. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. 7 school districts, employ-ing 133 teachers. The principal town is DeSoto, largely arailroad town, with a population of about5,000; the county seat is Hillsboro, one ofthe oldest towns in the county. Besides thesethe principal towns are Crystal City, Festus,Herculaneum, Kimswick, Riverside, Victoriaand Selma. The manufactures of the county are veryextensive. In 1910 they reached the totalof $8,111,433. By far the largest item inthis great amount was the products of thesmelt
. History of southeast Missouri : a narrative account of its historical progress, its people and its principal interests. 7 school districts, employ-ing 133 teachers. The principal town is DeSoto, largely arailroad town, with a population of about5,000; the county seat is Hillsboro, one ofthe oldest towns in the county. Besides thesethe principal towns are Crystal City, Festus,Herculaneum, Kimswick, Riverside, Victoriaand Selma. The manufactures of the county are veryextensive. In 1910 they reached the totalof $8,111,433. By far the largest item inthis great amount was the products of thesmelters which in themselves amoimted tomore than $5,000,000. Glass was another bigitem, being more than $1,500,000. Otherlarge items were the products of the carshops, shoes and flour. This enormous totalmakes Jefferson the most important manu-facturing county in the southeast. The chief industrial interest of Madisoncoimty is mining. There are large depositsof lead, cobalt, copper, granite, marble andiron in the county. One of the oldest minesin Southeast Missouri, Mine La Motte, is in HISTORY OP SOUTHEAST MISSOURI 515.
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