Where a Kansas Farmer Lives. 



Of unappropriated and unreserved public 

 land in Kansas belonging to the United States 

 Government, there are yet 1,000,000 acres which 

 are available to actual occupants either by home- 

 steading or pre-emption, for a very small outlay 

 of money, extended over a period of years. 

 Much of the larger portion of this land is in the 

 western counties and more adapted for grazing 

 purposes than for grain-farming and home-mak- 

 ing. 



The State is watered and drained by several 

 important non-navigable streams, such as the 

 Kansas, Arkansas, Republican, Solomon, Blue, 

 Smoky Hill, Marais des Cygnes, Saline, Medi- 

 cine and Cimarron rivers, besides innumerable 

 smaller rivers and creeks, which one with an- 

 other course through many hundred miles of rich 

 valleys, in the east more or less timbered. 

 Geclogists who have investigated the subject 

 most thoroughly agree that a large portion of 

 Kansas has beneath the surface inexhaustible 

 supplies of pure cold water at a depth of 10 to 

 200 feet, available for irrigation purposes. Every 

 investigation affords further evidence of the 

 quantity being unlimited, and its inexpensive 

 pumping and storage in reservoirs for any use 

 are made readily practicable by the modern 

 windmill. Artesian waterflow in abundance has 

 been developed and is utilized in a portion of 



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