. 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. is con-sidered a miners lot. Without expense to the owner of the land, minerswill sink a shaft and operate, paying the owner one-fifth royalty. A person not visiting the country can have no conception of theopportunities for profitable investment. There is an entire absence ofspeculation. People in the East, who have been content with invest-ments paying six, sev
. 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. is con-sidered a miners lot. Without expense to the owner of the land, minerswill sink a shaft and operate, paying the owner one-fifth royalty. A person not visiting the country can have no conception of theopportunities for profitable investment. There is an entire absence ofspeculation. People in the East, who have been content with invest-ments paying six, seven and eight per cent, can scarcely credit the state- 44 ^MISSOURI. ments relative to the wonderful opportunities for sure, safe and veryprofitable investments in the lead and zinc district of Missouri. The mining interests are just in their infancy, although the productalready exceeds $2,000,000 annually. The people are just awakening tothe value of their property. At the same time mineral land can still besecured at reasonable prices from those who cannot appreciate at thistime their prospective value, and who are satisfied with what they con-sider a large profit on land—which to-day sells at from $35 to $5100 per acre—. A COUNTRY FORD. OZARK MOUNTAINS. which entry secured a few years ago at comparatively insignificant pricesfrom the government. Much of the land when located was purchasedfrom the government at a shilling an acre, and $50 represents an enor-mous advance, while the same land as soon as developed often changeshands at $10,000 to $50,000 an acre. The sulphurate of zinc, knownamong miners as blackjack, is often found in such quantities as to retardthe progress of lead mining, and from the expense of getting the ores to MISSOUEI. 45 the smelting works, it has been thrown out in dumps, and much of itleft as worthless matter. This was formerly the case. But by the com-pletion of railroads, giving better transportation facilities, this ore hasbecome valuable merch
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