The Russellville Democrat., 1878-03-07


 as yet impcrfectly developed. There arc very strong surface indications of Lead, Silver, and Iron. We have coal in abundance, and of good qual itv. The Onita Coal Bank, three miles west of Russellville has been in operation three years, and tbstscd has fine reputation. The Crooks Bank, three miles cast of Russcllville has also been worked.
 IT. THE SoIL.--Our soil is equal to the best to be found anywhere. It has wonderful vitality about it, as is evidenced by the fact that corn was exhibited at our late County Fair which was the 10th crop raised by the same man from the same piece of ground, without any fertilizing. The yield was 30 bushels per acre. Wheat makes 8 to 20 bushels per acre, corn 16 to 50, cotton ] to bale per acre. The statistics show that Arkansas makes more lint cotton per acre than any State in the Union.
 Is. FRUIT AND ORCHARDS. Fruit growing and orchards arc much neg lected. We had the native seeding peaches in the Russellville market this year equal to the best budded fruit we ever saw. We have seen applef here as fine as wc ever saw i'll Washington county, the fruit grow Ing region, par excellence, of the .s.igl trho.n xykr, ba,-a .yiyap fruit growing any attention have succeed ed to their entire satisfaction. Re fer to Cyrus W. Ewing, Rnsseilyille, Ark.
 The tobacco grown in our county took the premium at the State Fair. 19 IMMIGRATION We have coun- ty Immigration Society, the officers of which will take pleasure III re- plying to all questions concerning our county. R. B. Wilson, Secreta- "; c. w, Harkey, President There has been about 600 immi- grants to our county within the last year. The new corners are from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Pennsylvania and Michigan mostly; some from Tennessee, Mississippi, G Georgia a, North and South Carolina.
 l 20 TIE KIND OF NEW CoMERs WE WANT.-We want honest, industri- ous, energetic and intelligent men and women from JUST ANYWHERE. It makes no difference to us about their nationality, religion, politics or where they hail from. All will find a cor dial welcome. We would prefer those who can bring along means enough to buy lands and open up farms so as to put into a productive state the thousands upon thousands of good lands now lying idle and waste-lands which will yield the in. dustrious husbandman sure and profitable reward.
 | 21. TAxEs.-T axes altogether amount to about l-5 per cent upon the taxable property, but scrips in which large portion of our taxes are payable are at such discoun, that all our taxes can be with about $1.S7 or $1.90 in currency on the $l0000, The taxable property ol our county is about $l, 500,000.
 ~22. TEMpERATURE.--The range oi the thermometer in summer is from so to 92deg. In winter from 40 down to 10deg., most of the time not much below freezing.
 23. HEALTH claim to have one of the healthiest sections in the South. In some low, swampy locali fies the chills and fever prevail, but with the settlement of the country and the removal of the dense bodies of timber, the health of every locality will be improved.
 A. MopE OF LIvING.--In years past our people lived hard, from hand to mouth, because they cultivated cotton altogether, to the exclusion oi making their own bread and meal and other supplies. Now, however our agriculture is becoming more di vsrslfied. Our people are making all their own supplies and are ship ping considerable surplus of wheat and breadstutfs. Every mans smoke house and provision house is now Al HOME, and we ship nothing of that kind here. The farms and farm houses of our people, and the person al appearance and dress of the peo | pie all indicate vast improvement, in the past few years.
 OTHER PoINTs.-Our county is free from all causes of local strife or al vision. Our people are united ano harmonious. The feeling and deter mination of our people is ONWARD AND UPWARD. The temperance ans school interests are warmly support ed here. The county has newspa per, the Russellville DEMOCRAT, pub lished weekly at Russellville, whicl is better supported than almost any other county paper. There are some six or seven lodges of Masons, and I several lodges of Odd Fellows in the county. The county is improving rapidly. We have twelve post-ofiices and need and will soon get several more. The office at Russellville is g money order office. We are in tele graphic communication with the ont side world, and are by no means the half uncivilized barharians that we I hax,a haau ,n,,rooanta1 bt- cpnp nprt h.