Seward County KS Archives News.....Article: Seward County and Liberal January 8, 1892
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The Liberal Lyre January 8, 1892
Seward County
Friday
January 8, 1892

Seward County and Liberal.

Seward County is one of the Southwestern counties in Kansas, being three miles
from the Oklahoma line and sixty miles from the Colorado line. It is, in soil,
agricultural products, &c., similar to the adjoining counties, the soil being a
mixture of buffalo sod and sand, and the products principally broom corn, wheat,
cane, rice, corn, &c. Liberal, which is the S.W. terminus of the R.I.R.R., is
located in the southwest part of the county, and is the shipping point for all
the western and southwestern counties, for north western Oklahoma and N.W.
Texas, or the Panhandle. Beaver county, or that portion of Oklahoma which was
formerly the Neutral Strip, and which is directly south of Liberal, is a
district 165 x 34 1/4 miles in area, containing about 2000 people, and
accomodating over 20,000 head of catle, which are shipped from Liberal to
Eastern markets every fall. During the past year there were shipped from Liberal
903 cars of cattle, 74 cars of broom corn, 67 cars of wheat and rye, and 2 cars
of watermelon seed. The freight receipts were 17,000,000 libs. the freighting of
all these goods to the western and southwestern towns brings to Liberal an
extensive trade and general activity of business to all. 
 

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