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 THE BLUE GRASS REGION OF NORTH iniSSOURI. 
 
 LoomlB & Snively's Coal Mines at Bevlar, Five Miles West of Macon. 
 
 MACON, MO. 
 TiMKs Steam Pkinting House, 
 
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 COPYKIGHT BY TIIBO. U.\KY, MACUN, MO. 
 

 Secretary Macon B. & L. Ass'n, Capital Stock, $150,000. 
 
 Secretary Macon Board of Trade. 
 
 THE]0- a^^^^Tzir, 
 
 Insura^iice, I^e&il Esta^te ^ Loeii] A^cnt, 
 
 MACON, MISSOURI. 
 
 Special Examiner and Correspondent of the Equitable Mortgage Co., Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 AGENT 
 
 CERMANIA INSURANCE CO., N. Y. 
 CONNECTICUT INSURANCE CO., Hartford. 
 TRADERS INSURANCE CO., Chicago. 
 NORTHERN ASSURANCE CO. of London. 
 
 PEOPLES INSURANCE COMPANY, N. H. 
 QUEEN INSURANCE CO. of Liverpool. 
 AMERICAN CENTRAL INS. CO., St. Louis. 
 COMMERCIAL UNION INSURANCE CO. 
 
 ANGLO-NEVADA INSURANCE CO. 
 
 Macon Foundry and Machine Works, 
 
 Established in I 880 by F. PALFREY. 
 
 Proprietor and 
 in Mechanical 
 
 
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 Capital Invested, 
 
 
 
 
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 Manufacture all classes of 
 
 Mill Machinery, 
 
 Outfits, The Celebrated 
 
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 Practical Expert 
 Science. 
 
 $20,000.00. 
 
 Coal Mining Machinery, 
 
 Steam Power Threshing 
 
 Patten's Adjustable Store 
 
 etc., etc. 
 
 The Machine Department embraces two buildings 22x50 feet, three stories high, and the Foundry is 
 44x50 feet. The entire works are equipped with the most approved modern machinery and apparatus, are 
 
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 Ughted with gaJr,' have a complete telephone system and water works of their own, are driven to full capacity, 
 and would be creditable to a large city. 
 
HOW AND WHY MISSOURI HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED BY IMMIGRANTS AND INVESTORS. 
 
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 IN presentiiij; to tlie homc-scvker and investor this little Hand- 
 Book. doscrijitive of Noithciistcrn Missnuri and Maton 
 County, it is done with full knowledge of tlic fact that the 
 ro(>utati()n of this great State— within itself an Empire — 
 lias k-en grossly niisreprcsentcd and maligned and very seriously 
 damaged, in the estimation of both Eastern and Western people, 
 who have never visited the State, tested the temper of its lu.spi- 
 alilv, or become acquainted with the manners and euslomsof its 
 ■eople, a large portion of whom came from the Eastern and Nor- 
 hcrn States, the Provinces and EuroiK?. and represent every shade 
 iif religion and polities. Missuuri just now ofTers the best oppor- 
 tunity to tiio pro8|)ective land buyer, either for settlement or 
 sjictiilation. to 1)0 found in the Union. Both wild and imj)roved 
 lands are much cheai^T than similar lands in the adjoining terri- 
 tory of Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois ; and vastly cheaper 
 than in the older Eastern States. Of course there is a reason for 
 the low prii-e of .Missouri lands, as well iis for the comjiaratively 
 light immigration to the State. The principal reason, as above 
 stated, is the had name given the State by sonic of its own and the 
 leading journals of other States, for purely political purpo.ses, 
 thereby creating a prejudice against the State among jK-ople who 
 ba.sed their o|iinions on what they said. Still another cause for 
 low land values in Missouri has been the e.xistence of vast tracts 
 of (iiivernmeut land on tiie smooth, level iirairies of Kansas, 
 Nebraska and other neighboring States, where "free homesteads" 
 were offered to the million for simply the cost of settlement In 
 the same States were millions of acres of Indian trust lands sold 
 ill small tracts to actual settlers at *l.'.i5 jwr acre. 
 
 In these States, too, were other nnllionsof acres of smooth, 
 vel land, j)arceled out in magnirieent tracts to the great land- 
 ant railways, which ]>ut them on the market at low prices and 
 iilieral terms to settlers of nicderatc means, thousands of wiiom 
 were induced by brilhunt ndvcrtiseiiients of the country, to buy 
 and settle niion these lands. The.se railwa\s were doubly inter- 
 rstcd in immigration. The sale of the lands which cost theiu 
 nothing, alone made them rich. The transi>ortation of house- 
 hold gixxis, im|ilemcnts, live stock and the families of the purch- 
 asers. afToriled the best reason why the roads should carry them 
 by Mitfsouri and as far West as iwssible. Once settled in the Far 
 West, the home-builders were at the mercy of the roads, which 
 transporte<l everything they lirought in and all they might have 
 to ship out. Of course these land-grant roads s|)eut millions in 
 advertising their newly acrpiin-d territory. They could afford to 
 do it and did it well, and greatly to the injurv of Missouri, which 
 also furni.s|ied her full (pioia of homesteaders and land-buyers. 
 Huudretis of tliousands of Northern and P^astern immigrants 
 were carried across Missouri in the night to prevent observation 
 of the country. I'nder such railway intlueiice, the treeless plains 
 were settled, towns were built. newspa|)ers were foundeil and a 
 comparatively ariil country settle<l and develo|>o<l by Eastern peo- 
 ple an<l Eastern capital, largely at the CTiiense of Missouri. .Mean- 
 lime tlie vilest misrepresentations of Missouri and Iter people and 
 institutions were industriously tloated. .Ml these things had the 
 desired effect and Missouri, for the time, stood still. Little ini 
 migration came into the State. Hut little land changed hands, 
 and prici'S were at a stand-still. Mis.souri was » )>order State 
 
 during the war, and natur.illy many rough characters gathered on 
 its western bonier, and high crimes were frc(picnt. As a result, 
 but few settlers came to the State, but the few that came made a 
 thorough examination of the country and its resources, and nearly 
 all of them l>ecame purchasers and settlers. They vTcre men of 
 character and stamina, and have done much to dissipate the 
 popular prejudice against the country. The result is seen in 
 rapidly increiising immigration and the liberal investment of out- 
 side capital in Missouri lands, mines and industries. .\ great 
 change is coming over the St ite and the conditions are fast chang- 
 ing throughout the entire West. Immigration, railway construc- 
 tion and town building are nearly at a stand-still in the Newer 
 West. The railways are doing little advertising and thousands 
 who were lured into sottlenient on the |dains are no\r coming to 
 Missouri for homes and fortune. The bandits, who plie<l their 
 criminal vocation along the western border of the State, have 
 been broken uji, killed or dis|)ersed by the rigorou.s execution of 
 Missouri justice, and a more law-abiding, |ieaceful and orderly 
 poi)ulation may not Ikj found Ix'tween the two oceans. The laws 
 against carrying concealetl weajMns are rigidly enforcetl, the ob- 
 servance of the Sabbath is universal, and ]ieace, sobriety and good 
 orrler are everywhere observed. Time was when the po|)ular fancy 
 pictured the typical Missourian, with revolver and knife in his 
 belt, intent on murder and |iliinder, and the whole country a 
 scene of lawlessness and disorder. Even during the dark days of 
 the civil war, such a picture of local life would have seemed a 
 wicked distortion. The great iiii'ss of Missnurians, whether native 
 or adopted, are, and always have Ijeen, people of character, high 
 ideals and aims, and upright, honorable lives. Still, for sinister 
 jiurposes, the verv op)K)site condition of things has been |)ublif hed 
 to the world, and other and less fertile and desirable regions have 
 reaped what benefit could 1x5 derived from abuse of this noble 
 commonwealth. If Missouri has advanced slowly through all 
 these years of trial, she has advanced si'helv. Lands have lK?eu 
 cheap and are still cheap by comparison with any other good 
 country. 
 
 Northeast Missouri has never been advertised until recently, 
 and this Iland-Hook is the tirst substantial nu)venieiit of Ma<ou 
 County in that direction. And yet this county has 30,000 people 
 and three trunk railways, showing clearly that if progress has 
 l»eeu slow, it has at least been healthful, steiuly and sure. Mis- 
 souri has never Ikjcu " Iwomed," but this year is witnessing a 
 strong, substantial immigration, and t350,000 will lie 8|ient in 
 advertising its resourcos among the capitalists aiul liome-^H'kers 
 of the Eiisi and North. It is needless to add that bind vah.es 
 must and will advance rapidly. Prices have |>erceptibly advamv*! 
 in the past six months, and it is safe to a.ssunie that land values 
 generally will duuble within the next two or three years. Kven 
 then lauds will be cheH|)er than in any of the neighboring States 
 to the east, north and west. If the reader is open to conviction, 
 let him come and survey the siti ation, and be convinced that |)re- 
 judice and the other causes nanietl have kept Missouri at a stand- 
 still for these many years, and that is why it is to-<iay the safest 
 and tiest country for settlement and investment on the green 
 earth. Its opportunity has come, and the land is pregnant with 
 jironiise. 
 
 CopTTighud. IKS. 
 
MACON COUNTY 
 
 The Beautiful Blue Grass Region of 
 
 NORTHERN MISSOURI, 
 
 A Royal Heritage for the Immigrant and 
 
 Investor; not on the Treeless and 
 
 Rainless Plains but in the midst 
 
 of Noble Forests, Crainflelds, 
 
 Orchards, Vineyards and 
 
 Pleasant Homes. 
 
 A GRAPHIC REVIEW OF 
 
 MACON COUNTY, 
 
 The Centre of the Richest Coal Fields In 
 
 the West. A Royal Stock Country. 
 
 Peerless Meadows and Pastures. 
 
 Almost Perennial Grazing In 
 
 the Finest Blue Grass 
 
 Fields of the Continent. 
 
 THE BANNER FRUIT COI NTRY. 
 
 Toe Cheapest Lands in the Vest. Cheaper than Free 
 
 Homesteads. The Land of Cheap Living, Plenty, 
 
 Opportunity, Oreat Poseibilitits, Charming 
 
 Landscape and Splendid Destiny. 
 
 A FAMIUAB TALK WITH THE READER 
 
 Abont Land Valnes, Schools, Chnrohes, Society, Bailwaye, 
 
 Markets, Trade, Agricaltore, Stock Raising, The 
 
 Coal Fields, Water and Timber Snpply, 
 
 Climate and Growing Towns of 
 
 A CHARMING COU.NTRY I'XDER GENIAL 
 SEPTEMBER SKIES. 
 
 A splendid coantry, with a great de.stiny, is this 
 beaatifnl 
 
 NOBTHEASTEBN MI880CEI, 
 
 whose fortunate location, charming landscape, 
 equable climate, versatile and );enerous soils, 
 fruitful orchards and vineyards, matclUess 
 grasses, bountiful grain fields, rich coal measures, 
 noble forests, pure and abundant waters and 
 cheap lands, offer to the ca|iitalist and immi- 
 grant one of the most inviting fields for settle- 
 ment to be found between the two oceans. 
 
 In the very heart of the beautiful " Blue Grass 
 Region" of this grand division of Missouri is 
 
 MACON COUNTY, 
 
 the subject of this Hnnd-Book, and one of the 
 largest and most productive counties in the State. 
 It has an area of 828 square miles, is nearly as 
 large as the State of Rhode Island, and for 
 grandeur and variety of resources, is excelled by 
 few counties in this or any other Western State. 
 Macon County has 
 
 AM ADMUtABLE LOCATION 
 
 on the "Oreat Divide" between the Mississippi 
 
 and Missouri riverB, 800 feet above tide-water, 
 fifty miles south of Iowa, sixty miles west of the 
 Mississippi, l.TO miles east of Kansas City and 
 22."> miles north of the northern border of 
 Arkansas. It lies too 
 
 IN THE BIOHT LATITUDE, 
 
 within the parallels of Kansas City, Cincinnati 
 and Washington, full in the pathway of trans- 
 continental travel and transportation, and within 
 
 THE PBODUCTIVE MIDDLE BELT 
 
 of the Union, a strip of country lying between 
 the latitudes of Richmond and Boston, not ex- 
 ceeding 4;'jO miles in width, reaching from ocean 
 to ocean, and within which may be found all the 
 great commercial, financial and railway cities; 
 90 per cent, of the manufactnring industries; 80 
 
 other wild tribes who fonnd in these forests, 
 streams and prairies a wealth of fish, water-fowl 
 and nobler game that made of this " Great Di- 
 vide," even in later years, 
 
 A huntsman's pabadise. 
 Deer, elk, antelope, wolf, bear, fox, beaver, otter, 
 mink, muskrat. wild turkey, geese and duck, the 
 white pelican, white and gray swan, sand-hill 
 crane, blue heron, grouse, partridge, and no end 
 of minor birds and game, were almost as thick 
 as leaves in Valambrosia. The rivers and creeks 
 were abundant in fish and the forests, prairies 
 and ravines yielded wild grapes, plnms, cherries 
 and other fruits in profusion. Antedating the 
 wild Northern tribes that dominated this beauti- 
 ful region in the early years of the century, away 
 
 PUBLIC SCBOOL-UOUSE, MACON. 
 
 per cent, of the great dairy and fruit interests; 
 the strongest agriculture, the densest, strongest 
 and most cosmopolitan population, all the great 
 universities, the most advanced school sys- 
 tems and the highest average of health known 
 to the continent. Scarcely less significant is the 
 location of the county in the finest portion of 
 the great central State of the Union, which, by 
 virtue of its position and splendid aggregation 
 of resonrces, is bound to the industrial, commer- 
 cial, political and material life of the country by 
 the strongest ties, and must forever feel the 
 (juickening of its best energies from every throb 
 of the national heart. Up to 1827, Macon County 
 was 
 
 A BEAUTIFUL WILDEBNE8S 
 
 of forest, wild flowers and wild grasses, inhabit- 
 ed or dominated by the Sac and Fox, Sioax and 
 
 back, hundreds, and possibly thousands of years, 
 
 THE MOtTND BUILDEUR. 
 
 a pre-historic and more kindly, peaceful and do 
 mestic people than their dusky savage succes 
 sors, lived and loved in Macon County, alont; 
 whose principal streams they have left traces of 
 their Aztec origin or kinship, in mounds, pot- 
 tery and rude articles of husbandry. The 
 
 PIONEEBS or CIVILIZATION, 
 
 the men of nerve and heroic endurance, of on- 
 faltering faith and royal working gifts — the 
 founders of home and workshop and farm the 
 men of more than Spartan courage, who came 
 with axe and ride to subdue a howling wilderness 
 to highest human uses, found their way into these 
 wilds from 1827 to 18.S3. James Loe and family 
 made the first settlement in 1827, on what is now 
 known as the Joseph M. Hammett farm, a few 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSDIRI. 
 
 iiiiltiH ituutli uf Cnllaii. In IH'.".), Mr. Kowlnnd, a 
 fnniuux hunter, Bettled wliore Ontrfvillo wnit 
 aftorwnrdit laid out, and liiniKclf and l>r<>i)i(>r made 
 Iho first filingH on government land in that part 
 of the county. William Morrow nettled on what 
 it) now known n» the " I'orrin " farm, where he 
 Htarled the well known " Morrow Hcttlement " in 
 1M81. He built the flmt );■'>■** ■■>>!' ""'^ opened 
 the ftrxt lilarkiimith Hluip in the county. The 
 ** Hlackwelt Settlement" wai* founded the r*nnie 
 year by William Hlaokwell, Nathan Riohardrtun 
 and John Walker, on (irand I'rairie Home five 
 miUw north of Macon, Other Hettlenientn fol- 
 lowed in rapid nucceHHion, and in 18.S(> and '87 
 the population numbered several hundred, and 
 the General AxKembly formally ori^anized the 
 
 wanting in the ru((K''d grandeur of the nioun- 
 lainM. it in yet rich in the more 
 
 l-KirKri'I. I'ANTOBAL rilAUMH 
 
 of a landHcape whoHo nnmberleHH lineM of (;race 
 and beauty ohalleuKo adequate description. 
 These f^rand billowy prairies, sweet pastoral 
 valleys, intervening woodlands interspersed with 
 green grassy glades and intervals, and meandered 
 by clear rapid streams, with occasional pictur- 
 esque bluffs and wild wooded glens and ravines, 
 lend an inexpressible charm to a landscape 
 which gives no sense of bleakness, weariness or 
 monotony, in which there is nothing abstract or 
 startling, but everywhere unity and harmony in 
 endless variety. Forty per cent, of the county is 
 covered with a luxuriant growth of native timber 
 
 As heretofore noted, about .'100 square miles of 
 the county is well wooded with oak, ash, elm, 
 hickory, hackberry, mulberry, honey loonal, 
 sycamore, linden, black walnut, maple, white 
 birch, cherry, red bud, Cottonwood and kindred 
 varieties of both lowland and upland growth. 
 Black walnut, oak and cottonw<K>d lumber and 
 timber for railway and manufacturing uses are 
 still among the principal articles of export, and 
 time was when they led all other |>rodnctx of the 
 county in value. The county is well supplied 
 with 
 
 Btnt-DINO HTONKfl, 
 
 the blue and gray limestones found in large 
 finely stratified deposits, in nearly all parts of the 
 county, ranking with the very best building 
 
 OintBKBI.A.HD PBBHBTTBBIAM UUUMUH. MACON. 
 
 CATHol.K furuill, MAIKS. 
 
 eounty, naming it in honor of Hon. Nathaniel 
 Macon, a soldier of the revolution, and later a 
 distinguished representative and senator in the 
 American Congress from Carolina. In the sum- 
 mer of 1K37 the county seat was formally located 
 at BIiM>mington, which remained the capital until 
 18C3, when, by act of the General .\sseinbly, the 
 City of Macon was made the permanent seat of 
 Jtuttice. The Iravdrr iiiiiv look in vain for a 
 oonntry whose 
 
 TOfMMOiAI'IIK AI. < IliUMH 
 
 exceed thoae of Macon County, which, from end 
 to end is a region of marvelous, bewildering 
 beauty, whose impri>sscan never be e(Tac(>d from 
 the memory of the visitor. The Kastern tourist 
 is touched with a sense of its scenio charms the 
 moment he crosses the border, and the spell is 
 never broken until he passes into the region of 
 the common place beyond. If the country be 
 
 and the remaining sixty per cent, is mainly high 
 rolling prairie. .About twelve per cent, of the 
 coonty is valley and bottom land. Macon has 
 
 THB BBHT WATBB SrrPLT 
 
 of any county in Northern Missouri. The Grand 
 Chariton, a river of splendid volume, with the 
 Kast, Middle, Muscle, North and South Forks, 
 Halt River, I<ong Branch, Big Brush, Bear, 
 Turkey, Narrows, Winn, Little Turkey, Hoosier, 
 Walnut. White Oak, Painter, Richland, Pearl, 
 Hilver, Clear, Spring and Rock Creeks, scores of 
 spring brooks, hundreds of clear cold springs 
 with living wells everywhere easily and cheaply 
 excavated at a depth of fifteen to fifty feel, and 
 hundreds of artificial ponds, give all portions of 
 this favored county an ample supply of pure 
 wholesome hard and soft water. Maoon Coonty 
 has 
 
 AN AtlMIBABLB TIIIBBB St-PPLT. 
 
 Stones in the State. Sandstones are also found 
 at several points, but are not extensively quarried 
 on account of the superior quality of the lime- 
 stones. Few counties in Missouri are so rich in 
 
 MINKBAL BEHOrBCBH 
 
 as Maoon, whose coal measures are among the 
 finest in the entire list of bituminous C(mI fields 
 in the country. Prof. McGeo, a well known 
 geologist connected with the I'nited States geo- 
 logical survey, after a recent examination of 
 
 THB MAI-ON OOONTT COAL riBI.DS 
 
 says, "they are in the centre of the finest bitum- 
 inous coal basin between the Mississippi river 
 and the Rocky Mountains." The wealth of these 
 Maoon coal measures is almost incalculable. 
 
 POUB HrNDBKO 8<ll'ABB MILBS, 
 
 or about one half of this great county, is known 
 to be underlaid with cool, which is found out- 
 cropping along many of the streams, gulches and 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 ravines. Within most of this splendid area there 
 are 
 
 THBEE WELL DEFINED COAL VEINS, 
 
 the superficial vein, ranging from ten to eighteen 
 inches in thickness; the second vein which lies 
 on a lower level averaging about twenty-six 
 inches and the third or lowest vein yet developed, 
 running from three to six feet in thickness. AU 
 of these veins are near enough to the surface to 
 be found in frequent outcroppings along the 
 streams and deeper ravines. Near College Mound, 
 in the south part of the county, on a small tribu- 
 tary of the Chariton, an outcropping of the lower 
 stratum in the bed of the creek, 
 discloses a vein 
 
 EIGHT FEET THICK 
 
 of as clean bituminous coal as a 
 miner ever opened. At Bevier, 
 where about 700 miners are em- 
 ployed in the six mines now in 
 operation, the lower stratum runs 
 from four to five feet in thick- 
 ness. At Lingo, in the west part 
 of the county and at Emerson in 
 the southern part, the working 
 veins average four feet in thick- 
 ness. East of Macon, less than 
 two miles, is a three foot vein of 
 remarkable clearness and purity, 
 and near the western border of 
 the city, a fine quality of 
 
 COKING COAL 
 
 has recently been discovered, and 
 with developments now in pro- 
 gress by St. Joseph and Topeka 
 capitalists will soon be placed on 
 the market. Besides the dozen 
 conl " banks," from which the 
 local farmers derive a portion 
 of their fuel supply, the three 
 mining towns of Bevier, Emerson 
 and Lingo report an 
 
 ANNUAL OUTPUT 
 
 of 7.">0,00() tons of coal, half a 
 million tons of which are mined 
 Mt Bevier, where the monthly pro- 
 duction reaches 3,000 car loads. 
 About 200 car loads per month 
 are mined at Lingo, and between 
 400 and 500 per month at Emer- 
 scm. Of the 
 
 THBEE gUABTEBS OF A MILLION 
 TONS 
 
 of coal now annually mined in 
 the county, it is safe to say 9'> per 
 cent, goes into the export trade, 
 and on account of its high qual- 
 ity finds a ready and steadily in- 
 increasing market demand in 
 Northern Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. 
 Large quantities are consumed by the two trunk 
 railways which tap the richer coal districts, and 
 the new Santa Fe line will soon supply its entire 
 middle divisiim, from the Lingo district. The 
 production of coal is 
 
 UAPIULV INCBEASING 
 
 at all the principal mining points. The wealthy 
 operators at Bevier and Lingo are increasing 
 their mining facilities. A St. Louis syndicate 
 lias lately purchased the mines at Kmerson, and 
 will increase their working force to iiOi) miners. 
 .Measures have lately been taken to run a spur 
 from the City of Macon to the rich coal fields 
 
 near College Mound, and with the developments 
 now going forward near Macon, it is not improb- 
 able that the immense coal production of Macon 
 County will be doubled within the next five years. 
 Supplementing the rich coal measures of the 
 county are other mineral resources worthy of 
 note in this connection. Fine deposits of 
 
 potteb's clay, 
 are found in various portions of the county, and 
 as in all bituminous coal regions, there is an 
 abundance of superior 
 
 FIBE CLAY, 
 
 which will some day be brought into requisition. 
 
 THEO. UAliV S BEAL ESTAIE OFUCK, MALU.S. 
 
 Brick and tile clays of excellent quality abound 
 in all porti(ms of the county. Good building 
 sand is also found in ample supply along the 
 rivers and creeks. 
 
 GOLD DUST 
 
 has been washed from the sands of the Chariton 
 bottoms, but not in quantity to attract the atten- 
 tion of capital or the use of approved appliances 
 for placer mining. Good deposits of 
 
 BED OCHBK, 
 
 of excellent quality, such as is used in the cheaper 
 mineral paints, are found at several points, but 
 have never been worked. There is more or less 
 iron, some copper, lead and zinc, and traces of 
 
 silver in the timbered hills of the upper Chariton. 
 Macon County is especially fortunate alike in the 
 variety and quality of its 
 
 SOILS, 
 a note of which will be of paramount interest to 
 the settler and investor, not less than to present 
 owners and cultivators. 
 
 THE HIGH PBAIBIE SOILS, 
 
 which cover nearly sixty per cent, of the county, 
 are mainly composed of the same dark flexible 
 molds and loams so common in the prairie dis- 
 tricts of Iowa and Illinois. They are rich in 
 humxis, easily worked, from ten to thirty inches 
 deep, and grow fine crops of grass, 
 vegetables and grains, excepting 
 only wheat. 
 
 THE OAK AND HICKOBY SOILS, 
 
 which cover about thirty per cent, 
 of the county, are generally a com- 
 bination of silicions clays and 
 loams, varying in color from mul- 
 atto to the rich chocolate and red 
 of the finer Virginia and Ken- 
 tucky soils, and are especially 
 suited to the growth of wheat, 
 tobacco, fruits and red clover, all 
 of which are grown in splendid 
 measure and quality. Age and 
 thorough cultivation have shown 
 them to be almost equally valuable 
 for corn, oats, rye, vegetables and 
 the finer grasses. 
 
 THE VALLEY AND BOTTOM LANDS 
 
 which, as heretofore noted, cover 
 some twelve per cent, of the coun- 
 ty, like the famous valleys of the 
 older States, are from a quarter 
 mile to two miles in width, and are 
 a rich alluvial deposit from four to 
 fifteen feet deep and enormously 
 jiroductive of all the grains, 
 grasses and vegetables of the lati- 
 tude, save only in limited por- 
 tions of the Chariton bottoms sub- 
 ject to overflow. While these 
 superficial soils present a splen- 
 did array of productive forces, 
 they are supplemented by 
 
 SUB SOILS, 
 
 equal in value to any known to 
 husbandry. The entire county, 
 outside of the bottom lands, is 
 underlaid with an inexhaustible 
 deposit of 
 
 SILICIOUS CLAVH AND MAULS, 
 
 abundant in silica, lime phos- 
 phate, lime and magnesia carbon- 
 ate, alumina, organic matter and 
 other equally valuable properties, 
 which show the close kinship of this remarkable 
 substructure with the world-famous Im'sa of the 
 Rhine and Nile valleys and laciixtrine deposits of 
 the .\lpine valleys. These subsoils generally run 
 down to the bed rock or water levels, and to the 
 superficial observer are simply dead, impervious 
 tenaceous clays, but they are really among the 
 richest and most 
 
 lUPEBISBABLB SOILS 
 
 in the world; and here, as in every country where 
 they are found, they readily disintegrate on ex- 
 posure to frost and the atmosphere, and with 
 deep culture they slack to the consistency of an 
 ash-heap, and bear such a rank growth of weeds, 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 ^riiSFi, ^riiiiiH itliU vv^i'talili'rt. tlial in \vr*t* f*TliU' 
 r('>;if>nrt they wtiulJ be considered n ^(khI rtubBti- 
 lule for compoitt. Everywhere nhout the rnil- 
 way outs and Hllc. the poiid.x, eellars. cixleruit, 
 wellit and «treel K f'"'''"'- where the«e rich HohMoUs 
 have been two or three years expoHed to frogt 
 and air, they produce enormous ^^rowthx of ve^e- 
 tatiou. They are in fact an iniperiiihable and 
 invaluable resource, and generations hence, when 
 these rich surface soils have washed away into 
 the lower valleys and the bed of the ocean, will 
 prove 
 
 AN INKXHAimTIBLB MINK Or WKALTn 
 
 to the deep, thorough and systematic cultivators 
 of the future, .\fter half a dozen years of care- 
 ful observation in Central and North Missouri, I 
 am quite ready to believe that when large areas 
 of the older States are hopelessly given over to 
 the artificial fertilizers, and a new race of farm- 
 ers arc carrying systematic and deep cultivation 
 
 WIIKAI 
 
 was a minor crop and tobacco the leading crop 
 in the oak and hickory lands, but for the last 
 half dozen years its productiim has increased 
 from r>(),<)(K) and lUI.INHI bushels up to '.'(NI.IMNI and 
 2r>0,l)<N) bushels, or more than the combined 
 wheat crop of the six New England States. The 
 <|uality of the grain is e<|ual to any grown in 
 America, the yield per acre ranges from eighteen 
 to forty bushels, and with the steady increase 
 in production, half a dozen years hence will And 
 Macon one of the first wheat counties in the 
 State. 
 
 COUN IS KINO 
 
 of grains here, as blue grass is king of herbage. 
 Everybody grows corn. In the prairies one may 
 ride for days in the midst of almost continuous 
 corn fields, as fine as those of the Des Moines, 
 Wabash and Sciota Valleys. The woodland 
 farmer grows it in smaller fields but fine ineas- 
 
 liere in particularly line. .Macon in the second 
 tobacco producing county in the State, and a 
 good portion of its tobacco crop is manufactured 
 at home and shipped directly to Liverpool. 
 
 THE OAT CBOI> 
 
 will reach 4INMHXI bushels this year, and the 
 yield per acre from thirty to sixty bushels. The 
 crop is both popular and profitable. Buckwheat 
 does well but is little grown. Flax is an excel- 
 lent crop but is not popular. Br<Him corn makes 
 a fine growth liut is little cultivated. Kye and 
 barley both do finely but are neglected crops. 
 
 H<inoiii'ii 
 never fails of a full crop and in the light of the 
 startling success of Prof. Swenson"s "UifTusion 
 Process" for making sugar of amber cane at the 
 Fort Scott Sugar works, may be looked upon as 
 one of the future great staples of Macon County. 
 
 IBISII AND SWEKT POTATOES 
 
 are aniversally grown, the former t<i the extent 
 
 
 M. >. CUCBOII, BOCTH, MACON. 
 
 down into this wonderfully rich alien deposit of 
 silicious matter, this region will become the 
 
 CLASHIO OBOUND 
 
 of American husbandry, and Macon Coonty a 
 veritable garden of bounty, beauty and bloom. 
 Here, as in all other regions where this peculiar 
 deposit obtains, it is found to be a splendid 
 basis for grains, fruits. grass<>s and vegetables. 
 These subsoils are the most versatile and give 
 
 THE WIUKST BANOE TO PBODITITIO.N 
 
 of any known to husbandry. Wheat, corn, oats, 
 rye, barley, buckwheat, tobacco, broom corn, 
 millet, sorghum, all the vegetables of field and 
 garden, all the grasses, plants and fruits of the 
 middle latitudes, grow in perfectiim here, and it 
 is a justifiable boast of the enterprising Macon 
 County farmer that he can grow anything that 
 flourishes between the northern limits of the 
 cotton fields and the northern Red River. In the 
 early day 
 
 are. In 1880 the corn crop of the county reached 
 8,22'.',h7.'i bushels; since then the total yield of 
 the county has been carried up to4,8;M,(i<Ki bush 
 ' eU, or more than the entire corn crop of .Maine, 
 Rhode Island and Colorado. The nnprecedenled 
 crop of IHSH will probably reach 
 
 riVE AND A HALF MII.I.ION orSHEUI, 
 
 a princely crop, and yet the county is not half 
 under the plow and its corn producing capacity 
 not a tenth developed. The yield per acre the 
 prenent season will range from thirty to eighty 
 bashels according to soil and cnlturo. 
 
 TOBAfX)0 
 
 is one of the ranking crops of this county, wher- 
 its yearly production runs from one million >•' 
 two million ptiuuds, and not less than 3,000 men, 
 women and children are more or less enga|{ed in 
 its gr6wth and manufacture. It is a splendid 
 crop in the oak and hickory lands, pays well in 
 most seasons, and the i|nality of the plant grown 
 
 CIIUISTIAN rill'BrH, MACON. 
 
 of IfiO.OOO bashels a year, and are considered 
 first rate crops. Field peas, beans, turnips, 
 pumpkins and all the plants and vegetables of 
 the field are a decided success anywhere in this 
 county, which may appropriately bo tanned 
 
 THE OABtlKN LANK, 
 
 for everything grown in the modem garden of 
 the temperate zone flourishes in profusion. 
 Heels, turnips, carrots, cabbage, parsnips, onions, 
 celery, asparagus, melons, s<|aashes, beans, peas, 
 tomatoes, all are staples. Luxuries and delicacies 
 of the garden are grown in perfection with half 
 the care and labor required in the older States. 
 
 rBCiT ooinrrBT, 
 Mncfin County has no superior. It bos the 
 elevation, humidity, location, soils and loeal 
 climatic conditions of a fruit growers paradise. 
 Finer, healthier, thriftier fruit trees, vines and 
 plants than those grown a|>oD these silicious and 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 BESISENOE or COL. JOHN F. WILLIAMS. MACON. 
 
 loamy soils are nowhere to be found. The woods 
 are richly festooned with wild grape vines of 
 enormous size and the wild grape, plum, cherry, 
 gooseberry, raspberry, blackberry, blackhaw, 
 hawthorn, crab, etc., grow in great abundance 
 and perfection. 
 
 FBUITFUL OBCHAaDB AND VINETABD8 
 
 and fruit gardens yield generous crops of apples, 
 pears, cherries, plums, apricots, grapes, rasp- 
 berries, blackberries, strawberries, currants, 
 gooseberries, etc., as fine in size, flavor, color and 
 texture as may be found between the two oceans. 
 From 150,000 to 200,000 barrels of apples are 
 annually shipped out of the county, much of the 
 crop going to the New York market on account 
 of its high quality. The apple crop of this year 
 
 will be the largest ever grown in the county. 
 Many of the apple trees are breaking under the 
 burden of the finest fruit crop ever seen in the 
 West. The grapes grown upon the warm expo- 
 sures of the county, especially in the woodlands, 
 are equal in flavor, size and color to those grown 
 in the islands of Lake Erie and on the banks of 
 the Ohio and Hudson rivers. There is 
 
 NOT AN HONDKED ACBE8 OF WASTE LAND 
 
 in all this broad county of 529,920 acres. There 
 are no irredeemable swamps, marshes or lagoons, 
 and the thinnest gravel or rocky hillside bears the 
 richest native grazing herbage. Even the coal 
 measures, which in most regions underlie sterile, 
 worthless soils, are here in Macon County cov- 
 ered with the richest surface soils, where the 
 
 BE8IDKNCZ OF P. M. WBIOHT, MAOUN. 
 
 miner may plant his roof-tree and cultivate a 
 model garden above the coal-beds where he daily 
 makes his usual tonnage of "black diamonds." 
 No part of the continent offers a finer field than 
 Macon County for 
 
 TABIETY FABMINO, 
 
 the surest and most stable and profitable indus- 
 try in modern husbandry. The versatility of 
 these soils, and their perfect adaptation to all 
 lines of production, make them especially valua- 
 ble for "mixed" farming, in which live stock, 
 grain growing, garden, poultry, dairy, orchard 
 and kindred products become a source of thrift, 
 prosperity and comparative independence to the 
 farmer and all other classes in any way depend- 
 ent upon his success. If the writer were asked 
 to name and locate 
 
 THE FINKST OBASS OOUNTBY 
 
 in the West, he would unhesitatingly give the 
 honor to Macon and the contiguous counties in 
 what is popularly known as "the blue grass 
 region of North Missouri." As the profusion 
 and perfection of wild fruits in the early day 
 made it certain that this region would develop 
 into a model fruit country, so the great variety 
 and luxuriance of the 
 
 WILD OBAB8E8 
 
 in this county, during the pioneer period, settled 
 the question of its future pastoral wealth. The 
 early botanists found in the prairies and woods 
 of Macon County upwards of 150 varieties of 
 native grasses, most of which were of more or 
 less value for hay or grazing. Not less than 
 
 ONE HUNDBED VABIETIEB 
 
 still remain under the severe test of a half cen- 
 tury of domestic grazing, which has given abund- 
 ant proof alike of their tenacity and value. The 
 stalwart " blue stem," the strongest and most 
 succulent, as also the dominant and most val- 
 uable of these wild grasses, is still common in 
 all the natural meadows and pastures, and is 
 greatly esteemed by stockmen. But the steady 
 advance of the ploughman, the widening of the 
 grain fields, the tramp of the domestic herds and 
 the march of the all-conquering blue grass will 
 soon enough work the extinction of the wild 
 herbage that for fifty years has been the grand- 
 est resource of the Macon County farmer. 
 
 Supplementing these wild grasses to-day, the 
 visitor will find the grandest exhibit of 
 
 DOMESTIC OBA88B8 
 
 between Boston Harbor and the Golden Gate. 
 In point of quality and generous growth, no por- 
 tion of the American continent can excel this 
 particular region for grasses. Full 
 
 ONE HUNDBED AND FIFTY THOUSAND ACBES 
 
 of domestic blue grass, red and white clover, 
 timothy, orchard grass and herdsgrass (red top) 
 are under tribute to the hay makers and herds- 
 men of this royal county, and not less than lOO,- 
 (MX) acres more of the native prairie and wood- 
 land pastures are more or less set in blue grass, 
 white clover and herdsgrass. And what a mag- 
 nificent showing of pastoral beauty and wealth 
 these green grassy fields present! 
 
 THE TIMOTHY MEADOWS 
 
 of the county are equal to any in the Western 
 Reserve, New York or the Canadas, and have this 
 season yielded 1(K),()00 tons of the finest timothy 
 hay. The mixed timothy, clover and herdsgrass 
 meadows have probably turned out 30,000 addi- 
 I tional tons. More than 20,000 tons of hay are 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 annuall}' ImU-d for shipint-nl t»> New Orli'iins mid 
 other Soutliern ninrketB. but the ({rent hay crop 
 o( this yeiir will give a snrplua of W),(KK) tons (or 
 export, and surplus timothy seed to the amount 
 of 10.000 linshels. 
 
 iniikinf^ the (M)iii|Uf^t ttf the entire country, and 
 a few yiMirs hence will have completely Hubdued 
 the wild grasses and foul growth of the county. 
 If there be anywhere in these United States a 
 region whose grasses are superior to those of 
 
 BOMK OF D. II 
 
 BSD OLOTBB, 
 
 the finest general fertilizer known to American 
 husbandry, makes a splendid showing on all the 
 soils of the county, but in the timber lands is 
 the finest I have seen in the I'nion. It is more 
 tenacious than in any of the older States, is rich 
 in quality, and never fails of a good yield of seed 
 from the second or autumn crop. 
 
 WHITE CLOTBB 
 
 is aniversal. Yon will find it on any square acre 
 in the county, whether wild or improved. It is a 
 natural product of these soils, makes the finest 
 growth I have seen in any country, and, like 
 
 BLUB OBASS, 
 
 came with the domestication of the country. 
 Both are to the "manor born;" both flourish in 
 the same soils and under the same conditions. 
 side by side in the same fields, forests, lawns, 
 highways and orchards, and from March to De- 
 cember may be found growing green and luxuri- 
 ant from the water-lines to the crown of the 
 highest hills. Blue gra.ss, the imperial, tenacious, 
 nutritions, succulent, all-conquering 
 
 KIMO or OBAHKBH, 
 
 IS the glory of this whole blue grass region and 
 the grandest resource of the county above ground. 
 It is not only indigenous, but in this climate, and 
 especially in these silicious clays, marls and 
 loams, makes a practically 
 
 PKBENMI4t. PASTtlBAUB, 
 
 for, with the same care and treatment given b\ 
 Kentuckians to their reserve winter pastures, 
 there is not a month of the winter that the blue 
 grass of Mnron County will not sul>?»jst cver\ 
 claas of stock, excepting milch cows and work 
 ing horses and mules. The few eice|>tional. 
 thorough farmers of this county, like Maj. W. 
 A. Miles, J. M. Ketcham, J. V. BrickeU. Thos 
 Jobson. W. H. I^Mtmis. Gran W. Draper, and 
 others I could name, have blue grass pastures 
 every whit as fine in all respects (save only ngr 
 and the perfection it brings) as any in old Bour- 
 bon or Morgan Coanties. Blue graaa is steadily 
 
 Macon and the surrounding counties, fifteen years 
 of constant rambling, and more or less critical 
 observation, have failed to disclose it to the 
 writer. Of course. Macon County and this entire 
 blue grass region of North Missouri is 
 
 A BOYAI. STOCK COUNTBY. 
 
 If there be a finer, the writer has never seen it. 
 Here, in perfection, are all the conditions to the 
 growth and perfect development of animal life. 
 The unrivaled grasses, pure and abundant waters, 
 superb natural timber shelter, cheap gra/.ing 
 
 IIIK IDBAL HTOOBMAN'b HOMB. 
 
 Cattle, horses, sheep, mules, pigs and all animals 
 mature earlier than in the older and colder Nor- 
 thern States; lands are sixty to eighty per cent, 
 cheaper; grains thirty per cent, cheaper; shelter 
 far less expensive while competing tmnk rail- 
 ways give the cheapest freight rates known to 
 the West. Beyond these the Macon County stock- 
 man has 
 
 A OBHIAL AMD RBALmrtn. OLIMATB, 
 
 which gives alike to men, animals and plants 
 the highest average of health, vigor and longev- 
 ity known to any good agricultural country in 
 America. A mean elevation of 800 feet above 
 the tides, a mean temperature of 60 degrees, the 
 absence of malaria, breeding swamps, marshes 
 and lagoons, long genial growing summers, with 
 delightfully cool restful nights and breezy days, 
 short open winters, with light and transient 
 snows, and well defined beautiful spring and 
 autumn seastms, make up the full measure of a 
 local climate alike genial and healthful to man 
 and beast. It is the equable mean between the 
 cold and rigorous North and the hot humid South, 
 
 A CLIMATIC BEVELATION 
 
 to the visitor from the higher latitudes. \\\ the 
 germs of life yield quickly to the reproductive 
 influences of spring. I well remember the balmy 
 South winds, soft blue haze, green grasses, hum- 
 ming of bees and bird-songs along the Hannibal 
 i St. Joseph Railway in the early spring of 1879, 
 while my Northern friends were snow and ice- 
 bound, and the very memory of that season is a 
 benediction. These and many a minor interest 
 that must be nameless here, give the Macim 
 County stockman a big margin of advantage 
 over the stock growers of the older Eastern 
 States. Indeed. I know of no region where stock 
 raising and feeding is so 
 
 SAFE AND PBOriTABLE 
 
 HOMB or THBO. UAki, MAtuN. 
 
 lands, cheap grains, central location, splendid 
 transportation facilities and long grazing seasons 
 that go to make up 
 
 as in this portion of Missouri. Cattle, sheep, 
 swine, horse and mule raising, in careful, intelli- 
 gent bands, pajrs from twenty to thirty per cent. 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 on the investment. With good wild grazing lands 
 at ^i to $12 per acre, and improved grazing 
 farms at ^lil to $20 per acre, the Chicago, Kansas 
 City & St. Louis stock markets only ten to fifteen 
 
 
 PALACE IIOTEI,. MACON. 
 
 hours away, cheap freights, cheap corn, short 
 winters and superb grasses, the stockman who 
 abjures speculation and closely follows the one 
 work of breeding, grazing and feeding his own 
 herds, is on 
 
 THE SURE BOAD TO FOBTUNE. 
 
 There is no business in the world like it for net 
 profit. It is a system of compounding interest 
 that no other legitimate calling approaches. 
 Every man that follows it for a dozen years and 
 keeps clear of speculation, is as sure of com- 
 petency and independence as the years are sure 
 to come and go. 
 
 CATTLE GBOWINO AND FEEDINO, 
 
 in connection with swine raising and feeding is, 
 next to coal mining, the forem4)st industry of the 
 country. High grade short horns, of model types. 
 bred from the best beef-getting stock, are now 
 kept by most of the growers and feeders, the 
 steers being grazed daring the warm months, 
 after which they are " full-fed," and turned oCf 
 during the winter and spring, weighing 1200 to 
 1700 ])Ounds, at two and three years old, the 
 heavier animals for Kuropcan export. The steers 
 are followed by large, line, blocky Poland-China 
 and Berkshire pigs, which fatten on the litter and 
 dropjiings of the yard and go on the market 
 weighing 200 to 4oo pounds at ten to twelve 
 
 their own feed lots from ten to thirty car loads 
 of prime steers and pigs, .\nother and quite 
 nnmerous class of feeders turn oft from five to 
 ten car loads, and a still larger number from one 
 to three car loads each. 
 
 nOBSE AND MULE BAISINO 
 
 is a favorite and very profitable in- 
 dustry, pursued by many of the 
 best farmers of the county with 
 uniform pleasure and profit. A 
 large surplus of mules are annually 
 shipped from this country to the 
 Southern market. Macon County 
 is 
 
 A SPLENDID SHEEP COUNTBV 
 
 and formerly embraced a good num- 
 ber of large well bred herds, but the 
 CTfliiutf '"^^ price of home grown wools and 
 the wholesale introduction of cheap 
 foreign textiles, has pretty well 
 broken up the larger fiocks, leav- 
 ing the business now in the hands 
 of the smaller variety farmers most 
 of whom carry small flocks chiefly 
 as farm scavengers. Sheep are very 
 healthy and robust here, and under favoring 
 conditions would again prove the most profit- 
 able stock in the country. The 
 
 EXTENT OF THE LITE 8TOCK INDUBTKV 
 
 to 10,000, the cattie to 50,000, the sheep to 50,000 
 and the swine to 50.000. without seriously inter- 
 fering with mixed farming. As the grasses are 
 the one grand overshadowing production of the 
 soil, in this county, so stock husbandry is the 
 absorbing and profitable industry. 
 
 IT BEATS WHEAT GBOWINO 
 
 three to one, though the latter calling be pursued 
 under favoring conditions in the best wheat 
 regions. It beats speculation of every sort, for 
 it is as 
 
 BCBE AS THE BAINS AND TIDES 
 
 and sunshine. What are stocks, bonds, "op- 
 tions," mining shares, traffic and merchandise, 
 in comparison with these matchless and magnifi- 
 cent grasses, that come of their own volition, 
 and are fed by the Eternal God with the rains 
 and dews and imperishable soils of such a laud 
 as this, through all the agesr Stock growing in 
 such a country as this is 
 
 A NOBLE CALLING. 
 
 and develops a race of royal men. Here, too. it 
 is the absorbing, entertaining occupation of the 
 day and location. If it be eminently practical 
 and profitable, so too, is it 
 
 INVESTED WITH A POEIIO OaABM. 
 
 To grow the green, succulent, luxuriant grasses, 
 develop the finer lines of grace and beauty in 
 animal conformation, tend one's flocks and herds 
 
 i 
 
 VIEW ON EAST FOBK NEAB MACON. 
 
 ST. JAMES Mll.ITAUY ACADEMV, MACU.S. 
 
 months old. Macon County embraces some of 
 the best feeders in the State — clear-sighted, ex- 
 perienced stockmen, who annually ship from 
 
 in this county is only fairly indicated by the 
 assessors reports for 1S87, which it is safe to 
 assume, are in every class, except swine, twenty 
 
 per cent, below the real number of 
 
 V animals now in the county. The re- 
 
 turns show an aggregate of 12,420 
 horses, 3,443 mules, 44,38!> cattle, ;t,81f. 
 sheep and 2.">,187 swine. The 
 
 YEABLT EXPOBT 
 
 of fat cattle, sheep, swine and mules 
 from this county reaches L.^OO car 
 loads, worth in the home market, at 
 present prices, the startling sum of 
 $l..">O0.OOO. Surprising as these figures 
 may be to Eastern readers, it mu.st be 
 remembered that the stock growing 
 industry is 
 
 ONLY IN ITS INFANCY. 
 
 Not a fourth of the wild and domestic 
 
 pastures are this year utilized; not a 
 
 fourth of the stock-growing capacity of the 
 
 county is yet developed. The number of horses 
 
 might be carried up to 20.000. the mule stock 
 
 on the green fragrant range, live in an atmos- 
 phere of delicate sympathy with the higher 
 forms and impulses of the animal life in ime's 
 care, and to be inspired by the higher senti- 
 ments and traditions of honorable breeding, is 
 
 A LIFE TO BE COVETED 
 
 by the best men of all lands. By the side of the 
 herds and herdsmen and grasses of such a coun- 
 try as thi.s, the men of the grain fields are 
 nowhrre. These stockmen are leading a far more 
 honorable and satisfactory life than the Hebrew 
 shepherds led on the Assyrian hills in the old 
 dead centuries, for they tend their flocks, live 
 with and love one woman, and raise honest chil- 
 dren in 
 
 I THE SWEET ATMOSPHEBE OF CONTENT. 
 
 They are at peace with their neighliors and 
 look i>at upon pastoral landscnjies fairer than 
 ever graced the canvas of Turner. The skies 
 above them are as radiant as those above the 
 .Arno. and if the finer arts of the older lands are 
 little cultivated by the herdsmen of these peace- 
 ' ful valleys, they are yet devoted to the higher art 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 iif |iatirii! and tioiHiraliU* living. 
 
 I>*IKY rAllSilNd 
 
 IH a iifKl<*o(t>d »rl ill lliix tieniitiful couiil}'. wlii>rt< 
 tht»re are liut Iwti or thrt>i* piiblic crt*niii«TivH nnd 
 Vfry few well rnnducled priviite dairieri, nnd yet 
 il would he ditlU'iiU to tiiul n region whose locn- 
 tion, water. ki'"'"'>'^- olipn|i pnHlaro laiidw, tine 
 market facilitie.H, itc, ofTor Diore niid bettor 
 o|>ciiiii)(ii for skilled diiirymen aud woiiieu. Chi- 
 eagi). St. liOuJH, KniiunK City, and the mountain 
 towuK. all K*>"^ innrketH for the better claXH of 
 dairy produrts. are easily aud iiuirkly neressible 
 throu^'h the trunk railway line.s that rross Macon 
 County. 
 
 of about tbirt) iiK'heM. Kttrly iiu'tien is eioeoded 
 ill very wet yearn, like the present, nnd in exces- 
 i>i%'ely dry xeaHoiiH. like I8H7. the ininiiiiuiii rain- 
 fall drops to twenty inches. No re);ion in the 
 I'nioii has a more e<|unl>le or evenly distril>uted 
 rainfall in the ^'rowin^ season than this division 
 i>f Missouri. 
 
 TIIK KKNCK <jt'EHTION 
 
 Quds easy solution in Macon County, where the 
 osiifj^e oranK^ {Hiiis '</ .Irr) ({rows into n );iH>d 
 stock priMif hed((e in four years and where there 
 are more than 7IK) miles of this class of fencing 
 to test its utility and beauty. In the wooded 
 districts white, black, red. yellow nnd swamp 
 
 has finer 
 
 UAILWAY rACILITiaa 
 
 than Macon. 'i*he Moberly and ttttuinwa division 
 of the Wabash system crosses the county cen- 
 trally from south t<i north, thirty miles, with six 
 shippiiiK stations within the county. The Han- 
 nibal A HI, Joseph railway |Burliii({t<in system) 
 crosses the county centrally from east to west, 
 with thirty milefl of track and five additiimal 
 shipping stations. The Chicago, Santa Ke A 
 Californin i Santa Fe system) crossea the county 
 frvim southwest to northeast. );ivinK twenty two 
 miles of track and five shipping stations. innkiiiK 
 a total of eighty-two miles of railway and 
 
 '^ggMWWWiww^MM^ ~.- r6^»"-c^gCf> 
 
 (IIICMOT I'l.ArK TIIK SI'UtlUBAN IIOMK Of THOH. JOUMIN. MAI'ON. 
 
 CHEAP STOCK rABllH, 
 
 for cattle, horse, mule, swine and shM-p raising 
 or dairying, may t>e made up in tracts of mi, IIU) 
 or H'.ll acres, with w<H>d. water, fair improre- 
 ments nnd fairly located at 41I11 tofl.'; per acre 
 — lands admirnbly suited to stock growing or 
 dairying, which, in any of the States enst of the 
 Mississippi, would cost Ihiee and four times the 
 money, and the opportunities for ambitions and 
 intelligent young stock-farmers with large or 
 moderate means are among the best I have 
 found in the western country. With my notes 
 on the climate of Macon County, no mention 
 was made of 
 
 THK TKAKLT aAIMrALI.. 
 
 which in all this division of Missouri ranges 
 from twenty-two to fort; inches with an average 
 
 onk, honey locust, ash, cherry and walnut are 
 made into common rails, and a full third of ihe 
 county is fenced with the old fashioned worm 
 fence. Plniik or board fence is used to some 
 extent, but the cheapest, most oommim. popular 
 and effective fencing of the county is barbed 
 wire, which on account of the cheapness of |>ost 
 timber is more cheaply constructed than in Iowa, 
 Illinois or ( ihio. The 
 
 NATI'MAL DRAIKAOt 
 
 of the county is excellent, excepting in limited 
 districts of low-lying fiat land: the frequent, 
 rapid, deep.sel streams, draws and ravines, nnd 
 generally rolling character of the country, readily 
 absorb the surplus water and leave most of the 
 lands available to the cultivator, hard after 
 copious rains. No oonaty in northern Missouri 
 
 MKVBKTBBII KAILWAT HTATIONH. 
 
 which bring four-fifths of the people of Ihe 
 county within five miles of railway shipping 
 |H>ints. Close on the borders of the county are 
 half a dozen other shipping stations which are 
 available to the producers and traders of the 
 county. Theee three great trunk lines give the 
 people of the county 
 
 DIUOT consEmoss 
 with Chicago, St. Louis. Kansas City, Omaha and 
 the entire railway system of the middle I'nion. 
 No portion of the great Mississippi Valley has 
 
 rniArca tbamsihibtation 
 than theoe com|>eting railroads afford the far- 
 mers, merchants and shippers of this fortunate 
 county. The position of the county in the finest 
 and most productive portion of the great Central 
 
10 
 
 MACOX COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 state, very near to the geographical centie of 
 the Union, gives it 
 
 MABKET FAOILITIES 
 
 THE PBOJECTED BAILWAY 
 
 now being surveyed direct from St. Louis via 
 Macon to Omaha, will not only tap the richest 
 
 VIEW UK VinK BTKBKT, UAOON. 
 
 which almost any other region of the country 
 might envy. Fat cattle, swine and sheep drift 
 naturally to the Union and National Stock Yards 
 at Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City. Flour 
 and the coarser mill staffs find a ready market 
 South and West, and indeed in all other directions. 
 Poultry, dairy, orchard and garden products 
 meet a quick market in the mountain States and 
 Territories. Mules and hay mainly go into the 
 
 coal fields of the county, but add materially to 
 the shipping and market facilities of the pro- 
 ducers and traders of the county. Other lines 
 are looking to these rich coal fields for traffic 
 and full supply, and will soon enough make 
 Macon the centre of a system which any other 
 county in the interior of the State might covet. 
 The present and prospective transportation 
 facilities make possible and profitable a multi 
 
 INS STREET. MACON. 
 
 Southern States, while grass seeds, surplus horses 
 and Other products of the county go in all direc- 
 tions, according to demand. 
 
 tnde of so called 
 
 MINOB ISDrSTBIES 
 
 which, in many Eastern localities are of para- 
 
 moont importance, and often sources of com- 
 manding wealth and influence. 
 
 SMALL FBUrr FABMINO, 
 
 one of the most profitable and entertaining call- 
 ings, which in many regions involves the best 
 order of brain, tact and experience, and often 
 results in splendid returns for the capital and 
 labor invested, might be carried to grand pro- 
 portions in this favored county, than which 
 there is no superior for this work in the Western 
 country. Equally favorable are the soils and 
 location for 
 
 STAPLE FBDIT OBOWINO, 
 
 for there are thousands of acres of warm slopes 
 and elevations about Macon, La Plata, Atlanta, 
 Bevier, Callao and New Cambria, which might be 
 transformed into orchards and vineyards which 
 would soon enough reflect the glory and profit of 
 the great apple and pear growing regions of New 
 York and Michigan, and the vintages and wine 
 presses of Western New York, the Erie Islands 
 and Southern California. 
 
 MABKET GABDENINO, 
 
 too, might be carried to the highest level of suc- 
 cess, for, as with the fruits of the orchard and 
 vintage, the Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Da- 
 kota and the mountain markets for all these 
 products, are practically illimitable. These noble 
 callings not only diversify industry, but invite 
 and sustain a population of marked intelligence 
 and thrift. They tend to the distribution of 
 wealth and influence rather than its centraliza- 
 tion; give rapid and enormous increase to the 
 value of lands, and lend character and dignity 
 to industry. 
 
 BEE KEEPIMO, 
 
 another of the neglected arts in this land of 
 bloom and beauty, might be made a grand suc- 
 cess. The woods are full of bees and wild honey, 
 and the long season of bloom from the linden, 
 the white clover fields, the orchards and wild 
 flora of the woods and prairies, together with 
 the mild climate, make all this region a veritable 
 paradise for the intelligent beekeeper. The ad- 
 vantages of 
 
 POULTBT BAI8INO 
 
 are not half appreciated. The people of this gen- 
 ial and bounteous country are evidently oblivious 
 to the fact that California. Arizona. New Mexico, 
 Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Montana and Wyoming 
 — a vast and growing empire of wealth, industry 
 and population — can never successfully raise 
 poultry, and furnish the finest market in the 
 world for poultry products. One of the primary 
 considerations with immigrants should be settle- 
 ment in a locality that offered the most and best 
 elements of 
 
 CHEAP LIVING. 
 
 Thonsands of people with moderate means push 
 on westward to some Utopia of the treeless 
 plains, where wood, coal, lumber, timber, fruits 
 and other common necessities of life, must be 
 imported at great expense, and before they be- 
 gin to live in comfort, have exhausted their little 
 all of worldly goods, and must thenceforth make 
 a hard fight for subsistence on doubtful ground. 
 Here, in Macon County, 
 
 FUEL IS CHEAP, 
 
 landE are cheap, rents are cheap, lumber and all 
 classes of building material are cheap, the pro- 
 ducts of the farm, the dairy, the poultry yard, 
 orchard and garden are cheap, by comparison 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 11 
 
 with iin}' Enntern district, and inUnitvly ku by 
 compnriHon with any tuwu or diHirict in the plainH 
 or Miuuntains. CoaU are 8old nt the banks for 
 $1, and in the towni* for $2.25 per ton. Foar- 
 foot cord wood in sold at |;1.50 to f 2 per cord, on 
 an orer-Htocked market. Kvery thing one eat8 
 in HurpriHin^ly cheap. Beef, pork and mutton 
 from seven to twelve centH per pound. Ef^^H, 
 butter, poultry and KOfden stuff quite as cheap. 
 Fruits nominal; lumber and building; material 
 cheaper than in most regions of Illinois, Ohio 
 and Indiana. Groceries, dry jfoods, hardware, 
 (arm machinery, house furnishing all kinds of 
 merchandise— are from ten to 
 
 TWBMTT PCB CENT. OHEIPEB 
 
 than in any of the prairie or mountain countries 
 to the westward, and (juite as cheap as in any of 
 the old States east of the Mississippi. All things 
 considered, this country affords 
 
 THE cnEAPEHT LIVINU 
 
 (or good, rational, sensible people, accustomed 
 to all the common comforts; to mechanics, com- 
 mon laborers, farmers, merchants everybody- 
 of any coantry between Plymouth Rook and the 
 Pacific Ocean. 
 
 LANDS ABE 8DBPBI8INOLT CHEAP, 
 
 cheaper indeed than in any other country of my 
 knowledge, especially when the location, sur- 
 roundings and wonderfnl reeonroes of the coantry 
 are considered. 
 
 WILD LANDS 
 
 are celling all the way from ffi to fin per acre, 
 according to quality and location. These lands 
 embrace all the advantages of wood, wateri 
 prairie, building stones, every variety of native 
 grass, including blue grass, white clover and 
 herds grass, are admirably suited to stock, grain 
 and fruit growing, and can be purchased in tracts 
 to suit the buyer. Mr. Theo. (>ary, a well known 
 and reliable land broker of Macon, quotes 
 
 IICPBOVEO PABMS 
 
 all the way from $10 to $iV) per acre, according 
 to soils, location and improvements. These 
 farms too, are suitable for all uses and may be 
 devoted to grains, grasses, slock raising, fruit 
 and dairy farming, poultry raising and tobacco 
 as specialties, or to "mixed" farming at the 
 pleasure of the owner. They are by comparison 
 
 OBEAPBB THAN rBEE nOUESTSADa 
 
 in the newer States and Territories, for in many 
 instances the buyer not only gets a choice piece 
 of land, but gets it for 
 
 LESS TBAH THE CO«T OF TUB IlTPBOTBIfBBTB, 
 
 the land really costing him nothing. The reader 
 must remember too, that these farms are quite 
 as productive as those of lIlinoiH. Ohio, Indiana 
 and other of the older States; that they are com- 
 paratively free from foul growth and are vastly 
 
 MOBB EABILI WOBKED 
 
 than in the older States. They are rich in nalive 
 elements of fertility, produce generously and for 
 reasons heretofore mentioned 
 
 HEED NO ABTiriOIAL FEBTILIZEBil, 
 
 but are growing better with age and deep onlti- 
 vation. It will bo well to remember, too, that 
 they are located in one of the richest countie* of 
 
 AN OLD WELL SETTLED OOUNTBT, 
 
 abundant in schools, churches, mills, railways, 
 bright and growing market towns, good society, 
 enormously rich mining industries, bountiful 
 
 orchards, vineyards and gardens and generous enced the great mass of immigrants to pass by 
 rainfall. They lie in the very heart of the this beautiful and fertile country and settle in 
 Mississippi Valley, in the centre of the Union, less favored regions further West. To the 
 
 CUICAUO, SANTA FE A OALIFOBNIA B. B. DEPOT, LA PLATA. 
 
 sarronnded by, and in close relation with, the 
 great markets of Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas 
 City. They are 
 
 NOT ON THE TBEELEB8 AND KAINLEKH PLAINS 
 
 but in a beautiful and fruitful land, where good 
 mother Nature has been prodigal of her best 
 gifts to man -a country that is yet to become 
 one of the garden spots of the American conti- 
 nent. 
 
 WUT LANDS ABE 80 CHEAP 
 
 in this country is easily explained. As briefly 
 
 average immigrant from the North and East, 
 Missonri is as nearly 
 
 A TKUBA INCOGNITA 
 
 as the shores of the Polar ocean. Believing it 
 an inhospitable country inhabited by a people 
 inimical to schools, law. order, intelligence, free 
 speech, free politics and progress -a race of 
 yahixis, dominated by intolerant ruffians and 
 outlaws a ijuarter of a million Eastern and 
 Northern people, with their wealth of braio, 
 heart, gold, enterprise and experience, have 
 
 U A UA»11 I L I 
 
 11 1 I 1 L 
 
 noted in the introductory chapter to this Hand- annually crossed this grand old State to boUd 
 Book, the popular prejudice against Missouri homes, plant riKif tree* and make destiny for 
 among Eastern and Northern people, has influ- | letui favored and inviting regions. Nebraaka, 
 
12 
 
 MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 Kansas, Colorado, Texas and the Mountain and 
 Pacific States have grown populous and pros- 
 perous at the expense of a neglected State 
 whose natural resources are unquestionably the 
 
 likely soon to become the objective point for 
 the investment of more capital and a larger and 
 better immigration than any other portion of 
 the Union. Such a movement is clearly "on the 
 
 ^L£mTA.SAfNi^i<'lJ&l^f/i^. 
 
 I. A ri,\r\ ^A\IN(iS IIA.NK. LA M.A'IA. 
 
 finest in the Union. Meantime the Western 
 railways have advertised 
 
 MILLIONS OF ACUEH OK CHEAP LAND 
 
 in Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Dakota, Color- 
 ado. Texas and the mountains, and invited the 
 million to come and buy and build homes and 
 make farms and fortunes in Utopia. 
 
 FBKB OOVEBNMENT LANDS 
 
 for homesteaders, pre-eraptors and tree planters 
 in the same States, have proven a great attrac- 
 tion too, and all these States have been advertised 
 by railways, newspapers, immigration societies, 
 town site owners, land speculators, etc., until 
 they are as familiar to the world as a household 
 word. Old Missouri, naturally the richest State 
 in the Union, 
 
 HAH NEVEB BEEN ADVEBTISED, 
 
 and is to-day, of all the States that offer really 
 good inducements to settlement and investment, 
 the one neglected, misapprehended, slighted and 
 
 UNKNOWN COUNTBY, 
 
 and that is why lands are so cheap in Macon 
 County, and indeed in every other county in the 
 commonwealth. While (his order of things favors 
 the investor and settler of to-day, it cannot last 
 long. The public lands are nearly all gone and 
 will too soon be a thing of history. The few 
 unsold railway lands are out of market or held at 
 high prices. The cheapest lands in the West 
 to-day, are in Central and Northern Missouri, 
 and the Eastern public are beginning to find it 
 out. Popular prejudice against this royal old 
 State is gradually and surely dying out, and 
 there is 
 
 A OBOWINO BELIEF, 
 
 in all sections of the country, that Missouri has 
 been greatly underestimated, and is soon to be- 
 come the centre of attraction to immigrants and 
 investors. Indeed, so strong is this conscious- 
 ness with the Eastern i)ublic, that Missouri is 
 
 cards" and next to death and taxes, it is the 
 surest thing in the world, that all good farm and 
 grazing 
 
 LANDS WILL DOUBLE IN VALUE 
 
 within the next three or four years. It is impos- 
 sible that they do otherwise. They are not now 
 half up to their intrinsic or essential value for 
 productive farm uses, and when the advance 
 
 improvements, where similar lands are held in 
 the older States. This country is in no sense 
 depressed: it is simply 
 
 NEGLECTED, OVEBLOOKED, CMDEBE8TIMATED, 
 
 a ccmdition of things that never lasts long in any 
 country, because it does not come from any in- 
 herent cause, but rather from prejudice and 
 untoward circumstances. Viewed subjectively, 
 or abstractly, Macon County presents to the 
 visitor 
 
 A PICTDBE OF THBIFT 
 
 and prosperity that is assuring to see. The crops 
 of hay, grain, fruit and the garden are the finest 
 in twenty years. An hundred farmers might be 
 named whose real and personal estate is variously 
 estimated at |;2(),(X)0 to |40,0()0 each. A much 
 larger number own properties ranging from 
 lfl.'">,(KJ() to ^20,()(K) each. A still larger number 
 have real and pers<mal holdings valued at $8,IXX) 
 to $1.'),0()<). Then comes the average farmer with 
 his lands and live stock and implements, worth 
 from ffi.OOO to |;8.00(). while the properties of 
 hundreds of less able men, younger in the race 
 for competency, are worth from $2,()00 to $6,UO0. 
 These are in no wise speculative values, for 
 there are 
 
 NO SPECULATIVE VALtmS HBBE. 
 The figures given merely represent nominal val- 
 ues for property, most of which is thirty to fifty 
 per cent, below its intrinsic worth. Better still, 
 these properties, or at least ninety per cent, of 
 them, have been 
 
 MADE ON THE SPOT, 
 
 out of the soils and grasses of Macon County, by 
 men who began here with little or no means, and 
 that is the highest compliment that can be paid 
 any farm country. One may ride for days and 
 days in the midst of fine farms, herds, orchards, 
 grain fields, hedgerows, groves, gardens and plea- 
 
 fairly sets in they will go to $40, $6(), $80 and 
 flOO per acre, depending on soil, location and 
 
 S STOBE, ATLANTA. 
 
 sant rural homes in this land of beauty, bloom 
 and fruition. Many of the farmers carry good 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 18 
 
 l>nnk nccoant8, drive fine eqnipaKe, pay ii» I hey 
 ^o. Mend llieir Mian and dnu^literit to tlii' lii^h 
 si'li(H>l Hiid Cf>lie^e, read the daily papers and 
 keep fairly abreast with the progress i>f our 
 genial civilization. From end to end of thiH 
 lieantiful and prosperous county there is 
 
 NO DION or WANT OB POT«BTT-- 
 
 the ((uaint pinching poverty so often met with 
 ill the populous and overcrowded districts of the 
 older States. There is plenty to eat and plenty 
 of 
 
 WOBK FOB KVKBVBODT, 
 
 and 80 cheap are the common comfortM of life, 
 that on'.y the worthless and thriftlesii, or the aab- 
 
 OBDKU I.ilVINO AND LAW BKHrKCTlNO 
 
 population than that of Macon County. "The 
 life they live" here is i|uiteas retiiH'd and ration- 
 al as any phase of social and political life at the 
 North. Whatever they did in the exciting and 
 perilous years of the civil war. they are to-day 
 an frank, liberal and cordial in their treatment 
 of Northern people, and as ready to honor and 
 appreciate every good i|uality in them as if they 
 were "to the manor born." 
 
 A HTBONO UNION HBNTIHKNT 
 
 is everywhere apparent and dominant, and the 
 old tlag floats as ]iroudly in all parts of Missouri 
 as over Independence Hull. .Ml parties are agreed 
 
 comer is not catechised as to his social ante- 
 cedents or politics, but is estimated for what he 
 is and what ho does. They don't care where a 
 man hails from, so he be sensible and lioneet. 
 They 
 
 TAKK I'AUK OP TIIKIB C^BEDIT, 
 
 as if it were their only "stock in trade." When 
 a man's word ceases to be as good as his bond, 
 hiH credit, business and standing are gone, and 
 the loss of honorable prestige is not at all easy 
 of recovery, A safflcient refutatiim of the charge 
 that the people of this country are intolerant 
 and proscriptive, is the fact that full half the 
 population of the oonnty hail fr<im the Northern 
 
 wm^ ^■^^^^^^^^^^^ 
 
 
 
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 "r 
 
 i *..ti»,«f;:^^^/ 
 
 
 ■■lONEBB RTOCI FABM OF MAJ. W. A, MILCH, 12 MILBH NOBTII or MACON, 
 
 ji«ts of bodily disability, are without the pos- 
 -isaiiin of home and plenty. 
 
 TUB 1'BOPI.B 
 
 of Macon County 3<>,00l) strong are as int«Ui- 
 i;ent, refined and hospitable as those of Ohio, 
 Michigan or New England, and a more tolerant, 
 appreciative, chivalrous community never under- 
 tiMik the subjugation of a beautiful wilderness 
 to noble human usejj. The writer liii'* passed 
 half a dozen years in Central and NorlhiTii Mis 
 souri. visiting the towns, inspecting the farms 
 and herds, looking into the industrial life, re- 
 viewing the sch<M>ls. and carefully observing the 
 drift of (Hipular sentiment, and is pleased to 
 affirm that there is nowhere in the I'oion a more 
 
 that slavery is forever dead, and that its demise 
 was a blessing to every prime interest of the 
 ooantry. There is not a man of character in 
 Maoon County who would restore the institution 
 if he could. .K g<M>d majority of the early set- 
 tlers of the county came from Kentucky and 
 Virginia, or are diri>ctly descended from natives 
 of those States, and have thedeliberaliim. frank- 
 ness, giMHl sense, admiration of fair play, rever- 
 ence for women and home, l>oundless hiHipilality, 
 and strimg self respect for which |he average 
 Kenlnckian and Virginian are proverbial. They 
 have a habit of 
 
 MINDINU TBBIB OWN BUSIMBM 
 
 that is altogether refreshing to see. The new 
 
 States, the Provinces and the British Islands: 
 that Macon Coanly often elects Republican 
 C4mnty ofliccrs. and that the government of its 
 chief and capital city of Maoon is nearly always 
 in the hands of the Republicans. The same is 
 true of many other towns and coanties in Nor- 
 thern Missouri. 
 
 STBBLma CHAJLAOTBB 
 
 finds as high appreciation here as in any country 
 nnder the sun. The visitor is impressed with 
 the large pro|H>rtion of strong men men of 
 superior brain, culture and executive gifts, and 
 other superb qualities, who would take rank in 
 the highest walks of life in any community of 
 civiluation. Maoon County has evidently drawn 
 
14 
 
 MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 \ 
 
 largely upou the best bluud, brain and experience 
 of the older States. In every department of life 
 may be found men and women of superior col- 
 ttire, clear, well-balanced brain, broad views and 
 rich experience in the best ways of the world, 
 and the stranger who comes here expecting to 
 place the good people of this county in his sha- 
 dow, will get the conceit effectually taken out of 
 him in about ninety days. They are 
 
 NOT A BAGS OF BAUBABIANB, 
 
 living a precarious sort of life in the bush, but a 
 brave, magnanimous, intelligent, self-helpful and 
 hospitable people, who, if their average daily 
 life be sternly realistic in the practical ways of 
 home building and bread-getting, have yet with- 
 in and around them so much of the ideal that he 
 is indeed a dull observer who sees not in their 
 relations to the wealth of the grain fields, herds, 
 grasses and coal measures, and the poetry of the 
 sweet pastoral landscape, 
 
 A nNION OF THE FBAOTIOAL AND IDEAL 
 
 that is yet to make for them the perfect human 
 life. They find time and inclination for 
 
 FOUNDINO AND FOBTEBINO SCHOOLS, 
 
 the love of books and flowers and art, the culti- 
 vation of the social graces, and the building of 
 temples to the spiritual and ideal. Macon County 
 raises horses and mules and swine, fat steers, and 
 the grain to feed the million, but is none the less 
 a generous almoner of good gifts to her children. 
 She has 
 
 ONE HUNDBED AND TWENTY FBEB SCHOOLS, 
 
 128 public school houses. 10,209 school children, 
 and there is not a child of fortune or lowly birth 
 within all her borders, without the advantages of 
 a common English education. Ample provision 
 is made for the higher education of her young 
 men and women through the agency of a college, a 
 military academy for boys, a seminary for girls, 
 several parochial schools and graded high schools. 
 The public morals are guarded and fostered by 
 the presence and influence of 
 
 FIFTY CHUBOUES, 
 
 representing all the leading, and many of the 
 minor denominations, and are nowhere displayed 
 to better advantage than in the universal observ- 
 ance of the Sabbath, and in the honest and 
 economic adminstration of county affairs. 
 
 TAXATION IS LIOHT 
 
 by comparison with many of the older Eastern, 
 debt-burdened communities: the nominal valua- 
 tion of the real and personal estate of the county 
 for taxable purposes, is about $0,000,000, or only 
 a fourth of its real market value. Upon this 
 nominal valuation the rate of taxation is less 
 than one and a half cents on the f 100 of valua- 
 tion. There are 
 
 SEVEN FLOUBINO HILLS 
 
 in the county, five of which have the finest 
 modern equipment, including the roller process. 
 The county has three banks, five weekly and two 
 monthly newspapers. It is clearly no injustice 
 to other portions of Missouri, to pronounce 
 Macon 
 
 ONE OF THE MODEL CODNTIEB. 
 
 She has fine schools, light taxes, wonderful and 
 unrivaled material resources, a splendid railway 
 system, a brave, progressive, intelligent popula- 
 tion, and presents an exhibit of moral, financial 
 and material prosperity which challenges the 
 
 admiration of all visitori. Naturally enough 
 the reader will want to know something about 
 the "shady side "' to this fair picture of material 
 prosperity. Are there no 
 
 DBAWBACKS 
 
 to Macon County? Nothing to regret or criti- 
 
 PBBJCDICE 
 
 against the State, inspired by the late civil war 
 and the still more unfortunate border war that 
 preceded it. Both of these conflicts took the 
 worst possible form in this State, especially on 
 its western borders, where neighborhoods and 
 
 ai5' 
 
 MAOON OA8 AND klEOTBIO LIGHT CO. 
 
 cise in the ways and work of the 30,000 people 
 of this large county, or in the material condition 
 of the country itself? Yes, there are drawbacks, 
 and the candid journalist wiU not hesitate to 
 give them to the numerous readers of this Hand- 
 Book. As fairly noted in the preceding pages, 
 Missouri has suffered incalculably from the un- 
 founded and unreasonable 
 
 even families were divided on the political issuesf 
 of the struggle. The country was desolated bjr 
 fire, pillage, murder and rapine. Bands of irre- 
 sponsible and unprincipled ruffians on the one 
 hand, militia men on the other, carried murder 
 and plunder and the torch into every locality. 
 The rougher elements of society were in the 
 ascendency and good citizens of both sides were 
 
 PUBHO SCHOOL, LA PLATTA. 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 15 
 
 the chief noffererB. The oloae of the war foand the 
 weHtern border infexted with bandii of vicioas 
 nnd Tillainuag ootlaws, who for a time plied their 
 vocation at the expeuxe of the beat men and 
 interests of the conntry. When these were 
 broken op and law, order and seonrity of life and 
 property were once more supremo, political 
 jonrnalH nnd demaKo^fues kept the State in a 
 oontinaed foment by thi'ir extreme and onrea- 
 Bonable utterances, which have been widely 
 quoted in the older States, thereby creating an 
 impression that life and property and personal 
 rights were insecure, nnd that freedom of speech 
 and action were denied to new comers from the 
 North. While nothing is more foreign to the 
 truth and all the higher amenities are vouch- 
 safed to every citizen, these reports have done 
 the country incalculable harm. Happily, the 
 mists of prejudice are clearing away and this 
 grand commonwealth is rapidly coming to be 
 appreciated for its real worth. \ sufficient refu- 
 tation of the charge that Missourinns nr • intol- 
 erant and prescriptive, is found in the fact that 
 Macon County is so evenly divided in politics, 
 that the Republicans quite often secure the elec- 
 tion of their cnndidntes for county offices nnd 
 that the city of Macon is nearly always under 
 Republican administration. The same is true of 
 many other cities and counties: and political 
 expression and action are as free nnd nntrnm- 
 meled here as in any State of the Union. 
 
 rBKB HOMESTKADS AND CHEAP B. B. LANDS 
 
 in the new prairie States further west, have 
 attracted hundreds of thousands of immigrants 
 to the neighboring Slates west of Missouri, to 
 the neglect and oversight of this finest of all the 
 agricultural regions in the West. The 
 
 WA.VT or PBOPBB ADVKBTISB9CBNT 
 
 of the wonderful resources nnd advantages of 
 Missouri by the State itself and by local county, 
 city and district agencies, has left the great mass 
 of Eastern and Northern people in ignorance of 
 the real character of a country that offers to the 
 capitalist and home-seeker a richer field of 
 opportunity than any other country on the con- 
 tinent. 
 
 IXMMI AND StrriBnCUI. rABMINO 
 
 is a serious drawback to the progress of the 
 country. As in all comparatively new and half 
 developed regions, the average farmer under- 
 takes the cultivation of too much land. The 
 labor needed for the thorough cultivation of 
 forty or eighty acres is spread over KiO or .120 
 acres, and the result is everywhere seen in shal- 
 low plowing, careless seeding, unseasonable and 
 wasteful harvesting, loose stacking, insecure 
 storage of grain and wasteful feeding in the mud 
 and slush. The average farmer "scratches" or 
 "stirs" the ground three or four inches deep 
 and dignifies it with the honored name of plow- 
 ing. He begins his work out of season and 
 carriee it forward to harvest and thrashing time 
 in a "hamm-scarnm," slip-shod fashion, that in 
 older, better cultivated lands wonld be considered 
 
 A nrBLKSOl'B 
 
 on good husbandry. That under such conditions 
 he grows comparatively good crops nnd gets on 
 in the world fairly well, is a high compliment to 
 these rich soils and the friendly climate. It is 
 safe to say that the waste from the above named 
 oaoses, on the average Maoon Coanty farm of 
 3(V) or 400 acres, would alone make a good in- 
 
 come for the more thrifty and economic New 
 England or Canadian farmer. No country in 
 the world gives 
 
 these silicious clays and marls, and that the time 
 is near nt linnd when every pound of these splen- 
 did fiTtilizers, now going to waste, will be needed 
 
 i^'*^ 
 
 ^^>w^^/^5ja^>7j.^^^-- 
 
 MA>^Ki MAM_tA' il J.iNcj Cf>. S WOKKN, MAros. 
 
 BIGUEB SANCTIONS TO OOOD TABMINO 
 
 thnn Macon County, whose thorough farmers are 
 few, nnd whose greatest need to-doy is fi.OOO new 
 farmers from the older States and Provinces, to 
 thoroughly handle the 4,000 farms of this fine 
 agricultural county. 
 
 THE WASTE OE MANUBES 
 
 is as unaccountable as it is general. Great 
 masses of straw are thrashed and burned in the 
 open fields. The rich deposits of the barn yard, 
 public and private stables, are dumped into the 
 nearest washout or ravine, and the droppings 
 of the feed lots are washed into the streams; the 
 
 in a higher order of husbandry. 
 
 THE WASTE Or VALUABLE TIMBEB 
 
 from the pioneer day down to the present, wonld 
 put new homes and out -buildings on every farm 
 in the county. Millions of feet of the finest 
 walnut lumber have been cut and shipped out of 
 the county for about the cost of cutting, con- 
 verting and hauling. Thousands of thrifty 
 young walnut trees have been split into common 
 fence rails to enclose lands worth only $8 to $20 
 per acre. The visitor may find walnut fences, 
 barns, houses, sheds and pig troughs all over this 
 county of noble forests, and he may nl"<> «<-e in 
 
 owners of these invaluable deposits evidently 
 anmindfiil of the fact that no soils in the world 
 so well repay a dreasing of barn yard mannra aa 
 
 the towns the same farmers that wrought the 
 daetroction. buying walnut furniture from fao- 
 loriae a thousand miles away, at figures that 
 
m 
 
 MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 make them wonder. Cherry, linden, ash, maple, 
 hickory and other valuable commercial woods 
 have been destroyed with fjuite as little regard 
 for the future, and while the older lands are in 
 the throes of a timber famine, millions of royal 
 oak are annually sold and shipped out of the 
 county at nominal prices for railway ties, etc. 
 The 
 
 KKCK1.ESS EXP08UBE OF FABM MACHINEBT 
 
 in this county would bankrupt the farmers of 
 half a dozen New England counties in four years. 
 The visitor in the country is rarely out of sight 
 of reapers, mowers, seeders, plows, harrows, cul- 
 tivators, rakes, wagons, smaller implements and 
 even threshers and engines, left in the open field, 
 by the wayside, in the fence corners, with no 
 covering but the blue sky, and exposed to the 
 trying winds and rains and sunshine until they 
 are needed for further use. The loss from this 
 source alone in a single season would build shel- 
 ter for all the machinery in the county. The 
 merciless 
 
 EXP08UBE OF FLOCKS AND HEBDS 
 
 to the storms of winter, by many of the more 
 careless and improvident farmers, who furnish 
 no artificial shelter, or at best, but the rudest 
 kind of protection to their animals, and that too, 
 in a country where the materials for sheds and 
 stabling abound on every farm and ranch, is a 
 violation of the simplest laws of ec(momy, not 
 less than the kindly impulse that should impel 
 every man to a decent care of the animal life in 
 his keeping. There are 
 
 TOO MANY mo FAUMS 
 
 for the good of the overworked owners and the 
 country. No man can thoroughly cultivate (>()(), 
 l.(MM) or l.SIMI acres of land, any more than a 
 country of homeless and landless tenants can be 
 
 change would add vastly to the wealth and attrac- 
 tions of this beautiful country, giving it the 
 graces of art. manifold fruits of production, and 
 universal thrift that attend every country of 
 proprietary small farmers. There is vastly 
 
 TOO MirCH SPECULATION 
 
 too much ■■ dicker"- and too little thorough and 
 
 lixtL^.. 
 
 '. "^-^M^L^^^^^ 
 
 MTY OF MIBSOUBI. 
 
 consecutive work among a large class of Missouri 
 farmers, for the benefit of thorough husbandry 
 or economic farm life. I used to think the Yan- 
 kees were the boss traders, but they are no more 
 a match for these Missouri speculators than old 
 Mother Partington's broom was a match for the 
 sea. Half the farmers trade with the other half 
 in live stock, lands, "options," town lots, jack- 
 knives, old trumpery, or anything that has com- 
 mercial value. Of course, the country is no richer 
 for these transactions, for what one speculator 
 makes is lost by another. This speculative ten- 
 dency is a serious drawback to systematic, sea- 
 sonable and successful farming, which can only 
 be advanced by steady working, home loving 
 men of strong local attachments. Nothing more 
 surprises the Eastern visitor than the evident 
 
 WANT OF APPBECIATION 
 
 for their country, expressed by so many old and 
 substantial farmers of this region. Half of them 
 want to sell out and go to Kansas, Texas. Colo- 
 
 woold be very likely to give these nneasy and 
 unsettled men a spirit of happy content with 
 their present homes and surroundings. 
 
 THE 8CABCITT OF FABM LABOB 
 
 is apparent to the most superficial observer. 
 The negroes, who did most of the farm work, 
 under the old compulsory system, have gone 
 almost solidly into the towns, and are no longer 
 a considerable factor in the farm labor problem. 
 Many of the more active and industrious young 
 men have gone further West for government 
 land. The professional common farm hand has 
 generally acquired the easy slip-shod habits of 
 the slave labor system, and is at best a poor sub- 
 stitute. A thousand good reliable farm hands, 
 accustomed to the thorough, earnest, systematic 
 and thrifty vays of farm life in New England. 
 Pennsylvania, New York and Canada, would 
 prove a bonanza to the 1,0(K) leading farmers of 
 Macon County. There are other and minor 
 drawbacks, but like those already named, they 
 do not inhere to the country, are only incidental, 
 and will be easily corrected by time and immi- 
 gration, and by higher land values. The need 
 of the day and location is 
 
 THIBTY THOUSAND NEW SETTLEB8 
 
 to aid in the development of a county which can 
 sustain a rural population of one hundred thou- 
 sand souls, and has productive capacity great 
 enough to feed the people of one of the smaller 
 New England States. The four thousand farms 
 in this county could with profit be divided into 
 double the number. Not more than half the 
 county is yet under tribute to the plow, and there 
 is room for half as many more new farms in the 
 unbroken woods and prairies. There is 
 
 BOOM AND OPPOBTUNITY 
 
 for one thousand skilled dairymen and women to 
 
 ST. AONES HALL A YOl'NO LAUIKS UOABDINQ SCHOOL, MACON. 
 
 permanently prosperous, and the sooner these 
 broad, unwieldy estates are broken into small 
 farms and thoroughly cultivated by owners in 
 fee-simple, the better it will be for land values, 
 good husbandry, society, schools, highways, trade 
 and every vital interest of the country. Such a 
 
 rado. Southern California. Oregon, or some other 
 immigrant's Utopia, unconscious that they are 
 living in one of the most favored regions upon 
 the green earth. A month's tour of some of the 
 older States, followed by a trip of critical obser- 
 vation in the new prairie and mountain States. 
 
 found and operate new creameries and private 
 butter and cheese dairies all over the county. 
 Room for two thousand fruit growers to plant 
 orchards and vineyards, and grow fruit along 
 these railway lines for the Western and Northern 
 markets. Room for five thousand small farmers 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOlMtF. 
 
 from the xterile hillH u( Now Kiigliiud, N't-w York, 
 PeniiHylvaniB and Ohio, tu cultivate itiimll fariiiH 
 and divvrxify liUMbniidrv. Kooin for one tliou- 
 Hand I'nterpriitinK farm Imndn from tlio name and 
 other States tu Holve the farm labor |irot>leni in 
 a country where k***'^ labor ■!< ttcarce and wages 
 high. R(M)ni for thou;>and!< of inanufaoturerH 
 and skilled artisauit to found and operate half a 
 hundred new mechanical induBlries at Macon, La 
 riala. and other towns. Room for "everybody 
 and all " that have nerve and industry, and good 
 working gifts for the early development of this 
 fair and fertile country. There is 
 
 NO BOOM rou MOHSUACKH 
 
 who believe in Concord stage coaches, coon skin 
 currency and shadbelly pigs, in a land where the 
 
 iug (|ualities, this country offers a splendid Held 
 for the exercise of their gifts. For such, there is 
 
 A HI'I.ENI>IU ri'TUHE 
 
 of competence, comfort and manly independ- 
 ence, Farming is done with half the labor re- 
 quired in the older States. The climate is de- 
 lightful, the soils are inexhaustible, the grasses 
 are unrivalled, and the waters are ]>ure. Macon 
 County is no dreary waste, from which men may 
 turn with a sense of loneliness and desolation, 
 for its fields are as fair as the plains of Lom- 
 bardy: its valleys as lovely as the fabled Kden, 
 and the sunlight falls upon its matchless land- 
 scape as softly as on the limpid waves of Na|>les' 
 Bay. For the idealist it has poetry, and for the 
 sterner materialist rich fields of conquest. It 
 
 farm homes. It stands at the junction of the 
 Wabash and Hannibal A Rt.Joe Railways, seventy 
 miles west of the Mississippi Hiver. ir>(i miles 
 east of Kansas City, and 171 miles northwest of 
 St. Louis, and has so many features of interest 
 to the nonresident reader, that I shall be quite 
 excusable for giving some of them in detail. 
 The city stands upon a line, commanding eleva- 
 tion; has 
 
 I'KUrEOT NATUKAI. DEAINAOK 
 
 from a series of draws and ravines; abounds in 
 living wells, which give an excellent water sup- 
 ply: is handsomely platted and tastefully and 
 substantially built, and, from end to end, is 
 
 A DCAUTirt'L TBKB-EMBOWKIiED CITY. 
 
 whose broad streets and avenoes, deeply shaded 
 
 "canncm ball" and "lightning" express daily 
 sweep down the valleys for Chicago, St. Louis 
 and Kansas City, and where every movement in 
 local development is a token of our genial, ad- 
 vancing, latter day civilization. 
 
 NO BlMm rOB IiBKAMKBS AMD LOUMOBBM 
 
 of the (Misy going, impractical, sentimental school, 
 for they will get jostled out of position, and lose 
 their bearings in this country of live, rustling, 
 advancing men. There is no room for lawyers, 
 doctors, clerks and bookkeepers, for their ranks 
 are already full of experienced and capable men. 
 Fine haired, high t<med Eastern people, who are 
 conceited enough to believe they can overshadow 
 everything and everybody about them, will find 
 an uncongenial and unapprecialive people in this 
 country, and had bt-st stay where they are. For 
 men of eonrage, sense, ambition and good work 
 
 is a great destiny to live in a land where .\ polio 
 might tend his flocks, and Sappho turn dairy- 
 maid, singing her sweet songs in the shadows of 
 the green hills a land where the practical and 
 ideal unite to make the perfect human life. 
 
 To the foregoing general notes on Macon 
 Cimnty, I am pleased to add a brief review of the 
 more important towns. 
 
 THE rlTT or MArON, 
 
 the capital and chief commercial town of the 
 county, was first settled in 1852, by James T. 
 Haley, and was formally organized and platted 
 as a town in l»Mi. It is 
 
 ADMIBABLT LOCATED 
 
 (m the high divide between the Chariton and 
 Salt Rivers, in the midst of n ' nd highly 
 
 productive farm country, i:. • 1 with de- 
 
 lightful woodlands, fruitful orchards and pretty 
 
 blue grass lawns, pretty cottages and elegant 
 mansion homes, handsome churches, fine school 
 houses, substantial mills, factories and elevators, 
 and fine suburban drirea, are "all and singular" 
 a compliment to the good taste, culture and en- 
 terprise of the 
 
 riVE mot'SAKD I'KOI'I.E 
 
 within its borders. Macon is the creation of two 
 trunk railway lines, a splendid tributary country, 
 and a brave, resolute, enterprising and progres- 
 sive people. The tributary country, when fully 
 . developed, will take care of a city of lO.mX) souls, 
 and snch a consummation is "manifest destiny" 
 to Macon. The two competing railway lines, 
 which crntu each other here at right angles, gave 
 it 1 ■ from the ' The old North 
 
 Mi- iroad was <- '•> this point in 
 
 I8.VJ, leaving this city the lerminas for some 
 
18 
 
 MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 time. The Hannibal & St. Joe came to Macon 
 in 1858, and in 1863 Macon was made the 
 county seat. 
 
 A BAILWAT CENTEB 
 
 from the start, and early the capital of a great 
 county, nothing coold stay the progress of the 
 town, saye only material desolation. It is cen- 
 tral to Northeastern Missouri, and surrounded 
 by enormously rich coal measures, is bound to 
 become at an early day a railway town of no 
 mean magnitude. The Moberly. Macon & Ut- 
 tumwa Division of 
 
 THE WABASB. BT. LOUIS & PACIFIC 
 
 gives the city direct connections with the entire 
 railway system of Iowa, the great Northwest 
 and Chicago, on the one hand, and St. Louis. 
 Kansas City and the Southwest, on the other. 
 
 THE HANNIBAL & ST. JOSEPH BAILWAT, 
 
 now a part of the C, B. &. Q. system, connects 
 with Chicago on the east, and Kansas City on 
 the west, giving all the advantages of the great 
 systems at these centers. 
 
 THE BT. LOUIS & OMAHA, 
 
 a line recently projected between these import- 
 ant cities, will soon add materially to the trans- 
 portation facilities of a city whose coal mines 
 will soon enough attract hither branches from 
 the Santa Fe; Chicago, Milwaukee <t St. Paul; 
 Chicago t Alton, and the Rock Island systems, 
 
 A MOTOB LINE 
 
 will be laid from Macon, five miles west to Be- 
 vier, where 1200 people are engaged in, or in 
 some way interested in. coal mining. No town 
 in Missouri is so richly environed with coal 
 fields, and none has 
 
 MANDFACTUBING ADVANTAGES 
 
 superior to Macon. Cheap coals, cheap wood, 
 cheap lumber and the railway facilities to dis- 
 tribute the products of the mill and factory all 
 over the Western country, make this an eligible 
 and desirable point for the manufacture of every 
 species of farm machinery, wagons, carriages, fur- 
 niture, mill stuffs, wooden ware, novelties in 
 wood, iron, steel and paper, machines, castings, 
 cotton and woolen goods, preserved frails and 
 vegetables, and many other 
 things in common use. 
 
 A OOOD BEOINNING 
 
 has already been made in 
 some of these lines of indus- 
 trial work. Two roller pro- 
 cess flouring mills are run to 
 full capacity on merchant 
 milling. A broom factory is 
 in successful operation and is 
 on the eve of enlargement. 
 
 IIIE MACON OAS AND ELEOTBIC 
 LIGHT CO. 
 
 have one of the most perfect 
 gas plants in the State, and 
 will next season put in one 
 of the most complete and 
 perfect electric light systems 
 in the country. 
 
 THE MACON FOUNDBY AND 
 MACHINE WOBKS. 
 
 established in 18lS(). by .Mr. 
 K. P.ilfrey. a practical ma 
 chinist. employs a large force 
 of skilled mechanics, in the 
 
 
 TIMES OFFICE, MACi'N 
 
 manufacture of all classes of coal mining ma- 
 chinery, steam power threshing outfits, engines, 
 boilers, and kindred foundry and machine work, 
 including ration's adjustable ratchet bar and 
 bracket store shelving irons, which have a wide 
 sale throughout the I'nited States, and large 
 quantities of which are manufactured here for 
 the Western trade. Mr. Palfrey is driven to the 
 full capacity of his works; speaks very confi- 
 dently of the future, and says Macon is a very 
 
 favorable point for manufacturing. The 
 
 MACON BOLLEB MILLS. 
 
 built in 1875. as burr mills, with a daily capac- 
 ity of twenty-five barrels, were enlarged to fifty 
 barrel-mills in 1877, and in 1882 the present 
 owners, Messrs, Moore, McCnllongh A Co., took 
 charge of the mills, and a year later pot in n 
 full roller process equipment, further increas- 
 ing their capacity to one hundred barrels per 
 day. The rapid increase in their business 
 necessitated a later increase of their flour- 
 making capacity to 125 barrels a day. nearly 
 lUlof which is consumed in this county. These 
 mills, which are under the immediate supervi- 
 sion of Mr. J. P. Moore, are equipped with 
 the most perfect modern flour-making ma- 
 chinery, employ from eight to ten hands the 
 year round, have a high reputation for their 
 products, and rank with the most important 
 industrial concerns of the city. 
 
 THE MASSEY WAGON CO., 
 
 E. McKee. President; S. G. Brock, Vice-Presi- 
 dent; E. A. Hanson. Secretary and Treasurer, 
 and John Massey. Superintendent, have a large 
 three story brick factory, and employ from 
 twenty to forty hands in the manufacture of 
 spring, farm, road and log wagons, buggies, 
 carriages, phietons and surreys. They have a 
 capacity of 2.000 wagons a year, and have 
 made a fine reputation for superior work, 
 which finds a ready sale all over North Mis- 
 souri. A good number of their workmen have 
 homes and families in the city, and the amount 
 of cash paid these mechanics, and otherwise 
 expended for timber, coal and other mater- 
 ials produced in the county, is a strong factor 
 in the sum of local prosperity, bot h in town and 
 country. The abundance of superior coal and 
 timber in this county gives the company a de- 
 cided advantage over rival factories, and this 
 fact, together with the high character of their 
 work, has so largely increa.sed the demand for 
 all classes of vehicles, that extensive additions 
 must soon be made to their present buildings 
 and machinery. Mr. Massey says there is no 
 more favorable location than Macon, for the 
 manufacture of all classes of machinery, and it 
 is not unlikely that the suc- 
 cess of this institution will 
 influence the location of other 
 equally valuable enterprises 
 at this point. Their works 
 are admirably equipped with 
 the most approved machin- 
 ery, and. like the machine 
 shops and foundry, are an 
 honor to the city. 
 
 A creamery, vinegar and 
 apple butter factory are in 
 successful operation. A to- 
 bacco factory, for the manu- 
 facture of plug and smoking 
 tobaccos, from the superior 
 plant grown in this county, 
 is one of the noteworthy in- 
 dustries of the city, employ- 
 ing a large force of hands in 
 the season of handling. There 
 are other minor industries 
 here, but the nolewiirlhy feat 
 ures of the location are the 
 
 FINE OFEMNOS 
 
 for manufacturing enter- 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 1« 
 
 prise. A spoke fnctury would &uil ii b<miiu/.H in 
 thftjio SueHecoud growth oak and hickory foreata. 
 Axe htflveH, and kindrod ^oodx. would innko n 
 fortune for a live fnctory ninn. A tile factory 
 and pottery are both greatly needed here, and, 
 in good liandK. would prove a fortune. There 
 is a fine opening for a plow factory, and no time 
 should be lost in securing coking ovens for the 
 fine coking coals near the city. They 
 
 l-AN MA.NtirxCTUUE ANTTUINO I-BOFITABLT 
 
 that depends upon cheap coals, cheap wood, cheap 
 timber, cheap clays, cheap transportation, cheap 
 living, and a splendid outlying market, for tliey 
 are all here at the command of anybody that has 
 experience and capital for the work. Maom is 
 not given exclusively to pride of her material 
 wealth and ]>rospcctM. She has 
 
 EDUOATIONAI. AUVANTAOES 
 
 of a high order, and fosters them with commend- 
 able spirit and liberality. Few towns of this 
 
 a very competent corps of instructors, is an 
 honor to the city, the church, the State, and 
 especially to the scholarship and rare managerial 
 gifts of the president, Kev. J. R. Harding and 
 his assistants. The school is in high repute at 
 home and throughout the State, and has a strong 
 and growing patronage. 
 
 ST. AONKS UALL. 
 
 a boarding school for girls, is also under the 
 auspices of the Episcopal Church. It lias fine 
 buildings and grounds; is admirably appointed 
 and oinduoted. and from base to attic, has the 
 air of a delightful, well ordered home. Mrs. L. 
 A. Smith, the principal, and a lady of rare gifts 
 and graces in this line of work, is ably assisted 
 by accomplished instructors in literary, musical, 
 art and other departments of a very complete 
 course of study, and the "Hall" is <me of the 
 best girls" boarding schools in Northwestern 
 Missouri. 
 
 Rcichel. Treasurer, and Theo. Gary, Secretary. 
 
 TUB MACOM FAIB ABSOCIATIOB, 
 
 under the management and ownership of F. A. 
 Dessert, President, and W. 1'. Dessert, Secretary, 
 with its neighboring grounds, race track and 
 spirited annual exhibitions, is a noteworthy feat- 
 nre of the city. The 
 
 LOCAL J017BNALH 
 
 are square up to the dignity and demands of the 
 day and location. The Timn, a Democratic 
 journal, which recently won the gold medal of 
 the Missouri State Press .\s9ocistion, for its ad- 
 mirable make-up and ty^iographical finish, is 
 edited and published by J. A. Hudson. It has 
 the widest circulation of any country journal in 
 North Missouri, is edited with marked ability, 
 and is an influential exponent, not <mly of Dem- 
 ocratic principles and policy, but of every good 
 and progressive enterprise in Macon City and 
 Coanty. The Titnea bailding and office, recently 
 
 class in the Western country can boast of more 
 
 AOHIBAULK PrBLK' Hrn<M>LH 
 
 than this bright progressive city, whose public 
 schiK>l system includes a model high school, the 
 most thorough discipline, advanced methods, 
 high standards and good scholarship known to 
 the common school system of Missouri. The 
 general ni»ru/« of the sch(»ols, under the able 
 supervision of Prof. A. E. Wardner and a dozen 
 assistants, is creditable alike to the instructors 
 and the city. The Catholic and Lutheran paro- 
 chial schools are s|H>ken of in the hit;lii'>t terms. 
 In higher academic work, the 
 
 ST. JAMBH MILITABT ArAHKUT 
 
 holds an enviable positiim. It was founded by 
 Bishop Talbot, is the only boarding schiwl for 
 boys under control of the Episcopal Dioct>se of 
 .Missouri, and with its fine buildings, grounds and 
 dormitories; its thorough social, military, inathe- 
 raaticol, literary, mosical and art training, under 
 
 KKMiMM.- IKKK VIEW KAUM. 
 
 THE rBATBB»lTIKM 
 
 embrace a Masonic blue lodge, chapter and com- 
 mandery; a lodge and encampment of t)dd Fel- 
 lows: a lodge and uniform rank of the Knights 
 of Pythias; a lodge of the Ancient Order of I'nited 
 Workmen: a stnmg post of the (irand Army; 
 lodges of Knights and Ladies of Himor; Triple 
 Alliance and Chosen Friends; a Library Associa- 
 tion, Chatnui|ua Circle, social clubs, etc. 
 
 TUB MAI'ON UI'ILDl.HO A.ND LOAM ASSOCIATION, 
 
 organized in the spring of ItUiA, by Th«). (iary, 
 has bad a marked influence upon the growth and 
 proaperity of the oily, and. as a financial venture, 
 baa beaten the most suooeuful savings banks of 
 tbe oountry. Its sixth semiannual statement, 
 made in July. lH<itt. shows a total of $37,334.04 
 in available remiurces, with an exhibit of net 
 gains that is a high compliment to the financial 
 and executive gifts of its secretary and board of 
 directors. J. A. Hudson is President; Oeo. P. 
 
 destroyed by fire, was one of the moat complete 
 newspaper and job printing offices in the inter- 
 ior of the State, and Mr. Hudson, who has already 
 begun the erection of a handsome new building 
 on the ruins of the old one, has purchased a new 
 office outfit, with steam power press, and will 
 soon be running one of the finest and most com- 
 plete newspaper and job printing establishments 
 in the interior of tbe State. 
 
 The Krpuhlican, a Republican journal of de- 
 cid(>d ability and influence, and for many years 
 one of the foremost advocates of Kepulilicanlam 
 in Northern Missouri, is ably conducted by U. C. 
 Bnflington, as editor and publisher. Maj. S. U. 
 Ilrock, for many years one of its editors and pub- 
 lishers, and now mayor of the city, still con- 
 tributes more or less to the lirpuliltran, which, 
 like its neighbor, recently lost a very complete 
 and valuable otiire by fire. This journal, tfm, 
 will soon put on a handsome new drvwi, and eon- 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 tinne to hold its high position in 
 the Republican newspaper ranks 
 of North Missouri. 
 
 The Democrat, a Democratic 
 newspaper, published and edited 
 by Harry Howard, with Dr. T. 
 J. Norris as associate editor, is 
 one of the rising Democratic 
 journals in this division of the 
 State, has a fine patronage, a 
 large and fine office, with power 
 press, and is ably conducted. 
 
 The Messenger of Peace, a Bap- 
 tist monthly, edited and pub- 
 lished by J. £. Goodson and J. 
 E. Goodson, Jr., is creditable 
 alike to the culture and ability 
 of its conductors, and clearly 
 '• fills a niche" in Western jour- 
 nalism. It is the only Primitive 
 Baptist journal in the Missis- 
 sippi Valley, and has a large cir- 
 culation and corresponding in- 
 fluence in the denomination. 
 
 Macon is 
 
 A 8TB0NG COMMEBCIAL TOWN, 
 
 ranking in this respect with the 
 foremost cities in the interior of 
 the State. It is central to a rich 
 farm region, reaching west forty 
 miles to Brookfield; thirty-five miles north to 
 Kirksville; twenty-five miles east to Shelbina and 
 tweuty-two miles south to Moberly. Within all 
 this splendid radius are agricultural and coal min- 
 ing resources, great enough to support a city of 
 10,000 souls and with the present rate of develop- 
 ment, the years are not distant when it will have 
 
 MO KEE AND SMITH BUILDINO, MAOON. MO. 
 
 compassed such a consummation. It is every 
 year becoming more and more the centre of the 
 vast coal mining interests of this notably rich 
 coal basin, and the building of the proposed 
 motor line from this point to Bevier, the coming 
 year, will contribute largely to this desirable end. 
 The city already has 
 
 FIPTT SOI.ID BTTSINESS 00N0KBN8, 
 whose stock in trade, high com- 
 mercial standing and metropoli- 
 tan methods would honor a 
 much larger town. The yearly 
 trade of these concerns in dry 
 goods, clothing, general merch- 
 andise, boots and shoes, hard- 
 ware, farm machinery, lumber 
 and building materials, seeds, 
 hay, live stock, grain, mill stuffs, 
 wagons, carriages, and other 
 goods made on the spot, reaches 
 a grand total of 
 
 NEABLY TWO MILLION DOLLAB8, 
 
 and is steadily increasing with 
 the growth of the country. Sev- 
 eral of the leading houses have 
 successful branches in neighbor- 
 ing towns, and with the growth 
 of local manufacturing and the 
 extension of railway facilities, it 
 is not unlikely that a substantial 
 jobbing trade will be built up 
 here. The leading business men 
 and property owners have 
 
 UNFALTEEINO FAITH IN THE 
 FUTUBE 
 
 of the city, and while it has 
 never had a speculative boom, 
 bnt is rather the outgrowth of steady material 
 and commercial development, they are now 
 resolutely marshalling the splendid forces at 
 their command, and will turn thera to capital 
 uses in building up a city worthy of themselves 
 and the location. 
 
 8TBONO MEN LEAD 
 
 hMiitt. .M, \ f.\ .V CO. s UL<»OK. CHILLIi-'v'i UK. .Mi 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 •Jl 
 
 in every di'|mrtment of local life men of di8ci- 
 pline, experience and fine executive gifts, in 
 wlioso hands the building of the new Mncon will 
 be carried to n splondid isKuo. TheKtendy march 
 of material and conimeroial prugreKM in thin 
 solid and progressive city, is admirably displayed 
 in the fine establishments of several of the load- 
 ing merchants, notably the large dry goods 
 houses of Messrs. McKet' it Smith and J. I). Hail, 
 and the clothing house of Mr. I. ('. Stephens, 
 where heavy stocks are displayed with the method 
 and elegance that stamp the proprietors as real 
 mercantile artists, trained in the best ways of 
 trade, like men who pursue commerce as an art 
 to l>e cultivated, rather than a mere speculative 
 venture. \ brief description of one of these 
 
 the increasing list of examples of woman's capa 
 city and usefulness in the management of public 
 alTairs. 
 
 The same firm under the title of Smith, MoVoy 
 t Co., erected, last scoson, another mercantile 
 building in Chillicothe, Mo., a view of which is 
 also given. As shown by our artist, this building 
 is a decided novelty for a mercantile house, and 
 was designed by Mr. G. C. Clarck. a well known 
 St. Louis architect. It is (S0xl2() feet upon the 
 ground, elaborately finished, heated by steam 
 and lighted by electricity, and is a fine illustra- 
 tion of the rapid growth of this porti<m of a 
 commonwealth, now the fourth in rank and des- 
 tined at no distant day to claim the colors in the 
 grand march of the sisterhood of States. The 
 
 builder and manager. 
 
 THK MAOON CBKAMUIT, 
 
 which was omitted in my industrial notes of the 
 city, belongs tu a class of industries that need 
 more encouragement, and should be multiplied 
 an hundredfold in this country of peerless 
 grasses. The Macon Creamery, operated by J. 
 .1. Davis ,1- Co., has a daily capacity of l.MN) 
 pounds and under its present management a 
 yearly output of about $2U,(H)() worth of standard 
 butt«r, which is all marketed in New York. This 
 6rm also handle butter, eggs, wool, bides and 
 tallow to the extent of $10(),<nk) annually. They 
 have groat faith in the creamery l>usiness for 
 this region, and get their supply of cream within 
 a dozen miles of the city. 
 
 
 -■i^^<^'mti''^^y 
 
 
 GLKM EUKM STOCK FABM Or J. T. UIUCKKLI., 2} ^ MILIH NOKTU OF MACOM. 
 
 houses will give the reader a fair impression of 
 the general character and management of other 
 omcerns in leading lines of local trade. 
 
 At the head of Vine Street, as shown by our 
 artist, stands the handsome store of McKeo i 
 Smith, 4.'>xin(l feet on the ground. It is solidly 
 built: has a fine interior finish in Texas hard and 
 curly pine, and a superli plate glass front of 
 unique and beaut ifol design, and like a gem upon 
 a lady's finger, adorns the handsome avenue 
 upon which it is located. The Public Library 
 i>ccupies a suite of rooms in the second story of 
 this building. This library, which has now upon 
 its shelves about Kxiit volumes, was established 
 last year through the efforts of a few public- 
 spirited and intelligent ladies of the city, who 
 still continue its management, adding another to 
 
 firm of McKee i Smith, and Fred F. Hawley i 
 Co. of .Macon, and Smith, McVey * Co. and 
 Hawley i Co. of Chillicothe. are all composed of 
 the same gentlemen, all veterans of twenty-five 
 yeors service in North Missouri trade, and rank 
 ing men in the liusiness circles of the two solid 
 and prosperous cities up<m which they have left 
 the impress of their mercantile gifts and unsel- 
 fish public spirit. Macon has 
 
 Tinm iioTBL rAOTunm 
 for a city of her class. The Palace Hotel, ime of 
 the best of the later improvements of the city, 
 is one of the really fine hotels of North Missouri, 
 and its capacity, style and finish w<iuld honor a 
 city of IIIMMII) souls. It belongs to the list of 
 well conducted hotels in this division of the 
 State, and is highly creditable to the city, the 
 
 Macon presents 
 
 A (Ai-ITAI. riBLD rOB INVXSTIfBNT. 
 
 Speculative values have never obtained here. 
 Real estate is bought and sold on ita intrinsic 
 merit, and commercial values seem decidedly low 
 by comparison with the so-called booming towns 
 further west. In the light of the general wealth 
 and prosperity of the county, the enormous crops 
 of the present season, the rapid development in 
 coal mining, the growing public confidence in 
 Missoari. the steady and growing movement of 
 immigration and capital into the State, and 
 above all. the certainty that Macon is to liecome 
 a formidable manufacturing and trade centre, no 
 city in the State, or for that matter in the West, 
 offers more to the investor than this same City 
 of Macon this beautiful tree-embowered citj of 
 
22 
 
 MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 the coal fields and the Grand Divide. If city 
 property and rents do not double within the 
 next two or three year.s, it will be the fault of the 
 citizens themselves, for the conditions are ripe 
 for 
 
 A BIO FOBWABD MOVEMENT 
 
 that should have no abatement until Macon is a 
 city of 10,000 people. The forces to impel such 
 a growth are now at the command of the men at 
 the helm, and only unity and will-directed work 
 are needed to carry Macon up to a commanding 
 position among the cities of Missouri. To these 
 notes on the city, I am pleased to add a brief 
 ontline of some of the neighboring farms and 
 farmers. 
 
 CHEVIOT PLACE, 
 
 the 170 acre suburban farm and home of Thomas 
 Jobson, lying just on the eastern border of the 
 city, is a handsome place, subdivided into ten to 
 forty acre fields, well fenced with wire and picket 
 enclosures, and watered by five living wells and 
 by artificial ponds. It is improved with a hand- 
 some home, beautiful well-shaded lawns, a group 
 of convenient and well-built barns, sheds, stables, 
 granary, small outhouses, feed lots, a good 
 orchard and other appointments of a well-ordered 
 farm, and is devoted mainly to stock raising, the 
 chief attraction being a superior herd of fifty 
 thoroughbred short-horns, representing several 
 of the more popular families. Mr. Jobson has 
 also some good horses and mules, puts up 130 
 tons of hay, and, as the accompanying view 
 shows, has Cheviot Place in capital order, and is 
 evidently at home on this pleasant and highly 
 improved farm. He has been thirty years in 
 this country, was formerly connected with the 
 Hannibal <k St. Joe railway, and later a well- 
 known manufacturer of Macon; has recently 
 been mining coal quite extensively, and is thor- 
 oughly pleased with the country. 
 
 THE FOX PLACE, 
 
 a pretty little sixty acre farm, half a mile from 
 the city limits, is all under cultivation and im- 
 proved with good hedge fences, a comfortable 
 five room cottage and large bearing orchard, and 
 is well watered by wells and ponds. It is all 
 highly productive prairie land, only a quarter 
 mile from school, and is owned by Mrs. R. A. 
 Fox. It is a choice place for a suburban home, 
 and is for sale by Theo. Gary on reasonable 
 terms. Two and a half miles north of the city is 
 the handsome 280-acre 
 
 OLEN-EDEN 
 
 farm and home of J. F. Brickell. It is graceful 
 prairie and woodland, admirably drained and 
 finely watered by streams, ponds, several wells 
 and cisterns, and embraces forty acres of fine 
 walnut, hickory and oak timber. Mr. Brickell 
 has 200 acres under cultivation and has the place 
 all well fenced with five miles of rail, plank, wire 
 and hedge fence, and divided into ten to eighty 
 acre fields, and further improved with a fifteen 
 acre orchard, mostly in bearing with choice 
 fruits, mainly standard winter varieties. He has 
 good buildings and finely cultivated fields; grows 
 from 2,000 to 4,000 bushels of corn, from 400 to 
 •UM) bushels of wheat, and about the same quan- 
 tity of oats; puts up 160 tons of hay and feeds 
 his coarse grains and hay on the farm. He keeps 
 ninety head of high grade cattle, feeds fifty 
 prime steers and half as many heavy pigs, keeps 
 twenty well bred Norman-Morgan horses, of 
 
 which one-third are choice brood mares, and 
 breeds to his own handsome stallion "Tom 
 Allen." Mr. Brickell purchased this farm eigh- 
 teen years ago, mostly in a wild state and has 
 
 the finest places in the county. It is a combin- 
 ation of rolling timber and prairie land, with 
 rich dark loamy soil, and is abundantly watered 
 by two cisterns, three living wells, and fine large 
 
 D. D. KOWLAND & BBOS. STOUE, BEVIES. 
 
 put it in a high state of improvement. He is a 
 model farmer, "has a place for everything and 
 keeps everything in its place," says this is a 
 royal country for mixed farming and the finest 
 grass country of his knowledge. Mr. Brickell is 
 without farm help, and has placed one half of 
 this handsome property in the hands of Theo. 
 Gary for sale on very liberal terms. It is near 
 two school houses, has a rich black loam soil, 
 and two dwellings, and can be divided into two 
 
 ponds, all equipped with the owners " Patent 
 Spring Pond," a self watering process, for all 
 classes of stock. Cedar Grove has 200 acres of 
 woodland well set in blue grass, 120 acres in 
 meadow, about 40 acres in corn and oats and 330 
 acres in blue grass pasture. It is improved with 
 a beautiful $3,000 home. ^3,000 barns, plenty of 
 smaller out buildings and a twelve acre orchard; 
 has seven miles of post and rail and barbed wire 
 fence, dividing the place into fifty acre fields; 
 
 '.jktt.PjWSiirjA'^6cU*^//Uh^i 
 
 VIEW or THE LITTLE PITXSBUBO COAL AMI) MINI.NO CO. S MINE AT LINOO. 
 
 desirable farms. Mr. Gran. W. Draper's ."iOO and is a fine type of the handsomely improved, 
 
 acre methodically conducted stock farm. Mr. Draper 
 
 rEDAB OBovE STOCK FAKM I has the farm stocked with well bred mares, 
 
 three and a half miles north of the city, is one of I mnles, horses, Poland-China pigs and short-horn 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 23 
 
 I'litllc. iiiiiuii){ the litttiT tiiH well kuiiuii 
 
 OKDAB GBOTK IIKBD 
 
 of thorouKli-hred short horns, eiuhrncinn nbout 
 forty hend of Buperbly bred mid finely fiiithioned 
 imiiniilH of the Imp. Yountj Mary. Imp. Mis» 
 .Mott nnd Princess fmiiilies, worth ii day's jour- 
 ney to gee. He also breeds pure Polnnd-China 
 pi|;R and riyraonth Rock fowls, nnd has made a 
 decided success of stock farniing. He has paid 
 for moHl of the farm nnd improvements out of 
 the soil nnd (jrnsses, nnd is evidently a born 
 farmer iind stockman. He be^an hero without a 
 dollar or farm experience, has nccumulnted this 
 fine eatnte. is out out of delit, '• pnys ns ho goes," 
 is high sherifT of the county, nnd believes this 
 the finest country for enterprising men on the 
 fnce of the green earth. Another of the model 
 places of Macon county is Mr. B. F. Coulter's 2(K) 
 ncre 
 
 KXCBUIOB TABM, 
 
 under good fence, has M(H) acres in cultivntiim 
 and is improved with a large fine home, three 
 largo barns, a fine group of smaller outbuildings, 
 ten Miileg of rnil nnd hedge fences, n good or- 
 chnrd. plenty of cisterns, wells nnd ponds, nnd a 
 running stream. Mr. Thrasher has •.'<)() acres in 
 blue grass pasture, puts up lUMI nnd 4(Ht tons of 
 timothy hny: feed.s about two cnr loads of prime 
 steers nnd n cnr load of hcnvy pigs: keeps thirty 
 well-bred horses, of which twenty are choice 
 brood mares; has eight jennies, two jacks and a 
 model .Morgan stallion, and annually raises about 
 twenty mules. Mr. Thrasher is a successful, rep- 
 resentative, thorough stock farmer, has one of 
 the model farms of the county, and is delighted 
 with this country. Hon. I'eyton Y. Hurt's 400 
 acre 
 
 FAIBVIKW FABM. 
 
 five miles south of Callao, is noteworthy for its 
 fltie general character and improvements. It is 
 
 eight miles of La I'lntn. It is a beautiful body 
 of smooth woodland and prairie, dipping gently 
 toward a branch of Salt River, by which it is 
 watered; is further watered by cisterns, living 
 wells and ponds, nnd has ItK) acres in woodland 
 pasture, well stocked in blue grass, the balance 
 being all in grass, excepting forty ncres, which 
 is devoted to grain. The farm is superbly fenced 
 with rail, hedge nnd wire, is eijuipped with 
 su|>erior gates, and divided into convenient fields, 
 and is further improved with a fine orchard, a 
 good homo, a fino large barn, smaller bams, sheds, 
 stables and other convenient outbuildings, a 
 beautiful blue grass lawn, and other appoint- 
 ments of a model farm. Maj. Miles keeps his 
 farm in perfect order, and is one of the thorough, 
 systematic, progressive farmers of the county. 
 He grows fifty bushels of corn to the ncre, cuts 
 LW to '200 tons of timothy hay, nnd devotes his 
 place to stock raising, his 
 
 
 : r _j^c 'J ■ 
 
 located eight miles south of Macon and two miles 
 north of Jacksonville. It is improved with a fine 
 two story frame house. Inrge frame barn, and n 
 group of gofid minor out-houses; is all well fenced 
 into forty-aoro fields nnd all in meadow and pas- 
 ture grasses; hns a good orchard nnd wood lot; 
 is ninply wntered with cisterns, six ponds and 
 four wells, and from end to end i" n model of 
 neatness and method. Mr. Coulter is one of the 
 progressive, enterprising, representative farm- 
 ers of the wmnty, handles Clydesdale horses and 
 short horn cattle, has made the bulk of a fine 
 estate out of the soils and grasses of Mncon 
 county, and holds the country in high esteem, 
 rhe 
 
 MAI'I.B IIBOVK STOCK FABM 
 
 ( Benjamin R. Thrasher, 1.000 ncres in extent. 
 
 lid located n dn/en miles southen»l of Macon 
 
 Hid fiiur miloii southwest of Clarence, is one of 
 
 til' ites in Macon county. It is nil 
 
 MT'IBKR AMD lOB BOmKH. BF.VIMi 
 
 mostly rolling prairie, embraces sixty acres of | 
 timber, hns a rich, dnrk, loamy soil and is im- I 
 proved with fine board nnd rail fences: a large 
 two-story frame house: two Inrge barns nnd 
 plenty of smaller outbuildings; is well watered 
 with wells, cisterns and ponds, and is one of the 
 premium farms of Macon county. Judge Hurt 
 devotes this handsome place mainly to the breed- 
 ing and raising of mules; is one of the ablest 
 fanners in the county: hns given each of his 
 children n good farm: is getting pnst the work- 
 ing age, has plenty of worldly fortune, which he 
 has made out of mules, tobacco and good busi- 
 ness management in Mncon county, and desir 
 ing to remove to the city, has plnc«d his farm on 
 the market through the agency of Mr. Theo. 
 Oary. Another of these royal Mastm county 
 farms, is Major \V. A. Miles' •lOO acre 
 
 PIOHBBB STOCK FABM. 
 
 located twelve miles North of Macon, and within 
 
 PIOXBKB UEKI> 
 
 of thoroughbred short horns, embracing about 
 fifty Daisies, Floras, Rubys, Annabellee. Rose of 
 Bharon and White Rose animals led by a model 
 Rose of Sharon bull from the famous Renic herd 
 of Winchester. Ky. It is one of the finest herds 
 in the country, alike for style and breeding, and 
 an honor to the owner and county. Mnj. Miles 
 also breeds pure Berkshire pigs, has a fine l>unch 
 of high grnde shorthorns and a string of choice 
 br<M>d mares, and is one of the most careful 
 painstaking breeders and successful stockmen in 
 the county. He believes in grass and stock 
 farming, and pronounces Macon County the 
 finest grass and stock county of his knowledge. 
 Maj. .Miles is well advanced in years; hn» pro 
 vided all his children with g<M>d farms, is without 
 a I ' r. nnd offers this noble estate for 
 
 ■nl- i the Macon agency of Theo. Oary. 
 
 The ;>4n ocrv 
 
24 
 
 MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 LAKE VIEW FARM 
 
 of John M. Ketcham is located fourteen miles 
 north of Macon and eight miles south of La 
 Plata. It is a beautiful tract of smooth prairie, 
 of rich black loam soil: is all well fenced with 
 board, wire and hedge in twenty to forty acre 
 fields, and watered by ponds, springs and wells. 
 It is improved with 200 bearing apple trees, a 
 beautiful home, superior barns and other out- 
 buildings, and is devoted to mixed farming. The 
 entire place is under high cultivation. Mr. 
 Ketcham gets a large yield of corn, oats and 
 wheat, puts up l.W tims of hay, keeps sixteen 
 horses, of which half are Clydesdale brood mares: 
 twenty-five high grade short horns and a pure 
 bred bull: has 400 finely bred merino sheep, 
 and ranks with the very best farmers in the 
 county. He is a model farmer, owns a model 
 farm, and, like all northern men who come here, 
 is delighted with the country. The great need of 
 this country is hundreds of such farmers as John 
 M. Ketcham. In the same neighborhood, is 
 
 THOMAS GILBKEATh's FABM 
 
 of 300 acres, nearly all in a high state of cultiva- 
 tion, and watered by wells and ponds. It is 
 mostly rich rolling prairie, embraces forty acres 
 of timber: is improved with a pretty home and 
 good outbuildings: good fences and orchard, and 
 is devoted to mixed farming. Mr. Gilbreath 
 feeds a car load of heavy pigs, keeps a good 
 bunch of high grade cuttle and some good horses, 
 and ranks with the thorough, successful farmers 
 of the county. He is a native of the county, and 
 has improved this fine farm from a wild prairie. 
 There is hardly an end of Cue farm..; in this 
 county, hundreds of which are worthy a place in 
 this Hand-Book, but I have some notes on sev- 
 eral of the outlying towns which will be of inter- 
 est to the reader. Twenty-one miles north of 
 Macon and 188 miles northwest of St. Louis, at 
 the junction of the Wabash and the Chicago. 
 Santa Fe <t California i Santa Fe) railways, is the 
 bright and growing tuAu of 
 
 LA PLATA. 
 
 It is located in the north end of Macon county, 
 on the crown of the "Great Divide," in the midst 
 of a royal farm region capable of sustaining a 
 city of .5,000 souls, and is one of the most pros- 
 perous and enterprising towns of its class in 
 Missouri. This go-ahead little city has 1,100 
 wide-awake and progressive people, and other 
 
 SALIENT FEATURES 
 
 that will be of interest to the reader, among 
 which are a healthy and commanding location, 
 an ample supply of pure water, plenty of neigh- 
 boring coal and timber, six churches, a full rep- 
 resentation of the leading fraternities, a post of 
 the Grand Army, a live newspaper, a successful 
 creamery, an elegant public school house and su- 
 perior schools, about twenty-five solid, prosper- 
 ous business concerns, a strong bank, fine roller 
 process Houring mills, and better still the new 
 
 LA TLATA FAIB ASSOCIATION, 
 
 with its handsome grounds, fine race track, and 
 ample buildings. This association will open its 
 Maiden Annual Exhibition on the 12th of Sep- 
 tembor. and all the indications point to one of 
 the most successful occasions of the kind in north 
 Missouri. La Plata is one of the strongest trad- 
 ing towns in this division of the State. It has 
 
 A ilEAVV ExroBT THAUE 
 
 in fat cattle, pigs, mules, sheep, hay, corn, oats. 
 
 wheat, grass seed and minor country produce, 
 and a correspondingly large trade in general 
 merchandise, hardware, farm machinery, etc., 
 etc., the yearly transactions in all these lines 
 
 Minneapolis and St. Paul, give the town fine fa- 
 cilities for trade and mannfacturing. La Plata 
 is the centre of one of the best grain and live 
 stock districts in Missouri, and must always be 
 
 CUMBE8LAND PBESBYTEaiAS (HrBCH. LA PLATA. 
 
 exceeding niic Niillion dollars. The recent open- 
 ing of the new Santa Fe line from Kansas City 
 to Chicago has not only doubled its 
 
 KAILWAT FACILITIES, 
 
 but given a wonderful impetus to every depart- 
 ment of local business, to real estate values, build- 
 ing, etc. Besides this valuable trunk line, with 
 its valuable eastern and western connections, the 
 
 a prospering trading point. It is brim full of 
 live men, and the outlook for the city is partic- 
 ularly promising. A noteworthy feature of the 
 town is its newspaper, the La I'lntn llmiie Press. 
 one of the livest and brightest country journals 
 in Missouri, and a mighty strong factor, too, in 
 the growth and welfare of the city. It is edited 
 by Chas. N. Mitchell, one of the best newspaper 
 
 OOBDON & OOODING S STOBE AT ATLANTA. 
 
 Wabash, with its SI. Louis and southern connec- 
 tions and its connecting lines north to Ottnmwa. 
 
 men in this re^xion. and. I am told, has a very 
 liberal patronage. Another feature of interest is 
 
 I 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 TIIK I A II A [ \ M K^I'U^ 
 
 uf Mr. W. 8. Little, a prnctical fruit nud uurHery- 
 man of i;ood experience. .Mr. Little hax very 
 full Htooks uf all the fruit tree8 and xmaller fruita 
 tuited tu this cliinnte and these huIIh. and hax 
 built up an enriiible rt-putntiun f>>r honorable 
 uiana^eMient of this delicate and oneroux work. 
 .Mr. LittU<°!> catalogue einbraccii not only a com- 
 plete li?<t of all the valuable .ntandard fruit treex 
 and Hinall fruitii of the latitude, but carrieH a 
 very fine lixt of shade and ornamental treeii, rare 
 plants, shrubs, flowers and indeed everything car- 
 ried in the leading nurseries of the older Btates. 
 He is also manufacturing building bricks on a 
 good scale, and authorizes the statement that 
 Macon I'onnty is one of the finest fruit regious in 
 the western country. La I'lata is fast taking on 
 the air of a business metropolis, and with a group 
 of live, progressive town-builders at the helm, and 
 her splendid natural and railway advantages, is 
 
 gretful good-by Ut nil the g(K>d people of La 
 Plata and Atlanta, we (the reader and 1 1 will take 
 a run up the old Hannibal road to 
 
 DBVISU, 
 
 the great coal producing town of Macon Connly 
 and North Missouri. It is li»cated five miles west 
 of Macon, on the Hiinnibal i St. Joseph Kailwny. 
 in the midst of a beautiful woodland and prairie 
 country; occupies n fine healthful elevation, and 
 has a population of about 12CX): this number 
 being considerably increased in the hosier winter 
 coal mining season. The entire town is built up 
 on the one absorbing industry of ooal mining, 
 which is carried to splendid proportions by the 
 several operators engaged in the business. The 
 town has eight churches, fionrishing i)M Follows. 
 Knights of Pythias, Select Knights, and A. I). U. 
 \V. lodges, a post of the (irand Army, a score of 
 business houses, fine public schools, and a large 
 general trade stimulated by the heavy coal pro- 
 
 vast region of country beyond the .Missouri 
 River in Kansas and Nebraska. The qaality of 
 the ooals mined at this point is e(|Qal to any of 
 the bitaminous coals in the Western country, and 
 gives them decided favor with consumers. 
 
 THE I.KADINO COAL OI'KBATOBM 
 
 are Messrs. l^ximis i Snively, successors to the 
 Old Central Coal Mining Co.. which they bought 
 out in IH7H. Their original purchase of mining 
 territory, franchises and mines covered proper- 
 ties valued at ffiOO.fKIO. They have since in- 
 oreaaed their capital stock to fnto.nOfi an in- 
 oreasa demanded by the sinking of a new shaft, 
 putting in compressed air machinery and Harri- 
 son's mining machines, by which their mines are 
 now operated. They own and operate the well 
 known 
 
 BLACK UIAMOND COAI. MI.VBH, 
 
 numbers 1, H and 4 (views of which are herewith 
 given I, and from which sixty car loads of coala 
 
 W. II. Looms' IILACK DIAMOND STOCK FABII, 1 MILB HODTnwBHT OF IIBVIKB. 
 
 destined to become a city of commanding magni- 
 tude and importance. K dozen miles north of 
 .Macon and nine miles south of La Plata in a 
 country rich and fair enoogh for a Flemish gar- 
 den, is the village of 
 
 ATLAMTA. 
 
 a pretty town of SCO people, two churches, a 
 dozen busineas houses and some of the livest 
 business men in Macon, or any other county. 
 This little city. to<i. is on the Wabash Railway, 
 and represents a farm country, rich enough in 
 fine farms, orchards, herds and grninfields to 
 take care of a town of lltOO people. Kesidea 
 a large and prosperous general trade, the export 
 trade in grain, live stock, froit, hay, grass seed 
 and kindred products, is large enough to com- 
 pliment the average town of \'*)n people. At- 
 lanta is a thriving trading town, and with the 
 development of the tributary country to its 
 maximum, will grow to five times its present 
 prop<irli(ms. With a word of thanks and a re- 
 
 daction. The trade in hay, grain and general 
 farm produce is anusually heavy for a town of 
 this class; bat none of these products are ex- 
 ported, all being consumed by the operators and 
 miners. The 
 
 SIX OOAL MIHBH 
 
 now being operated at this point employ about 
 7(10 men during the summer, and some I'iOtI in 
 the more active winter season. There are in all 
 seven mines in working shape, the yearly capac- 
 ity of which exceeds 
 
 HALF A MILLIOM TOBB 
 
 of eoal. The actual product falls a little below 
 these figures, bat is likely at no distant day to be 
 carried much above them. 
 
 TBB COAL SUPPLT 
 
 seams practically inexhaastible. The veins now 
 being work<-d at a depth of sixty to eighty 
 feet, range from four to six feet in thickness, and 
 extend well over the neighboring country. The 
 product is consumed by the railway and by a 
 
 are daily mined. These three mines have a work- 
 ing capacity of UN) car loads, and are run to 
 their maximum in the cold season. They em- 
 ploy .VK) miners in summer, and a much larger 
 force in winter. They ran in connection with 
 these mines, three large wholesale and retail yards 
 in Kansas City. Atchison and 81. Jitseph, and in 
 addition to their f>wn product, handle anthracite 
 and other coals, lime, cenii>iit. plaster, hair. etc. 
 They have f;l(l.(lOO invested in each of these \ ards 
 where they market their surplus ooal after sap 
 plying the Hannibal i St. Joe, K. C. St. .). t. C. 
 B.. and other railroads. Their shippiti„- trade 
 extends well over Kansas and Nebrankn. and is 
 steadily extending, both aa to territory and vol- 
 ome. They also ran in connection with these 
 mines a heavy general merchandise, grain and 
 priMluce business, carrying from f:!ii.<Oi to $4fl,- 
 min sl<icks. and running their yearly sali-> up to 
 $14n,(MII) and $\<tV).OCtn. They also hare a heavy 
 trade in "channel ice." taken from the Missis- 
 
26 
 
 MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 aippi River, with which they supply the entire 
 city. They have. too. an extensive meat market 
 with ample cold storage and annually slaughter 
 3(K) cuttle, 4O0 sheep, and 700 hogs, most of which 
 stock is fattened on Mr. Loomiss " Black Dia- 
 mond" farm near the city. Their extensive 
 mercantile business embraces every thing in 
 local demand, from a paper of pins to a steam 
 engine. This department of their business is 
 very sDccessfully managed by Mr. LouJ.Loomis, 
 a young gentleman of rare executive and mana- 
 gerial gifts, and is by a good margin the largest 
 mercantile concern in the county. Their mines, 
 especially -No. 4, are among the best equipped 
 and most elaborately constructed coal mines in 
 the Western country. They have under tribute 
 to these mines, and in their own right, 2,000 acres 
 
 is steadily growing with the growth of this great 
 mining industry, and has a bright future. Four 
 miles west of Bevier, on the beautiful Chariton 
 Divide, is 
 
 OAI,I,AO, 
 
 a town of 4.">0 people, in the midst of the finest 
 tobacco and wheat district in the county. It is 
 prettily located and environed with beautiful 
 groves, orchards and vineyards; has two churches, 
 two fine village schools, a dozen business con- 
 cerns, two large tobacco factories for rehandling 
 tobacco, and one of the completest roller flour- 
 ing mills in the country, managed by that prince 
 of good fellows. Mr. W. W. Bricker. Mr. Bricker 
 also handles lumber, furniture, grain and live 
 stock, and belongs to a group of No. 1 business 
 men who are managing the leading lines of 
 
 northward a prosperous Welsh settlement. Like 
 Callao and Bevier it has within and around it the 
 best elements of enduring thrift and growth. 
 There are other small towns in the county, but 
 the limits of this Hand Book have already been 
 invaded and I must close with 
 
 A WOBD or THANKS 
 
 to gentlemen who have kindly contributed to the 
 success of this Hand-Book. To Mr. Theo. Gary, 
 the man of all work and no play, to whose 
 energy, public spirit and splendid working gifts 
 the City and County of Macon are indebted for 
 this book and many another generous service 
 for their material advancement: to Mr. J. A. 
 Hudson, the sterling editor of the Macon Times, 
 for no end of good offices in aid of this enter- 
 prise; to Mr. F. A. Dessert and to my old and 
 
 I 
 
 STOCK St^EMB NBAB OHABITON RIVEB, MAOON OODNTT. 
 
 of the finest coal lands in the county or State, 
 and as a coal mining corporation, rank with the 
 aljlest and foremost in the Western States. One 
 of the noteworthy features of this notable local- 
 ity is 
 
 THE BLACK DIAMOND STOCK FABM, 
 
 n magnificent 800 acre tract of rolling prairie 
 and woodland. It embraces f,30 acres of well- 
 fenced land, 250 of which is under plow, the bal- 
 ance Ijeing in timber; is admirably watered liy 
 running streams, wells and ponds, and as the 
 view shows is fairly well improved and will be 
 further improved by Mr. Loomis with handsome 
 buildings, sheds, corrals, fences, ic. until he has 
 made it one of the handsomest country places in 
 North Missouri. He has the means and taste to 
 carry his plans for a beautiful country home and 
 stock breeding farm to a splendid issue. Bevier 
 
 trade in this pretty little city. Callao enjoys a 
 large and growing export trade in tobacco, 
 grain, live stock, railway ties, piling, fruit and 
 general farm produce: has never had a boom, 
 but is sure and steady as the tides, and has in 
 her location and surroundings the elements of 
 enduring prosperity. Half a dozen miles beyond 
 Callao. to the westward of the Chariton, is 
 
 NEW CAMBRIA. 
 
 another pretty, prosperous town of -tSO people. 
 It has several churches, a fine school, a dozen 
 business houses, new and very fine roller flouring 
 mills, a group of prime good business men, and 
 a beautiful tributary country rich in tobacco and 
 grain fields, orchards and herds. It is a promi- 
 nent shipping point on the Hannibal A St. 
 Joseph Railway for railway ties, piles, fruit, hay, 
 grain, tobacco and live stock, and has to the 
 
 valued friends Mr. I. C. Stephens and Maj. S. G. 
 Brock, for courtesies worth remembering, and to 
 all the good people of Macon County, whose 
 material aid and encouraging words have minis- 
 tered to the success of the Macon County Hand- 
 Book, I give my blessing and reluctant good-bye. 
 
 TO THE BEADEB 
 
 in distant lands, who may doubt the correctness 
 of the statement of facts herein recorded, and 
 mayhap fancies this an over-colored picture of 
 the condition, resources and advantages of Macon 
 County. I send, herewith, greeting from the 
 30,0(X) people of the county, and pledge him in 
 their behalf a cordial Western welcome when it 
 shall please him to visit and inspect the homes, 
 herds, farms, orchards, coal fields and towns of 
 one of the fairest and most fertile regions in the 
 sunny Southwest. 
 
 i 
 
MACON COTNTV, MISSOURI. 
 
 •>1 
 
 List of Desirable Wacon County Farms for Sale by Theo. Gary. Macon. Mo. 
 
 No. 1. — 180 >cre(, 3M niil'" f^om Excftlloand 
 Jiicksonvlllc, bo'h on the Wab.Tsh R.iilroac1;2 
 miles from a flour aiiil saw mill, 2'i miUs from 
 church, and \}i milc8 from school. All under 
 fence; 00 acre« under cultivation, 40 acres in 
 timber well under-brushed and in blue grass; DO 
 acres in clover and timothy; cross fenced into six 
 different enclosures; fence made of rails and 
 barbed wire; 100 bearing apple trees; a well fin- 
 ished, well painted ,') room house, with lightning 
 roiis; well fenced lawn ; nicat and poultry houses; 
 :)8x40 log harn, with frame sheds all round it : 
 good grancrv; buildings all frame, except barn. 
 Farm finely watered with four living wells and 
 running stream. Countv road on one side of farm, 
 cutting off pasture. All tillable land, except a 
 little along stream. V'ard set in blue grass. This 
 is a tine farm, located in a good neighborhood. 
 
 John M. La.mii. 
 No. 2 - -A 120 acre farm, (1 miles north of Cal- 
 lao; 100 acres in cultivation ; 70 acres under fence; 
 good 4 room frame house, good barn, living water 
 and good \'oung orchard. Joh.n IIoi-man. 
 
 No. 3. — A 340 acre farm, one mile from La 
 Plata, 2',4 miles from .Santa Fe Railway, '/i mile 
 from school. A one and a half storv frame house, 
 18x36, with a 12x34 addition : a frame harn, 48x48; 
 small orchard, and some _\oung fruit trees; cis- 
 terns at house and barn; 80 acres in u\radow, 80 
 acres in pasture, and after this fall will be all in 
 grass. S. ATTERHtRRY. 
 
 No. 4. — A farm of (iT acres; 47 acres in culti- 
 vation, 20 acres in timber and pasture; rail and 
 wire fence ; three living wells ; one cistern ; a No. 
 1 good orchard of apple, pear and peach trees, a 
 two story six room frame house, with summer 
 kitchen; a frame barn, 30x38 feet, only 100 rods 
 from Love Lake, on the Wabash Railway, 100 
 yards from church, and I4' mile to a schoolhouse. 
 
 J. B. Avers. 
 
 No. 4'i. — A 200 acre farm, one mile from 
 church, 80 lods to schoolhouse; 120 acres in cul- 
 tivation, to .-icres in timber, and 70 acres in mea- 
 dow ; rail and hedge fence, five living wells, one 
 pond, good orchard, two-stor>- eight- room frame 
 house, and a bank barn, .VJxGO feet. 
 
 \V. T. Gardner. 
 
 No. 6-— 120 acres, eight miles northeast of Ma- 
 con, four miles from Round Cirove, on the II. & 
 .St. J. Railroad, and one mile south of La Porte. 
 All encloted; 20 acres In timber, 20 acres in 
 meadow, post and rail fence, a living well and 
 two pondv, 75 bearing apple trees, a four room 
 frame house, large 24x60 foot barn; >4 mile to 
 church ; 80 rods to school hou^e 
 
 \Vm. Yutx. 
 
 No 6.--207 acres; seven mile- north of Ma- 
 con, and one mile from lilackuell .Station, on 
 Wabash Railway; 160 acres in cultivation, bal- 
 ance in white oak timber. New four room house, 
 tMO wells, two ponds, good large orchard, good 
 granerv, frame barn, two miles from eliurch, V 
 mile from schoolhouse, one and a quarter mile to 
 post olTice. Mrs. M.\hy A. TiioMr-soN. 
 
 No 7.— 100 acres, five miles southwest ol 
 Itevi.r; .'i4 1 acres in meadow, 30 acres under plow, 
 10 acres In pasture. 10 acres In timber. ()n<- »nd 
 ■■half siorjr frame house, 18x36, with foui iiK>ms 
 and cellar, walled up with brick and >lone. and 
 
 fronts south; barn 16x20, with shedding all round 
 it; tobacco house 20x22, with sheds on two sides, 
 good frame granery and frame summer kitchen, 
 poultry- house, corn crib, new cow sheds, a small 
 bearing apple orchard, 60 young fruit trees, living 
 well and cistern. Farm sub-divided Into four 
 iields, and within three miles of three churches. 
 
 P. I. Baker. 
 No. 8. 85 acres, seven miles north of Callao. 
 and sixteen miles northwest of Macon; 65 acres 
 in cultivation, balance in timber; three room 
 frame luiiise an. I good out-buildings. 
 
 John W. St. Clair. 
 
 No. 9. 140 acres, 2'j miles northeast ol At- 
 lanta; 10 acres in meadow, M6 acres in cultiva- 
 tion, 2 acres in old bearing orchard, 38 acres in 
 woodland pasture. A 16x32 one story house, 
 with a 14x14 addition, log barn, frame smoke 
 house, good cistern, living water in pasture. 
 
 W. D. McDlFFEE. 
 
 No 10.-86 acres, three miles south of Be- 
 vicr, all underlaid with a five foot vein of coal; 
 56 acres in cultivation, balance timber land — all 
 under fence except 15 acres. Story- and a half 
 log house, weather-boarded, lathed and plastered; 
 good out-buildings. Log barn 20x60, with shed 
 on south side: good rail fence. 
 
 Jacob .Marte. 
 
 No. 1 1. 140 acres new land, six miles north 
 of Callao, and six miles from new .Santa Fc Rail- 
 way ; 90 acres in cultivation, 50 acres in timber, 
 35 acres in meadow — nil good tobacco or wheat 
 land. Good orchard, story and a half house with 
 four r ooms, good cistern, four ponds, extra good 
 fences. J. E. Wilson. 
 
 No. 12. — 125 acres, three miles south of 
 Bevier and seven n.ilcs southwest of Macon, all 
 underlaid with five foot vein of coal, and all in 
 cultivation except .5 acres of timber; tuo cis- 
 terns, a living well, small orchard, good vineyard, 
 stort' and a half log house, wit! four rooms, 
 weather-boarded and plastered, good cellar, log 
 barn 53 feet long, with shed on one side. 
 
 Frei>. Sciiukneciit. 
 
 No. 13. — 60 acres, seven miles southeast of 
 Macon ; 40 acres fenced, 20 acres timber, 80 rods 
 to church, three-quarters of a mile to school. 
 
 J. E. II V ATT. 
 No. 14. -160 acres prairie and limber land, 
 six miles north of Callao; 12.5 acres in cultiva- 
 tion, 85 acres in timber. Two story six room 
 house, cistern, living well, good orchard, farm all 
 under fence, and good improvements all round. 
 
 E. C. LoYD. 
 
 No. 15 -'■ Fairvlew" farm of 400 acres, fi\e 
 mile* south of Callao; 3.36 acres in cultivation, 
 06 acres in timber, all well fenced with plank and 
 rails. Fine large two story house, 18x30, with an 
 18x20 foot addition, two large frame barns, 
 plenty of water, fine meadow— a choice stock 
 farm. 
 
 No. 16. 100 acre farm, eleven miles south 
 ol Macon, twelve miles north of Moberlv. and 
 two mile* from Jacksonville, on Waba»h Rail- 
 way ; 140 acre* fencrd Into ten fields and pasture, 
 100 acre* under cultivation, 47 acre* in timothy 
 clover and red top. Frame house, 18x84, with a 
 84x24 addition, five rooms, two porticos, one { 
 
 porch and cellar, all wr. <.<iod frame 
 
 smokehouse, 12x14. and woodhouse, 12x14; poul- 
 try house, good new frame barn, 32x42; good 
 granery, 12x14; implement house. 10x24; cow 
 barn, 30x40; log barn, 20x20, with shed on one 
 side; stud barn, 14x14. with shed on one side; 
 sheep barn, 18x20. Lawn fenced and garden 
 picketed. A number of stock lots. Farm wat- 
 ered by four good cisterni', two at house and two 
 at barn, live ponds and running ireek. Plenty 
 of timlwr to run farm. (iood b<arlng apple 
 orchard of 40 trees, also a young orchard Wood 
 land underlaid with coal. (io<Mj nrighborhood, 
 and a flouring mill within one mile. Reasons for 
 selling, old age and incapacity for manual labor. 
 Bknja.mix F. Elsea. 
 No. 17 -Choice farm in Linn County, Mo., 
 for investment and farming purposes, one mile 
 from the town of Marcelinc, the new division 
 point of the Chicago \' .Santa Fe R. R.- 500 
 iicres in the tract— all under fence. Small orchard, 
 three good living wells of wa'er, two large ponds; 
 water never failing; 60 acres in timothy meadow; 
 50 acres seeded to clover; 200 acres fresh land, 
 onlv cultivated two years; 160 acres in pasture, 
 pretty well set in blue grass; 40 acres pasture 
 timothy and clover; 50 acres blue grass timber 
 land — timber enough to keep place up; bam 
 :t0x40, frame, new shingle roof; small house, not 
 much value. Soil on entire tract extra good; no 
 level or hard pan on it. Linn County is out of 
 debt, and taxes very low; 100 miles from Kansas 
 City. The town of Marccline was only laid out 
 about ten days ago, and already over 1,000 lots 
 sold; i« sure to make a town of from 5,000 to 
 10,000 inhabitants. This tract of land tan be had 
 for $50 per acre one-third down, balance in pay- 
 ments to suit the purchaser, at six per cent, 
 interest. Would prefer p,iyments after first in 
 $l,000'paymei ts annually until paid for. 
 
 No. 18. 341) acres; one and a-half miles north 
 of Love Lake, on the Wabash Railway ; 170 acres 
 in cultivation, balance in limber and pasture. 
 Farm all fenced and watered by creek, well*, 
 spring and [tonds. Good bearing orchard of 100 
 trees; good st<iry and a-half frame house and 
 good outbuilding; log barn, I!<x24. lour miles 
 from La Plata, one mile to schoolhouse, h.ll a 
 mile tochurch. John M. Kktciiam. 
 
 No. lO — A 360 acre farm, six miles from At- 
 lanta; all fenced and in cultivation. .\ choice 
 prairie farm, with good seven room frame houte, 
 two frame barns, one 30x,50 and the other 3<ix42. 
 Good orchard of seventy bearir.g trtc-s, go<id stock 
 well with wind-mill, also large I'ond with pipe 
 tank and float, and slocted with (ieinian carp. 
 One third of farm in oats and corn, balance in 
 meadow and pasture. Half a m:le from church, 
 one and a quarter mile* to school. One ol the 
 best farms in county. Orla Skuw. 
 
 Nu. '20. .\ 200 acre farm; two and a-half 
 ■lilies from Macon. Subdivided into forty and 
 eighty acre lots One story five room house; 
 large fra-re barn. Farm fenodwith rails and 
 wire. Large pond stocked with (German carp, 
 and one cistern. .Ml in meadow and pasture, 
 except sixteen acrr ' *• I stock farm. 
 
 F. K. Wilcox. 
 
 No. '21. T< n aLrc.>, ^illlated in the suburbs 
 of College Mound, one story six ro<prii frame 
 house, small orchard A wil. iiiipro\id place 
 with good barn and other outbuiltiings. 
 
 (> C. Reiiii 
 
28 
 
 MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 OLIVER HOTEL, 
 
 12 Rooms, situated on Hannibal & St. Joseph R. 
 
 R. Lower Story used for a General Store. 
 
 House in good repair. Can be bought 
 
 on reasonable terms. Address, 
 
 CALLAO, MO. 
 GLAYBROOK BROS. 
 
 FRED. NICHOLS &. BRO. 
 
 Hardware, StoYes and Agricultural 
 
 NEW CAMBRIA, MISSOURI. 
 
 IlKALKRS IN 
 
 EenEral MErchandisE 
 
 OK KVEKY DESCKIPTION. 
 
 Large Stocks, Low Prices, Quick Returns 
 
 .\NU S.MAI,L PltOFlTS. 
 
 OA.IjrjA.O, IWtlSSOXTR-I. 
 
 C. H, MARMADUKE, 
 
 Druggist and Apothecary, 
 
 PERFUMERY 
 AND TOII.KT AKTICLES, 
 
 OALLA.O, MO. 
 
 W. W. BRICKER, 
 
 LUMBER 
 
 — AND — 
 
 Furniture Dealer. 
 
 Owns a Half Interest in Ihc 
 
 CALLAO ROLLER MILLS, 
 
 CALLAO, - MISSOUlil. 
 
 J. H. WRIGHT & CO. 
 
 1 1 F \ I I R > IN' 
 
 EEOEral MErchanilisE 
 
 Wl; CAKKV 
 
 laeqe stocks of everything in 
 Obnbral. Demand, 
 
 AND 
 
 SELL CHEAPER than the CHEAPEST. 
 LAWRENCE CRIST, ~ 
 
 Staple and Fancy Groceries 
 
 AND FANCY ARTICLES, 
 C!A.I_iIjA.O. li^ISSOXJR,!. 
 
 JONES Sc COLE, 
 
 General Merchants 
 
 HANDLE ALL CLASSES OF 
 
 General Merohandise, Country Prodnoe, Live Stock, &o., &c. 
 NEW CAMBRIA, - MISSOURI. 
 
 F. W. PURCELL, 
 
 The Leading Photographer, 
 
 33 ROLLINS ST., MACON, MO. 
 
 No Speciaitlex. Alt Work done in the Higliext Style 
 ol tlie Art. 
 
 W. H. FEAGANS, 
 
 GeiieralClaiMilFniApt. 
 
 Old Soldiers, their Widows and Orphans, or any- 
 body interested in Claims against 
 the Government, 
 
 1'lea.se; call and skk jmjk. 
 
 MACOX, MO. 
 
 L. T. HT^IL-. 
 Tlie !Pliotogi'a})lier 
 
 21 & 23 ROLLINS ST., MACON, MO. 
 
 Tie Large.-!, Be.U Ei/uif'f'ed Studio in Nortli Uis.^oitri. 
 Children'.-: Pictures a Specialty. 
 
 MILAM & MILLER, 
 
 piiysicians and §urgeons, 
 MACON, MO. 
 
 ED. B. CLEMENTS, 
 [ bysiGian and ourgeop, 
 
 MACON, MO. 
 
 N. S. RICHARDSON, 
 
 Bl^ysiciayancl Surgcoi^ 
 
 MACON, MO. 
 
 GARY'S 
 
 ADDITION! 
 
 Lots in this Beautiful Addition, so 
 
 eligibly situated to the City of 
 
 Macon, have just been put 
 
 on the market at 
 
 less than 
 
 One-Third their Real Value 
 
 And on Terms within the Reach 
 of all. 
 
 Situated in the North part of the City, 
 
 Within live minutes walk of the 
 Post Office, the principal street 
 leading to the Addition Macadam- 
 ized to within one block, with the 
 Streets and Alleys nicely Graded 
 throughout, there is bound to be 
 considerable outcome co this prop- 
 erty. To 
 
 TH(.)SK WHO .M<i: \\ rniori' ho.mhs 
 
 Now is the Time to Buy. 
 
 High and Dry, Located right in the Oireclion of 
 the Growth of the Citv, plenty of Good Living 
 Water can be had at a depth of Twenty Feet, the 
 extremely Low Price 
 
 These Cots will be gold at. 
 
 And the Easy Terms, when all the advai lages 
 are considered, this opportunity may 
 
 Not be Offered Again in 
 A Life-Time. 
 
 Or"A Number of these Lots have been Sold. 
 J^'For full Particulars, Plats and Terms, see 
 
 aiACON, MO. 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 29 
 
 E. O. SNOW & CO. RUTHERFORD & MITCHELL, D. D ROWLAND &. BRO., 
 
 DryGoods and Clothing Attorneys at Law. Dnigs and Hardware, 
 
 Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoes, 
 Groceries, Notions, 
 
 And Everythlnic In the line of Oeneral Merchandise. 
 
 ATLANTA, MO. 
 
 V. n rmeiMi^. 
 
 A n, iHirtf»|i|Nr, 
 
 Practice in State and Federal Courts. 
 Make collections, examine and perfect 
 titles. Real Estate Law ,-i specialty. 
 
 LA PLATA, MO. 
 
 GORDON &. GOODDING, 
 
 (Succeuon to J. H. Btbcock,) 
 
 hKM.I.RS IN 
 
 General Merchandise, 
 
 INt H lllNi. 
 
 Staple and Fancy Dry Goods, Millinery, 
 
 Clothing, Boots, Shoes, 
 Notions, Gents' Furnishing Goods, eti. 
 
 ATLANTA, MO. 
 
 CX3C.A.S. OSBOI^iTE, 
 
 City Livery Feed & Sale Stables. 
 
 IIor»cs boanled by the tliiy, week or month, on rcason- 
 .it>le terms. 
 
 (HxidtcAnis and careful ilriver-i 
 Commercial trude Aolicitcd. 
 
 ATLANTA. MO. 
 
 J . B. SPENCER, 
 
 Farm Machinery Implements 
 
 Wagons, Carriages, 
 "311 Buggies, Surreys, etc. 
 Lari;e Stock and Lowest l*rk*es 
 
 LA PLATA, MO. 
 
 LA PLATA HOME PRESS 
 
 A Live Newspaper, representing a live city. 
 CHAS. N MITCHELL, Ed. & Pub. 
 
 Painters' S\ipplies, 
 Olass, I='-uitt3r, etc., etc . 
 BEVIER, MO. 
 
 A. 1 ). aOODAI.E, 
 
 ^^— liRALKH I.N 
 
 Groceries and Queensware. 
 
 COFFINS AND CASKETS 
 
 In aJJ. Sizes and. 0-rad.es. 
 BEVIER, MO. 
 
 BEVIER 
 
 v*^ 
 
 The Leading Coal Mining Town 
 in Central or North Missouri. 
 
 J. W. rations Adjustable Ratchet Bar and Bracket Store Shelving. 
 
 A Few Facts Why You Should Use'My Adjustable Shelving irons. 
 
 No more bilU ol M or 100 dolUra to pev rvrry lime you went to make a chence in your ftbclvinK. the only pcrtcctly ailjuttab:' 
 cvtrr n,rH ff>r tt.w^,. lit'mrir,. p,nfflr*. rl.*,**t.. ►ww>J(.r«.r.. rher*^ lerlorir.. rlr ihr, can h.- pat op. taken down, or chenifed to ■, ■, 
 
 h.' 
 
 lullot • . 
 
 ng Estim. 
 
 ■ b.>«e Ui«e «hrit, titcT are :{ feet lonK- should you 
 shelf txMri] .itui are put ei|rht feet AptuX, hrarkrt. ai< 
 
 PRICE LIST: <■ 
 
 KrackcK. I"- Ji "i' li "'J 
 To responttble pert* 
 myeKoen*- I euerente* ».■■.»* , •■.,'■ ■■, .-.- , ^■^■% • ■■ - ,.^.1 
 BE ACCOMPANIED BY THE CASH OR ITS EtjUIVALENT. 
 
 .; rver invented, the lic»t 
 
 ■ I ftnw^ and o -^ <ner the 
 
 ' frecn 
 
 r of 
 
 top 
 kr««. 
 
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 . T MUST 
 
 Addrr*.. J. W. PATTON, Solo Manufacturer,!MACON CITY, MO., U. S. A. 
 
30 
 
 MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 FIRST NATIONAL BANK, 
 
 MACON, MO. 
 
 CAPITAL M SURPLUS, $60,000,00. 
 
 J. H. BABCOCK. President. 
 
 JNO. SCOVERN, Cashier. 
 
 directors: 
 
 J.No. H. Babcock, S. G. Wilson, Jno. Scovern, 
 Chas. D. Sharp, Jas. G. Howe. 
 
 MACON, MO. 
 
 Capital Stock, - - $25,000.00 
 
 OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS: 
 
 E.J. Demeter, President, II. Vandebeko, VicePns., 
 
 Dl'sto.v Adams, Cashier. 
 
 T. F. Owens, W. H. Terhill. 
 
 T. L. THOMPSON, 
 
 Paiitiir Hi Paper Haier, 
 
 AND DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF PAPER HANGINGS, 
 MACON, MO. 
 
 GKO. r>. RETCHEr.. 
 
 HARNESS ^'SADDLERY. 
 
 Rest Goods. I.o\vcst Prices. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 
 
 John E. Eldridge, Manager. 
 
 Rubey Street, - - MACON, Mo. 
 
 JOHN • TV^T^VeR, 
 
 wholesalc and retail dealer in 
 
 Hardware, Glassware and Crockery, 
 
 Rochester Lamps, Cutlery, Tinware, 
 
 Iron, Steel and Wood Wagon 
 
 Materials. 
 
 MACON, - - Missouri. 
 
 FRANK E. WILLIAMS, 
 
 Jobber and Uetail Dealer in 
 
 BOOTS AND SHOES, 
 
 iTo. 22 I^olliiis Street, 
 
 MACON, 
 
 Missouri. 
 
 R. N. ECCLESTON & CO. 
 
 I • h \ 1 1 i<> I \ 
 
 STAPI.H AND FANCY GROCHRIHS, 
 
 O-letss aj3.5. Tlaa. w a .re. 
 Headquarters for l*'I«Mir, Feed ami Country Produce. 
 
 MACON, .... Missouri. 
 
 \V. T. GILBREATH. Pres't. WM. J. BIGGS, Cishicr. 
 E. M. GATES, Ass't Cashier. 
 
 La . Plaha . Savings . Banl^, 
 
 DtRECTORS. 
 
 W. T. GiLBREATii, E. M. Gates, W. J. Biggs 
 
 J. Gates, J. SI. Ikvinc, A. S. Rav. 
 
 A. D. gash. 
 
 CORRESPONDENTS. 
 
 American Ex. National Bank, New York, 
 First National Bank, Chicago. 
 
 Boatmen's Saving Bank, St. Louis, 
 
 National B'k of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo. 
 
 VISIT 
 
 MITCHELL & FISHER'S 
 
 TRADE . PALACE, 
 
 Where you will tint! a full and complete line of 
 
 DRY GOODS I NOVELTIES. 
 
 We offer the best stock of Dress Goods. The largest 
 and best assortment of Dress Silks, and the finest line of 
 Silk, Plush and Velvet. The best assortment of Cloaks, 
 Wraps and Shawls. Underwear in every style and qnaUly. 
 Hose of all kinds. Gloves in endless variety. Trimmings, 
 Luces, Ruchinp and Collars. 
 
 We carrv a very large line of Staples. Vou should not 
 fail to see' us for Clothing, Hats and Caps, Boots and 
 Shoes, Trunks and Valises. 
 
 MITCHELL & FISHER, 
 West Side. La Pl.\ta, Mo. 
 
 SURGEON - DENTIST, 
 
 LA PLATA, MO.. 
 
 The Latest Iinprovements for Extracting Tectli. 
 
 JJ^New Sets Teeth made on Reasonable Terms. 
 
 SATISFACTION GUARANTEED. 
 
 Call on Dabney & Baity, "Tlie Jewelers/' 
 
 Kor Bargains. Watchc.«, ClcK-ks, Jewelry, Silverware, 
 Platedware, Spectacles. Alt sold at bottom prices, and 
 engraved free. Special attention gi\en to repairing. 
 
 West Side Square, La Plata, Mo. 
 
 Agents for Uockford U. K. Watches. 
 
 J. J. SWARTHOUT, 
 
 THE WEST SIDE 
 
 GROCERY and PROVISION MERCHANT, 
 
 LA PLATA, 
 
 Missouri. 
 
 DRY GOODS 
 
 Tlie Ri-li:il>li- an<; Justlv Popular Firm of 
 
 GOODOING, WILLIAMS & WAIT, 
 
 On the South Side, arc now preparing 
 to receive their 
 
 GREAT FAIR STOCK, 
 
 Which will be Complete and Simply Immense in every 
 department for the early Fall Trade. 
 
 .\. F.. CUNNlNtillAM. 
 
 GASH & CUNNINGHAM, 
 
 - DF M tlKi l.N — 
 
 DrttEs, PaiDls, Oils, Wall Paper, 
 
 BOOKS, STATIONERY, 
 To.-v'.".* jiiKl FsiiK-.'v- Goocls. 
 
 LA PLATA, MO. 
 
 L. A.. th:omt»sot<j, 
 
 — DKALEK IN — 
 
 Drugs, Paints, Oils, Varnislies, Toilet Articles, 
 
 KTC. KXC". 
 1. W. WILLIAMS, Manager. LA PLATA, MO. 
 
 Wc Always Have a full slock, but will excel in this 
 prosperous year 1^88. For 
 
 DRY eOUDS, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, 
 CL0TH1N(J .VM> 
 
 Or anything in our line, vou will find it to your advan- 
 tage to come and see us. 
 
 jy BRING US YOUR PRODUCE. "*t 
 
 Goodding, Williams & Wait, 
 South Side Square. LA PLATA, Mo. 
 
 J. T^. iRviisrca-, 
 
 — DKALER IN - 
 
 A'MBER&iUMLDING MATERIALS 
 
 Buys Grain and F'ield Seeds. 
 
 Stock of Lumber kept up to the demand of ihc times. 
 
 LA PLATA. MO. 
 
 J.C.DONEGHYl^BRO., 
 
 ' DEALEBS IN ' 
 
 Srti Soodd, Kotion^, 
 
 - CXOTHING, - 
 
 Gents' Furnishing Goods. 
 
 — ALSO — 
 
 G-roceries and Furniture. 
 
 LA. PLATA, TtlO. 
 
 SEARS & SEARS, 
 
 Wholesale .mil Kclail Dealers in 
 
 ©rmgs, Books 
 
 - - STATIONERY, - - 
 Paints, Oils, Wall Paper, 
 
 DRUGGISTS' SUNDRIES, FINE CUTLERY, 
 
 GrlasiS, Notions, Fancy Groods, 
 
 Gigars, *robaccos, 
 
 STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES. 
 LA PLATA, MO. 
 
 La Plata Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, 
 
 Fine Turnouts. Reasonable Prices. 
 
 FAIB I'LAY FOB EVEBYBODY. 
 
 LA PLATA, - - Missouri. 
 
 POST OFFICE JEWELRY STORE. 
 
 JEWELRY, 'watches AND CLOCKS, 
 
 8-lv^rwa e. Diamonds, 1 aocy Ooods, Etc. 
 LA PLATA, - Missouri. 
 
MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 81 
 
 Hannibal-Saw- Mill- Co. 
 
 A.J. McCANNE, Manager. 
 
 LemliBr, SIIeeIbs, Lalli, Doiirs, 
 
 BLINDS, MOULDINGS, 
 CEMENT, HAIR, etc., etc. 
 
 Kolliiis Slnt-t, South Sitli' KallroiKl, 
 MACON, MO. 
 
 SHERMAN HOTEL 
 
 AMP — 
 
 Lunch Room, 
 
 Cor.AVeod & KollinsSts., 
 
 MACON, MO. 
 
 J. H. HAUN, Proprietor 
 
 1 I \ [ M' 1 -, 
 
 Groceries, Provisions, etc. 
 
 Highest Market Prices paid for 
 Country Produce. 
 
 No. 39 Rollint St., oppo>ile PaUce Hotel. MACON, MO. 
 
 Wholesale and Retail Grocer 
 
 \ M ' I ' ► M I-: II IN 
 
 Flour, Salt, Provisions, Cl^a's, Tobacco, 
 Powder, Shot, etc. Macon, Mo. 
 
 JOHN T. CELLHAUS, 
 
 Dealer In Staple and Fancy Groceries, 
 
 Queensware, Tinware and Glassware, 
 
 The Best Brands of Flour •i"i.»« <>" ii..ml. 
 
 Special Inducement* Ottered to Large PurctiaB«r>, 
 
 C\*tacf ut V'lnciuttl Kubcy Sl».. MaCOn, Mo. 
 
 SCRUTCHFIELD & BRC, 
 
 Livery, Feedand Sale Stables. 
 
 Buyand Sell Horses and Mules. 
 Finest Turnouts in the City. 
 
 iiourke Street* 
 MACON, MO. 
 
 WHITE (& COX, 
 
 .A-ttcme^rs at IL.a.'^jT; 
 
 MACON, MO 
 
 f>rrt( B ovm M \m uss ^T..K^. N.i \H Vine SmKar. 
 • IQO.OOO to Loan. 
 
 All Sum* of t2oO OO and Upwardi at the Low Rata of 
 
 6 par cent 
 
 MRS. CEO. A. COULTER, 
 
 fashionable TW'llinery Qoods 
 MACON. MO. 
 
 IT. I I . 1 )( >\\ X I X( .■ 
 
 Vhs LisacdiriP 
 • C L O T H I E R f 
 
 MsTGhant Vailor, 
 
 — AKIi — 
 
 Gsnts' Furnisher, 
 Suits Made to Order on Short Notice. 
 
 No. 8 Vine St., MACON, MO. 
 
 ISA^C QROSS, 
 
 — nFAI.ER IN — 
 
 Ccnfccticncric.>, 
 
 Sta] )le and Fane V Groceries, 
 
 Fi'uits, Vegetables. 
 <Jij[i:ai's and Tobaceos. 
 Rollins Street, MACON, MO. 
 
 \V. C. BELSHE. 
 
 — DKAI.RR I.N — 
 
 Dry (loods, (lotlilii::. Notions, 
 
 Hats, Caps, Boots, Shoos, 
 Trunks, Valises, etc., etc 
 Cor. Rollins \ Uoiirke Strt-fts, .Macen, Mo. 
 
 ADAM r.wlN.NlH. ( HKl.S. rttlTVCIf. 
 
 GWINNER & FRITSCH, 
 
 Groceries, Provisions 
 
 Flour, Feed and Salt. 
 Kube) Strt'et, - - - • . Muroii, Mo. 
 
 SAVE YOUR MONEY. 
 
 (»o to the Sccoiul-llaiiid Store! 
 
 From 25 to SO per cent, saved on 
 
 A! Kinds of Goods. 
 
 Fiirnitiirt<, Cliilliiim', StuteN, KddIm tc Shoes, 
 
 Hals iinil Ciip't. ('ar|i<-ti, Ojl-Clotlis, 
 
 CrtM'krr) uiiil (,la-.»«arc W'atrlics, ('liii-kn, 
 
 Jpnrlr) of all kinds, .Miisjcal liistriniifnls, 
 
 Trunk!*, tiiiiis, I'istuls. UuftglcM and 
 
 Spring WafconH, 
 
 In fact. EVEUVTmM. •.!...! . f.Mi.I, .,r i.ulM.l ,al could 
 
 uftc or (lecire. ^ - vali » 
 
 and arc retailril '. .v (or 
 
 them. When '^ ili ■'\l»- 
 
 HAND .STORE. c. F Sauvinett, Prop. 
 
 .1. II. ?<'rT* A I II..M .VN >. 
 
 The IJjiker and ( ont'eetioner. 
 
 Palace Hotel 
 
 ONLY FIRST-CLASS HOTEL 
 
 In the City. 
 
 IScllins St., ^wTacon, 3s^c. 
 
 J. J. FITZGERALD. Proprietor. 
 
 SE]ITZ, 
 
 LEADING 
 
 Livery, Feed and Sale Stable. 
 
 HORSES AND MULES 
 Bought and Sold. 
 
 FINEST TURNOUTS 
 
 At Reasonable Prices. 
 
 Carriage to and from .All Iniiiis. 
 
 MACON, MO. 
 
 Cm AlTOBMST. NOTABT PUBLIC. 
 
 TV-\r. r». TTKACII. 
 
 Spccialliet: (.nlli. tiun>, .M>,|n<rt< of Title, Real EaUle 
 Trantaclionft. Kcprcbcnt* Duo .V i <> '« Arency, Ruod*t 
 Cooinirrcial Agency, HubbcU'* l-ex.*! l^irrciory, etc . ale 
 
 |-N< .l-H I* I ' >H 
 
 W M. JONES. 
 
 I'HALKH I.V AU. lUIIDS or 
 
 .\urRultiiral Implements 
 
 MACON. MO. 
 
 Vienna. ]Ba.k.©ry. 
 
 MACON. MO. 
 
 W. J. WRIG-HT, 
 
 iMf>rMiiTnii r>» thr 
 
 PalacEGrncEryHnusE 
 
 Queensware, Cla8Sware,T in ware 
 Wholpnalr Di-slem in I'lour, Ke«l,elc 
 
 \\l...:f »ale .Vieent. (iir thr C>Icl>r«trJ rilUt>urt FI,.,jr 
 Eilr.1 Fine F1--UT 4 Spcci.»lt». 
 
 40 ud 43, oar. Balllai aad Bavka Sta., ladar Palaea Hatal. 
 MACON MO. 
 
 E. W. IVXAGINUS Jk CO., 
 
 I>BAI EMS IN 
 
 Sttiple and Fancy Groceries, 
 
 Flour, l*rovi*i(»n», C ri> krrv Ware, \\ i..'ii\ W ifr --r. . clc. 
 Choice Tc** «nJ (.'wflcr* a S[m-ciaII^ . 
 
 17 Vine St., MACON, MO. 
 
 Pianos, Organs and Sewing Machines. 
 
 Gbabnal Agk*«t roH 
 ESTSY ORt;AV ind SINGER SFWINO MACHINE. 
 
 Rubey Street, MACON, MO. 
 
 Palace Mu^ic Hcux 
 
 BaAMCH orrira ram tiik 
 
 Celebrated Kimball Organs. 
 
 Also Emerson, Hallet A. Davis and Kim- 
 ball Pianos. Come and see mo and buy 
 direct. No middle men. All goods at 
 manufacturers' prices, on easy payments 
 or for cash. GEO. O. STACY 
 
 MACON. MO. Manacar Northeait Missouri 
 
32 
 
 MACON COUNTY, MISSOURI. 
 
 T>. H^IL, 
 
 The. Only Exclusive Dry Goods and Carpet House in Macon. 
 
 We cater to the best trade onl3\ We buy only the hitest and best goods. We carry the largest stock 
 of Dry Goods and Carpets in Macon County. We sell for one price only, and to cash buyers who want to 
 receive value for your investments. We ask you to visit our store, or write for samples for comparison or 
 selection. Respectfully, J. D. HAIL, 20 Rollins St., Macon, Mo. 
 
 1S60 - - ISSS 
 
 I. C STEPHENS, THE Veteran Clothier, Leads the Town, 
 
 With the par excellent stock of Men's, Boys' Jiiid Children's Fasliionable Clothing, Hats, Caps, 
 and Gents' Furnishing Goods. Also a tirst-class Merchant Tailoring Department, where he will 
 
 execute orders for special suits on short notice, and will give you Taste, Style and a Magic Fit. 
 
 This is Headquarters for the Best Goods and the Lowest PriceS. A cordial welcome and polite 
 
 attention to all. It will pay you to call on I. C. STEPHENS, the One-Price Clothier, No. 18 Rollins St., MACON, MO. 
 
 And, STEPHENS A SIPPLES, Chillicothe. 
 
 JOHN H. GRIFFIN, 
 
 Bal^state,fioaii & InsuraDce 
 Notary Pu])lic & Al)stractor. 
 
 Collections Promptly Attended to. 
 Correspondence Solicited. 
 
 ROLLINS STREET. NEAR COURTHOUSE. 
 
 GEO. P. RICHEL, 
 
 The Monster 
 
 Save Your Dollar 
 Furniture & Coffin Man 
 
 — OF — 
 
 MACON, MO. 
 
 S. J. WILSON, 
 
 ■<|nAuranee Mq^ntr 
 
 FIRE, 
 
 LIFE, 
 
 ACCIDENT, 
 
 TORNADO. 
 
 Only FIRST-CLASS Companies Represented. 
 Office, No. 18 Vine St., AAACON, MO. 
 
 Douo. Smith. Jim Howb. 
 
 SMITH & HOWE, 
 
 The "Live and Let Live Grocers." 
 
 RdLLiNs St., opi'iisiTE Palace Hotkl. 
 
 Motto: Low Prices, No. 1 Goods, Fair Dealing. 
 
 TWoneij* to Coan 
 
 •TOHTV CROARKIIN, 
 
 — ' DEAUEK IN — 
 
 Staple and Fancy Groceries, 
 
 FLOrR, FEED .\ND SALT. 
 Also carries full line of uaEENSW ARK. 
 
 Cor. of Rubey & Bourke Sts., Macon, Mo. 
 
 J. J. TDATVIS, 
 
 PEAI.J-H IN 
 
 Eggs, Butter, Hides, Tallow, Feathers. 
 
 MACON, MO. 
 
 Dealer iu Hardware, Stoyes and Tinware. 
 
 RooAng', Guttering' :ind Spouting promptly attended to. 
 
 Vine St., MACON, MO. 
 
 LONDON & HICKS, 
 
 Financial Agents for Eastern Capitalists. 
 Have nn iinlimitod supply of 
 
 J. m:. ttjronkr. 
 
 Dealer in All Kinds of Fresb'and Salt Meats, 
 
 FRESH FISH .-VI-WAYS ON HAND 
 
 Rubey St., Macon, Mo. 
 
 JOHN F. KI-A-KL, 
 
 Carpenter and Contractor, 
 
 ROLLINS ST., MACON, MO. 
 
 M. S. GORDON. 
 
 J. w. MCCANNK. 
 
 Gordon & McCanne, 
 
 . DKALKRS IN - 
 
 LOANABLE CAPITAL. 
 
 Buy and Sell Real Estate BUGG1ES,C.'VRRIAGES 
 
 Farm and Spring Wagons, 
 
 HA-VK A. 
 
 COMPLETE SET OF ABSTRACTS 
 
 •To All Lands in the County. Cor- 
 respondence Solicited. 
 
 MACON, MO. 
 
 FARM MACHINERY, 
 
 (irain and Grass Seeds, and SHppers of 
 
 Cattle and Hoers. 
 
 Make a Specialty of Agricultural imple- 
 ments. Special Attention given to Repairs. 
 
 Rubey Street, South Side R. R., 
 MACON, MO. 
 
MOUNTAIN 
 
 1 I I 
 
 SOLID TRAINS WITH 
 
 Pullman Buffet * 
 * Sleeping Cars 
 
 DAILY TO EL PASO, TEX. 
 
 Where the onlv Change U made to 
 
 San Francisco. 
 
 SAME E(^l IPMKNT TO HOl'STON 
 
 <!ir (iALVESTON. THK ONLY 
 
 LINE TO AISTIN ANU 
 
 SAN ANTONIO. 
 
 Close Connection at Marshall, 
 Texas, for New Orleans, and at 
 Malvern, for the Famous Hot 
 Springs of Arkansas. 
 
 TWO TRAINS DAIl.^' 'IT) 
 
 # ST. LOUIS, # 
 
 WITH PULLMAN BUFFET 
 
 SLEEPING CARS. MAKING 
 Direct Connection at Poplar Bluff for 
 
 'W^M. H. GOODDING, 
 
 Staple and l-aiicv (Groceries. Moiir, Feed and Provisions, 
 
 COR. BOURK AND ROLLINS STS., - MACON, MO 
 
 ..1 111-. iiMi Cnllforhlfl |lv..j>..r nc-l .m.t can ttoodft. 
 
 NUkc tt SfH:ci.tlt« fi tl .-h 
 
 HABERMANN &. SOLDAN, 
 
 i>r \i »fl^ IN 
 
 L-U7V^BER. SHINCL-ES. L-I7V^E. BTC, 
 
 Yard, South Side of Railroad, - MACON, MO. 
 
 I'^r^ici). w. (tIEssklma X X. 
 
 V\Z7^TCH7V\7=^I<eR 7XISD JEV\ZEL-ER. 
 
 Dealer In Diamonds. Fine Gold and Silver Watches. Clocks and Jewelry. 
 
 13 VINE STREET, 
 
 MACON. MO. 
 
 R. M. J. SHARP & SON, 
 
 STAPLE AND FANCY DRY GOODS, NOTIONS, HTC. 
 
 We make .1 iip«ri;ilty of everythiiiK in <>ur line. VINE STREET, MACON, MO. 
 
 '- "■ ^^■"■-•-- WILLIAMS & WOOL0RI06E. J- w. xvooiiir.Doi 
 
 I^ EGISTK l^ E r> PH A I^ M AC I STS. 
 
 "wide Awtike" Druggists of MACON, Missouri. 
 
 S,i«cial attention Kiven to C'ompoun'liii^ Prescriptions. I'urc Wines .inil l.iauor> £t>r Mctlic.il I*urpofte«. Imported Kcr 
 West Cij^rs. We sell T. II. Jarkson.V Co.'s Common Sense Liniment. Mnfii. al Qiiincy, III.; (.ar^re Ifi ot. bottler, $1.00. 
 
 JOE. J.if^EO^iE^ 
 
 t ' I M I l< 1 -. 
 
 Hardware, Sloyes -^ Agricnllnral Implements 
 
 xsGc. i.eee. 
 
 E. J. DE7VTETER. 
 
 VVholc»alc und ReUil 
 
 u 
 ar 
 
 < 
 
 z 
 
 stoyei 
 
 g- HARDWARE. STOVES AND TINWARE. 
 
 ANO X <■.•■ 
 
 '^^H^ 
 
 jJJ House Furnishing Goods, • • 
 
 Iron, Steel and Wagon Lamps, 
 • • China and Glassware Stock. 
 
 Folders descriptive of the C'oiin- 
 I! V, with sectional and coiintv 
 Maps, givinjj time. etc.. will be 
 cheerfully furnishetl by the com- 
 pany's agents, or by addressing 
 
 H. C. T0WN8END. 
 
 EMPIRE LUMBER CO., 
 
 LUMBER. DOORS. WmOOW BLINDS. 
 
 A. U SiioHTmrM.K, Buulli S de H. 4 8t. J R R 
 ' MiMigCT. MACON, Mo. 
 
 H. 8l H. W. DONEGHY, 
 
 I . I't,.,- I>. ,lr- I • 1 
 
 DRY GOODS. •'• •'• 
 CLOTHING. 
 ■r t- BOOTS ^'^ SHOES. 
 
 34-36 Rollins St., MACON, Mo 
 
 ; KAi » M IS 
 
 DIAMONDS, WATCHES and CLOCKS, 
 
 .Jewelry. Etc.. 
 5 Vine Street. - MACON. Mo. 
 
 T. Xj. THOIvIFSOIT, 
 
 '•> Al I H IN 
 
 Large Stock and Plenty of I)a\ 
 
 Light in our I louse. wj- /-^ i 
 
 »,. Ti,> B.iidt M. 6 ¥,n, St. . MACON , jfo. W 1 H CJ O W GIRSS t" 
 
 '4. and Wall Paper 
 
 J. w. «r»t> T. «. wnnoM 
 
 REED & WISDOM, 
 
 H ■ . \ I 
 
 (G. P A: T. A.) 
 
 ST. LOUlS. 
 
 MARBLE AND GRANITE DEALERS. *'" P*"*^" *ND paper hanger. 
 
 Rolllna 8tr«M, - - MACON, Mo. rt=lllrLo St.. IvX-A-OOiT, 2^o. 
 

 xHe iAiKBHSH iA^esxeRN RKILAa^HY 
 
 niS sreat system comprises 1,U7 miles of magnificent steel rail tracks, over COO miles of which is in the State of Missouri, 
 forming a Grand Trunk Line between its principal cities. Starting from St. Lonis, tiie greatest gate way on the .Mississippi, 
 the Wahash Wksteks penetrates the garden of Missouri in a most direct manner, running through its magnificent gram and 
 coal fields to its western border, linking together the Greatest Commercial Centers of the West. 
 
 Every division of this great system is a "Through Car Line," with the Finest Equipment in the country. The Waisash 
 \Vkstei;n runs Three Daily Trains between St. Louis and Kansas City ; Two Daily Trains between St. Louis and Omaha and Two 
 Daily 'J'hrough 'J'rains between St. Louis, Ottumwa, Des Moines and St. Paul. All these Through Fast Trains are models of 
 elegance and comfort. No Second Chi.-^s Trains are run. Emigrants and home seekers are carried on the Fastest Express 
 Trains. The Wahash Western is the "Short Through Car Line" to all points in Central and Northern Missouri. Bear 
 this in mind and whetiier destined to, or through, Missouri, be sure your ticket reads, via St. TtODIS and the Wabash W'estehk K'y. 
 Any Ticket Agent in the United States will furnish you information in reference to, and sell Tickets at Low Rates, via this Popular 
 
 Through Car Route. „ * , » 
 
 CHAS. W. HAYS, CenM Manager. C. S. CRANE, A. C. P. & T. A. F. CHANDLER, C. P. A T. A. 
 
 ST. XjO-CTIS, 2s^ISSO"Cr3R,I. 
 
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