PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY
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The bonded debt of the State in 1911 amounted to 370,000 dollars ; the assessed valuation of real and personal property was 2,777,073,762 dollars. The total value of all property in the State in 1910 was estimated at :—
Dollars Real property .... 1,793,269,338
Personal property .... 556,679,833
Public Service Corporation . . 427,105,146
Total
2,777,054,317
The Militia or National Guard, with headquarters at Topeka, consists of artiUeryand infantry, with hospital and signal corps; total strength 1,383 enlisted men and 129 officers in 1910.
Production and Industry.— Kansas is pre-eminently agricultural but sufiers from lack of rainfall in the west. In 1910 the area ot farmland was 43,384,799 acres, of which 29,904,067 acres was improved land. Under the Federal Reclamation Act. 8,000 acres in the Garden City district are to be irrigated. The chief crops are maize (174,225,000 bushels m 1912) wheat (92,290,000 bushels), and hay, but oats, barley, rye, potatoes and llax are grown. The production of Kaffir corn is mostly confined to this State. Cotton is grown, but not extensively. Various orchard fruits are cultivated. The State has an extensive live-stock industry comprising, in 1910, 1,187,000 horses, 154,000 mules, 737,000 milk cows and 3,260,000 other cattle, 278,000 sheep, and 1,942,000 swine. .
Kansas has coal-fields Avith an area of about 15,000 square miks, employing about 14,500 miners ; the output in 1911 amounted to 6,254,228 short tons, valued at 9,645,572 dollars. In Kansas in 1911 the yield of the oil-fields amounted to 1,278,819 barrels, valued at 608,756 dollars. Isatuial gas produced in Kansas in 1911 was sold to the value ot 4,854,534 dollars, ihc output of zinc amounted to 6,843 short tons (780,102 dollars). The quarrie^s yield sandstone, limestone, gypsum, and there is a large output of /ort and cement, amounting in 1911 to 4,871,903 barrels, valued at 3,725,108 dollars. In 1911 the State produced 2,160,859 barrels of salt, valued at 806,02/ dollars ; salt is important to the State both for live-stock and dead-meat industries. The output of clay products in 1911 was valued at 2,o60,262 dollars. The total mineral output of the State in 1911 was valued at
24,987,807 dollars. ^ ^, . v,t i
In the manufacturing industries in 1910 there were 3,43o establishments with 3,571 proprietors or firm members, 6,863 clerks, &c., and 44,21o wage- earners. The raw material used during the year cost 258,884,000 dollars, and the output was valued at 325,104,000 dollars. The slaughteiing and milling industries are the most important. Further statistics of these and other industries are : —
Industries
Capital ; Wage-earners
Slaughtering, <fec. . Flour and giist Railway cars . Zinc smelting. &c. . Butter . Foundry aud laachiiics
Dollars
37,860,000 22,741,000 9,ri07,000 9,057,000 1,776,000 G, 791, 000
Number
10,591
'J, 360
7,686
- 1,S21
348
2,110
Cost of Material
Dollars 147,646,000 60,439,000 5,219,000 8,877,000 4,951,000 3,034,000
Outpvit
Dollars 65,361,000 68,476,(100 11,193,000 10,857,000 0,071,000 r),919,000
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