A5 CITY, KMiSAS, JAMES D. HUSTED, Prest. P. D. COBUEN, 2d Vic9 Prest. THOS. H. ROWLAND, Vice-Prest. 0. B. BUENHAM, Secy. Capital, $500,000 Full Paid up, 350,000 Loans, Securities, Commercial Paper, Real Estate. NEW YORK MANAGER, PHILADELPHIA MANAGERS, F. E. MAINE, Auburn,N. Y. B. F. GLENN k SON, 555 N, I7th St. J ^pfOT)§a§.,^ Alias Sunflower State. Alias Corn State. Aiias Prohibition State. ^HE Iieart ai\d center State of t]:\e Ui\ior| ; tt^e largest tract of fertile, tillable lar|d of easy access or\ tl\e face of tt)e eartl^ ilr\der or\e goVerr\- <^'^ nierit; but a fractior\ srqaller tl\ar\ Nev^ YorK a:i\d Per|r\sylVar\ia coir\biiied ; lar- ger tl\ar\ all Eriglar\d ar\d Wales ; larger tl\ar\ Otiio, Ir\diar\a aqd JVlarylar|d ii) or\e, or tt|ar| all Ne-W Er\glar\d; tlie lialfwaj ]\oiise be- t^eer\ ocear\s, -wl^ere tl]e ^eary liorqe-seel^er fir\ds l\is desires rqore r^early fulfilled t]\aT[ is possible ir| ar\y regioqless rict\ly er^do-wed. Up\^2ards of 52,000,000 acres (82,080 square V THE SUNFLO' arid 50,000,000 acres tillable. No B^5"Warqp, i\o iqarsti, T[0 desert lar^d. Tl^ree- foiirt]:\s of all tljis is yet available for ar\d a-Waits tl\e ploiA^ — tt\e iriVitatior\ to blossoiq |arid fruit. How it prodiices ti\e cl\ief staples as con\- opared -witl^ soii\e of tt\e conceded greatest agricultural States of tl\e iViississippi Valley is told by tl\e figures of tt|e Ur\ited States Agricultural Departii|er|t. Tl^ese s]:\oW aver- age yields per acre of -wl^eat, corr^ aqd oats pr\ tl|ree States for tl\e seveq years, froir\ ||L882 to 1888, iriclusive, tiius : Wheat, bushels, Corn, bushels, Oats, bushels, IND. III. Kan. 12.08 12.08 14.03 30.00 27.00 29.0O 28.30 34.03 30.00 I^ its October, 1889, reports, tl)e Ur\ited States Departrqerit put Kansas al^ead of all /tt\e Ur\ior\ for tl\at year ii) its average of ROHIBITIOW STATE" •Wtieat yield per acre, ir\ bilstiels, tt^e States pron\ir[er\tly producing t]:\is cereal staqdirig t]:ius : Dakota 8.30 Nebraska 12.00 Pennsylvania 12.30 Missouri 13.00 New York , . . 13.08 Iowa 13.10 Wisconsin 14.20 Minnesota 14.60 Michigan 14.70 Indiana 14.70 California 15.00 KANSAS 18.40 The State Board of Agriculture at tt\ej san|e tirqe, ir^ coii|ir\Ur|icatior\ "Witl^ eVery| to^ristiip of tlie State, estiii|ated tl^e aver- age yield of vv?ir\ter "Wl^eat at 22.58 bxislrielsl per acre, or 35,060,048 bilsljels, Tt^e Board's estirqate of tl^e year's corr\ crop 'Was ar\; average of 40 biisl:|els per acre, oq ar\ acre-r| .-niiiinsiiir*^ N STATE ^ age of 6,820,693— a total of 276,541,338 bilstiels. TYie Board's official returns of sonje of tt\e otl\er leadir\g crops of tt^e State for 1889 are : Oats, bushels 47,922,889 Potatoes, bushels ....... 11,432,482 Hay (all kinds) tons 5,000,000 (bf he' value of tlie State's l^erds ar\d flocks ; *-*- its cattle, tiorses ar\d iqUles, s-Wi^e ar\d slieep, ir\ay at a Very Ioy^ appraiserqerit be set do^ri at $120,000,000, a^d tlieir surplus pro- ducts for tlie year 1889 at $40,000,000— tills ii) a year ii\Ucl\ talked of as "a dull tirqe" ai\d of loY^ prices. Tlie productiveness of its surface (ir\cludii\g tl\e rapidly developing sugar interests) seerqs lively to alrqost find a parallel in ^ealtl^-pro- ductioninits unlin\ited deposits of coal, zinc, lead and salt, so easily available to tt\ose "Wl\o 4 ^^ /- I (' f r, efficieritly see]^ ttierq. (Tt^e salt iqdtisti'y ir^ Kansas is but little over a year old, yet large areas are rio\^^ positively ]^i)ov^r\ to be iir\der- laid -Witt^ solid salt 100 feet or rqore ir\ tl\icK- ness, ar\d last year tl]e output officially re- ported -Was 547,224 barrels, besides 19,056 tor[S r\ot barreled. Analyses st[Ov^ tt\is salt to be 99.99 per cei\t pure.) For tt[e rapid ir|OVen\er\t of tt^ese products to tt^e iqost favorable rqarl^ets, -wl^ettier foUi\d ii\ tl:\e ir|0Ur\tair\ ar\d n\ir\ir[g regions of th^e West, th[e cities of tl:\e East, or oi\ tl:\e plai\ta- tior\s of tlje Soutti, i\early 9,000 rqiles of ■Well-equipped railway gridiror\ ttie State ar\d give its every coir\n\ur\ity rr\ear[S of ready access to every otl^er, "WitJ:|ir\ or "Wit]:\out. No or\e Mi\\Q ir\telliger\tly studies a n\ap of tl\e Ur\ior\ cai\ fail to discerri \\\q inqperial position occupied by Kansas \r\ tl^e sister- t^ood of States, ir\ \«^l:\icl\ destir\y seerqs to 5 \ • X p]aVe decreed it sl^ould be frorq its first settle- |ir|er[t silclx ar\ in|portarit factor. Rryy sucti Istuderjt car\ r\ot, eitlr^er, fail to r^ote ttiat -witt^in its boundaries is preser\ted tt^e greatest scei\e of tiealtt\fill, gro^tl^f III acti\;ity to be -witrjessed or\ tl)e globe, ir\ -wlr^atever teqds to tl^e deVelop- iqerit of ar\ enipire of "Wealtl) ar\d trappy l:\oii\e- iqaKirig. R ii\illior\-ar|d-a-l)alf of people, "Worl^ii\g, ^atcl|ir|g ar\d seizir|g iipor\ every opportur\ity to forward tl:\e Up-bilildirig of a great con\ii\or|'Wealtl:\ ; ariotliei' l:\alf-rr\illior\ corqirig or oq tl|e eve of corr|ir\g, locatir\g ar\d EqaKirig l^orqes ; tl\OL[sar|ds of r^eW f arnqs oper[ir\g up ; a tl:|OUsar\d r\ew sclriool-tiotlses, c]:|Lircl\es buildir\g ; tovs^r\s ar|d Villages gro^w- ir\g to in\portar\t proportions; everybody aqd everyt]:\irig aiiVe ar\d rqovir\g for-Ward to a t^igtier plar\e ar\d giving ti\e laryd of tt\eir adoption a inore exalted station arqong its conterqporaries. I \l ■ ^ «f SUNFLOWER STATE" ' Y°" K^;"" ^h ^''^^' ^ A FEW OBSERVATIONS OF KANSAS AGRI- CULTURE, AS IMPRESSED ON THE M1ND;| OF A TOURIST. Every one who comes to Kansas City from Kansas these days has his own particular stock of stories to tell about the wonderful crops. Among the Sunflower' pilgrims who landed in the city on Saturday was:| Charley Barrett, the good looking and talkative travel- ing passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific. He had] spent four or five days in Kansas, and his mouth was; going at the rate of 500 revolutions a minute aboutj crops, when he was flagged by a Times man on Mam^ ^street. "Wheat !" he exclaimed, "you never saw the like!] ^The farmers down in Southern Kansas had to rent the| j^ public roads to get room enough to stack the wheat^ ^Wasn't room enough in the fields to hold the stacks.':] ;lsaw one — " V THE SUNFLOWER STATE "How is the fruit crop?" "Fruit ! You never saw the like ! Apples as big as cannon balls growing in clusters as big as hay stacks. I saw one apple that — " "Don't the trees break down? " 'Trees ! You never saw the like ! The farmers planted sorghum in the orchards, and the stalks grew up like telegraph poles and supported the limbs. I saw one stalk of sorghum that was two feet—" ; "How is the broom corn crop? " ''■' "Broom corn ? You never saw the like ! There has , not been a cloudy day in southern Kansas for month. Can't cloud up. The broom corn grew f high that it kept the clouds swept off the face of the sky as clean as a new floor. They will have to cut it| down if the weather gets too dry. Some of the broom':? corn stalks are so high that—" "How is the corn crop? " "Corn? You never saw the like! Down in the| Neosho, Fall River, Arkansas and Kaw bottoms the| corn is as high as a house. They use step-ladders to| gather roasting ears." "Aren't step-ladders pretty expensive?" "Expensive ! Well I should say so ; but that isn't pte^\|or^|,,^f it. The trouble is that the child^en/jlimj "THE PROHIBITION STATE ^ /. ] f / / / HE SUNFLOWER STA up into the corn stalks to hunt for eagles' nests and sometimes fall out and kill themselves. Fourteen funerals in one county last week from that cause. I attended all of them. That is why I am so sad. And, mind you, the corn is not more than half grown. A man at Arkansas City has invented a machine which he calls 'The Solar Corn Harvester and Child Protec- tor.' It is inflated with gas like a balloon and floats over the corn tops, and the occupants reach down and cut off the ears of corn with a cavalry sabre, and—" "Do they make much cider in Kansas ? " "Cider ! You never saw the like ! Oceans of it. Most of the farmers in Cowley county have filled their cisterns with cider. A proposition was made a few days since to the water works company of Arkansas City to supply the town with cider through the mains, but the company Avas compelled to decline, because they were afraid the cider would rust the pumps. They were sorry, but they said they would have to continue to furnish water, although it cost more. I saw one farmer who—" "How is the potato crop? " "Potatoes ! You never saw the like ! A man in Sedgwick county dug a potato the other day that was THE PROHIBITION STATE \ SUNFLOWER STAT U so big lie used the cavity it grew in for a cellar. I saw one potato that — " "The people must be happy over their big crops? " "Happy ! You never saw the like ! I know men in the Kaw valley who were too poor three years ago to flag a bread Avagon, and now they have pie three times a day. One fellow that—" But the reporter just at this point had a pressing engagement elsewhere. I i ( f\ pri^tty Qood Sort ^ of C;o(TiniiJi?ity. ^^ I am sure nay predecessor, Governor Martin, in his last message spoke with fidelity to truth, without the slightest extravagance, when he said of the State he has loved and served so devotedly: "I affirm with earnestness and emphasis, that Kansas is, to-day, the most temperate, orderly, sober community of people in the civilized world." A State extending from the Indian Territory 200 miles to Nebraska on the north, from the Missouri river 400 miles west to within sight of the very foot hills of the mountains of Colorado, with a million and three-quarters of thrifty, intelligent, progressive peo- ple—yet one may travel for days over her 9,000 miles of railroad, touching every organized county M^ithin the vast domain, admiring, as he must, the delightful alternation of beautiful landscape, rolling prairie, fertile valleys, wooded streams, happy hamlets, cheer- ful villages and bustling cities ; noting, if he will, the ten thousand free school houses, in whose support four millions are annually expended, not forgetting 11 w "THE SUN ier churches and public libraries, newspapers and eleemosynary institutions generously sustained; charmed ^^ ith the intelligence and enterprise of her people ; fascinated by the present development and the boundless possibilities of her material resources of field and forest and mine, but he will marvel most as he contemplates the fact that he has not seen an open saloon within her border. Thanks to prohibition. LYMAN U. HUMPHREY, Governor of Kansas. {Pittsburg, Crawford Co., Kansas, is now the second zinc-producing city in the world, and in that neighborhood 41,000,000 bushels of coal were mined in 1889. Having both the mineral and the coals to work it, will enable Pittsburg to easily lead the world in that line of smelting.) '^^4r(5— g^^^ 12 ^ cruuvw ^\/Qm/y. '^ 51?(? l^aQsas C^itys One the Metropolis of a Great State. Two THE Commercial Port of an Empire. 30ilQUIN MILLER recer|tly visited tlje t^o cities located at X\\e cor[flileT]ce of t\\e Ka-W -Wit!) tt^e Missouri, to see if tl^e tales of tl\eir gro^tl), sitilatiori ar\d prospects ■were based ir\ fact, or, as lie suspected, four^ded ii\air\ly or\ tt^at n^aterial of -Wliicti fables are rqade. Ttie cor|clilsior\s l\e arrived at after ir\Vestigatior\ are giveq ir) part (speaKirig of t\\e t-wo cities as or\e, regard- less of tl)e iii\agir\ary dividing lii\e), to tl\e Ne-W YorK "lAdeperider\t" ir\ tt^is language : "This audacious j'oung beauty is the belle of the United States. There is no doubt of this fact left lingering in j^our mind ten minutes after you have set foot in Kansas City. Here she sits in the center of 13 \ e world, with more railroads pointing right to he| feet than are to be found pointing to any one othe mmon center on the face of this earth. ■ This Kansas City is Ceres' own self, for she sits the center of the gardens of the universe. Tliousanc and thousands of square miles of corn fields circle he| about. There is no waste here either of seas, o| mountains, or deserts of sand. Every foot is fertill land. Look to the East, "West, North, South, nothing but one boundless and billowy sea of green or golc They tell you that they have this season in the single' State of Kansas, in round numbers, 100,000,000 bushels of grain to spare. Kansas City calls this fruitful State one of her 'feeders.' She calls the City of Denver one of her feeders. She claims to have nearly fifty cities that are, and are to remain forever, her 'feeders.' It is destined to be a great place. So long as the world is to be fed, and so long as "there is corn in Egypt," this Kansas City will surely be King Corn's capital, and the world will pay him court. * * * * i want to write it down so plainly that 'he may run who reads.' These cities are not braggers, they are build- ers. They have a right to tell the truth of themselves and be heard respectfully. // ^ St^e 5wo 1^39535 gtys ^ Or|e ir\ Kansas ar|d. or^e iq JVlissoiIi'i,' sustaiq iqucti tl|e san\e relatioq to eactj otl:\er as St. Paul ai\d. Mii\r\eapolis do, ^\\\ tl\e Rotable exceptior\ ttiat tt^e latter two are sorqe rqiles apart, "Wl)ile tt^e |orii\er are r|ot separa- ted by eitl:\er laqd or v^ater, t]:\oUgti niar\y strarigers suppose tl\at tl:\e iVLissoxiri river ruqs bet^s^eeq tlierq. Tl|eir two goVerrirqer|ts, ]:|0Wever, are as w]:\olly distir^ct as tl\ose of tl^e two States \r\ Wtiicl\ tt\ey are located, arid ir\ various -features radically different — ^r\otable ir\star\ce beir\g ttiat everywl\ere i:r\sas tl^e saloor\ ar\d its l^eeper are oxit 5d by tl\e State's cor[Stitutior\. §) @ © © ® © @ 15 ^yKUlHft 1 ■ V. Kansas Ditu, Kansas, Or| tlie iVlissouri ar|d Kansas (Ka-W) rivers, at ttieir jurictiori, ai\d oVerlooKiiig tt[e Valleys of bott|, is tl^e capital of Wyandotte CoUi^ty, \v)l:)icl:|, tljoUg;]:! tlxe srqallest of tl^e ]:\iJr\dred- odd ir\ tlje State, is surpassed by bxit t^o ir[ taxable "Wealthy, possesses rqore tl\ai\ or\e-tl:\ird tl^e er\tire capital ir[Vested ii\ ii\ar\iifactiirir\g plants (ir|ore tl:\ar\ t]:|e otl:|er five prir\cipal cities coir\bir[ed) , aqd f iirriisl:|es r\early 38 per ,er\t of its rqariufactured product. Arqorig tl\eQe are tt\e flrgeritir|e Sn\eltiqg^ arid Refir\ir\g Wor^s, the LARGEST ll^ the'I^ WORLD, arid a sirqilar plaT\t is yearly ready ^ for operation at Lovelace, tlrjree n|iles av^ay. 1Y\e preser^t city is coir\posed of tt[e forn\erj Izities of Wyaridotte, Srrqoiirdale ar\d Kar\sas| City, corisolidated sonje tt^ree years sir\ce' by legislative er\actii\er|t. Its popUlatiori "THE PROHIBITION /: y Marcl), 1889, as stio^^ri by \\q State cer|sils tl-ieq taKeri, \\?as 36,729, arid at ttie present tirqe car] be little less ttiari 40,000. Tl^e official cerisils of iW.arcl\ "Was sustair|ed later ir| tl]e seasoi) by tl)e largest registration of voters, arid tl\e rqost riiin\erous -vote cast iri No Verqber by ar[y city, tl|iis coqf irrqir^g its title of "rqetropolis" ir| tl]e ii|atter of populatior^. "KHNSflS CITY" l)as at least X^o liqes of biisir\ess of siicl) ir^agriitifde as to ir\aKe it farqous aroilrjd tl)e globe; or|e of tl^ese is tlrie slaiigl^teririg, ciirir[g aqd st|ippir\g of rqeats oq a scale exceeded by oqly or^e city \T{ tt^e -world, ir| -Wliicti are er[gaged tt\e iir\- ]T\er\se establisl|rqerits of tl\e Krrqoars, ttie Foolers, tl\e Sv^ifts, Kir]gari, flllciitt, Morris Biitts S: Co., arid ottiers ; tl|e ott[er tt|e rqost ex- ter|sive live-stocX rqar^et, -Witt) a single excep- tion, ever bxlilt up. These are in Kansas City, Kansas. "THE "^ ^' \t\ 1889 tl\ese l:\oilses liar\dled tered Hogs , Cattle , Sheep 1,728,698 433,580 175,657 S]:\ipir\er|ts of rqeat products frorq th|ese establistin^erits duririg 1888 ar|d 1889 rqay be learrjed frorq tl^is table : 1888. 1889. POUNDS. POUNDS. Fresh Beef Mess Beef Can Beef Bacon Mess Pork Lard Tallow Oleomargarine 141,414,100 433,000 2,721,354 259,914,315 3,144,200 42,270,742 7,401,200 6,000,000 215,387,100 2,038,000 1,033,350 243,052,940 9,605,000 42,190,500 12,092,000 10,000,000 Total 463,298,911 535,398,890 HE PROHIBITION A Tlie follo-wirig official figures ir\dicate gro^t]:| ar\d n\agr\itiide of ti^e receipts at' tt^e Kar\sas City, Kar\sas, stocK yards sirice t]:\eir establislrirqer^t. HORSES YEAR. CATTLE. HOGS. 41,036 SHEEP. AND MULES. 1871 . . . 120,827 4,527 809 1872 236,802 104,639 6,071 2,648 1873 227,689 221,815 5,975 4,202 1874 207,080 212,532 8,855 3,679 1875 174,754 63,350 25,327 2,646 1876 183 378 153,777 55,045 5,339 1877 215,768 192,645 42,190 4,279 1878 175,344 427,777 36,700 10,796 1879 211,415 588,908 61,684 15,829 1880 244,709 676,477 50,611 14,086 1881 285,863 1.014,304 79,924 12,592 1882 439,671 963,036 80,724 11,716 1883 460,780 1,379,401 119,665 19,860 1884 533,526 1,723,586 237,964 27,163 1885 506,627 2,358,718 221,801 24,506 1886 490,971 2,264,484 172,659 33,188 1887 669,224 2,423,262 209,956 29,690 1888 1,056,086 2,008,984 351,050 27,650 1889 1,220,343 2,073,910 370,772 34,563 Total . . 7,660,857 18,892,641 2,141,500 285,241 19 HE PROmBitlON STATE" 4jtf ' ^ ^ THE SUNFLOW, (Possibly you l{ad by socqe n\ear|S coii\e to suppose tl:\at ti^ese Vast busii|esses ]\ad tl^eir seat ir\ Kansas City, Missouri, instead of Kansas, but you are r\ot alor\e, for niai\y aiiotl^er iqtelligerit persor\ lias f alleq ir\to ttie sarqe error.) t ff @ BANK CLEARINGS. ® Tt^e bar\K: clearir\gs of Kansas City (ttie sur- est index of business actually done) tiave, by tl^ieir gro^y^tti ar\d Eqagriitude for soir\e years beer) aq astor|isliii\er|t to strangers. Ii) aii\our|t its clearings are nov^ oqly exceeded ir\ nine ott^er ilir\ericaq cities, ar[d tl:\e follo^Wing sl:\0"Ws ttjeir increase and volUine during cr period of t^Welve years : 1878-79 $25,924,626 1879-80 43,642,418 1880-81 54,862,800 1881-82 81,212,600 1882-83 120,279,900 1883-84 147,620,485 1884-85 204,333,144 1885-86 251,963,441 1886-87 353,894,458 1887-88 386,919,258 1888-89 444,249,274 1889, 12 months 449,479,474 It is estimated that from 50 to 70 per cent of these clearings are from business done in Kansas City, Kansas. 21 E PROHIBITION STATE" X ® ® BUILDING. ® ® "Between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 were expended in 1889 for new buildings in the city, and 3,000, or even more, elegant structures grace lots that on January 1st were vacant and unadorned," says the Daily Gazette. "This statement is based upon a thorough and system- atic survey of the whole city, and from the records of the City Treasurer's office, of the building permits issued from August 5th to the end of the year. * * The class of buildings erected in 1889 is far superior to any built prior to this time, taken as a whole. In business houses the change has been pronounced and remarkable. Minnesota avenue a few, and a very few years ago, could boast of no office buildings that were such as should adorn a principal street of a city like this, but a vast change has come o'er the appearance of that thoroughfare, and especially in the last year. Nearly a quarter of a million dollars have been ex- pended in buildings on this street during the year, and the structures erected are as handsome and substan- tial as any in the West. * * The section of the city, however, in which the bulk of the building was done is north of Minnesota avenue, and fully 1,500 houses 22 /- A r . 1.' 1^ have been erected in that locality during 1889. The various additions that adorn that part of the city have been fairly alive with carpenters, bricklayers, painters and plasterers during the year. It has been impossible to stand at any point without seeing from one to a dozen houses under process of construction. One of the factors that have done so much to build up and populate this part of the city is the excellent system of rapid transit with which it is blessed. The western and southwestern parts of the city, the central and southern parts have been blessed in the same manner, and wherever the street car goes there the houses spring up. * * The dwellings and business buildings put up during the year range in value from $200 to $130,000, but a fair estimate of the average value of each of the 3,000 structures erected would be $1,400, making a total of $4,200,000 expended in buildings during the year." 23 ^ V^ 'THE SUNFLOWER STAT ]v ® ® STREETS. ® ® ' Ot s to street irqproverqerits cqade ir\ Kar\sas qJ -*- City, Kansas, "Witl\ir| a recer\t period, tl^e city er\gir[eer's booK;s present figures slrioiA^irig ttiat, iri 1888, eig]:|teer| ar\d OT[e-l\alf rqiles of street -were graded, reqiliririg tJ:\e rqoverqer\t of 1,210,592 cubic yards of eartti; iri 1889, six aqd or\e-tialf rqiles i^^ere graded, arid 607,134 yards irioved. Iri 1888 fi^e arid ttiree-foiirtlis iriiles of street -Were paVed, aqd iri 1889 six arid tv^o-tliirds rqiles sirriilarly treated "Witlq cedar blocK, asplqalt, vitrified bricK or rqacadarri. C^ity apd Suburban Jrapsportatiop. Ttie Karisas Citys are proud of tlqeir elevated, cable ar^d electric liqes of rapid transit, -wlqicli, "Wiriter ar^d surqrrier, quickly, 24 /* safely arid cocqfortably transport ovei' n\iles ar\d iritles of siiperb roadv^ay tt^e people to ai\d frorq tl:\e business ceriters or resideqce suburbs for t]:\e Uqiforrq fare of five ceqts. Tl^e elevated or "L" systenq (rr|Ostly ir\ Kari- sas City, Kar\sas) tias sorqe eigl:\t n\iles of double tracK, ar\d several ii\iles of exter\sioris are beir)g cor\structed. Tt[e Metropolitan cable systerq is so developed ar\d corqpleted tl\at passerigers are tal^eq Up at tlr^e outer liir\its of oqe city ar^d carried to tt\e renqote confers of tt^e ottier for a r\icKel. Several ottier lir\es furr\is]:\ sirqilar extended service, ar|d a double traciv electric rqotor lir\e coq- r\ects ttie t^o cities -witti fl.-rger|tirie, seat of ttie great sn\eltirig enterprise, ttiree rqiles up ttie Ka-W Valley. LIGHTING. ® ® (OTHE' city is n\air|ly illurqirjated ^itt\ elec- *-'- trie ligtits. R coniplete systeii\ of -Water -worKs f urr\isties Y?ater to every part of ttie city, ar\d. telep]:\or\e lir\es cor\r|ect it "Witl:\ all its r\eiglibors. K ^sgmm^ ",y = = SCHOOLS. = = Tlrie pride of Kar\sas is its free scliool systerq ar^d tl^e excellent pilblic sctiools re- sulting tt^erefroiii. Noi]e of its cities are Eqore lavisl^ly equipped \^itl:\ graded ar\d tiigti sclriools, cor|Ver\ier\t to tl\eir every part, tl|ar[ KarisasCity. Iq 1889, tt^e city occupied for its public scliools 21 buildings, cor\tair|irig 210 roorqs, a^d accoii\ir\odatirig 6,000 pupils. II recqarKable fact iq cor\r[ectior\ -witl\ tl\is is tt)at duririg tl^e year about 84 per cer\t of tl\e 26 'A I /^ ER^miE total sctiool populatioq "Was enrolled ar\d ta^ir^g advantage of tl:\ese \\?o^derful oppor- tur\ities for a free educatior\. = = CHURCHES. = = (q)IKE BrooKlyil, Kai\sas City, Kar\sas, arid j.!^^ its rieiglibor as ^ell, rr\ay be called trie city of clixircties. Muc]:\ ii\or\ey is beir^g expended by Various cor\gregatior|s iq pro- Vidir\g ]:\ar\dsoir|e ai\d spacious tjouses of lA^orstiip, ai\d R. D., 1890, ^ill be especially a year of extensive c]:\urcl\ erectior\. Tl\e pronjoters of tl^ese place great Value or\ tt\e ^o^X of tl\e Suqday-Scliool, ar\d ii\ucl:\ effort is giver\ to it. illl are liberally supported, as is ttie Yourig iVLeq's Ctiristiaq flssociatiori ar\d orgar\i2;atior\s of li^e ctiaracter. 27 y V 'T'T is a cause of r\o little astor\isl:\n\er\t 41 to ir\ar\y to learq foi" tt\e first tirqe ttiat statistics st^ov^ Kar\sas City, Kansas, iias a larger i)eigt[borir\g ar\d tributary popula- tioi), -Wittiiq a radiils of 65 rqiles, tl:\ar| eitt^er Ctiicago, St. lyOxiis or St. Paxil ar|d iVlir\i|eapo- lis corr\bir\ed, tt\iis : Chicago has .......... 510,000 St. Louis has 548,000 Minneapolis and St. Paul 392,640 Kansas City 738,000 ^THE foregoing pages faintly outline some of the features wMch those who know Kansas and. Its commercial emporium most thoroughly regard, as attractive. The writer, twenty-four years a resi- dent and. a seeker after the hest, has learned, of no others in which are com- bined, so many of those elements of healthful, prosperous, comfortable liv- ing, or where a people are more alive to and. ahreast of the best nineteenth- century ideas. The Company issuing this booklet is probably better equipped to give relia- ble Information, as to values of proper- 29 PROHIBITION STATE' \ ties and opportunixies for iiome-makmg or money-doulolmg Investmeiits in the city wliere located, tlian any otlier con- cern of its kind. It controls a dozen inside additions in tlie most desirable, sightly portions of the city, pleasantly convenient to quick transit lines and the other many modern helps to good living. By virtue of its extensive busi- ness and large capital it is enabled to make such terms and prices to Its clients that a home or valuable prop- erty can be bought on easy installments, with prospects of greatly enhanced values before the final payments be- come due. I / . I , A prominent feature of tlie Company's business is tlie "building of houses suctL as lot-puroliasers may plan, tlius put- ting a customer in possession of a com- plete home, witli no rental to pay, leav- ing the amount that would represent to apply with other earnings toward an easy and gradual wiping out of the purchase price. Those interested in the matters men- tioned or in having an identity, a home or an investment, in the section named, are cordially invited to communicate with The HustGd Investment Cd,j KANSAS CITY. KANSAS 31 \ ■"\ V, ^ThE Company's facilities for investing sur- J- plus funds at profitable rates of interest, secured by first mortgage on approved productive realty in the Two Kansas Citys, are unsurpassed. Choice securities of that class, based on prop- erty at not more than two-fifths its appraised value, can be furnished on call, in amounts large or small, as investors may desire. Those of $200 to $2,000 are found excellent for wage- earners and persons of limited means. Debenture bonds of the Company, backed by its capital as well as the securing mortgages, in sums of $250, $500 and $1,000, running seven or twelve years with six per cent interest cou- pons payable half yearly at the home of the holder, are prime favorites with judicious owners of spare money. 32 / ^<^ s^Q^J^J^p ^^^ KANSAS EXERCISES THE SAME FASCINATION OVER ME AS SHE DOES OVER ALL WHO HAVE EVER YIELDED TO HER SPELL, THERE ARE SOME WOMEN WHOM TO HAVE ONCE LOVED RENDERS IT IMPOSSIBLE EVER TO LOVE AGAIN. AS THE "GRAY AND MELANCHOLY MAIN" TO THE SAILOR, THE DESERT TO THE BEDOUIN, THE ALPS TO THE MOUNTAINEER, SO IS KANSAS TO HER CHILDREN. — John J. Ingalls. KANSAS IS A FAVORED LAND, WHERE THE SWEET- NESS OF THE VIOLET'S DEEP BLUE EYES, KISSED BY THE BREATH OF HEAVEN, SEEMS COLORED BY ITS SKIES. —Detroit Free Press. 4 !^"^=^ -^^