Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1906-06-28

Window column: "Robertus Love
is at Arcadia planning a Chautau-
qua assembly upon an ambitious
scale. The Chautauqua idea grows
in popular favor in this State.
There will be a dozen or more
assemblies, large or small in size
of the C%hautauqua type the COM
ing summer in Missouri. MI. Love
has chosen wisely for his Chau-
tauqua assembly. There are few
more attractive spots than the fair
Valley of Arcadia. Its poetic
name suggests its idyllic charm.
Seeing Missouri might we'll be
made the fashion by means of
Chautauquas or otherwiseA That
one-half the world does not know
how the other half lives is a true
proverb. That one Missourian in
a hundred does not know the
beauty spots of Missouri is equally
true. There should be seeing
Missouri excursions. Include Ar
cadia and the valley of the Mer-
rimac, a run over the Pike county
roads and an outlook from Dug
hill, a view from the Cruickshank
mansion of Lovers Leap at Han
nibal, a walk through the wilds at
Ha Ha Tonka, a panorama of the
outlook from the north window of
the Office of State Treasurer Gme-
Itch in the State capital-these are
but a few of the many delightsome
Missouri landscapes. How to see
beauty spots through staying at
home would be an appropriate
subject for a Missouri textbook"
A petition was filed in the cir
cult court here last week for the
dissolution of the corporate ex-
istence of the Iron Mountain Com
pany, and the legal notice re-
quired under the law for such pro-
ceeding appears in another column
of this paper, July 18th being set
as the day for the court to hear
cause, if any, why the corporation
should not be dissolved. AS the
petition is signed by all the officers
and directors of the company, and
is in conformity with a resolution
adopted at a recent meeting of the
stockholders, the proceedings will
be a matter of mere legal form.
Iron ore was discovered in the
southwestern part of this county
by Joseph Pratte, and the great
elevation there was called Iron
Mountain, from the mineral of
which it was largely composed,
and which at one time was sup
posed to be practically inexhausti-
BILE. In 1869 the Iron Mountain
Company was organized and in
corporated for the purpose of
working the mine, among the
original incorporates being James
Harrison, Jules Vale, Charles P.
Chouteau, Henry Belin, Julia
Maffitt, Felix Vale and other
wealthy citizens of the State, and
Mr.. Harrison was the first presi-
dent. When mining was first be-
gun there the ore was hauled from
Iron Mountain to Ste. Genevieve
for shipment, a distance of over
forty miles, and a plankand gravel
road was constructed to facilitate
the hauling. The company was
capitalized at S3,600,0 900, several
thousand laborers were employed,
and the town of Iron Mountain
grew to a population of about 5000,
at one time the most important
and naturally the most widely
known town in st. Francois coun-
ty. 1t was the Importance of the
iron mining industry at this place
that originated the enterprise of
building the Iron Mountain rail-
road for the transportation of the
ore. Along in the nineties the
mountain of iron ore, which was
gradually lowered by the process
of mining, began to show signs OF
giving out, and in 1900 the supply
was practically exhausted. Work
on a large scale was abandoned
several years before, and the
fourishing town of Iron Mountain
rapidly declined, it's miners seek
ing employment elsewhere, many
of them finding it in the then
rapidly developing lead mines OF
the Lead Belt in this county, now
one of the largest lead producing
regions of the world. The Iron
Mountain Company, during its
nearly forty years of existence, il
is said, has netted its stockholders
a profit of S ,000,0 900. The present
assets of the company are esti-
mated at SIZE, 1000, including lands
stocks, bonds, notes, cash and prop
erty in st. Louis, and these will
be distributed among it's stock
: holders according to their hold
ings. The land, comparatively
has for several years been used TO.
} grazing purposes, and will prob
, ably be converted into large past
r ures for the breeding of live stock
| The company owns over 1900
r acres distributed I'VE st. Fran
t co.'s, Iron, Washington, Jefferson
t and Madison counties.-Farming
ton Times.
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