The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-06-01
IS LIVE INDUSTRY
Topeka Is Fast Growing Sand
Distributing Center.
Fifty Carloads a Day Are
Often Shipped Out.
MORE GOOD ADVERTISING
Various Means by Which To-
peka Receives Publicity.
The Real Estate Market Shows
Signs of Activity.

Topeka is one OF the greatest sand
distribut ng centers in the central west.
The industry is growing. The sand
along tie Kaw is said to be of super
ior qua. ity, and hence the heavy de-
mand Cn the part of builders. hi
the local plants are working at full
capacity and the orders are coming in
particularly rapidly, as many as fifty
carloads of sand are sent out to all
parts of Kansas and even into Ne
braska-
The city consumption on the part
of builders and others is often as high
as several hundred loads a day. This
Is used n construction work of all
Kinds, Including the laying of paving
and concrete walks.
tt is Interesting to go down to the
river and note the different methods
that are employed in lifting the sand
from the bed of the Kaw. The Topeka
Sand at the foot of Topeka
avenue has recently installed the latest
system of sand handling machinery.
Through the means of a powerful
motor ard a centrifugal pump the
water ground stone from under the
waters is lifted to an elevation of AS
feet into a drainage bin just south OF
the dixie
load Car il Is Minutes.
From his bin ears are loaded at an
average speed of one in Is minutes.
The motor is in sort of a house boat.
The barge method of obtaining the
sand is used by the southwestern Sand
which has its
neal the foot of Madison street There
are a number of sand scowS that make
their way to an adjacent sand bar, and
through the means of a steam Hftfng
a~pparatus are loaded; then they return
to the river bank where the sand is
unloade4. Their are several other
firms in operation including the f. ID.
Fowler concern, the Wear Sand COM
pany AMI the T. w. Wadsworth firm.
Topeka Is Advertised.
The fact that Topeka is being givet
worldwide publicity through newspa-
per and magazine articles was mention
ed in this column last week.
The storekeepers in Topeka who han
die postcards are giving Topeka good
publicity. Cards bearing small Topeka
remnants are on sale. Then there are
cards with attractive cuts of promi-
nent Topeka buildings and which bear
reading matter such as the following:
I've raveled near,
I've Travelled far;
But in all my travels wide
A town like this.
I'd never miss,
1 speak of it with pride"
Another Advertising Medium.
Several thousand of the 10000 State
Fair premium lists have already been
sent out I'VE this and other states.
In this publication is a Commercial
CAdO AdIC0 S0PPAC1llC4I VI IO |
pages setting forth the many advan-
tages of the city.
Here is an extract from the reading
matter in this supplement:
1T would be a difficult matter to
find a city offering greater advan-
tages than the beautiful capital city
of Kansas. Topeka is the natural
center of the political and social life
of the state-it is a city of schools
and collegeS-and as an important
business and financial center no city
of like size in the United States excels
Topeka.
Topeka is a city of culture-a city
of beauty-a city of homes. The life
and prosperity of the entire state of
Kansas is reflected in Topeka. A
wide awake city, it is constantly
reaching out and acquiring more in
duStries, faster and faster coming to
the front as a most important COM
mercial center.
Mature designed the spot upon
which Topeka stands as the site of a
beautiful city, and the men and wo-
men who have built their homes here
have not outraged nature. Wide
streets with beautiful parking and
terraces and an abundance of trees
and shrubs add to the natural attrac-
t~iveness of the spot. Topeka is dis
tinctly a city of homes; not a city of
palaces n slums, but homes of the
people where the man of moderate