Mansfield mirror. (Mansfield, Wright County, Mo.) 1908-1957, 1918-03-07
Ozark Country Offers Thousands OF
People Opportunity for Health,
Wealth and Happiness ---M Most
Beautiful Scenery in United States
Found Here.

liz iIoot oAtS hC oAui h'
are to become the Switzerland of
America"
The Missouri Red Book" 1914.
has the following to say regarding
| stock raising in the OZarks: "For
stock raising and dairying the Ozark
counties, as q rule, offer inducements
! which cannot be excelled by any 9TH
er state in the Union, considering
everything. These lines, together
with certain fruits, will insure reg
ular income to any settler with a
small capital to commence on. Land
in this portion of Missouri can be
purchased for from $1,000 to $4,000
an acre, according to the location
and improvements. Railroads which
are now In existence and branch
lines which are to be built furnish
the markets in st Louis and Kansas
City. This is the coming part Of
Missouri, especially for dairying and
stock raising. Most of the year cat
tie, hogs, sheep and goats find their
own food and need very little atten
tion. There is plenty of good wa
ter everywhere, with no danger at
any time Of the supply becoming ex-
hausted. The annual rainfall here
is from forty to fifty inches. In
North Missouri it is from thirty to
forty inches"
The following is taken from "Mis-
souri,, the Center State" by Walter
B. Stevens: "In 1895 thoughtful
man stood before the great map of
the United States in the lobby Of the
house Of representatives at Washing
ton and said: "As 1t appears to me
there are just three places left in
this country where a man with a
little can go and have an almost alb
solute certainty of making a great
deal. That is, mean we have three
regions which seem to have been
passed by while the rest of the coun
try was being taken up and to which
in the immediate future there is go
ing to be rush of capital and i'm
They are sections in
which he who locates early is
going to reap the advantage of rapid
development One of these locali-
ties,' he continued, "is that south
western strip of the United States
stretching down the terra calicnte
between the Rio Grande and the
Gulf. Another in the
Indian Territory. The
third and largest of the three
places and the one which l would
choose if | was going somewhere to
grow up with the country is right
there He pointed to the Ozark
country. This man had never been
n South Missouri. But he looked
on the map and he saw how the rail
road builders, in their rush to the
South and West, had gone by and
left great block Of unoccupied
territory. The twenty years that
have passed have witnessed the trans
formation of the Indian reservation
into state. They have developed
the possibilities Of Southwestern
Texas. They have focused attention
upon the long overlooked Ozarks.
"An old-timer who had seen much
Of the rich and grand and the beauty
If earth, who had Travelled in historic
scenes of Sunny Italy, of whose fatal
gift of beauty the poet sang; and
who, when the mystic chords of
memory with subtle charm thrilled
back to the days of childhood's
dreams to gild with retrospective
rays the glories of the past, recalled
the beauties and the grandeur of an
ancestral home where wealth and
luxury controlled, recently paid Wis
it to the Ozarks.
On awakening from q nights re-
pose on bed of pine boughs placed
in the shelter of tho rocks near
crystal spring and within hearing of
the ceaseless song of murmuring
streams, and the never ending dis-
pasan of the woods, he exclaimed,
III be hanged. fellows, If l don't
believe I TN in Heaven"
And the unconscious enthusiasm
Of the pilgrim who jour1eyed to the
far-famed Ozarks finds an echo in
the hearts of those who find a smell
ing place in the land and the life
about which romance and the poetry
have delighted to weave gay garlands
while the story teller has embel-
lished with wit and humor and enter
tanning plot and patches the simple
story Of the denizcns of domain
whose skies and balmy breezes are
prodigal productions in all the years
that have gone, have been conducted