The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-08-08
MILLIONAIRE TO
BECOME farmer.
To Enroll as Agricultural Stu
dent In the Fall.
HIS FARM A SHOW PLACE,

Arc Lights Burning All Night lIIumine
the Many Tiled and GraveIed Roads
of Four Hundred Acre Traot-Girard
S. Parsons, the Owner, Will Raise
Fancy Live Stock.
Although he was brought up in the
lead mining business and was assistant
manager of one of the largest lead COM
panies of the United States at salary
approximating that of a cabinet minis
ter, with $4,000 house rent free, Gil
rard S. Parsons has resigned his Off
cial duties with the St Joseph (Mo)
Lead company, a $30,000,000 corpora
ton, and will turn farmer
When Parsons official connection
with the lead company ceases he will
go to his farm at Riverside, Mo-, with
his wife. who was Miss Flora Bow
man, daughter of DR.. G. A. Bowman Of
3GO5 Delmar boulevard, ST. Louis
Parsons is one of the five heirs to
the estate of G. B. Parsons, who first
developed the lead belt of st. Francois
county, Mo, and left q fortune esti-
mated at between $5,000,O00 and &c.
100000. The greater part of this es-
tate Is held In trust by the widow and
VIII be distributed to the heirs at her
death
The farm to which Parsons will re.
move, while it has no more than 400
acres, probably is the best developed
In southern Missouri Virtually the en-
tire farm is lighted with large electric
arc lights, the power being brought
from Herculaneum, few miles south
and the site of the st 10 companys
smelling plant.
Roads Lighted All Night.
Tiled and graveled roads, built by the
late millionaire miner, gridiron the es-
tate, and along all these roads are cleo
trio lights which burn the night
through. Along the Iron Mountain rail-
way tracks, which bound the estate on
the west, is a ten foot wall of solid
masonry one-half mile long. The fields
of the estate are in an intensive state
Of cultivation, and there are large or
chards of the best grated fruits.
Not having had much experience in
agriculture, young Parsons will add
to his meager knowledge by taking the
winter course at Missouri State uni
versity-that known as the "shorthorn
course
Parsons was one of the officials of
the st. Joseph Lead company, who
We're criticised for eXtravagances by
Robert Holmes Of ST. Louis In his suit
to have a receiver appointed for the
Doe Run Lead company, a $10,OO0,OO0
mining concern affiliated with the st.
Jo company.
1t was when Parsons salary as as
sistant general manager was cut that
he rendered his resignation and turned
to bucolic pursuit. He will continue
to do much motoring, but has disposed
of his racing car, in which he was ac-
customed to make hair raising records
on the chart covered roadways of st.
Francois county.
Will Raise Fancy Live Stock.
Parsons will retain his position with
the Mississippi River and Bonne Terre
ASAA'"oJ company VI WHICH, ne has
been treasurer for several years. He
also will retain his stock In both the
st. Joseph and Doe Run Lead COM
panies, each of which for years has
paid regular 6 per cent annual divi-
dend, aside from large surpluses, out
of which stock dividends are declared
from time to time.
In his new pursuit Parsons will de-
vote his attention particularly to the
growing of fancy live stock, and in
this will become a competitor of young
Martin L. Clardy, Jr., son of the gen.
erai solicitor of the Missouri Pacific
railway, who maintains an extensive
live stock and horse breeding estab |
lishment on the outskirts of Farming |
ton. the county seat of St Francois |
county.