The true Democrat., 1855-06-05
Letter from Dallas County.
Princeton, Arh., May 3OM, 1855

EDITOR TRUE DEMOCRAT: I am pleased to was never better for good crops. At this time the rain is falling very copiously, and our crops are generally in promising condition. It has been rather dry for oats but the present raiu. will improve the oat crop wonderfully We have cut and secured, clear of rust or damage of any kind, the best wheat crop every raised in this section of the country. Corn never looked more promising, and stands of cotton are as good as 1 have ever seen any where l The dry spring has enabled the farmers to keep their crops in good order, and every thing con- pines to impress upon my mind the opinion that we will have perhaps the largest yield of cotton and grain that has ever been produced in South Arkansas.
 1 see by correspondent of the Gazette and Democrat that complaints are urged against the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company for not accepting the grant of land on the terms i'm posed by the act of the Legislature He seems to think that if there are mistakes foolish l blunders in the law, that the next Legislature would set all things right. 1 would trust no- thing to the whims of such Legislature as passed the present law. It is believed that many desired the destruction of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad Company. Many absurd and runous restrictions were urged, and some of them adopted. Every man of sense knows ! that if the company were to accept under the present law, that however absurd and ruinous ! it would be, still the company would be bound by it strictly, for they would be entering into a contract with the State, with their eyes open. And pray, what capitalist would take stock in the company, or desire partnership in the grant, which could not be used for more than twenty years The original charter is lib- eral one, and the road would be built under 1t il the company never were to get the lands. Still, 1 think the people will send to the next Legislature men who will take a more liberal view of this subject, and do as we'll as Missouri has done with her grant-no restrictions except such as Congress imposed in the act granting the lands.
 In the mean time, I think the lands along the line of the survey of the Cairo and Fulton Railroad, as adopted by the company and sanc- toned by the Legislature ought to be selected at once and secured to the State, and the lands within the restriction brought into market My reasons are that, first, the people within the re- striction desire the restrictions to be removed, so that they may get their homes secured; or secondly, the reason why the lands ought to be selected on the line of the survey, is simply because all the lands out side of this restriction have been entered at the graduated price and if the lands are selected on any other line than this, they will not be half so valuable and un- less selected within the fifteen miles on either side of this line, the ground would be compara- lively valueless.
 It matters not, for the interest of the State, whether the land grant goes to this company or not; yet it is certain, that if it is to be made of any value, it must be selected on this line.
 Truly yours,
 R. C. H