The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-12-22
KANSAS THRIFT.
A Good Type. of a Kansas
Community.
What "BIue Book of Lyon
County" Tells.
GROW RICH.
and Its Charmed
Circle Of
Happy, Prosperous People JOY
fully at Work.
FARMERS GROW RICH.
and Its Charme'
Circle Of
EnIporia

One of the handsomest books which
has appeared lately is about a hand
some town in a handsome community
of handsome people. This not only on
the score of general au-round looks.
but upon the batter ground of hand.
some IS that handsome does.
The name of. this. work is The Blue.
Book of Lyon County It is about a.
foot wide and fifteen inches long; has.
a blue cover. but everything, in and
about it, but the name and the color,
On the outside. is bright and cheer
full; it is a terse summary Of a pros-
porous, stypicazs Kansas locality. The
text is by XYiliam-Allen White and the
printing is by the presses of his paper,
the Gazette. The pictures are beau
tiful and mirEore real things, are pho.
tographic reproductions, and fshoW
paved streetsg ma bic .buildin gsa ohomes
and farms that Fills Kansas With pride
and must excite ftlfess won8ersan ad-
~ Han IF S5iitsf9G9 R7A 'tpf saNs - 90
There@ aI ss & 9 1iny .g96a things M
the book eexquisttely printed Oh superb
paper, that a part of, the sayingsl are.
reprinted below They makers sgood
reading for aft. A book like this could
be duplicated over and over again
along similar lin ess all over: Kansas 1t
is typical to a certain extent, and ae-
cotdingTy timely at the close of this
year which has been so good to the
state.
Here IS the extract: a.s.a-
In = Charmed Circle. e
Here il az curious coincidence;
Draw a circle around Emporia, with
"a dius of fifty miles, and you will find
I9-f he
heart OF. eight grand Kansas counties,
the territory commercially tributary to
this town. These counties. with nearly
a quarter of a million people, are the
center of the kingdom Of the Dig raj
steer, and Em9oria is the capltal
thereof And Lyon county Is the heart
of rhe KINGDOM 1t is typical of the
hasts that = found in the other coun-
ties The prairie grass which makes
the steer of Central Kansas the pfloe
of the stock yards. is found here IN
luxuriance. 1t is because TINS grass IS
plentiful. that no caprice of weather
can keep Central Kansas farmers from
I'm all the counties that border on
this county, and in all those that are
outside of the fifty mile radius, from
the north to the south line of the state,
and from one hundred miles west OF
Emporia TO the Missouri river, the
greatest crops of corn raised IN the
world are grown. Wlth1n the faalus
Of Atty miles Of EInporia twenty-five
million bushels of corn were gathered
and most of it Will be fed into the liv-
ing crib of the big red steer before
grass comes next spring
For we have the big red steer ana
his little Jersey sister. with great
dairy product. but we have in addition
to the four-legged friends, the greatest
crop Of wheat ever harvested III ttfs
part of Kansas. The acreage was IN
usually large this year and In the
bottoms which We're. oveTfcwn by the
rising rivers last year, fine sediment
has been. deposited which is making the
wheat of the Cottonwood and Neosho
valleys the best. they have ever brousht
forth.
Fifteen Years, Since Drouth.
ct has been nearly is years since
there has been a drought in, this corr-
try And in those Is years Of, uiickang-
ing crops, the farmers Of this section
have been growing rich. There are now
nearly a million and half dollars IL
the Lyon county banks, and so per cent
of that mcrey is farmers. money.
There is not a rich man IN this town
who has not made. most of his money
in farming. The money OF this towr
comes from the farms, The county and
it's neigh bors are farming counties. ans
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