Excerpt from Land Planning and Classification Report as Relates to the Public Domain Lands in the Kansas River Drainage Basin: Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado The Kansas River is formed by the Republican and Smoky Hill Rivers 'wth come together at Junction City, Kansas. From Junction City, the Kansas flows generally eastward 170 miles to join the Missouri River at Kansas City. These two principal tributaries of the Kansas River, to gether With the Big Blue and the Delaware Rivers, account for about 92 per cent of its total drainage area. These main tributaries drain and 1,1b0 square miles respectively. The area is well drained, is rather closely held in private ownership, and is rich in agricultural pro duction. It embraces no large lakes, mountains or other outstanding tepo graphic features. Its population is predominantly rural. The greatest density of urban population is along the Missouri River, Kansas City being the largest city and principal trading center. Part of the basin 15 Within the hard winter wheat belt, but it is also important as a producer of live stock, petroleum, salt and building materials. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.