THE BURLINGTON RAILROADS. 



THE HANNIBAL AND ST. JOSEPH. 



Beginning at Kansas Citv and running north and east through the 

 wonderful, rich counties of Clay, Clinton, Caldwell, Livingston, Linn, 

 Sullivan, Putnam, Chariton, Carroll, Macou, Shelby, Monroe and Ma- 

 rion, v>-e have some of the mo'St valuable as well as productive lands of 

 the state. All along are marvelous prairies, beautiful timber, grand 

 water courses, rich soils, Avell adapted to orchard planting, and all kinds 

 of farming and stock raising. Manv of these bluffs and hills are of 

 the loess fonnation, the most valuable of all our fruit lands. The sub- 

 soil under all these loess lands is of the same material and so porous that 

 the extreme wet or extreme drouth does iK^t pre^'ent the proper gro'\\i:h 

 and development of all orchard fruits. 



THE ST. LOUIS & KEOKUK L1^E. 



Following the west bank of the Mississippi river to the Iowa line, 

 touches the counties of St. Louis, St. Charles, Lincoln, Pike, Ralls, 

 Marion, Lewis, and Clark, and these river bluffs are all of them specially 

 valuable for the horticulturist, in the growing of orchards and small 

 fruits. These timber lines seem to have been prepared by nature and 

 the growth of the timber for the fruit grower's special purpose. Many 

 of these lands close to the very best markets, are still very cheap and 

 they will all make good homes if the man will but plow, plant and care 

 for the trees. 



KANSAS CITY, ST. JOSEPH & COUNCIL BLUFFS LINE. 



Beginning at Kansas City passes along the east bank of the river 

 through the counties of Clay, Platte, Buchanan, Andrew, Ilolt, Atchison, 

 DeKalb, Gentay and Harrison. All these lands along the 

 Missouri river l)luft"s are of the looss formation, and are among the 

 best of all the fruit lands in this western countrv, if not in the world. 

 This soil is the same, in many places, down to the depth of five, ten or 

 twenty feet and so porous that wet nor drouth seem to affect the 

 growth of our fruits. The elevation, the proximity to the large streams 

 of water, and the broken character gives excellent air drainage 

 so that the certainty of a crop of fruit is almost assui-ed. ]\rany of 

 these lands can l)e had for $10 to -$20 per acre. 



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