Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1911-01-14

With population of 1,696, ,361-
With 131 cities having more than
1 900 population
With thirty county poor farms
having no inmates of any kind.
With thirty-four county jaiIs hav-
ing no prisoners either under sem
tence or awaiting trail.
With fifty counties having no pris-
oners in the state penitentiary-
With total yield of s3O3, ,914 ,342
from its crops and products in 1910.
With a total value of Its 1910 live
stock of 1924, ,s7s, ,6e1.
With its total grand valuation of
it's crops, products and live stock of
s539, 1913, ,O34.
With over 900 newspapers and pub
lications.
With 81, 329, 400 acres of arabic land.
With death rate per thousand of
only rs. per cent as against 13 to %
per cent In eastern states.
With several hundred thousand
acres of tillable land still open to en-
try.
With irrigation a practical and
proved thing.
With general yearly yield of crops
and products good many millions of
dollars in excess of all the gold and
silver mined annually in the whole
country.
With not a great deal more than
third of the state under the dominion
of the plow.
Witha wheatcrop in 1910 of 1O,OI7,-
339 bushels and valued at s52, 1885,
965.
With corn crop in 1910 of 152, ,s1O,-
sS4 bushel and valued at $40, ,4O2, ,32S-
With 1,87S, ,641 cattle on thousand
hills valued at over $50, ,OOO,O
With almost LOCO, 900 good horses,
worth more than s113, 100000.
With almost 100000 pigs worth
more than S21, 100000.
With almost 1000, 900 tons of tame
hay worth more than 81, 900, 900 and
500, 900 tons of prairie hay worth
over 81 200, 900.
With poultry yards from which
more than $4,000, 900 worth of poul-
try and eggs were sold in 1910.
With about 500, 200 milk cows
which produced more than 80, 900, 900,
pounds of butter in 1910, and from
which was derived revenue of more
than s1O,OOO,OOO.
With potato fields which gave up
over 1000, 900 bushels in 1910 and
brought the growers $4,000, 900.
With sales in 1910 of cattle sold for
slaughter amounting to s78, ,377, 900.
With flour and grist mills whose
output in 1910 amounted to over $50,
OOO, 200.
With apparently inexhaustible field
of natural gas.
| With some twenty-five glass fac
tories, whereas in 1900 Kansas had
none.
With zinc smelters putting out
''spelter'' to a value of more than
$2O, ,OOO, 900.
| With an annual output of coal of
more than s12, ,OOO, 900; and, according
to statements of those in position
to know, the Kansas coal deposits, at
the present rate of mining, will last
1000 years.
With almost 10000 miles of rail-
road
| With salt output of about 2'OOO,-
900 barrels annually, and ranking
of Kansas as third in the worlds salt
production.
With immense quarries of superior
limestone and sandstone for bnild-
ing and great veins of rock gypsum
1 With over so per cent of the state S
population engaged in agriculture.
With more than so per cent of its
population Kansas born, the largest
number from other states being from
other states being from Missouri,
Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, Iowa and
Pennsylvania, in the order named;
the largest per cent of foreign born
being Germans
i With eighty daily newspapers, al
most 700 weeklies and eighty month
j lies.
With church property valuation OF
almost s15, 900 600.
With a school census of sic, ,O61.
With a school enrolment of 39S,
746 in the public schools; with 9,OOt
in the colleges; and $500 in the
parochial schools.
With almost 10000 school build
ings-