Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1907-07-04
"Tsxas 10 the Garden Spot Of the Lord"
5000 Acre Ranch Of Or. ChaS. r. Simmons
Now On the Market.
Here Your Opportunity Buy Farm Of from 10 Acres to $40 and
Two Town Lots In This "Garden Spot for $2l0. Pay.
able $40 per Month Without interest

country Tor MS nealth, Dougnt IL
acres and in one year cleared over
$4,000 from II, which was 2333.33 per
acre.
Another man, Go years old, from 70
acres. sold $4,000 worth OF produce.
| from which he realized 5000 per acre
and then raised Cotton crop on part
of Il, which made him S35 per acre.
which made the same land net him
$500 per acre for that year.
Another man from so acres in 1905
realized as follows: From Onions,
S2.226.91: from Cotton. $1,000; 200
bushels Corn; ~ tons Hay; 5000
pounds Sweet Potatoes.
Another made $4,000 from 1--WE
acres of early Cabbage. which was
500 per acre. and grew n second crop
OF Corn and Peas on the same ground
that year.
Another realized $4,000 from 90
car loads OF Cabbage. averaging 5000
per car. which was S207.69 from each
OF the 1870 acres he had planted.
Another netted. above all expenses,
$50 per acre on Potatoes. and planted
the same ground in Cotton that year
from which he realized s35 per acre,
which made that ground yield him s95
per acre.
Another realized $40, $3.50 from gao
acres in Melons, which was S14S.33
per acre.
Another netted s21. 900 from IS
acres in Onions. which was 5000 per
acre.
Another netted S17.445, or S79.25
per acre from nine. cuttings Of 900
acres In Alfalfa. which yielded in one
year 2.475 tons and sold at Sl1 per
ton.
Another received 5000 from one
acre in Caullflower; sown in July,
transplanted in August. and marketed
In December"
The same authority quotes the fol.
lowing statement from the Hon. JOS
eph Daily. OF ChillIcothe. H.. who
owns thousands OF acres in the Illinois
Corn Belt. He says:
II am one OF the heaviest taxpayers
on farm lands in Mason and TaZewell
Counties. Illinois, and have been ia
miliar with the conditions around San
Antonio for l2 years. Any thrifty
farmer can get rich, and make more
money of OF this cheap land, acre for
acre. than any land in the State Of
Illinois, that sells from $3.50 to s225
per acre"
Come to the land OF beautiful sun.
shine and almost perpetual harvest.
Where the people are prosperous,
HAPPY and contented.
Where the flowers bloom ten months
In the year.
Where the farmers and gardeners.
l NJ
grown June vegetables In January, aad
bask in mid.winter's balmy air and
| glorious sunshine.
Where the land yield is enormous
and the prices remunerative.
Where something can be planted
and harvested every month In the
| year.
Where the climate is so mild that
the Northern farmer here save prac.
tlcally all his fuel bills and three.
fourths the cost OF clothing his family
In the North.
Where the country is advancing and
property values rapidly increasing.
Where all stock. without any feed,
fatten winter and summer, on the ma
tive grasses and brush.
Where the same land yields the
substantials OF the temperate and the
luxuries Of the tropic zones.
Where the farmer does not have Ia
work hard six months in the year "a
raise feed to keep his stock from dy,
ing during the winter. as they do in
the North and Northwest.
Where there are no arIstocrats and
people do not have TO work hard tC
have plenty and go In the best society
Where the natives work less and
have more 20 show for what they dc
than in any country in the United
States
Where houses, barns and fences car
be built for less than half the cost II
the North.
Where sunstrokes and heat prostra
tons are unknown.
Where sufferers with Asthma, Bron
chitis. Catarrh, Hay Fever and Throa
Troubles find relief.
Where. surrounded by fruits ans
vegetables, which Fipen every month
In the year. the living "a better ant
less expensive than In the North.
Where tho water Is pure. soft an,
plentiful.
Where the taxes are SO low that tn,
amount is never missed.
Where Public and Private SCHOOL,
and Churches OF all denominations ar
plentiful
Where peace, plenty and good vii
prevail.
Where II lie so healthy that Their
are few physicians and most OF them
TO make living supplement their IN
Al
$1,000 Reward will be paid 20 an,
one proving that any stasemen