Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1913-09-04

States. During the last few years
more than two states, lying to the
southwest, have been settled and de-
veloped to a much larger extent than
the Ozarks. During this period mil
lions Of people have passed through
the Ozarks without giving them pass
ing notice. One reason why the
Ozarks offer the opportunities they
do is because so little Of the country
Is developed. The failure to develop
faster is due to the failure to go
about the work in a way that will
not only complete the work already
begun, but invite people from other
sections who are looking for such OPP
p%ortunities as the Ozarks have to Of
fer. They have developed as far as
they will or can unless active, bust
ness-like development work is begun
and persistently and intelligently fol-
lowed up. This can only be done at
the hands of her business men, but
more especially the bankers. The
present lack Of development evil
dences not only the ineficiency OF the
present methods, but the necessity
for concerted action along business
lines.
Need Business Like Methods.
The Ozarks offer the newcomer, the
farmer and the business man as great
a variety Of legitimate opportunities
as any country. but to attract new
people, new and business-like meth
DDS must be employed.
The plan under discussion today is
entirely different from that attempt
ed in any other part of the United
States. The Ozarks have a legiti-
mate business proposition to offer the
people Of the country: a proposition
absolutely divorced from promotion,
boom, speculation or any other form
of questionable commercial adven-
ture, but how to put this proposition
before the farmers and other people
of the country in a manner that will
receive their serious consideration is
the one important matter to be de-
termined by the gentlemen present.
What the Ozarks Offer.
Let us now see what the Ozarks az
a country have for you gentlemen to
offer. The broad statement that the
Ozarks can and will produce practi.
cally all the crops known to its lati.
tude is of itself insufficient. We who
know the Ozarks know they will dc
it, we know they are doing it, but tc
the newcomer we must be spe'
cific.
In considering its agricultural pos
> sibilities, its central location, within
a few hours travel Of the principa
. markets, insures a greater net pro
fit for the products of the farms. Thi
is a feature overlooked by a grea
many farmers. The farmer remot'
from large consuming markets l
handicapped, but for all the agricul
tural products of the Ozarks Their
: are markets on all sides.
: 1t is one of, il not quite the fore
most, dairy sections of the country
!, The possibilities of profit from dairy
ing in the Ozarks are limited Onl.
q by the ability of the farmer himself
:. OF the more than forty million
dollars Of poultry and kindred pro
ducts marketed from Missouri las
o. year, most of it came from the Ozar'
country. yet poultry farming in tn
Il Ozarks can hardly be said to hav
fairly begun.
~ Its climate, water, soil, grass an
y latitude make it one of the best stoc
raising countries in the Unite
States. This is evidenced by the pre-
ftable marketing Of the stock pre-
duced in the Ozarks. Already TIL
year, shipments of hogs from on
u town have topped the st. Louis ma
y ket three times in competition wit
u Iowa and Illinois hog raisers. tn
creamery Of another town market
s. thirty thousand pounds of its butte
&c each month in Boston. The cream
b. cry of another town finds market IL
t' its product at two cents per pour
above Elgin prices, which are consi
u cred the standard.
H. The department of development
Is the Frisco is ready to co-opera
with you gentlemen in the full d
velopment of the dairy industry. II
a Ozarks already offer exceptional a
u vantages to both responsible creaI
VI cry concerns and cheese manufactu
Ell ers. The present production of mi
Ill at many points is sufficient to su
Vi port such plants. Our bureau OF a
riculture is also interested with "
in the promotion of dairy farming
m order that the cheese and butter !
ne dustry may be still further develo