Excerpt from An Illustrated Hand Book: Compiled From the Official Statistics, Descriptive of Butler County, Kansas; January, 1887 Very many people in the eastern states have a half-formed notion that they will go west, but not having any specific knowledge of any given locality, hav ing no friends or acquaintances in the west and'not looking upon the many glow ing descriptions of Kansas and other western states with any degree of confidence, they continue to postpone the matter, yet hoping that something may turn up which will enlighten them. To this end these descriptive pages are written. And in order that the reader may know that the facts set forth are true, and that the object to be attained is laudable, we will say that the business men, bankers and other responsible citizens of EL dorado have directed the preparation of this work and its reliability cannot well be questioned. 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.