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lieut .- Col. R. H. Todd, Asst. Chief of Ordnance St. Joseph
Col. Theo. Fiske, Surgeon-General. .. Mooresville
Lieut .- Col. J. A. Britts, Asst. Surgeon-General .. Clinton
Col. W. P. Gibson, Paymaster-General. . Warrensburg
Lieut .- Col. L. G. Hopkins, Asst. Paymaster-General . Liberty
Col. L. Renfro, Chief of Signal Corps. Greenfield!
Lieut .- Col. C. H. Woodson, Asst. Chief of Signal Corps Salisbury
Col. T. M. Cobb, Chaplain-General. Belton
Lieut .- Col. J. A. Russell. Asst. Chaplain-General Lutesville
Col. R. W. Nicolds, Chief Engineer. . Marshall
Lieut .- Col. M. L. Belt, Asst. Chief Engineer. Higginsville
Col. W. C. Bronaugh, Chief of Information Bureau. . . Clinton
Lieut .- Col. J. Q. Plattenburg, Asst. Chief of Information Bureau .. Lexington
Col. I. N. Withers, Aide-de-Camp Kansas City
AIDES-DE-CAMPS WITH RANK OF MAJOR.
Major Jno. A. Woods, Fayette, Mo .; Wm. H. Patterson, Smith- ville, Mo .; T. B. Dry, Eldorado Springs, Mo .; T. C. Holland, Sedalia, Mo .; E. C. Golder, Henry, Mo .; Francis M. Webb, Oak Grove, Mo ; N. A. Baker, Gallatin, Mo .; Silas A. Ballard, Carrollton, Mo .; T. B. George, Platte City, Mo .; A. Corder, Waverly, Mo .; Jerome Twitchell, Kansas City, Mo .; T. J. Crotty, Kansas City, Mo .; Geo. M. Jones, Springfield, Mo .; C. C. Harvey, Kansas City, Mo .; T. O. Towles, Jei- ferson City, Mo .; R. A. McCulloch, Boonville, Mo .; Win. Eller, Aux- vasse, Mo .; Fielding Kenly, Kearney, Mo .; J. W. Gooldy, Auxvasse, No .; Jno. M. MleGhee, Paris Mo .; Wright L. Smith, Jonesboro, Mo .; D. G. Wade, Odessa, Mo .; J. N. Stewart, Huntsville, Mo .; A. E. Mitchell, Morrisville, Mo .; G. T. Aycock, Lebanon, Mo .; J. B. Hatler, Neosho, Mo .; Ed. Barton, Linneus, Mo .; Jas. A. McDonald, Leeds, Mo .; C. M. Kackley, Kansas City, Mo .; Schuyler Lowe, Independence, Mo .; Jno. M. Bryan, Fulton, Mo .; T. B. Bradley, Kennett. Mo .: J. 11. 11. Maxwell, Columbia, Mo .; Roland Hughes, Kansas City, Mo.
HONORARY AIDES-DE-CAMPS.
Col. W. W. Screws, Montgomery, Ala .; Col. T. G. Bush, Birm- ingham, Ala .; Hon. Jas. W. English, Atlanta, Ga .; Hon. R. D. Berry, Selma, Ala.
D. K. MORTON, JNO. B. STONE,
Adjt. Gen. and Chief of Staff. Maj. Gen. Commanding
ADDENDA.
Joplin-The Reunion City of 1906.
Joplin is the metropolis of Southwest Missouri-the trade center of the great lead and zine field of Missouri -- the fastest growing city in the State -- is located at Jasper county-has an area of nine square miles and a population of 40,000.
Assessed Values -- $5,450,000; actual values, $15.373,000.
Tax Rate-City, $1.27; county, $2.17; with a bonded city debt of less than two per cent on its value.
MINER'S BANK BUILDING, JOPLIN.
Banks It has sis banks and one trust company, with a total deposit of $3.043.000. The Bank of Joplin, with a capital of $5,000; surplus of $285,005, and undivided profits of $36,997.84, with a deposit of $579 .- 385.21, is the pride of the State, and the most remarkable institution of its kind in the United States. T. W. Cunningham is its owner and president, and Mrs. V. F. Church, its cashier.
Public Schools-Number of school teachers employed, 117; school buildings, 17; valuation of school property, $350,000; number of pupils, 0,343; twenty-two thousand dollar addition to high school under way; 18 new school rooms contemplated.
Churches-All denominations, 32; new church buildings in 1905, $151,000; Y. M. C. A. building, $50.000.
Municipal Lighting-Plant cost $60,050, for street and commercial lighting.
Library-Public Library. Building erected in 1903 at a cost of $60,000.
Telephones -- Two telephone systems. Combined, 3,000 subscribers.
Steam Railways-Four trunk lines enter Joplin; Frisco radiating in four different directions. Kansas City Southern, Missouri Pacific and Missouri, Kansas and Texas.
Electric Railways --- The Southern Missouri Pacific Railway has a good transfer system in this city, with interurban lines connecting Ga- lena and Empire City, Kan .; Oakland, Webb City. Carterville, John>-
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town, Prosperity, Duenweg, Lakeside, Carthage, Oronogo, Neck City, Purcell and Alba, with Joplin. Half hourly service is maintained be- tween each of these towns and Joplin, with a fare of about one cent per mile. A twelve-mile city system is under construction.
Fuel and Power-Joplin has the cheapest power and fuel of any city in the Southwest. Natural gas to be had at maximum rate of 25 cents per thousand feet for domestic purposes and 1212 cents for manufactur- ing purposes, and electric power may be had at an exceptionally low rate. Being close to the coal fields of Kansas and Indian Territory, the price of this fuel is also cheap.
Jobbers and Wholesalers -- Joplin is rapidly becoming a jobbing cen- ter. Wholesale firms here handle groceries, drugs, notions, candies, wines and liquors, and many other lines.
KEYSTONE HOTEL, JOPLIN.
Hotels -- Joplin has three first class hotels and many family hotels and boarding houses. A new hotel, to cost half a million dollars is be- ing built by Mr. Thomas Conner of this city. The new structure will be eight stories in height and will contain 250 rooms.
Public Roads-Three hundred miles of turnpike roads lead from the fertile fields of Jasper county to Joplin. All streets in Joplin are either paved or macadamized. Joplin road district alone has spent $250,000 on roads during the past ten years.
Zine and Lead Production-During the year 1905 the district sur- rounding Joplin produced $13,302,800 in lead and zinc ore. During 1906 the production was $15, 113,293.
Factories-Iron works, machine shops, foundries, wagon-making, candy, flour, pig lead, caskets, planing mills, manufacturing of structural steel, etc.
Carthage.
Carthage is a place of residence, and has a population of 13,000. It is a city of fine homes, of well kept lawns and beautiful drives and pros- perous people. It is one of the most beautiful and healthiest cities of
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its size in the Southwest. It is a business center. Its bank clearings exceed those of most cities of twice its population. Its manufacturing interests are large, and increasing as new territory opens tributary. Its stone quarries ship 200 car loads of sawed stone annually. Mining operations within a radius of twenty miles represent over $13,000,000 a year, and are surely increasing.
In all directions from the city the land is undulating prairie, except for intersticed strips of woodlands adjoining the small streams. Car- thage is the county seat of Jasper county, inhabited by 100,000 people, brought to the town's gates by means of a network of electric and steam railroads. There are 275 miles of free graveled roads in the county. It has three main lines of railroads: Missouri Pacific, Frisco and Iron Mountain, the latter being the new direct route from the Northwest to Memphis and the Gulf. The new road, known as the White River Route, opens up to the wholesale trade a hitherto untouched section of Missouri and Northern Arkansas. In addition to these three main lines, is the Carthage & Western Railroad, giving six trains daily
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Leaveen Carthage and the Alba and Neck City mining camps, and con- meeting with the Kansas City Southern at Asbury, twenty miles north- west. To these lines may also be considered the addition of the M., K. & T. and the Kansas City Southern, both of which roads touch within twenty miles distance, and haul Carthage freight to the south and south- west, through agreement with the roads entering the city. The South- west Missouri Electric road maintains an interurban passenger and bag- gage service with trains every half hour, equipped with the latest im- proved facilities. The partienlar pride of the town is its schools. With - in the last year there has been completed and dedicated, at a cost of $105,000, a thoroughly modern high school building, cap-sheaf to a pub- lic school system second to none in the United States. There are live ward schools, a central school for the higher grades, the high school and a school for colored children. The Carthage Collegiate Institute, under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church, is a successful prepara- tory institution. There is also located here a piano school of national re- nown, and three schools with commercial courses. The city has a newly
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dedicated public hospital, a private hospital and a $25,000 Carnegie Library. There are two newspapers, the Morning Democrat and the Evening Press.
The lead and zinc mining districts centers some ten miles south- west of Carthage. The district furnishes ninety per cent of the world's supply of zinc. All the land in this vicinity is mineral bearing, and the time is thought to be near when lead and zinc mining will be encroached to the very corporate limits. There are thousands of acres with good mineral prospects awaiting the prospector.
There are in Carthage four flouring mills, with a daily capacity of 1,200 barrels; two ice and cold storage plants; two foundries and ma- chine works; carriage, furniture, bed spring, canning, mattress and other factories. There are ten wholesale houses. The territory afforded calls for more than the town enjoys. There are four banks and twenty-two church edifices.
The city's assessed valuation is $3,125,000, which is estimated to be one-third of the selling value of the property.
Webb City.
In less than a decade Webb City has grown from a country village to a modern city of fifteen thousand inhabitants. It is the centre and headquarters of the Webb City-Carterville mining district.
Over a million dollars have been expended in the construction of public buildings, residences and street improvements the past year.
Webb City's transportation facilities are not surpassed by any city of its size in the United States. There are two main trunk lines, the Frisco and Missouri Pacific railroads, and the Southwest Missouri Elec- tric railroad. The general offices and shops of the Southwest Missouri Electric Railroad are located there.
Every convenience enjoyed by the residents of the larger American cities is afforded the inhabitants of Webb City. Such as telephones. electric lights and natural gas piped from the great Kansas-Indian Ter- ritory fields, and furnished consumers at the rate of 25 cents per thou- sand cubic feet; while manufacturers are granted a reduction rate, many of the large mines and factories have discarded the use of coal, and are operating their plants with natural gas at less than half the cost and labor required with other fuels.
In schools, Webb City has five magnificent buildings, with a corps of trained teachers.
There are 14 churches of all denominations, two daily newspapers, three banks, two state and one national, with a total of one and a half million dollars in individual deposits; one planing mill, one contracting and building firm, employing 270 men, three foundries, one large ma- chine shop, five lumber yards, one large flouring mill, with a daily ca- pacity of 300 barrels, two steam laundries, a modern opera house; grocery, dry goods, drug, hardware and clothing stores with stocks of as fine quality and durability as carried by the merchants of the large cities; two first class modern hotels, a competent and modern fire de- partment, one of the excellent and best water services, considering the size of the city, in the west. Two and one-fourth miles of paved streets, with hundreds of beautiful houses.
Carterville.
Carterville is a city of 7,000 inhabitants, located 9 miles from Car- thage, and 7 miles from Joplin, and is chartered as a fourth class city. It has three banks, three hotels, three department stores, six dry goods stores, five hardware stores, four rackets, three millinery stores, over
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twenty groceries, two large foundries, three machine shops and various other businesses.
Has one daily newspaper, three brick school buildings, one, the high school, completed last year at a cost of $28,000.
Has five brick business blocks, two three-story bricks.
The First National Bank has $100,000 capital stock, with $45,000 un- divided profits, and with deposits of nearly $700,000; the stockholders of this bank being largely "boys that wore the gray," of which there is a large number in this city. Sixteen mails arrive and depart daily. It has two telephone companies, and has natural gas, a good water works system and electric light.
Six religious denominations own churches, and three own their par- sonages.
Jasper County.
Jasper county, industrially speaking, is the first county of America. It is the greatest zinc mining district in the world. The ore supply is practically unlimited. Lead ore has been profitably mined since 1848, and was the means of zinc discovery. At the center of the county are boundless deposits of white lime stone, the dressed production of which is shipped all over the United States. In the southeast horticulture is a heavy asset. Here are extensive nurseries, and this is the location of the largest strawberry acreage in this State. The northern half of the county is devoted to agriculture and the feeding of live stock. The chief agricultural product of Jasper county is wheat. The annual production of Jasper county exceeds that of any other rural county in the United States. There is little winter and the summer's heat temperate, due to the high altitude, 1,000 feet above sea level, and the general topog- raphy. It is located in the southwestern portion of the State, border- ing on the Kansas line, and is fifty miles north of the Arkansas line.
"CONFEDERATE VETERAN."
Published at Nashville, Tenn.
"Is a Magazine of Confederate History, and each number presents Reminiscences of the War by active participants. It was founded, is edited and conducted exclusively for the benefit of the Confederate Soldiers' name, fame and cause, by our comrade, S. A. Cunningham. For many years it has been the official organ of our own Association, as well as of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Confederated Southern Memorial Association, publishing the proceedings of their sessions, their work and their achievements. Thus it has been the medium through which all that concerns the work of Confederate Associations can be so pub- lished that their co-operation may be made effective. As a magazine devoted to the objects of these Associations it is a secure repository of war incidents, biography, reminiscence, history and documents, and is already a full treasury of Confederate data.
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