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RECAPITULATION. 



t^very county on the Iron Mountain railroad, except the last named, 

 present great attraction and inducement, rarely found elsewhere to 

 immigrants and movers, especially to fruit growers; a mild and healthy 

 climate, short winters, free from blizzards, cheap land, a close and handy 

 market, good society, kind and hospitable inhabitants, excellent graded 

 schools during nine months of the year, churches of all denominations 

 and flattering prospects for future enhancement. 



THE HANNIBAL & ST. JOSEPH RAILROAD, 



Connecting Hannibal on the Mississippi river with St. Joseph on 

 the Missouri river, traverses the following counties : Marion, Shelby, 

 Macon, Linn, Livingston Caldwell, De Kalb, Clinton and Buchanan. 

 These nine counties are mostly prairie, much of it level, but on either 

 side of all the streams is a scope of rougher country covered with timber. 

 Especially on the timbered part of this region, fruit, particularly the 

 apple, does quite well. Along this line there are 34 stations, and it has 

 numerous branch lines. Apples of fine quality are grown and arc ship- 

 ped in large quantities from nearly all stations en the road. In 1888 

 there were shipped from Macon City forty-three car loads, which were 

 sold at 35 to 50 cents per bushel ; and sixty car loads were sent from 

 other points in Macon county. A good deal of interest is taken in fruit- 

 growing in this county. 



Chillicothe, in Livingston county, in 1888, shipped 100 car loads of 

 apples. There is quite a growing interest in fruit-raising in that county, 

 and good orchard land sells at $20 to $50 per acre. Many other sta- 

 tions, and perhaps each of the other counties of the nine, could make as 

 good a report of shipments ; but reports have not been received in time 

 for this paper. 



The Kansas City. St. Joseph & Council Bluffs Railroad, stars 



from Kansas City and runs in :a northwesterly direction to Council 



Bluffs. This road is all the way on the bottom lands of the Missouri 



river and nearly always just fit the base of the hills. These hills are 



n. K.— 32. 



