The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-02-11
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT.
A LAND OF HEALTH.

lows in the Cze6u,n County (Ark.) Bulletin.
 No matter how poor a man may be, if he only has the proper amount of energy-experience is not necessary he can make himself home and lay by something for rainy day quicker in Arkansas than any other state in the union. half the clothing re- quired in the north would keep man comfortable here, and as our lands are as productive as any, there is a saving in that line. Labor is always in de- mand on the farms, and if a man has not enough money to get farm when he first comes, chance will be given him to make it. If he has stock, it will only have to be fed three months another great saving. It is never so hot or so cold here as to prevent out door work of any kind. The state gives 160 acres of land to actual set tiers, and timber for fuel or building purposes covers almost the entire area. A land of sunshine and flowers, where health is proverbial, and where nature has been specially kind, would seem to require no advertising but until recently Arkansas has been the most maligned state in the union Now, however, people from the north are flocking in by the thousands, and as each family settles it tries to gather about it friends from its old home, thus forming nucleus to which other families gravitate, and making com munity so like the one left behind that it seems homelike, and they be- come reconciled to a home among strangers in a strange land.
 "Planting time is nearly here and we invite all who desire to have a little home of their own to come here and help us make big crop, remem- bering that the time will soon pass when state and government lands will be subject to entry and donation. Free speech is guaranteed to every man here, and fair count is had at the ballot box, no matter who wins Reli zion and politics are mans own business, with which no one else med dies. So fair seems this sunny south land that one wishes he could always lie by the babbling brook, or sit upon some rocky ledge and forever drink in the scene spread out like panorama before him. But this is not day of dreams; the present generation is a restless, surging mass of humanity, ever seeking new fields of venture, new sources of wealth. Turn where you will you find men toiling for bread, for homes, for riches and hon. OTIS. And nowhere in this broad world is there such opportunities af- forded as in our noble state."
 IMMIGRATION TO ARKANSAS.
 Notwithstanding the severe weather, the immigration to this state during December was greater than any month of the last ten years. The immigrants were both whites and blacks; the lat ter finding homes to the number of 40 families in eastern Arkansas, and the whites mainly in northwestern and southern Arkansas.
 In the case of the whites the number arriving from southern states is ex- ceptionally large, and is evidently an interruption of the stream formerly flowing into Texas. The influx of the southern immigrants is ts parts of the state that are on parallels of their former homes, and includes northern Arkansas, the Arkansas valley and southern Arkansas.
 The western immigrants are flowing into northern and western Arkansas. They frankly admit that they have been attracted by the manifold ad- vantages of the state, and particularly by it's fruit characteristics, milder cli- mate, and cheap lands. AS with the southern immigrant, they are of the best class seeking homes in the state.
 In southern Arkansas the influx is from Georgia and the Carolinas, and before the close of spring may be ex- pected to become an immigration tidal wave. In Union county the number of families arriving in De- cember amounted to forty four, with an average of four members to the family, the immigrants being chiefly young people. They were from Georgia and North Carolina.
 In the latter case it is given out that they are only the advance of a greater body now on their way, or at present preparing to settle in this state. In general they are reasonably well fixed and show that it is by preference and not necessity that they seek homes in the state.
 The Gazette cordially welcomes the strangers, and wishes them that pros- perity which is the due of husband men who brave the west and its new conditions in search of better reward for their labor.-Arkansds Gdzette.
 For full and complete information in regard to railroad lands in the state of Arkansas write Hon. Thomas Es- sex or Hon. Thomas M. Gibson. Little