Because it is in the geographical center of the United States, through which passes the channels of commerce from the rock bound coast of Maine to the Golden Gate of California, and from the snow-capped mountains of Canada to the pleasant glades of Florida; because it has the most even and healthful climate of any spot in the United States; because it is the second primary live stock market of the world; because it is the fourth primary grain market of the world; because its jobbing trade in 1916 was because its factory output for 1916 was because it is the greatest creamery producing city in the world. Because in 1999 it will have a population of people; because it is the greatest lead ore reducing city in the world; because it is the second primary corn market in the world; because it is the greatest sheep feeding market in the world.