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that will soon count their population by the many millions, but where 

 the fruits can not be raised, will call for all of our fruits, fresh, dried or 

 •canned, while the array of cities that stand on either baud of the great 

 river will take immense quantities of the products of our gardens. 

 Our hills should be made to yield up their treasures of building stone, 

 of cements, of paints, of material for the brick-maker and of clay for 

 the hand of the potter. Canneries and jelly factories should rise here 

 and there on places easy of access from our hills, our slopes and our 

 bottoms. 



We are not working to make Holt county nor the State a field for 

 land speculators, nor a place owned by a rich few and worked by a 

 poor many. It is home people we want, and each family owning its 

 own home. We do not invite the great capitalist to make of our coun- 

 try a plunder ground ; nor do we want among us the men who would 

 set law at naught and seek to destroy society. Millionaire, anarchist, 

 saloon keeper, please stay away. 



Good fruit lands, unimproved, can be bought for from $5 to $20 

 per acre, and not more than five or six miles, at farthest, from some 

 railroad station. 



To such as we invite we say, our lands can be bought cheap — in 

 proportion to their real value, very cheap. The center of Missouri is 

 the center of the best 400 miles square in North America. The center 

 of the coming continental republic is within the borders of grand young- 

 Missouri. 



Now — soon — is the time to secure a place where you may build for 

 yourselves and your children your share of the grand destiny that is 

 just coming to this region, where is to be the highest civilization of the 

 future. 



TEN MILLIONS 



Of human beings need not to crowd each other in Missouri. If there 

 were built a wall that should confine the people within the bounds of 

 the State and keep out all the rest of the world, the people on the in- 

 side of that wall could find in its timber and its mines, or produce from 

 its soil and its factories, everything necessary to first-class conditions 

 of society and to an abundant comfort. 



COME AND SEE 



Missouri and her people, her cities and her villages ; learn of her finan- 

 cial condition as a State; ascertain whatare her school and other funds, 

 and what are her State institutions ; see what can be seen of her min- 

 eral wealth, and read what science says of developments yet to be made ; 



