For the past four years the farm products of Kansas have aggregated in value each year more than double the annual yield of all the gold and silver mines of the United States. The gold and silver products of Colorado, for 1883, aggregated only $20,250,000; those of California, $16,600,000; of Nevada, $9,100,000; of Montana, $9,170,000; of Utah, $6,920,000; of Arizona, $5,430,000; and of New Mexico, $3,300,000. The corn crop of Kansas for the same year was alone worth more money than the combined gold and silver products of Colorado, California and Nevada; the oat crop of Kansas was worth $705,000 more than the gold and silver product of Arizona; and the Irish potato crop of Kansas was worth more than the gold and silver product of New Mexico. PROPERTY VALUATIONS. The property valuations of Kansas have increased in steady proportion with the growth of the State in population and productions. In 1860 the true valuation of all the property of the State was estimated at $31,327,891; in 1865 it was estimated at $72,252,180; in 1870 it had increased to $188,892,014; in 1875 to $242,555,862; in 1880 to $321,783,387; and for 1885 the true valuation, at a very moderate estimate, was $550,000,000. The following table presents the assessed valuation of all the property of the State for the years mentioned, and also the assessed valuation of all the real, personal, and railroad property. It will be seen that the increase in the total assessed values from 1865 to 1875 was $85,434,344, while from 1875 to 1885 it was $127,300,928. ═══════╤═══════════╤═══════════╤═════════════╤═══════════ _Year._│ _Total._ │ _Real │ _Personal._ │_Railroad._ │ │ estate._ │ │ ───────┼───────────┼───────────┼─────────────┼─────────── 1860 │$22,518,232│$16,088,602│ $6,429,630│ ... 1865 │ 36,126,090│ 28,133,276│ [2]7,992,814│ ... 1870 │ 92,100,820│ 65,499,365│[2]26,601,455│ ... 1875 │121,476,352│ 89,775,784│ 19,422,637│$12,277,931 1880 │160,891,689│108,432,049│ 31,911,838│ 20,547,802 1885 │248,845,276│161,791,641│ 56,685,818│ 30,367,817 ───────┴───────────┴───────────┴─────────────┴─────────── Footnote 2: In 1865 and 1870, the railroad property was assessed as personal, and is included under that head. KANSAS MANUFACTURES. Kansas is not a manufacturing State. Its prosperity is based upon the plow. It has, however, coal deposits equal to the needs of its population, valuable lead mines in the southeast, and salt and gypsum in abundance. But the manufacturing establishments of the State are steadily increasing in importance as well as in number. In its flouring and grist mills Kansas ranked, in 1880, as the thirteenth State of the Union; in meat packing, as the twelfth; and in cheese products, as the fourteenth.