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Kansas City (Countyseat of Wyandotte co Kan)

a city and countyseat of Wyandotte co., Kan.; at the junction of the Missouri and Kansas rivers, and on the Missouri Pacific, the Union Pacific, and the Chicago Great Western railroads; opposite Kansas City, Mo., with which it has many business interests in common, especially the meat-packing industry. The two cities constitute the second largest livestock and meatpacking place in the United States. The city has also an extensive grain and flour trade, many elevators, large smelting and refining works, the shops of the Missouri Pacific, Union Pacific, and Rock Island railroads, iron and steel works and foundries. There is a fine system of parks and boulevards. There are trolley lines to Kansas City, Mo., ges across Topeka, and Leavenworth, bridges the Kansas river within the city limits, electric and cable street railroads, a system of water-works supplied from the Missouri river, National and State ity conta tern End Surger Igaret B 1; (1920) TY, & city t the junct Ensas rivere ween Miss ectly oppos City in of road center on the Chi Topeka anos t Western and Pacinc St. Paul er railroad stations by severa enormous b . In addi e is transp from Kan reet railwa nearly 300 as greatly an inter anufacturin are for the re separate hill, by hi tions of ti highest el street sys miles of ablic buildin city hall e building, C. A. bulld a number The educa short dists Missouri, th am Jewell aker Univer sive syste mented by notable fo 600 acres limits. g point for of the e wholesale ess is done at packing. winter wh the second seral grain ain elevato 18,000,000 KANSAS CITY banks. The city contains the State Institution for the Blind, the Kansas City University, Western University College of Medicine and Surgery, and Bethany and St. Margaret's Hospitals. Pop. (1910) 82, 331; (1920) 101,078.