HAND-BOOK )OF(- CONCORDIA
AND cloUd county, Kansas
CLOUD COUNTY COURT HOUSE, CONCORDIA
orEazia^-G-o: C. S. BURCI-I PUBLISHING COMPANY. 1888.
ms: r^i J. H. UDELL. E. E. SWEARNGIN. CLOUD COUNTY BANK, SWEARNGIN & UDELL CONCORDIA, KANSAS.
REAL ESTATE, LOAN AND INSURANCE, CAPITAL, $100,000. SURPLUS, S^.ooo.
Office In Iron Block, T. B. SMITH. PRESCDeNT. W. H. WRIGHT, Vice President. % STURGES, KENNETT £ PECK. Wm. M. PECK. Cashier. C 03STCOK.I3IA., KANSAS. O. B HARRISON, ASST. Cashier. '• Attorneys for the Flank.
I*'.J. Atwood, President. G. V.. Latnkov, Cashier. HOWARD HILLIS, C. TC. Sweet, Vice President. W. \V. Bowman, Asst. Cashier. FIRST NATIONAL BANK, ATTORNEY AT LAW COA7CORDIA, KANSAS.
CONCORDIA, KANSAS. CAPITAL, SIOO.OOO. SURPLUS, $25,000.
Collections made for, and Information furnished to 30x :r,:ec;to:r.s - C. V.. Swekt, Gwi. W. Mahsiiam., Tiieh. I.ai.nt,, C. A. Hktoiknav Eastern Investors. K. J. Atwooii, D. \V. Simmons, Thomas \Vhon«i.
W. W. Caldwell, President. J. \V. Pktkkshn, Cashier. L. N. HOUSTON, II. II. McEcKKON, Vice President. 1*. W. Moitr.AN, Asst. Cashier. CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK, REAL ESTATE, LOAN and INSURANCE, CONCORDIA, KANSAS.
CONCORDIA, KANSAS. CAPITAL, $100,000. SURPLUS, $7,500.
DIRECTORS. J. \V. IV.tkkson, A. Nf.i-son, J. S. Siieak ku, It. H. McEckhon, W. \V. Caldwell, -Correspondence Solicited.- T. H. IlttKKNIAN, JOSKI-II 1'KKHIKK, J. A. KldUY, I). T. DuNN INt;.
W. W. CALDWELL, J. W. PETERSON, President Cili/.ens National Rank. Cashier Citizens National Rank. Real Estate Agent and Loan Broker, CALDWELL & PETERSON, Negotiators of Loans. CONCORDIA, KANSAS. Ten vcars' experience. Have loaned several million dollars, and have never had a All kinds of City Property for sale; also 20 Improved Farms foreclosure nor lost an inve-tor a dollar. Correspondence solicited. from $8 to $20 per acre. Land In larce or OFFlCEi Cor. Sixth and Washington Sts. J. F- ST. CLAIR, small quantltlos for sale. CONCORDIA, KAN. Msniagcr
ISAAC A. RIQBY. JOSHUA WILSON. R. MISELL & CO., ATTORNEYS ^ LAW * LOAN BROKERS
CONCORDIA, KAN. AND
Office In. Proiit :R.oom=: over tlie X'irot aSTatlonal Bank. REAL ESTATE AGENTS.
T. It. Smith, \V. H. Wkigiit, W. T. ItKANtn, \V\i. M. I'kck, DANIEL l_. BROWN, 1'resiilent. Vice Pres't. See.* Ccn.W'est'ii Mirr. Treas'r.
CAPITAL, $100,000.00. INVESTMENT BANKER. Real Estate Mortgages Bought and Sold. The Bankers Loan & Trust Co. Western Farm Mortgages and Farmers' Paper a Specialty. SECDREB to EASTERN INVESTORS the BEST RATES OF INTEREST In the WEST. ^•JT, TJO A. REGULAR U A. N Iv I 1ST G BUSINESS.
Refers I" Firct National Rank of Concordia. Homo Office: CONCORDIA, Kas. Eastern OfTlce: BRANDON, Vt. CONCORDIA «d CLOUD ic^^i
It will be seen that as a State Kansas is twenty-seven years An excellent vein of lignite coal underlies the entire county, old, and that to-day it has over a million of inhabitants, with tax and the hardy prospector does not seem to make a mistake, strike able property valued at $1,005,000,000. Its broad plains were where he will. formerly regarded as an expanse of dreary waste, too barren to There is an abundance of a good quality of magnesium lime produce the most hardy crops, and were known in our boyhood stone in all parts of the county, away from the immediate days as the " Great American Desert," fit only for the haunts of neighborhood of streams, and our farming community, as well the prairie dog, the coyote and his twin brother, the treacherous as the denizens of our cities, are not slow to avail themselves of Indian. the value of this rich find by utilizing the same in the erection That this feeling would in time be removed goes without of comfortable farm buildings and costly cottages. saying; but it was the year of 1870—the Centennial year—that Fire clay abounds in large quantities, as well as an excellent opened the eyes of the entire world, when by one great leap deposit of potter's clay, in nearly every township, but as yet Kansas bounded to they remain almost the front. The Cen undisturbed by the tennial Exposition at hand of the cunning Philadelphia gave workman. to the State an op Cloud County is portunity to display blessed with a soil her wonderful pro of rare fertility, and ducts, and to prop its surface is so free erly represent her from inequalities as recuperative pow to render almost ers. The grand every acre tillable, exhibit was a suc and, as has been cess,which attracted shown, is well the attention and watered by many excited the admira never failing tion of all visitors. streams. It is large The display, made ly traversed by dif in competition with ferent lines of rail the best agricultural roads in almost States of the nation, every direction—an may truly be said to important item to have eclipsed them the farmer or busi all, and Kansas at ness man. In the once assumed her matter of soil, present proud posi CloudCountystands tion as one of the almost jjre-eminent foremost States of and alone. It varies the Union. in depth from six Having thus far, to fifteen feet, and in an imperfect is extremely rich in way, given a hasty organic and vege sketch of our splen table moulds. On did State, with the the river and creek reader's permission bottoms the alluvial I will escort him deposits of ages through that por SIXTH STKHKT, CONCORDIA, i.OOKINC WEST. have formed a deep, tion of it known as dark loam of un paralleled productiveness. The soil of this county possesses to CLOUD COUNTY. a remarkable degree the power of absorbing and retaining This County was organized in 1800; has an area of 720 moisture, owing to a porous sub-soil of marl clay, which square miles, and ranks as the twenty-third county in population. serves as a reservoir to store away water for an after use. Its surface is gently rolling, there being but very little rough This storage is a happy provision of nature, which enables land, and in the water distribution nature has been extremely the land to withstand the injurious effects of a long drouth. lavish, as it is traversed not only by the Republican and Solomon But it would seem enough has already been said to give a Rivers, but also by eighteen creeks whose water supplies are very fair idea of the resources and productiveness of Cloud never failing. County, and the additional fact, that although we have such There arc extensive salt springs and marshes in the iNorth- a county as has been described, there are still thousands of acres western portion of the county, south of the Republican River, of rich, fertile land as yet unoccupied. that will no doubt in Ihe near future prove very profitable to the In passing, it may not he out of place to remark, that in fortunate owners. pnlilics this county inclines largely to the Republican failh. I CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. deem this information proper, and coming within the scope of C01TCOI3]DI^l, an article such as this, and should not be judged from the narrow and prejudiced standpoint of the partisan. Besides it is a well- the metropolis of Cloud County, is situated on the south bank known fact that a person's political faith cuts not a small figure of the Republican River, and is a thriving city of 5,000 inhabi in the selection of his future home. tants. Settled in 1870, its growth has been gradual and perma But notwithstanding our wonderful soil, and almost bound nent. It is handsomely laid out with broad roomy streets; in less resources; setting aside the fact that the Kansan knows this particular not surpassed by any other city in the State. no such word as fail, the propagation of "Mugwumps" has In the matter of cosily and imposing buildings, both public been a total failure. While they may be a perfect success and private, our city has no cause to blush. At this writing in other less favored localities, and perhaps bring forth fruit there is being finished one of the most complete and splendidly after their kind, equipped court the truth might as houses to be found well be told, with in this part of the us they are "flat, Stale. Pleasing stale and unprofit ami graceful in its design, commodi able." In our grand ous and loftv in all young common its departments, it wealth no restric stands as an en tions arc permitted during monument upon a man's re to its designer, and ligious and politi fittingly attests the cal tenets, but he liberality of our citizens. should have an idea—he must be The school fa positive. cilities of our city A stranger com —a m alter i n ing among us is which our citizens not questioned as take a pardonable p ri d e—d esc rvc to his connection more than a pass with the Bender episode, neither is ing nolice, and a he suspicioncd as short article in this to his participation book will be de voted to a consid in that brutal and eration of that sub uncalled for attack upon the life of ject. In this connec that eminent citi tion it may be well zen, the late Mr. to mention the fact William Patterson. that our city finds As one of our local favor in the eyes versifiers has em balmed in song the of our Catholic citizens, from the chief characteris tics of our people, fact that it has and as it so hap been selected as pily represents us, SIXTH STREET, CONCORDIA, LOOKING EAST. the official resi dence of a bishop, with his kind per mission I will here reproduce it. one of the three in the State. This means more than would appear on the surface, as of course an imposing Cathedral, well "The lady bug has wings of blue, furnished schools, and the bishop's palace will necessarily follow. The June bug wings of flame, Already an excellent site has been secured for the above build The Kansan has no wings at all, ings, and workmen are engaged in excavating and hauling rock But he gets there just the same." for the same. So it can truthfully be said, that as an educational center Concordia is destined at no distant day to leave all com This brief stanza so happily represents our people, that .any petitors far behind. attempt to improve on it would be simply a waste of time; one Our city is well and pleasantly lighted by electricity, com might as well attempt to "gild refined gold, or paint the lily." bining an arc and incandescent plant,so that the belated traveler Before closing this brief sketch of our State and County, a need have no fears in his efforts to reach his home. short history of one of the most beautiful cities of the Republi Concordia can lay claim to one of the finest systems of can valley will not be out of place. water-works in the State, just completed at a cost of $50,000. CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS.
Water mains traverse the streets in every direction, furnishing happy abodes of prosperous and contented citizens. our citizens with an abundant supply of pure and wholesome AGRICULTURE. water. •'• j Concordia is emphatically a city of homes. It seems as if I Cloud County has no superior as an agricultural district. nature had combined with man in his efforts to produce beauti The Republican Valley at its narrowest point in the county is ful effects. Skirting the river for a considerable distance arc to not less than five miles wide, and spreads away in places to near be found some of the most delightful sites and eminences, which ly double that width. The Solomon, crossing the southwest have been seized upon and converted into choice building sites, corner of the county has a magnificent valley, but somewhat and beautiful homes erected thereon. Frouting these are shaded narrower. Between them lies a long divide of gently rolling and well-kept lawns, interspersed here and there with choice upland intersected by numerous small streams. Nowhere in all flowers, which, owing lo our Cint: water-works, suffer from no our beautiful State tloes corn grow more luxuriously than on the lack of that very Republican bottoms; essential commodity nowhere have finer —pure water. For crops of wheat been the dweller in the dis grown than in the tant East, as he scans valley of the Solo these pages, and looks mon. The upland at the beautiful en divide produces crops gravings scattered so of both, second only profusely through to the valleys, and thiswork,some allow for many purposes ance should be made are not inferior even if he remains a doubt to them. Corn is ing Thomas. I am king in Cloud County well aware that it re as well as elsewhere, quires a wide stretch and nowhere is his of the imagination to rule more thoroughly believe that the very respected. No coun site of this bustling ty in the State, of the city was once the same area, has ever camping ground of shown a larger yield. the famous Indian But while the re Chief Spotted Tail markable fertility of and his band. Yet it the Republican Val is strictly true, but in ley and contiguous their stead have come uplands is shown in a hand of peaceful the production of warriors whose only corn, it is also dis weapons arc the saw, played in other crops the hammer and the equally profitable,hut plow, and whose not of such extensive motto is peace and use. Wheat, oats, gootl will. rye, millet, sorghum, In conclusion, 1 broom corn, castor would say, that the beans,sweet and Irish engravings herein potatoes are extens depicted are no fancy FIRST I'RKSIIVTKRIAN CHURCH, CONCORDIA. ively grown. Grasses lot gotten up for the of all kinds flourish, occasion, but are in every instance faithful representations of and as the prairie grasses become less abundant, clover, timothy, the originals, taken from actual photographs. As the various blue grass and the annuals like millet and Hungarian increase. lines of railroads, centering in our cily, have determined to Twice only in twenty years has there been a failure of an abund give extremely low rates the present summer, we have taken it ant corn crop. Each of those partial failures was caused by a on otuselves to prepare this little work setting forth the advan dry spell in July and August. Other crops were abundant, and tages of our cily and count}'. while the loss was considerable it had but little effect on the We take especial pride in calling your attention to our prosperity of the country. What other country has done better? county during your promised vacation this summer. We extend Many kinds of fruit are produced in perfection. Until you lo voti and yours a hearty invitation to visit us and see for your have seen the blush of the sun-kissed Kansas apple or the bloom selves the great American desert changed lo a blooming garden, of her grapes, you have not seen perfection, and the taste of and the once arid waste transformed into a fruitful field. The their juices, perfected by long days of cloudless summer skies, uninhabited has become inhabited, and the vast plains held lingers on the palate and in the memory like that of those you recently in common by Indians and wild bt-asls have liccomc llio ate long ago, while a bare-foot hoy. Cherries and strawberries CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. grow abundantly. What do you think of melons weighing from hogs to auv of the dozen railway stations in the county, or fifty to eighty pounds? Not pithy, tasteless, sapless things, but drive the lightest carriage with speed and safely. so juicy and sweet thai it robs the stealing of them of all im And belter than all else, the capital which the farmer needs morality. Just such melons grow every year in our rich, warm to invest is small as compared to Eastern Stales, for, notwith soil, and acres of them!'' Peaches, apricots, plums, pears and standing our advantages, land is comparatively cheap. So vast berries of all kinds are grown, but with less success. Some is the area of agricultural lands in the West, that the price has years show abundant crops, to be followed again by failures. not been at all commensurate with its value. But if advantage But with apples, grapes, cherries and strawberries every year, is to be taken of this fact, it must be done speedily. The home interspersed at frequent intervals with the less certain kinds of stead lands of value are all gone. Each year advances the price fruit, the average .Kansan is content. of farm hinds, and he who lingers is left. The next important considerations are the markets and facil STOCK RAISING. ities for transportation. The railroads havebrought the markets of the world to our doors. Six great systems of railways inter [ wish in ii few words to suggest some reasons why the sect the county, affortling easy facility for transportation, and Stale of Kansas, and more especially Cloud County, is pecul .actively competing in rates. Our products are carried to every iarly fitted for the successful production of the various kinds of
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point of the compass, as the varying demands of commerce live stock. The essentials in profitable stock-raising are: First, require; whether wanted in the cities of the East, or in the a favorable market not too remote; and second, good corn, oats mining camps of the Wcsl; whether demanded by the trallic on and "rass producing land at a comparatively low price, with the lakes of the North, or that of the great gulf on the South. winters of moderate length and severity. Our situation is such, and our railway connections so varied,that Let us apply these tests to the soil, climate and location of we have the choice of the markets of the whole country, and Cloud County. Anil first of her markets. The center of the command the best possible prices for our products. manufacturing industries of the United Slates, like the center of And then think of our excellent roads and highways; all population, has been steadily and rapidly moving from the East the year round in such line condition thai the largest loads arc toward the West. But comparatively a few years ago and such drawn with ease and rapidity. No snow drifts in winter, no center for the whole country was located within the boundaries mud in spring, no ruts, no frozen, rugged knobs. No Kansan of the New England Slates; now it is somewhere in the State starts to market with his wagon box only half full for fear that of Ohio. Michigan, Illinois, Missouri and Wisconsin have its contents will be jolted out, or his team mired in the mud. become great manufacturing commonwealths. Every day in the year he can haul full loads of grain or hay or Again, there lies west of us that great mineral region, CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. extending from Denver to the ocean, designed, apparently, as should the stock raiser come to Kansas? And I answer the the future workshop of the United States. On our south is the question successfully, I think, when I say, that land of the qual cotton and sugar raising belt, which will always depend upon ity above, if located in Illinois, is worth perhaps $50 per acre; some outside territory for its meat and dairy products. In addi if in Pennsylvania or Ohio, from $75 to $100 per acre. Here tion to all this, throughout the West, towns are springing up, the land can be bought at from $15 to $25 per acre. It comes and gradually but surely these towns become the centers of down then to a simple question of computing interest on the manufacturing communities, and to the same extent centers of original cost of the land. A farm of at least 100 acres is neces consumption. In confirmation of the above we will find, by a sary to successfully raise stock. Such a farm in the Scioto study of the past market reports of meat products, that not Valley in Ohio would cost at the least, $10,000; in ihe best many years ago Cincinnati was the great pork center of the parts of Illinois, perhaps $8,000; in the fertile valley of the world. Now Kansas City docs more business in that line than Republican River in Kansas, equally as good land in every Cincinnati ever did, and moreover the market price for such particular can be bought for $3,000. Count interest on the product is almost as high in the Missouri River towns as in the investment at six per cent. Six per cent, on $.10,000 is $000 markets of the Eastern cities, .and the very small margin of dif per year; on $3,000, it is but $180—a profit of $7 , _ ;t^t t? EAST IIRIDGE, NEAR CONCOR 1)1 A, LOOK ING UP THE RICPUIILICAN RIVER. duclion of the article marketed, and I say that the Republican To the intelligent farmer and stock raiser, with but small Valley of Cloud County is as good a corn and grass producing cash capital, the fertile and cheap farms of this valley offer region, acre for acre, as there is in the United States; no better unsurpassed advantages. A $3,000 Cloud County dairy and possibly, but as gootl. There are fields in this valley which stock farm, managed with intelligence and energy, whereon have produced an average of forty-five bushels of corn per acre every growing herb and plant is utilized, will prove a most for sixteen successive years, anil this too with very ordinary cul satisfactory investment. tivation and without fertilizers of any kind. Our winters arc OUR SCHOOLS. dry, with prevailing bright, sunny days and sharp frosty nights. We are, however, not exempt from winter's storms, and the One of the especial recommendations, worthy of the early talkindulged in occasionally about stock caring for itself through recognition of the visitor to this city, is our schools. We do not the winter belongs to pioneer days. In this particular we are write of the public schools alone, because in this land of liberal- situated here similarly to farmers in the East in the same lati minded, free acting, ever energetic people, there are many kinds tude, only that we here are almost entirely exempt from winter of schools. Here in Concordia our public schools consist of a mud and from impassable wagon roads. Speaking generally, chief or High School building, situated upon an eminence com then, our advantages in these particulars referred to above are manding a view of the entire city, and two ward schools, a part at least as great and probably greater than in sections of the of the same grade, each one of which is located with special best farming land farther east of us. Why then, do you ask, reference to health and aesthetics. CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. Dr. Kirk, a profound scholar and experienced teacher, has were "dead sure of makin' a fortin' by fiddlin' in California." located here permanently a select school, in which is taught all Here and there were the dramatic associations, preparing to that can be acquired in any college in the United States. His astonish the natives in the far West. The gambling youths school is in a thriving condition. There is also a very excellent practiced "old sledge," poker and other familiar games, that Catholic school, unexcelled, probably, in America. they might fleece the Western greeuies. It will now be the business of the writer of this article to take up these schools and describe them more fully. It may, WHAT IIECAME OK IT ''. however, not be out of place to make an attempt, by way of When we reached California, the youth with the cracked preface, to free the minds of many Eastern readers from a kind fiddle under his arm was confronted with scenes and sights that of incubus which infects the good people of the older states made his hair stand on end; the poor old fiddle, even in that generally. I allude to the ever present impression that "we dry climate, withered, and he never knew what became of live right under the center of the universe, and the nearer you it. There, crowded together, were the grand master musicians approach to the edges, the closer you arc to the falling off of Germany, of France, and of the great cities of the United place;" a delusion which will be lulled to sweet and quick States. The like had never met his eye nor greeted his ear LINCOLN SCHOOL, THIRD WARD, CONCORDIA. slumber by a little reflection. This preface will consist of a before. The would-be masters of the drama gazed in silent tiny leaf torn from the life experience of the writer, comprising amazement to behold the towns and cities crowded with earth's some of the reminiscences of his youth, for the purpose of illus best stage talent; there were Booth, Macready, Keen, Thornc, trating this theme. Barry, the Mcstayers, the Vincents, besides thousands of lesser In the year 1850, in company with others, he made an over- lights. The writer, who was there to engage quietly in a pro laud trip to California from one of the older States. Of course fession, was glad, though astonished, to find things thus. He it could hardly be expected that in a territory towards which so was a youth then, but has since thoroughly learned both East many were rushing, "and all for gold," that we should find and West; and a gray head bows over the lines he is writing. cither education or the fine ails. Each night on "the plains," It is no longer.the East, but the West, which raises in his mind when the dew-drop signaled the stealthy approach of quiet rest, thoughts of energy and completion. anil no storm of snow or sand greeted us, might be seen at one The leading men of Concordia know the East; its advan tent two or three patient youths sawing on old fiddles, preparing tages and disadvantages. Many of our old citizens have been lo make music for the hungry Californians, who must be with teachers in the East—some in graded schools, some in colleges, out that article in the far West. The old gents would sit around and many in select schools. The continued rush for our excel the fire and smoke, and nod approvingly as they said the boys lent climate, our productive soil and land of excitement, brings, CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. The Third Ward school-house comes next in order. This anion-' other things, the most energetic, stirring teachers. We is a fine brick building, two stories, -10 ft. by 00 ft., and well are thus enabled to choose the best. This is no place for those supplied with all the necessary appliances for modern school teachers to come who are failures in the East. work. The total expenditures upon these buildings and their Go with me, kind reader, from the center of our city, and furniture is between $50,000 and $00,000. visit our public schools. As we move through the overhanging Every one who looks through our public school buildings shade trees of maple, elder, elm and catalpn, which bend their expresses high appreciation of their superiority. graceful branches overhead, and smile to each other across the streets, you mav pause to remark on this beautiful May morning, PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS. "I thought there were no trees in Kansas." But, come on. We pass now to our Catholic school. This is under the As we go along, notice the varying tints of the rich flowers charge of the Very (native of theprairies) Rev. J. Perrier, Rec as they nod and smile tor. It was finally es under fountains by the tablished in 188-1, The way. Now, you begin building, itself, is 1.10 to see that huge octa ft. by 75 ft., three stor gonal, brick building ies high, to which we upon the hill, through may add the juvenile the depths of the sur department—2(1 ft. by rounding forestof love 10 ft. This school, ly shade trees. Let too, is furnished with me tell you as we go. the very best of teach It is 103 feet in the ers, and all the modern clear; has eight well languages arc taught paid teachers, andfrom by teachers thorough four to five hundred ly competent not only pupils are in daily at to speak them, but to tendance. The most command their finest newly improved meth literature. Here young ods of teaching are ladies are taught the used here. There are fine arts, such as music, noinstrumentsof mod painting and needle ern invention, useful in work, together with teaching, neglected. all such studies as arc Excellent order and taught in the very best discipline prevail. schools. All of the Your aspiring son or school buildings al daughter may study, luded to are provided surrounded by scienti with excellent bells, in fic luxuries and com whose musical chimes petent teachers, until the Concordians justly prepared for college. lake great pride. An Then he may repair advantage of no mean to any of the many kind possessetl by the efficient institutions of inhabitants of Concor learning in this State, dia is,that while study or he may have much ing any desirable mod the same style of tui MILES FROM CONCORDIA. ern language, the pupil tion at Dr. Kirk's select VIEW OF LAKE SIRI.EY may daily mingle with school those who speak that language-an advantage appreciated This building, which we are visiting, aside from its educa most by those who have earnestly applied themselves to the tional facilities, is provided with ample dressing rooms, wide and spacious stairways, excellent steam heaters of the direct study of modern languages. method, and the purest and healthiest of water. There arc in But this article is not written more in the interest of Con regular attendance about four hundred students. Passing down cordia than in the interest of truth. With this thought as the to "the First Ward, a few blocks north and west from the High motive power, the writer feels bound to admit the fact, that the School, is the school-house of this ward (a part of the same sys average country schools around and about us arc far ... advance tem), called the "Garfield School-house." This is 00 ft. by 25 of thcTsame class of schools in the East. Let us call your alien- tion to some striking differences. ft., all that is needed in the First Ward at present. Like the Our Western teachers are, as a rule, cosmopolitan. If one other, it is situated in a grove of shade trees, in whose branches emraoe in a Western school, he takes up the lines (presumably) merry little twittering birds sweeten the hours of labor, spring with"more or less knowledge of Western life; he ,s familiar and summer. CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. RESIDENCE OK W. W. CALDWELL, CONCORDIA. It IRON III.OCK OK THE CONCORDIA INVESTMENT CO. 1(1 CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. with Western arts and Western advances. In short, he is in vested with a degree of intelligence on all such topics. So far let us keep the comparison up, lest we neglect it. Our Eastern teacher is necessarily ignorant of all these things. As a rule, he is brought up in some adjoining neighborhood, and is intellectually cramped. This difference is all on the side of our Western teacher; his pupils seem to absorb this expansion of thought from him philosophically, and are improved. The modern teacher is expected to teach more than is found in the text-book. But what kind of teaching shall we expect from him, if his knowledge be confined to one locality? Our Western teacher is seldom born in the locality where he teaches. Our green expansive prairies are everywhere dotted with little white schoolhouses, which we think are fully up to the average country school anywhere. All new excitements, new drill methods and school journals are appreciated more highly and quickly West than East; probably because this is the land of new things. Few come here who are not free to catch the inspiration of novelty and experiment. But this is not all. Here, where competition is rife, teachers find that they must fit them selves to teach, or they will be unsuccessful. Still there is room for educational advancement in the direc tion of more advanced institutions. Here in our city the initial work for a university should be commenced. The more learned professions would not be in demand at once, but as each demand is supplied new ones will arise. A chartered college would pay some enterprising body of the scholastic faculty well. There is, in short, more space to till in the upper walks of education than in the lower. The healthy tone which our schools are taking on is truly flattering. Our past advances point with prophetic pride to a future when the great West will be the educational center of the country. FIRST n.M-TIST CHURCH, CONCORDIA. MINES AND MINERALS. The mineral resources of the county, so far as discovered, are of no small importance, and give promise of still greater riches to be hereafter developed. Coal, building stone, lime, potter's clay, and clay for building and fire brick, are the princi pal minerals now in use, while the extensive salt marshes on our borders indicate with almost absolute certainty beds of rock salt at no great depth. The coal is of the lignite variety, and is extensively mined for local consumption, but owing to the remoteness of the mines now opened from lines of railway its production is yet in its infancy. It is unsurpassed for use in the cook stove and grate; for while it produces considerable ash, it burns with a steady heat and but little smoke or soot. Its value is best shown by the fact that it is the principal fuel used in the county. This lignite coal will also have great value in the newly developed sugar industry. Professor Swenson recommends its use as the best method of carbonization of the sorghum cane juice. The principal building stone is the beautiful and far famed magnesian limestone, that cuts like chalk when quarried, but hardens on exposure. It is used in all classes of buildings, from the court-house down to the cow-shed. Our bridge piers are constructed of it, and many smaller bridges are entirely built of it. It is made into fences and sidewalks, besides serving innum erable uses of minor importance. A good quality of lime is easily produced from it and generally used. There is also abundance of brown, red and gray sandstones in various parts of the county, hut they are little used in comparison with the lime Itl'.SIDKNIK III' r. II. UII.I.AKll, CONCORDIA. stone. CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. CATHOLIC PRO-CATHEDRAL AND IIISIIOP's RESIDENCE, CONCORDIA. Potter's clay of good quality has been discovered in several abundant in the vicinity of Concordia, and will doubtless be the localities, and the Clyde Potteries have for several years been foundation of a large manufacturing industry here at an early- manufacturing it into first-class ware, and largely supplying the day. Building brick arc made here in large quantities and of trade of Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska. It is good quality, not only for home use but for export as well. RESIDENCE OF I.. A. I.AUTI.KTT, CONCOR Dl A. RESIDENCE OK W. T. I1RANCII, CONCORDIA. 12 CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. The experiment of making pressed brick is being tried with every promise of success, :ls the material seems to possess MORALITY AND RELIGION. every desirable quality. The considerations which govern the selection of a home Thus far we Know. But there arc strong probabilities that are not a few. It is not enough that the climate is healthful; even greater mineral wealth is waiting but very little exertion it is not enough that the prospect for wealth is promising. The' for development. The salt field of Kansas is already developed one is important, the other, no doubt, desirable, and yet one may to such an extent that there can beno doubt that it extends from have both and still find ample cause for discontent. the salt marshes on the north borders of our county southwest to similar marshes in the valley of the Cimarron. Along this line In choosing a home, a prudent man will not only note the the drill has penetrated at various points beds of rock "salt from position of a given locality on the map, count its railroads, enu- merate its population, ascertain the productiveness of its soil CITIZENS NATIONAL RANK IIUII.DINO, CONCORDIA. seventy to one hundred and fifty feet thick, at depths cf seven to nine hundred feet. measure its annual rainfall, and guess at its probable growth, but The coal now mined in the county lies very near the surface. he will go below the surface of bare materialism, and seek to Thicker beds of better quality probably lie below at accessible know the character of the sovereign under whose rule he is to depths. Preparations are now being made for a series of bor place himself. It matters not so much what laws are on the ings for the purpose of proving the corrcclness of these beliefs, statute book, as what principles are in the hearts of the people. anil (o ascertain with certainly the amount and character of these' If a law is not ratified by the popular judgment, it is powerless- deposits. It is not unlikely that these borings will develop rock while the will of the people, if not expressed by present law,' gas as in other portions of the State. Whatever the result of will quickly mould itself into legal enactments. We are ruled future explorations may he, enough has already been discovered by the public conscience. From the school district to the nation and tried to demonstrate the great and varied utility of our the same power holds sway, and its decree is absolute. It is mineral resources. well, then, to inquire, What of the people? What of their intelligence? Their morals' Their religion' When these CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. 13 questions are truly answered, the portrayal of the composite " beat their swords into plows and their spears into pruning character will be complete, and their answer is not dillicult. hooks," and, with their families, turned their faces toward the The public does not wear a mask; the people en masse do not wilderness to subdue it. At their approach the red man and the prevaricate. The school buildings bear testimony to the search bison fled. The dry land of the desert was stirred, and, lo, after knowledge; the records of the police court tell in senten it yielded i(s fruit abundantly. They were a wise people, and tious Saxon the story of crime, and the church spires silently while they underwent numberless privations, they laid the foun testify to faith in the Infinite Goodness. dations of the commonwealth deep and broad. They built sub That Kansas, morally, is the peer of any Stale in the Union stantial and commodious buildings, in which were held day will scarcely be questioned. She was born at a time when the schools and Sunday schools, religious meetings and political atmosphere of the nation was heavy with strife over a moral meetings, concerts and caucuses. The school-house was the III.OCK OK 1). r. DUNNING AND K. W. STURGES, CONCORDIA. question of stupendous magnitude. She refused the honor of focus at which centered, in the days of the pioneers, the religious, statehood until that dignity couldbe hers, unsullied by the groans political and intellectual life of the community. of men held in bondage. It was "Bleeding Kansas" that fired Years passed and the Sunflower State waxed strong. Then the Northern heart to resist the demands of the slavchokling came another great moral question and claimed the attention of aristocracy, and by her was hastened the "irrepressible conflict" her people, and again she pronounced judgment in favor of that freed a race. When Ihc storm broke upon the nation she, humanity. The saloon was banished from within her borders. in greater proportionate numbers than any of her sister States, It was a step that won the admiration of the world, and placed sent her sons to blot out in blood the national disgrace. When the her in the front rank of Christian civilization. In the success of task was done, they came home to find the State poorer and less this movement Kansas is pre-eminent. populous than when they left it; to find much of their property But to bring the question to the "snubbing post": Concor gone, and themselves paupers except for the wealth of courage, dia is fully abreast, and perhaps ahead, of the average sentiment grit and experience of which death only could rob them. They of the Stale. We think we live in "no mean city," and are con- II CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. HLOCK OK KIRST NATIONAL RANK, N. II. RROWN AND J. S. SHEARER. lident that few Western towns can boast of superior attractions. beauty of the city. They have also a convent and school which Drunkenness is practically a thing of the past. The leading has already acquired a reputation that brings many pupils from protestant denominations have vigorous organizr.tions, and the various portions of the State. The Baptist church occupies a Catholic Church has made this city the seat of a bishopric. The handsome edifice almost in the heart of the business portion of church has acquired extensive and valuable property, and has the city. The Methodist Episcopal church has outgrown its begun the erection of costly buildings that will add much to the present home, and is preparing to build with an eye to its prc- lNTERIOR A. E. I.ASNIlilt's STORK, CONCORDIA. INTERIOR CONCORDIA HARDWARE AND CORNICKCO'S SALESROOMS. CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. 15 sent prosperity and future greatness. A fine stone church on a expect marked success and rapid development thai docs not gain slight eminence is often taxed to afford room for those of Pres the facilities of rapid and direct communication with the great byterian preference. Then we have the United Brethren with market, manufacturing and export cities of the country. That a new house, and the Swedish Baptist with an old one, and the our citizens have been quick lo realize this fact, and improve Episcopalians who hope for one sometime, and the Young every opportunity that offers a betterment of their transport Men's Christian Association, wdiich has valuable lots upon which facilities, is best attested by the fact that Concordia now has in it hopes, before many years, to place a costly building; and the I active operation the four largest railroad systems west of the Young Woman's Christian Association, whose aim at present 1Missouri River, connecting direct with all their great outlets. is for spiritual blessings only. The Union Pacific, running to the Southeast, via Topeka, Thus have vvc grown and prospered in things spiritual. gives a direct ionic to Kansas City and the East, while the line The Masons, Odd Fellows, United Workmen and Knights of running'west to Denver gives easy access to Colorado, and gams Pythias, each have strong and prosperous lodges, wdiich do an j the highest market for poultry, eggs and dairy products. GARFIELD SCHOOL, CONCORDIA. amount of charitable work of which the outside world knows The Missouri Pacific • Railroad, running straight east to Atchison, and thence to Kansas City and St. Louis, opens their little. We live in the rush and whirl of the Occident. Our lives •Teat pork and cattle markets to our stock raisers. West of are full of action, and hand and brain find little rest. A great Concordia this system has two lines of road, one extending and rich wilderness is blossoming into-civilization about us, and directly west to the Colorado line, while the other reaches north we are busy plucking the flowers of opportunity. But, with west into Nebraska. all this, we remember the words spoken 3,000 years ago, and The Burlington route reaches this point from Chicago, via we know they are true: "Righteousness exaltcth a nation, but Omaha and Southeastern Nebraska, and runs through cars for sin is a reproach to any people." both passengers and freight direct from Chicago to this point. The Santa I'c Railroad was built to this point on the first RAILROADS AND COMMERCE. of January last, and with its customary energy is already push In this age of marvelous growth and progress, in this land ing out into Nebraska on the North. This road not only gives of active competition in every branch of trade, no section can access to all Southern Kansas and its lines to Mexico and South- CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. crn California, but also affords a direct route to Galveston, now nearly to the Colorado line. That this road will be pushed Texas, whence the Santa Fe's line of fast ocean steamers run through to Denver at no distant day is beyond all question. It direct lo Liverpool imd the old world. That this last connec will then become one of the through trunk lines west from the tion must be of almost incalculable value to a grain producing Missouri River, and when in this connection is noted the fact region like this, is a foregone conclusion. Liverpool prices for that Concordia is the only town of importance between the grain govern the markets of the world. That wheat and corn river and Denver, on the whole line of road, the possibilities of can be shipped from Galveston lo that port at practically the this young city are almost startling, as in so vast a stretch of same cost as from New York, has been demonstrated. So that country which is being so rapidly occupied, some large manu the saving in freight between the cost of transportation to New- facturing, jobbing and distributing center is sure to be built up. York, with an extra transfer at Chicago, as has heretofore been That Concordia, situated as she is in the heart of so fine an the only method, and the freight to Galveston, must in itself agricultural territory, with her water power, her magnificent make a handsome profit to every producer. railroad connections and present superiority, will be this center, These ro.tds are all in active operation, and do not in the seems beyond all doubt. slightest sense exist on paper only. The subject cannot, how The field for many enterprises of the character suggested ever, be fairly dismissed until (he attention of the reader is already exists; for the establishment and growth of the many called to what is still actually in store for Concordia in the way new towns springing up all over Northwest Kansas and Southern of additional railway connections. Bonds have been voted in Nebraska demand a nearer point of supply than they now have, acceptance of a proposition from the Missouri Pacific Company and enterprises to fill this want are already being successfully to build a direct north and south road through the State from undertaken here. But more are needed, and the attention of this point, which, besides rendering Southern Kansas easier of capitalists desiring an active employment for their funds is access, will also give a better connection with the line of the invitvd to a consideration of the facts, for it is believed that same road through Texas to the South. The line of the same surer and safer returns can nowhere be found. Perhaps the road running (o the West from Concordia, as has been stilted, is most pressing need just at this time is for a packing house, CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. 17 which can be more than supplied, situated, as it would be, in j ing center from which to draw its supplies. Concordia is des the very heart of the finest corn, cattle and hog producing ] tined to be that center. Her geographical location pre-emi regions of the State. Its products, prepared for immediate con- I nently fits her for the place; her complete system of railroad sumption, could be transported to the mining regions of the connections and competition is such that she has easy access to West, and to the markets of the East far more cheaply than by all the country that is tributary to her; her unexcelled water- the present method of shipping the live stock to Kansas City power, her extensive coal fields, her boundless quarries of and St. Louis, there to be prepared for consumption, and a hand superior building stone, her natural drainage, her beautiful and some margin be left for both producer and packer. healthy location all conspire to this end. In fact, she has already Nor can a better field be conceived for the profitable estab taken her position in the front rank of the cities of the Great lishment and operation of a canning factory than is to be found Northern Plain, and is to-day sending out her wares and com here, and handsome inducements have already been offered to modities, manufactured by her own hiinds, all over Kansas and any one who will undertake the enterprise. The land is here, adjoining Slates. We can speak here of only it few of her the gardeners arc here, the market is here. manufacturing industries. The examples of opportunities could be multiplied, but THE CONCORDIA ROLLER MILLS. enough has been said to show in some measure the growing The mill, a four story stone building, equipped with all the opportunities of this ever widening field for enterprise. The latest improved machinery for manufacturing the finest grades citizens of Concordia arc keenly alive to the advantages of their of flour by the full-roller process, is situated upon the right situation, and stand ever ready to generously forward every bank, and derives its power from the waters of the beautiful move to advance the business and commercial progress of their and historic Republican River, across which is thrown a semi city anil State. circular mill-dam of aitistic and ingenious design, presenting to MANUFACTURES. the eye ia most pleasing and picturesque scene. Indeed, this is It is in the natural order of things that the northern part of one of the finest water powers in ihe Slate, and the mill, among the great State of Kansas should have at least one inanufaclur- Ihe best and largest, having a capacity of 150 barrels of flour per 18 CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. IIRIDGE ACROSS REPUIII.ICAN RIVER, NORTH OK CONCORDIA. day, and storage room for fifteen thousand bushels of grain, business, operates a magnificent electric light plant, consisting of with an elevator of fifty thousand bushels capacity in process of three dynamos, seven and one-half miles of wire in two distinct erection. and complete circuits, seventy arc lights of two thousand candle- The Concordiii Milling Co. is financially the strongest mill- power each, and ninety incandescent lights; making Concordia in"- concern in the State, and, in addition to its regular mill the best lighted city in the West. RAILROADS AND ELEVATOR, CONCORDIA. CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. Ill The entire mill ami electric light plant has cost the company makers' rooms, finishing room, engine room, ollice, etc, fully over one hundred thousand dollars, and is alike creditable to its equipped with the latest and most improved machinery—all run owners, as well as to the City of Concordia. by steam power—for the manufacture of all kinds of iron work, \% sounVajrtsI 3S ^ly"inclirpoj iit'tftt- '^•iiitt a jo'il{f'-';stOJ RESIDENCE OK S. SHEARER, CONCORDIA. TJlJi CONCORDIA FOUNDRY. columns, sills, plates, stairs, railings, cresting, machinery cast This is a two-story stone building, 44 ft. by 100 ft., divided ings, turned iron work, etc. This foundry has only been in into moulding room, machine shop, wooil workers and pattern- operation a little over one year, and yet their work Ims gone all HANKERS LOAN AND TRUST CO. S IIUILD1NG, CONCORDIA. CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. 21 Trust Company's building (see cuts in this book), was all done at the Concordia Foundry, in a manner and style eminently satisfactory, and to that work the Foun dry Company can point with pride, for it cannot be excelled East or Wesl. THE 1 X 1. PLOW WORKS have been in successful operation for a number of years, and have sent out some of the finest and best made plows to be found anywhere. They make it specialty of sod-breaking plows, and find ready sale for all they can manufacture, not only in Kansas but in Colorado and Nebraska, and it is ii fact that they have sold a few plows even in Missouri and Illinois. They have recently incorporated under the laws of the State iulo a joint stock company, thereby greatly increasing their capilal and the facilities for their work. They have added it fine steam engine to run their machinery, and as at present organ ized they arc destined, at no distant day, to become the leading agricultural imple ment manufactory in the State. They have the experience, the energy and the money — three very essential factors of success. THE GALVANIZED IRON' CORNICE COMPANY, Chartered by the State of Kansas, has only been organized a little over three months, and yet they have manufactured and shipped cornices to many towns North 1JETOUXRAY AND LASN1ER III.OCK, CONCORDIA. and West. They have made the entire cornice for some of the finest buildings over Northern Kansas and Southern Nebraska, showing that they can successfully in Northern Kansas. (Sec cut of Bankers compete with the foundries located farther east. Loan and Trust Co. in this book, as a The iron work for the Citizens National Bank building and the Bankers Loan and sample of what they can do.) They can make anything in the cornice line. Their orders are coming in faster than they can be filled, and the company will have lo increase their capacity and add lo their working force long before the expir ation of their first year, in order to be able to supply the demand for their goods. IIUTLF.R IIKOS. WIND-MILL FACTORY. This institution is extensively engaged in the manufacture of a wind engine of new design and superior merit—the in vention of Mr. F. L. Butler himself. This mill finds a ready sale, and its man ufacture gives employment to a large number of men, who arc busy taking the raw material and fashioning and shaping it into as good a wind-mill its ever "stood out" against a Kansas zephyr. Each mill is artistically painted in the conven 11RICKYARU OF NliLSON MARCOTTli, CONCORDIA. tional wind-mill colors of " Red, While CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. CONVENT OI-- NAZARETH AND ACADEMY OF CONCORDIA. and Blue," bearing the trade mark: "Butler Bros., Concordia, ! men and beasts, will prove a silent, though giant monument, to Kansas." Thus each wind-mill as it goes out upon its errand of : the skill and genius of its inventor, to the energy and industry mercy, pumping water for thousands of thirsty and famishing | of its manufacturers, and to the manufacturing facilities of 533 Mll.l. AND MAM OF TIIE CONCORDIA Ml!.UNO CO. CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. of sash, doors, blinds, stiiirs, furniture and all kinds of turned and carved wood work. They have built some of the finest stairs in the city. They arc making a specialty of the manufacture of " Southworth's Patent Kitchen Safe," a Concordia invention, and one which is fast finding favor in all the J. E. 1IURKUS Itl.OCK, CONCORDIA. towns and cities where it has been introduced. They employ a large force of the most skillful mechanics, and run their entire machinery by steam power. THE SCREEN DOOR FACTORY 1)1'' W. T. SHORT is it mammoth concern of its kind, run by steam; completely lilted up with all the machinery necessary for the manufacture of screen doors, sash, blinds, doors, counters, oflice furniture, etc.; in fact anything that is made of wood. CLOUD COUNTY RANK, CONCORDIA. Concordia. THE SASII AND DOOR FACTORY OK SOUTH- WORTH ,t SMITH occupies a large frame building, 44 ft. x 110 ft., fitted up with the latest and most approved style of wood-working machinery, for the manufacture i RESIDENCE OK J. W. SIIKAIOR, CONCORDIA. THE WOOD TURNING AND SCROLL SAWING SHOP OK THOS. MCCUIRE RESIDENCE OF W.M. IIASKK.TT, CONCORDIA. is a large factory, thoroughly fitted up with steam power machinery, for CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. working wood into all kinds of necessary articles, brackets, FACTORIES NEEDED. newel posts, stair rails, ballusters, doors, sash and all kinds of Concordia needs, and must have, and will aid liberally, the furniture. following industries: A Pork Packing House. Cloud County is the center of the seven largest hog producing counties in the State, and Concordia's railroads bring her into direct communication with as many more. In fact, no other city in the State is so favorably situated with reference to the pork growing area. Two-thirds of all the hogs raised in the State arc within a radius of 75 miles from Concordia. A Woolen Mill. The fine water-power of Concordia, to gether with the fact that Northern Kansas is the sheep's nat ural paradise, enables us to truthfully make the assertion that no other city in the West possesses the natural or acquired advantages that Concordia does for a first-class woolen fac tory. A Canning Factory Concordia must have. Vegetables and small fruits, corn, tomatoes, cauliflower, beans, peas, cucumbers, pumpkins, squash, strawberries, raspberries,black berries, gooseberries, cherries, plums, peaches, etc., etc., grow better in no country on the face of the globe than in the great Republican Valley. One of Concordia's most enter prising citizens, Judge D. L. Brown, has offered 40 acres of his fine bottom farming land to the first company who shall RESIDENCE OF TIIEO LAINO, CONCORDIA. build and operate a first-class canning factory at Concordia. Hon. D. M. Stackhouse, County Treasurer, offers 12 acres of II11ICK YARDS. as fine land as is found in the valley, and adjoining the City of Concordia has two brick yards where the common red brick Concordia, for the same purpose. arc made in sufficient quantities, not only to supply the enormous A Glucose and Starch Factory. With an abundant supply home demand, but for shipment by the car-load to the adjacent of pure fresh water, and with " Corn as King," it is only a mat towns for 50 to 75 miles either way along the various lines of ter of a very short time until Concordia has a starch factory, and railroad. an oatmeal and hominy mill. Mr. J. A. Rigby has just added a full set of machinery, and A Pottery. The finest and purest potter's clay to be found otherwise fitted up his yard for the extensive manufacture of anywhere is to be had in great abundance near Concordia, and Terra Cotta or Pressed Brick, and the cities of the North west will no longer have to send to Kansas City for their pressed brick—an article which is entering more and more every year into the construction of our finest buildings. CIGAR FACTORY. Mr. Chiis. Voss has a factory, fully equipped with all the facilities for producing the finest cigars in the market. He makes it a specialty to supply, first, the home trade; but still he keeps one man on the road, and finds no trouble in sell ing all the goods he can make. His cigars have become very popular among the smokers of this part of the State. He uses nothing but the best of stock. Being a practical cigar maker himself he gives his personal attention to the manage ment of his factory, and has thus, by strict attention to busi ness and to the wants of the trade, built up in the last two years an industry that is both profitable to himself and cred itable to Concordia. POP FACTORY. Mr. E.J. Messall has a complete and well arranged fac tory for the manufacture of soda pop and other temperance drinks, and has worked up a large trade for his goods, both at home and abroad. A soap factory has just been started under the proprietor ship of J. J. Frishie, Concordia's pioneer butcher, and it is sure to succeed, as the material is here In abundance, and the demand is sufficient to consume all that can be made. RESIDENCE Ol- \VM. M. IM-UK, CONlORIHA. CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. RESIDENCE OF C. W. MCDONALD, CONCOR 1)1 A. the freight on earthenware and drain tiling from Illinois, where and wagons can be manufactured and sold at Concordia for a it now comes from, will make a handsome profit to the company price that will yield the manufacturer a good profit, and yet cost who shall engage in the manufacture of pottery at Concordia. the consumer much less than he now hits to pay for them ship And last that we shall here mention, but by no means least, ped from the Eastern factories. The Concordia factory would soon command, the entire trade, driving all foreign goods out of is a CARRIAGE AND WAGON FACTORY. the market. It could not be otherwise, because the difference The raw material can be shipped at ;t very much less rate of between the freight rates on the raw material and manufactured freight than the manufactured articles can be; therefore buggies buggies and wagons is enough lo make a nice profit to the . -,"CTM^;"-^.\v^iv>a^'-'^^"'''1' EARM OF RICHARD COUOII LI N, TWO MILES !• ROM lONCORDlA. CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. manufacturer, and a good saving to the consumer. Another reason why this is the place for the location of a first class enormous amount of buggies and wagons that are shipped into wagon and carriage factory is, that the location is central—ri.rht this country and sold. In fact ihe Eastern manufacturers look upon Kansas as their main market. Not only is Concordia RESIDENCE OF J. W. PETERSON, CONCORDIA in the heart of the great New West—a country that is being peopled faster than any other country was ever known to be be centrally located in this vast scope of new country which is be-in- fore, and in less than ten years (here will be one m.llion people so rapidly populated, but she has the railroads, like so many with,,, one hundred miles of Concordia. There is more than half spokes diverging from the hub of a wagon wheel, whereby she can reach all parts of this territory. She is within 150 miles of that number here now. These people have to be supplied with Kansas City, the Mecca of the West, and connected with it by wagons and carriages. It is a surprise to anyone to see the four trunk lines of railroad. RSON, NEAR I (INI IIRDIA. CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. 27 RESIDENCE OF K S. MCCRARY, CONCORDIA. And finally, to all parties seeking a location for manufac laro-c Eastern city where taxes are high, where rents are exor tures we say, " Come and sec Concordia; study her advantages; bitant, where competition is soclose that it leaves youno margin, behold her possibilities; become acquainted with herpeople who where strikes arc the order of the day ? Then come West. Come arc wide awake, industrious, and will extend you a cordial wel to Concordia where you can have plenty of room, where it does come, and lend a helping hand. Arc you crowded up in some not cost so much for expenses, where your employees can live VIEW OF Till-: REI-IIIILICAN VALLEY, 111 MILES WIDE, \'A MILES WEST OF CONCOR I.IA. CONCORDfA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. RESIDENCE OE E. E. SWEARNOIN, CONCORDIA. better and cheaper, and breathe freely the pure healthy Kansas Western people are a liberal people. They buy largely of air—thus being happy and satisfied they have no occasion for everything that is useful; theyare enterprising, and always avail strikes. Come to Concordia and manufacture your wares ri«-ht themselves of the latest inventions for their comfort and wel where they will be consumed, right among your customers. fare; they are broad minded, open-hearted, and ever on the Put yourself in sympathy with them, and win their hearty co alert to improve their condition, to beautify their homes, enhance operation by making your interests identic-id with theirs. Make the value of their property, and develop their country. No their country your country, their home your home, and you oilier locality in the Union offers greater inducements to manu need have no fears but what the people of Kansas will see io it facturers, will give them a more enthusiastic welcome, or a that you are sustained. Indeed they will always give, and heartier support. always have given, their preference to home institutions. The I I ARM Ol JOHN SIIEI.IIAMER, TIIRI.R MILKS .ROM CONCORDIA. CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. 211 I'ARM HOME III-- WILLIAM COLE, THREE MILLS I ROM CONCORDIA. WHAT OTHERS SAY OF US. and been surrounded by forests whose primal glory had suffered but little from the hand of man. Therefore to me the change from mountains to The following extract is from a letter written by a special plains, and from encircling woods to treeless wastes, was attended by correspondent to the Kansas City Times, July 1*J, 1888: novel sensations not wholly complimentary to the scene before me. If Concoruia, Kan,, July 13.—It was very early in the spring, half a not exactly a desert, the country looked to be a wilderness in whose vast- score of years ago, that I looked for the first time upon the bleak prairies ncss only a hermit could sigh for an habitation. There was nothing to of Northern Kansas. I came from among*New England hills, where I inspire enthusiasm. A chilly piercing wind rattled at the windows, the sky had from earliest childhood gazed on mountains clothed in unfading green, was a sombre gray, and mile after mile the prairie presented the same I'Ml M KOMK OI' [OSKI'll ni'.CK Kit, l-Ol'K MII.KN I'KOM CI tN ( (III I) I A :10 CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. unvarying dull brown hue of scant and lifeless vegetation. The occasional' Before departing I became convinced that Concordia had two or three dugout or sod house or board shanty added no cheerfulness to the landscape; things in her favor. There was the possibility that the Republican Valley on the contrary, they had an air of despondency which harmonized with would develop into an agricultural district, having few equals. There was the face of nature and with the feelings of the traveler. unquestionably an abundant supply of coal, for a good quality of surface The scene within was no less provocative of melancholy. The car coal was then being mined only a short distance from the town. Within was not luxurious nor quite comfortable. The road bed was not smooth, three miles there was building stone of superior quality sullicient to con and the rate of speed was quite exasperating. Yet the situation could have struct a large city, and as fuel and building material are vital factors in the been worse, for the roughness of the road helped my digestion and provoked development of the great plains and by no means abundant in all sections, an appetite that was a surprise to me and a grief, no doubt, to those next I felt some confidence that the little town might in lime attain to some interested. It is a fact, too, that even at the rate of 20 miles an hour a con importance. siderable distance will be covered in the course of a day's ride. And thus This was ten years ago. it was that shortly after nightfall I reached a town bearing a euphonious To-day I am again in the same latitude and longitude, and in a city name suggestive of brotherly love and peaceable neighbors, and boasting a bearing the name of Concordia. One or two old buildings and very few hostelry renowned along the line for the gratifying manner in which it names and faces have a familiar look, but all else is as changed as if it filled the long felt want of the hungry traveler. belonged to a different age and civilization. The metamorphosis of a repuls I tarried at Concordia. ive worm into a beautiful insect presents scarcely n greater contrast than It was a wretched little burg. The streets were slippery with mud of the change wrought in this brief period in the aspect of the town and a most abominable nasliness, and the buildings, I will venture to say, were country about me. A few evenings back I stepped into a Pullman at Kansas as small and unattractive as those of any town of its size in this very City and out at Concordia in the morning in time for breakfast. In place remarkable State. To inspect the city, as its proud inhabitants termed it, of the dirty hamlet I find a city of 5,000 people, possessing both natural anil was a task which would have consumed but little time, had my friend who artificial attractions rarely found in western towns. There are numerous volunteered to show me the town confined himself to the then present buildings, public and private, that would be creditable to a city ten times reality; but he did not. It was not the little dirty frontier town that he larger than this, and I note with pleasure the fulfillment of the prophecy wished me to see, but rather the beautiful city, the " Queen of the Valley," concerning the seven hills. They are traversed by well graded streets lined and the North Star of the State. In short, he set out to show me the with shade trees, through which arc seen many pleasant homes and velvety "future great"—and he did it. I was shown that portion which was to be lawns. I see electric lights, a very perfect system of waterworks and four the site of great wholesale houses. The unfenced prairie showed no sign of the great railway systems of the West. The Missouri Pacific, the Union of impending change. The streets were pointed out which would at no Pacific, the Burlington & Missouri, and the Santa Fc compete for the car distant day be lined with the retail palaces of Concordia's Stewarts and rying trade of the city, and other roads arc casting covetous glances hither- Macys. The present squalor was before me. The picture of future grandeur ward. Several manufacturing enterprises are in successful operation and faded and left no sign. Then I was taken upon one of the seven hills which others are projected. lay to the west and south of the village, and was assured that on these But not the least surprising feature of the situation is the fact that, would be builded the costly houses of a prosperous and happy people. I wonderful as has been the growth of the city, it has not outstripped the looked. At a little distance a prairie dog sat at his castle gale, and his neigh country. My astonishment is not abated as I drive through the valleys and bor, the bird of ill omen, milled her feathers and uttered a solemn hoot of over the hills, for on every side are the constantly recurring evidences of derision; while from another eminence came the dismal protest of a coj'ote. enterprise and material prosperity. Substantial buildings, good fences and The ground was pre-empted by actual settlers and I doubted if their titles numerous shade and fruit trees abound in a profusion that is simply mar would soon be questioned. velous. I often stop upon the crest of some of the higher hills and let my I remained in the vicinity a number of weeks and saw considerable of eyes roam over the many miles of valley and upland dotted with the homes the adjacent country. I found but little to delight the eye or awaken enthu of prosperous farmers and beautiful with growing grain and miniature siasm. The roads were trails, the buildings were rude and primitive. It forests, and my heart swells with pride in the consciousness that the Ameri was too early in the season for the cultivated fields to give promise of a can people have so rich a heritage and are not lacking the wisdom and coming harvest, and the remarkable depth and richness of the soil was not enterprise requisite for its highest and most speedy development. sulhcient to repress a feeling of distrust for its agricultural utility. Then, too, the atmospheric phenomenon which was developed during the month The star of empire in its westward flight has reached the mid-continent of March was most disagreeably impressive. If in February the region and hangs suspended over that vast alluvial plain between the great river possessed the requisite characteristics of a wilderness in the succeeding and the greater mountains. In a brief space of time—so brief that but few month it became a howling wilderness. The full meaning of this phrase additional silver threads on the head of the writer can certify its flight— must remain a matter of conjecture save to those who have been pushed, a desert has become a garden; the valley of the Republican one of its and hauled and cuffed, and twirled by the breezes which then blew during plcasantest nooks; and the City of Concordia a sun-kissed flower of rare the boisterous month when winter fled before the impetuous charge of beauty and brilliant promise. summer. CONCORDIA AND CLOUD COUNTY, KANSAS. —Mill 1.11'Jti.JL^IUUUJaU^IUJh^lU i—Ui—pr- "lius2iQ)!H3'oi£DtaJinja3CSUisaal Jmai^acatai^daEa<3BliaL_lmaoatiJtHtjaoiJtaEaBSiF1 _L RIVLKSinr STOCK FARM 812 ACRES. -V+LPMILE N. E . or CONCORDIA. KANSAS. niVLn^lHL map SHOWi, LOCATION PROPERTY or DANIEL L.BROWN .flfr. •1 'i''.V .pi mi i'*r; ;WM »: &T • •til."?-: ) I .''-,/." • "i Si '-.•'A^'t-'i '&V"-i:l WATER WORKS ENGINE HOUSE >NJJ STAND PIPE, CONCORDIA. 11 ;** # F5? 1 IKS 3/'-2 I ^ n. o. whipp s co. ifurlington ABSTRACTORS, Roiiie. aPOJR Examiners of Titles, EASTERN * * * * * NORTHERN CONVEYANCERS. KANSAS Titles of Property Examined and reports made rrx^E f:- thereon, Personal Examination of Farms made and correct reports and Diagrams of Property in Cloud and adjoining Counties furnished. Have the only complete set of Abstract Books BURLINGTON ROUTE in Cloud County, nine years' experience in the Is the Principal Line from Register's oflice, a perfect acquaintance with all the Records of the County, and a residence CHICAGO, + + acquaintance in the County of twenty-one years. Can give any reference required as to responsi bility. We are prepared to furnish work prompt PEORIA, ly and at reasonable rates. Correspondence solicited. + + ST. LOUIS Address, CONCORDIA, KANS. and other Eastern points. OFFICIAL DIRECTORY. Through trains and close connections CITY OF CONCORDIA. via Kansas City, Aul.ircn, St. JosepifT" Mayor, J. Green. Omaha and Lincoln. Clerk, Wm. M. Peck. Treasurer, W. W. Bowman. Engineer, Geo. Gregg. Police Judge, 0- P- Ramsey. EQUIPMENT UNSURPASSED! Chief of Police, C. Archer. Attorney, Park B. Pulsifier. CONSISTING of Street Commissioner, W. A. Dennis. COUNCILMEN. Free Reclining Chair Cars, 1st Ward, F. L. Holcomii. C. T. O'Hara. Elegant Day Coaches, 2d Ward, E. E. SWEARNGIN. D. M. Stackhouse. Pullman Palace Cars. 3d Ward, F. A. Larocque. S. 11. Pratt. -Ith Ward, Jos. Lesage. Be sure your tickets, to points in W. F. Pratt. Kansas and Nebraska, rend via the CLOUD COUNTY. Burlington Route. Sheriff, Ed. Marshall. Treasurer, D. M. Stackhouse. Clerk, - Ciias. Proctor. For further information, npplv to Clerk of District Court C. F. I Iostktti.er. Register of Deeds, W. C. Wiiiit. P. S. EUSTIS, G p. & t a , Surveyor, Samuel Doran. Attorney, - J. W. Sheai-or. C, B. & Q. R. R , CHICAGO. Probate Judge, D. L. Brown. A. C. DAWES, G. P s. T A, Sup't Ptib'ic Instructior , T. W. Roach. H. & St. J. R. R.. ST. JOSEPH. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. Frank Wilson. Wm. Br am well J. FRANCIS, G P & r a, liAKEH Bortov. B. &. M. R. R. R., OMAHA. NEB.