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 CHAPTER XXXVII GENERAL STATUS Location — Area — Topography — Timber — • Industries — Transportation — Towns — Population — Schools — Wealth — Bollinger — Butler — Cape Girardeau — Car- ter — Dunklin — Iron — Jefferson — Madison — ■ Mississippi — New Madrid — Pemi- scot — Perry — Reynolds — Ripley — St. Francois — Ste. Genevieve — Scott — Stoddard — Washington — Wayne. The sketches embraced in this chapter are designed to present a general pen-picture of the counties of Southeast Missouri embraced in this work. The counties are given in alpha- betical order. Bollinger county joins Cape Girardeau on the west. It contains 39-4,240 acres, about one-third of which is under cultivation ; the other two-thirds being unimproved and cov- ered with timber. The principal timbers are oak, hickorj' and walnut on the hills, and gum and cypress in the valleys of the rivers and streams. The county is almost wholly ag- ricultural in character, the chief products be- ing those of the farm. In addition to these products a large amount of lumber is shipped out every year. In 1910 there were shipped more than nine million feet of lumber. The north part of the county is rolling, partly broken and there is a considerable area of un- cultivated land that is capable of cultivation. The southern part of the county extends unto the edge of the lowlands. The population of Bollinger count.v is prin- cipally American born, there being only a few negroes, and not a great many settlements have any large number of foreign immi- grants. The population in 1910 was 14,576, $2,797,570. There are 89 school districts, employing 94 teachers and the number of childi-en enumerated in 1910 was 4,781. The principal towns are Marble Hill, which is the county seat, and Lutesville; besides these there are Glen Allen, Bessville, Sturdi- vant, Zalma and some other smaller places. The principal streams in the count.v are Crooked Creek, South Fork, and Little White- ^ater, and the comity is traversed by the Belmont branch of the St. Louis, Iron Moim- tain & Southern and the St. Louis & San Francisco railroads. There are no factories in the coimty except some saw mills, stave factories, flouring mills and other similar institutions. The total value of manufactured products inchiding railroad ties was $389,072 in 1910. There is some water power which will probably be used at some time. There are no mineral products, except kaolin, which is taken out in quantities near Glen Allen and some good lime stone found in a number of different places. 510
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