The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 22, 1888, Page 9

BATES COUNTY INUELA. MISSOURI. BATES COUN i # j 2 & RICH LANDS, CHEAP FARMS, YALUA- “COAL LANDS, CITIES AND OTHER ADVANTAGES | ‘ LG , the County Seat, one of the Most Thriving | Cities in the West. Sees and Churches \ Ee) eee For the purpose of answering the many inquiries addressed to us | non-residents, and giving reliable information to those seeking new | sand profitable investments, we have prepared this brief deserip- | of Bates County, Missouri. \ This county lies in the western part B60 miles south of Kansas City, and wi ag an area of about 900 square miles, a } Bot 38,000. In population itis the fifth co ‘ral resources it is the wealthiest. The surface consists of fine, rolling prairie, 1 ifor the richne Asoil and beautiful sconcry. the, and is very productive, yielding from 59 to p and all other grains in proportion. county. The soil is gener adeep, darl 75 bushels of ¢ There is really uo waste GRASSES. Grasses of all kinds, and particularly timothy, clover and blue grass well, producing, on an average, about two tons to the acre. The winters are short and little feed is required for stock. TIMBER. Timber of almostevery yariety, except pine, is found in abundance on the s. Cord wood in the towns brings from $1.50 to $3.00 per cord. lumber sells for about $1 per hundred feet, pine $1 to $2 per hun- according to quality. WATER. Many str; traverse the county forming plenty of good: stock. wa- Away 1 ese never-failing and good water is easily ob- d by digging wells, and with little cost. FRUIT. This is indeed a fine fruit country and our farmers have taken great tin raising fine orchards of the choicest varieties. Apples bring good and are shipped in large quantities to Kansas, Colorado, Ne- ia, Dakota and Minnesota. Our farmers have received as much as #00 for one apple crop, the shippers taking them from the trees. This has a very successful horticultural society, and for any particular Formation on fruit raising address the president of this society, Judge Roberts or Capt. E. P. Henry, of Bytler, Mo. IMPROVEMENTS. § The land is all fenced with fenees made of posts and planks, poste wire, and hedge. Stock laws make it unnecessary to fence against hogs isheep. The beautiful farms and pleasant homes show the energy aterprise of our people. The improvements are good and substan- To give a eorrect impression of the improvements of this county ve had cuts made from actual photographs of some of our privateand buildings and representing some of the manufacturing and mining tsof the county. The following are some of the farm houses in nty. We consider these a fair average of the farm houses in the a ) FARM RESIDENCE OF W. P. DUVALL. ISSUED BY J. K. BRUGLER & SON, REAL ESTATE AGENTS, BUTLER, MISSOURI. = least one half of the county. is underlaid with a vein of coal from 3 tod | feet thick and of excellent quality. Mines are opened in many places for || the purpose of supplying the home demand, but so far ther: are only = o a z lit at poh ht ‘ANN == I: | i} FARM RESIDENCE OF W. F. DUVALL. ndsome Residences, Fine Public Buildings, Schools, __ Ne. &, PACIFIC SHAFT.—wew emproyep 250. two companies engaged in mining and shipping coal, to-wit: The Keith & Perry Coal Co., with a capital of $300,000, and the Rich Hill Coal Co.. with a capital of $500,000. These companies are now shipping annually No. 5. & 6, KEITH & PERRY COAL CO.—weEN EMPLOYED, 400. is county about 800,000 tons. The demand for coal is so great i | from th | that at below some cuts of coal shafts operated by these companies. t four times this amount should be shipped every year. a Ne. 2, PACIFIC SHAFT.—men Emptoven 75. The mining to supply the home demand is ona smaller scale and is done by “drifting,” “stripping,” or by a shaft which is operated by horse power, as shown by this cut: SHAFT AT AMORET. This shaft is 60 feet deep to a 4 foot vein of very superior coal. This coal field is very extensive. The surface of the land consists of welt improved farms, that can now be bought for what they are worth as farm lands, that is $25 to $30 per acre. When this land has railroad transpor- tation it will sell for $100 to $150 per acre. No better and safer invest- FARM RESIDENCE OF D. N. THOMPSON. ments can be made anywhere than in these coal lands at present prices: aes ‘We can refer to many investments and give a few assamples: In 1879 Good improved farms can now be bought for $15 to $30 per acre, on | Geo. W. Wagner bought 80 acres of raw prairie for $400. His deed is reasonable terms. These farms are very rich and productive, and being | recorded in Deed Book Q 1, page 218. In 1882 he sold this land ‘for so near Kansas City, a place of 170,000 inhabitants, there is a good mar-| $8,500. This deed is recorded in Book 60, page 62. Wm. E. Walton ket for everything. Farms rent for $1.50 to $3.00 per acre. In a short es time these farms will sell from two to four times their present value. COAL. Bates county is noted for its rich coal lands. At first the coal was supposed to be confined to certain fields, but now it would seem that. at == = ‘iN AMORET SHAFT. TTT y eet dies : Ne |S a : and P. C. Fulkerson, in 1879, purchased 240 acres for the small sum of SSeS; TiS ; $150, deed recorded in Book R, page 279, and on June 2, 1882, they sold AN to the Rich Hill Coal Mining Co. 226 acres for $34,266.67, deed record- ed in Book 61, pages 601 and 602. In 1878, H. P. Robinson purchased 72 acres for $1,880, deed in Book 65, page 462, and sold Dec. 3, 1883, for $13.750, deed recorded in Book 69, page 106, and the grantees [CONTINUED O¥ NEXT PAGE. ] oe ee