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Arkansas as a Wine producing Country.
Monday inorning saw me oil
the road to visit the vineyard and
orchard of Mr. Alois Hooe, situ-
ated six miles from the city near the
upper Maumelle road. Passing by
the county poor-house and under
the track of the Cairo and Fulton
railroad, the road commences a
gradual ascent and breaks into
high, wooded hills covered with a
heavy growth of pine timber and
a dense undergrowth of oak sap-
lings. The soil is light and sandy
upon a substratum of rotten slate
or calcareous shale, which in many
places is exposed to the surface.
Sandstone of the millstone grit
lies scattered over the surface, and
rock of amorphous, milk-white
quartz, with imperfect crystals, is
seen occasionally. The road con-
tinues to ascend, the character of
the soil and growth remaining the
same, until Mr. Ilooe’s piece, six
miles from the city, is reached.
Not being so fortunate as to
possess a barometer, I cannot give
the exact height of the vineyard
above the river, but suppose that
it has an elevation of between
three and four hundred feet above
the bed of the Arkansas. Mr.
Hooe is an intelligent German
from Baden, thirty-nine years old,
who was engaged from boyhood
in working upon a vineyard, and
is thoroughly posted in all the
minutia of grape-raising and wine-
making. In 1854 he immigrated
'to the United States and settled hi
Ohio, where he remained uine
years, engaged in farming and
grape-growing; during this time
he experimented with various
grapes, and not liking the soil, or
climate, concluded to try Califor-
nia, to which State he went in
1863. Here he immediately went
to work in a vineyard and remain-
ed three years, returning to Ohio
in 1866 and coming to Arkansas
in 1867.
After looking over the State
for some time to find a proper lo-
cality for a vineyard, Mr. Hooe
selected the place on which he
now lives, and entered it under
the homestead law. He at once
commenced clearing land prepara-
tory to “ setting out ” a vineyard
and orchard. The cost of clear-
ing and fencing was about twenty
dollars per acre, and he now has
about twenty acres in cultivation.
His first vines and trees were
planted in 1868, and are now in
their fourth year of bearing.
The kinds of grapes used were
the “Ives seedling,” the “Virginia
seedling,” the “ Delaware,” the
“Goethe,” the “Concord,” the
“Telegraph” and the “Taylor.”
Of these Mr. Hooe has much the
largest number of “Ives seedling,”
which he considers the most re-
liable grape for this country, it
not only being a fine table grape,
excellent for making raisins, but'
the best wine producer. Alto-
gether he now has nine thousand
grapevines growing upon eight
acres of land, being about eleven
hundred to the acre ; of these but
one and a half acres are yet bear-
ing. They are spur cultivated,
that is the branches are cut off,
leaving only three buds to the
branch. From these sixteen hun-
dred bearing vines, Mr. Ilooe made
this year two hundred and fifty
gallons of wine, and sold enough
grapes for table use at twenty
cents per pound to make as much
more. The vines average each
about eight pounds of grapes,
which, at the price obtained by
Mr. Hooe, if they were all sold,
would indicate a production of
one thousand seven hundred and
sixty dollars per acre, if made up
into winer about the same amount
of money would be produced.
Mr. Hooe’s vineyard is upon the
side of a hill with a southwesterly
slope; the soil is light and sandy,
the rotten slate or calcareous shale
cropping out in several places.
Professor Owen, in his geological
report, speaks of this slate, and
says that by exposure to the frosts
of winter and the hot sun of sum-
mer it becomes rotten and disen-
tegrates. Mr. Hooe has tried this,
and says that when disentegration
takes place it is the very best
manure that can be used for vines
or fruit trees, and that it can be
obtained at very little cost.
The grapes ripen during the
month of August, each bunch
ripening entire, and there are no
insects to destroy them. The
“blue steel beetle,” which is so
troublesome to the grape in flow-
ering time in some countries, are
not bad here, and no other kind
of vine or grape destroyer has put
in an appearance.
The wines made by Mr. Hooe
this year are claret, port and ma-
deria, each of good quality. In
comparing them with wines made
in California and Ohio, Mr. Hooe
says that the Arkansas wines are
far superior, being equal and sim-
ilar to the wines of southern
France and Spain. The vines wi]l
continue to bear for an unlimited
length of time by proper cultiva-
tion and care, and Mr. Hooe thinks
that there will be fewer accidents
or mishaps to the crop here than
in any country where he has lived,
and less years when the crop will
miss than in Germany or France
Mr. Hooe says all the country
southwest of Little Rock, toward
Hot Springs, is peculiarly adapted
to the cultivation of the grape
and will produce it in great quan-
tities and of a kind to make the
best of wines; these lands, like
the land of Mr. Hooe’s, are nearly
worthless for any other purpose-
and can be purchased for almost
nothing. Any wine-grower from
France or Germany, particularly
those from south Germany, near
the Rhine, can at once cultivate
the vine here, as the modes of cul-
tivation and the climate are very
similar. Here is a new field for
industrious immigrants, and a new
source of wealth in our State
awaiting development at the
hands of the tillers of the soil.
The cost of cultivation is very
trifling, though the only labor Mr.
Hooe could obtain was not trained
to this kind of work. A vine-
yard of ten acres can be cleared,
fenced and made ready for plant-
ing for about three hundred dol-
lars. This number of acres will
require twelve thousand vines,
which will commence bearing the
second year, and will give a full
crop. Two men can do all the
work of cultivation except gath-
ering- the grapes, which would
probably cost one hundred dollars
for additional help. The grapes
from this number of vines, if sold
at ten cents per pound, would
produce fully $9000 each year. If
manufactured, into wine, they
would make about four thousand
gallons of wine, worth from $2.50
to $3.50 per gallon, or about
$12,000 per annum. The whole
cost of cultivation would not ex-
ceed $1000 per year, leaving £
profit of $8000 upon an invest
ment of two or three thousand—
a business unequaled anywhere in
the world; and this is no mere
transitory business that “plays
out” in a year or two, but is an
investment that lasts more than a
lifetime.
Besides his vineyard Mr. Hooe
has an orchard containing t wenty-
four bearing pear, fifty bearing
peach and two hundred bearing
apple trees. The pears are of the
Bartlett, Fleming Beauty, Dutch
Angelus, Tyson and Buffon varie-
ties, and according to Mr. Hooe’s
statement do better here than the
same varieties do in California.
The peaches are selected from the
best varieties and the apples are
of the best Arkansas species, which
do better than those imported
from other States. This year the
pears ripen from the 15th of June
to the 1st of October; the peaches
from the 25th of June to the 25th
of September, and the apples from
the 1st of June to the 1st of Oc-
tober, but as this was an unusually
late and cold spring, in ordinary
years about ten days sooner might
be set down as the time for the
fruit to begin ripening.
The trees in the orchard are set
out twenty-five feet apart each
way making seventy trees to the
acre. The interval between the
trees is cultivated in Irish, or
sweet potatoes, or corn, this culti-
vation adding to the productive-
ness of the fruit' trees. Mr.
Hooe thinks sweet potatoes the
best crop to raise in an orchard.
The trees in this orchard are now
six years old, and have not arrived
at their best bearing age; there
are no insects or worms to trouble
them and an acre of trees will
produce fruit of the value of at
least four hundred dollars, besides
the crop grown in the space be-
tween the trees. One man can
attend properly to from ten to
fifteen acres, making from four
to six thousand dollars per annum
by his labor.
Here are briefly given the re-
sults of a few years labor in set-
ting out a vineyard and orchard.
Mr. Hooe came to Arkansas a
poor man, dependent upon his
own exertions; he has been work-
ing for five years in getting his
farm ready to return dividends;
this year it has done so, but see
what it will do in another season.
Next year he will have nine thou-
sand bearing grapevines; should
he manufacture all his grapes into
wine, he will have three thousand
gallons of wine, worth three dol-
lars per gallon, or nine thousand
dollars income from eight acres of
land. Ilis fruit trees will, more
than pay for all the labor required
on the place, and we find that for
his five years’ work and the small
investments of capital made, Mr.
Hooe is receiving at the rate of
ten per cent, interest on a funded
capital of ninety thousand dollars.
What other country but Arkansas
can show so good a result for five
years’ labor in the field ?
These are no fancy figures, but
the actual results of five years,
work upon what has always been
considered the poorest class of
lands in the State. It would seem
that they are inviting enough to
attract men from all parts of the
wTorld, to enter into similar enter-
prises. Hundreds of thousands
of acres of just such lands as Mr.
Hooe cultivates are now lying idle
and ownerless awaiting settlers to
take them up under the homestead
laws. The Cairo and Fulton rail-
road owns large quantities of the
same kinds of land, which they
are offering for sale to actual set-
tlers on the very best of terms,
and nothing is needed but the
strong arms of willing men to
make these apparently barren hills
the greatest source of revenue in
the State.
Our facilities for inner-commu-
nication are good and being made
better every day ; we are no longer
barred off from the balance of the
world by forty miles of almost
impassible river swamp, and de-
pendent upon uncertain navigation
as a means of egress and ingress;
already five railroads five rail-
roads, starting from the Missis-
sippi river, have crossed its almost
bottomless swamps and are pene-
trating to the interior, two of
them run almost entirely across
the State, north and south, east
and west; the others will soon
reach their terminal points in the
ieart of the States Here is the
country for the enterprising capi-
talist to invest his money ; here is
the land for the laboring poor man
to build him-a home ; no icy blasts
from the north pole sweep across
the land, chilling the very marrow
in one’s bones, as do the “ north-
ers ” in Kansas and Texas. No
storms of days’ duration bur}7 the
' and in a pall of snow, as in Min-
nesota, Iowa, Wisconsin and Ne-
braska, but an equable climate
where outdoor labor is never
stopped by cold, and the greatest
varieties of soil and productions
ever found in the same area invite
the immigrant from all countries.
We have taken great care in
examining and reporting upon
Mr. Hooe’s vineyard and orchard
because we knew him to have been
a wine-grower in his native coun-
try, and to have followed the same
business in Ohio and California.
But his is not the only vineyard
now growing near Little Rock.
Others have made the same efforts
he has, and in every instance
where proper care has been given
and the vines have been judicious-
ly managed, like results have been
obtained. In Union county, in
the southern border of the State,
Mr. Holbrook has a vineyard of
Scuppernong grapes, from which
he manufactures one of the best
wines ever offered in any market,
and if he had any means of trans-
portation, so that his grapes could
be sold for table use, the return in
dollars and cents would be greater
than we have shown that Mr.
Hooe’s will be.
Here are facts and figures that
can be relied on. Let immigrants
come and see for themselves.-
Little Rock Republican.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
STATE ITEMS.
—How to make a fortune.
Come to Arkansas and invest lib-
erally in lands, and buy of the
Arkansas and Texas Land Com-
pany.
—Parties wishing copies of our
paper to mail to their friends can
have all they desire free, and post-
age paid, by calling at our office.
—No charge to advertise lands.
No commission unless a sale is
made while in our hands.
—When the thermometer ran-
ges from 98° to 104° at Topeka,
^Kansas, here it shows 90° to 94°
—Arkansas is the banner fruit
State. Peaches have weighed one
and one-fourth pounds each.
Prairie.—The DeVallT Bluff
journal thus refers to the cattle
trade of that section: There has
been shipped since the 15th of
June, twenty-one car loads of
beef cattle, averaging about twen-
ty head to the ear, and aggre-
gating four hundred and fifteen
head, from which the owners real-
ized on an average, twenty dollars
per head, thus distributing the
nice little sum of $8300 in our
section of Arkansas. The atten-
tion of our farmers should be
given to this matter as stock rais-
ing could be made to pay in our
county as well as anywhere in the
United States.
Prairie.—The Des Arc Citizen
thus speaks of the prairie lands
in that county: The prairie lands
near Des Arc are beginning to at-
tract a great deal of attention.
Every experiment made with
them has proved successful; corn,
cotton, oats, rye and timothy grow
luxuriantly the first year the land
is cultivated. We have heard
several say that they had a choice
spot picked out, which they in-
tended to obtain as soon as possi-
ble, and fence up a farm. The
great advantage of a prairie farm
is that there nrno expense in get-
ting it ready for cultivation other
than the fencing, while it costs
something near seven dollars per
acre to open woodland and pre-
pare it for planting. Get prairie
land while you can.
Benton.—Says the Bentonian:
The tobacco crop of 1872 amount-
ing to 100,000 pounds of leaf to-
bacco, which was sold to the manu-
facturer at an average of ten cents
per pound. The incoming crop of
1873 will reach 600,000 pounds.
Last year, N. B. Sanderson, of
Benton county, realized, in cash,
from two acres of tobacco, the
sum of $260. W. A. Willis, the
same year, realized on two acres
the sum of $262.40.
Col. J. R. Kannady raised last
year two crops of early rose pota-
toes from the same seed, and has
gathered this season one crop from
the same seed, and is now ready
to plant the fourth crop. Mr. J.
K. McKenzie has done the same
thing on his farm four miles from
town.
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No 2.
f*A A ACRES o£ rich, level bott lands above
U“U overflow; lying half a mile east of Min-
turn Station bn the Cairo and Fulton Railroad,
in Lawrence county, Arkansas, iii the fertile
rc.vio of .Blrtck River Valiev; good timber,
■ ter; sc?is rich, producing a bale of cot-
ixry bii-lifis-or corn to the acre: also the
Parties wishing to locate col-
onies, will make money b} first
calling on or corresponding with
us. Correspondence solicited and
promptly answered.
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The Prairie Lands of Prairie County,
Arkansas.
While our prairies are not as
rolling, and perhaps not altogeth-
er so rich as some of the North-
western prairies, there are none ot
them that cannot be brought into
successful cultivation with a little
drainage and deep= plowing, and
the experiences of last summer
and this prove that when prepared
and cultivated properly they with-
stand drought and produce better
than our timbered lands. Exper-
iments of the past two years also
prove that there are none of the
fine or tame grasses, but what
will succeed admirably on them
when the land is properly pre-
pared and sown. A farm on the
prairie is preferable, in many re-
spects* to one in the timbered
lands, as you are not troubled
with mosquitoes, and many other
insects that are sometimes very
annoying in the timber, especially
near the water courses, and dur-
ing our hottest weather there is
scarcely any time when there is
not a strong, pleasant breeze blow-
ing over the prairies.
The hay cut off of the prairies
at little cost or trouble, sells read-
ily at from $14 to $21 per ton,
owing to the amount in market
and demand for the same. Last
season there were thousands of
tons of it cut and shipped from
this county to Little Rock, Ark.,
Memphis, Tenn. and New Orleans,
La. White river, which runs
from two to five miles from the
prairie through nearly the whole
length of the county, affording
never-failing navigation for boats
and barges to the Mississippi riv-
er. There is no charge for the
grass, as if not cut and saved it is
burned off every winter and
spring. No one who has has yet
tried, has failed to get good well
water on these prairies at from
forty to seventy feet. Corn, cot-
ton, wheat, oats, fine grasses, all
kinds of fruits, potatoes, etc., all
succeed finely on these lands when
the proper attention is given them.
The greater part of them are
equally as good as the prairies of
Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, etc, were
in their wild state, and with the
same care and culture, will pro-
duce as well and be as valuable.
Why then should Northwestern
men of limited means, with young
families, remain there and pay
such enormous prices for rents of
land, or for the lands where they
purchase them and get little
or nothing for their crops when
made, when here they can get
good lands, at from $2 to $5 per
acre, have as good health as there,
and get larger prices for every
thing they have to sell, from a
bushel of potatoes to a bale of
cotton ? If these facts were gen-
erally known in those states,
we would soon have a heavy im-
migration to our prairie.— White
River Journal.
dfferenr, cereals and grasses. Price, SO.25 per
acre cash.
No. 3.
ACRES of similar lands, lying four miles
south of Minturn Station, well watered
and fln'dv timbered—a desirable tract of land.
Price, $4 per acre cash.
No. 4.
QQQ Q J ACRES, same quality of land as No.
00.7.O-e 3> lying seven miles southeast of
Minturn Station. Price, $3 per acre cash.
No. 5.
QOI AH ACRES, four miles southeast from
tiijl.UU junction of Pine Bluff Branch of Ar-
kansas Central Railroad with the main line,
twenty-two miles east of Little Rock, situated
in what is known as the Rich Woods, in Lon-
oke county, Ark. A fine cotton, corn and grain
soil, will produce a hale of cotton to the acre.
Timber growth very valuable. Price $4 50 per
acre, half cash, balance on terms to suit the
purchaser.
No. 6.
rj-l Q r>r\ ACRE3, within two miles of Lon-
* d0ke> Lonoke county, Ark , on Mem-
phis and Little Rock Rail road.twenty-fire miles
from Little Rock, situated in the same Rich
Woods. A splendid tract of land, well tim-
bered, an<1 a soil adn.uted to cotton, grass and
the cereals. Price, $4 per acre, one-third cash,
FOGIES.
The following from the Louis-
ville Real Estate Courier correctly
describes a class which is probably
as large in Little Rock as in any
other city of like size in the
United States:
“ In some localities in the coun-
try the epitaph of the last fogy
has been written, and the sod is
growing above his dust; but, as if
in sympathy with the dust when
it was animate, the grass grows
slowly ; it seems determined to
hold back, and if possible not to
grow at all. In every great city
of the United States, remnants of
the fogy tribes still exist. They
speak dead languages, and are
eternally paddling against the
current of progress. They prefer
a mud hole to a sparkling fountain,
a dirt road to a paved avenue.
Speak to them of submitting a
proposition involving increased
taxation, and then the fogy who
has inherited a domain, or who
occupies a decent residence by
virtue of his marriage certificate,
shows his greatest utility; he is
about as active as a mud-turtle
with a live coal on his upper
crust. Then it is that his blood
is aroused, his tongue unloosed,
fi re flashes from his eye. He talks
glibly of the injustice of the herd
voting to oppress him and the op-
pression of the laws which do not
surround his property with strong-
er defenses. These human snails
who draw themselves inside their
shells, unfortunately won’t die.
When the fogy hears that a new
railroad is to be built, or that a
public improvement of any kind
is contemplated, he is emphatic in
his opposition ; he is for a remon-
strance, and uses his influence to
arrest the car of progress. No
sooner, however, is the work com-
pleted than Ur advances his rent,
and swears lustily that owing to
the improvements which he so
strongly opposed, his property is
twice as valuable as it was before
the improvement was completed.
The fogy is always selfish and il-
liberal. His ignorance of results
is generally assumed. He likes to
be benefitted at other people’s ex-
pense ; he likes to gather what he
has not sown, and in this his self-
ishness hears all the traits of in-
herent meanness of the lowest
type. It is not strange, however,
that a fogy lives in himself and
for himself; he gropes amid dead
issues; he is not in sympathy with
the live, active present—his mind,
like a deserted castle, is overgrown
with those particles which always
indicate desertion, decay and dust.
The fogy is an eye-sore and a
nuisance.
DESCRIPTIVE PRICE LIST.
No. 1.
A farm of 1320 acres, in Pulaski county, 14
miles due south of Little Rock. The Little
Rock, Pine Bluff and New Orleans railroad
ill pass through the farm.
Improvements Consist of a good frame-
house, stable, corn-crib, well and spring, gar-
den, and 30 acres under cultivation, 60 acres
more deadened and chopped out; can be put
in cultivation next spring.
The soil is black, sandy loam in the bottom,
well adapted for cotton and corn, and will
produce a bale of cotton or fifty bushels of
corn to the acre. The upland soil is of the
best class, adapted to grain, fruit or stock.
Timber growth of the heat quality, viz.: cy-
press, pine, white oak, hickory, etc.
This is a desirable place, and can be bought
for f?o00 qash.
balance in one and two years.
No. 7.
rorr OfT ACRES, three miles south of Lonoke.
00 4 .Zj t Lonoke county, Ark., near Mem ohis
and Little Rock Railroad, situated in the Rich
Woods. Price, $4 per acre, one-third cash,
balance in one and two years.
No. 8.
icna ACRES, half mile from the Arkansas
J.UUU river. at Plum Bayou, Pulaski county,
Ark.; fine cotron and corn soil, covered by a
growth ofvaiuable timber. Several houses are
on the land, occupied by wood-choppers. This
tract is only four miles from the Pine Bluff
Branch Railroad. Price, $5 per acre, half
cash, balance to suit the purchaser.
No. 9.
pn" Afl ACRES, lying on the river at Plum
00 4 Bayou, Pulaski county. Ark , twen-
ty-five miles be’ow Little Rock.' Fine cotton
or corn land. This land when placed under
cultivation will bring an annual rental of ten
dollars per acre. Price, $8 per acre, half cash,
balance to suit the purchaser, or, if sold with
No. 8, which it adjoins, $5 per acre, same terms.
No. 10.
-t -| rr A QQ ACRES in Lonoke county, Ark.,
4 tr.ZjO situated in the Rich Woods,~With-
in th^ee miles of the depot of the junction of
the Pine Bluff Branch of Arkansas Central
Railroad with the Memphis line. This is a fine
body of land, and when cleared will produce
one bale of cotton or sixty bushels of corn to
the acre. Price, $8 per acre, haf cash, balance
on terms to suit the purchaser.
No. 11.
1 aaq I?A ACRES in JeHevson county.
-Lv.JO.uv7 about fifteen miles north of Pine
Bluff, four miles from the Arkansas river, and
four miles from the Pine Bluff Branch of the
Arkansas Central Railroad: good cotton and
corn soil, covered with a growth of valuable
timber. Price, $5 per acre, half cash, balance
to suit the purchaser.
No. 12.
4 AO A CRES lying in Monroe and Lee coun-
WVV tieSj Ark.; fine whiteoak and pine tim-
ber lands, nine miles from Memphis and Little
Rock Railroad. Price, $2 per acre, cash or
two-thirds cash, balance one year with ten per
cent, interest.
No. 13.
/j in rrr ACRES on Bull's Creek. White
rtLZi.O 4 countv, Ark., three and a half miles
from Beebe Station on the Cairo and Fulton
Railroad; good cotton, corn, grain and fruit
lands; good timber, and a desirable tract of
appreciating land. Price, $6 per acre one-
third cash, balance one and two years with ten
per cent, interest.
No. 14.
Q LOTS desi’-ably situated in the western
O portion ot the city of Little Rock, upon two of
the best streets- in the city, property that will
rapidly appreciate. Price, $2100—terms, cash.
No. 15.
Oft ACRES of rich bottom land in Van Buren
vv county. Ark., thirty aeres cleared and un-
der cultivation; good house, barn, stables, well,
etc . on the premises: a desirable home for a
small farmer. Price, $6 per acre cash.
No. 16.
nATi DWELLING ana lot in Jackson-
v7 i-J poj-t, Jackson county, Ark.; house
has three rooms and hall, good garden well
fenced. Price, $600 cash, or $800 half cash,
balance one and two years with ten per cent,
interest.
No. 17.
tt A T IT' INTEREST in one of the most val-
XT-iA.LiX1 uabie watering places <n Arkansas.
These springs have a reputation fur their me-
dicinal properties second to no springs in the
State. Improvements consist of Hotel and
cabins capable of accommodating three hun-
dred visitors, and cost over $13,000. These
springs are situated in the most delightful and
picturesque portion of Arkansas; game and
fish are abundant; within easy a«eess of a rail-
road over a good carriage way of twelve miles.
A partner is wantf d in this valuable property
in order to make the necessary improvements
for the successful management o the Springs.
Eighty acres of land is included in the property.
Price, $12,500. For full particulars of this
chance for a good paying investment, call or
address Arkansas and Texas Land Company.
No 18.
A XT IMPROVED place of one acre in Even-
jUg Shade, Sharp county, Ark.: house a
one story frame cottage with four rooms, good
garden enclosed with picket fence, Evening
Shade is a prosperous and growing town, sit-
uated in the heart of the richest z'nc and lead
mines of Arkansas. Good location for a me-
chanic, or manufacturer. Price, $1000, half
cash, balance in six months.
No. 19.
A SPLENDID opportunity for a paying in-
-vX vestment. Three hundred and eighty acres
at Centreviile, in Montgomery county, Ark.,
seventy acres under a high stateof cultivation.
This is said to be the third best farm in the
county. A large business can he carried on at
this place. The improvements consist of a
large and convenient dwelling house and store-
house, millhouse, with the following machine-
ry; Grist, wheat and sawmill, cotton gin and
toll bridge, with cha'rter for thirty years—
twenty-seven years yet to run. The bridge
pays a good profit in the winter, spring and
fall mouths, the tolls average from five to twen-
ty dollars per day. A large never failing
stream of water furnishes the power for the
machinery, with ample power lor tpn times
more. I bis place is sitmted on the proposed
Fort Smith and Camden Railroad, in the most
romantic and healthful portion of the State, on
the main road from the western counties to the
railroad at Arkadelphia. Price, $30,000, part on
time with interest, or the machinery with
eighty acres of land for $7000 or the machinery,
all the improvements and 221 acres of land,
thirty acres in cultivation, for $10,000, or the
bridge with one hundred end sixty acres of
land, seventy in cultivation, no improvements,
for $1,0.000. Will sell all or any portion.
No 20.
t)1 Q9A ACRES of improved prairie and
ZiX,UZj\J timber lands, situated in the coun-
ties of Lawrence, Green, Craighead and Poin
sett, State of Arkansas. This land lies near the
Cairo ana Fulton, and the Helena and Iron
Mountain Railroads, being situate in a desira-
ble portion of the Sts te, in the midst of farms,
schools, churches, etc,; this land will rapidly
advance in value. Improved farms adjoining
thi^.body are daily sold at from ten to twenty
dollars per acre, For an investment this is a
rare oppoatunity, as our instructions are to
sell for $1 per acre cash. This land is only on
the market for sixty days.
No. 21.
A GOOD farm of two hundred and forty
^ acres at Sub Rosa, Franklin county, Ark ,
eleven miles south of Ossark, on the stage road
from that town to Waldron, Scott county. Im-
provements consits of eighty aces fenced, fifty
n cultivation, with good cross fences, three
hundred apple trees, grafted fruit, hearing two
years, good peach orchard, good well, and lrame
itarn thirty-two feet square, good hewed log
house with porches on both sides; usual out-
buildings. Sub Rosa postoffice is located on
the place; fine situation for a country store. A
portion of the land is‘prairie, and about forty
acres of good bottom land yet to be improved
a. good farm and very cheap, well adapted to
cotton, grain, fruit or grass. Price. $12 pet-
acre if sold by March 1st, 1874, after that date
price $15 per acre.
No. 22.
A FINE FARM in Lawrence county, Ark.,
J-*- one and a half miles from Powhatan, the
county seat One hundred and sixty acres,
fifty acres improved, five acres in orchard ot
we 1 selected fruit, and a sufficient quantity
of young grafted fruit tress to set but five acres
additional; three acres well set in red clover,
good substantial dwelling and out-buildings,
good well of water. The land lies high, level,
and very productive. Two head of horses, eight
head of cattle, fifteen head of hogs, farming
utensils, carpenter’s tools, household ana
kitchen furniture ca» he bought with the place.
A bargain can he had here. Price, $1500.
No. 28.
DWELLING KfXKa’g
feet, one square from Main street and Center
Market. Beautiful residence street. House
two-story frame, six rooms and kitchen, well
of splendid water and a convenient place gen-
erally. Price, $5250, half cash, balance in one
year with interest at ten per cent.
No. 24.
OOA ACRES, township 1 south, range 9 west.
OZAJ adjoining junction of Pine Bluff Branch
of Arkansas Central Railroad with the main
line, twenty-five miles east of Litt e Rock;
one hundred and sixty acres old deadening.
Fiist-clsss cotton and corn land—no better in
the State. Price $10 per acre, half or one-third
cash, balance on time to suit the purchaser. !
No. 25.
Cff) ACRES, same township, one and a half
U-Lv/ miies from depot at the Jcnr'—
acres old deadening. This is a fin ~ J
would readily bring ten dollars
No. 26.
i n ACRES, same township, dpphsite tile d0-
pot at the junction; first-class faruling
land, also, good location for a Store, or could be
out up into town lots and sold at a good profit,
Price, $25 per acre, half cash, balance bn timfc
to suit the purchaser.
No. 27.
A BEAUTIFUL suburban place of five acres,
within a half mile of city limits. Improve-
ments consist of a frame house, hall and kitch-
en, stable, well, and garden ot two acres. Bal-
ance of the ground covered by a natural
growth of timber. Fine location overlooking
thecitv;ten minutes drive from Main street.
Splendid soil for fruits of all kinds Could be
made a beautiful home. Price, $2250; terms,
half cash, balance in two years with ten per
cent, interest.
No. 28.
0 4 nnn ACRES of land lying a’ong the
Memphis and Little Rock Railroad.
This land is well adapte 1 for general farming
purposes, and especially adapted to stock rais-
ing, being covered with a luxuriant growth of
grass, and well watered. To any parties desir-
ing to go into the stock raising business this is
a rare chance. About five thousand acres of
this is prairie, balance covered by a growth of
good timber; lies in large bodies, and being so
near the rabroad will appreciate in value rap-
idly. To capitalists this is a rare opportunity
for a big investment. Price, $1 per acre cash.
No. 29.
A FARM of one hundred and twenty acres in
z*- Pulaski county, Ark ,twei\e miles from Lit-
tle hock, on the Cairo and Fulton Railroad, one
and a half miles from Alexander Station; twen-
ty acres in cultivation, five acres in orchard of
selected iruit, consisting of apnles, pears, plums
and cherries; good hewn log house, two rooms
and kitchen, stables, well of good water, etc.
Just the place for fruit, small grain, or dairy
farming. A bargain can he had in this farm if
bought in sixty days. Price, $750, $500 cash,
balance in one year.
No. 30.
1 LvO ACRES of No. 1 cotton land in Pulaski
J.UV/ County, Ark., oe.o and a half miles from
Arkansas River, entirely above overilow, three
acres of cypre-s timber, balance of timber
growth white and black elm, etc. Six acres
deadened; no buildings. A bargain is offered
iu this tract at $500 cash, or $800, $200 down, bal-
ance in three quarterly payments of $200 each.
$1600 in gold was refused for this tract before
the war.
GEO. «. MeSTON
JOHN 14, GKESS-
PRESTON & GRESS,
Successors to
T* B.
Bridge Builders
NOS. 3 AND 4 DENCKLA BLOCK,
LITTLE ROCK - - ARKANSAS.
Builders of all patterns of iron, combination
and wooden, railway, highway, and swing
bridges.
Surveys and estimates made on application
to this office.
Information from those contemplating build-
ing bridges respectfully solicited.
All commjinications should be addressed to
Preston A Gres9.
CHEAP LANDS!
CHEAPER LANDS!!
CHEAPEST LANDS!!!!
The attention of all committees and agents
sent out by associations of persons who desire
to form colonics in our young and glorious State,
as well as that of capitalists desiring to make a
good and profitable investment, together with
men of small capital who desire to secure a
good homestead, very cheap, is especially called
to the following;
We have lands along the Cairo and Fulton,
Memphis and Little Rock, Little Rock andFort
Smith, Arkansas Central and other railroads, at
from one dollar to ten dollars per acre, the
prices so given being varied according to their
relative location and proximity to towns, rail
roads and other considerations which affect
value.
The above lands can be furnished in such
tracts as maybe desired whether for individu-
als or colonies, and, if persons desiring infor-
mation more explicit than we give in our Ad-
vertiser will communicate with us, either
by mail or in person, we will cheerfully give
them all the information in our power in re-
gard to prices, terms, etc., and aid them all we
can, in purchasing and locating the lands.
Quite a number of our cheap tracts <of land
have water or timber or both, and none are very
far from those necessities, so parties need not be
deterred from purchasing them by fears in that
regard. We have large lists of land in almost
every county in the State, and we feel fully
assured that we can satisfy each and every one
who desires to purchase, no matter what
their desires may be.
The above prices are bona fide rates, and,
though it is probably true that other firms are
unable to furnish good lands at these cheap
figures, nevertheless we have them for sale and
can and will furnish to such parties as desire
them.
We speak thus confidently because we are
satisfied that we have the largest quantities of
land, the best located tracts, the most varied
list of single improved and unimproved tracts,
town lots and dwelling houses, the lowest pricgs
and easiest terms of any agency in the State
of Arkansas, and we confidently defy compe
tition.
BE^OURCES
-OF THE-
State of Arkansas.
40,000 Copies Sold.
IN TWELVE MONTHS.
rpHE above work has received the eom-
A mendation of the press of Arkansas, and
of many prominent Eastern journals, of the
railroad companies, and the unanimous en-
dorsement of the people of Arkansas.
This is the only work published which treats
of the entire State of Arkansas, as shown by
the Legislature of 1873 ordering 25,000 copies for
the use qf the State.
The railroad companies of the State have
endorsed this work by buying 15,000 copies.
This book will be sept to any address c
receipt of price.
TERMS:
Single copies.................,............$
One hundred copies...................... 40 (X)
One thousand copies..................... 350 00
Address,
JAMES P. HENRY,
P. O. Box 401. Little Rock, Ark.
s.8 mi iii & m*
PBOKERS,
—DEALERS IN-
muco nuuj v.r.v iw Junction, eighty
acres old deadening. This is a fine tract of land,
would readily bring ten dollars per acre rent
when placed under cultivation. Price, $10 per
acre half or one-third cash, balance on time to
suit the purchaser, j LITTLE ROCK
Municipal Bonds
-AND—
OTHER LOCAL SECURITIES,
Nos, 3 and 4 Uejxckla Slock,
LITTLE ROCK, - ARK,
We buy and sell, on our own account or
upon commission, all kinds of Bonds, War-
rants and other municipal securities. With
the present Bond Law of the State of Arkan-
sas, passed by the last General Assembly,
relating to the issue ofj bonds, which is in
full force and operation, and its provisions
are being carried out, will place our County
and City Bppds where they should be, equal
in every respect to any other first-class
securities, ana thus offering special induce-
ments to parties desiring bonds as an invest-
ment. We are prepared to negotiate, purchase
and sell the same upon the most advantage-
ous terms. We have been engaged as dealers
in this class of securities in the Western States
for upwards of ten years, during which period
we have examined the validity of issue
amounting to millions, we are prepared to ex-
lists and others especial privi-
larantee that any bond recom-
mended is legally issued; hnd a valid ‘sub-
sisting debt against the municipality, and
that the financial condition of the munici-
pality is such that it is abundantly able to
meet the obligation. For further information,
daress T. B. MILLS & CO.
JOHN H. MILLS,
General Contractor*
—OF ALL KINDS OF-
foot ai Inin Wort
Special attention given
court-houses and jails.
to the erection of
No. 3 Senckta Slock, Up-stairs,
ARKANSAS.
HOMES
In Th.© So-u.th.wost.
CAIRO & FULTON R. R. CO.’S
Lands in Arkansas.
LOW PRICES.
EASY TEEMS.
The Cairo and Fulton Railroad company
has a land grant from the United States,
amounting in the aggregate to nearly two
millions of acres. The road runs diagonally
through the state of Arkansas, from the
northeast to the southwest, jpasslng through
the city of Little Rock, and terminating al
the Texas boundary, where it makes connee
tion with the railroad system of that state.
On the north it makes connection with the
St. Louis and Iron Mountain railroad, termi-
nating at St, Louis. The road is three hun-
dred miles in length, and the lands donated
by the government are in alternate sections
along each side of the U«p, The grant em-
braces i
vari
the i
soil produces
FRUITS OF ALL VARIETIES,
SMALL GRAINS,
timothy and
COTTON.
Stock ranges are abundant.
THE CLIMATE
is temperate, having
heat nor of cold.
neither extremes ef
unsurpassed
riety.
Lands will be sold at
easy terms of payment.
TIMBER
in quantity, quality and va-
low prices, and on
/ TICKETS
can be purchased at the St. Louis and Iron
Mountain Railroad ticket office, 106 South
Fourth street, St. Louie, allowing holders te
stop off at any station and examine lands. If
lands are purchased from the company, fitoe
over Cairo and Fulton railroad returned.
For further particulars address
J. M. LOUGHBOROUGH,
Land Commissioner C. and F. Railroad,
Little Reek, Ark.
CAIRO & PULTON a. a.
CHANGE OF* TIME,
COMMENCING SUNDAY JUNE 29, 1873.
Trains will leave Little Rook fer
HAINT LOUIS
And intermediate stations DAILY, 6*311 pop ,
arriving at St. Louis, 4:2Q p.m , pqnBec{-
ing with all trains
NORTE\ EAST AND WEST.
PULLMAN PALACE SLEEPING CARS
Through Without Change,
Fares to the North and West are thirty per
cent, l,ess than by apv other route, and
are lower to ail points East.
TIME QUICKER—DISTANCE SHORTER,
SOUTHERN DIVISION;
Trains leaye Little Rock dally........ 7:46 a.na,
Arrive at Littlp Rook.................. 4;20 p.m.
Ticket office, 212 West Markham street;
Jamin blpck, where through tickoto can
had to all parts of the country at the reditom)
rates established by this lipe.
JAMES H. MQREEY,
Chief Engineer and Superintendent,
W. R. ALLEN,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
Memphis aid Little Rock Railrai
Shortest, Quickest and Most Direct Rputs
—to—
MEMPHIS, NEW YORK,
BOSTON, PHILADELPHIA,
BALTIMORE, WASHINGTON,
CHICAGO, CINCINNATI,
LOUISVILLE, CHATTANOOGA,
ATLANTA. NORFOLK,
CHARLESTON, SAVANNAH,
MOBILE, NEW ORLEANS.,
And til intermediate points, North, East auj
South.
TRAINS
Leave Argenta (opposite Little Rock) as fioi*
Jows: .Mail train (daily) 7:45 n.m.; freiu'ht
' f and accommodation^ (daily except
Sunday), 5:05 a.m’.
Connecting at Memphis with trains on Loutf-
ville and Nashville and Great Routbern, Mem-
phis and Charleston and Mississippi and Ten-
nessee railroads, for all points in the United
States; also with steamer# on the Mississippi
river.
Pare Always as Low as by any Other Route
Passengers and Freight cross the Igississiprf
river at Memphis without change.
THROUGH TICKETS
From Little Rock to all principal points in the
United States and Canadas.
Omnibu9scs call for and deliver passengers
any part of the city of Little Rock, free ot
charge.
Through tickets and through bills lading is-
sued to Little Rock frop all the ;prip$ipal c^Me#
in the United States.
Sleeping cars on mail train.
Little Rock office, No. 4 Main street, opposite
Metropolitan Hotel.
E. J. BUTLER,
Ticket Agent
LIVERMORE.
General Superintendent,
JOHN H. PERRY,
General Ticket Agent.
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