The Russellville Democrat., 1875-12-09
ELLvILLE DEMOCRAT, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1875.

world wanus hickory nuts three oceans acorns of them and large chneapns and hazel n"sare Through region through pines and other forests soils uplands and o~ands minerals and coal
 LANDS direct they penetrate of the valley and of cipa its riches These lands are now on the market and offered prices varying from $2 $7 per acre
 Cane (ces entirely covered the lowlands but dying But few and small rares this tract indeed in the North Valley but the lands and good the soil fair After rain often will be pas saline ncustatons the and herbs while ma ter this all praies up Washington and Benton counties
 the county Pope built depressed ridges of the Illinois Range, and within mile of the Bayou in $ 27 T. 20 and is disclosed all around Do: Iron also in the rock and very beautiful clear anu perfect crystals of sex are Four miles from Dover lives Maj David West one of the oldest venerable citizens of the He has been hale and hearty The Major served country the Mexican war and the incidents and accidents which his etenyc enables him relate makes interesting and instructive in uands and fertile we'll wacred coal nd disclose everywhere fus plants than very white clay exposed in small rivue Mr. Vests make excellent waet is adhesive At Bueys miles Vests the Bayou drift quartz and drift lead found Mountain Gardnes Branch six miles northeast from Coal is also here scam good East Dover miles coal of excellent quality has been discovered said ound and supposed that limestone is underneath thick bed of coal shaIe is here exposed
 many years lived the North Fork the Illinois its mouth the foot of the Illinois IIls of the Boston Noun tain Range, has but recently died
 The owands along portion the Bayou of the finest and their capacity for production of all kinds of
 GRAIN coRN COTTON, TOBACCO, sc, equal and the timber fne At Bulocks about two quite strong and was formerly worked by Chrokes when they owned the country well since by white mensaid yield fair of salt There saline traces elsewhere in this gon good brne all likelihood could be obtained by boring On this North Fork ofthc bayou near sam Morris about six miles Hacs the Hills begin to themselves ao and in so n description them will nearly all the Hills the Valley above Pulaski and Conway Counties will devote
 
 ridge between the waters of Illinois Bayou and nc It's altitude 1000 feet above the level of the Bayou The rock usual of being than commonly exposed Evidence of iron almost every rock and coal frequently sends out its soil the slopes and height which is table land for the most part labe The range very n the mast superior and sheep The timber both pine and oak dense Levi Creek small aiuent of Biz Piney is one hundred and twenty feet above the level of the Arkansas river the mouth Pney At and around the mouth of this seam'et is suog settlement fine land Big Pney about sixteen miles north west from Dover
 this vicinity At the point where struck Levi Creek R. q ledge of rock, between the sandstone, which has been granite but which is fact not granite but ar and compact congomerate the pebbles whereof uni pebbles These pebbles all worn; the dark bush cootraces of iron adherng to the outside It
 AN EXCELLENT sroSE accessible from Pne Competent judges have and mistones. The ledge exposed hunqed and fifty feet lies place and from northeast % N an % I by s wo S s  thick in the midst of superb pines nd oaks At the head and overowng spring of clear cold This spring and stream will supply mills
 epresso of the ridge between the of Levi Creek and Branch, small tributary of Illinois Bayou of the
 
 with pine and other oaks be Arkansas herbage luXuant; hsides steep quantities of whorteberes here be foun great prouson of wild abundant the Hills Our long description of hls hill is in truth picture of the Range.
 Creek which heads in the hl and which consider able flowing Big Piney miles eastward from the ledge above hard but congomerae and which has mlstones fine grudsone grit exposed half mile the head of Sloane Crock small teng Indian Creek the white oak forest.
 streams Point Remove Galley Creek, Whig Creek Norrsown Illinois Bayou with it's three forks and tributaries and both the Pneys and their auen all afford mill sites and through neghborhoos fine pneries inersesed with oak other woods The best and forest of River lies between Illinois Bayou and Pney projecting with less dense pnes down Point Remove Spadra the This pine abuts for miles River indeed, back to the Mountains.
 RAILROAD
 through it. Many mills the region and all saving The Illinois Bayou and Pney than usually broken good those above The rock abound building purposes Springs all through this tract and good, sweet lasting reached in from twenty to forty feet. RuSsELLvlLLE are the principal business towns in this county The former an