Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-05-26


and crops can be successfully
grown. Also, where the best rail.
road facilities can be obtained
They have visited Pratt, and af.
ter leaving here went to Larned
Spearville, Scott City and La
Crosse. At a later date they will
visit various towns in the sixth
congressional district. We be
lieve, all things considered. that
Great Bend is the best possible
location. Few statistics and points
OF information were prepared
and submitted to the board. Ever,
effort possible was made by the
committee in charge of the DAYS
prOgam 70 the pleaSurable enter
tamment of the guests, and to
give them every possible bit of
information that could be of use
to them. The brief referred to
above is as follows:
Great Bend is located on two
lines of transcOntinental railways
the Santa Fe and the Missouri
Pacific, which traverse the entire
state from east to west. and
which, with their many miles of
branch lines all scheduled to max
close and good connections. give
the city net work of rails COW
ermg the entire state. These
roads serve the city with fourteen
passenger trains, giving our city
at least one hundred per cent bet
ter Accommodations for receiving
passengers than is that of any
other city asking for the IOca-
tiOn of this institution.
Draw a circle one hundred mile
around Great Bend and you will
find the following counties to be
entirely within that circle: Gra-
ham. Rocks, Osborne, Mitchell
Dickinson, Marion. Sedgewick.
Harvey, Harper. Kingman, Reno.
Rice, Mcpherson, Ellsworth, Sa-
line, Lincoln, Ottawa, Russell.
Ellis, Trego, Ford. Lane. Hodge
man: Ness, Pawnee, Rush, Ed
wards. Stafford, Kiowa, Pratt,
COmanche. Barber and Barton.
having a population as taken
from the government reports for
1910 of 1926 as against 361.-
32O in 1900, and a valuation on
the fax rolls for 1910 of. in round
numbers, $934,OOO,OOO.
This same circle will touch
parts of the following counties,
Jewell, Smith, Phillips, Norton.
Republic, Sheridan, Cloud, Clay,
Geary, Morris, Chase, Butler.
Sumner. Cove, Scott, Finney,
Gray. Meade, and Clark. whose
population is 231, 500, and whose
valuation is $431, 100000. The
population of these counties in
1900 was 2O9,O47.
These two lists of counties have
about Il per cent of the pOpula-
tiOn OF the state, and practically
% per cent of the taxable valu-
alton of the state. More than 80
per cent of the increase in pOpNl-
latiOn in the state in the last de-
cade is to befOund in these .cOun-
ties.
= In addition to these counties.
can be given the following, which
lie south and west of a line
drawn straight from Great Bend
In either of these directions. and
are therefor in territoy belong
ing to this city, and not to any
OF the northern applicants for the
hospital; Haskell, Seward, Wich-
lta, Kearney, Grant, Stevens.
Greely, Hamilton, Stanton and
Morton, with a population of 90
S9S, as against 1,165 for ten
years ago, a percentage of in
crease of a fraction less than 200
per cent. The valuation of these
counties is $95,OOO,OOO.
We have not the figures at
hand as the increase in valuation
In ten years. Again, owing to
the change in assessment regula-
tiOns this would be hard to give.
But, the circle above mentioned.
and the additional counties, give
us a territory of 62 counties out
OF the los in the state. 1t touch
es all but the 1St. 2nd and 3rd
congressional districts.
In the 7th congressional dis
trict are to be found two state
institutions, the refOrmatOry at
Hutchinson, and the soldiers home
at Dodge City. In the 9th dis
trict we have the Bickerdyke
home at Ellsworth, the branch