Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-08-06
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ARKANSAS.

RESOURCES AND DDEVEL0PMENT.-An In
telligent gentleman, settled in Arkansas when
still territory, and we'll acquainted with its
history and resources, has furnished to the
Memphis Bulletin most interesting account
of that growing and prosperous State. Be-
ginning with the Northeastern portion, he
describes it as one of the best corn, grass and
stock growing regions in all the Southern
country-though owiag to the want of mar
ket facilities, it has till lately attracted but
little attention. Itwas, also, particularly un-
fortunate in its early settlers. Ishmaels of
old, without means or love for civilized life,
the wilderness is their home they scorn the
city and the multitude; neither have they
houses or lands; whenever night or chance
overtakes them, they pitch their tents and
herd their focks; and when the railroad
starts, they will start also, to 60 whittier it
cannot come, so strong is their love for semi
civilized life, so great their aversion to i'm
provement of whatever kind.
Northwest Arkansas is mountainous, the
river valleys narrow, rarely more than two
or three hundred yards wide. The soil, how
ever, is fertile. Admirably adapted to pas
turage and general tillage, it makes the most
beautiful and productive farms in the South
west, where peace and joy and conteutment
dwell. On high land, too, or more properly
the hills, are fertile and we'll watered fields,
good for raising wheat and othersmall grains,
as well as for general tillage and pasturage.
This part of Arkansas has the advantage in
health; its waters are clear, pure and cool,
and valuable understandable, slate and
lead-abound White River and its forks
water this whole region made navigable, as
they easily might be, they would soon deTel-
op the inexhauslible resources of this portion
of the State The cotton growing region Of
Arkansas is south of the base line.
1t is true cotton is raised as high up as
Jacksonport, on White River, but the south
ern part of the State is justly considered as
the region adapted to cotton. And for the
production of this great staple the lands of
the Mississippi, White, Arkansas, Ouachita
and Red Rivers, are not surpassed. Their
richness and productiveness are too well
known for me to attempt to say anything
more in their favor. These streams are rem
dered navigable in the spring of the year by
rains and the melting of the SHOWS in the
mountains above, and not until then the great
est part of the cotton goes to market. But
in order that they may ship their cotton as
soon as it is ready, they are building a rail-
road from Fulton, on Red River, to Gaines
Landing, on the Mississippi. And to re-
move like difficulty, Ito which the Arkan-
sas river is subject) they have been talking
of a road from Little Rock to Napoleon, at
the mouth of the Arkansas.
The writer adds that there are vast num-
Der of cotton lands in Arkansas not yet
brought into cultivation. What is wanted
more than anything else, at the present time,
is the enterprising and all pervadiDg spirit
of the age, to infuse those inestimable vir-
tues, industry and energy.
And in this connection, the writer alludes
more particularly to the railroads already in
progress, or, in contemplation in Arkansas
| the Fulton and Gaines's Landing road;