In the following table the number of manufacturing establishments, including mines and railroad shops, their capital, products, etc., is given for the years named: ═══════╤═════════════════╤══════════╤═══════════╤══════════╤══════════ _Year._│_Establishments._│_Capital._│_Employés._│ _Wages._ │_Value of │ │ │ │ │products._ ───────┼─────────────────┼──────────┼───────────┼──────────┼────────── 1860 │ 344│$1,084,935│ 1,735│ $880,346│$4,357,408 1870 │ 1,470│ 4,319,060│ 6,844│ 2,377,511│11,775,833 1880 │ 2,803│11,191,315│ 10,062│ 3,995,010│30,843,777 1885[3]│ 3,900│19,000,000│ 16,000│ 6,300,000│48,000,000 ───────┴─────────────────┴──────────┴───────────┴──────────┴────────── Footnote 3: Partly estimated. TRANSPORTATION FACILITIES. The transportation facilities of Kansas are unsurpassed. Only seven States of the Union, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa and Missouri, have within their borders more miles of completed railway than has Kansas. For fully two hundred miles west of our eastern border, every county except one is traversed by from one to six lines of railway. There are eighty-six organized and eleven unorganized counties in the State, and of these all except fourteen organized and seven unorganized counties have railways within their limits. In 1864 Kansas had not a mile of completed railroad. In 1870 we had 1,283 miles; in 1875 over 1,887 miles; in 1880 an aggregate of 3,104 miles, and there are now 4,750 miles of completed railway in Kansas. THE SCHOOLS OF KANSAS. Education has gone hand in hand with the material growth of Kansas. It has been the boast of our people, for twenty years past, that the best building in every city, town or hamlet in the State was the school house. The census of 1880 revealed the fact that only 25,503 inhabitants of Kansas, over ten years of age, were unable to read. The growth of our school system is shown by the following figures: ═══════╤══════════╤══════════╤═══════════╤═══════╤══════════╤══════════ _Year._│_Scholars │ _School │ _School │_Teach-│ _Amount │_Value of │enrolled._│ houses._ │districts._│ ers._ │ paid to │ school │ │ │ │ │teachers._│ houses._ ───────┼──────────┼──────────┼───────────┼───────┼──────────┼────────── 1860 │ 5,915│ 154│ ...│ 189│ ...│ ... 1865 │ 26,341│ 640│ 721│ 899│ $86,898│ $122,822 1870 │ 63,218│ 1,501│ 1,950│ 2,210│ 318,596│ 1,520,041 1875 │ 141,606│ 3,715│ 4,560│ 5,383│ 689,906│ 3,742,507 1880 │ 231,434│ 5,315│ 6,134│ 7,780│ 1,088,504│ 4,049,212 1885 │ 335,538│ 6,673│ 7,142│ 8,219│ 1,989,169│ 6,704,176 ───────┴──────────┴──────────┴───────────┴───────┴──────────┴──────────