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and anxious to please are the officials. As we move
slowly out through the city, I notice the immense
packing houses on the river bank, and the extensive
stock yards for the shipment and reception of the
millions of cattle, which trade alone has made Kansas
City so famous. Across a fine new iron bridge over
the Kaw river, and we are in the State of Kansas.
For upwards of thirty miles we pass through a thickly
wooded country, following the course of the river,
when we emerge into prairie country, and stop at
the city of Lawrence, which has a population of
about 15,000, was settled in 1854, and is, without
doubt, one of the prettiest in the State. She, too,
has her street railways, water and gas works; a
magnificent dam across the Kaw river, giving her one
of the finest water-powers in the West, flour and
woolen mills, soap factories, beautiful broad streets and
handsome residences; and with the gardens, nurseries
and vineyards which adorn her suburbs, has more the
appearance of a town of twenty or thirty years’ growth,
such as we find in the older portions of this continent.
What most strikes the eye, though, as one passes
through, is the majestic building of the State Univer-.
sity, on the summit of Mount Oread. It contains fifty-
four rooms, and the entire structure is devoted to the
work of instruction. For laboratory practice in all the
branches of science it is said to surpass every other
college building in the United States.

Lawrence boasts of the finest race-track in the West,
and also a famous stud-farm, devoted to the breeding

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