The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1886-03-30

others. In the lead and zinc mines
but little has been done, and at pres
ent they are virtually idle, while the
coal fields have hardly been touched.
The pottery cIays and mineral points,
the latter the
FINEST IN THE WORLD, =
lie begging investment. The chief in
dustries seem to be in timber, of
which millions of feet of lumber and
thousands of ties and cords of wood are
constantly being manufactured and
much is wasted. These products find
their way to market in home consump-
ton and via the narrow gauge to Sc
dalia, but as yet so little has been
done in their development that the
important place they are to nil in the
future traffic of the country is scarcely
felt and not at all realized. But the
people believe the day is not far dis
tant when the influx of capital and
labor will render them the richest and
most important in the entire west.
This opinion is mainly based upon
the early construction of the st. Louis,
Kansas City Il Colorado railroad,
now surveyed through Cole Camp
westwardly, and which they say will
give them a grand outlet and compel
ing line which will insure the quick in
vestment of capital and consequent de-
velopment of resources. In
the meantime it behooves the
energetic
PEOPLE OF sEDALIA
to anticipate these events, and by en-
ergy and attention secure the advan-
tages of the bulk of this trade, which
rightly belongs to them, and which
the people of Benton county are anx-
ious to give them in return for the
benefit conferred when Sedalia reached
out her strong arm and gave them
their first step forward in the path of
progress through the medium of the
narrow guage railroad. "When are
they going to do it ?" is the anxious
inquiry of the Benton citizen when he
meets Sedalian. Will Sedalia please
send back a speedy answer to willing
ears,
COLE CAMP CLIPPINGS.
The wheat prospect in this section
is pronounced the finest ever seen.
The Cole Camp flour mill is do
ing a booming business just now.
DIR. Keiffer pronounces the health
of the community distressingly good.
The strike is looked upon here as
a big boom for the Usage river i'm
provement scheme.
-Mahnken & KeiHcr received O
heavy invoice of dry goods per Pacific
express Saturday.
Louis Grother is preparing to
open his brick yard on an extensive
scale this spring.
Cole Camps great need is a good
banking house, and efforts are now on
foot to secure its establishment.
Dick Neff has opened his sand
stone quarry and is getting out some
of the finest paving and building stone
in the west.
"A movement is on foot among
the temperance people to secure the
services of Dan K. Shields for few
lectures here.
Arrangements are being made by
the merchants here to receive goods
by boat via Warsaw should the Usage
river continue naYigable.
-Grother, Schroeder & Junge
have spread their mercantile establish
ment over a quarter of an acre of
ground. 1t is big concern.
Eggs, poultry and butter are
drag on The market, as tn ir shipment
has been cut off by the strike, and
the home market is overstocked.
The great strike in Sedalia fur
nishes much food for speculation, and
the BAzoo is eagerly looked for each
evening in order to learn the latest.
CONTRACTS are out for no less than
thirty handsome buildings to be
erected here this spring. Work will
be commenced ON them this week.
Quite q number of strangers
have already appeared in this burg
seeking investment for capital, and
the prospects for the spring boom are
first-class. tHsa "'
The probable early construction
of the st. Louis, Kansas City d Colo
RADIO railroad to this point is the chief
topic of interest, and every item bear
ing upon the subject is eagerly sought.
Since the strike merchants at this
point are receiving goods by express,