Elk County

[W. Gray]

Wichita Daily Eagle, April 12, 1890

A number of residents 25 years earlier might have disagreed with the writer that there had never been a crop failure. The 1874 grasshopper plague was a disaster to both north and south Howard County.

The writer says Howard had a population of 1,500 in 1890, but only five churches.

Eighty-four school houses in county.

96,000 dozen eggs shipped out of the county.