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MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



ASSESSMENT FOR 1888. 



Real estate $3,209,900 



Personal 1 ,982, 555 



Railroad 577, 475 



Telegraph 7,175 



Merchants and manufact'rs. 202,286 



Total 5,979,391 



RATE OF TAXATION. 



State tax 40cts. per $100 



County tax... 30 cts. per $100 



population . 



Oregon 1, 200 



Mound City 1.500 



Maitland. .*. G00 



Craig i 700 



Forest City | 700 



Bigelow I 200 



Corning 200 



Forbes 250 



New Point | 100 



About 22,000 in the county. 



The value of the school buildings in each of these places ranges 

 from $2,000 to $25,000. 



THE MAIN LINE 



Of the Kansas City, St. Joseph & Council Bluffs railroad enters Holt 

 county at the southeast corner and runs on the bottom next the hills, 

 passing near the center of the county and out at the northwest corner, 

 thirty-nine miles of the main line being within the county. At Napier 

 a branch runs westward and crosses the Missouri river at Rulo on its 

 way to Denver. From Bigelow the Nodaway Valley road runs north- 

 east to Iowa ; and at Corning the Tarkio Valley road starts on its course 

 also northeast into Iowa. 



FROM THE DEPTHS 



Below, up through its deposits of minerals, its beds of coal, its variety 

 of soils, rock-beds and clays, its level lands, countless slopes and oak- 

 crowned hills, the great river and the many rivers that run into it, I 

 believe Missouri to be by nature the best State in the Union ; and as 

 a place where to build homes, Holt is one of its very best counties. 



No person needs to be alone in Holt county. The scholar, thinker 

 and real gentleman can find fit company within our borders. The man 

 of vast experiences can find his fellow, and compare notes with men 

 whose deeds have equaled his own. All of our professions number in 

 their ranks men who would be men anywhere. Our farmers and 

 our fruit-growers are the peers of any in the land. The most degraded 

 need not live in solitude, for in kennel or den, in cave or in the nest 

 of unclean birds, he may find his like. 



TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN. 



There is room, scope and verge for you in Holt county. Our re- 

 sources are scarcely prospected — not at all developed. The near 

 future should see one-third of our area covered with orchards and 

 vineyards and market gardens. The vast regions north and west of us 



