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 |AN.SAS CITY, located at the junction of the broad Missouri and Kansas rivers, is the commercial 
 
 metropolis of the great Southwest, which now includes a country over two hundred thousand 
 
 square miles in extent, supporting a population of nearly five millions of people. This territory, 
 
 embracing the greatest grain and live stock producing section of the I'nited vStates and also the 
 
 greatest coal mines in the entire West, has made a phenomenal increase of population and wealth 
 
 during the last decade. It is capable of producing every staple article used by civilized man. 
 
 The combination of an abundance of raw material of e\-ery description with railroad facilities 
 
 unequalled anywhere in the world has caused Kansas City to become better known year by year 
 
 as a prominent manufacturing center. Here are over twelve thousand factories and fifty million dollars worth of invested 
 
 capital, employing about fifty thousand people who produce almost two hundred million dollars worth of goods annually, 
 
 a total exceeding in value the combined imports and exports of several well-known nations. Among the finished 
 
 products are heavy iron building material, shoes, glass, bottles, gas and steamboat engines, brooms, wagons, farming 
 
 implements, etc., in fact, almost every known article of necessity and luxury. 
 
 In the magnitude of its live-stock and packing industry the city is equalled by only one other in the world ; it will 
 
 always retain its supremacy as a great feeder market where the cattle-growers of the vSouthwest and the cattle-feeders of 
 
 the Mississippi and Missouri valleys meet. The grand total of live-stock received in Kan.sas City annually is over six 
 
 million head valued at nearly one htindred and fifty million dollars. 
 
 Beyond any other American metropolis, Kansas City is noted for the energetic, ambitious and progressive attitude of 
 
 its citizens. To this is due much of its steady development from a so-called "ugly town"' to the beautiful city of today. 
 
 Its up-to-date schools, splendid churches, magnificent public buildings and institutions are evidences of the permanency 
 
 of the growth of a great community which its citizens confidently believe will e\-entually be the premier inland metropolis 
 
 of the ITnited States of America. • .'** 
 
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 Published by L. H. NELSON COMPANY. Portland, Me. 
 
 COPYRIGHT. 1905, 1B08. IQrO. BY L. H. NELSON CO.. PORTLAND. ME.— 24TH THOUSAND. 
 
ELEVENTH STREET, EAST FROM MAIN STREET 
 
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MAIN STREET NORTH FROM ELEVENTH STREET 
 
UNION STATION AND WEST BOTTOM 
 
Orpheum 
 
 Board of Trade Building 
 
 New York Life Buildine Custom House 
 
 VIEW FROM COATES HOUSE 
 
THE CUSTOM HOUSE 
 

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 JACKSON COUNTY COURT HOUSE 
 
CITY HALL 
 
CONVENTION HALL 
 
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 THE CITY MARKET 
 
STOCK YARDS EXCHANGE 
 
 STOCK YARDS 
 
RIVER FRONT AT FOOT OF MAIN STREET 
 
EIGHTH STREET VIADUCT AND TUNNEL 
 
THE PUBLIC LIBRARY 
 
AUDITORIUM THEATRE 
 

 WILLIS WOOD THEATRE 
 
GRAND OPERA HOUSE 
 
THE CENTURY (formerly Standard) THEATRE 
 
KANSAS CITY CLUB 
 
 SCOTTISH RITE CATHEDRAL (MASONIC) 
 

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 BOARD OF TRADE BUILDING 
 
 KEITH AND PERRY BUILDING 
 
AMERICAN BANK BUILDING 
 
 NEW NELSON BUILDING 
 
THE NEW RIDGE BUILDING 
 
REPRESENTATIVE HOTELS OF KANSAS CITY 
 
FIRST CHRISTIAN SCIENCE CHURCH 
 
 INDEPENDENT AVE. M. E. CHURCH 
 
A GROUP OF FINE CHURCH HOMES 
 
TWO BEAUTIFUL CHURCH EDIFICES 
 
MANUAL TRAINING HIGH SCHOOL 
 
PERRY BOYS' ORPHAN HOME 
 
GLADSTONE BOULEVARD 
 
PASEO AT EIGHTEENTH STREET 
 
HOLMES SQUARE 
 
HEIM'S ELECTRIC PARK