The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-06-24

production of the United States When
converted into -four, it will maintain
one-fourth of the entire population of
America, AMI the value of her two sta
/. piles in the past year equals the amount
of gold IN the United States treasury,
besides leaving sufficient sum of pocket
money TO witness all the pageantiy of
Midway Piaisance and liquidate a few
days entertainment i'll tins magnificent
city, at this interesting period.
The result of this immense corn crop
may be most readily grasped by a single
! days sale in the Kansas City stock wards
of u, S96 head of cattle, 10, 1856 head OF
sheep and q, S04 head of hogs The total
value of stock hapdled in these yards and
those OF Wichita and Hutchinson the
past year will aggregate 800, 900, coo, So
per cent of them having been raised and
fattened on Kansas soil.
The -, 900, 900 acres of improved lands
of five years ago have been increased 10
IS. 800, 600; the wheat area from l ,000,-
600 acres in 1888 TO 4, 250, 600 in 1898.
The average value of these lands will
not exceed Sl0per acre. An experiment
tai crop for ten years with zimmerman
variety Of wheat has yielded all average
of twenty eight and three-fourths bush
els per acre, the value of the same 60
cents. and all cost of producing and
marketing % cents, leaving an average
annual profit of S7.SS per acre.
The attendance in her public schools
Is IS per cent of her population, leading
all her sister states in the diffusion OF
popular education, while she has a
smaller percentage Of illiteracy ard
crime than any organized community on
the face Of the globe.
She has the largest zinc smelters in
the world, located In one corner of the
state, where she has sufficient coal to
furnish fuel for all of North America:
and her output of salt is limited only by
the demand, SIX Counties having veins
OF this commodity from fifty To three
hundred feet thick, sufficient to keep
fresh all the pork to be packed in this
city from the present date until we cele-
brate second quadrennial of the DIS
covery OF America, besides keeping
green the memory of the numerous
lambs who have been led TO slaughter in
that magnificent financial crypt, the
board of trade lOoms.
The mineral product in 1892, consist
ing of lead, zinc, coal, buiiding-atone,
gas, aggregated a fraction less than
$40. 600, 600 in value.
The uncuItivated prairie, constituting
twO-thirds OF the state. produces an an
nual hay crop of 70, 600 tons of the
goes to waste. With twO-tifths Of her
area planted in wheat, the pro-
duct would furnish all the bread, cake,
and even all the pie used in the United
States. \ cloud in the clear sky sends
the bears to their dens, and rain re-
duces the expense of every breakfast
table in the land.
Turning her attention to corn, she &C.
cassiOnaliv produces such immense crops
that this commodity comes in COMPETE
ton with coal for calorific purposes
There IS not one drop of moonshine about
this statement or its subject and yet the
fatalities resulting from snake bites q re
no greater in Kansas than in the blue
grass reg ION.
Corresponding with the increase of
cultivated soil, the value of farm pro-
duets has increased from 1868, 900, 600 in
fSS5-S6 to $3.50, 900, 600 in 1S9l-92 Each
year brings forth evidence OF the mar
Vicious adapta blility OF her soil The
latest success is the cultivation OF alfalfa
which produces four crops of hav in a
season, on one of seed and two of hay.
For horses. sheep. cattle and hogs it is
of superior nutritious quality, the seed
fetches from 50 to 81 per bushel and the
yield seven bushels per acre, sufficient
hay seed 10 supply the agricultural bu-
rean at Washing ton or the dupes of
bunco steerers who are invariably the
of the local banker IL proxim-
ity to the home of the victim.
Kansas raises more chickens that Law
more eggs and has more preachers 10
dispose Of them than any other state
Inhabited.
No human government was ever so
perfect, no human foresight however
reinforced by experience has
been equal to averting results as come of
eras of wild speculation, such as swept
ike a hurricane over the state of Kan
saS q few years ago, yet on the other
hand, no frown of fortune or of political
discomfort seems even for moment to
have retarded the progress of state,
the labors of hose people have been so
rewarded us have those of
the people of this territory of so many
varied and multiplied resources. The
loyalty of her sons and daughters, if not
proverbial, is at least remarkable, in
which fact must be found the only ex-
cuse for my closing sentiments. As
has been said by our most dis
living citizens. "Once a Kan
san, always kansan.' Her peripa-
tetlC investor may move, he may roam,
he may locate on the banks of the
Ganges or under the shadows OF the
Pyramids on GreenIand's icv noun
tains, or even i'll New Jersey. But for
him who has once felt the spell of the
Jayhawkers energetic life, that is
seemingly inspired OF open days OF I'M
ceasIng sunshlng no less than by the
restless breezeS between mountains and
seas that eternaliy sweep athwart her
boundleSs reaches. for such a one to
permanently locate, to live and have ms
being elsewhere, Is Impossible. As Is
the Sahara 10 the wandering son OF
Hagar, the trackless sea to the ife-iong
sailor, SO TO the devotees of the realm
OF the suntlower is the amending green
of his Illinitable pralries. Born in con-
tiIct, nurtured through affection. it is
the pivotal state that links the east and
the west, the north and the south. Still
the unique commonwealth whose pro-
gressiye population are equalled only in
their intellectual energy by their IN
wayerIng faith III themselves as being
equal 10 any emergency and to all oc-
casIons. She Is not alone central but
midway. not alone midway but inter
midway between ocean ana
ocean, of lakes and CUFFS. but inrermedi-
ale III a!titute and in climate equabIe /
and temperate.
There Is more DAYS in Kansas to the !
year than elsewhere, DAYS o. undimmed !
sun, days as perguant OF impulses and
of animated hopes as her iiiimitaJle /