Excerpt from An Illustrated Hand Book: Compiled From the Official Statistics, Descriptive of Butler County, Kansas; January, 1887 The state is abundantly supplied with rivers and smaller streams of pure running water. And for soil and climate the state has no superior anywhere. Being central, the state is traversed bv several of the greatest. Systems of Railways on the continent, so that in the near future it will be the broad highway for at least three lines which travel the continent from ocean to ocean. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.