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jniuc., umun uiu win iiivvw iu jmicnaacmakes this the best year for emigration since the war.THE GENERAL SURFACE •Of. the country embraced in the comities of PJielps. Maries, Pulaski and Texils, is intersected witli numerous streams ail of which afford abundant water power. The elevation is from SOrt to 800 above tlie Mississippi river at St. Louis, and Is generally moderately rolling, a-long the streams broken and rocky, with occasionally almost perpendicular bluffs from 200 to.'100 feet high. Tire bottoms vary from a few hundred yards to a mile in width, bordered by highridges, upon the top.of which Hie wide tracts of level or slightly undulating land. Between tiiese ridges tlie country extending from one stream lo another is diversified with broad, smooth, but irregular swells, between which are exceedingly fertile valleys, not usually exceeding half a mile in.width, but often several miles in length, and known us “pra trio hollows.** The whole being sufficiently undulating to be well drained, and, excepting a email portion, sufficiently level for agricultural purposes.TIMBER.The rich bottoms of all the streams sustain a heavy growth of excel lent timber of all the useful tarieiies; oak, walnut, bntlernut, maple, ash, elm, hickory, gum, bjrch, mulberry, lnickberry, sycamore, plum, pawpaw, sumach, hazel, and buckeye, are most abundant. The slopes of some of the highlands are covered with lorests of trees similar to those found in the bottoms ; while other portions of thehiglands produce a medium growth of while, black, and post oak, hickory and hazel. A part is sparsely timberedwith small black jacks, post oaks and hickories, forming what are termed “oakopenings.'*In Texas county an abundance of excellent yel-Itiw yine is found along the Big l’iney and other i.toms, which furnish good water power lor lumbering purposes, and upon which the sawed lumber anil logs are rafted our. throng* the centre of this section, and find a ready market at Jerome on the Smith Pacific railroad. '1 here are now several saw mills in operation in this pine region . 'WATER.This sect ion is well watered by numerous Firings and streams. The most important are thu Gascotmle, Big Piney, Little l’iney, Koubi-dnnv, Current, Beaver, Bourbcusc, Meramec, Maries, Lavern, Jones, and Spring Creek, all of which arc clear, rapid streams; there are several springs whtlt;*h at their source lttrmsheplen-.did mill privileges, such as the head of tlie Mer-amecatliie. .Menu nee Iron Works, the Koubi-donx at Waynesville, and several others upon which mills have been built. While we liavo numerous springs and streams large enough to furnish good mill sites, the smaller fountains and brandies are so abundant that almost every farm is welt supplied. # In short, the pure limpid streams of this region are unrivalled itt beauty and adaption to ttie wants of man,SOIL AND PRODUCTIONS*The soil is generally very productive, along the bottoms, in the prairie hollows, and on th»* brood ridges where most of the pvn ivies are found deep and rich.. The hillsides produce abundance of grass, and seem especially adapted to the cultivation of the grape, which are here produced hi an abundance and perfection unsurpassed iu any portion of tlie country. Whether the settler may desire to engage in raising grain, stock, nr fruit, or in nJl, he will find no bettor locality than this. AH kinds of grain do well; wheat has proved every year since, the settlement of the country a sure crop. Then* he no better grass country than this, and the. short winters, extensive range, and abundance of water, with the near market, make stock-raising very profitable. All kinds of fruit and vegetables' suited to the latitude thrive wonderfully, anil bring large rr-turiis tor* jdJ Jsbor and capital invested, /.'ftps section is .destined to become the great orchard or fruit garden und vineyard of the central portion ol the United tttatec.
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Rolla Phelps County New Era
Rolla, Missouri, US
Sat, Oct 14, 1876
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