The Russellville Democrat., 1882-12-07
RUSSELLVILLE.
THE SWEET AUBURN OF
 THE PLAIN"
And the Adjacent Country the Arcad1an Land" of the Arr
 kansas Valley.
Her Advantages, and Induce
 ments for Eastern Capital.
The Progress Within her Busy walks Since the Last Issue
 of The Democrat.

10 a citizen of Russellville, or Pope county, the beauty of the town and its excellent location are facts too highly appreciated to require an editorial to convince them of or to establish. But to those of our read CTS who are beyond the confines of the subject of this article and who have never examined our soil, coal, and timber, or threaded the lovely brooks and water courses of our county, 1t is necessity, and they look to the DEMOCRAT for news of her progress and her future pros- poets. For all such, this article is written.
 The town, though old, dating from an early period when she bordered the outposts on the frontier, and for several years was scarcely more than stage stand, could hardly be called village until after the completion of the Little Rock & Ft. Smith K. R., from which date her growth has been slow but certain, until within the past few years she has extended that western vim that pleases the eastern capitalist, and bids him wei. come to her delightful cline and sunny skies.
 The county is bordered on the south by the Arkansas river, and rising towards the north, is the be- ginning of the beautiful table land that so gracefully finds it's limit in the summit of the Boston Mountain. Until the building of the Little Rock and Fort Smith railroad in 1872, her commercial relations were malntain- ed by steamboats that piled the Ar kansas river, the channel by which nature provided her for the transfer of her produce and merchandise The county lays almost north and south, is about forty miles in length, and twenty five in width. For about one third the length of the county from the southern border, the soil is sandy loam that requires no fer tilizing, it is here that the cotton plantations stretch away in their magnitude and perfection, and at this season of the year the fleecy staple covers the fields with white. ness and beauty, resembling a vast snow field that refuses to move be- fore December's sun. We need not wonder when the poor colored man sighs for Old Master and the plantation, and his home among the cotton fields-when it makes our pulse quicken to view a scene of beauty that his eyes have beheld from his infancy. The remaining portion of the county to its northern border is rolling table land, covered with heavy forests of pine, oak, and hickory and interspersed with wal nut, ash and cherry, and underlaid with rich coal beds.
 The town of Russellville is noted for its healthful locality, its beauty and neatness, and its stability. Her wants and demands are many, which are being met freely. In the sum- mer time her groves and brooks are cool and pleasant, and the hawthorn blooms in fragrance and with beauty. She bids fair to become quite sum- mer resort as she is with her other inducements, easily accessible, and the numerous and valuable springs in the spur of mountains just on her west promise to be quite an ac- quisition to her inducements to pleas ure seekers. The counties north and south of thls are rich and fer tile, and the trade, traffic and travel demands Q railroad through that scope of country; response to this demand is made in the shape of ar ticles of association of the Kansas City and New Orleans R. R. Co.,, who filed their articles of incorpora- tion in the office of secretary of state on the Fist inst, and who at once are to make preparation for the be- ginning and completion of their line of road. It enters the state on the northwestern border, working it's way down the banks of the clear and sparkling streams of the Boston Mountains, where the scenery equals any among the Alleghanies; the lay of the country leads to Russellville, and the survey for the establishment of the road bed crosses at this point, and on direct to New Orleans, the Crescent City of the South. Thus is assured the beginning for 2 railroad center at this point, when competi- tion will be instituted, and reason be made to control passenger and freight rates and time schedules.
 Business transactions greatly de- mand bank at this point, and we must have one. This IS one of the wants that is seriously felt; the de- posits would be considerable in a short time, and it's increase gathered over scope of country with radi- us of forty or fifty miles. We also need large tannery, with a boot and shoe manufactory. The stock business has grown until it is con siderable, and together with the shipments of hides to this point were an inducement offered, would be i'm mense. No locality IS better adapt ed for an enterprise of this kind, or offers more inducements for the in. | yestment of capital than this. The