The Iola register., 1896-12-25
ALLEN COUNTY.


Allen county is located in southeast
ern Kansas, and is one of the most
healthfui and fertile counties in Kan
sas. 1t is one of the best counties in
Kansas in every sense. 1t produces
bOuntifully all classes of farm pro-
ducts. 1t produces more fine cattle,
horses, sheep, hogs, etc, than any
other in its section of the state. 1t
grows finer fruit, apples, peach, pears,
plums, apricots and small fruits of
all kinds than any other county in
Kansas.
Allen County ranks high in the
growth of all kinds of tame grasses,
timothy, clover, alfalfa, blue grass
and many others seem especially lux
uriant in Allen county soil and are
fast driving the native species from
the land. Allen county can well be
termed the ''blue grass region of
Kansas.
Allen county grows all known veg
etables with more certainty and less
labor than any section Of country i'm
this latitude.
Allen county has no mountains and
no swamps-the general surface is
undulating and all of it's rivers and
creeks are running streams, not a
stagnant pool or marsh within its
borders. While not rugged and hilly
enough for numerous springs, whole
some and abundant water can be OBJ
tanned from wells Of moderate depth.
Allen county is situated on about
the same degree of latitude as Louis
vile, KY, and Richmond, Va, as
may be seen by consulting the map.
Its altitude above the sea level is ap-
prOximately 200 feet Such a COM
binatiOn is attended by no extreme |
heat in summer nor cruel and dis
tressing cold in winter. The winters |
are of brief duration, comparatively, |
and the summer, or growing season, |
is cOrrespOndinglY long The ther-
mOmeter seldom falls as low as zero,
even in mid winter, and the history
of this section does not record single
death attributed to. extreme cold.
The song of distress on account of de
structive "late frOstsr or ''eariy
frOsts'' is not practiced by our farm
ers. The climate must be classed as
vigorous and is as a natural conse-
quence healthy.
Allen county is accommodated by
three trunk line railroads, the Atchi-
son Topeka and Santa Fe, the Mis-
souri, Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas, giving an outlet and trans
pOrtatiOn to the north, south, east and
west. The eastern cities, the gulf
ports and the western mountainous
and mining States are her markets.
lola.
lola is the county seat, centrally To-
Gated, with 2000 population, a gain of
400 over last year; it is upon the NeO-
sho river, which affords an abundant
water power, has two, railroads, the
n. T. d ST. and the Missouri Pacific
lola is the Genter of the great natural
gas field, now capable of producing
daily, from wells now developed, 75,-
O00,0 900 cubic feet of gas, the equivalent
of $500 tons of the best coal, and the
of gas can be increased to any
quantity desired by the sinking of ad-
wells. lola is also i'm the
midst of vast section of rich agricJll- {
tural lands that Will produce any
thing that is not tropical in itsnature. ,
lola has already made considerable
progress in manufacturing, and now
with cheap gas as fuel, no question :
remains but what her progress will !
be rapid and she will become, ere long !
a manufacturing center of note.
lola has an excellent High school,
a public library, numerous churches ,
Of all denominations, and her full !
Of secret and benevolent
societies.
lola has two banks Of abundant cap
ltal, five newspapers, the INVESTOR, !
Farmers Friend, Sentinel,
Church Bulletin, Daily and Weekly
NeaOs. In the mercantile line lola has 7
six dry goods, four drug, two hard
ware, one (exculsive)clOthing and gents !
one shoe (exclusive) seven
grocery stores, three hotels and two :
gas companies. 6
WHY 7
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