Geological Report of the Country Along the Line of the Southwestern Branch of the Pacific Railroad, State of Missouri |
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3d Magnesian Limestone abundant acres amount beds bluffs bonds bottoms Broadhead brown hematite chert clay Clede climate copper creek cultivation deposits Diggings east extended feet fissure Franklin furnace galena Gasconade Gasconade river geological Granby grape green carbonate Green county Green Hematite hematite hickory hills iron Iron pyrites Jasper Jefferson Lead Swallow lime Litton Litton Litton Litton localities Lode Louis Magnesian Limestone Maries county Meramec miles Missouri Muscadine N.E. qr nearly Newton county numerous Oak Quercus obtained oxide Pacific Railroad Phelps Phelps county pounds of mineral prairie profit Pulaski pyrites Railroad Company Railroad land rich soil ridge river road rock S.E. qr Sandstone Scotch hearth shafts Shumard slopes smelted South-west branch SOUTH-WESTERN BRANCH Specular Spring streams Sulphuret sunk surface Taney Taney county timber valleys veins vine vineyards VITIS Vitis labrusca Washington Lead Litton Washington Litton water power width yielded
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Page 1878 - Native Grapes.—The growth and fruit of our native vines give us most important indications of the adaptation of our soil and climate to the cultivation of the grape. The following species have been observed, and the growth, habits, and fruit of each variety, have been carefully examined. 1. VITIS LABRUSCA, Linn. Fox
Page 1879 - is most abundant in the southern part of the State. It grows very large and produces abundantly. Its fruit is very much esteemed. The cultivated Scuppernong Grape is a variety from this species. 6. VITIS BIPINNATA, Michx. This plant was observed in Cape Girardeau and Pemiscot counties. 7. VITIS INDIVISA,
Page 1888 - who have so faithfully devoted their labor and their money to promote this important department of husbandry in our midst; for the time is not far distant when the " poor flint ridges " and terraced slopes of Southern Missouri will be as valuable for vineyards as some of them are now for their rich mineral deposits;
Page 1881 - per acre ; Total expense for each year $70 to $90 per acre; so that an income of $100 per annum for each acre is sufficient to pay the interest on the first cost and the expense of cultivation.
Page 1879 - (D. C.) of California. The vines are so abundant and so large as to form an important and conspicuous part in every copse and thicket throughout the entire State. They are everywhere present, lending grac'e and beauty to every landscape, and indicating with prophetic certainty that the day is not far distant when the purple vineyards will cover our hills,
Page 1884 - would give place to sobriety; and our people, nourished by the grape and its pure wines, would become as robust and hardy as they are now daring and indomitable. Natural Terraces.—The bluffs of the numerous streams in Southern Missouri
Page 1888 - when the vineyards of Pulaski and La Clede will compete in golden profits with the hemp farms of Lafayette and Platte; and the vine-clad hills of the beautiful Meramec and the Gasconade will vie in wealth with the leaden veins of Potosi and Granby.
Page 1885 - And, besides, the thinnest soils on these terraces sustain a vigorous growth of prairie grasses, flowers, shrubs and vines, which produce the finest quality of grapes in great profusion.
Page 1875 - many localities in Southern Europe, the soil is such as to prevent the full success of the vine, though the climate is all that could be desired. Soil.—According to Virgil* and the best authors who have followed him, the soil should be warm, light, dry, and rich in alkalies and alkaline earths, especially potash, soda, lime and magnesia. The best vines have been
Page 1849 - power to survey, mark, locate and construct a railroad from the city of St. Louis to the city of Jefferson ; and thence to some point on the western line of Van Buren