The Arkansas advocate., 1835-04-17
FULTON, ON RED RIVER.

FULTON, ON RED RIVER. HyHE undersigned, proprietors of the town
 l of Fulton, will offer portion of the LOTS for sale, at Washington, ia Hempsfead county, .8rtansas, on the three first days ef the Hempstead Circuit Cou,f, commencing on He llth day of sEay neat. The terms of sale Will bbS and shall he made known an- terior to it's commencement.
 The site Oil which the Town of Fulton has bsen laid off, embraces front of near q mile in extent on the north bank of Red river, and includes tho elevated land on the extleme northern part of the bend two miles below she mouth of Little river. It is situate in tine southern part of iiIeinpstcad county, four teen miles from the village of Washington, one hundred and twenty-five southwest of Little Rock, between Forts Iessup and Tow son, and also between the head of the Raft and western boundary of the Territory, which Is forty-fiye or fifty miles above. Natchitoches, 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, infsror,to none on the river for the production of Colon 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 AIelish's map. The 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 in anywise affect the exercise of jurisdiction by the authorities of Arkansas. On the north side of He'd river, between the mouth of Little river and the western boundary of the Territory, in the county of Sevier, IS said to be tho largest body of high dry bottom land in Arkansas, no part of which has yet been offered for safe, but so soon as the surveys now in progress are completed, it 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 of superior land already thickly settled and in prosperous state of cultivation. The whole country to the north, and above the 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 on, in any event, higher up than Fulton, on account ofthe accession of Little river, which frequently rises suddenly to a great height and produces fine stage below when there IS no perceptible change above it's mouth. It is also said that snags and bars are much more abundant above the confluence of the two rivers. And, secondly, Fulton is the only point on Red river. any where ia the neighborhood of the mouth of Little river. entirely free from inundation, and accessible. at all times, by good roads.
 In addition to the valley of Little river. and its branches, and the upper part of Red river, the counties of Hampstead, Pike, and q portion of Clark, viii likewise transact their main business at Fulton, as soon as steamboat navigation is obtainad. Many of the planters and merchants of Henpstead have made it their place of deposite for the last 15 years, and the great bend Of the river makes 1t the nearest point to all those coun- ties.
 The proprietors entertain no doubt, but that any intelligent man, free from preildicn. 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 liver country commands an equal number of natural advantages as a town site. The Raft Is no longer regarded as a durable obstacle to the navigation of the river. The interest manifested by the government of the United States to effect its removal insures additional l appropriations, if necessary, and the enter 1 prising superintendent of tine work going on. has never doubted about eventual success. He has recently said, as we are informed, that he will be able to send stean-boat to Long Prairie (tweny-fiye miles above the raft) during the present spring.
 There IS perhaps no section of country west of the Mississippi increasing more rap idly in population and wealth than that DOT tion of Arkansas bordering on Red River.- 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 saves have been brought to the country, and are now employ ed in clearing up these lands. The large bodies of land above, included in sevier coun- ty, we have before observed, are not yet in condition to be brought into market. It is supposed, however, that they will be offered at the close of the present year.
 We do not deem 1t necessary to give minute or particular description of the site of Fulton. 1t will, nevertheless, be proper to state, that the high land putting in to the river forms bluff bank of six or eight feet 1 above the highest rises ever known in the river. This extends back to second bluff or sloping bank, which rises to an elevation