Transcribed from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar.

Mineral, an incorporated city of the third class in Cherokee county, is a mining town on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas R. R., 8 miles northwest of Columbus, the county seat. It has a money order postoffice. West Mineral, an addition to the original town, has an international money order postoffice. The combined population of the two towns is 1,170. There are all lines of mercantile enterprise, a bank, a newspaper (the Mineral Cities Times), an opera house, an electric railway to Columbus, telegraph and express offices, etc.

Page 286 from volume II of Kansas: a cyclopedia of state history, embracing events, institutions, industries, counties, cities, towns, prominent persons, etc. ... / with a supplementary volume devoted to selected personal history and reminiscence. Standard Pub. Co. Chicago : 1912. 3 v. in 4. : front., ill., ports.; 28 cm. Vols. I-II edited by Frank W. Blackmar. Transcribed July 2002 by Carolyn Ward.