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.

Mount Hope, an incorporated city of the third class in Sedgwick county, is located in Greeley township on the Arkansas river and the Missouri Pacific R. R. 25 miles northwest of Wichita, the county seat. It has a bank, a weekly newspaper (the Clarion), all lines of mercantile stores, telegraph and express offices, and a money order postoffice with two rural routes. The population according to the census of 1910 was 519, a gain of over 60 per cent. since 1900. It was founded about 1880.

Page 330 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.