Nevada County picayune., 1885-12-03
NEVADA COUNTY, ARKANSAS.
A Description of Its Location. Soil, Climate, Schools, Churches, Railroads. Water.COurses, Timber and Agricultur-
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NTEVADA COUNTY was created by l -lN anact of the General assembly, March | 20, 1871, and is situated in the southwestern part of the state, being bounded on the cast 1 by Ouachta county, on the northeast and north by Clark, from which it is separated | by Little Missouri river, on the west by 1 Hempstead, and on the south by Columbia. It has an area of about 670 square miles, and in 1880 had population of l3,0O0 inhabi- tants.
 Topography.
 The surface of the country is generally un- dulating; 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 Ouachita and Red rivers; the small streams on the east side flowing to the tributaries of the Ouachi- tn, and those on the west to the tri butaries of the Red All the branches and rivul cts 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 to VII of Prescott on the east, north and west.
 water-Courses.
 The principal water-course is Little Mis- souri 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 long distance. Before the rail- roads penetrated this section, small steamers nayigated the river during the winter and spring seasons. The land along the margin of the river ts fertile and exceedingly well timbered. The bottom is n valuable stock range. It has few lagoons and bavous, and is not considered sickly stream. The Terre ,l- ,,t e tIo i,r etr crosses the northern part of the county from the west to the east, emptying into the Little Missouri river The Clancy 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 it is very fertile It flows south into the Dorcheat, a tributary of Red river.
 Railroads.
 The St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway, the great Southern route from St. Louis and tue 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 at Emmet a distance of fifteen miles. The Ouachta X Choctax Railroad, proposed road now be- | ing surveyed from point on the Ouachita river, near Camden, 10 apOlnt on the llne oi the Choctaw Nation, near Ultima Thule | must, by a stipulation in the charter, pass by the town of Prescott, and through the county 1 from the southeast to the northwest. Soil and Climate.
 The soil of the southern and southwestern portions of the county is sandy loam, well adapted to corn, cotton, potatoes, vegetables and grapes. ne springs abound in this re- zion. fin the central and western portions l the soil is gray dirt, fertile and susceptible oi 1 easy cultivation The soil of the northern part of the county is varied, but is mostly 1 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 i open prairie yielding from two to three tons l of fine hay per acre. There is some very fine 1 black land on the southwest side of the prai- rie, though the rcd dirt land predominates The climate is salubrious 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 summer
 months.
 | Timber.
 The county is remarkably well timbcrcd 1 Its most valuable woods are yellow pine, ev, cry variety of oak and hickory, sweet, tiacF and tupelo gum, maple, mulberry ash, wnl 1 nut, birch beech, sycamore, linn, dogwood l hackborry, holly, red and water elm per simmon, cypress, beach, bois dare, black
 locust, honey locust, wild cherry, red but
 and saSsefras.
 Products.
 The principal products are corn, cotton
 wheat. oats rye, barley, milct, broom corn
 sorghum, swee. and irish potatoes, turnips in fact vegetables of nearly every variety
 grow here to perfection. Experienced tru
 growers assure us that we hazard nothing il saving that no locality can grow greater
 variety offruit, and to greater perfection 1 than Nevada county. The genial climate o' this county, neither too cold in winter no1 too hot in summer, is peculiarly adapted t(
 the culture 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 wei 1 the year round on the native grasses. Hog
 can be raised here almost without any car' at all. They fatten readily in the fall upol
 the abundance of mast in the woods. Schools and Churches.
 Nevada county is divided fur oducatona ! purposes into forty school districts. Prof J l w. Conger. the county examiner is a mos | efiiri ent officer, and has the system of free common schools in good working orde throughout the county The free schools ar, maintained by d state tax of one-tifth of on,
 per cent poll tax ofSl on every male cili | zen over the age of twenty-onc years, loca optioa tax, which cannot exceed onc-half O one per cent interest on the permanent Sehoo 1 fund, and fines and torleiturcs in certain eases. There are credit,bc churches in al- most every neighborhood in the county. rh' leading denominations are tho Methodsts Missionary and Primitive Bap'ists, Prcsby- tcrians. Cumberland Presbytcrians, Christian and Episcopals
 l The Graded Free Schools