Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-08-19

and her streams, and It will strain the
powers of a lightning calculator to
cipher out the value of her annual
wealth.
II as carefully and scientifically
cultivated as Holland, she could feed
all the inha bitants of this republic and
have a surplus over. Not only does
she excel in quantity but in quality.
She produces cotton equal to the best
raised in the gulf states, wheat equal
! to North Dakota, wool equal to Ohio or
/ Pennsylvania, silk enuaI to New Jer-
] sey or France, apples equal to New
| York or Arkansas, corn equal to Ne
/ braska or Kansas. peaches equal tc
| Delaware or California, oats equal to
Iowa or Illinois, blue grass equal &c
| Kentucky or West Virginia, hemp and
! fax equal to Indiana or Minnesota,
mint equal to New York or old Vir-
/ ginia, lumber equal to Michigan or
| Georgia, pumpkins equal to Massachus-
etts, tobacco equal to Connecticut, and
/ in mules she overtops ALI the nations
| of the earth and all the rest of crea-
| tiOn," to borrow a rather sweeping
statement from President Taylor's mes
sage. Col. Luke Emerson, one of my
| constituents, is now. shipping mules tc
! Sou tn Africa
The time will come when beets
raised in Missouri soil will produce
more than enough sugar to supply all
| Missourians.
Uncle Bob Spaulding, up in Rails
| county, is successfully propagating
oysters, and has successfully demon
! strated that Missouri can produce her
quantum sufficit of that delightful BIZ
valve.
She has more coal, lead, zinc and
onyx than any other state in the Union.
Her timber supply is well-nigh mex.
haustible, including poplar, pine,
| cedar, walnut, wild cherry, blackberry,
gum, sycamore, bois dare and every
species of oak from the pigmy black
jack to the stately burr oak.
There is enough water power going
to waste in this state to run every spin
die, wheel. loom mill and electric plant
between the two oceans.
Her granite. marble, building stones
and glass sands would enrich Il score OF
such states as New Hampshire and Yer.
mont.
Not to be Outdone in anything, they
have discovered gold in two counties il
my district, Montgomery and St
Charles. If some enterprising seeker
after wealth does not find a diamond
field somewhere in the state l shall die
sorely disappointed.
If we haven't Goldfish, we have cat
fish, which are better; if we haven't
shad, we have crappie; il we haven't
bluetish, we have trout; if we haven't
tarpOn, we have carp: If we haven't
mackerel, we have perch; if we haven't
terrapin, we have frogs; if we haven't
canvasback ducks, we have mallard
ducks and wild geese; if we haven't
clans, we have possum-and 'possum
and sweet potatoes make dish fit to
set before a king-if we haven't
oranges, we have venison; if we haven't
soft-shelled crab, we have the finest
mutton that ever delighted the hu-
man palate; if we haven't rice birds,
have pheasants, quail, prairie chicken,
jack snipe, bronze turkey and yellow
legged chickens; if we haven't bear
meat, we have beef, which beats it hol-
low; if we haven't moose and elk, we
have the gentle and multifarious hog,
which is vastly superior as a steady
diet; if we haven't sardines, we have
rabbits galore; if we haven't edible
y. We
black, fox and red; if we haven't the
banana, we have its first cousin, the
luscious pawpaw; if we haven't the al
mOnd, we have the toothsome pecan;
if we haven't the pineapple, we have
the persimmon; in short, if we haven't
some of the things to eat that some
body somewhere has, we have more to
eat than any body anywhere has.
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all sorts of empires may try all sorts
of experiments on the body polite;
pseudo statesmen may produce panics
terrible in their results; sordid greed
may by legislation levy heavy black
mail on the Mississippi valley until the
iniquity cries to Heaven for redress,
but one thing cock sure, SO long as
summer and winter, seedtime and har-
vest do not fail, the denizens of Mis-
souri, can not starve to death.
It is no small honor that st. Louis
withstood the fierce shock of the awful
panic of 1898 without quiver. Other
great cities were Frustrated in the dust
and their business well-nigh suspend
ed. But in the City of the Iron Crown
not a bank failed, not. a wholesale
house made an assignment in those evil
days, and she emerged from the storm
with the reputation of being the
most solid city on the continent She
is fippantly called Old Fogy by certain
rivals whose Salesman-in- chief is the
sheriff, and she does seem to act on the
old Latin motto-festina lents-but if
she hastens slowly she hastens sure
ly. She is the largest buyer of leaf to-
bacco in the world. She has torn from
Massachusetts the honor of being the
largest manufacturer of shoes in this
country. She has wrenched from New
Orleans the honor of being the largest
cotton market in America She is the
greatest mule market on the whole
face OF the earth, and when the Missis-
sippi river is SO Strengthened and so
deepened-aS it must and shall be
that ocean steamers can anchor at her
wharveS, she will be the greatest wheat
corn, oats, hay, fruit, hog. beef. NUT
ton and horse market in the western
hemisphere, and in the fullness of time
throughout the world.
Troops to Assist In EvIcting Intruders
from the Cherokee Nation.
MUsKoGEE, l. T, Aug. 12-The sec
rotary of war has directed the general
commanding the department of the
Missouri to detail troop of calalrv to
assist Mr.. Wisdom, United States In
dian agent, in evicting 2s families of