Kansas City, the second city in size of Missouri. It lies at the western border of the state, between the Kansas River and the Missouri. There is some confusion in the popular mind as to names, for Kansas City, Missouri, is separated by the Kansas River only from Kansas City in Kansas. Both cities are on the Missouri. Historically, it is the point where the old Santa Fe route left the Missouri River for the West. The site was well known to hunters and trappers, but was brought first to public notice by the report of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. The earliest white woman, the wife of a settler, came here in 1800. A ferry was established across the Missouri River in 1828. The town was laid out in 1846. The site occupies a number of rugged bluffs. They have been leveled at enormous labor and expense. The history of the city is, of course, commercial. It is the metropolis of the Missouri Valley. It is the leading winter wheat market and the second live stock market in the world. There are enormous elevators and grist mills, slaughter houses and packing plants. The mills produce about 1,600,000 barrels of flour a year. The output of meats and meat products is about $150,000,000 a year. Kansas City is also a distributing point of importance. Telephone wires cross the Missouri by means of steel towers eighty feet high. Twenty railroads center here. Two hundred passenger trains and twice as many freight trains arrive and depart daily. Groceries, dry goods, implements, and machinery to the value of $100,000,000 are distributed annually. The trade is increasing rapidly. Like other enterprising Western towns Kansas City has an excellent system of public schools, a public library, a system of parks, and commodious public buildings. The population in 1910, according to a federal estimate, was 191,685.