. Statistics and information concerning the state of Missouri and its cheap farming lands, the grazing and dairy region, the mineral and timber resources, the unsurpassed fruit lands, and limitless opportunities for labor and capital. been culled, small and very valuable tracts may beentered under the homestead and pre-emption laws. The railroad com-panies still own large quantities of land. In every county in the State farms and improved lands can be pur-chased at very low ]>rices. CLIMATE AND HEALTH ^VERY other advantage Deing equal, the climate will turn the scale foror against a country
. Statistics and information concerning the state of Missouri and its cheap farming lands, the grazing and dairy region, the mineral and timber resources, the unsurpassed fruit lands, and limitless opportunities for labor and capital. been culled, small and very valuable tracts may beentered under the homestead and pre-emption laws. The railroad com-panies still own large quantities of land. In every county in the State farms and improved lands can be pur-chased at very low ]>rices. CLIMATE AND HEALTH ^VERY other advantage Deing equal, the climate will turn the scale foror against a country and determine the land seeker in his choice of ahome. It is intimately connected with the well-being of its inhabitants,and is indeed the most essential element of this well-being which naturecan grant them. So that then the consideration of the climatic condi- 18 MISSOURI. tions becomes of the first importance in the selection of a conntry ^vhichis to become the permanent home of our families. Missouri lies almostin the center of the North American continent, It is therefore essen-tially an inland State, with all the advantages and disadvantages of suchan inland, or as it is termed scientifically, a continental climate. Two. rivers, the largeston the continent,the Mississippi onthe eastern bor-der, and the IMis-souri through thecenter of the State, and their numerous afiSuents, favorably modify the climatic condi-tions. Its elevation above the ocean varies from 300 to 400 feet in thesoutheastern portion of the State to 1,200 and 1,600 in the southwest. The State is situated just on tlie limits of the wooded x-)ortion of theMississippi valley and of the western prairie country, and partakes of ON BIG RIVER A Reminisoenob of thb Past. MISSOURI. 19 both conditions. The watershed of the Ozark mountains passinj^ throughthe southern portion of the State, from northeast to southwest, attain amaximum elevation above the surrounding country of 800 feet, but arenot high enough to exert
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