The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1897-01-16

side within its limits and still leave 6
margin OF 900 square miles.
Missouri is the third state in the
union in number of its farms and the
third state In the number of acres OF
improved land, having over IL, ZOO, 900
acres under cultivation, or a larger
acreage for the harvests than is pos
sessed by the states of Michigan and
Minnesota combined, or the states of
Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut,
Maryland, Minnesota and Rhode Island.
Missouri raises more corn than Indiana
and Maryland.
sURPAssEs OTHER STATES IN PRODUCTS.
1t produces as much wheat as the
states of New York, Kentucky and
Texas combined. Missouri ships nearly
100000 pounds of poultry every
year, not being equaled by any state
in the union. 1t is the fourth state in
number of horses, and leads every
state in the union in the number of
mules, producing last year $50, ,s0S
horses and 351, ,599 mules.
1t produces annually 1910, ,0S4
pounds of wool. Its yield OF hay sur
passes that of Kentucky, Tennessee
and New Jersey, and its tobacco crop
is in the neighborhood of 10000, 900
pounds. Its southern counties raise an
excellent quality of cotton. All the
cereals, all the grasses, all the fruits
and timbers of the latitude flourish in
abundance and grow TO maximum
dimensions.
Missouri has no desert lands. Its
great plains in the central and northern
portions are as rich IN alluvIal deposits
as is the Delta of the Nile. Its undu-
lating hills in the south are the natural
home of the vineyard and the orchard.
The fame of the ''big red apple" is
already known to fruit-growers through
out the states. The Ozark region bore
away most of the honors awarded to
the exhibitors of horticultural products
at the Worlds fair.
The whole of southern Missouri at
no distant day will be one vast vine
yard, apple and peach orchard. Its
river bottoms bear woods of the great
est commercial value. Its mines, many
of them in their infancy, are reaching
! up into the first place among the states.
Missouri is abundantly supplied with
large streams and springs of pure
water, many of them distinguished for
their volume. The water powers OF
the streams and springs south of the
Missouri river are unlimited, and not
eXcelled by those of any state in the
union. The day is not distant when
those vast water powers will be brought
into use and made to turn the wheels
of thousands of factories.
NaarlV that mort iOn the al ate
lying south of the Missouri river is
heavily tImbered. These immense
forests embrace pines, poplars. ash,
oaks of eighteen different kinds, hick-
ores, walnut, linden, cottonwood
sweet, black and yellow gum, cypress,
sycamore, locust, elm, birch, tupelO
and every kind of timber required in
manufactures OF woods.
During the past year Missouri has
not only Supplied the wants of hel
people with timber, but exported 3OO,'
900 900 feet of lumber, in addition to
millions of railroad iles and 10000, ,OOC
feet of logs not manufactured into
lumber Her forests must be seen and
examined before they can be fully ap'
preciated.
GREAT LEAD, IRON AND ZINC MINES
Missouri has no great mountain
ranges. The maximum difference o
elevation is l 800 feet; local relative
differences are less than 700 feet.
Missouri produces more lead or'
than any other state except Colorado
and owing TO the decreased output o
silver in that state (much OF the leaC
accompanying that prOduction), th'