Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-28
INDIAN BAY.
A NeWsy ana Graphic Letter from
Arkansas.

INDIAN BAY, ARK, February %,
lSSO.-EDIFoR MISUNDERSTANDING in
your readable and newsy paper a short
time since that you desired persons in
different portions of the country to
favor you with brief communications,
we will endeavor to indite a few
pointed items of news from this place,
hoping it will inspire others of your
thousands of readers in the different
states to do likewise.
As the major portion of your many
readers are doubtless interested in
matters pertaining to farming inter
ests, we will state that the farmers
here are beginning active preparations
to pitch another crop and on a better
footing and larger scale than for many
seasons past. 1t is feared that the
highly r~emunerative prices received
for cotton last year will induce many
to plant a larger acreage of cotton
than ever. All cotton and no corn
makes the farmer a poor man. Not
only the farmers, but the merchants
are preparing for business on a large
scale. Merchants here who have been
carrying on business in one store have
rented more house-room to transact
the large and lucrative business
they have built up. In fact,
so great has been their prosper
ity they have been compelled
as 1t were to pull down their old
barns and build greater.
We do not like to particularize, but
to give your readers a faint idea of the
business transacted here by some of
our merchants, Colonel M. ID. Martin,
from a small beginning, several years
ago, has, by shrewd business tact and
fair dealing, built up a business of al
most colossal proportions besides en-
plOying a good force of men to attend
to his business, he has Fought, this
season, in the neighbOrhood of two
thousand bales of cotton, and shipped
nearly a ship load of seed. MI. f. J..
Robinson has also done a lucrative
business. Other merchants here have
also done a fair business and have
made money. Mr.. W. +, McNab.
who superintends a saw mill and
steam gin, shipped two thousand sacks
of cotton seed and ginned half a thous-
and bales of cotton.
Nearly every boat from Memphis to
this point for the past two months has
brought negro immigrants, and nearly
every squad brings along a fair supply
OF the canine species. A citizen tried
to buy a sheepish-looking cur from an
old colored immigrant, but he failed
and as the old nan hobbled off he
said, Some folks kin part from der
wives, and some from der chillun. but
when It comes ter partin'
from Grant, my good ole
coon dog, | jes' can't do it;
I'm gwine to hold on to dat dog ez
long ez dar is a har on him left"
Though the season is nearly spent,
our boats are doing a good business.
The Hard Cash is we'll differed and
reliable. The Josie Harry still car
ries the horns. Her commander is
we'll and widely known for his many
acts Of generosity, and many can rise
and call him blessed.
Game of all kinds abound in our
forests. Mr.. VIM. Order, a veteran
Nimrod in this neck of the woods, has
in the past two seasons two hun
dred deer, twenty-one bear and about
two hundredan fifty coons. and a large
amount Of small game. In one day
he killed eleven deer and three bear. |
The health of the country has i'm.
proved generally. Since the introduc
ton and use of iron pumps, the water
is ASPIRE and good as can be found
anywhere. There is a spring at the
head Of our beautiful bay near this
place that is quite a summer resort.
A great many persons claim that the
waters possess medicinal virtues equal
to many fashionable watering places.
AS We have trespassed upon your
time and space, we will close. NAV
the future Of the LEDGER be pros
porous and brilliant, is the wish off
scores Of Arkansians, and of
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