The Arkansas advocate., 1835-04-10
FULTON, ON REID REyE Ets.


 county, .4rkqasas, on the three first days Qf the Hc0apstedd Circuit Court, commencing on tAe IItb day of siiay 1legt. The terms of sale will be liberal and shall be made known an- terior to it's commencement.
 The site on which the Town of Fulton has : been issid oif, embraces front of near mile in extent on the north bank of Red river, and includes the elevated land on the extreme northern part of the bend two miles below the mouth of Little river. It is situate in the southern part of Hampstead county, four teen miles from the village of Washington, one hundred and twenty-five southwest of
 Little k Rock, eek between orts ,sessup and Tow son, and also between the head of the Raft and western boundary of the Territory, which is forty-fve or fifty miles above. Eatchtoehes, in Louisiana, IS, by land, one hundred and twenty miles below. On the south side of the river, opposite Fulton, is the upper part of Lafayette county, and still higher up on the same side, is the entire county of Miller These counties include large bodies of alluvial lands, inferior to none on the river for the production of CoHon. The line north from the Sabine river, eonsti- tuting, in part, the boundary between the United States and Mexico, has not yet been run; but those who are best informed on the subject, entertain the opinion, that 1t will strike Red river fifteen or twenty miles above Fulton, and near thirty miles below Pecan Point, as represented on Melshs map. Enc unsettled state of the question of boun- dary, however, between the two govern ments, does not prevent emigration to the country on the south side of the river, which already contains population amounting to thousands; nor does it i'll anywise affect the exercise of jurisdiction by the authorities of Arkansas. On the north side of Red river. between the mouth of Little river and the western boundary of the Territory, in the county of Sevier, Is said to be the largest body of nigh dry bottom land in Arkansas, no part of which has yet been offered for sale, but so soon as the surveys now in progress are completed, 1t will no doubt be brought into market. Little river and it's tributaries, the Cosetot, Saline bayou, Blue bayou, Mine creek, and Plumb creek, affords large bodies ofsuperior land already thickly settled and Ill u prosperous state of cultivation. The l whole country to the north, and above the 1 mouth of Little river, must, of necessity, make Fulton the principal place of shipment and deposite. First, because certain and regular steamboat navigation cannot be relied 1 on, ill any event, higher up than Fulton. on account ofthe accession of Little river, which frequently rises suddenly to great heirht 1 and produces fine stage below when there IS no perceptible change above its mouth It IS also said that snags and bars are much | more abundant above the confluence of the 1 two rivers. And, secondly, Fulton is the only point on Red flVer, any where in the | nelghborhood Of the mouth of Little river. 1 entirely free from inundation, ,.and accessible 1 at all times, by good roads.
 In addition to the valley of Little river. | and its branches, and the upper part of Red l river, the counties of Hempstead, Pike, and | portion of Clark, will likewise transact their main business at Fulton, as soon as steamboat navigation is obtained. Many of the planters and merchants of Hempstead i have made 1t 1t their place of deposite for the last 10 years, and the great bend of the river | makes It the nearest point to all those eoun- ties.
 The prepfiet6fs entertain no doubt but i that any intelligent man, free from prejudice, who will take the trouble to examine. a map of Arkansas, or indeed of the United States. will be convinced that no point in the Red river country commands an equal number of natural advantages us a town site. The Raft Is no longer regarded as | durable obstacle to the navigation of the river. The interest manifested by the government of the United States to effect it's removal insures additional appropriations, if necessary, and the enter prising superintendent of the work poine on. has never doubted about eventual success.
 He has recently said, as we are informed that he will be able to send a steam boat to Long Prairie (tweny-five miles above the rattl during the present spring.
 There is perhaps no section of country west of the Mississippi increasing more rap- idly ill population and wealth than that DOT tion of Arkansas bordering on Red River.-l At the late sale of public lands at Washing ton, nearely all its rich bottoms were sold from the Louisiana line up to Fulton. Since | then, some two thousand slaves have been brought to the country, and are now employ ed in clearing up these lands. The large | bodies of land above, included in S5evier coun- ty, we have before observed are not vet in | a condition to be brought into market. It is | supposed, however, that they will be offered at the close of the present year.
 Ne do not deem it necessary to give a | minute CT particular description of the site | of Fulton. It will, nevertheless, be proper to state, that the high land putting in to the river forms bluff bank Of six or eioht feet above the highest rises ever known in the | river This extends back to second bluff or sloping bank, which rises to an elevation Of ten or fifteen feet above tic common level 1 of the river, and assumes semi-circular form 1 corresponding with the bend of the river Above and below, immediately adjoining Fulton, there are fine bodies of alluvial land equal to any on the river, and at the distance of two and half or three miles are the set 4lementS of Eridoe creek and Ra;s a,A~