The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-10-29
Population of City and County
Rich and Prosperous.
BANK DEPOSITS HEAVY
City Boasts of Many Beautiful
and Modern Homes.
Numerous Advantages Offered to
Prospective Farm Buyers.

Fe and the Manhattan, Alma & Bur-
nngame railroads. The city has a pop
ulation of between 1900 and 100 peo-
pie, and is rightly known as one of the
prettiest residence cities of it's size in
Kansas.
Here is the heart of a prosperous
community founded on solid basis Of
coal, good land and sure crops.
Burlingame has the best schools pos
sibIe to organize under the excellent
| laws of Kansas, equal to those of any
city its size anywhere, with thorough
ly equipped high school department,
graded in the highest class by the
| State university, also a post graduate
normal course. Everything in the way
| of educational advantages meets with
immediate favor here, and the schools
are in every way complete.
Church Facilities of Highest Order.
The church facilities are also of the
very highest order.
| new Baptist church was built in
1906 at cost of about s12, 900; the Meth
| odists built one of gray pressed brick
at cost of about $15,000 into which
they put a $1,000 pipe organ in 1908. The
Presbyterians have very neat AMI
commodious church, built a few yea IS
ago, into which they put a very fins
pipe organ in 1905 The Church of
| Christ has very neat little frame
church in very pretty location in the
| town.
Burlingame has never licensed vice in
any form, and good citizenship receives,
here, the honor due it. The city has
considerable population of retired farm
ers. who made a nice competency farm
ing and came to town to spend the bal
ance of their lives in ease. This makes
substantial element in the towns lifa
that can always be found on the RICH.
side of public questions.
Burlingame Is Clean Town.
There has never been a saloon here
since the enactment of the prohibitory
law. nearly 80 years ago. and but one
joint. which Travelled a rocky road for a
few weeks and was closed under an in
junction.
The solid basis on which our pros
perity rests is evidenced by the bank
deposits of the town which amount to
about $500, 000-a marvellous showing
considering the size of the city and
considering also that this money be-
longs to e-people Of the city and the
country immediately surrounding it. In
this connection it might be mentioned
that Usage county, with a population
of about $4,000, has sixteen prosperous
banks.
Burlingame is situated in the heart of
the most prosperous part of Kansas, de-
pendent mostly on agriculture and stock
raising, with prosperous and contented
people, and. affording unlimited oppor-
tun1tfes Tor mOneymaking in agricul-
tural lines. The soil is a rich. black
loam adapted to the raising of corn,
wheat. oats. alfalfa. clover, kafr corn
and kindred crops.
Coal Mining an Important Industry.
Coal is mined around Burlingame. and
this industry affords employment to sew
eral hundred men. This not onlv means
cheap fuel and supply of ready money
in the channels of trade, but in time.
VIII be of great benefit when more thor
oughly developed
In all Kansas there is no town the
size OF this that has better trading ia
cilities, better stores better stocks.
There is no town of like size that has
better homes. better walks, better parks.
or a larger percentage of homes owned
by the people who occupy them; none
with better church and school advan-
tages; none with better moral tone;
none with more highly developed spirit
of civic pride.
Some of the principal business firms
and people that have contributed to the
prosperity and upbuilding of the town
are the First National bank that has
stood the financial storms for years, the
Pioneer State bank, about twelve years
of age, and the Burlingame National
bank of recent organization, the Car
naveaux & Bratton department store,
the E. w. Sellards Mercantile company
and John Hardness in the dry goods
| line, the Miner FAIR Hardware COM
pany and Wilbur & Ross in the hard
ware line, VIM. Smith & Son and the
J. G. Nider Lumber company in the
building material line. G. T. Oliver,
Isaac Imam, c. V. King, Pliley & Son.
l.. A. Dutton and Turvey &, Gabler in
the grocery line, Beale Brothers, boots
and shoes. and H. 5. Jones, clothier.
Charles King
People who come into the community
looking for farm or city homes are well
looked after by f. c. Bra ckney. L. E.
Doty and F. E. Burke. who are the
leading real estate men
In the Shepard House visitors to the
town will find first-class hosiery, pre-
sided over by genial and obliging hosts,
+. J. Williams and wife.
The Burlingame Mill and Elevator
company is supplying a long felt want
by constructing new and up-to date
$1,000 bushel elevator with accessory
storage room amounting in all to rs 900
bushels at cost of more than $4,000.
Is Farmers Land of Opportunity.
Peculiar conditions exist here relative
to the prices of farm lands. The prox-
unity of the Missouri river cities on the
east has advanced the values of farm
lands a few miles east of u.s. and the
interest of the railroads in settling the
more sparsely settled west has doomed
prices west of US.
| Our land prices are low. Good farms,
well improved. at convenient distance
from town and on r. F. D. route and
rural telephone lines can be had at S45
to $50 per acre.
BY the way-Uncle Sam puts the mail
within one-half mile of the door of every
farmer in Usage county. Sayl Don't
you believe this is a good country to
live in?
EXAMINING FEDERAL PRISON.
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