COUNTY REPORTS. 283 



Other roads at Fort Scott, Kas., and Kansas City. The Greenfield and 

 Northern is being- built from south to north, and will give connection 

 with other roads. 



Greenfield, the county seat of Dade county, is an incorporated 

 city of the third class, situated near the center of the county on the 

 Greenfield & Northern railroad, and 2| miles north from the Gulf rail- 

 road. With a population of about 2000, the business of this beautiful 

 little town is represented by two banks, four dry-goods stores, five 

 grocery stores, two hardware stores, two harness shops, two milHnery 

 shops, two barber shops, three blacksmith shops, two butcher shops, 

 two hotels, two livery stables, one furniture store, four doctors, three 

 drug-stores, three weekly papers, five churches, Presbyterian, Cumber- 

 land Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Christian, one college, one high 

 school, one African school, two Masonic lodges, one flouring mill. 



Dadeville, a lively village of 800 inhabitants, siuated 12 miles north- 

 east of Greenfield, in the midst of a fine agricultural section, with a 

 large flouring mill, three churches, a graded school, and so on. 



Areola, a flourishing village 12 miles north of Greenfield, on the 

 Greenfield & Northern railroad, with a population of 600, surrounded 

 by a fine farming country. 



South Greenfield, a growing town, 21 miles south of Greenfield and 

 the Gulf railroad, also on the Greenfield & Northern railroad ; with a 

 population of 600; the main shipping point in the county; has a large 

 flouring mill. 



Lockwood, a thriving town, nine miles west of Greenfield, on the 

 Gulf railroad; has a population of 1500; is surrounded by a fine prairie 

 country ; has three churches, two schools, one large flouring mill, sev- 

 eral good stores, two lumber-yards, and so on. 



Everton, a stirring town with a population of 500, ten miles east 

 of Greenfield, on the Gulf railroad, is also a shipping point. Other 

 villages and postotfices are: Corry, a mining town, Cedarville, Sylva- 

 nia, Chambersville, Kingspoint and Pilgrim. 



Land can be bought from five to thirty dollars per acre. Good, 

 improved land, near to railroad, can be had for ten dollars per acre ; 

 all this land will grow good fruits. All the timber grows the best of 

 fruit, and would give any person a handsome profit for his investment. 

 There are buyers through this country, looking for fruit to ship and 

 evaporate. There are some large orchards being planted, and it is a 

 settled fact that the apple orchard is the best investment in this county. 



The timber land is cleared off, then cultivated one year in corn, 

 then plowed in the fall, the rows for the trees staked out, then with a 

 two-horse plow furrowed out both ways, and the trees set in the cross 



