Meade County, but not elsewhere as yet, worth 

 mentioning. 



Wonderful deposits of zinc, lead, coal, natural 

 gas and petroleum are constantly being uncov- 

 ered in the southeastern counties; quarries of 

 superior limestone, sandstone and gypsum for 

 building purposes are worked in the more cen- 

 tral counties. Extending from north to south, 

 and underlying many of these, and being suc- 

 cessfully and largely drawn upon, is a salt bed, 

 stated by geologists to be not less than 200 

 miles from north to south, 60 miles wide and 400 

 feet in thickness. 



The following table by Prof. E. Haworth, of 

 the University Geological Survey, shows the 

 underground products and their values for the 

 year 1900 : 

 Non-Metallic— Values. 



Coal and Coke $ 5,516,534 



Salt, with cooperage • 1,675,000 



Clay goods 975,500 



Gypsum 267,500 



Stone 593.750 



Natural gas ■ 695,000 



Oil, crude and refined 355,118 



Cement 669,685 



Lime and sand 121,000 



Metallic- 

 Zinc ore, $1,235,859, yielding metal- 

 lic zinc 2,009,286 



Lead ore, $206,196, yielding metallic 

 lead 324,859 



Total $13,203,232 



Fruit, especially apples, peaches, grapes and 

 berries of high quality are largely grown in 

 Kansas, and some of the largest commercial 

 apple orchards in existence are found here, the 

 products of which are sought eagerly by distant 

 packers and exporters for the domestic and for- 

 eign markets. 



Next to her high order of citizenship, it is, 

 however, upon agriculture proper and live-stock 

 husbandry that Kansas bases her claims to pre- 

 eminence and future wealth. What virtue 



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