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| | Ferries in Kansas, Part IX -- Arkansas River by George A. Root, February 1936 |
 | | The Arkansas river rises in central Colorado, in a pocket of peaks in Lake county, near present Leadville, at an altitude of 10,000 feet. |
 | | With the settlement of that portion of Kansas lying along the river between Dodge City and the west line of the state, the pioneers in irrigation began construction of canals and ditches, and the waters of the Arkansas were diverted for irrigation purposes. |
 | | Down the river there was always a good market for surplus grain, flour, produce, etc. During the late 1870s it was not always an easy matter to sell surplus crops; the railroad was too far away, and the river afforded the most convenient route to a market, so ferry-boats were utilized for conveying such crops. |
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