The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-11-26
RUSH FOR MISSOURI LAND.
TIE SEiRtH ron LEiD Avn ZiNc
ore STIKTS BOOM
The Half n Million Acres of GoNrrnm.p,
Land subject to Homestead aud Pm.
chase Being Rnpidly Taken-Iarm.r,
Prospecting for ore ON Their Lnnd

prospecting Tor ore ON Their Lands.
ST. LOUIS. Nov. 1S There are nearly half
! million acres Of Government land I'm TIN.
! state subject to homestead. or TO purchase
| outright at S1.2J an acre. During the ra.,
month tho land offices have been doing .
| business unprecedented in their history AMI
| many thousands Of acres have been homo.
stcaded or purchased Most Of the Ia.
has been bought. outright. The cause
/ Of the rush is the search for zinc and lead
| ore
Persons living in the we'll populated section,
OF Missouri and the neiRhboring States have
| been under the impression that only In west.
| orn Kansas. Colorado. Indian Territory. Okla
! homn and Texas IL Uncle Sam holding virgin
quarter. sections subject to settlement entry o.
patent purchase. They have had n yagus
idea that somewhere down In the benightei
regions Of southwest Missouri guarded by
| Bald Knobbcrs and eternal solitude. a few
| tracts Of no-account laud are still owned by tho
! Government. but they have never dicamel
| that 80 many acres thus await the tnkcr 4
few weeks ago globc-trotter who had done \
| turn by foot and stage through the raiIroadless
! counties OF southern Missouri came 10 81
| Louis and remarked that II he ha money
! enough to buy up the Government land in that
section he would corner 1t all and become q
| millionaire In a month.
| why" ho said. there's good Government
|
| ing to be picked UP by some enterprisng
hustler and developed. It's nearly all in tho
| mineral belt and you can find traces Of lead or
| zinc. or both. by simply scraring the top SOL.
| OF course. most OF the land well adapted to
farming md fruit growing was taken up years
ago aud many duarter-sections OF rocky. hily
ground have been ignored by the homo
hunters. who have looked ut It and shifted
scornfullv. anl gone farther out West to get
| a., lam Itt Int hcfN 10 -,
came known that practically the whole Of
| southern Missouri il rich IN minerals. II ] hat
tho money d gohbe tho whole outfit and hs
the Barney ltlrnato or tho Cecil Rhodes OF the
The trqySiler made one mistake. II he had
acres Of this land. That i the limit allowed hv
the Government for the land Is for the
Intended not tor 10" EomS snd dmssirai sp,r,
can be, be made for only one 1uarter:section.
iasn fE SSFE Sr nSi mS.
nnt,d hoMNe on III: land Tit3n six months
tvSic the sr"%nd for Ave Years before I Ris pSt
Sn, afax thu he r b she n So o
T2Sns % T rssab land when ee homes os.
acres s IadS acr ss| sl$; So lC aSIs:
age. unless i lie the head Of a family. may
make homestcad entry. single woman. above
ns rs2 % y IN "s.n E "Df A s sSs
N2 rsr.on Tho i the nr2pIe,or e NOSE than
acquire i any Jana n S t the HomasteSd mI aW
Thus II viii be seen that the landgrabber has
nn SnanrH 70 corner Goy@Tnment lands The
acre, Tor $40 acres OF loss by which paymcn'
the land lecomes his at once. without residence
| orcultivatio requirement.
XSTGy a" e the and 9ST being taken Is by
TrnS Snn 0 nSd I IRE oSa'e' rhs
Sir,ngiicId Office is Experiencing the greatest
| yp nj hni I'm tha
great mineral belt There ar" no public lands
IN ,,ssnsr county ne near, q The joplin
or Lawrence counties Adjoining; The latest
? the se2ssd srSt sss the
Rs#s$;s Sa$ $,sit fSS:E
LEO w SGGHS lSH &c., TWS rsT, fHlsSSp Texas
, rhS. GGmE Of the hist2rS Bald k9o66Srs The
% Ge rush 'ia Hs HnS inner 'Rsfe days nSs
more land has been cash; entered in ',TSnsv
TIVE e%rs G ali ES eG ST the
~ tho Sr mi 9TsmSc i Tsney
In the Boonville district there are, scyera'
Eosits have been dissovsred wi'hin the ' past "
cImn m"n,hs am IN Hen,Tn COUNTY at Co...
county. however. hal but ;7I0 acres oirIH'iS
nr Mne ns 1n1 oSna HS as h ~ T n
as nor, he'tis , conT.y adjoining Benton on The
bling one OF the hest farming sections, in tn.
GoverUment inn'iH;' hut in n" Hickory '; COUNT our
so.,h2t benton, whther the new mineral heit
G GXtT"bs; , 's%rS are few thousand acres Sl
In Camden county, Boonville district. there
latest report, tut Land R"gis,er Mar Hi Is RoTs
yynsy seil!nG apd homg,'raains in that count
]
hoiinT,s' enc thn mining cXcii"mGpt Is Gr2w!,ns
to c raF S2R cn ynS ind N SsT GabeGn
,ar S some s, msn %nG wre MINING E goat csms
%ounc"I very rirh oniv 0 lew T Scres Of Gov.
ernment ianh remain in st, Clair
the LAID "cS i' asS Wits thSre %GTS fS
T TO ares ares 9f Public public lnnts month ago.
in this src. " Il not So rT n% S ps ihs
others; but there are minera. PROSPECT,
and Wsshnson ' c""n'ss lead in '" farss
quantities has been mined for n hundred years.
T"rrH. in St francois, ar" S "pcrat~d on pvt wy
"NiiehhSSSG seal Some zine is mined in THIS
II, is ,mis;aEe to hclicvc. that the pubc
lands in Missouri are worthless for farming
able tracts have been token there st 'N remain
many Iunrtsr-socttons whercon thrifty farm;
in III. tower c@nnt.s is railroai~ Sine nh" the
recent astonishing discoveries OF lead AMI
been set on foot md i, i ' rroTabc hat f wtn,a
Few wears the settlers in III 80 isolated cOuu-
Ties Will have fin" transportation facilities Tor
their farm and orchard products. rs well as
Tor their mineral Il 'gEinES
IN" great extent of the zinc belt NAV -
conceived when II j. stated tina. ore IL now
being mined In nearly every county from Petit.
south to III" Arkansas I'm" aud from 81.
frances wcs' To the Kansas line. n region
about loo miles north and south by nearly g5O
miles east md west: and the orc district eN-
tends into Kansas from the Jorn neighbour
hood Tor twenty miles and into Arkansas
almost To- Little Rock
A II RoIte Lieutenant = Governor Of Missouri
said whit" IN 81. Louis II few days ago: "Peo-
Pile IN the cities have hut a faint idea Of tho
great extent 81 the mining boom now on in this
state. firmly believe that there are to-day
more than 10000 men prospecting for lead aud
zinc ore ~ this state, and this does not include
III" regular minors II Is simply amazing when
one considers th" extent tO which tho people
, have tnlth In Missouri minerals, And nearly
all 81 the prospectus have found lead or zinc,
and ia Increases h" mining fever. Oicourse.