THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I^^RIVr© IN IS^ISSOTJRI 



ONE imilnXilON ACRZSS 



OF THE FINEST 



Agricultural and Mineral Lands 



FOK SALE BY THE 



SOUTH PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY, 



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

 $10.00 PER ACRE, ON CREDIT OR FOR CASH, 



THESE LANDS ARE LOCATED ON THE LINE OF JHE RAILKOAD, KXTENi-ING 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, 18o2. to aid in the construclion of this road, and were 

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

 for the purpose of finishing the road. Our lim; is now in good running order from ."^t. Louis to Little I*iney (Arlington), a 

 distauce of 126 miles, and a heavy force is at work pushiug the road to completion. Not more than two years can possibly 

 elapse before we reach the bounclavy line of the Indian Territory. This Company, and the Atlantic and Pacific Itailroad 

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

 ai-e 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 Athmticto the 

 Pacific, via St Louia. 



THE PRIXCIPAL 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 Misaouri 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 o 

 success. 



■J301ILM .A.-SS-iy CZjiXIVC.A.I'JE:. 

 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 ol the temperate zone. The soil undoubtedly surpasses any other equal portion of our continentiin fertility and variety, 

 and its adaptation to stock raising or grain growing. 



EDUCATION. 



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 thii'ty-sixth part of the land in 

 every Township throughout the State is reserved for School puiposes. 



BIIIVEKALS AP«ri> TI»JLBER. 



The mineral wealth of Missouri is inexhaustihle, 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, Cln'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 uscfu 

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



Indue eixients to Settlers. 



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

 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 

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

 from growing up with and developing tlie conuti-y ; increasing their own wealth as well as that of the State. 



Prices and Terms of Payment. 



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 $'> 00 per acre, on short credit: the principal, one-quarter cash dovra; balance in one, two, and three years, 

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



Interest. Principal. 



Cash Payment $15 00 $50 00 



Payment in one year 10 00 50 00 



" " two years 5 00 50 00 



" " three years , 50 OO 



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

 letter to 



CLINTON B. PISK, Vice President, 



October— ly South Paciflo Railroad, St. Louis. 



