Mexico weekly ledger., 1903-03-26
SNAPSHOTS OF MISSOURI.

SNAPSHOTS OF MISSOURI.
From tie colunbsA ssAseSsaan.
In number of farms second.
Children Of school age, sl6, sos.
In value Of farm property, first
Onyx is found in eight counties
In value Of lead production, third.
In circulation OF newspapers, sixth.
In valuation of iron production, sew
enteenth.
Leads the world in watermelons,
brick and tile
Has $50 banks and more than 10000
public schools.
Has the largest stock farm in the
world. in Holt county.
Has the largest apple orchard in
the world, in Howell county.
Contains s9,4l5 square miles, land
and water surface combined.
Has had 159 representatives in Con-
gress, Of whom 90 are living.
Has III counties and one city lSt.
Louis with separate organization.
Territory OF Louisiana organized by
Congress on March Sd, 1906, including
Missouri.
District Of Louisiana, which includ-
ed Missouri, established by Congress
March &c, 1904.
Has 246, SIS mules valued at sI1. 794,-
4Ss, and is the banner mule State Of
the Republic.
Missouri ships nearly 100000
pounds Of poultry annually, more than
aBy other State in the Union.
Has had 25 Governors, five Of whom
are now living-Crittenden, Francis,
Stone, Stephens and Dockery.
In 1871, after discovering the Mis-
sISsippi, De Soto was the first white
man 10 set foot on Missouri territory.
Admitted as a State August 10,
1871. First Governor, Alexander NC
Nair, OF st. Louis. Died March IS,
1926.
Missouri produces as many bushels
Of wheat as the States Of New York,
Kentucky and Texas combined.
It's Agricultural and Mechanical
College is the best in equipment and
facilities for instruction and expert
ment in the Union.
Missouri has the largest available
school fund OF either OF the states Of
the Union, Texas alone excepted,
namely, twelve millions in round NUM-
bers.
First United States Senators, David
Barton and Thomas IL. Benton. Bar
ton died in Boonville September 2s,
1851; Benton In Washington City,
April 10th, 1858.
Ten counties Of the ia are without
a raiIoad running through them,
namely, Cedar, Camden, Douglass,
Dallas, Hickory, Maries, Ozark, Stone,
Reynolds and fancy.
Missouri is the eighth State in as
sessed valuation, only the States OF
New York, Pennsylvania, Massachu-
sets, Ohio, California, Michigan and
Indiana being Crater.
Missouri organized as a territory
June 4, 1872, and William Clark Of the
expedition appointed Governor.
Capitol at st. Louis. Clark died in ST.
Louis, September j, 1888, aged go.
Missouri has over 1900 business
manufacturers with a paid up capital
OF 1856, 55s, SIG and 1879 empoyes.
Wages paid in 1891, $40, 500, 72e, AMI in
crease over the previous year OF
s13, 74s, l9s.
March 10, 1904, Amos Stoddard,
Captain Of Artillery, o. S. A., succeed
ed DelaSsus, Spanish commandant at
st. Louis, and the authority Of the
United States over Missouri dates
from that day.
Missouri's University at Columbia
equals any west Of the Ohio river in
buildings and equipment and the abil-
ity Of It's Institutional forces and bids
fair to excel any State University in
the Union.
Has had five Governors who were
natives OF the State-Fletcher, Nc
Clurg, Marmaduke, Stephens and
Dockery. Two Of her Governors we're
born in Madison county, Kentucky
Francis and Stone.
Has l37 railroads with 1870 miles OF
track. Is fifth State in population
3,lO6,665, or As inhabitants TO the
square mile, there being only Is states
OF the 45 with a larger population To-
the square mile.
Missouri has 35 cities with a popu-
lation exceeding 1900 and aggregate
ing l,0s5,0 Ola. 1t has three cities each
with a population over 100, 900 namely,
st. Souls, 575,23s; Kansas City, les, $50;
St Joseph, lO2,s79.
Missouri was settled by the French
at st. Genevieve in I735, nearly ZOO
years after the Mississippi was dis
covered. St. Louis, founded by La
clede, Feb. Is, 1854. Purchase Of
Louisiana finally accomplished April
90, 1903.
General Jas. Wilkinson appointed
Governor by President jefferson. On
bis way TO Washington on horseback
In 1900, he committed suicide in
Tennessee with a pistol. Meriwether
Lewis, Of the Lewis and Clark Expedi.
tion, succeeded him. Has had "a
Lieutenant Governors 4 OF whom be.
came G0,ernors-M. NJ. Marmaduke
In 1874, Hancock jackson in 1855.
Willard p. Hall In 1864, and Albert ?.
horehouse In 1857, all deceased. OIL.
the Lieutenant Governors care living
-stanard, johnson, lChas. p. OF 81.
Louis, Colman, Brockmyer, Campbell,
Ciaycomb, O'Neara, BOlte and Lee.
Here is a chance for the Isaak Wal.
tons Of Missouri TO show themselves.
The nsh commission OF the Worlds
Fair has offered a prize Of 500 for the
biggest catfish caught in Missouri.