The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1886-01-09
4 FIELD FOR RAILROADS.
feages From the forthcoming
Pamphlet Of the North Ar
kansas industrial Club.
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i The wholesale and jobbing trade
iof Harrison Is still in It's infancy,
being at present represented by
only one firm; but its retail and
general traffic is something cnor-
NOUS when the population Of the
town and amountof capital invest
ed are considered. The trade of
the tom Is represented by s gen
ol'al stores, 8 exclusive grocery
stores, 3 drug stores, | saddlery
and harness store, 2 house-furnish- /
ing stores, | hardware store, l ba-
kerry | confectionery, l cigar fac
tory and store, | tin shop, | steam
and 2 water grist mills, | planning
mill, 2 livery and feed stables and
2 hotels; aggregating 30 business
houses with an aggregate capital
! Qf SlS3,S00, annual business S349,- ,
375.A A-~4
( THE Public INSTITUTIONS
ind places Of amusement are a.
substantial and roomy brick court
Hhouse, iail, 2 public school
houses, ) churches, 3 weekly news
Ip2pers, i skating rink and 2 bill
lard halls. Tie I. S. Land Office
is also located at Harrison. Build
lug lots desirable for Residences
range from $50 to 500 lots for
business purposes on the public
square and on streets running
from the same may be had from
$40 to $500.
Fruit.
N MesFrs Schweitzer and Estes,
who as a subcommittee, had in
charge Of the estimates Of fruit
tonnage already produced within the
borders of Boone county submit
ted tho following report;
From careful estimate made
on the basis of 1900 farms in
Boone County, we deduce The fol-
lowing:
Three acres, or three hundred
apple trees TO the farm would
make 100000 apple trees, Aver
age crop ) bushels 10 the tree
would produce 2,25O,O09 bushels
ofapples.
Peaches on. the same basis, esti-
mating $50 trees to each farm, |
would l. AXE 225,OO0 trees. Aver
age yield S bushels per tree, would
make atotal peach crop Of l,I25,- .
600 bushels. Co., .r.
Cherries on same basis, 10 trees
to each form would nuke $4,000 .
trees. Average one bushcl per
tree, would aggregate $1,000 bush
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The plum crop will reach il not
exceed that OF the cherry, especial
~ when the great numbcrot Wild
Goose Plum trees that have been
planted come into bearing. Aver ,
Sae crop OF that particular variety
being ) bushels per tree.
The grape crop estimated al ) .
vines 10 the farm, would make
z 500-tines. Average 10 pounds
to each vine would make $4,000 /
pounds of grapes.
Gooseberries estimotcd ut 49,,
600 bushes and calculating tho
product at 3 quarts per bush,
would produce $4,000 quarts of
gooseberric5. /
BIackbelucs cultivated, estimat-
cd at $4,000 vines, average 2quarts
per vine. would nuke $4,000 quarts .
Of blackbcrriea The wild we would +.
estimate at 100000 quarts.
RaspbcrriCs estimated to be ono .
half the amount of blackbcrrics. +
Strawberries, estimated that
there are mt leuat 10000 vines at
yield Of / quart TO L. vines, which
would make IN aggregate of y,
500 quarts Of chat delicious fruit.
So much for the statistical part
of our report Your committee
would call attention TO the adapta-
hiliiy of our section Of the coun-
try in general way for fruit
growing. In country like this
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