Nevada County picayune., 1890-12-11
PREsCOTT's PROSPERITY.
Improvements on Foot--Live Mer-
 chants--A Bright Future.


 No town in Southwest Arkansas leads Prescott in development and improvements. We propose, in con- densed form, to tell the world of our advantages and improvements.
 Prescott has a population of over 1000; one of healthiest places i'll the world; drainage perfect; best or artesian water, never failing supply, and being slightly impregnated with sulphur and iron makes it very healthy.
 The Tom Allen High School of
 Prescott is one of best and most noted graded schools Iu the State {; about 300 pupils in attendance ten months in the year. This is ohe of our winning cards, and has brought many good men here, to school their children. More will take advantage of this
 We have number of enterprises already on hand. Among these are the Prescott Lumber Co.,, which can turn out one to three cars finished lumber per day, manufactured Tn best of style. It is paying lnstltu- ton. Prescott creamery and cheese factory has just been completed, and made a satisfactory run. It will be a great help to the town in supply ing best creamery butter and fresh cheese, and be of great revenue to the farmers around the town. The Prescott & Northwestern railroad has been graded out over seven miles, and tries distributed and put in place ready for the iron, which will be laid in few weeks. It will be feeder to Prescott, built to supply several large lumber concerns to be located here. It has already reached a good timber region, and will touch 10000 or 30 900 acres more of finest pine. The mills will cut and manufacture from 75. GOO to 100, ,000 feet of finish ed lumber daily. They will employ hundreds of hands, and double our population and wealth. Already contracts have been signed up for one large lumber company, which IS a certainty; others will come. A large furniture factory will also be located here, which will be another feather in our cap; company has al- ready bought up S1O acres hard tim- Der land just in the edge of Pike county, which the railroad will touch. Railroad will be extended as timber is needed. We might tell of num- Der of projected enterprises, but con- fine ourselves to only those on foot certainty. Water works and cleo trict lights will very naturally follow up the improvements going on. Pres colt Lumber Co.,, or one of the other concerns, will likely get franchise and operate same. The Nevada County Bank, operated by w. II. Terry, does splendid business and is credit to the town.
 Prcscott's professional and busi- ness men are live and enterprising. As cvidencing this we have only to state they donated outright over SS, ,000 to secure the Prescott X Northwestern railroad. They also took over S6,000 stock in our new creamery and cheese factory. Among the professional men, we have a of law firms, with State rep utatlons-Smoote, McRae X Arnold, Tompkins X GreeSon and Hamby X Wood, taking this rank; besides these are MT. 0. E. Gordon, Guy Nelson and one or two others. Among our prominent physicians are Drs. A. Harris, W. F.. Arnold, k. k. Armistead, k. l.. Hinton, w. C. Wingield and one or two others. We have q number of large mercan- tile firms and many smaller ones. Among the largest we might mention J. T. Brooks X Co.,, W. B. Waller, J. C. Young X Co.,, w. F. Arm strong X Co.,, Hatley X Christopher, Brooks, Blake X Co.,, k. l.. Blakely, W. k. White X Co.,, Bryan X Bryan, Foster X Logan Hdw. Co.,, J. NJ. Denman X Bro., White Bros, NJ. C. Cassidy, Lewis Dry Goods Co.,, Hugh Moncricf, Geo. W. Terry. If space permitted might mention oth- CT pushing houses. Messrs. E. l.. Harwood, J. H. Kershaw X Co.,, $. T. White X Co.,, and Will Stainton, have confectioneries. fancy grocer ies, etc. There are quite number of smaller houses, all apparently do- ing well.