The Mena weekly star., 1896-09-16

uring center lie in the fact that she is in
 @ .he center Of the greatest supply depot of She known world. To the west are the broad plains, whence come thousands of Msdu or cattle, sheep and hogs; 10 the north
 mS ihe immense tracts of timber land, sei~S SonleS lumber and the hneSt fields lIIed py the agrlculturist whence comes
 grams ana fruits of all kinds; to the south
 bui,dine tne Iron, Iron, lead, zine. coal. lire clay oo, oo..ainS stone and timber districts, whence ,,S. Sle aii the ores and materials for man.
 anuaetuIHls n any kind of machinery; from
 iabonia aSoTri, Tr, Kansas. Iowa, Nebraska, Ok
 ritnrI, ,ditlU1ia, IeAas, Arkansas and Indian Ter
 iln1y ritory come the tributes which aid in de-
 this erea. the ne. manufacturing industry of
 e eT1s sIedt city. The iron and zinc and lead
 9I Missouri is smelted with the coal of
 asa. sansss ss ana Missouri while the vast for
 rnos. or .;a aai qWood timber of Missouri are all
 liars of Is Toy oy side with the pines and pop
 woo. ,1o on IeXas and Arkansas to furnish the
 ,mouuwork ,n, ,o Tor the same machinery. The
 hundreds of thousands of animals each
 year, and as they utilize every part of the
 ,nataSis 'nsre sre comes such an aggregate of
 world passeo HI 'He Ano"H
 wor9S Meyer in the history of the civilized
 of ra as there been such a combination
 n,annfa .niaterial ready at hand for the
 ca+.1a iacturer The hides of thousands of
 for te are sent to the far eastern country
 turned ntne; tn , there made into shoes and re
 root tn tne nides. the people and the canaigre
 as rTa tanning. yet there are thousands year. 1enl Do
 ', Missouri iron, timber and coal are sent ana pul together in smelters and shops ucts, freight being paid both ways again at lne expense of the consumer. Our grain. is aiseo se on the fertile fields of the West, IS sent to Eastern and Northern cities for grinding and comes back to us with the s auueu .a freight as four All the great West va.t ,o tiioulary to Kansas City and in that essary to human happiness It has been trufIhfully truth III said that an impossible wall could could pc built around Missouri and her ha are so great that nine-tenths Of ner people would not know the wall ex- isted What is true of Missouri Is doubly so of the territory that pays tribute to Kansas City. Lying in the geographical center of the nation she is the gateway or the broad domain that has been. aptiy | named the garden spot of the world. Like the center of a vast spider web. she l ls surrounded by network of railroads | teaching out in all directions and running l hundreds of trains daily to supply the | neeos or the population with the necessar- | ,sr.o IsS oI ire. Tapping, as they do, the most | nto the Kansas City market the best prod Icts or the land, making this the commer- E.,,ror E.at center Tor country greater than all :snter or a territory greater than all the eastern and New England states together, population than any n1fh other p epommercial eenr CT in the whole world. While there are 10 other great cities to vie with her for ion in the smaller towns and cities. while he farm land Is covered with the busy 1 usbandmen and the mining region is filled Vltn thousands of laborers who look here s their base of supplies.
 A Great Railroad Center.
 As railroad center Kansas City stands econd in the world Twenty-three great runk lines enter here and receive and dis harge their immense volumes of freight. leading in every direction are what are pown as water levels. and railroads ex- end in all directions like the fibers of n immense web, tapping the greatest pro- ucing country on the globe With five l runk lines to the Pacific coast, touching from the extreme Northwest to the ex- reme Southwest-from Vancouver to Mex ,o-she is ready to send to or receive from nywhere an the Occident goods of all de- criptions. With her trunk lines leading the faE SoEtA aaas ukAaa Gaalk anzzah1sA---,