ITINERARY. 
Kansas City, Mo. (see sheet 1, p. 14), is the commercial metropolis 
of the large area of fertile prairie plains of Kansas, Missouri, and 
Oklahoma. It is also an important railroad and 
manufacturing center and one of the great cities 
ee 750 feet. of the United States, ranking in 1910 twentieth 
opulation 248,381.1 : ‘ Fe 
in population. It covers nearly 58 square miles. 
Kansas City, Kans., though a distinct municipality, is really continu- 
ous with it, the two forming a single community. Most of Kansas 
City, Mo., is built on a rolling plateau on top of a bluff rising about 
200 feet abruptly from the bank of Missouri River, but its western 
part is on a low flat adjoining the mouth of Kansas River, locally 
called the Kaw. The railway station used for many years was on 
this flat, at the foot of the bluff which rises steeply to the main part 
of the city on the east. The new station, a mile southeast of the old 
one, is in a depression, originally an old river channel extending across 
the highland. 
This station and its approaches, costing $40,000,000, is the largest 
railway station west of New York. The building, which cost nearly 
$6,000,000, has room for 10,000 passengers, and 260 passenger 
trains arrive and depart daily on its 16 tracks. 
The location and development of Kansas City were influenced by 
various conditions. The builders of the earliest trail found a good 
crossing in the big bend of the Missouri just below the mouth of Kan- 
sas River, where the bank was stable, and here a settlement, called 
Westport Landing, was gradually established. Later, when there 
were boats on the river, the deep water at this point made it a most 
desirable landing, and so Westport Landing soon became an important 
place. Here was fought a battle of the Civil War in which 29,000 
men were engaged. Soon outgrowing the flat area, the city climbed 
the high bluff to the south, and in later years it has spread widely over 
the rocky plateau. 
Kansas City has many factories and local industries, employing 
about 40,000 persons, with an annual output valued at $250,000,000. 
Its sales of agricultural implements aggregate $40,000,000 a year, 
and it ranks high in the trade in lumber, mules, hay, cigars, and grain. 
Meat packing is one of the important industries, for the stock yards, 
Kansas City, Mo. 
'The figures given for the population | give the population of the election pre- 
of incorporated places are those of the | cinct, township, or other similar unit, 
United States Census for 1910. For un- | and such figures are here marked with an 
incorporated places the census figures | asterisk (*). 
