Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-05-02
erals, and though considerably broken,

ing. Pilot Knob and the surrounding
mountains, ninety miles south OF st.
Louis, presents one OF the most notable
sights in America.
There are mountains of almost solid
iron rising hundreds of feet above the
surrounding country. The lead, iron
and coal of Missouri, when grasped by
energetic capital, and worked by skill
full labor, will produce sufficient to pay
the interest on the debt Of the United
States. When our railroad is completed
through Southeast Mo-, this rich but
neglected region will be occupied by a
population which will develop its
wealth.
NORTHERN MISSOURI.
Here are fine rolling prarles, through
which the Hannibal g. st. Joseph rail-
road runs, from Hannibal on the Misss-
sippi to St. Joseph ON the Missouri,
206 miles, and through which the North
Mo. R. R. runs from st. Louis to Macon,
ITO miles, which is extending its main
line to Macon to meet the Iowa roads,
and building also west branch from its
main track at Moberly that will be
finished to Brunswick, 80 miles, in the
spring. Almost every variety of soil
may be found in North Missouri, from
the light porous, to the rich, heavy and
tenacious.
These lands, which in Indiana, Ohio
or New York, would be worth $50 to
800 per acre, are sold by the Hannibal
s. st. Joseph R. R. on an average from
81 to $40.
The conditions of soil and climate are
such that Northern Missouri must be-
come great agricultural, stock raising
and mineral region. To illustrate the
richness of the soil, last summer a
farmer harvested forty bushels of fine
wheat to the acre, and it was the six
teenth crop of wheat he had raised from
the same land.
SHEEP RAISING.
All parts of Missouri are favorable Tor
this business. Wool-growing will event
ually be one of its most important inter.
! ests.
A bushel of corn and q pound Of wool
are worth about the same, 1t costs
nearly twenty five times as much to send
q bushel of corn to the great market as
a pound of wool.
When this fact is thoroughly sppreci
ated, our praries will be covered with
fiocks of sheep producing wealth tc
their owners, without requiring the cos
and care of other productions. Oul
short winters, warm and beautiful au
tums and early springs, give to Missour
Incompatible advantages over othel
more Northern States.
OUR FUTURE.
The mighty march of the Free State
of the North has reached Missouri. Th,
story of her ungarnered and ungathere(
wealth is caught by listening ears il
Europe and in the Eastern States. Mis-
souri, will soon be netted all over witt
system of railways. Factories, who's
clang Of enginery is the choir music @
the world, will give employment to ou
coming population, while our prairie
and fertile soil will be taken up int
farms whose products shall seek th
markets of the world. In the gran
rivalry of States, each one more prosper
Gus than any other political communit
in the world, look forward to th
time when Missouri will be amongst th
very first. People will not live o
the bleak hills of New England
struggling for existence on poor an
scanty soil, when they learn of the vi
told wealth in Missouri.
Aud when the question fairly come
up in the Congress of the United State
as it must before long, Where shall W
remove the capitol of the country 7" Il
answer will be "to the center" and tn,
center is Missouri. westward the st,
of Empire takes its way"
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