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North Carolinians, one and all, who intend emil
Grating to new country this fall and wish to pro-
cure cheap and good lands, combined with health,
please recoect that there is no county in the state
of Arkansas, combines so many of the elements OF
success for the industrious farmer as Conway; the
best evidence of its health is that Physicians, as
general thing, have to combine some other empIoy-
ment besides physic, with which to obtain iveh-
hood: the cost Of living, to new comers equally as
cheap Corn, generally sells Except TINS yearJ
from thrty.ve to fifty cents per bushe; hour rom
two and half to three dollars per hundred POUNDS
bacon from seven to nine cents per pound; lands
good uplands capable of producing from one thou
sand to fifteen hundred pounds seed cotton per acre.
corn from forty to fifty bushels; wheat from twenty
to thirty per acre. All ye read, reflect and inward
lv digest the following communication. For the
truth of these things enquire of North Carolinlans
here:
From the Memphis (Tenn,} Avalanche
LEw1sBURe, ARK, March LIST, 1860
MEssRs ED1roRs Observing that you state in
paragraph in the Apalanche of the 25th ult, that
tthe value of the oil and olcake of single crop OF
100000 bales of cotton is estimated at lOo, ii'-
O0O.' Presenting that estimate to be correct it. to-
tai crop of cotton seed manufactured into oil IN
stead Of letting ninetenths of it go to 0ase as a.
present would it not be best for those who are and
design investing capital in the manufacture OF IT, 70
locate their manufactures in the midst Of large
cotton growing region, as upon the Arkansas river,
instead of at places often remote from the production
of the "raw material" by which the cost OF ship
mcnt of the seeds could be saved to the manuactur
er-also in nine cases out of ten the entire cost OF it.
at least at comparatively little cost for planters as
general thing, have not yet turned their attention
to the value of the Seeds and would be pleased that
some one would remove it out of their way. There
fore presumng this to be correct, would suggest
to the operator the establishment of manufactures
in the above cotton growing region, which is capa1
BILE of producing cotton enough for the entire Veg
tern hemisphere and the rest of mankind" which
it eventually will. And there is no more favorable
region than this immediate region for profitable
Investment of the kind, and could be combined to
make it still more profitable and extensive, steam
GIN and grst MILL the following figures will de-
monstrate:
LIST. There is from three to four thousand bales of
cotton produced and shipped from this immediate
vicinity annually one fourth of which is gnned here
the balance ought to be ginned, but cannot from
constant crowded state of gins two old fashioned
horse power affairs, which cannot under the most
favorable circumstances turn out more than five
bales per day. therefore seed cotton has often to be
hauled ten or fifteen miles to get it ginned
End. The price paid for ginning and battling. is
onetenth of the product, taking the quantity that
would be ginned if facilities were provided, would
make a revenue of $4,000 per annum or $500 per
bale, but which could be gnned with steam power
for $500 per bale and leave nett profit to gins of
$4,000 after deducting &c. 900 for cost of running.
Add probable nett earnings of mill and oil works.
say 81, 600 more, would make total of $4,000 per
annum profit, on an investment of fifteen thousand
dollars for entire cost of all combined deduct say
$4,000 for interest investment would leave nett
profit of s., 900 per annum on investment equal to
thirty per cent
3d. The advantages and location of this place for
steam gin grst mill and oil works is better than at
any other point on the river in the midst of coun-
try that bids fair to be thckly settled up at no dis
tant day, which is capable of sustaining dense pop
ulaton and greater advantages of soil than any 9TH
portion of the State from the fact that we have
larger extent of good bottom and uplands, both in
Conway and Perry county, than in any two coun-
ties of like territory in the State And if the pres
ent is to be taken as an indication of the future this
will be the richest agricultural district in Arkansas,
composed, as it is, of small planters and farmers,
which is the salvation of any country enterprise.
To those who desire seeking homes and farms in the
west this portion of the country offers peculiar ad
vantages the small farmer can here procure lands oil
the best quality within his means, and not encum-
bered with land sharks-speculators, that class Of
citizens we have none, and don't want any. I'm
proved lands can be had at from two to fifteen dol
lars per acre, owing altogether as the improvement
or location may be- Government lands at from twelve
and half cents to one dollar and twenty five cents
per acre, State lands at from fifty to seventyfive
cents donation lands for nothing, tip top at that
by becoming citizen of the State and paying one
dollar and twenty five cents for cost Of deed to one
hundred and sixty acres.
In conclusion, would again call attention of the
capitalists to this region for profitable investment
capital in the product of the country, in providing
with machinery, mills and ct ceteras to prepare
the product more speedily for market.
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