Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1911-09-07
MISSOURI STATE
CAPITAL ITEMS
NOTES THAT ARE OF INTEREST
TO MlssoURiANs.
Brief Mention Of Matters as Thsy
Occur at Jefferson City,
Official and Other
wise.

1eHeTsOn Ivy MlssouTl heteu
minerals the last year to the amount
Of $27,429,969 The coal output,
which was announced some weeks
ago, stands at sj,229,1S7. The value
Of other minerals amounted to $22,-
2O0,782. These official figures have
been compiled by George Bartholo-
maeus, secretary of state mines and
mining inspection bureau. The total
increase for the year is given at $780,
40. The bureau has divided the
state into the western and eastern
districts.
The western district, comprising
Greene. Jasper, Lawrence and New
ton counties, produced 24O,41S tons Of
zinc, valued at $9.376,55S. The same
counties produced 20,959 tons of sill.
cate amounting to s47S,46S and $3.50
tons Of lead worth $1,9o1,35O. One
hundred and twelve tons OF drybone
at $4,161 and 600 tons of tripoli
valued at $64,Si3 were products Of
these counties. That makes the total
value Of all minerals for the western
district, $11,S55,2SO.
The eastern district, comprising
Audrain, Franklin, jefferson, Madison.
Morgan, st. Francois, st. Louis, Stod.
dard, Warren and Washington
counties, produced 2l7,751 tons Of
lead valued at s9,73O,S61; 929 tons
OF zinc, $14,2GO, 10,95O tons of baryta,
$4S,S40; 1900 tons of iron. $4,000,
and $575,755O tons of clay valued at
$512,441, making a total value of all
mineral for the district of Sl0,34J,4O2.
O.
n state board of horticulture has
started a movement that means much
to the fruit growers of this state.
The plan is to secure a register or
record OF all tho fruit growers of the
state, that is. of not only all those
who are engaged in the operation Of
commercial orchards. but all farmers
who have orchards which produce in
excess of their own needs. 1t is the
idea OF the governor and the men,
bers Of the board that there are thou
II VI puShcis VI iult, ptlllCuldll y
Of apples, that go to waste every
fruit year in the state because the
farmers who have the orchards don't
know how to dispose of them, and
the men who are looking for fruit to
buy don't know to whom to go.
The counties along the southern
route are preparing to build their
rock road and Governor Hadley has
announced that if the southern route
makes the greater progress by DC.
tobe ! it will be dedicated by the
state board of agriculture before the
central route and will be called the
Missouri state road instead Of the
Missouri capital state road, as re-
quested by the Southern Route asso.
citation. Citizens of Cooper county
have notified the governor they pro-
pose to build a rock road across thai
county in the belief that the central
route will have to be diverted by
B%oonville owing to the difficulty oil
crossing the river at Glasgow.
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The prosecuting attorney Of Ran
dolph county has filed a mandamus
proceeding in the supreme court tc
compel the state superintendent OF
public schools, William p. Evans, tc
apportion to that county the schooI
moneys for the Moberly district. This
writ is r%eturnable September 4. Mo
berly's share of school, money Ii
$S,442.S6 on the enumeration re
turned. =,
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Paroles have been issued by Gov
rno Hadley as follows: Franz
Moss, negro, sent from Caldwell
county in 1904 under sentence Of 81