The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1888-01-05
A Few Facts About RmpOria.

Emporia has four banks.
Emporia has two Touring mills.
Emperia has two street railroads.
Emporia has a csc, 900 opera house.
Emporia has three daily newspa-
pers.
The Indebtedness of Lyon county is
S25S eco.
There are twenty-four churches in
EmpoEia.
The value of the College of Emporia
Is s125, 900.
Emporia has free delivery of letters
twice daily.
Emporia is considered the healthiest
city in Kansas.
The Indebtedness of the city of EN-
poria is 1886, 200.
The farm machinery of Lyon county
is valued at $1,000.
Emporia has excellent water power
GA the Cottonwood.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad is one
Of Emporia's routes.
The school Indebtedness of Igor
county is only 500, 451.
Emporia has two of the largest hard
ware stores in the state.
The cash value Of improved farms il
Lyon county is $s, 60s, 231.5O.
Emporia has the finest and best fur
nished railroad depot in Kansas.
There was 272. 500 pounds of butter
marketed in Emporia the past yea.
Lyon county has better railroad
facilities than any county in the state
The State Normal School that is 10
Gated in Emporia is valued at $3.50, 900
There has not been a business fail
ure in Emporia during the past year
The manufactures of Lyon county
pay annually in wages the sum of S175,
OOa-
Emporia is only few miles from
t1e center of population of the
state.
About 100 railroad trains arrive and
leave Emporia every twenty-foui
hours.
The population of Lyon county &C.
cording to the census returns of 1887, is
IS 92s.
Emporia has a dry goods store that
carries larger stock than any store IL
Kansas.
There is q company boring for natur
al gas in EmpOria, with all indications
Of success.
Several important industries are t.
be added to those already in operation
In Emporia.
The valuation of Lyon county prop
eTty, according to the last tax roll wa.
S7.945, 794.44.
There has been 1,17s cases filed il
the probate court since Lyon county
vas organized.
Emporia has the best hotel facilitie:
in Kansas. The Hotel Whitley is tn,
largest in the state.
There is invested in manufactorie
in Lyon county sS73, $50 according t.
last years assessment roll.
The Santa Fe Railroad Compan,
operate the main line as well as fou
branch lines from Emporia.
The Santa Fe Railroad Company pa
out in wages in Emporia about $50, 90
per month, or $3.50, 900 per year.
The Neosho river on one side and tn
Cottonwood on the other, offer splendi
drainage facilities for Emporia.
The State Normal School and Colleg
of Emporia, combined, have close +
one thousand students enrolled.
Emporia has the best system of wa
terworks in Kansas. It has been re
Gently put in at an expense of S160 ,0OC
The state and county tax levy TO
last year, was $1.12; 40 cents of whic
was for state purposes, that amour
being the state levy.
There were 1876 horses, 1,2l
mules, 16, l9S milch COWS, 81 1854 othe
cattle. II, 184 sheep and "a IA swine 4
Lyon county, according to the last as
sessment roll.
The State Normal, the College G
Emporia and the city schools combine
are valued at over half million do
lars. Few cities, if any, IN the Unite
States can boast Of SO valuable schoC
property.
The total value of school property i
the city of Emporia is S135 1857, o
about SO for each man, woman an
child in the city. This is about one
thirtieth of the value of all the schoC
property OF the state. This does no
include the Normal School or Colleg
of Emporia.
The railroads centering into En-
poria that are built and in operation
are the main line of the A. T. & S. F.
the Missouri Pacific, the Southern
Kansas, the Howard Branch of tn,
Santa Fe, the Strong City extension O
the C. Z. s. w. and the EIinor extern
sion Of the C. x. &W.
RRADHNG DOINcs.