Nevada County picayune., 1890-12-25
NEVADA COUNTY.

vada county, and is situated "h a beautiful little prairie, known as prairie D9Aun. Prescott has about .JU0 inhabitants, and cOnolsls oi about one dozen or more dry goods and general supply houses, two large hardware houses, one or two large wholesale dry goods stores, two fur niture stores, one undertaker's es- tablishment, one large bank, five or six fruit and confectionery stores, one bakery, one or two harness and saddle shons, two large and several small blacksmith-shops, four drug stores. two boot and shoe makers, three meat markets, three barber shops, two newspaper offices, four hotels and several restaurants, three dresmaking and millinery establish ments, two jewelry stores, one pho tograph gallery, one book store and many other useful establishments, be- sides lawyers, doctors, carpenters, aud other professions, and last, but not least, we have large creamery and cheese factory with the capacity of making and curing six hundred pounds per day. This factory IS now just being completed and will go into operation in about one month.
 A railroad is now being built from Prescott to the fine pine regions of Pike county (which joins Nevada on the North) for the purpose of haul ing the timber from there to some large saw mills which are to be built in Prescott on the completion of the railroad. Prescott had the misfor- tune to have one of her finest plan CTS, gin and mills, burnt about one month ago, but she still has one fine planer which is doing a very large business.
 Prairie DeAnn is situated ill north part of Nevada county, and is on- 1 ly four or five miles wide by nine or ten long. It forms one of the finest farming countries of any part of Arkansas that 1 have seen. We have three kinds of soil, viz: Black sandy, and sort of loamy clay soil called dirt land, all of which are very productive. The black land pro- duces about one bale of cotton and from thirty to sixty-fve bushels of corn per acre, each average year, the sandy and dirt land producing from one to three quarters of a bale of cotton, and from fifteen to forty bushels of corn per acre.
 This country is we'll adapted for dairy purposes or stock farming Cattle are very cheap now. Good milch COWS can be bought for sl5.OO per head, and scrub calves sell from &. 50 to $500 per head at two years old. Now that we have a creamery in Prescott, we find a ready sale for our sweet milk at good price, and our farmers are buying as many cows ss they are able to purchase for the purpose of supplying the cream cry with milk. Cattle do we'll here from the first of April to the first oi December without any feed what ever, from the grass they get on the prairie, and many of our farmers dc not feed their cattle any at all dur ing the winter. Many of our prai- rie farmers make money rapidly on their pastures or meadows, which produce from one to three tons of prairie hay per acre, which sells readily for $500 and S10.00 per ton. Our country is watered by artesian wells, which spout out of the ground at distance of from one to six feet above the earth. Scarcely q farm in the county but has one of these wells on it.
 Everything grows here that grows anywhere vegetables and fruits of all kinds do we'll here. We raised fourteen different kind of vegetables one year, all of which done well. Our fruits consist of apples, pears, peaches, plums, quinces, cherries figs, grapes, and all kind of berries. The people are peaceful and law abiding, and our county has church. es of all denominations, and we have good public schoo!a The Prescott high school has over 300 pupils. Take it all in all, Nevada county is as good as any county in the State. -T F. II. A., Prescott, Arkansas, in Homo and Farm.