Annals of Platte County, Missouri - Paxton
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1897, MAY. 1100 BANK STATEMENTS. Silver. Gold. Deposits. EdgentonBank................ $39,569.35 Exchange Bank of Platte City. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,880.07 ParkBanl;.................. 21,546.34 Wells Banking House. . . .. .. .. .. .... . . . . 17.10.183.92 Banl;ofWeston................ 28,330.35 Railey&Bro.................. 117,949.23 $524,411.89 The reader will nd the last b nk statement on page 1089, 0 a Where deposits amount to $567.13: 3 I897. Jame 7The skies are eloudless, the atmosphere is mild and balmy, the wheat-elds are White to the harvest, the farmer sings as he plows his corn. the pastures are green, the brook carols as it winds its way, the cattle take t-heir rest in the shade. health prevails, happiness smiles in every face, and all omens are propitious. CONCLUSION. My volume of heraldry is now complete. The labors of a life- time are ended. God lengthened out my days to seventy and nine years, that I might preserve the names and record the deeds of my early oompanionsthe pioneers of Platte. Sixty years ago ten thousand people of many States, countries, and nationalities settled upon our lovely prairies and charming woodlands. A friendless youth, I came among them. I was a stranger, without relative or friend. Upon this fertile soil I made my home, and the sturdy backwoodsmen around me became my companions and friends. My memory embalms them. and my book records their virtues. Their hands broke the prairies and subdued the forest. A tribute of gratitude is due them for the farms and mansions we now enjoy. In this book the aspirations of my life are ful- lled. The names of my companions were fading into forgetful- ness. My volume is the Vrst. but it will not be the last, monu- ment erected to their memory. Upon the foundations I have laid. posterity will add meinorials of each family. as precious stones in the rising temple of our heraldry. I have framed the warp, and intermarriage will supply the woof of the checkered dainask of our sor-iety. We will form one family and be all akin. The branches of the various family trees will be so interwoven as to make um iianian. anrdin;: ilelieious shade for the whole people. Each youth will be able to trace a lineage to a hundred pioneers. .s the gr-eat Mississippi eoinniingles the waters of a