Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-10-09
AN INTERESTING LETTER,
An Old Audrain Boy Visits His
Home and Writes the Ledger
What he Thinks of it.
Correspondence of the Ledger.

know of no nearer route to the
people of Audrain county and
Northeast Missouri than through
the columns of your excellent pa
per, 1 make bold to ask for a short
space therein, to express a few
thoughts that beseech me for utter
ance. l have many warm friends
in Mexico and vicinity and the
thought or mention of Audraln
county awakens feelings of tender
ness in me that l cannot repress.
l visited your section of the State
some weeks ago and had the good
fortune to see great deal of your
country with which I was very
much impressed. I visited a num-
Der OF towns around Mexico and
was much pleased with the evil
dences of thrift and prosperity that
l saw everywhere. The people ap-
pear to be awake and going; every
man hold of a spoke and the wheel
turning right around without a
halt. But l was more especially
struck with your beautiful city
Mexlce-than any place | saw on
my entire trip. Her we'll kept
streets, her imposing churches,
her commodious public school
buildings, the colleges, her electric
lights, her roaring furnaces, her
army of busy workmen, her hand
some homes, and, above all, her
good hospitable people. Mexico
is destined to become the chief of
that part of.the State, and if were
allowed to cast her horoscope l
would do so in one sweeping
word, Metropolis" Her accessi-
bllity by rail makes her desirable
location for any enterprise that re-
quires transportation for what it
uses or produces. Her geographl-
cal position is a favorable one,
while the country tributary to her
is one than which there are none
richer. My drive about the city
embraced visit to nearly every
point of interest-but for that mat.
ter every point was a point Of in
terest. If the indications I saw
count for anything Mexico is popu-
lated by people who are always
watching for good thing, and who
know one when they see 1t, and
hasten to avail themselves of it.
The formation of a company to
purchase property damaged by the
Salamander works and retain that
establishment betrays a spirit that
is never excelled anywhere-a
spirit that will always win, nc
matter what the resistance may be
While In Mexico I renewed my ac-
qualntance with Judge Macfarlare
and was more than ever impressed
with Audrain's champion tor Su
preme Judgsship. A more cour'
teous, agreeable gentleman have
never met, and if he is in the race
next time I would be surprised il
he did not rake in the persimmon
| It is such men as Geo. B. Macfar
| lane that hold governments like
ours together, and such men as ht
| that put them together in the be
ginning. Such men as Macfarlan'
are the giants that the Almighty
has put into the world to accom-
plish these great purposes that thu
weaker millions find impossible.
I did considerable travelling BY
carriage in the east part of Au
drain county while there, and
can say that it was as fine a countr.
as my eyes ever rested upon. On
noticeable feature of the country i
that so much of its surface can b
put under perfect state of cultiva
ton. There is comparatively n
waste land-a fact in itself suffi
cient to induce a stream of immi
grafton of persons who make tn
tilling of the soil their means 9
existance. This is a feature tha
no one can overlook who travel
much over Audrain county,
II Everywhere l noticed new builo
lngs and other Improvements &C
Ing up on the farms, and as rul
they were substantial, and the
bespeak at once the prosperity an
the progressiveness of the farmel
/ I was SO very fortunate as to b
, present at social gathering at To
comfortable home of Mr.. John GA
retton, north of Wellsviile, and We
pleased to note that society thel
was only such as one finds in tn
most refined communities. l attsnt
ed religious worship in the nl'
little town of Farber. l found
: good congregation present no
withstanding the fact that service
were being held at other church
at the same time. take this
an evidence that the people are
It church going class. and that spea'
+ a great deal, for where Chrlstiani'
= and morality dwells there vi
t education abide also, and with
n social harmony. All in all | founo
% pretty county against prospero'
happy people-a splendid place