Number colleges, 9; school population, 135,511; school age, 5-21.
Legal interest, 7; by contract, 10; usury forfeits interest and cost.
Railroad mileage, 1865, 122; 1885, 2,891.
| KANSAS. | Kăn´zas. "Garden of the West." |
From Kansas river. Indian name, signifying "Smoky Water". Visited by Spaniards, 1541, and by French, 1719. Part of Louisiana purchase, and afterward of Indian Territory. Organized as a Territory, 1854. Admitted as a State, January, 1861.
Area, 82,080 square miles. Length, 400 miles; breadth, 200 miles. Geographical centre of United States, exclusive of Alaska. Missouri river frontage, 150 miles; largest rivers, Solomon, Neosho, Saline, Arkansas, Republican and Kansas. Number counties, 100.