South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1837-06-03
MISSOURI.

MlSSOURI.
The statements of the following letter may
be relied upon. The writer DR.. MooRMAk,
was formerly member of the Legislature Of
Virginia, from Rockingham county. and is a
gentleman of worth and intelligence.
From the Rockingham Register.
The following letter from DR.. J.J. Moor
MAN, formerly Of Harrisonburs, will be read,
we are persuaded, with great interest:
PALMYRA, Mo-, April LIST, 1887.
Mr.. WARrMAN,-
SIn;-Before leaving Virginia last
fall, I promised many Of my friends in
Rockingham to write them descriptive
Of this country. Ifleisure permitted |
would gladly comply with each of
these promises in detail, but as my en-
gagements will not conveniently allow
me TODD this, and as l believe that all,
ormost of those promised, are readers
your paper, | have thought proper
TO address this letter to you and ask
you to give it an insertion, if, in your
opinion, its matter is of sufficient gen.
eral interest to justify you in doing so.
My friends to whom | extended this
business sort of promise, will, hope,
receive it in discharge ofmy obligation,
while trust it may not be entirely I'M
interesting or useless to others.
: A general description Of Missouri,
and portraiture of all its general adj
vantages and disadvantages, as applica-
BILE to the whole or to different parts of
the STATEN contrast with others, would
require space far beyond the ordinary
limits of a letter; nor is this, perhaps,
the kind of information which would be
most satisfactory and useful to my
friends. tits the little detailed inior-
nation in relation to new countries that
persons at distance most need
these things that enter as it were into
the kneading trough,-into the every
day business Of the life Of those who
settle in them from such data gener-
al conclusions may be formed with
much correctness.
In speaking of this country, | shall
as far as possible, confne myself to a
detail of facts, leaving my friends to
form their own conclusions.
The country to which my remarks
shall have particular reference, is call
ed here the country ofthe upper Ms
Sissippi," or that country which stretch
es from the confluence ofthe Missouri
north-wardly, to the mouth OF the Dies
MONIES, a distance of 100 miles.
From personal observations of differ
ent parts of the State and from general
fame, / remark that this particular sec
lion Of Missouri will compare advanta-
geously with any portion of its terrific
~ IS respects beauty Of surface, rich
Gess of soil or general proportions Of
Number and prairie. OF its advantages
for spring and stock water, and water
for machinery, it will compare with a.
ny other fertile portion Of the state. In
commercial point of view its adyan,
tages over every other part north al, ano
west of st. Louis are obvious. Inc
safety and facility of navigating the
Mississippi, in comparison to Its greaa'
rival the Missouri, are uniformly adj
mitted. While transportation upon the
first is safe and expeditions, upon the
Last it is tedious and dangerous can,
not better illustrate this than by stating
= the fact, that a company has been IN
+ corporated and is now actually e!ngag.
ed in building rail road loo mules u
length, from point on the NllsslSslppl
- 1870 miles above St. Louis, TO pom
on the Missouri, 1870 miles above the
same city, without reasonable pTosp th,
of freigRting the produce from the
country lying upon the Mississippi,
Ofthe soil of this country, fame na'
said so much that any thing tHaf
ca,,ld ada night look ''wastetul ana II