July 20, 1881, a Tipton General Real Estate and Land Agent, George Stetter and Company ran an article in The Tipton Times hoping to entice more settlers to the Morgan-Cooper-Moniteau County area.

The Moniteau County portion of that article is excerpted here:

"Improved and unimproved Farming and Mineral Lands, also Town and City Property for sale in the counties of Moniteau, Morgan and Cooper.

We call special attention to these facts: Tipton is located in the northwest corner of Moniteau County, the central county of the central state of the Union, two miles from Cooper County line, on the Missouri Pacific Railroad, the principal trunk railway running through the state, and the Junction of the Osage Valley & Southern Kansas Railroad.

Moniteau County has no debt, and money in the treasury to loan. The incorporated towns have no debt. Taxes are one cent and one mill. The other counties are also in flourishing condition, taxes very light. By permission, we refer to the Governor and other state officers. Correspondence solicited, and information furnished.

This county (Moniteau) lies in the exact center of the state and is one of the favored portions of the great state of Missouri.

It is watered by the Moniteau, Moreau and Petite Saline Creeks and their branches, which furnish fine drainage and never failing water sources and stock water.

The climate is that happy medium so desirable, and while the winters are short the summers are long and mild. Never a day passes without a refreshing breeze.

The larger portion of the county is on an elevated plateau between the Osage and Missouri Rivers, so high that malarial diseases are unknown. In fact the county is exceptionally healthy. The southern and western portions are mostly gently undulating prairie; the soil is a rich vegetable mould, very fertile. The north and east have ranges of heavily timbered hills. Along the streams are fertile valleys and bottomlands. The hills are well adapted to wheat and grasses; stock raising is carried on successfully, and sheep do extremely well.

There is no debt whatever, county, township, or municipality, and taxes are extremely light.

The best known town in the county of Moniteau for business is Tipton, which is situated nearly at the junction of the counties of Cooper and Morgan. It has the best railroad facilities and does an enormous trade. The main track of the Missouri Pacific passes through the town east and west, and branches go south to Versailles, in Morgan County, and north to Boonville, in Cooper. In Tipton are the grounds of the Central Missouri District Fair, considered among the best in the state outside of St. Louis and Kansas City. The grounds are fitted up beautifully with a fine racetrack and floral hall.

The Missouri River forms the boundary line of all the north and half of the eastern part of the county. There are extensive mineral deposits consisting of coal, iron, lead, potters clay, and "tiff". In this county the famous Kentucky blue grass grows so finely that it is supplanting the native prairie grass as well as all others.

When cultivated land is left untilled the blue grass comes in and makes a natural pasture of exceeding richness.

In Moniteau County are splendid public buildings, in all towns graded streets; in Tipton large fine brick business blocks, everywhere schools, academies and churches.

The citizens are kind and hospitable. They want strangers to come. Germans and Swiss are well represented in population while the American portion of the people came originally from Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee, as well as the northern states. Strangers coming to Tipton will be well received by Messers. Geo. Stetter and Co., and every facility placed at their disposal to suit themselves in lands."