Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1899-01-01

ing in course of erection which will cost
nearly 5000. 90.
Kansas CITY leads the world in the manu-
facIure OF hay presses
Kansas City real estate transfer in 1888
amounted to SIS, Oc0,00O.
Kansas City spent in 1898 100000 in
buildings. including the recently annexed
territory
Kansas City is the largest city west of
Kansas City is the practical head Of navi-
CATION ON the Missouri river
wi haasa IS G Sad5ui mas Of t ie l mTjss Of coal fields
west of the Mississippi river.
Kansas City has The lowest price for
~. 100 inhabitants west of the Mississippi,
the price ranging from BIS TO s. per ton.
Kansas City has the largest Southern
lumber JoDblng business OF any city in tho
United States.
Kansas City handles annually from .0.O0a
to su,UJU horses and mules
Kansas City has li0 miles of paved
streets.
Kansas City is nineteenth in the value
OF IT'S manufactured products.
Kansas City is practically the geograph-
zeal center OF the United States. emitting
Alaska and the Philippines.
Kansas City has I6.60O men employed In
the packing houses and stock yards and
1900 are supported by this industry alone
Kansas City has the lowest death rats
OF any city of equal population in the Unit
ed States. ranging from 10 to L per cent
per LOU OF population
Kansas City has i new free public library
Greater Kansas City has 800 teachers and
5000 pupils in its public schools.
Greater Kansas City has fifty school
buildings valued at s. 800. 900.
Kansas City has 5000 pupils attending its
high schools.
Kansas City has a manual training high
school that cost S2tJ.GD.
Kansas City has twenty-one grain ele-
vators, With a storage capacity of 500 y
bushels and a daily receiving and diScharg-
nj capacity Of l5o@0SS, m
D1CIIy of X Wrb barrels Of flour and 90 bar.
rels Of corireai every day
Kansas City ships its packing house prod
world.
Kansas City supplies the foreign armies
with vast quantities OF canned meats.
Kansas City'S postofice receipts in 1898
Were S62o.0D and something like 1'5.0O0.000
pieces OF mail matter were handled
Kansas City has the greatest Live Stock
exchange building in the world
Kansas City has eighteen systems and
twerty-eight lines of railroads, with thir-
ty more lines represented. tieins Chicago
as the greatest railroad center in the
world.
Kansas City is visited each fall by o5o.oO
people who come TO see the annual After
Harvest festivities.
Kansas City spends s75O.Ooo every year
for its public schools.
Kansas City's park system as projected
Will cost about 100000. aynen extending
over a period of twenty years
Kansas City has the second largest
park in the United States. containing 1900
acres.
Kansas City's public debt. exclusive OF
S,l0o.0t0 water works bonds, Is only 80
90. The water works bonds are redeemed
from water rentals and there Is already
Sl+9.ooo IN the sinking fund
Kansas City owns its own system of
water works and the plant is rapidly pay
ing for itself.
Kansas City has recently extended its
limits. adding 5000 to its population. sew
eral million dollars to it's assessed valua-
ton and doubling its area.
Greater Kansas City has a taxable valua-
ton of 100000.
Kansas City has an oatmeal mill that
uses 5000 bushels of oats per day.
| Kansas City has the new Convention hall.
with the greatest seating capacity OF any
building in the United States.
Kansas City is the largest whisky market
in the West.
Kansas City has the largest flour mill in
the West. and another $4,000 mill in course
of construction
Kansas City has the largest department
store in the West.
Kansas City has the finest retail dry
goods stores west of Chicago.
Kansas City's internal revenue receipts
more than doubled the past year.
| Kansas City does the largest postal bus
mess of any city of its size in the United
! States.
Kansas City laid sS17.f75 worth Of asphalt
! paving in 1898.
Kansas City stock yards received during
1883 li59.022 head of cattle. $3.50 calves.
3.6Is,126 hogs. SSS. $50 sheep, 1861 horses and
mules. making 121 SIS carloads.
Kansas City's building permits for 1893
amounted to 5000, 600.
Kansas City is the mule market of the
entire West.
Kansas City street railways will spend
S+"l"p in extensions and improvements
during 1889