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A large display was also made of finished woods, such as yellow 

 pine, white oak, ash and other hard woods. But the best and most at- 

 tractive exhibit was that of the gum lumber of Southeast Missouri. 

 Here were columns, panels, doors, door frames, mantels, window frames, 

 pilasters, furniture and other architectural creations fashioned out' of 

 this red gum lumber and polished and finished in the most artistic man- 

 ner. The beauty and finish of this lumber was a revelation to the world 

 and will no doubt make a greater market and a much higher price for 

 this large lumber production of Southeast Missouri. There was also, 

 on exhibit staves, hoops, spokes, handles, hubs and similar manufactured 

 articles. This whole forestry exhibit was made in a handsome booth, 

 constructed wholly of finished Missouri lumbers." 



FISH AND GAME. 



Missouri Bountifully Supplied zcith Fish. — The great river systems 

 of the State provide a great variety and abundant supply of fish. The 

 Mississippi river washes the entire eastern botmdary of the State, the 

 Missouri traverses the State from the extreme northwest diagonally 

 across to the east central part, together with the Osage, St. Francois, Little 

 Current, Grand, Gasconade and numerous smaller streams within the 

 State, furnish a goodly supply of the following varieties : catfish, buffalo 

 fish, crappie, black bass, German carp, drum, hickory shad, pike, perch, 

 mooney, eels, rock bass, sturgeon, suckers, sunfish, white bass, turtles, 

 frogs and mussel shells. 



People Employed. — There are 1,531 people employed in commercial 

 fisheries with an invested capital of $645,671, yielding an annual output 

 of 7,551,442 pounds, valued at $211,301. 



Game. — Missouri's great diversity of climate, forests, plains and 

 mountains naturally afforded a home for many wild animals, many of 

 which have become very rare under the civilization influences, and with 

 some species entirely extinct. In the Ozark region an occasional black 

 bear or mountain lion is encountered as also the wild cat, once so common 

 in that section. In a few of the southern counties the Virginia deer is still 

 found, though in comparatively few numbers. The red fox, the raccoon, 

 the opossum, the cotton tail or rabbit, the grey and fox squirrels, the 



