Osage Valley banner., 1879-10-02
BIA, MILLER COUNTY, MISSOURI TE gDAY OCTOBER . 1879
,n B lImILad onIy By tho exlenL q

lxNfied on Is limited only by the extent OF
/ ~ country.
grbe topography Of The State Is unique,
| lied and beautiful. The prairles are firing.
\ % BY magnificent forests, forming success
sicn Of continuous amphaihestres; hills and
valleys varlegRte the scenery, and the
I apa Il constantly relieved by new and bnautl-
/ iul stretches of landscape rsing up before Il.
] North Missouri Is made up oftable-lands,
ghich gently slope away into the most beau.
ltiful and romantic valleys, surrounded bv
| Bills, which are rather gentle unduietloDg.
! Southern Missouri partakes largely OF the
EehAraeter OF Kentucky, the valley OF Virginia
I eAd Eastern Pensy lvania.
! Even greater than tho Inducements held
] oot by Missouri 70 the agricultufist, ia The
/ inducement offered 10 tbe Investment OF CAD,
1 itai In manufacturing. With the raw mHtef,.
~ Of iron lying in mountains close by, great
foAl mines, iron and all that IL produced from
I IRON, may be manufactured without limit,
q eaper than anywhere else Ia the world
Ad II IA only question Of time, energy
fSI enterprise. WHOM Ah1e9ssh heaonaes
"a ~ ssssf'sis y sssats 10 she'
There is a demand in this State for the e.
blshtnent Of iron works which win invite
capital when It is released from the rennorse-
less grasp OF monopoly. II Is a shame that
So Louis has not n single nail factory; that
Missouri imports nails from Pitisburg and
Wheallng, and stoves from New York. We
are selling pig iron and paying tho double
transportation 10 and from the East over the
richVst coal fields !n America, when the tame
pig iron 10 brought back ana sold in various
forms OF manufactured iron under The yory
shadow OF the Iron Mountain, the richest iron
deposit In the world. The consumer, OF
course, pRys the cost. The Mishourian cells
his eora ~ twenty cents per busbei bis hogs
Gt SO so per hundred, and tobacco at 50 to SO
per hundred. These sRmo articles are used
by the operatives In the manufacture of iron,
and pay for them about tourlold, which we
refund to them when we buy the manuiaetur.
ed article, or, in other wolds, we are paving
from twelve to llttl en- cents Tor pork. seventy.
five cents per busbel for corn, and one dollar
a pound for tobacco, besiees paying the
double transportation on the raw and manu-
factured iron.
Missouri ought to employ at least one huu-
| dred thousand workmen In the manufacture
OF iron alone, and supply the entire West
with Iron 10 its various iUTms, and no immi.
grants would be Of so great value to the State
as those who came prepared 10 develop the
| resouTces OF the State.
There is demapd for the manufactures Of
every kind for which the timber is at the
door and the food for the workman is raised
at their workshop. There is not an article of
furnlture raised in TIE State which could not
DO probably manufactured here, besides
/ AOT cdlt hOTOAQ In competition
with all others. One hundrcd thousand peo-
| pie ought TO be supported In the State by
the manufacturing Of wood ia its various
forms.
The forests of the State invite saw mills
and the utilization Of the Immense bodies OF
timber which are now yAluless,
These forests can supply the State Of Mis-
souri with lumber and export unlimited
Smounts to the people west OF us. The tim
Der lAbus, and the industries iosteted by them
would employ Thousands of people with pro
fit, for the forests of Southern and Soutbeas-
tern Missouri are equal 10 any on the conti-
lnent.
The manufacture of farming implements
and machinery Is demanded by the State
EIhe amount OF these articles imported into
the State aunuslly amounts TO milliops.
| They are brought into the State aud carried
through II by hundreds Of train loads. There
is not single implement used on the farm
which could not be Ms well manufactured in
Missouri as in any other State OF the Union,
and even cheaper. And there is scarcely an
| interior town In the State which might not
lproatsbly engage in these manufactures. il
ID a reproach u the State that the industry
OF her people should build up every State
| east OF her by purchasing Of them that which
she ought herself to produce. The produc-
tious of this branch OF industry will employ
a large number Of hands and support large
| population.
The lead mines OF South Missouri arc per-
hsps The richest in the world. At tho close
OF the war the population OF Jasper (in which
these mines are stuated) was less tnan one
thousand. The opening OF the lead mines
hes increased II to 10000. The manufacture
| OF lead alone Will support city.
silver has been discovered, and mines are
now worked in Madifon county, which prom
| ises to invite large Immigration 10 that re-
giop, which has splendid farming lands and
| an Italian climate.
The erection OF manufactures will build
| up all other Industries and invite immigra-
ton to support them. Tue value OF the az.
rleultural machinery used Ia the State would
establish the manuiaetories which produce
them. II Is safe calculation that the money
PAID for manufactures out OF tho State in ten
1 years woald pay all OF our State, county,
city and corporate debts, and, by the change
10 our Industries, go far towards paying ouF
Individual indebtedness. BY our present
policy we are building up cities eltewhere In
stead OF building up our own. We are pay
| Ing not only our own taxes, but are sending
money abroad TO pay the taxes OF other peo-
pie, We are denying ourselves to support
others ia bfiloenoe.
Ia the census OF 1870 Missouri was the fifth
/ State Ia the Union, whilst Illinois was the
fourth, To have taken the manufactures and
the population engaged in manufacturing
from that State and II would have fallen be-
low Missouri In the census.
TO have taken the manufacturing N interests
from Ohio and its population would be- forced
TO emigrato 10 other countries. PennPyl-
vania could not part with her manufacture
| without parting with NC least one. half OF her
population. iot full one-half of her people
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