Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1883-03-17
DON'T SELL YOUR LAFAYETTE
COUNTY FARMS.


Lafayette county, aud who sell them
to go elsewhere, do q very foolish
thing.
In all countries and under all skies
people grumbls about the weather,
but, taking one las with another
there Is nowhere a better climate fol
the husbandman's purposes than that
enjoyed here. No healthier country
can be found on the globe. School
aud church facilities are excellent, and
improving every day. Society is
good. The morale Of the community
il good. The people are kind and
neighborly. They are intelligent, and
about as honest as other people; and
the lands. for farming purposes. are
the best in the so0rla. None are bet
ter, anywhere. None eau be, taking
all crops together.
The man who cannot make money
farming Lafayette county lands had
better not 60 into any other Kind Of
business. If he does, no will come to
grief. sure. The man who says there
is no mouey to be made in farming II
Lafayette county either Intends to
deceive someone else, or he 10 himself
deceived.
Tho bait that 10 catching a great
many owners Of Lafayette county
lands. just now, is the apparent high
prices. They are only apparently so
they are not high. Because farms
which we're valued two or three years
ago at $1s to $26 now readily sell at
$50 to ESQ. 10 no reason why 1t is wise
to sell them. There will be as great
an increase in their value during the
next five years. Look all over the
countryl Get on a train at Denver;
come east through Kansas; pass
through Missouri. Illinois. Indiana,
Ohio, Pennsylvania. Maryland, Della
ware, New Jersey. New York,
Rhode Island and Mas.
until your train halts with
it's wheels IN the waters Of the bay,
and where else will you find such lands
as those in Lafayette and two or three
other counties in Missouri? No
where.
We believe. II an accurate account
could be made. that Lafayette county,
No., raised more winter wheat, last
year, than any other county Of
area in the United States.
She was not much behind the best of
them in corn. cattle or hogs, beside
good crops Of ether kinds.
We have travelled v two or three
that covered the states, men
toned above; most of them recently,
aud we have failed to see, anywhere
else. such a country as ia ours. This
10 said with DO local narrowness OF
Tor 1t was q conclusion reached
before we settled in the county, which
has been confirmed by observation
since. Our community has shortcom-
ings, no doubt, but It is the soil we
are now speaking ot-ths soil out of
" hlch crops must grow. It is here
from three to ten feet deep. 1t can be
worked years without rest even; then
. crop or two of clover makes it new
again. 1t is practically inexhsustible.
have hardly yet begun to tickle
acr. of it N hich
is dry, unwashed, and susceptible to
is intrinsically, relatively
with other things, worth $3.50 in any
mans gold. 1t will not reach that
price in five years, maybe, but within
that time, aud we ask our readers to
reflect on the proposition, every fairly
improved farm Of first class Lafayette
county soil, within seven miles OF a
shipping station (and how few there
are which are no,). will be worth from
SIS 10 300 per +
We would like to ask the gentle.
who are now selling their lands
at $50 to $50 per acre, how they are
to make mor profit on their
than this increase would rea-
lie for them, when they eau In the
mean time make interest on their
fair remuneration for their
time, and . living. out of the yearly
crops.
All that is needed to make St. Louis
as coed q market as New York is to
practically render it a seaport by the
improvement of the Mississippi river.
This will be done In q very few years.
Then, think what would be the value
of such lands as these within six or
eight hours railroad travel of a New
York, fauked on n side by such a
course ss the Missouri river.
There are. no doubt. inconvenience
and discomforts about farming; but
in what occupation are these not
What business, we'll followed,
proves a bed of roses? The farmer is
The most Independent, the most Ger.
tain of proits, and the happiest man
Then, when he has such prop
arties In his possession as Lafayette
lands, why should he want to
fool them away at $50 or $50 an
acre, giving other people easy and
profits which he could retain
'or himself?
There is 1888, 7s5,4o7 lying idle in
The U. 8. treasury, and there has been
practically this sum tor many mon,hs.
the necessary reserve to pro-
Iect the greenback currency, less than
one halt of this sum, what 10 the
necessity for keeping these millions of
dollars III the treasury Why not put
them in circulation among the people
by paying of or buy ing bonds ? A few
pet banks, and the men who pet them,
are no doubt veftinU Mira ifttla d{1y;,o