THE ST. LOUIS AND SAN FRANCISCO. 



Beginning at St. Louis it follows the line of the Ozark range, bridg- 

 ing numberless creeks, streams and rivers all the way across the state in a 

 south westerly direction ; passing through the counties of Franklin, Crow- 

 ford, Dent, Phelps, Pulaski, Laclede, Webster, Green, Christian, Law- 

 rence, Barry, Xewton, Jasper, Polk, Cedar, Hickory, Henry, Johnson, 

 Cass and Jackson. 



With the exception the last four counties the road is almost wholly 

 within the Ozark mountains. These mountains, or rather hills, for in 

 many places you can not recognize auy mountains at all, only large 

 table lands ; on the mountains are the lands that in every way are suited 

 to the making of the horticulturist's home, for the growth of all kinds 

 of small fiiiits, peaches and apples. These red lands of the Ozarks are 

 the home of fruits, and it is only necessary for us to find the proper 

 porous subsoil and good top soil, when we can then plant with .assurance 

 of success. These lands are now very cheap, and when the black jack 

 forest or the pine timl^er has been removed we can then profitably 

 convert them into orchards, that will pay many times the value of the 

 timber taken, and continue to pay well for years to come. Thousands 

 of acres are ready for tlie orchardist to develop. 



Here you will find the soil that gives the highest color, the choicest 

 quality, the finest of texture and the greatest quantity in apples, of an v 

 place in all this broad land of ours. Missouri offers untold advantages 

 to the one who will go up and possess them. Here you will find the 

 most desirable climate for the production of these fruits in abmidance, 

 perfection and beauty. 



The elevation, the location, the soil, the climate, then, are what 

 we want, and this soil of Missouri is so rich in all tree growth material 

 in the iron that colors the fruit, in the potash that makes the wood, that 

 we need not fear to so locate, so plant, so cultivate and so gather of 

 these beautiful and pure and good fruits, that it will gladden the heart 

 and give health, and dollars to line the pockets of the apple gi'ower. 



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