Mexico weekly ledger., 1878-08-08
MEXICO, AUDRAIN COUNTY,
MISSOURI,

AND ITS COMMERCIAL, MANUFACTURING
y AGRICULTURAL ADVANTAGES.
TIE City Of Mexico is situated at
the intersection of the St. Louis.
Kansas City and Northern Railway,
with the Louisiana and Chicago, AL
ton and st. Louis Railway; IL hun
dred and eight miles northwest from
st. Louis fifty miles north Of JEFF
ferson City, the capital of tie State;
fifty miles southwest of Louisiana.
on the Mississippi river; one hun
dred and fifty miles east of Kansas
City, and three hundred ard twenty
five miles southwest of Chicagh. The
city has a population Of about 5000
people; ten churches, many of them
large, beautiful and costly brick
structures. Three newspapers ana
job-printing establishments; three
banks in successful operation, with
good managing directors and trust
worthy officers. A well established
system Of graded public schools.
Three first-class hotels; a wooden
factory, Touring mills, saw mills,
wagon and carriage manufactures
and superior plow AMI agricultural
manufactory. The public school
building is large, beautiful and COM
modious, employing eleven teachers.
Hardin College, for the instruction
of young ladies, is one Of the best
institutions in The country, with a
faculty of six professors. This in
stitutlon has been largely endowed
lay the Hon. Charles III. Hardin, the
worthy eX-GOvernOr of Missouri,
from whom the institution may APP
p%ropriatcly claim its name.
In the heart of the city stands an
elegant and cOmmOdiOus new Court
House, i'll the midst Of a public park,
which is handsomely decorated with
evergreen and ornamental trees, and
surrounded by an iron fence-all
erected at 81 cost Of about $40, 900,
and for which no indebtedness
no" exists against the county.
No inland city in the west has
mccc facilities foI manufacturing than
has the city OF Mexico. Abundance
of fuel, timbgr and water can he ob
TENED in and around the city; coal
OF good quality underlies large por-
tons of the county and even the city
Itself. Lands within the city limits.
for the location Of manufacturers, can
be obtained at merely nominal values
With an unlimited home demand for
all manufactured articles, We have
also the advantage of all the markets
east, west, noItil and south, and
cheap freights, by the net work of
railroads that run through our city.
The trade OF the city, in all its
branches, is larger than that Of any
other point on the railroad between
st. Louis and Kansas City. The
surrounding counties contribute
largely to the trade of the city, and
its stock trade is larger than any in
Iand city in tie State.
AUDRAIN CouNrY.
Audrain county lies in about
80 IA degrees north latitude, en-
bracing about 700 square miles of
territory, with a population of about
$4,000 souls the climate is health
full, with short and mild winters. The
springs, m and autumns are
most delightful.
The lands of the county comprise
rich, rolling prairies and timber lands.
beautifully diversified, and we'll wa.
tered by running streams. All the
lands are of easy culture and largely
productive in all the ceral products.
As o grass growing county it stands
~unrivaled, ever by the famous blue
grass regions of central Kentucky:
thus making this county one OF the
best ans most profitable stock grow
ing regions IN the west.
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