The New Student's Reference Work/Aurora, Mo.

Aurora, Mo., a city of Lawrence County, on the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis and the St. Louis & San Francisco railroads, about 270 miles southwest of St. Louis. Agriculture, fruit-growing and considerable lead and zinc mining are the chief industries of the region. Besides the shipment of these products, the city has flour mills, foundry and machine shops. Population, 4,148.