Free press., 1907-10-19
Prizes for Map-Drawing.

To stimulate investigation of local
history, and to encourage the coliec-
tion and preservation of data, offer
80 small prizes for township historical
maps in the several counties of the
23rd judicial district, to be made by
the pupils of common and high schools.
In each of the counties of Russell,
Ellis, Trego, Cove, Logan and Wallace,
there are offered FIVE prizes of $500,
$500 and $1.OO, and consolation prizes
of so and 25 cents respectively, for the
best historical maps of any congress
ional township in such county.
Every map must be made by the
student who submits it, but no re-
striction is placed on contestants as
to receiving aid in the matter of col
lection of data to be shown on the map
or in explanation thereof.
The maps will be graded by COM
mittee to be appointed by the Kansas
State Normal School, Western Branch,
at Hays, Kansas. The first requisite
of each map will be historical fullness,
thoroness and accuracy, including geog-
raphical and Typographical details.
Next come skill in map drawing, and
neatness.
All maps must be submitted to the
examining committee on or before
May /, 1903, and thereepon shall be-
come the property OF: the Kansas State
Historical Society, to be permanently
kept at Topeka.
1t is hoped that other prizes may be
offered by those interested locally or
otherwise, but in such cases the prize
herein offered will be conferred that
two prizes may not be given for any
one map.
If two or more maps are practically
alike, the committee may refuse to
give more than one prize.
Any contestant may submit maps of
more than one township, if he desire,
or may submit several of the same
township, but the person shall not
receive more than one prize for maps
of the same township. If in any
county less that six maps are entered
in contest, no prize will be given.
All maps shall be drawn on paper,
or cardboard, about fourteen inches
square, on which the congressional
township shall be marked one foot
square, and subdivided into sections
and quarter-sections land preferably
into forties also). Printed township
NloRS 1a IL
by Crane, Hall, Dodsworth and other
houses, and snch as are furnished by
the State Historical Society, or as are
kept in many public county offices.
Work may be done with ink or pen
Gil, in black or colors, but other things
being equal, that map will be best
which is most permanent in its mark
ings and least liable to blurring in
handling.
All points of historical interest shall
be marked on the map by means of
lines, crosses, circles or other charac-
tiers, each of which shall be numbered
or lettered. On a separate paper,
explanation of the numbered (or let
tered) points shall be given as fully as
may be, historically, with dates and
names of persons concerned.
Contestants may choose a townsite
Gncluding all its additions) or any
incorporated city, as the subject for
map drawing instead of a township,
but all such maps shall be at least one
foot square exclusive of margin and
must be drawn on correspondingly
large scale.
The facts may be secured from
books, maps, plats, etc. but best OF
all from the Oldest settlers.
Hoping that there will be many
contestants, and assuring each OF
profit in the contest, whether or not
he wins prize, am,
Very Respectively Yours,
]. C. RUPPENTHAL.