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A good many of the owners of trains, who followed freighting on the plains, lived in and around Westport, Mo. Some of them whom I remember, that lived on their farms, were Majors Mckinney, Carr, Yeager and the four Hays brothers. These men usually corraled their wagons on their farms and herded their cattle near them. Among those that I remember, who lived in Westport, were the Bernards, Kearney, Hamilton and Findley. These usually corraled their wagons near the edge of the timber and close to water. They ordinarily considered that grass would be up enough by the twentieth day of May for the cattle to travel on and made their arrangements to make their start as soon after this as they could get off. Westport was a very busy place from the middle of May to the first of July.
The Mexican trains and Indian traders began to come in soon after the first of June. These ordinarily were not freighters, although they used the same kinds of outfits. Possibly one-fifth of the Mexicans had mule trains. These trains usually corraled their wagons on what is now the Kansas side of Brush creek.
Among the Indian traders, Bent always made his camp on what we always called "Bent's Hill." The ground is now owned by john Roe. Ward's camp was at a spring three-quarters of a mile west of the State line at about 60th street, on ground lately sold by Henry Coppook. Lexton made his camp at a spring on the Reinhardt place.
These men, Indian traders and Mexican merchants, left their train here while they went to St. Louis and bought their goods and shipped
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them to Kansas City by steamboats. The trains would generally be in camp here from one to two months. The traders brought in with them mostly buffalo robes, buck skins, (antelope skins were classed as buck skins), beaver felts, and anything else along this line that they could trade for these goods, they shipped to St. Louis and sold them there. They also brought with them a good many ponies, these they sold at their camps or at Westport.
This is how we made axle grease, "dope" as we called it. We took rosin with us and bought tallow from traders. (I am speaking now of the time when buffaloes were plentiful.) This tallow was rendered out in the buffalo hunter's camp in a kettle over a buffalo chip fire. A recepta- ble to hold it was made by taking one-half of a hide and cutting holes in the four sides of it, through which were run sticks, then pressing it down in the center, thus forming a bag. Then four sticks with a crotch at the top were driven in the ground and the four corners of the bag with the sticks still in place were placed on the crotches, the bag cleaning the ground. In this was poured the melted tallow and allowed to stand until the tallow hardened and it was then turned out and the bag was ready to be filled again.
In the time of extreme wet weather, our cattle's hoofs would become soft and traveling in the sand, would become very thin, sometimes breaking through and then it became necessary to shoe them. We always carried shoes and nails with us. The shoes used for this pur- pose had neither toes nor calks, different from the shoes used for rocky or icy roads. If a steer's foot was broken through, and it was necessary to use a pad, we usually cut the pad out of our hat rim.
CHAPTER IV.
DESCRIPTIVE AND POLITICAL.
Topography-Organization of County-First Election-County Officers -Members of the First Territorial Legislature-Border Trouble- Members of the Legislature-County Statistics.
TOPOGRAPHY.
Johnson county is located in the western part of the State. It is bounded on the north by Leavenworth and Wyandotte counties, on the east by Missouri, on the south by Miami county and on the west by Douglass county. It contains 480 square miles, or 307,200 acres. When it was first organized, in 1855, the Kansas river was its northern boundary, but in 1859 the present boundary line was established. About ten per cent. of the county is bottom land, and ninety per cent. upland, and the surface generally undulating. The central and southeastern parts are the highest portions, the streams having their sources there and flowing northeast and south. The soil is very productive ; from one to six feet in depth and well adapted to the raising of wheat, corn, oats, potatoes and wild and tame grasses. Alfalfa does well. Timber belts skirt the small streams where clearings have not been made. The streams are small. The Kansas river, along the west two-thirds of the northern border, receives as tributaries, Cedar, Clear, Captains, Mill and Turkey creeks. Blue and Indian creeks run eastward and the two forks of Bull creek run south. Good well water is found at an average depth of twenty-five feet. There is considerable limestone and some sandstone in the county, and excellent brick clay.
ORGANIZATION OF COUNTY.
Johnson county was organized in 1855, but there was no full set of officers until March, 1857, when Gov. Robert J. Walker appointed the following officers: Commissioners, John T. Ector. John Evans and William Fisher, Jr .; probate judge, John B. Campbell ; treasurer, John T. Barton ; sheriff, Pat Cosgrove. The commissioners held their first meeting on September 7. 1855. John Henry Blake was appointed clerk and Samuel C. Wear as deputy sheriff. But little business was taken up at this meeting. An election was ordered for the purpose of electing county officers, but owing to some informality connected with it, was declared void. October 28, another meeting was held at which time the townships of Aubry, Lexington, Monticello, McCamish, Olathe, Sante
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Fe (now Oxford), Spring Hill and Shawnee, were organized, and special commissioners appointed to prescribe their boundaries. Gard- ner, then a part of Spring Hill township, was soon separately organized. At the third meeting of the commissioners, December 7, constables were appointed for each township; Anderson Tate for Olathe, N. T. Milliner for Monticello, David P. Wear for Shawnee, T. M. Powers for McCam- ish, Robert Victor for Gardner, Jacob Buttram for Oxford and R. Todd for Lexington.
FIRST ELECTION.
In March 1858, the first county election was held. The following officers were elected : Commissioners, John T. Ector, John J. Evans and William Fisher, Jr .; J. J. Blake, register of deeds; James Rich, clerk of board of commissioners; Pat Congrove, sheriff; Jonathan Gore, county attorney ; S. B. Myrick, deputy clerk; Samuel Wear, deputy sheriff by appointment. In the following September, J. M. Griffin was appointed county attorney to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Jona- than M. Gore. The county at this time was overwhelmingly Democratic and the free State men made no attempt to elect officers. But they did attempt to arrest John T. Evans on account of his connection with operations in 1856. John Lockart was the leader of this party. After chasing Evans on the open prairie most of one day, he gave up the attempt, and returned to Olathe and arrested Judge Campbell, and took him to Lawrence for trial, but he was soon released. In the election of 1859, the following county officers were elected by the Democrats: Pro- bate judge, E. F. Wilkerson ; clerk, S. B. Myrick ; treasurer, S. B. Squires ; register of deeds, J. H. Blake; sheriff, Pat Cosgrove ; county attorney, G. M. Waugh ; surveyor, A. Slaughter ; superintendent of public instruc- tion, I. W. Christison. All the officers elected were good men, and thoroughly competent to perform the duties devolving on them, with the exception of the treasurer. He proved to be a reckless and dishon- est official and at the end of the term was a defaulter for a considerable amount. In compensation, or part compensation, to the county, he offered to turn in Johnson county scrip, which was refused by the board of commissioners. Suit was brought and a judgment obtained against him for $6,000. He again tendered scrip which was again refused, and as a result his bondsmen were released. The county secured nothing on the judgments and Squires left.
COUNTY OFFICERS.
The county officers elected in the fall of 1861, were all Republicans, though some of them had, but recently, joined the party. This was the case of S. B. Myrick, who had fought at the battle of Bull Creek under General Reid, and had been repeatedly elected to the office of county clerk by the Democrats.
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The contest was close, and the officers elected as follows: Commis- sioners, Elias Mason, G. W. Roberts and Adam Sheets ; clerk, J. H. Jack- son ; register of deeds, S. B. Myrich ; treasurer, J. W. Sponable ; sheriff, John Jones.
Since the above election, the county officers have been as follows : County commissioners in 1863 were D. W. Williams, Evan Shriver and Elias Mason; 1864, Thomas Hogan to fill vacancy, in 1865 D. M. Will- iams, W. C. Smith, and C. L. Dille: in 1867, B. F. Hollenbeck, John Brady and John Fulcher; 1869, W. H. Brady, John Brady and H. W. McClintock ; 1873, J. A. Hibbard, J. E. Barnard, V. R. Ellis ; 1875, L. F. Watts, J. A. Hibbard, and Alexander Miller ; 1877, Thomas Douglas, T. G. Stephenson, Thomas Pierce.
After this election the law was changed and two commissioners held over, one only being elected each year. In 1878, C. Zehring was elected for three years, and in 1879, T. G. Stephenson ; in 1880, A. Fritz; 1881, C. Zehring ; 1882-85-88, D. P. Hoagland; 1884, David Hunt; 1886, R. R. Moore ; 1887, P. J. Cross ; 1889-92, I. D. Hibner ; 1890, A. N. Edging- ton ; 1891-94, Samuel McPherson : 1893, Lewis W. Breyfogle ; 1895, C. K. Dow ; 1896-99, W. S. Speer; 1897, I. H. Legate ; 1898-1901, J. T. Cramer ; 1902, J. E. Young : 1900 -'03, S. H. Allison ; 1904, J. W. Perkins ; 1906, Robert Baker; 1908, J. H. Hibner; 1908, Harry King; 1910, A. J. Cal- vert ; 1912, W. W. Anderson ; 1912, F. M. Gordon : 1914, J. W. Jones.
Probate Judges of Johnson county have been as follows: 1862-64, L. F. Bladgett ; 1866-68-70, B. Noteman : 1872-74-76-78-80, G. F. Hendrick- son ; 1882-84, F. E. Henderson ; 1886-88, J. D. Allen ; 1890, William Henry ; 1892-94, William Pellet ; 1896-98, James Hammond ; 1900-02, S. G. Long; 1904 -- 06, John T. Burris; 1908, S. G. Long; 1910-12, Robert Baker; 1914, G. A. Roberds.
Sheriffs: 1863, John Jones; 1865-67, J. M. Hadly; 1869-71, A. J. Clemmans: 1873, Nicholas Reitz; 1875-77, A. J. Clemmans; 1879-81, William Julian ; 1883-85, W. P. K. Hedrick; 1887, C. V. Townley ; 1889, G. T. Goode; 1891, J. R. Easdale ; 1893-95. J. J. Glover ; 1897-99, J. W. Jones ; 1904, P. K. Hendrick ; 1906-08, John Steed ; 1910-12, L. L. Cave ; 1914, E. G. Carroll.
County Clerks .-- 1863-65-67, F. E. Henderson ; 1869-71, J. T. Taylor ; 1873-75-77, Joseph Martin ; 1879-81, Frank Hantoon ; 1883-85, Henry V. Chase ; 1887-89, W. M. Adams ; 1891-93, John J. Lyons ; 1893-97, J. W. Thomas ; 1899-1902, J. G. Rudy ; 1904-06, Roscoe Smith ; 1908-10, J. T. Kincaid ; 1912-14, W. J. Moore.
Clerks of the District Court .- 1861, J. T. Weaver ; 1864-66, S. B. My- rick; 1868, T. J. Hadley ; 1870-72-74, J. M. Hadley ; 1876-78-80, A. H. Lott; 1882, J. H. Marshall ; 1884-86, C. E. Caress ; 1888-90, W. F. Pugh ; 1892-94, C. H. Mossman; 1896-98, W. D. Morrison; 1900-02, J. R. Thorne ; 1904, Ben H. Hancock ; 1906-08, G. W. Folmer : 1910-12, S. W .. Alderson : 1914, James Rose.
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Treasurers .- 1861-63, J. W. Sponable ; 1865, Col. J. E. Hayes; 1867- 69, J. H. Blake ; 1871-73, J. B. Bruner ; 1875-77, H. A. Taylor ; 1879-, A. J. Carpenter ; 1893-85, Solon Rogers; 1887-89, G. F. Goode ; 1891-93, D. B. Johnson ; 1895-97, Edgar Ripley ; 1899-1902, A. E. Moll ; 1904-06, W. T. Turner ; 1908-10, J. T. Nichols ; 1912-14, M. T. Meredith.
County Attorneys .- 1864, A. S. Devenny ; 1865, William Roy ; 1866, J. T. Burris ; 1868, J. L. Wines; 1870-72, Frank R. Ogg; 1874, J. W. Green ; 1876, J. P. Henderman, 1878, J. T. Burris; 1880, J. A. Rankin ; 1882-84, J. T. Little ; 1886-88, J. W. Parker ; 1890-92, S. D. Scott ; 1894, F. R. Ogg ; 1896-98, F. N. Hamilton ; 1900, E. C. Owens ; 1904, C. C. Hoge ; 1906, J. R. Thorne ; 1908-10, C. B. Little; 1912, R. C. Fay ; 1914. C. L .. Randall.
County Surveyors .- 1861, R. Morgan; 1863, I. C. Stuck; 1865, M. J. Burke; 1867, Frank L. Weaver ; 1869-71, I. C. Stuck ; 1873, D. Hubbard ; 1875, J. P. Hindman; 1877, A. G. Carpenter; 1879-81, T. A. Parker; 1883, David Hubbard; 1885-87, E. C. Owens: 1889-91. Jesse Pearson ; 1897, Lewis Terrill; 1904, Ole Hibner; 1908, E. C. Owens; 1893-95, Fred Pickering; 1899-1901, A. G. Carpenter; 1906, Fred S. Pickering ; 1910-12, T. W. Nowland : 1914. George Pike.
Superintendents of Public Instruction .- 1861, L. F. Bladgett ; 1862, O. S. Laws; 1863, W. H. Smith ; 1864. O. S. Laws : 1866-88. C. E. Lewis; 1870, J. B. Pollock; 1872, B. S. McFarland: 1874, A. Rennick ; 1876- 78. Frank Murdock ; 1880, W. J. Hull; 1882-84, F. H. Taylor : 1886-88, J. L. Howard; 1890, Sadie J. Kelly; 1892-94, Nannie L. Anderson; 1896- 98, Edith Barnett : 1900-02, Maud Clavins; 1904-06, Margaret McFar- land ; 1908-10, Emma Skinner; 1912-14, May Cain.
Register of Deeds .- 1861, S. B. Myrick; 1862-63, J. E. Clark ; 1865- 67-69-71, I. S. Farris; 1873, A. H. Lott; 1875-77-79, E. L. Caress ; 1881- 83-85, R. E. Stevenson ; 1887, J. H. Stevenson : 1889-91. J. O. Egleston ; 1893-95, Charles Sprague ; 1897-99, B. C. Donnelly ; 1902, T. D. Hedrick ; 1904-06, W. J. Shinn ; 1908-10, E. A. Garrett ; 1912-14, Frank D. Hedrick.
County Assessors .- 1861, T. T. Cadwallader; 1863, W. B. Thorn ; 1865, J. T. Taylor ; 1867, William Williams; after which the office was discontinued until 1908, when W. A. Mahaffie was appointed and elected to the office in 1910. Ed. Ripley was elected in 1912. The office was abolished by the legislature of 1913. The duties of the assessor now devolve on the county clerk.
Coroner .- 1885-87, Thomas Hamill; 1889. Dr. W. P. Furguson ; 1891, Thomas Hamill; 1893-95, J. B. Hulen; 1897-1980. H. E. Williamson ; 1899-1902, Dr. S. C. Parler ; 1904-1906, E. P. Mills : 1910, D. E. Bronson ; 1912-1914, Dr. P. L. Lathrop.
Johnson County Attorneys .- Hon. J. O. Rankin, of Paola, is dis- trict judge of the Tenth Judicial District, composed of Johnson and Miami counties and the following are Johnson county attorneys : Halli- day. C. B., Overland Park ; Eaton, E. L., Gardner ; Burris, John T., Bur-
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gess, H. L., Fay, R. Cecil, Gorsuch, C. W. Hayes, A. L., Hoge, C. C., John ston, J. D., Little, C. B., Little, John T., Morrison, W. D., Pickering, Fred S., Pickering, I. O., Orr, James R., Ogg., F. R., Owen, E. C., Parker, J. W., Parker, M. V., Randall, C. L., Scott, S. D., Seaton, S. T., Shuey, Ray L., St. John, J. P. and Thorne, John R.
MEMBERS OF FIRST TERRITORIAL LEGISLATURE.
At the election of March 30, 1855, for members of the First Territorial legislature, Rev. Thomas Johnson was elected from Johnson county, to the Territorial council, now, called the senate, and his son, Alexander S. Johnson, to the Territorial legislature. The legislature was convened at Pawnee near Ft. Riley, in Davis county, and organized by electing Rev. Thomas Johnson, president of the council, and Dr. J. H. String- fellow, speaker of the house. Almost immediately after the organiza- tion, an act was passed, locating the capital at Shawnee Mission. The legislature adjourned to this, the first capital on July 16. One of its first acts was the organization of the settled portions of the territory into counties. Johnson county was named for the Rev. Thomas John- son, president of the council. The county was thus organized and offi- cered two years, before any of the land came into market, and before any white people, except those connected with the Indians, were allowed to reside in it. At this session of the legislature, the road leading from Kansas City, Mo., to Santa Fe., N. M., passing through the center of the county, was declared a territorial road. A road was located through the northern part of the county to Lawrence, Lecompton and Ft. Riley, and another along the eastern line of the county from Westport to Ft. Scott. On the twenty-third day of October, 1855, the Free State Constitu- tional Convention assembled at Topeka. Johnson county was not repre- sented, its people being too pro-slavery. A constitution was adopted by the convention, the most important features of which was a clause prohibiting slavery in the State. On the fifteenth day of December, the Topeka constitution was submitted to the people and received a large. popular vote, outside of Johnson county. Almost the only anti-slavery people in the county at the time were the Hadleys, Jeremiah and his three sons, Samuel, T. J. and J. Milton Hadley, a family belonging to the society of "Friends." Jeremiah Hadley came out in August to assume the duties of superintendent of the Shawnee Quaker Mission. The Hadley families were fearless advocates of the Free State cause. A young man by the name of John Lockhart, of some ability and good education, residing at the misson with the Hadleys, was elected to represent Johnson county in the legislature, under the Topeka consti- tution. The legislature was summoned to meet at Topeka. July 4, 1856. The members assembled in accordance with the summons, but were not permitted to organize, being dispersed by Col. (Major-General) Edwin
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V. Sumner, acting under orders from President Pierce. There were troublous times in eastern Kansas, generally, but Johnson county escaped in a remarkable manner, as the settlers at this early date were practically of one political belief, but where there were men of prominence in the county of Free State belief, they were made to feel that their absence was preferable to their presence.
BORDER TROUBLE.
In August, of this year, a party of border ruffians went to the Quaker Mission, and after threatening to kill Jeremiah Hadley, stole six horses and a mule belonging to the mission, and a carriage owned by Levi Woodard. Then John Lockhart, who had been elected to the Free State legislature, was overtaken on his way to Chillicothe, about three miles west of the mission, by some armed men from Missouri, and threatened with arrest, as being in sympathy with Jim Lane. Calvin Cornatzer and Dr. Barton being with him, and Barton at the time, living at Chilli- cothe, persuaded the crowd that they were mistaken and none of them were harmed. A few weeks later, a squad of Missourians sought Lock- hart at the mission and searched the building for him. He saved him- self by dextrously slipping from one room to another that had been searched. The same summer Cornatzer was arrested at the instance of two of his pro-slavery neighbors, who accused him of being a Jim Lane man. He was taken to Tecumseh, lodged in jail and released the next day, the charge not being sustained.
Perk Randall was elected a member of the legislature, Rev. Thomas Johnson holding over as a member of the council.
In April, 1859, a proposition to hold a constitutional convention was submitted to the people of the territory. The proposition was sustained and the convention assembled at Wyandotte, on the first Tuesday of March, 1859. Johnson county was represented by J. T. Barton, Demo- crat, and J. T. Burris, Republican. Colonel Burris has the honor of being the first outspoken Republican in this, the then Democratic stronghold, and the first Republican elected at a general election. On the first Tuesday in the following October, the constitution framed by the Wyandotte convention was adopted by the people of Kansas by a majority of nearly 4,000, 10,341 for, and 5,530 against it.
During the summer, for the first time in the history of the county, the Republicans organized and put in nomination candidates for the various county offices, and two candidates for the representatives in the legisla- ture. J. E. Hayes, of Olathe, and Dr. Scott, of Shawnee, for representa- tives. The Democrats nominated L. S. Cornwall, of Olathe, and Charles Simms, of Spring Hill. They were elected over the Republican competi- tors for majorities of 88 and 120 respectively.
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MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATURE.
The first legislature of the State of Kansas met at Topeka, March 26, 1861, Johnson county being represented by Lockhart in the Senate and by J. E. Corliss, J. F. Legate and J. E. Hayes in the house. In the following fall the Republicans won their first general victory in the county, electing J. F. Legate to the senate and W. Il. M. Fishback, William Sheen and Eli McKee to the house by respectable majorities, and all the county officers.
In 1862, they elected Fishback to the senate by a majority of 136, Charles H. Stratton to the legislature by a majority of 129, and William Williams, by a majority of twenty-nine. The Democrats elected D. H. Campbell by a majority of twenty-eight. Since that time Johnson county has been honored in the State senate by the following gentlemen : James B. Abbott, 1866; A. Arrasmith, 1868; G. M. Bokers, 1870; John P. St. John, 1872; W. W. Maltby, 1874; W. M. Hadley, 1876, for four years; L. W. Breyfogle, 1880; R. W. Blue and W. M. Shean, 1884; This year the district was given two senators owing to its increase in population, but only for the one time. Thomas M. Carrol, 1888: J. W. Parker, 1892; W. B. Crossman, 1896; Frank W. Sponable, 1900; George H. Hodges, 1904 and 1908; W. J. Williams, 1912, term not yet expired.
In the house of representatives the following gentlemen have been elected from Johnson county at the dates mentioned: John T. Burris, A. S. Johnson, Gerrit C. Rue, 1865; M. B. Lyon, Albert Johnson, J. W. Sponable, 1866; J. P. Robinson, D. G. Campbell, J. B. Bruner, 1867; R. E. Stevenson, D. B. Johnson, J. T. Rankin, 1868; J. T. Burris, John H. Lusher, Frederic Ridlou, 1869; William Williams, D. B. John- son, I. D. Clapp, 1870; J. H. Connelly, T. J. Stephenson, A. Taylor, 1871 ; Thomas Janes, J. M. Miller, A. Beldon, 1872; W. W. Maltby, George F. Rogers, Thomas Hancock, 1873; D. G. Campbell, R. E. Stevenson, Z. Meredith, 1874; D. G. Campbell, W. H. Toothaker, George F. Rogers, 1875; George W. Ridge, Henry Perley, E. Clark, 1876.
For two years .- L. W. Breyfogle, Archibald Shaw, J. B. Bruner 1878; J. B. Hutchinson, Austin Brown, Rezin Addy, 1880; J. R. Foster, V. R. Ellis, 1882; V. R. Ellis, T. L. Hogue, 1884; Nicholas Reitz, 1886-88; C. M. Dickson, 1890; Nathan Zimmerman, 1892-94; J. H. Hibner, 1896; T. L. Hogue, 1898-1900; William Speer, 1902; S. B. Haskins, 1904-06- 08; C. H. Hyer, 1910; J. T. Kincaid, present member, 1912-1914.
COUNTY STATISTICS.
The population of Johnson county from 1860 to 1910 is as follows : 1860, 4,364 ; 1870, 13.725 ; 1880, 16,958; 1890, 17,385 ; 1900, 16,890; 1910, 18,288. The population of Johnson county March 1, 1914, was 19,705, assessed valuation $40,318,845, as follows :
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THE FOLLOWING STATISTICS SHOWING POPULATION AND VALUATION OF CITIES AND TOWNSHIPS ARE GIVEN:
Townships
and cities
Population
Land
City lots
Personal
Railroads $8,090,820
$40,318,845
Aubury twp.
1,060
1,871,955
50,680
245,805
590,328
2,758,768
Gardner
585
222,025
262,930
36,477
521,432
Gardner twp.
1,374
2,110,980
140,905
97,255
50,779
2,889,309
Lexington twp.
1,760
2,187,435
6,555
353,005
562,974
3,109,969
Edgerton
420
87,685
98,730
34,360
220,775
McCamish twp. .
747
1,840,740
39,740
268,005
569,003
2,717,488
Mission twp.
1,877
3,474,085
939,280
392,985
434,332
5,240,682
Monticello twp.
1,088
1,612,065
38,845
228,020
1,331,776
3,210,706.
Olathe .
3,626
2,173,535
798,995
223,909
3,196,439
Olathe twp.
1,288
2,929,885
68,975
323,385
1,522,551
4,844,796.
Oxford twp.
1,437
3,034,925
78,985
405,730
799,149
4,318,789.
Lenexa .
435
218,370
57,155
67,974
343,499
Shawnee twp.
2,444
2,370,885
547,945
241,260
984,235
4,144,325
Spring Hill
556
264,355
271,150
43,363
578,868.
Spring Hill twp.
618
1,393,855
5,565
199,085
286,129
1,884,634
FARM AND CROP STATISTICS FOR 1914, JOHNSON COUNTY.
Crops
Acres
Products
Value
Winter wheat
51,659
1,136,498
$977,388.28.
Corn
54,766
1,095,320
722,911.20
Oats
24,537
883,332
326,832.84
Rye
513
10,260
7,695.00
Barley
35
735,000
367.50
Irish potatoes
2,030
150,220
90.132.00
Sweet potatoes
16
1,760
1,232.00
Castor beans
2
20
22.00
Flax
25
175
197.75
Millet, tons
102
204
1,020.00
Sugar beets, tons
2
18
90.00
Sorghum for syrup
187
1,496.00
Milo, tons
149
596
2,384.00
Kafir, tons
560
2,240
8,960.00
Jerusalem corn, tons
40
160
640.00
Fetterita, tons
12
42
168.00
Timothy, tons
7,833
Clover, tons
5,251
Blue grass, tons
20,158
Alfalfa, tons
4,139
Orchard grass, tons
573
Other tame grasses, tons
6,411
16,549
165,290.00
Prairie grass (fenced)
29,477
536
4,824.00
Total
208,500
$2,312,610.57
SUMMARY OF ASSESSMENT OF PERSONAL PROPERTY IN JOHNSON COUNTY FOR 1915.
No. Av. Val. Tot. Ac. Val.
Horses six months old and under one year
1,085
$ 35.06
$ 38,050.00
Horses one year old and under two
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