The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-05-26

have planted largely with grapes and here much of the native wine was made which received 90 much praise at the Arkansas exposition last fall.
 Before locating elsewhere, vineyard ists, fruit and vegetable-growers for the northern market should give this section an examination. Property is cheap and no effort has ever been made to call attention to this wonderfully productive country where all condi- tions are found that ms ke home de- sirable.
 The immigrants are coming in from many quarters. Here is 8 sturdy farmer, who has become tired of the long, long winters of Iowa, where he must feed his cattle nine months in the year, and 30 he casts his lot in Arkan- sas. He will no doubt prosper and grow up with the country. Over in another neighborhood is one of the survivors of Nebraska blizzard. Sev- eral of his neighbors lost their lives, others were badly frozen, while the destruction of their focks and herds was terrible to contemplate. This man every day thanks heaven for a country where the blizzard is un- known. Just over in the next town ship is 8 solid old farmer with his wife and six boys. They have grown tired. of the drudgery of life and the slow accumulation that follows farm ing in ''the old red hills" of Georgia. He is in Arkansas now, and with fresh lands that need no fertilizers, he will soon be prosperous and independent. And so they continue to come from all sections of the Union.-Arkansas Democrat.
 There is an erroneous impression among northern people that the land of the south is worn out. The facts are that very lage proportion of it has not been cultivated at all for many years and when this is plowed and properly worked it yields surpris- iDgly well. The reason SO much land lies idle, is because it is used in very large tracts and the owner cannot de- pend on the negro labor to work a large farm, so there will be any profit in it for him. He is therefore willing to sell it at one-fifth its former value to northern farmers, retaining only what he needs for his own use; and the farmer who will come down here and farm just as he does in the north will find himself better paid for his labor than he ever was before.
 The interest in Arkansas and in the progress she is making, is attracting attention throughout the north and east. The eyes of men of enterprise and capital have at last been opened to the field she presents, and many of them have settled there, and many more are going. The next five years will see a development in Arkansas greater than the last twenty have wit nessed.-Northern erchange.
 Arkansas is rapidly increasing in population, manufactories, products, wealth and intelligence. Her people are social, thrifty and industrious. They know what the great resources of their state are, and ask only that others may come and sec and share them. The farmer, the mechanic, the artisan and the capitalist, of every state and of every nation, is welcome to Arkansas. All will receive 8 friendly and hearty greeting. All will enjoy equal rights and opportunities, for her motto is Regnant PopulU
 A raft of walnut and ash logs, be- longing to Harley X Shepherd, came down the river last week. They have hewers here squaring the timber for the Liverpool market. They have an- other largo raft of the same kind of timber and over 12,O00 feet of square oak timber which they expect down the next rise.-Judsonid Adcance. For full and complete information in regard to railroad lands in the state of Arkansas, write Hon. Thos. Essex or Hon. Thos. M. Gibson, Little Rock, Ark, and it will be furnished free.