THE AMERICAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



iri^RM:S IN IS^ISSOXJRI. 



OF THE FINEST 



Agricultural and Mineral Lands 



FOR 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, 



THKSE LANDS AKE LOCATED ON THE LINE OF i HE RAn.KOAD, EXTKNUING FROM ST. LOUIS TO THE 

 Southwestern part of the State, and within a distuncc ol'lit'teen miles, on each side of the track. They were granted to 

 the State of Missouri by an .Vct of Conjjress apiirovod June luth, 1852. to aid in the construction of this road, and were 

 selected more than twelve years ago from among (he ohniccist lands hi llie State; and subsequently transferred to this Company 

 for the lau'pose of finishing tlie road Our Hne is now in good running oriler from St. Louis "to Little Piney (Arlington), a 

 distance of 1-26 miles, and a heavy fovre is at work tnisliing tlie road to completion. Not more than two years can possibly 

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

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

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

 winters enjoyed by the States aud Territories through which it passes, the great thoi'oughfare from the Atlantic to the 

 Pacilic, via St. Louis. 



THE PRINCIPAL PRODUCTIONS 



Arc Corn, Wheat-. Tlj'c, Barley, Oats, Hcm]j, F)ax, Tobar.co, Vegetables and Fruit, and to some extent Cotton. Wheat is a 

 crop thai; never fails, arid it is" conceded by all that the winier wheat raised in Misaoiiri makes the finest flour in the country, 

 Corn,_Oats, Rye, and Barley are also crops that can be dcpeiuVd upon. Apples, Peaches, Pears, Plums, and Gra])es grow 

 luxuriantly; to the cultivation of the latter cousitlerable attention has been given and with au unprecedented amount of 

 success. 



The climate is agreeable and healthy; the summers long aud 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 temi>erate zone. The soil undoubteiUy surpasses any other equal portion of our contxnent^in fertility and variety, 

 aud its adaptation to stock raising or grain growing. 



iar>xjcATio]v. 



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 wilh 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 inexhaustible, aud 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, Chi'istian, Crawford, Franklin, and 

 other counties, in all of wljich 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 iisefn 

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



Inclxicements to Settlers. 



Persons of small means, emigrants and capitalists, are iiarticular 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 anrl speedy means of transportation across the Atlantic 

 which Missouii will enjo.y in a fewyears, when we vviU be enabled to ship our grain IN BULK to Europe, via the Mississippi 

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

 unetpiallcd. We would jiarticularly 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 of the State. 



fx'ices and Terms of Payirient. 



The lands of the Company are offoreil at from $3 nO to $10 00 per acre, with some few tracts at higher (Igures. Example: 

 Forty acres at $o 00 per acre, on short credit: the principal, one-ijuarter cjish down; balance in one, two, and three years, 

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



Interest. Principal, 



Cash Paj-ment $15 00 $,iO 00 



Payment in one year 10 00 50 00 



" two years 5 00 .TO 00 



" " three years 50 00 



Mai)s showing the lands, and all other information relating thereto, famished gratis, by applying in person or by 

 letter to 



CLINTON B. PISK, Vice President, 



October-iy South Pacific Railroad, St. Louis. 



