The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1900-03-01
The Sheep ladsstry.

To the Editor Of The Republican:
I left off in my last letter In de
scrfbing the many advantages OF
Taney county aud southwest Mis-
souri, for those that desire to 60 into
the sheep raising industry. !; will
60 little further and make this -.
sertion. without fear of an honest
contradiction, that Tancy county ex.
cells any one Of the seventeen coun-
tics on the state line between Mis-
souri, and Arkansas-nine of them
the border counties of Missouri end
eight Of them the border coun-
ties of Arkansas. Now let Us look
and see where we are in the line of
water prevailing. We have the
White river entering Taney county
on the west, at the west liue of twp.
21, range % in sec. 22, thence rum
ming in northeasterly course until
it reaches sec. S5 in twp. "a range 20
two miles east aud south of Forsyth.
Here it reaches tho most northerly
point on its course. l should say the
most northerly point of White river
is in sec. 10 and 20 twp. "a range 90,
about 8 miles west of Forsyth. Thence
it bears to q southeasterly course
about five miles. thence in q south
westerly course about three miles,
thence q northwest course about 1-2
miles, thence in q southerly course
about 10 or IL miles to tho state line
of Arkansas, passing out Of Taney
county in sec. IA. twp. 2l, range 19.
returning again into Tancy county
at the southeast corner Of section Is,
twp. 81 range 19 and passing up
through sec. ~ and thence east
through sec. Z aud II in twp 2l, range
18, passing out again into Arkansas
about 1-2 miles east Of where it en-
tered, returning again to Taney
county at sec. I5 about Q miles east
from where it went out, passing out
through Sc. corner of SEQ. IA iu twp.
FL. range 16 and returning to Taney
again through sec. Is, twp 81 range
II in the very south east corner of
aud miles from it's last
exit, and it also being the southeast
corner of the county. From the en-
trance of tho White river intO Taney
county at the west end of the county
it passes through "a sections of land,
10 Of the townships and every range
in the county. Then we have aow-
ing into tho White river from tho
west and northwest three large
streams, Roark watering IL sections
aud Bear aud Bull watering % Sec
tions with several small streams fiow-
ing into them from different direc-
tions in ranges 81 and %. Then
from The north and northeast we find
two largo streams running through
ranges II, 18, ]9 and 20; the Swan
and Big Beaver watering 62 sections.
The streams flowing into Big Beaver
that are of importance are Little
Beaver, Brushy creek, Long creek,
Max creek, Dry Caney aud Big Caney.
all heading in the ranges II and 18,
watering ut least 40 or SO sections.
Then in the southeastern part of the
county. ranges II, 18 and 19 are the
I edar Creek, running in q westerly
course its volume Of sparkling water
flowing into White river; then the
Elbow creek flowing south, the Shoal
and Big creeks both flowing south to
the White river, watering from 60 to
Is sections. Then the streams flow.
ing from the south to the north, hav-
ing their headings up in the Boston
range Of the Ozarks in Arkansas are
the following large streams, watering
80 more sections, Long creek enter
ing Taney county in sec. % twp. 21,
range II in tho southwest corner of
the county flowing north through 10
sections of land. Turkey creek en-
tcring at sec. 81 twp. 2f range 81,
north through 10 sections,
and Bee creek heading OH the west
aide of twp. 22 range 20, flowing east
and passing through II sections of
land. All Of the streams have pure |
living water, fed by living springs
and never go dry. Besides oil these |
that have named there are numer- |
Qua small streams emptysn9 into |
these that are kept up by springs.
Where oh tell me where can you /
find q section Of country that will
surpass this. There are 660 sections !!
Of land and quite . large number Of
sections in Taney county,
four hundred and more Of these sec.
tions have clear running streams OF