Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1880-04-22

;. places the hills rising to the dignity c
m considerable mountains, intersperse
m with fertile valleys and good upland
.. which yield excellent returns to the in
C. dustrious tillers of the soil-in corn
't wheat, oats, rye, barley, potatoes, to
bacco, sorghum, and every variety o
- vegetable and fruit suited to the eli
% mate.
o The country is covered with a fores
d of valuable timber of almost every kint
and variety, and amongst this is lux
:. uriant growth of grass, which make:
. our region also rank high for grazing
and stock-raising purposes.
No portion of the United States Of
: fers better inducements to stock rails.
ers than Iron county. The forest and
half of the county, which for many
years may not be fenced and Guilt
waited, thus affording the very best
pasturage free to all. Why need any
person go to tie prairies Of the Far
West to engage in cattle and sheep
raising, where the wild grasses are no
better and their stock exposed with lit
tie water to the scorching sun in sum-
mer and the cold, bleak winds in win
ter, while here they are protected from
both with equally as good free range of
wild grass, in the midst of springs of
pure, cold water, and so much nearer
market? with the st. Louis, Iron Noun
tain & Southern Railway extending
through the county for thirty miles,
giving direct communication with st.
Louis and the East, the Mississippi at
Belmont, and the South with Little
Rock and Galveston?
Our winters are open and mild.
Sheep often live upon the range dur
ing the whole winter, and seldom re-
quire feeding more than four to six
weeks during the year.
In addition to other crops, blue grass,
timothy, red top, clover and other
grasses are natural products of the soil
and yield largely.
Lands, both wild and improved, are
cheape in this region than in any other
portion of the Union,-quality and ad-
vantages considered.
Improved farms can be purchased to-
day in Southeast Missouri, within one
hundred and one hundred and fifty
miles of st. Louis, at less cost than
the wild open prairie railroad lands
five hundred miles distant out in Kan
sas and Nebraska. Large tracts suita-
BILE for grazing purposes can be pur-
chased at but a trifle above Govern
ment price.
Iron county does not owe dollar of
debt. Has money in the treasury.
Has splendid brick public buildings.
Taxation for State and county purpos-
es is considerably less than one per
cent. Our public schools and society
are second to no county west of the At :
|antic seaboard. u
This county is the centre of the great
iron deposits of the State, as well as the
the Missouri granite works, and in this
way home market is produced for all
farm productions, often superior to that
IL LILO VI oL. AOuISs |
Pleasure and health seekers can find
no more lovely place west Of the AL i
egheny mountains than the Valley Of {
The Valley is very beautiful !
aud the hills or mountains surrounding !,
t,-clothed sometimes in a mantle of j
sometimes in sheen of au- )
umnal glory,-are picturesque and in
grand. J
Within this valley of few thousand J
.cres are the three towns of Ironton, :
Arcadia and Pilot Knob, with three
ailway depots and telegraph offices; $
md this, too, within three hours ride
# the great city of st. Louis. j
DR.. Farrar says
TSee what DR.. Farrar says on first page.
To which may be finally added: We 4
Welcome to Iron county the honest and Z
the poor man in search Of +
abor, and the rich man in search of Z
ich mines, good lands, profitable in J
health or pleasure. We 3
Welcome the farmer, the miner and the >
rtizan alike, and extend to you all
uch Inequalities as will convince you
hat, though we have Iron mountains, :
ron county, and Iron-ton, we neither p
ave Iron bodies nor Iron hearts. N
J. w. EMERSON, ;.
President Iron Co Immi grafton Society. n
G. r. PECK, Sec'y. w