Information Sheet

 

 

R         Farnsworth, Bills & Company.

973                  Map, ca. 1905.

                                    One folder.

 

 

 

This is a two-sided map showing land parcels in Reynolds County, Missouri, available through Farnsworth, Bills & Company of Chicago, Illinois.  On one side is a map of Missouri with Reynolds County highlighted, and on the other is a plat of 30,000 acres north and west of Elling­ton indicating the available parcels.

 

How Farnsworth, Bills & Company of 125 Monroe Street in Chicago, Illinois, came into possession of this land is not known, but probably it was acquired from timber companies after the area had been logged over early in the twentieth century.  The “Plat of 30,000 acres land in Rey­nolds County, Mo.” includes Townships 30 and 31 North, Range 1 East, and Ranges 1 and 2 West, an area about 23 miles square located north and west of the county seat at Ellington.  Forty and eighty acre tracts are located and numbered, with the highest number being 1343.  In total the firm claimed to have “165,000 acres of Fruit, Farm and Timber Lands for Sale” in Reynolds County.

 

Although this item is undated, the map of Missouri has a copyright date of 1905.

 

 

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