THE MISSOURI PACIFIC. 



Beginning at St. Louis the road runs westerly along the south bank 

 of the Missouri river over hills and vales, river bluffs and bottoms, across 

 creeks and rivers through the counties of St. Louis, Franklin, Gasconade, 

 Osage and Cole, until it reaches Moniteau county. All of these hill 

 lands are peculiarly adapted to fruit-growing, and they await the hand 

 of the orchardist to awaken the slumbering powers that lie dormant in 

 their bosoms. In Moniteau county the beautiful, grand, rich, noble 

 prairies of which the state is so justly noted, here begin. Then all 

 tlirough Cooi>er, Morgan, Pettis, Johnson, Lafayette, Saline and Jack- 

 son, counties we find these prairies interspersed with small groves or strips 

 of timber along all the streams and in all the valleys. All of these 

 wooded hills are made of a clay shale which are rich in tree growth and 

 valuable for all kinds of horticultural products, small fruits, orchards, 

 and vineyards. 



Along the southwestern border of the state this road runs through 

 the counties of Cass, Bates, Yernon, Barton and Jasper. ISTo better soil 

 is there in all the world than some of these grand prairies of western 

 Missouri. Here also the hills and timbered lands are so well fitted for 

 orchard grovi;h that the wonder is why they are not covered with orchards. 

 In Jasper county are the best zinc and lead mines in the world and the 

 land above them is the best of fruit land also. Coal also is abundant 

 under many of these best orchard or grass lands. 



THE ST. LOUIS AND IRON MOUNTAIN. 



Also beginning at St. Louis. This road runs south, through the 

 counties of Jefferson, Washington, Iron, Madison, Wayne, Butler, Bol 

 linger. Cape Girardeau, Scott, Mississippi, ISTew Madrid, and Stoddard, 

 giving a great variety of soils, subsoils, forests, prairies, and rich bottom 

 lands. The first few counties covering the Ozark range are, by nature, 

 prepared for the best of ti-ee growth, the gTeatest of products, and the 

 finest of quality, in all our fruits. 



Here you will also find those peculiarities of location and 

 ■elevation that invariably give the best results to the fruit grower. Again, 

 no where in the west can you find such mines of iron and lead and stone 

 and granite beneath the surface. The lower lands of the Mississippi river 

 bottom are the best of all those noted river bottom lands, while here and 

 there rise hills for the profitable growing of all fruits if they are only 

 utilized. These fruit li nds can now be had cheaply, but will be worth 

 many times their value in a few years. 



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