The Russellville Democrat., 1877-04-26

Pope county. Wehaye bought about $500 acres, including 2,l60 of pli- vate parties, and expect to establish an industrial colony on the lands. Our city has been named Garland, in honor of your Excellcncy, and we trust its prosperity may be such as to prove no blcmish to the name. Accept, sir, the assurances of the profound respect of the officers and members of the Agricola Colony, Arkansas.
 By SENECA " ELY, President.
 To give an idea of the prospects and intentions of the colonists and founders of Garland City, we extract the following from the prospectus issued by $. W. Ely, President: "We have now selected the lands for the commencement of colonizing operations, and have secured most eligible site near Atkins, Pope Coun- ty, Ark, sixty miles west of Little Rock, on the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railway. Here we have laid out city, with wide streets, commo- dious alleys, public squares and other conyeniences. The railway company have contracted to erect station house, and put down siding sufficient for the prospective busi- ness of the place. The city of Ag ricola contains 2013 lots, being fully one lot for each share oi stock in the Colonial Company, and for all public edifices and purposes.
 "Our company have also arranged with the railway company for com mutation rates for transportation of the products of the colony, and for every low rate of fare, for five years, for our colonists and their families. The railway company also stipulate to present the colony company with eighty acres of land, of average value for that purchased, for every 5000 acres thus purchased, and with forty acres, of said average value, for each mill or factory built by the colony, or member or members thereof, on the colony's land, worth $5000 apiece, up to the number of twenty five.
 "Other special advantages are SC cured the colony, which will be en joyed by the individual stockholder, and which it would be impracticable for an individual purchaser of rail road lands to obtain.
 We regard the place we have se lected for our city and manufactur- ing and farming operations as the best available. The lands are near lv level. and of the best bottom and second bottom Arkansas Valley land, none of it subject to overflow. They are all covered with valuable timber, much of it of the best kind for build ing, manufacturing and commercial purposes. When cleared, most of this land will produce the best of crops, and, as the Arkansas River is but four miles distant from our most remote purchase, and the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railway runs thro' our city plat for mile in extent, tuClc VIII Dc Io HUN Oi iduSpoi tst tion facilities for all our products not saleable on the ground. The position is eminently healthy, the water good, all building material cheap, and the best of mineral coal is mined in the adjacent hills. Co operation and little steady toll will accomplish the settlement of a four ishing city.
 .The colony is not andseller's scheme, but one suited to the wants of large number of purchasers, CO operating for mutual benefit. It is gotten up by disinterested parties, to meet want widely felt.
 ''It differs from any other coloni- zation project, in that the subscrib- CT will pay for no more than he re- ceives, and what he got for his mon- ey will always be worth more than it cost him. Joining the colony will not curtail the operations of sub scriber; nor will he be obliged to remain stockholder longer than his interest may dictate.
 "The colony will be manufac- turing as we'll as a farming one, so that portion of the company's cap. ital will be invested in machinery.
 Parties who may prefer to home stead their lands can do so, and still share in all the advantages of the colony.
 By joining individual capital in colonies, shareholders can secure important advantages which indi- viduals alone cannot reach. They can get their lands cheaper, their transportation cheaper, and thou sand other things for less money than each man could by acting sepa- rately.
 Wood working machinery will be erected on the land as soon as prac ticable. Very low fares for colonists and land buyers will be furnished now and hereafter, from Cincinnati, Indianapolis, Cleveland and other leading points, to Agricola or At Kins, and for the present large boarding house will be provided for the accommodation of the first set tiers, before the lots are apportioned