Excerpt from Commercial and Architectural St. Louis: Illustrated It is admirably Situated, with all natural advantages; two of the greatest rivers in the world, to which numerous smaller streams are tributary, and rail roads from every section pour ing into its lap the wealth of the incomparable Mississippi Valley and of the Great West. It may with truth be said to be the center of river and railroad transportation. Its climate is temperate and salu brions, and statistics prove it to be the healthiest city of its size in the world. It has an admirable street and sewerage system, in these respects offer ing a model to cities of much greater pretensions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.