The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-03-30
KANSAS FOR HIM.
One Who Prefers Sunflower
State to Them ALL.
Thinks This the Coming Country
Of Union.
BEGINNINGTODEVELOP
Unlimited Possibilities Here for
the Farmers.
Our Orchards Supply Fruit to
r-ou-v,oI HaoGr - F.
BEGINNINGTODEVELOP
Our Orchards Supply Fruit to
Crowned Heads of Europe.

Parsons. March 30--''Kansas for me- -
exclaimed a local business man recent
ly, after returning from a trip through
Florida, and the southern states. ''They
all boom and shout" he continued
''about Florida lands, about California
about Colorado mines, about New York
manufactures and all that but let me
tell you 1 have Travelled over the United
States on business considerable and
have come to the conclusion that for
general all around qualities Kansas is
good enough for me.
kansas is a new state just begin
ming to develop-has unlimited posi-
bilities for the farmer, merchant, pro-
fessional man and the industrious in
every line. Her orchards are supplying
fruits to the crowned heads of Europe;
her choice wheatS are used in every
country in the world; her corn ranks
the highest in quality, and among the
heaviest yields among the states; her
broom corn is the beSt-and Kansas
has the largest broom corn producing
point and also the largest market for
broom corn-in the entire world; her oil
and gas bring millions of wealth; her
alfalfa is unsurpassed and the crop is
increasing at the rate of $4,000, 900 per
year and there are millions of acres yet
undeveloped adapted to raising this
crop; her table salt is marketed by the
train loads and is the finest in the
United States; her fine stock has car
ried away the blue ribbons in the prize
rings almost everywhere and her horses
are the fleetest to be found-and our
Joe Patchen' and John r. Gentry have
made the racing world take notice. Her
bank clearings are making every finan-
cier in the United States look in Won
der; her per capita deposit of S145
owned by he people is nearly double
that of any other state, nation, king
n mir a~f1 hoF. 100
farmer with his crop amounting to
more than $1,000 produces just about
double what his brother in the greatest
agricultural states further east does;
her melons are sold as Rocky Fords' in
many markets; her freedom of debt is
a marvel to those who investigate; her
poor houses unoccupied, are pointed to
by her citizens as a mark of prosperity;
her jails practically empty, are pointed
to as sure signs of her morality More
than half of the jails and poor houses
IN the state have been entirely without
an inmate for the past two years.
Thousands Of boys have grown to man
hood in this state and never saw an
open saloon nor a drunk man. There
are more automobiles owned by farm
ers-all paid for-than in, any other
state. There are more modern homes
with pianos than most anywhere in the
world. There are groves and orchards,
white houses with heating and light
ing plants. red barns with water piped
through them, auto garages, where a
few years ago the sod house or the dug
out stood-the occupant being now rich
and prosperous.
Thousands and thousands have
grown rich in Kansas in the past ten
years-and the Kansas men can be
counted in large numbers in every wa
tering place in the world-and their
sons and daughter are found in every
leading college and university. The de-
velopment has been quiet-the hurrah
has been for place further on-further
from the great markets and further
from the center of civilization. Taxes
are low, the climate is nearly perfect
not too hot nor too cold-where you can
work, if you wish, out of doors eleven
months and fifteen days out of every
year.