Kansas City, Kansas, USA
1895 - Kansas City

Kansas City, Kansas, the capital of Wyandotte co, created in 1886 by the consolidation of the then village of Kansas City with the towns of Wyandotte, Armourdale, and others under its present name, is situated at the junction of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, adjacent to Kansas City, Mo. (from which it is nominally separated by the state line), and at the convergence of several important railways, eight or more of which have their terminal stations at this point. This city is noted as the seat of immense stock and meat packing interests, its yards and packing-houses being second only to those of Chicago in the volume of business done. Here were received in 1892, 699,578 head of cattle, 1,773,000 hogs, 32,341 calves, 160,317 sheep, and 32,831 horses and mules. Of the food animals, about sixty per cent., aggregating 570,000,000 pounds, was consumed at the packing houses. The city has also an extensive grain and flour trade, there being received at its mills and elevators in 1892, 69,707 car-loads of grain. In 1890, according to the census returns, the capital invested in manufactures was $11,404,066, and the value of the manufactured product $44,022,939. Fifteen bridges span the Kansas River within the corporate limits of the city. Though of recent growth, it is the largest city in the state of Kansas. Pop, in 1880, 3200; in 1890 (federal census), 38,316; in 1892 (city census), 39,580.

Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott

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