THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



iTA^Rivr© iisr m:i©sotjri. 



ONE nfllliljiIOM ACRES 



OF THE FINEST 



Agricultural and Mineral Lands 



FOR SALE BY THE 



SOUTH PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, 



IN TRACTS OF FORTY ACRES AWD UPWARDS, AT FROM $2.50 TO 

 $10.00 PER ACRE, ON CREDIT OR FOR CASH, 



THESE LANDS ARE LOCATED ON THE LINE OF THE RAILKOAD, EXTENDING FROM ST. LOUIS TO THE 

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

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

 selected more than twelve years ago from apiong the choicest lands in the State; and subsequently 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 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 Imiian Territory. This Cmnpany, and the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad 

 Company (the latter having obtained its charter to build a road Irom 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 temperate climate and mild 

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

 Pacific, via St. Louis. 



THE PRINCIPAL PRODUCTIONS 



Are Corn, Wheat, Rye, 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 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 purfe 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 fertility and variety, 

 and its adaptation to stock raising or grain growing. 



EOXJCATIOISr. 



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 thirty-sixth part of the land in 

 every Township throughout the State is reserved for School pui poses. 



The mineral wealth of Missouri is inexhiiustihle, 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, is the 

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

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



Indu-cements to Settlers. 



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

 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 of transportation across the Atlantic 

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

 and New Orleans, the natural route, and by far the cheapest— our advantages in regard to prices and importance will be 

 unequalled. We would particularly call the attentioa 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 of the State. 



I»x*ices a.iid Terms of Payment. 



The lands of the Company are offered at from $2 50 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 per cent, interest, in advance, each year. 



Interest . Principal, 



Ca^h Payment $15 00 $50 00 



Payment in one year ., 10 00 50 00 



*' *' two years 5 00 50 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-iy South Pacific Railroad, St. Louis. 



