Missouri
Imperial Mistress of States
Cheap Lands in Missouri
Missouri is the only State with government lands open to cash entry. These lands are located in south Missouri. Much of it is suitable only for the grazing and rearing of stock, and can be purchased at a price that will certainly make the business remunerative and profitable. Some is especially adapted to the production of fruit, and is known as the land of "Big Red Apples." Much of this land has the same soil, climate, and other natural advantages possessed by the Olden fruit farm, located at Olden, in Howell county, and said to be one of the most extensive fruit farms in the world. Here all varieties of fruit are grown to perfection, both as to appearance and flavor, and the farm is visited by buyers from all the fruit markets in the country, who select and purchase such fruit as may be demanded by their market, and pick, barrel, and ship it themselves.
Other tracts are covered with heavy growth of valuable timber that in the near future will demand the services of many laborers and prove a source of income to the fortunate owners.
After the timber is gone the land will be valuable for a variety of agricultural purposes.
Over the territory in which the land is located mineral deposits are the rule rather than the exception. Iron, zinc, lead, copper, and bituminous coal abound in great quantities. There is no question but that land can be bought in Missouri to-day for $1.25 per acre, that in the near future will yield such an abundance of valuable minerals as to make fabulous fortunes for its owners.
If you want cheap land upon which to make a permanent home, come to Missouri. Don't buy without inspection either in person or through a trusted agent. So far as the State is concerned, you can make no mistake in locating within her borders. Her people are intelligent and enlightened. Her agricultural and mineral resources are wonderful and her climate unsurpassed. School and church houses in every locality; a school fund unequalled by any State in the Union ; a State University and agricultural college that is the pride of the Mississippi valley; railroads traversing the State in every direction; luxuriant blue grass pastures, feeding herds of all the improved breeds of live stock; fertile fields on hill and valley, producing corn, wheat, oats, barley, flax, timothy, clover, cotton, and tobacco in great abundance, orchards producing fruit that will compare favorably in appearance with the great fruit belt of the Pacific coast, and is unsurpassed in flavor.
With these blessings, with these necessities and luxuries and many other advantages offered, Missouri will make you a grand home.
In fact, when we attempt to enumerate the wonderful resources and consider the multitude of advantages offered by the State, we become lost in the midst of their profusion and are forced to the conclusion that nature has endeavored to locate a part of all the good things in Missouri, and has succeeded so far as it was possible without extending her borders.