Kansas Pacific Railway. 



LANDS ! LANDS ! 



KANSAS TO THE FRONT! 



The Leading Wheat State in the Union in 1878, and 



The Fourth Corn State— The Great Kan. 



sas Harvest of 1878 was Solid for 



the " Golden Belt," 



The celebrated Grain Belt of country, in the 

 limestone section of Central Kansas, trav- 

 ersed by the Kansas Pacific. 



The following statements are taken from 

 the report of the Kansas State Board of 

 Agriculture for 1878 : 



llfUrAT I Kansas rises from the 

 Yf I! LM I I Eleventh Wheat State in 

 1877 to the First Wheat State in the Union 

 in 1878, producing 26,518,958 bushels win- 

 ter wheat, and 5,796,403 bushels spring 

 wheat ; total, 



32,315.361 



Bushels Wheat, with only one-eighth of the 

 State under cultivation. The organized 



counties lying in the Golden Wheat Belt of 

 the Kansas Pacific produced 13,335,324 

 bushels, or over 41 per cent, and, including 

 unreporting counties, fully 14,000,000 



bushels, or 45 per cent of the entire yield 



Of Wheat in the State, averaging 24 bush- 

 els to the acre, while the average for the 

 State was 17 bushels per acre. 

 /^ATl T\T f Kansas, the Fourth Corn 

 LUllJl ! State in the Union in 1878, 

 produced 89,324,971 bushels of Corn. Of 

 which the Golden Grain Belt counties pro- 

 duced 27,399,055 bushels, or 31 per cent, 

 nearly one-third, of the entire yield of the 

 State, with an equally grand showing in all 

 other departments of agriculture. 



The foregoing facts show conclusively why 

 29 per cent of the increase in population in the State 



during the past four years; and 

 10 per cent of the increase in population during the 



past year ; and 

 43 per cent of the increased acreage of wheat in the 



State in 1878, belonged to the " Golden Belt." 



A Farm for Everybody.— 62 500 farms— 5,000,000 

 acres — for sale by Kansas Pacific — the best land in 

 America, at from $2 to $6 per acre, one-quarter off 

 for cash, or on 6 or 11 years credit at 7 per cent in- 

 terest. It don't take much money to buy a farm on 

 the Kansas Pacific ; $26 to $80 will secure 80 acres 

 on credit, or $120 to $360 in cash will buy it outright. 



Send to S. J. Gilmore, Land Commissioner, 

 Salina, Kas., for the "Kansas Pacific Homestead," 

 a publication which tells about Lands, Homesteads, 

 Pre-emption, Soil, Climate, Products, Stock Rais- 

 ing, Schools, Wages, Land Explorers' Tickets, 

 Rates, etc. It is mailed free to all applicants. 



Read all you can gather about Kansas, and when 

 you decide to start, be sure and start right by 

 locating along the KANSAS PACIFIC RAILWAY. 



T. F. OAKES, Gen'l Superintendent, 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 



LEADVILLE! 



A RICH OPENING. 



Leadville, Colorado. — The vast deposits 



of carbonates of silver at Leadville, so many 

 miles in extent, are conceded to be the 

 richest ever discovered. They lay in hori- 

 zontal beds, as coal or gravel, from 2 to 10 

 feet thick and from 8 to 100 feet below the 

 surface, are mined with aid of a pick and 

 shovel, no blasting or deep, expensive shafts 

 being required, as is the case with the 

 narrow, vertical veins of hard silver quartz 

 heretofore found, muscle, energy and daily 

 bread being the only requisites. 



The Be8t Way There. — At Kansas City 

 or Leavenworth take the Kansas Pacific R'y 

 to Denver, the Denver, South Park & Pa- 

 cific R. R. to Webster, 70 miles west of 

 Denver, thence the South Park daily stages 

 28 miles to Fairplay, 42 miles to Lead- 

 ville. This, the short line, saves 100 miles 

 staging. Emigrants on Kansas Pacific R'y 

 are carried on Fast Express Passenger Trains 

 Rates as low as by any other line. 



Colorado. — The great sanitarium and 

 Pleasure Resort of America; elevated above 

 the influence of miasma, with its pure, 

 tonic and exhilarating atmosphere, its nume- 

 rous mineral springs, immense deposits of 

 gold and silver and the grandeur, extent 

 and variety of its scenery, offers unequalled 

 attractions for the Pleasure Seeker, Scientist, 

 Artist, Capitalist, the Invalid, the Over- 

 worked and the gold and silver seekers. 



Golden Belt Route. — The Kansas Pacific 

 R'y is the only line running entire trains 

 equipped with Pullman Sleeping Palaces 

 and Elegant Day and Second Class Coaches 

 to Denver without change, of either passen- 

 gers, baggage or mails. This being the 

 short line and quickest, is therefore the 

 cheapest and best route in every respect. 



Free. — Send to P. B. Groat, Gen'l Pass. 

 Agt., Kansas Pacific R'y, Kansas City, Mo., 

 for the new "Colorado Tourist," for 1879, 

 the new " Colorado Miner, an 1879 Guide to 

 Leadville," illustrated with the best map 

 published. Enclose postage stamp. 

 P. B. GROAT, Gen. Pass. Agent, 



KANSAS CITY, MO. 



