The following table presents the assessed valuation of all the property of the State for the years mentioned, and also the assessed valuation of all the real, personal, and railroad property. It will be seen that the increase in the total assessed values from 1865 to 1875 was $85,434,344, while from 1875 to 1885 it was $127,300,928.
| Year. | Total. | Real estate. | Personal. | Railroad. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | $22,518,232 | $16,088,602 | $6,429,630 | |
| 1865 | 36,126,090 | 28,133,276 | [A]7,992,814 | |
| 1870 | 92,100,820 | 65,499,365 | [[2]]26,601,455 | |
| 1875 | 121,476,352 | 89,775,784 | 19,422,637 | $12,277,931 |
| 1880 | 160,891,689 | 108,432,049 | 31,911,838 | 20,547,802 |
| 1885 | 248,845,276 | 161,791,641 | 56,685,818 | 30,367,817 |
[2]. In 1865 and 1870, the railroad property was assessed as personal, and is included under that head.
KANSAS MANUFACTURES.
Kansas is not a manufacturing State. Its prosperity is based upon the plow. It has, however, coal deposits equal to the needs of its population, valuable lead mines in the southeast, and salt and gypsum in abundance. But the manufacturing establishments of the State are steadily increasing in importance as well as in number. In its flouring and grist mills Kansas ranked, in 1880, as the thirteenth State of the Union; in meat packing, as the twelfth; and in cheese products, as the fourteenth.
In the following table the number of manufacturing establishments, including mines and railroad shops, their capital, products, etc., is given for the years named:
| Year. | Establishments. | Capital. | Employés. | Wages. | Value of products. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1860 | 344 | $1,084,935 | 1,735 | $880,346 | $4,357,408 |
| 1870 | 1,470 | 4,319,060 | 6,844 | 2,377,511 | 11,775,833 |
| 1880 | 2,803 | 11,191,315 | 10,062 | 3,995,010 | 30,843,777 |
| 1885[[3]] | 3,900 | 19,000,000 | 16,000 | 6,300,000 | 48,000,000 |
[3]. Partly estimated.
TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES.
The transportation facilities of Kansas are unsurpassed. Only seven States of the Union, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri, have within their borders more miles of completed railway than has Kansas. For fully two hundred miles west of our eastern border, every county except one is traversed by from one to six lines of railway. There are eighty-six organized and eleven unorganized counties in the State, and of these all except fourteen organized and seven unorganized counties have railways within their limits. In 1864 Kansas had not a mile of completed railroad. In 1870 we had 1,283 miles; in 1875 over 1,887 miles; in 1880 an aggregate of 3,104 miles, and there are now 4,750 miles of completed railway in Kansas.