Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1906-11-01
SNYDER PLANNED NEW PAR.
ADlSE IN THE OzARKS.
Wanted Retreat From His Cares.

City, multimiiliouaire promoter, man Of
brains and energy and enterprise, has
revealed him in new lipht-:as the man
VI dreams and idealisms. Perhaps when
the splendid fortune that Snyder accu,n-
ulated shall have been dissipated and
the sorrows and shaines tina, pursued him
and his house shnll have been forgotten,
the naturalization of his dreams shall
prevail, and the world will remember
him, not for his money or the things he
lid to gain it, but for the beauty spot
that his brain conceived and his money
wrought.
Robert NJ. Spytler's dream was to es.
,ablsh a Missouri paradise on the south
ern slope of the Ozarks. His ambition
was to make for himself the most beau-
,lul aud enhancing home in the world.
And to realize his purpose he was willing
10 speud million dollars or more of his
money and to devote the remainder Of
his life to peifecting his plans.
His untimcly end has interrupted, hut
not terminated, the Snyder dream Of a
Missouri paradise. II is understood that
his POLITICALLY conceived and carefully
worked out designs will he conscientious.
ly executed by his widow and his broth,
or, George =. Snyder, Of Kansas City.
SNYDER PARADISE INCLUDES =, 500 ACRES
IN OzARkS.
Twenty five miles due north Of 1.eban-
OH, in I.acleic county. fair and Turing as
ever Scott sh bard ever dreamed of i'm
mortalixing lie the 3 800 acres that K
NJ. Snyder bought for his home beautiful.
Dotted here and there with orchards, di-
vide'l bnt not disintegia,ed by dozen
vcrdant aud rich yielding farms, back
grounded by the gorgeous beauty of the
Ozark foothills and broken by such pic
turesquc aud enhancing scenery as may
be found now here but in the Ozark reg
ion. The Snyder Paradise lapses along
tie turbulent, tuinbling waters Of the
River Niangua, and finds its chief and
central beauty in that Killarney of the
Ozarks, Lake Ila-ha .tonka.
In this new Eden that the man Of
schemes ard brains and money and poesy
discovered, Mr.. Snyder planned TO es,
tablish the mos magnificent, beautiful
and enhancing private estate in the
world. In the working out of his pre-.
lminary plan. he had expended through
the Bank of Lebanon within the last
year $l25, 600 for labor alone. The other
expenditures, made for material of
which great train loads were shipped to
Lebanon ard hauled twenty-five miles
over tie rough mountain roads, and for
other items, will easily bring the total Of
his outlay up to the time Of his death,
exclusive Of the frs, cost Of theNland, up
10 the sum Of 5 .00, 900. And the devel-
opsnent of the dreamer promoters plans
would and wili--cost countless thous
ands more.
GREENHOUSE WILL COVER TWO ACRES
Today there stands on the sidings at
Lebanon dozen cars flied with mater
ial of various kinds. Some of the cars
contain glass for the great greenhouse
that is to cover two acres, and is TO he
the largest private gree nliouse IN the
world. Others contain the furnishings
for tie splendid mansion that ~, der
had most completed when lie met his
dca,l, in an automobile accid. nj in Kan
sas CITY last Saturday.
This beautiful residence, containing
more than twenty ROOMS. builded entire
" Of stone and lumber hcwn or sawed
fr IN the Snyder acres, stands on bluff
30 feet above Lake IIn ha.tonka. The
mansion is S'xl0) in dimensions, and is
of most imposing appearance. Certain.
~ fairer site or more picturesque
could not l,ave been selected.
BUILDINGS CLUSTERED AROUND IA IA.
ToAKA.
Around the 100 acres If lake stocked
by Mr.. Snyder with tron, and bass and
ickerel - all manmer Of game fish.
spreads tie woodland that first won his
fancy Clothed in its antunnal spl,n.
dor this gorgeous sitting Of IIa lia tonha
today presents vision that would win
the heart Of any poet, lie he known as
franchise broker. stock promoter, man
of gold OF man Of steel.
Clustered around the lake, the man.
sion. the great greenhouses, the spl,n.