Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1905-10-13
Morgan County
The Home of Missouri's Zinc
and Lead Industry.

Clay and FuIler's earth-A County
which has no Poor Land and Where
All Staple Crops Attain their High.
est Excellence.
The following article which appeared
in a recent issue of the St. Louis Repub-
lie. written by a staff correspondent
without paw or solicitation on our part,
shows, not only the wonderful resources
of Morgan County, but the trend OF pub
lie sentiment. The great papers OF the
country know what people want II try
to furnish the information. People are
asking about Morgan County now:
There is a county of the great South
west which is much like the old woman
in the shoe, except that instead OF TOO
many children Morgan County mas 100
,nuci, land. The old woman had some
bad children, as is evidenced by the
whippings. ,
Morgan County has no poor land.
Every acre of the 4OS,3 $40 within the
county is good for something, but the
price for the best is not more than ;oO.
OF all the impressive features OF this
,.eart of Missouri county, the most strik'
ing and the most unexplainable is the
unreasonable cheapness OF the iand.
Timber lands which supply raw materials
for woodworking plants in abundance;
Immense beds of the finest clay, winch
are believed to be inexhaustible; prairie
and range country which sustains great
herds of live stock and prepares them Tor
market without the usual process OF mn
ish,ng on corn feed; agricultural tracts
which are giving forth enormous crops OF
grain and fruits; the whole underlaid
with beds of coal, lead and zinc. Ihese
are some of the resources OF TINS Morgan
County land which is going at from SIl
to so per acre. 49,
The best explanation is given by the
honest real estate men, who say that 1t Is
simply a question of supply and demand
Practically without railway facilities uh'
til a wear ago and cut of from all mar
kets because of its inaccessibility, TIT
products of the county have never Deer
developed. ga.
Few strangers and homeseekers visited
Versailles and the other towns, ana ther'
was no attraction held out to induce IN
prospective buyer to come ana see IN
population as it existed in the prefa''
rOat uaVS was sdtlSlSu ~ - 49,
The stolid Germans in their section o
the county were making a comfortaoi
living: the Dunkards and Mennon'tes
who make up quite all element OF IN
communities, were dwelling in peaceful
quiet. and the outside world knew noth
ing of the possibilities which were a
hand.
All this changed in the twinkling OF a.
eve. The Rock Island built through
giving immediate connection with 81
Louis and Kansas City, and n enec
was little short of marvellous. The awak
ening is less than a year back but IL Ia
been sure. 49,.
Morgan County as a whole ana vel
~sailles in particular are just BEGINNING I
realize their value to the rest OF civ'lizs
ton. With the incipient development {
some of their great resources they al
anxious to make still more strenuous ei
deavors to get in the public eye an
mind. and to get nearer the beaten pat
which is taking ho,neseekers across u
Missouri line to others sections OF u
Southwest, no more fertile, no more pr
life and no more attractive as n bus'ne'
proposition.
The business element, who have stu'
tel he conditions carefully. believe Uni
The extensive beds of the finest OF bot
Elastic or p~otters' clay, flint, or nal
Clay, and kolin, offer the most s"osta'