THE AMERICAK ENTOMOLOGIST. 



F^RIVIS IN IMEISSOTJRI. 



ONZS TOUmImION acrxss 



OF THE FINEST 



Agricultural and Mineral Lands 



FOE SALE BY THE 



SOUTH PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, 



IN TRACTS OP FORTY ACRES AND UPWARDS, AT PROM $2.50 TO 

 $10.00 PER ACRE, ON CR£DIT OR POR CASH. 



THESE LANDS AEE LOCATED ON THE LINE OP THE EAILROAD, EXTENUING FROM ST. LOUIS TO THE 

 Southwestern part of the State , and within a distance of fifteen miles, on each side of the track. They were granted to 

 the State of Missouri by an Act of Congress approved June 10th, 1852, to aid in the construction of this road, and were 

 selected more than twelve years ago from among the choicest lands in the State; and suhaequently transferred to this Company 

 for the purpose of finishing the road. Our line is now in good running order from St. Louis to Little Piney (Arlington), a 

 distance of 1'26 miles, and a heavy force is at worlv pushing the road to completion. Not more than two years can possibly 

 elapse before we reach the boundary line of the Indian Territory. This Company, and ths Atlantic and Paciflc Itailroad 

 Company (the latter having obtained its charter to build a road from the termini of the South Paciflc Raili-oad to the Pacific), 

 are under the same management, and this route will eventually become, on account of the temperate climate and mild 

 winters enjoyed by the States and Territories through which it passes, the great thoroughfare from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacific, via St. Loms. 



THE PRINCIPAL PRODUCTIONS 



Are Corn, Wheat, Eye, Barley, Oats, Hemp, Flax, Tobacco, Vegetables and Fruit, and to some extent Cotton. Wheat is a 

 crop that never fails, and it is conceded by all tliat the winter wheat raised in Missouri makes the finest flour in the country. 

 Corn, Oatfl, Rye, and Barley are also crops that can be depended upon. Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plimis, and Grapes grow 

 luxuriantly; to the cultivation of the latter considerable attention has been given and with an uniirecedented amount of 

 success. 



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 The climate is agreeable and healthy; the summers long and temperate, while the winters are short and mild. The air 

 being pure and salubrious, no section of country could be better adapted to secure a luxurious growth of the staple produc- 

 tion ot the temperate zone. The soil undoubtedly surpasses any other equal portion of our continent|in tsrtility and variety, 

 and its adaptation to stock raising or grain growing. 



EDTJCA-TION. 



The law for the support, organization, and the government of Free Schools, in operation in Missouri, is a liberal one, 

 and our entire educational system will bear comparison with any of the Eastern States. One tbirty-sixth part of the land in 

 every Township throughout the State is reserved for School purposes. 



M:IIVE3RA.LS a.jsi> tibjleeer,. 



The mineral wealth of Missouri is inexhaustible, and only needs labor and capital to develop it. Iron ore, in large 

 quantities, has been found in Franklin, Crawford, Phelps, Green, and several other counties. Lead, next to Iron, i» the 

 most abundant of the valuable metals in the State, and is found in Newton, Jasper, Clu-istian, Crawford, Franklin, and 

 other counties, in all of which the Company have large bodies of land for sale. 



There is scarcely a stream on the line of the road which is not bordered by forests of excellent timber of all the useful 

 varieties, laurel, pine, walnut, ash, elm, birch, locust, hickory, white and black walnut, white oak, and chestnut. 



IndLia-ceraexits to Settlers - 



Persons of small means, emigrants and capitalists, are particular invited to these lands. The farms are sold in tracts of 

 forty acres and upwards, at low prices, and on easy terms. Parties who intend forming colonies to emigrate to these lands 

 can make superior arrangements with the Company. With cheap and speedy means ot transportation across the Atlantic 

 which Missoui i will enjoy in a few years , when we will be enabled to ship our grain IN BULK to Eiuope , via the Mississippi 

 andNewOiieaus, the natural route, and by far the clieapest — our advantages in regard to prices and importance will be 

 unequalled. We would particularly call the attention of the farmer, mechanic, and capitalist to the advantages to be derived 

 from growing up with and developing the country; increasing their own wealth as well as that o£ the State. 



Prices a.nd Ternas of PayHxent. 



The lands of the Company are offered at from $2 ."iO to $10 00 per acre, with some few tracts at higher figures. Example: 

 Forty acres at $.5 00 per acre, on short credit: the principal, one-quarter cash down; balance in one, two, and three years, 

 at ten percent, interest, in advance, each year. 



Interest. Principal. 



Cash Payment ./. $16 00 $50 00 



Payment in one year. . .' 10 00 60 00 



" "twoyears 5 00 50 00 



" " three years 60 00 



Maps showing the lands, and all other information relating thereto, furnished gratia, by applying in person or by 

 letter to 



CLINrTON B. FISK, Vice President, 



Ootober-iu South Paciflo Railroad, St. Louis, 



