The Nevada picayune., 1885-07-30
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tives at Carrollton, will briefly tell what know.
 Since leaving Georgia, early last fall. the writer has been engaged in the newspaper business at Prescott Nevada county, Southwest Arkan- sas. Have also travelled through portions Of Texas and Arkansas, and therefore am prepared to write adyisedly.
 l am we'll pleased with the West. Judge B. D. Thomasson, who also lives at Prescott, Ark, and has re- sided there nearly four years, told the writer to sey to all his old friends in Georgia, that he was highly pleased and would advise all to come to tha: country, that he had tried it sufficiently to un- hesitatingly say it was far superior to Georgia in every respect.
 It is a fact, that money is more plentiful in the West. and for the simple reason that agriculture and almost every other business is much more prosperous. The land, for the most part, is level or slight ly broken, and the greater portion of it very fertile. It never requires fertilizing or coaxing to produce well. Guano is unknown. Statistics say Georgia spent eight millions of dollars in 1881 for guanos. In Arkansas and Texas lands readily produce from three fourths to one and half bales of cotton per acre this is the common yield on good lands, and, farmers out there will not cultivate poor land. Oats and corn produce equally az well, and very little of either is ever bought save from home produces. I saw many wagon loads of corn brought in from the country. and sold at Prescott lately. Tho soil is rich and deep--in places from six to ten feet through. Soil that is only 1 three to six inches deep, is called 'craw fishy" and turned out.
 The fruit crop is rarely n failure, and the finest of fruit is raised. Arkansas took the first prize for finest fruit. at the Worlds Expo sition in New Orleans, last winter. She was also awarded first premi- um on cotton. This ought, and does speak volumes for her.
 Arkansas is one of the finest tim. bcred sections in the United States, and her lumber interests brings her millions of dollars every year. From three to eight car loads of lumber are shipped from Prescott every day, from three or four hne saw mills near town.
 As for the health of the country out west, will say it is as good or better than that of Georgia or Ala bama. This is true, as any one can see for themselves, by cons ultine good authority. The death rate l think is not as large there as in the two States mentioned. l know the health of Nevada and adj oining counties in Arkansas is better than that of Carroll and adioini ng counties in Georgia. The peo- ple look healthier, an q the physicians have less to do, and there arc fewer doctors there than here. As l have hereto. fore remarked that all callings pros pered there better than in Georgia, will here say it might and probably is best to except that ol medicine, though there are doctors there and they do not starve either-they are more promply paid.
 Horace Greedy said; "Go West young man," and he knew what kind of advice to give. Judge Thomasson and myself would add, that men of all ages, should go West, provided they have strong mind and energy to back them Generally, those. who go and return are lacking in these qualities, that are essential to success anywhere. It is a fact, that money does not '.grow on trees," out West or any where else-men have Co work for it. It is also a fact though, that the same amount of energy and well dire cted labor out West, will bring in about twice as much money as l in Georgia. The reason everybody there does not grow rich, is because they do not try in the right way,