Nevada County picayune., 1885-11-19
NEVADA COUNTY, ARKANSAS.
A Description of Its Location, Soil, Climate, Schools, Churches, Railroads. Water-COurses,
 Timber and Ayricultar
 al Resources.
al KcsOUrces.

u ali act Ci the ten' ral assembly, March 20, 1871, and i. situated in the southwestern part of the state, being bounded on the cast by Ouachi,a county, on the northeast and north by Clark, from which it Is separated by Little Missouri river, on the west by Hampstead, and on the south by Columbia It has an area of about 670 square miles. and in 1880 had q population of l3,0o0 inhabi- tants.
 Topography
 The surface of the country is generally uu- dGlatiiie; few places being too broken for cultivation, or too level for drainage. The southern half of the county covers the apex of the watershed between the Ouachta and Red rivers; the small streams on the east side flowing to the tributaries of the Ouachi- Ia, and those on the west to the tri ibutaries of the Red. All the branches and ri vulets of. the northern part flow to the Little Missouri Prairi De Anne beautiful little inland prairie. seven miles long from east to west is situated in the northern part of the county closely surrounding the 10 wn of Prescott on the east, north and west.
 Wuter-Courses.
 The principal water-course is Little Mis- 2ouri river, beautiful stream which has its source in the Caddo mountains. It flows in southeasterly direction, forming the boundary line between Nevada and Clark counties for hong distance. Before the rail- roads penetrated this section, small steamers naviguted the river during the winter and spring seasons. The land along the margin of the river Is fertile and exceedingly well timbered. The bottom is a valuable stock range It has few agoons and bayous, and is not considered sickly stream. The Tcrre Rouge creek is the next largest stream. It crosses the northern part of the county from the west to the east emptying into the Little Missouri river. The Cancy creek drains the central portion of the county, flowing into the Little Missouri river from the west south of the Terre Rouge The Bodcaw is a small creek in the southwestern portion of county. The land bordering on 1t is very fertile. It flows south into the Dorcheat, Il tributary of Red river.
 1 Railroads.
 The St. Louis, Iron Mountain X Southern Railway, the great Southern route from St. Louis and the North and East through Ar kan sas and Texas to Mexico and California, penetrates the northern part of the county, entering it on the east side near Boughton station, and going out on the west ut Eumct, a distance of fifteen miles. The Ouachita & Choctav Railroad, d proposed road now be- ing surveyed from point on the Ouachita river. near Camden, to point on the line of the Choctaw Nation, near Ultima Thule, must, by stipulation in the charter pass by the town of Prescott and through the county from the southeast to the northwest. Soil and Climate.
 The soil of the southern and southwestern portions of the county is sandy loam, we'll adapted to corn, cotton, potatoes, vegetables and grapes. Fine springs abound in this re- zion. In the central and western portions the soil is gray dirt, fertile and susceptible of I ,l.; Eio uf thn Inr part of the county is varied, but is mostly red dirt and very fertile The soil of Prairie 1 De Anne is gray dirt, and adapted to small i grain and grasses, the native grass on the open prairie yielding from two to three tons of fine hay per acre. There is some very fine black land on the southwest side of the prai- rie, though the red dirt land predominates 1 The climate is salubrous and healthful. The thermometer never goes below six degrees above zero in the winter. and ranges from 90 to 100 in the shade during the sumner months.
 | Timber.
 The county is remarkably well tmbered, rIts most valuable woods are yellow pine. ey cry variety of oak and hickory, sweet, black and tupeo gum, maple, mulberry, ash, wal nut, birch, beech, sycamore, linn, dogwood, hackberrv, holly, red and water elm. per simmon, cypress, beach, bois dare, black locust, honey locust, wild cherry, red Dut and saSsafras.
 1 Products
 The principal products are corn, cotton, wheat, oats rye barley, milct, broom corn, sorghum, sweet and Irish potatoes, turnps, in fact vegetables of nearly every variety grow here to perfection. Experienced frllit growers assure us that we hazard nothing in ! saving that no locality can grow greater variety of fruit, and to greater perfection, than Nevada county. The genial climate of this county, neither too cold in winter TOT too not in summer, is peculiarly adapted to the cultHrc of the grape.
 Stock Raising.
 No portion of the Southwest is better adapted to stock raising than Neveda county. On Prairie De Anne and along the streams, cattle, horses and mules thrive and do well tho year round on the native grasses Hogs can be raised here almost without any care at all. They iatten readily in the fall upon the abundance of mast in the woods.
 Schools and Churches.
 Nevada county is divided for educational purposes into forty school districts. Prof. J. 1 w Conser, the county examiner, Is a most eiiici ent officer, and has the system of free common schools in good working order throughout the county The free schools are maintained by a state tax of onc-hfth of one per cent, poll tax of Sl on every male eiti- zen over the age of twenty-One years, a local option tax which cannot exceed one-half of one per cent interest on the permanent school fund, and fines and iorfeiturcs in certain ciyseSs There are crcdtable churches in al- most every neighborhood in the county. The leading denominations are the Mcthodists. Missionary and Primitive Baptists, Presby- ,crians. Cumberland Presbytcrians, Christians and Episeopals.
 The Graded Free Schools
 Of Prescott for the whites are pronounced by the State Superintendent of tnbNt Instruc- ton and others, the best in the state. except ing those Little Rock only, and visitors from the Northd eclure them equal to the schools in towns of like size iu any of the Northern states Besides the healthy and ac- cesSible location, a moral and cntcrprising town. and magnificent modern school bu,ld' ing with its seven large well lighted and ven tilated rooms. seated with the best folding and lock desks and all arranged to be heated with furnaces, we claim the special advan- tagc of having an able and experienced taeu- ty, a large assortment of maps, globes and eharts; chemical, botanical philosophical mathematical and astronomical apparatus: a large geological and entomological cabinet; a large and we'll selected library free tO pu- pis; systematic penmauship; frequent sccn- life lecture, excellent advantages in music, painting and drawing; vocal mus c and calis- themes as q daily exercise, and al interest ing normal class for the leaining of teachers. The enrolment during the present seolastic year runs mp to near 300 pupils, and the daily attendance about oS0.