The Wichita daily eagle., 1892-10-20
WONDERFUL KANSAS.


| From the Kansas City Gasstte.
/ Last Monday the Gazette published
the estimates made by Mr. John Null
vane. the banker and capitalist of To.
peka, of the products, gross and net, Of
the farmers Of Kansas for the year 1892.
These figures present pretty conclusive
proof that Kansas is not ION the verge
of ruin," and unless her people are
grossly misunderstood by us. they Will
no. by voice or vote do anything calcu-
| lated to destroy the credit or mar the
good name of the Kansas people. The
| way to advance Kansas farm prices. to
build up Kansas people, push forward
Kansas enterprise and assure Kansas
prosperity, is to work and talk for Kan
sas and present Kansas facts and figures.
| There is more knock down argument for
| Republicanism in the Kansas crops this
year than can be truthfully answered by
all the chrome newspaper and platform
grumblers in the state. The Atchison
Champion takes these figures, made by a
careful and successful business man, and
draws the following remarkable con-
c!usions:
There is another view of this matter
somewhat startling. The total assessed
value of all taxable lands in Kansas in
1890 was STA, sol, ,0l0.40. The total pro-
ducts of Kansas lands in 1899. not in
cluding fruits, wines and honey, was
S2O9, $50. 600, or nearly thirty-six mil
lion dollars more than the assessed value
of all the taxable lands in Kansas.
1.-The surplus farm products Of Kan
sas, according to Mr.. Mulvane, are
worth S92, SOC, 900 or over 53 per cent. of
the assessed value of all taxable lands in
Kansas
"The number Of acres of taxable lands
in Kansas under cultivation in 1890 was
1858, 1873. Call it $4,000, 900 acres in
1892. On that basis the gross income
was nearly $l4 per acre; or nearly three
and half times the average assessed
value of farm lands in Kansas, that be-
ing only $4.0S an acre.
1.-The surplus of S32, 500 600 is equal to
more than six dollars per acre on all the
taxable farm lands in the state, or
nearly fifty per cent more than the
assessed value of the same lands.
But, i'll making this estimate it must
be remembered that there Is large
acreage of farm lands in Kansas exempt
from taxation because they are held as
hOmeSteads.
''Mr. Mulvane's figure we regard as
conservative. They show that the gross
value of Kansas farm products equal In
dollars and cents to ten per cent. interest
on an investment of over two billion
dollars. They show that the farm
products of Kansas for sale in 1892,
equal ten per cent interest on an invest
uent of Kansas farms of nine hundred
and twenty million dollars, or more than
fifty-three per cent. of the entire assess
ed value of all the taxable lands in
Kansas in 1890.
1.-The total number of acres of lands
taxable in Kansas in 1890 was 43. III ,473;
of which nearly thirty million acres
were not under cultivation. Call the
taxable lands this year forty five million
acres, that would give us one-third of it
in cultivation, and upon that basis the
gross farm products of $20S. $50. .000 show
an average of about 81. 66 All acre or ten
per cent interest on every acre, unim-
proved and all, at value of forty-six
dollars and sixty cents an acre, or ten
per cent on about ten times its assessed
valuation"