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 MISSOURI, 
 
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 Where the Climate is Mild, the La 
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 ON THE LINE OF THE 
 
 St. Louis, Iron Mountain and Soutliern 
 
 THOS, ESSEX, Land Commissioner, 
 
 LITTLE BOCK, J\.KK. 
 
X TOU have your choice of 2,000,000 Acres, 
 
 \ comprising every variety of soil and location, 
 -^ suitable for Agriculture, Stock- Raising, Fruit- 
 Growing, or Manufacturing. You can choose a home 
 among the hills, where apples, pears, peaches, and grapes 
 will thrive, and make the luxuries as common as the nec- 
 essaries of life. You can cover the uplands with fields 
 of Wheat, Oats, Rye, or Barley, and get crops that you 
 will not be ashamed to show in any market; or you can 
 make the rich bottoms beautiful with fleecy cotton and 
 tall corn that will bring ready money in convenient 
 markets. In the crowded city you are compelled to 
 struggle on, from year to year, to keep your family fed 
 and clothed, and at the end find yourself just where you 
 were in the beginning, while the rent you have to pay 
 for your house, would buy a good farm in the Southwest, 
 where there are no long winters to eat up the savings of 
 the summer; where the same exertions you are making 
 now will not only give you an abundant living, but will 
 enable you to leave a comfortable home for your children 
 after you. 
 
 COME AMD LOOK AT THE LANDS. 
 
 ROUND TRIP TICKETS, with privilege of 
 stopping off at any Station, both ways, will be sold at re- 
 duced rates. Apply to 
 
 R. COUCH, E. A. FORD, 
 
 Pana, 111. St. Louis. 
 
 OR TO D. AXTELL, Cairo, 111. 
 
 Ass't Land Commissioner, 
 N. W. Cor. Tourth and Market Sts., St. Louis, Mo. ^ 
 
^E.icj^nsrs^s. 
 
 THE ST. LOUIS, IRON MOUNTAIN and 
 SOUTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY has a 
 grant of lands from the United States of nearly 
 two million acres, embracing all varieties of soil and 
 timber, and adapted to farming, fruit-growing, and 
 grazing purposes. The grant was made more than 
 twenty years ago, and the lands have been withheld 
 from market since then. In the meantime, the adjoining 
 alternate sections have been taken up and the country 
 settled. Peace, good order and good feeling pre- 
 vail throughout the State. 
 
 Its Constitution is liberal in all its provisions. It 
 guarantees equal rights and privileges to all per- 
 sons. Taxation for State purposes cannot be made to 
 exceed one per centum of the assessed value of the 
 property. The support and maintenance of free 
 schools is made obligatory. 
 
 The State has a climate not surpassed by any in the 
 Union. Its soil is fertile and of varied productions. 
 Cotton, Corn, Wheat, Oats, Fruits of all kinds, can 
 be grown with certainty. 
 
 The State has never been afflicted with " grasshoppers," 
 " cotton- worms," or other destructive insects. 
 
 I'eople from all sections of the country who desire to 
 better their condition, are cordially invited to come to 
 Arkansas and secure cheap homes. 
 
 Personal property of each head of a family, to the 
 extent of five hundred dollars in value, and not 
 including wearing apparel, is also exempt. 
 
 Thus it will be seen that by the liberal provisions of 
 the laws of the United States, and of the State, a home- 
 stead is guaranteed to each citizen. 
 
 Railroads Lands are offered at low prices and on 
 easy terms of payment, from $2.50 upward, with a 
 general average of from $3 to $5 per acre for good 
 farming land. 
 
 Address THOIMI/LS ESSEX, 
 
 Land Commissioner St. L., I. M. & S. R'y- 
 \ LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 
 
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