The Jasper news., 1902-03-27
A CHANGED CONDITION.
Barton County Is Filling up With
Illinois People.

dents have moved away and have been
succeeded by farmers from the
eastern states, Principally from llliuois.
This is having beneficial effect ON the
prosperity Of the county, as the Hi.
noisans seem to be well to dc, and are
putting new life in tho farming industry
OF the county. The change is largely due
TO the efforts Of the land agents at La
mar, Of whom &. Y. Tricc is one Of the
most energetic, or Mr.. Trice's past
work and future plans theILamar Dem
ocrat prints the following;
Those who bring capital to a new,and
comparatively undeveloped county, may
well be classed as public benefactors.
No man has ever brought more capital
to any part Of Missouri, than Col. G. Y.
Trice and his associates have brought
tosBarton county.
Since Col. Trice has come to Lamar,
ho has absolutely revoutionized the
whole land business.
Col. Trice's first land transaction was
cnriously enough iu Barton county. 1t
was about eighteen years ago. Tho
land in question was tract Of ll2 acres
lying about two miles east Of Liberal,
owned by VIM. Clayburg. He had Sc
cured it 10y trading some land in western
Kansas, and he sold it to George Bowl
ing and G. S. Jones.
Like all progressive.'men Of push and
enterprise, Mr.. Trice is great believer
in advertising. Since he has been To-
Gated here, he has distributed tons of
matter, pointing out the many advan-
tages Possessed by Barton county.
About two years ago he wrote his now
famous speech on Barton county farm
lands. Ten thousand COPIES of this doc
ument, which abounds in wit, humor
and real wisdom were printed, and scat
tered broadcast over Illinois and Iowa.
About the lme time firm 10 Kansas
City printed him 10000 large, splendidly
illustrated pamphlets, telling all about
the countless advantages,of our.pcerless
10 the same way. lie is now having
hundreds of frames made for his
Autographs which will soon hang on the
walls Of depots, hotels and other public
places throughout northern Illinois. In
addition to this he is uow having 10000
| pamphlets printed for distribution this
/ year. 10000 Of these Of large size, and
splendidy Illustrated are being printed
| by the Democrat Office, and 10000
smaller ones will be printed 10 ore OF
| the other local Offices. This work is
done at cost Of several hundred
doLars. This merely goes to show the
Herculeau efforts which he has used
and is now using to get our resources
before people who desire to come west
and make investments.
Col, Trice's facilities for king his
buyers over tho county and showing
them the country have always been
thoroughly efficient and up-to-date.
But he now proposes to break all rec
ords by purchasing a large automobile,
that will accommodate six persons. The
new machine will cost $500, aud it will
be tue first one owned in the county,
The new electrical carriage will be here
in short time, and instead # prospoc
/ tive land buyers crawling over the cuun-
ty behind weary horsehesh, they will
speed along tt tie rateof an cxprs IS
train, and thus be strangers TO the ia
tique ard monotony Of long country
dives.
As the r, sult Of the colonel's tircless
and intelligent efforts, Barton is the best
known county 10 Missouri among the
people Of central and northern Illinois.
TliS vast stretch Of rich, overcrowdcd
agricultural country has been flooded
with advertising litera .uge from Iowa,
Minnesota and the Dakotus, and these
states had been getting the emigration.
1t remained for Colonel 1rice to
adyeit tse to these people the uusur-
passed advantages OF our grand old
common wealth and the results show
that it has not been done in vain.
The effect Of this steady stream Of
emigrants with healthy bank accounts
is evidenced by the thriving condition
of business, here ia Lamar and the sur
rounding county. Three years ago
real estate was in state Of
utter collapse, now they are