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OUTLINE MAP OF MISSOURI 



Showing the boundaries, navigable rivers, principal cities, coal deposits, lead, iron, zinc, gas and 

 oil locations, and the highest point of land in the state. 



rate institutions of higher learning for men and 

 women. 



In the Missouri Botanical Garden in Saint 

 Louis, the finest garden of its kind in the 

 United States, much field survey and impor- 

 tant research work is being done. 



Institutions. Missouri is conspicuous for its 

 liberal provision for the poor and defective 

 classes. The institutions of charity and correc- 

 tion are controlled by a state board and in- 

 clude: hospitals at Fulton, Saint Joseph, Ne- 

 vada and Farmington; a colony for epileptics 

 and the feeble-minded at Marshall; a school 

 for deaf at Fulton; an institution for the blind 

 at Saint Louis; an industrial school for boys at 

 Boonville; an industrial school for girls at 

 Higginsville ; a Federal soldiers' home at Saint 

 James; a penitentiary at Jefferson City. In 

 1913 contract labor was abolished and more 

 humane prison conditions and regulations were 

 introduced, and in the following year a state 

 board of pardons and paroles was created. 

 Funds have been appropriated for an industrial 

 school for negro girls and mothers' pensions. 

 The child welfare work in the state was reor- 



ganized in 1915, and in the same year the state 

 legislature was empowered to provide by law 

 for the pensioning of the deserving blind. 



Missouri brought itself to the front rank in 

 the country-wide fight against tuberculosis by 

 providing for state-aided county tubercular hos- 

 pitals in addition to the state sanatorium at 

 Mount Vernon. Provision was also made for 

 the suppression of dust and the employment of 

 visiting nurses by county and city courts. The 

 total value of state property devoted to chari- 

 table institutions exceeds $1,670,000,000. 



The Land. Within Missouri one finds widely 

 diversified and picturesque landscape. In the 

 north and northwest sections of the state there 

 are fertile, undulating prairies and fields of 

 deep, rich soil. On the west, these merge into 

 the higher grassy plains of the interior, and 

 these great pasture lands in turn rise to the 

 rough slopes of the Ozarks and Saint Francois 

 mountains in the southwest and south. These 

 mountains form one of the most beautiful 

 scenic regions in the Mississippi Valley. Be- 

 tween the knoblike peaks are deep, narrow val- 

 leys in whose depths lie hidden streams and 



