The Russellville Democrat., 1875-12-16
DEMOCRAT THURSDAY DECEMBER 16 1875


 word walnuts hickory nuts three varieties acorn of them andase ehnquepns and hazel n"'Sae common to the whole Valley <, Through this region through thcsc pines and other ofe ~ upands and loslands, minerals and coal,
 
 dect the valley and of course par its riches These lands the market and are offered at prices varying from $2 to $1 per acre
 Cane eed entirely covered the lowlans but it now cat en dying out But few and small ares occur ,s tract good Prairie Russeylc the grasses good and the soil fair After rain summer often will be seen in saline the and hcr while about the existence of saline Washington and Benton counties
 the county Pope built depressed ridges of the Illinois Range and is within mile of the Bayou in S 27 T. R. 20 Coal around Dover Iron also in the rock beautiful clear and perfect crystals o sex are found in the neghborhood - ., miles from Maj David West of the oldest, venerable and esteemed citizens of the county He has been resident of Pope county 40 sl old and accidents which his etenivc memory enables him relate makes interesting and instructive to in The upands are fertile waered cations sco, fus plants are more than numerous very fine white clay exposed in small rvuet Vests which vii! make excellent waet is adhesive At Bulcy miles On Buck Mountain Garners Branch six miles northeast from Dover rich iron Bluff of highly ferrginous sandstone Coal also here onnda ten inch said be good East from Dover four miles coal of excellent quality has been discovered said oud and it supposed that limestone is underneath thick bed of coal shale is here exposed.
 many years Fork Illinois Bayou it's foot of the Illinois II part of the Boston Noun
 
 Tine owlands along this portion the Bayou and it's auents the finest and their capacity for production of all kinds of
 GRAIN, COTTON, TOBACCO
 equal land the timberis fine At Bullock about miles from acs is sanc lsprin the brine of which is quite strong formerly by the, owned the country well since by white mensad to yield fair percentage of salt There saline elsewhere this gion good brine all likelihood could be obtained by boring this North Fork othe bayou sam Morris about six miles From IIac the Hills begin themselves ao and in description of them will nearly of the Valley above Pulaski and Conway Counties will devote
 
 ridge between the waters of Illinois Bayou and Pne Its altitude 1000 above the level the Bayou The usual latter being than commonly exposed Evidence almost rock and coal frequently sends its most part tab The range very fine the mast superior and sheep The timber both pine and oak and exceled by no region.
 Levi Creek small auent of Big Pney, hundred and feet above the level of the Arkansas of Pney At and around the mouth of this streamet ulog ownso named by the Cerokeesa thriving and popuou settlement of fine land Big Piney about sixteen miles s.cs from Dover run in this vicinity At the point where struck Levi Creek has been pronounced granite but which granite hard firm and compact congonerate the pebbles whereof and all quartz; quartz full it pebbles. These pebbles all worn; is of dark bush gray cootraces of iron adeng to the outside If is doubtless It
 EXCELLENT nrHR sroxr accessible from Piney Competent ed excellent rock for bur mstones ledge exposed hundred and fifty lies place. northeast to southwest large blocks of lay as if inviting the me pick This ledge plrked and ovead by beds eight feet thick; the midst pines of the stream large and overowing spring water This spring and will supply mills. II On adepression of the ridge between the and Mill Branch small tributary Illinois Bayou one of the
 oF OAK, nspersed with pine and other oaks Arkansas The aud herage luXurian hlses bench Immense quantities of whoeberries here and profuon of wild game abundant where in the Hills Our long description of ts hill is truth picture of the Range . On Indian Creek which heads in the h consider able flowing Big Pney miles eastward from the ledge mentioned above hard but which has been used for msones grndstone grit exsed tering Indian Creek the white oak forest n These streams, Point Remove, Galley Creek Nostown Illinois Bayou with it's three tributaries and both the Pneys and their aluents all afford mill through in neghborhoods fine with oak and other woods. The of the Arkansas River lies waters Illinois Ivo and Pin projecting with less dense pnes Point Remove on the and Spada the pine forest abuts miles the Arkansas Rve indeed crosses it. and it extends back the Boston Mountains
  run direct through it. Many mills The land between Illinois Bayou and Pncy than usually broken and not good those above abouhds in huge and fine building break out all through this tract and good sweet lasting water reached, in from twenty to forty feet ' e
 
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