The intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1887-1891, 1888-02-11

! VIII allow
We find in the enterprising an,
wide awake Monet News, this iniel
esting correspondence to the Spring
field, Mo, Herald
i The visitor to Monet from the tin,
he steps out upon the broad platform
IN front of the Monett eating house
and looks up at its colossal proportions
decorated everywhere by the genius O
} the architect and the skill of the work
men, until lie leaves il he does leave
! which is doubtiul,-is in condition
OF mute wonder at everything he sees
, Perhaps he has travelled that " ay be.
fore and remembers that but a few
short months ago Il quiet rural scene
} greeted the eye, where now u bustlimg
pushing, tireless energy pervade-
everything and leaves the impress o
IFS inspiration upon the spectator.
The festive COW grazed peacefully
upon the grass, or the hog gazed wist
tully between the rails of the fence al
the corn il was unable to reach.
The awakening had not yet come
and no one dreamed OF the almost
magical change that SO short a time
has brought about. The extension OF
the great Frisco system made necessary
the selection of new point for divis-
ion headquarters and il was hardly
possible 10 overlook the advantages
which centered at the junction of the
Arkansas aud Texas line with the main
line. Men with ability such as il re
quired to operate railroad successful
lV wnnI6 unIfpr ri m Of a nna
select point where the men in the
road and who must necessarily find Il
home at or very near the headquarters
OF their division, can build home
amid pleasant surroundings. Where
ever it is possible to do SO, in locating
a new place, both the beauty of the
location aud the character of the sur
rounding country are considered. The
healthiulness OF the place, good water,
easy OF access to the country, the gen
eral features of its topography with
! reference either to the building OF
pleasant and happy homes or pushing
business enterprise. The produc-
tiveness of the surrounding country,
the fertility of soil, the range OF pro-
ductiOns, the character and extent of
improvments, the general intelligence
of the people, their habits OF thrift and
industry, their love of law and order,
their devotion 10 schools and churches.
All these things are entitled to careful
consideration and they were consider
ed with reference to the location of
Monet.
1t would be difficult to find another
place where there are as many advant-
ages and rs few disadvantages or Iu-
cOnveniences as Monet. 1t is owing
to this significant fact that its growth
has been so extensively rapid from the
start, This is all eminently practical
age and men do not go wild alter Il
sentiment as they did centuries ago.
Men with money look for investments
that will return proit. Practical
men saw In Monet and its environ
ments, from the day the first lot was
sold, the beginning of prosperous and
beautiful city whose growth would be
rapid and continuous. They examin-
ed the situation critically with view
to ascortaining if any element essential
to the growth of n city anu necessary
to the continued welfare and happiness
OF its people. was absent. Their ex.
animation was more than satisfactory,
there was nothing absent .rum either
the location or surroundings that ex-
perience has shown to be requisite in
the building OF city, or its continued
growth, to secure a steady prosperity.
| The location could not be more
beautiful. The residence portion OF
the town is sufficiently elevated to over
look the business portion and more
delightful place for homes caunot be
found, IL seems as if nature had de-
signed the place for the proud destiny
| in store for 1t, aud tho only credit 10
which man Is entitled in connection
with the matter, is due to his ability to
make the selection In accordance with
the design.
The railroad runs through lovely
valley in which the shops, the round
house, the yards, the switches, the
depots end the eating house are situa-
ted, and the city is being built princi-
pally on the north side where the
ground slopes gently toward the south
for halt q mile where il reaches q
broad and nearly level plateau of up.
land on which large number of resi-
selling rapidly even i'll midwinter.
On the south side the rise Ia more
abrupt, but on the summit Is level and
very fertile. and here too a number of
residences have been built. A pro.
ducuve and we'll improved country
surrounds the town and its trade is
already large. Good wagon roads le ad
to the city from every direction and the
near future will see them crowded
with wagons loaded with produce
from the farms.
All these things were seen at glance
by the shrewd, wide-awake and far
seeing business meu who have gone to
Monett either to engage in business Or
to make investments in city property,
and it has been no trouble therefore to
sell choice business lots at forty TO sixty
dollars per front foot and great many
sales were made at those figures before a
business house was built in the place.
Residence lots have sold for five to
twelve and halls dollars per front foot
and all except twelve Of these lots III
the original plat have been sold aud
large number Of lots in outside addi-
tiOns have been sold beside. Three
fOurths of the business lots have also
been sold, and &ll this without boom,
with but small amount of advertising
and before it was generally known that
the Texas road would be extended
through TO Kansas city. There is no
person who looks at the situation and
studies its advantages from practical
point OF view, who does not agree
without hesitation that the figures at
which the lots have oeeH sold will he
fully doubled within thirty days after
ground il broken on the extension OF the
Texas road to Kansas City. The build
ing OF that line will add largely 10 the
Importance ot the city as a trading and
manufacturing center and a number OF
choice lots have been reserved for use
by mills aud factories. All these are
so situated that they can be supplied
with side tracks. Negotiations are now
pending for the removal of the st
Louis Gar foundry works to Monet,
and the Anheuser Busch Brewing
Association have already contracted
for the erection of al immense build
ing 10 be used as n depository for their
goods, and they will make Monet their
distributing center for the southwest.
a number OF handsome brick blocks
have been erected, one of them large
hotel thai has been leased by that
enterprising hotel man, Mr. A,tavay,
OF Lebanon. Half dozen eontracts
l.