324 ANDERSON COUNTY, KANSAS. 



begins to flow freely, using a wax composed of four parts 

 resin, two parts beeswax, and one part tallow, well mixed 

 together. 



HISTORICAL AND STATISTICAL. 

 As a farming country, and healthy climate, Miami county 

 is as good as any iu the State. This county is second, in the 

 eastern tier of counties south of Kansas City. Taoli is the 

 county-seat, on the Kansas City, Ft. Scott & Gulf railroad, 

 forty-two miles from Kansas City. The population of the city 

 of Paoli is 1,974; the population of the county is 16,000. Of 

 bottom land there is twenty per cent., upland seventy percent, 

 timber ten per cent. Of the 370,320 acres in the county, 155,- 

 872 acres are under cultivation. Tiiere is a high and normal 

 school in Paoli, ninety-six school districts in the county, and 

 thirty-six churches. The Kansas City, Ft. Scott & Gulf rail- 

 road runs north and south tlirough the county. The Paoli & 

 Holden road runs from Holden, Mo., on the Missouri Pacific 

 to F*aoli, and the St. Louis, Kansas & Arizona railroad runs 

 frcnn Paoli southwest through the county to Garnett. The 

 t6tal valuation of all property in the county is $7,000,000. It 

 is healthy and well watered, and as an agricultural and stock 

 raising country, is conceded to be the empire county of the 

 State. 



ALBERT MOLER. 



MINERAL POINT, ANDERSON COUNTY. 



A Stock Farm — Three Hundred Acres in Corn — Sigh Grade 

 Cattle the Most Profitable — Good Shelter but not Confinement 

 Recommended — Kentucky Blue Grass a Success. 



My farm is situated in the northwest corner of Anderson 

 county, and on the head waters of Pottawattomie creek, 

 two of its branches running through the farm, which, with one 

 artificial pond, gives us water in every field. The farm con- 

 sists of six hundred and forty acres, of which five hundred and 



