Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1909 — MISSOURI SEEKS SETTLERS [ARTICLE]

MISSOURI SEEKS SETTLERS

Will Have Agents on Ellis Island to Find Desirable Immigrants. St. Louis, July 23.—This state will establish an immigration bureau on Ellis Island, New York. There are 11,000,000 acres of unoccupied tillable land in Missouri and the purpose of the bureau will be to get desirable foreigners to settle on it.