Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-30
RIPARIAN READERS
Will Consider with Interest the Flood
Notes, Facts and Figures Here
Set Forth.
The Damage TO the Dykes not so
Great as has Been Estimated
Planters Losses Severe.

Fader, Frank * Co.. OF phis sustain ed
| severe losses in the Watson district, Des ha
county, Ark.
There is danger that much work stock will
! be lost by feeding corn damaged and musty
from the damp.
| Cowdon's outlet theory has received more
! consideration from close thinkers since the
| LIST Of February than ever before.
Negroes have commenced hegira to the
| hills, but hopes are entertained that the
exodus will not be 50 great as TO cripple
planting interests.
Thomas II. Allen & Co, of Memphis, own
between twenty and thirty plantations in
Mississippi and Arkansas, most OF which
were under water.
Only one of the twelve saloons in Arkansas
City closed during the food, though the
tops of some Of their counters were but
foot or so above water.
Not the least among the losses of plsnters
in the bottoms is the almost entire cleaning
out OF wild hogs, upon which before this
people down there depended almost exclu-
sively for their meat supply.
Owing to heavy breaks Just above and
below, the Bass levee, at Lake Providence,
La, put up in 1S77-7S at an expense of
S75, 900, afforded no protection during the
present overflow.
The destruction of stock will obviate the
necessity of much of the usual fencing in
the bottoms unless the ''lean kline" of the
hills should make a raid, when buckshot
will possibly be resorted to.
Colonel Ed Richardson's immense plan
tation at Refuge, Miss, ten miles below
Greenville, will not be clear of water for a
month yet at the present rate of decline and
many other heavy planters are in the same
sad plight.
Though this is an election year in Arkan-
sas, it would hardly be known in the over
flowed counties, SO completely has the mum
dation monopolized public attention. De-
sha will most likely re-elect Isaac Bankston
sheriff, and J. P. Jones, Circuit and County
Court clerk.
Egypt Ridge, in Bolivar county, Miss,
wherein are situated some of the most
productive plantations in the valley, was
not wholly under, though overlooked in
places. Its entire area is only about four
by eight miles, though its peculiar advantages
make it very valuable.
While the water was at its highest a fair
sized steamboat could have gone from with |
in twenty miles of Pine Bluff to the Gulf of |
Mexico without entering the Mississippi |
river, by taking "the inside route" down |
Bayou Bartholomew, Bayou Beuf, Tensas, |
OIachita, Red and Atchy afalaya rivers.
The Mississippi Lsvee Board, which is
called to meet at Greenviile next Monday,
will have most important work before it in
for the repair and raising of the
broken dykes-a work that viii require a
vast amount of money and engineering ca
pacity of the first order, both of which are
within reach of the board.
Thousands of deer have been killed in
Drew, Lincoln, Ashley and Dorsey counties,
Ark, since the water come out of the banks |
The ala driven mt NJ the !
ands, where they had been hitherto almost
inaccessible to hunters. Bales and piles of
he pelts are being received daily at Mem
)his, and Front street Is redolent with the
peculiar odor.
There are seventeen valuable plantations
within Laconia Circle chief among which is
he one of DIR. Blackburn. This protection
evee, built years ago at cost of over $780,
100, never before gave way, and as those in
ide it had every confidence in its inpregna-
,ility, the wreck was complete. No accurate
stimate of the losses can be made until the
Tater has gone off.
The work done last autumn by Captain
george Arnold on the levees at Australia
nd Concordia stood the pressure of the
God, while old work above and below gave |
ray by the hundred yards. Engineers ex-
lain this apparent phenomenon on the
hypothesis that there was considerable
logging" in the old levee, while the green (
arth was honestly put up.
A spring overflow IS usually followed by
healthful summer and spring, but many
ersons in the lower counties of Arkansas
nd Mississippi fear the unusual destruction
live stock will entail much sickness when
he sun shall have worked decomposition {
pom the csrcasses. A singular fact in con-
ection with this is that buzzards and crows
ave as yet made no move toward their I
sual scavenger work.
Mr.. Zadek, merchant of Terrene, Miss,
hose business house caved into the river
bout ten days ago, has fleet of skiffs and
nall Aatboats, manned by refugee darkys, !
ngaged in taking the hides from drowned |
attic in Bolivar county. 1t is said the
zins cost him, delivered to steamers, only
bout ten cents each, and that even at this L
wv rate his men make good wages, so plenti-
al are the drowned carcasses.
1t is the general impression of persons
ompetent to judge that not more than half
ne usual area of cotton can be planted in
he overlooked sections this year. Stock,
led, fences, tools, seed, and, in many in
ances buildings wherein to house the ]
lbor, are wanting, and by the time these
IN be supplied the planting season will have
assed. Instances are not lacking, however,
here good corn crops have been raised
hich were planted late as the LIST of
lly, and a little energy toward this end
i'll amply repay those who will exert it.
The Anglo American Land Company, or
lnized to raise cotton after the same methods
pursued by Dalrymple on his big wheat
run, and TO the operations of which general
tention in this section of country is direct
!, have met with very serious drawbacks in
e overflow of the extensive plantations pur-
ased by its directory last year in Chicot a
unity, Ark, and Bolivar and Washing b
II counties, Miss. There is no inten- n
IN yet expressed by the company Of an o
Ike three to five years 10 fully develop it.