. 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. of are many magnificent trees in this region, and 4,000 to 6,000 feet oflumber are now cut to the acre, leaving the smaller growth intact. The timber in southern Missouri varies with the latitude. In thesoutheastern portion of the State the poplar, the sweet, black and yellowgum, the pine and cypress, the birch, the beech and the tulip tree havetheir
. 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. of are many magnificent trees in this region, and 4,000 to 6,000 feet oflumber are now cut to the acre, leaving the smaller growth intact. The timber in southern Missouri varies with the latitude. In thesoutheastern portion of the State the poplar, the sweet, black and yellowgum, the pine and cypress, the birch, the beech and the tulip tree havetheir home, and one scarcely, if ever, found in the northern or westerncounties, but through the entire region of southern Missouri. The foresttrees are oak, walnut and hickory, elm, maple, ash and locust, with theirvarieties, cherry, cottonwood, willow, persimmon, pecan, hackberry, mul-berry, box elder, sassafras, growing to tree size, and, in the southwest, thechestnut and the chinquepin. A bill has been introduced in the State Legislature at Jefferson Cityproviding for the incorporating of booming companies on the rivers ofMissouri, especially on the Current river, the principal and lowest townon which is Doniphan. MISSOUEI. 57. 58 MISSOURI. This plan is feasible and practical, and, if no opposition be made to it,it Avill, doubtless, be carried out sooner or later. The estimate, 400,000car-loads, of the lumber in easy reach of Current river is probably noexaggeration. The forests in this section are immense and the timberis of the finest and of the best varieties. As the matter now stands, thegreater part is naturally tributar}^ to St. Louis, and, with the proper effortson the part of St. Louis capitalists, the trade would preponderate in favorof that place. Doniphan is the largest town on Current river. It is situated ten milesnorth of the Arkansas line and immediately below the great pine is 200 miles from St. Louis, and is in direct railroad communicationwith it by mea
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