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Kansas City occupies a site unique among the cities of the world - situated at the confluence of two great rivers, the Kaw and the Missouri, its "bottom lands" are given over to stock yards, railway yards, immense jobbing houses, and extensive factories. It has over 1200 manufacturing establishments, with an aggregate capital of $100,000,000, and employing over 40,000 people. The factory output is about $250,000,000 per year. Part o this district in the East Bottom is given over to factories; farther out there are a number of small intensively worked truck farms. |
