THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



ITA-RMIS IlSr IVIISSOXJRI. 



OF THE FINEST 



Agricultural and Mineral Lands 



FOE SALE BY THE 



SOUTH PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, 



IN TEACTS OP POETY ACEES AND TJPWAEDS, AT TEOM $2.50 TO 

 $10.00 PEE ACEE, ON CREDIT OE FOE CASH. 



THESE LANDS ARE LOCATED ON THE I,INE OF THE EAILKOAD, EXTENDING FROM ST. LOUIS TO THE 

 Sonthwc'stem part of the State, and within a distance ol' fifteen miles, on each side ol' the tracli. They were gi-auted to 

 the State of Missouri by an Act of Congress approved June 10th, 1S52, 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 sulisequently ti'ansferred 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 126 miles, and a heavy force is at work pushing the road to completion. Not more than two years can possibly 

 elapse before we reach the boundary line of the Indian Territory. This Conipanj;, and the Atlantic and Pacific^ Railroad 

 Company (the latter having obtained its charter to build a road from the termini of the South Pacific Railroad to the Pacific), 

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

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

 Pacific, via St. Louis. 



THE PRIHCIPAL PRODUCTIONS 



Are Corn, Wheat, Rye, Barley, Oats, Hemp, Fl.ax, Tobacco, Vegetables and Fruit, and to some extent Cotton. Wheat is a 

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

 Corn, Oats, Rye", and Barley are also crops that can be depended upon. Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, and Grapes grow 

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

 success . 



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 of the temperate zone. The soil imdoubtedlj; surpasses any other equal porticn of our continentiin liertilitv and variety, 

 and its adaptation to stock raismg or gi-ain growing. 



EDTJCATIOrsr. 



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

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

 every Township throughout the State is reserved for School purposes. 



BMIVERALS ATVI> TIIVXIBER.. 



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

 (luantities, has been found iu Franklin, Crawford, Phelps, Green, and several other counties. Lead, next to Iron, is the 

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

 other counties, iu 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, piiie, walnut,, iish, elm, birch, locust, hickory, white and black walnut, white oak, and chestnut. 



InclTLTcemeiits to Settlers. 



Persons of small ineans( emigrants and capitalists, are particular invited to these lands. The farms ai'e sold in tracts of 

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

 can make superi(ir,auin4ements AVith the Company. With cheap ami speedy means of transportation across the Atlantic 

 which Missouii will enjoy in a few years, when we will he enabled to ship our grain IN BULK to Europe, « in the Mississippi 

 and New Orleans, the natural route, and by far the cheapestr-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 

 fi'om growing up with and developing the country; increasing their own wealth as well as that of the State. 



Prices asicl Terms of DPaynxent. 



The lands of the Company are offered at from $2 50 to $10 00 per acre, with some few ti-aots at higher figures. Example: 

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

 at ten per cent, interest, in advance, each year. 



Interest. rrincipal. 



Cash Payment $15 00 J.W 00 



Payment iu one year 10 00 50 00 



" "twoyears 5 00 ,W 00 



" " three years 50 00 



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

 letter to 



CLINTON B. FISK, Vice President, 



October— ly South Pacific Railroad, St. Louis. 



