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Tie Arkansas ail Teias Advertiser.
SEPTEMBER, -~ - ~~ 187JL
NOTICE TO THE PRESS.
We desire to exchange with the
newspaper press of the country
generally, and if on no other
.terms, we will pay the postage
on exchanges. Our paper will be
sent to all, post-paid.
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WHAT WE PROPOSE.
If our patrons will pardon us
for bringing our individual mat-
ter^ to their notice, we will talk a
little about ourselves, our under-
taking, and our intentions.
We have united our several
abilities and funds for a common
purpose, and while all will do
whatever lies within their power
to lurther the common cause, yet
each member of the firm will
have, more especially, some par-
ticular branch of the business
under his charge.
We hope by our enterprise to
benefit the States of Arkansas and
Texas at large, and—ourselves.
To this end we have established
“ The Arkansas and Texas Land
Company,” and to aid in its suc-
cess we have started the publica-
tion of The Arkansas and Texas
Advertiser, a seven - column
monthly newspaper. That it- may
be to the interest of the people to
patronize our company, we publish
and circulate, at our own expense,
ten thousand copies monthly.
This circulation extends to every
State in the Union, the Canadas,
and to some extent in Europe.
We propose to make our Adver
Tiser a newspaper for all classes
of citizens in Arkansas and Texas,
but more especially for that large
class of people who are looking
for homes, to acquaint them with
the natural advantages and un-
paralleled inducements offered in
the great States of Arkansas and
Texas.
While our business men may be
do not need to advertise, Arkansas
and Texas will undoubtedly be
benefited by being fairly and hon-
estly represented to the outside
world. This we mean to do, and
that our undertaking may be
success, James P. Henry, author
of the widely circulated pamphlets
“ Resources of Arkansas,” and
“ Arkansas Gazeteer and Emi-
grant’s Guide to Arkansas,” and
Secretary of the Company, will
have charge of this department
An immense amount of land in
Arkausas and Texas is owned by
non-residents—much of it by cap-
italists, but a greater part of it by
the citizens of the two States.
Much of this land would be
bought up and improved if the
owners could be found. This we
do, and think our location at the
capital of Arkansas, with the
records of the Auditor’s and Land
office in reach, gives us facilities
for tracing up owners of Arkansas
land not enjoyed elsewhere. For
Texas one member of our Com-
pany will devote his entire time
and practical business talent to
examining titles, classifying lands
and tracing up the owners ; being
a citizen of Texas, and having
had several years’ experience in
buying and selling Texas lands,
we can confidently claim unequal-
ed advantages for dealing in the
lands of that State.
Again, many of the citizens of
these States own large amounts
of land—have long kept them-
selves, and are now “land poor”—
they would sell, and at prices too,
that in a short time would pay a
much larger interest upon the un-
used capital of the North and
East than any investment that
can be made outside of Arkansas
and Texas, if they could only find
a purchaser.
To attract some of the capital
of the older States to Arkansas
and Texas, we have formed this
Company for the sale of lands,
and that our facilities may be
equal to the best, Hon. T. B. Mills,
President of the Company, for-
merly Vice-President of the Na-
tional Board of Real Estate
Agents, and President of the Kan-
sas State Board of Real Estate
Agents, will devote a large share
of his time in traveling through
the Northern and Eastern States
and the Canadas, forming connec-
tions with live business men in
all the principal cities and towns,
for ihe purpose of bringing Ark-
ansas and Texas lands into market.
Mr. Mills is a land man of long
experience and progressive views
—his extensive acquaintance
throughout the Eastern and Mid-
dle States will be the means of
turning capital and emigration
toward the Southwest. All par-
ties having Arkansas and Texas
lands to sell, are respectfully in-
vited to examine our facilities for
selling lands, and, if satisfied,
would like a share of their patron-
age.
The financial affairs ot the
Company are managed by Mr. R.
B. Gress, Treasurer, late of the
Second National Bank, St. Paul,
Minnesota.
There is still another branch of
our business we would call special
attention to—we offer to pay tax-
es on land, rent lands, collect
rents, and do everything pertain-
ing to a land and real estate busi-
ness.
"VVe also desire to represent the
interest of each county in Arkan-
sas and Texas, as far as it may be
in our power so to do. Especially
do we desire to post ourselves (that
we may be the better able to post
our readers) upon the agricultural
interests of each State. Therefore
we respectfully request that par-
ties desiring to make known their
particular locality will write us,
giving everything that will be of
interest to the inquiring emigrant.
To all such parties, by sending
us their address, we will mail our
Advertiser regularly. We will
be pleased to hear from any indi-
vidual who will volunteer to send
us valuable information for our
paper.
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A PREDICTION.
One year from to-day will wit-
ness the largest stream of immi-
gration pouring into Arkansas
that ever went to any State since
the formation of the American
Union. Our reasons for making
this prediction are these :
jlov. A iit; uumate is superior to
that of any other State; mild
winters, and long and cool sum
mers. Out-door labor can here be
performed every day in the year,
cattle and sheep can be carried
through the entire year without
feed.
2d. Productions; the soil pro-
duces to perfection every grain,
grass, fruit and vegetable peculiar
to the northwestern states, in ad-
dition, nearly all the valuable
staple crops of the semi-tropics
succeed well, with almost absolute
immensity from droughts or fail-
ure, because of the great number
of water courses in the State pre-
cipitating moisture during the
hot season.
3d. The lands are the lowest in
price of any in the union at this
time. Kansas lands, surrounded
by the same appliances of civili-
zation, are selling for three times
as much per acre as the same
quality of land here. Cotton
land here rents for $10 per acre,
cash. Corn or wheat land in the
northwest rents • for $2 50 per
acre. Good unimproved cotton
land can be bought at from $1 to
$10 per acre; $7 per acre will
deaden and clear it ready for the
plow. The first year it will pro-
duce twenty-five bushels of corn
to the acre, the second forty bush-
els, the third year, one bale of
cotton, then it will rent for $10
per acre. Say the land cost $10
per acre, and $7 for clearing,
would make it cost just $17 per
acre, when it would then rent for
$10. The crops of the first and
second year will pay for their cul-
tivation. Men of capital can do
even much better than this by fur-
nishing the land, tools teams and
feed for the teams, and getting
one-half the crop when ready
for market. A bale of cotton is
about an average yield per acre,
this will bring one year with
another $60, one-half, $30, goes to
the land owner; $5 per acre will
pay for the feed, wear and interest
on the tools, stocks and land,
leaving a net profit of $25 per
acre to the land owner. Or he
can cultivate his soil with the aid
of hired help and realize $50 per
acre profit. Now what crop in
per acre? A farmer there can
only work out doors about two
hundred days in the year, and one
hundred of that is devoted to
making food for his stock to eat
while they are idle in the stable.
Here a farmer can perform out-
door labor three hundred days
of the three hundred and sixty-
five, every one of which can be
placed to his profit, as his stock,
requires no fodder, hay or straw
to carry them through the winter.
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WHY LANDS ARE CHEAP IN
ARKANSAS.
The one great change made in
Arkansas by the war was the rev-
olution in her labor system. The
nature of that system is familiar
to us all. The best agricultural
portions of the State were sup-
plied with slave labor, thus it
happened that the only farm la-
borers were negroes. The result
of this was to awaken among the
whites a false pride on the subject,
and farm labor was rarely, if ever,
done for hire by a native Arkan-
sian. Labor is thoroughly inade-
quate. The consequence is that
the farms become more and more
unproductive. Labor is, of course,
the foundation of success in farm-
ing. A large portion of our farm-
ing lands has been idle since
the war, and very much has been
poorly and inefficiently cultivated.
Every farmer in Arkansas can
verify these statements by his
own experience.
It is for these plain and evident
reasons that land has fallen in
value. The labor is so insuffi-
cient and uncertain as not only to
make farming unprofitable, but to
detract materially from the com-
forts of a country life. Thus
people have become anxious to
turn their farms into money, and
have in this way supplied the de-
mand for land which may have
existed.
There is a remedy for all this.
It is to develop the State. We
need more men and new men.
We want men free from the bias of
the old prejudices, and unstained
by the slough in the worn ruts,
men who mean work and want to
work. With the heln of such a
class, our industries would soon
spring into an activity never be-
fore known, and the lands of Ar-
kansas, unequalled in their fertil-
ity, would soon be in demand at a
price commensurate with their
real worth.
We know whereof we speak
when we invite immigration to
this State, for in no other State
in the Union are there such in-
ducements to invest in lands with
the prospect to have them rapidly
advance in value. But as with
everything else delays are danger
ous. Buy land now and share in
the advance which will certainly
soon take place.
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INVEST NOW IN ARKANSAS.
How often do we hear the re
mark: “What a fool I was that
I did not purchase such a piece of
property at such a time ! I could
then have purchased it for a few
hundred dollars ; to-day it would
sell for as many thousands !”
Reader, the opportunity is just
as open to you to-day as it was
then. All you have to do is to
brush the dim vista of the future
from before your eyes, and look
ahead a litt-le. There are yet offers
open in this growing state, where,
on an outlay of a few hundred
dollars down, the man of small
means may in a few years realize
as many thousands. All he has
to do to accomplish it is to open
his eyes and look upon things as
they actually are. Our State is
rapidly assuming gigantic pro-
portions. This is acknowledged
dj all, both residents and non-
residents. At our present rate of
progression, where will we stand
as a State at the end of ten more
years ? How many who read this
will then look back and lament
the offers of property that are
staring them in the face to-day!
The greater portion of the
wealthy men of the United States
have become so by the rise of in-
vestments in real estate.
Where is the man who cannot
look back and see with regret the
splendid opportunities he has let
slip for acquiring a fair compe-
tency of this world’s goods, in
omitting to accept offers he had
or how can money be invested so
safely and profitably ? Flood nor
fire can destroy it; the thief cannot
purloin it; it will not take to
itself wings and fly away. An in-
vestment in real estate in such a
State as ours cannot be other than
profitable.
Remember the time for getting
property cheap is actually passing
away. You who doubt this have
but to go in any of the Nortwest-
ern States, many of which do not
possess one-half the natural ad-
vantages of Arkansas, and inquire
the prices of property. Think for
a moment. Look about you, and
you will see at a glance that those
who are enriching themselves are
those who enlarge, in every pos-
sible manner, their possessions of
real estate. Property will not al-
ways be open for purchase at pres--
ent prices. Now is the time to
invest. What better evidence can
any sane man want of the ultimate
value of property in our State?
R^f ogch are now under process
of construction in nearly every
portion of the State. Consider for
a moment the character and finan-
cial abilities of the men who are
managing most of them. Are they
visionary, or are they men who
know well what they are doing ?
There is no mistake about it;
there will never be a better time
to make profitable investments in
our State than at present. In a
year or two you cannot obtain the
offers you can to-day, and so it
will be each succeeding year. A
few hundred dollars loaned out,
even at high rates of interest,
amounts to but little after spend-
ing the time and being to the costs
of looking to the securities,making
collections, etc.—scarcely enough
to warrant one in neglecting their
occupations to do so. To all such
we say: if you wish to place your
means where it will be secure and
pay you a handsome profit; where
you can feel, when you lie down
to sleep, that it is actually safe,
select a piece of land in a good
locality, and become the owner of
it. Don’t coutinue to let golden
opportunities slip through your
fingers, and, after years have left
you a harvest of regrets, looking
JUo *-j -ocix -oW*Fidok’ ui laitig a c
your want of confidence—in
word, at your own short-sighted-
ness and stupidity. Remember
the miser’s money earns him noth-
ing. Good property is far better
than money in your pocket. The
former is safe and increasing; the
latter unsafe and brings you no
advance.
On the completion of the Mis-
sissippi, Ouachita & Red River
railroad to Camden, no railroad in
the State will do a larger aggre-
gate busines than the Ouachita
Valley railroad; and indeed, its
local importance, valuable con-
nections and cheapness of con-
struction, will render it one of the
most remunerative enterprises in
the whole country.
This railroad company owns
310,000 acres of lands, many of
which are very valuable on ac-
count of their agricultural and
mineral productions, and im-
proved condition. Satisfactory
arrangements have been made
with actual settlers. In addition
to the above amount of lands, the
State has awarded $675,000 to aid
in the construction of the road.
Work is rapidly progressing, ten
miles being now graded, and the
whole under contract, to be com-
pleted by May 1st, 1874. A road
of so much importance, so short
and so cheaply constructed must
promise immediate completion.
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The way Money is Made by Farm-
ing in Arkansas.
We heard yesterday of a man
who moved from Illinois in March.
He rented forty acres of land be-
low the city, and put thirty of it
in corn. His work commenced
on the first of April, and with
his little son, thirteen years old,
he cultivated the crop and “ laid
it by ” the first week in July, and
with one more good rain he will
make sixty bushels of corn to
the acre, or a total of eighteen
hundred bushels. This crop can
be gathered in less than a month,
and the corn is worth one dollar
per bushel on the place, thus real-
izing one thousand eight hundred
dollars for four months work of
a man and boy. * The other ten
acres were sown in Millet, which
will produce two tons per acre,
worth thirty dollars per ton.
One month’s labor of the man
and boy will make and gather
this crop, worth six hundred dol-
lars. So, for five months’ work,
this man and boy produced food
articles worth two thousand four
hundred dollars. The rent paid
for the ground was eight dollars
per acre. Little Rock Republican.
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OUACHITA VALLEY R. R.
made to invest a few hundred dol-
the northwest will pay that profit 1 lara in real estate ? What, where
This is the most important con-
nection of the Cairo & Fulton
railroad, extending from the pros-
perous city of Arkadelphia, the
county seat of Clark county, down
the famous Ouachita River Valley
to Camden in Ouachita County,
and thence by an extension line,
at variable' distances from the
river, to Monroe in Louisiana.
We shall speak, however, of that
portion now under process of con-
struction from Arkadelphia to
Camden, a distance of forty miles.
Arkadelphia and Camden are the
largest cities in Southern Arkan-
sas, and the centers of the richest
cotton growing sections of this
portion of the State. They are
places of very active trade and
shipping more cotton probably
than any other places in the State.
Steamboats ascend the river as far
as Arkadelphia during the navi-
gable season. Camden, one hun-
dred miles distant by the river,
is accessible for steamboats in
nearly all seasons of the year.
The Ouachita Valley has been
long known as a great cotton re-
gion, the rich alluvial soil pro-
ducing that staple in rank luxu-
riance and of a superior quality.
The whole valley is thickly set-
tled on either side of the river,
from Arkadelphia to Monroe,
Louisiana, a distance of two hun-
dred miles.
The Ouachita Valley railroad
also runs through valuable coal
and gypsum formations between
Arkadelphia and Camden, on
lands owned by the company ^
The quality of this coal is good,
and will bring large revenues to
the company on the completion of
the road.
The great productiveness of the
adjacent and surrounding lands
will render the gypsum beds com-
paratively valueless for home con-
sumption.
The safest investment for mon-
ey is in land. Speculation, mer-
cantile business, loaning money
and everything of that nature is
uncertain and hazardous. Build-
ings burn down ; the fluctuations
Of trfldff . owj'' .fcii’ixjs-,
dishonest debtors cheat their
creditors, but money in land is
always safe and profits certain.
The history of our own Great
West proves the rule without an
exception. Great financial crisis
may check sales and advance
prices for a brief period, but the
interruption is short and the in-
vestment unimpaired. The same
causes not only have the same ef-
fect upon commerce, but in many
cases sweep away the capital in-
vested as well. The steady en-
hancement in value of real estate
in progressive countries is as cer-
tain as the seasons. Land Owner.
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On Tuesday evening we were
invited by our friend, J. H. Mer-
rit, to walk out and take a look
at his crop, within one-fourth mile
of town. We have often heard it
said that DeWitt was located in
the poorest spot of Arkansas coun-
ty^ story we were ready to believe,
but on taking a look at our
friend’s crop, we have come to the
conclusion that he is either a good
farmer or the story is not true, as
he has several acres of corn which
we think will yield at least twen-
ty-five bushels per acre, and that
on land the first year in cultiva-
tion ; and also several acres of cot-
ton as fine as we ever recollect to
have seen on uplands. We exam-
ined several stalks of cotton, one
of which counted one hundred
and forty-two bolls and squares,
and we are satisfied that we saw
many stalks superior to the one
counted. We make this state-
ment not to flatter our friend, but
simply to show what may be done
by good farming, as the crop in
question is growing upon land,
part of which is said by good
judges to be as poor as any we
have in our county. On our re-
turn from the field we stopped at
the house, and, after inspecting
the garden, we demolished .a reas-
onable share of a very fine melon,
after which we returned to our
sanctum well convinced that our
friend is a thinking farmer, as he
has a well-devised scheme, em-
bracing many years of improve-
ment, for his farm—Ark. County
Enterprise.
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YALUE OF TIMBER LANDS.
REAL ESTATE AGENCIES.
In every large city sales of real
estate are made largely through
agencies. This is well, for it is
convenient, and it saves the time
of the owner to be applied to his
own business, at which he can
earn more than the per cent, he
pays for the agent’s services. But
there is another side to the ques-
tion.
As real estate agents have a
monopoly of sales and rents, much
depends upon their activity and
zeal, as to whether real property
shall be in good demand and
bring fair prices or not. We
know and feel that there is less
energy and thrift among some of
the real estate agents here than
among almost any other class of
men. It is not general however.
It is confined to a minority in
numbers, and we are glad to say
this. Many persons own property
in Arkansas who reside abroad
and cannot call weekly upon their,
agents. They do their business
almost wholly by correspondence,
and must accept the sloth or ac-
tivity of their agents as though
the best had been done for them,
and seldom know or hear the
contrary.
Real estate owners should look
well to the choice of an agent,
and when they have reason to be-
lieve that they can do better by
entrusting their property to anoth-
er, they should change. By do-
ing this they have encouraged
and rewarded him to whom they
have taken their business for en-
ergy, and made him feel that to
secure business he must continue
to deserve his good name. So
shall old fogyism be driven from
its foothold, and new energy be
infused among our real estate
agents.
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The Excellence of the
Railroads consume timber im-
mensely. It has been estimated
that each day in the year trains run
about three hundred and twenty
thousand miles, consuming one
and a half cords of wood for every
twenty-five miles, making a daily
consumption of nineteen thou-
sand two hundred cords- Sixty
thousand miles of road require
two thousand five hundred ties to
the mile; and assuming their life
to be five years, an annual con-
sumption of thirty millions of
ties is required; and it may be
safely said that the waste in getting
out ties is one-third of the tree.
Farmer’s
Life.
Agriculture corresponds to the
degree of excellence which is the
best preservative of health. It
requires no hurtful fatigue on the
one hand, nor indulges on the other
indolence, still more hurtful.
During a throng of work, the
dilligent farmer will sometimes
be early and late in the field; but
Knt tbi r is. bo rd fib 7rvjT.13arua.ruQ ot j
spirit. At other times, a gentle-
man who conducts his affairs
properly may have hours every
day to bestow on reading on the
family, on his friends.
Agriculture is equally salutary
to the mind. In the managment
of a farm, constant attention is
required to the soil, to the season,
and to different operation. A
gentleman thus occupied becomes
daily made active, and is gathering
knowledge ; as his mind is never
suffered to languish, he is secure
against the disease of low spirits.
But what I chiefly insist on is,
that, laying aside irregular appe-
tites and ambitious views, agrieul
ture is of all occupations the most
constant to our nature, and the
most poductive of “contentment,
the sweetest sort of happiness. In
the first place, it requires that
moderate degree of exercise, which
corresponds the most to the
ordinary succession of our percep-
tions. Fox-hunting produces a
succcession too rapid; angling
produces a succession too slow.
Agriculture corresponds not only
more to the ordinary succession,
but has the following signal prop-
erty, that a farmer can direct his
operations with that degree of
quickness and variety which is
agreeable to his own train of per-
ceptions. In the next place, to
every occupation that can give a
lasting relish, hope and fear essen-
tial. A fowler has little enjoy-
ment in his gun who misses
frequently ; and he loses all enjoy-
ment when every shot is death : a
poacher, so dexterous, may have
pleasure in the profit, but not in
the art. The hopes and fears that
attend agriculture keep the mind
always awake and in an enlinven-
ing degree of agitation. Hope
never approaches certainly so near
as to produce security, nor is fear
ever so great as to create deep
anxiety and distress. Hence it is
that a gentleman farmer, tolerably
skillful, never tires of his work,
but is as keen the last moment as
the first. Can any other employ-
ment compare with farming in
that respect ? In the third place,
no other occupation rivals agri-
culture in connecting private
interest with that of the public.
How pleasing to think that every
step a man makes for his own
good promotes that of his country!
Even where the balance happens
to turn against the farmer, he has
still the comfort that his country
profits by him. Every gentleman
farmer must of course be a patriot ?
for patriotism, like other virtues
is improved and fortified by ex-
ercise. In fact, if there be any
remaining patriotism, in a nation,
it is found among that class of
men.—The Country Gentleman’s
Magazine.
^AF^KET F(EPORT£.
The Drug Market.
Corrected weekly by C. J. Lincoln & Co., whole-
sale druggists.
Acid acetic per lb.............. $ 20
Acid citric per lb...7.” .’...................... 1 75
Acid tartaric per lb............7..................... 75
Alchohol per gal.......77. . 777.7................ 2 25
Analine, red, per lb....... ..............3-00
Blue mass, P. & W.’s per lb ............ l"0O
Borax, refined, per lb...................’ _ 45
Calomel per lb..................777777 7 7 D75
Castoj oil, pure, per gai...........7..... .’.7 '. 2 00
Chloroform per lb...;.... ' 1 (JO
Cream tartar, P. & W.’s, strictly pure,’’ib. 50
Dovers powders per lb......... 2 25
Gum opium per lb.................".....7777...... 0-50
Gum arabic, first selection, per lb ...... 85
Cum ssat'et.ida per. lb...........................r,.-...... 70
Gum camphor per lb.......................7777 -50
Glycerine, pure, per lb..........7777777! 40
Hoffman’s anodyne per lb .....7.77 50
Hydrate chloral.................................7. 3 25
Hons, pressed, fresh, per It)....7771777!, 40
Iodine per oz..................................... 85
Ipecac per lb.....................7.7.77777!! 1 40
Iron tinct. per lb............7777777777 50
Iron carbonate per lb................................1 35
Indigo madras per lb.....................,....!...... 1 50
Leptandrin per oz........;......................... 50
Mercurial ointment per lb......................... 85
Podophyllum per 07,...... 50
Piperine per oz............................................ 135
Potass iodide per lb....................................1 7 00
Potass bromide per lb................................. 125
Potash chlorate per lb............................... 75
Qinnine, P. & W.’s per oz............................ 2 75
Rhubarb, powdered, per lb......................... 1 25
Salts epsoin per lb........................................ 07
Spirits niter per lb...................................... 50
Santonine per oz................................ 85
Silver nitrate per oz................................... 1 25
Strychnine per oz........................................ 3 25
Sulph morphin • per oz.:.............................. 6 85
Fluid extracts 25 per. eentoff list............... 30
Logwood, assorted papers, per lb.........7.. 20
Carbolic powder per doz............................. 1 75
Caiboic salve per doz................................. 180
Castile soap, pure, per lb........................... 18
Bull’s sarsaparilla per doz........................ 8 50
Porous plasters per doz.............;................. i 50
Ayers’ and Wiight’s pills per doz.............. 1 75
Cook’s pigg per doz.................................... 1 25
Godfrey’sroi'dial per doz............,.............. 85
Ess. G rgef perdez.......................... 3 50
Builey’s apperient per doz.......................... 4 50
Harter’s specific per doz............................. 4 50
Harter’s pills and worm candy per doz...... 1 50
Hostetter’s bitters per doz.......................... 8 50
Walton’s bitters per doz............................ 7 00
V negar bitters per doz............................... 8 50
Davis’ pain killer per doz...............77..... 2 00
Simmons’ liver regulator per doz........... 7 00
Mansfield & Higbee’s goods at card rates.
Turpentine, bbl, per gal............................. 75
Linseed oil reboiled. bbl , per gal.............. 1 10
Lard oil, bbl., per gal...........................’..... 85
White lead, strictly pure, per cwt............ 12 50
White lead, pure, per cwt.......................... 11 50
Furniture.
The following are the prices for the cheapest
furniture at Little Rock, which shows about
the average priefes for the State; prepared by
Messrs Snimons & Co., wholesale and retail
dealers and manufacturers of furniture, Little
Rock;
Beadsteads.......................................$ 3 75- 6 00
Tables, fal; leaf................................ 4 00— 7 00
Tables, extension, per foot................ 150
Chairs per hf. doz............................... 3 50
Tin safes, three shelves .................. fi 00
Cupboard safes..;;.........7.7............. 9 00
Bureaus, full size.............................14 00
Bureau Washstand.............r........... 9 00
Washstands common....................... 2 50
Matresses. husk................................ 2 50— 5 00
(V! atresses, moss................................ 6 00—10 00
Rockers arm................................... 5 00
Rockers, cane seat...................... 4 00— 7 00
Rockers, sewing.............................. 1 25 3 00
Cribs ................................................. 3 50 - 5 00
Wardrobes, Black walnut................ 18 00—28 00
Lounges............................................ 3 50— 5 00
Cane chairs, perhf. doz.................... 20 00—28 00
Agricultural Implements, Etc., Etc.
This list is furnished by Fones Brothers,
wholesale and letail dealers in agricultural
implements, hardware, stoves and tinware,
corner Main and Second streets, Little Rock:
Wagons............................................$90 00—125 00
Plows, two horse........... 6 50— 15 00
Plows, one horse............................. 5 00— 0 00
Plows, one horse, st>'el................ T 50— 8 50
Plows, double, shovel................. 1 50
Plows, single shovel........................ 6 00
Cotton sweeps................................. 6 50
Pitchforks, tb' ee tines.................... 1 00— 1 25
Hoes ..... 1 00— 1 25
•-hovels, .mes’ cast steel............... 75— 1 00
We 1 buckets................................... 75
Harrow teeth, per lb.................... 10
Grindstones, per lb.......................... 3
Nails per keg............................. 6 50
Axes, best....................................... l 50
All plows scour in this soil. Mowing ma-
chines, c rn and cotton planters, at manufac-
ui-er»'pi ices, irergntraatreTTT'' ~ ' ~
Cook stoves, No. 7.............................$22 00—25 00
Charter Oak cook i-toves com pi. te.. 25 00—75 00
Heating stoves, wood....................... 4 50—20 00
Heating stoves, coal.......................... 8 00—30 00
Stove pipe, pet-joint.......................... 40— 50
Fruit cans, qts . per doz........,........... 100
Hand irons, per lb........................... 1
Sad irons, per lb................................ 10
Milk pans, each................................ 25— 60
Table cutlery.................................... 1 00— 3 50
Toilet sets...................................... 5 00— 6 50
The Cotton Market.
Receipts light and prices very irregular.
COTTON—Ordinary, 10@tle; good ordinary,
13%@14c; low middling, 15@16c.
BAGGING—17c per yard.
COTTON TIES^-Iron, 9@9}^c per pound.
The Seed Market.
For the present, very little change notable in
the seed market. Hungarian and Millet seed
in good demand. Timothy has advanced in all
the markets.
Clover, red, 60 pounds per bushel.... $9 Ot)
Timothy. 45 pounds per bushel ..... 6 00
Orchard grass, 14 pounds per bushel 4 00
Blue grass, extra clean, 14 pounds
per bushel......................... 4 00
Herd’s grass, 14 pounds per bushel.. 3 00
Hungarian grass, 48 pounds pr. hush. 3 00
Buckwheat seed, 52 pounds pr. bush. 2 50
Barley seed, 48 pounds per bushel... 2 50
Millet, novthern, 50 pounds pr. bush. 3 00
Millet, Tennessee large, 50 pounds
per bushel. None in market......... ....
Mdlet. German, 50 pounds per bush-
el None in market................ ....
Hides and Peltry.
Green bides, beef.............. 7 — per lb
Dry salt hides, beef............15 —16c per lb
Dry flint hides, beef............17 — 187>eperlb
Deerskins....................... 22—26o~ peril)
Mink skins...................... $1 00@1 75
Coon skins...................... 10@ 25c
Otter.......................... $6 00@7 00
Beaver.........................75c@$l 50 per lb
The General Market.
Remember that we pay taxes,
collect rents, and transact a gen-
eral real estate business.
Increased activity in groceries and provis-
ions.
BUTTER Country, 20@25e; western, 25@30c
per pound.
COFF EE—267@26c per pound.
CORN ME A L—S3.60@3.75 per bbl.
EGGS 20@30c per dozen,
FLOUR—$6@12 per bbl.
FRUIT—Apples, choice, $5@6perbbl: good,
4.50@5 per bbl.
GROCERIES—Soap, per box, $4 00@4 50; can-
dles, 21@23c per lb; keg lard ll@13c; sardines,
per ca«e, 23 00; cove oysters, per case of 2 dozen,
1 lb 2 60@3.00; 2 lb 5 00@5.50; peaches, per dozen,
2.50@3.50; strawberries, per dozen, 3 00; pin«-
apples, 3.25; blackberries, 3 00; tomatoes. 2.25@
3 25; plantation molasses, per bbl 60@90c per
gallon; syrup, 85c@l 50; green corn, 5 50 per
case; condensed milk, 12.50@13.20; fisb.famiiy,
1.25; No 2 1.50; No 1. 2 00; half bill, 7 00@7 50;
candy, common, 16@18s; fancy, 20@30; crackers,
soda, 6%@8j7c; oyster, 9@10c; sweet, 12%@14c;
tobacco, chewing, 45@90c; smoking, 40r@1.25;
brooms, 2 25@4.00 per dozen; buckets, 2.90@S.25
per dozen; washboards, 2.75 per dozen; beeswax
25c per pound.
R IPE—Manilla, 22@I3;per lb; cotton 35@40c
per po und.
HAMS—Plain hams, 12J4@15c; sugar cured,
17c; choice sugar-cured 17@20e; fancy, 16@18c.
DRY SALT MEATS—Clear sides, 10@10}£c;
shoulders, 7@8c.
BACON—Shoulders, 8J^@9t^c; clear sides,
107@ll^c.
DRIED FRUIT—Apples, 6c per pound; peach-
es, 7c per pound.
POULTRY—Chickens, buying at 4.50@5.00
per dozen; selling at5.50@6 per dozen.
SALT—Per bbl 3.25@3.50; per sack, 2.50.
SWEET POTATOES—5.00 per bbl.
IRISH POTATOES—2.50@3.60 per bbl.
SUGAR—New Orleans fair, l(%@llc; New
Orleans refined, 14}4@15K''; coffee A, ,14@15e;
crushed, powdered and granulated, 16@177c.
TEAS—1.00@1.75 per pound.
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