Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1890-04-24

SOCltl Hlu pOlttlCdl CotlUoi VI UIlc SOoOo,
and the capital thereof. Little Rock has
a daily morning newspaper with four
fifths Of it's news devoted to democratic
politics, state and national, and the re-
mainder to congressional reports sent in
meager telegraphic paragraphs. The
usual killing scrape or murder, IS also
found each day. Arkansaw will average
homicide day. Lumber and northern
money is making Little Rock, grow in
spite of it's straight jacket of prejudice
and provlncialism. There is talk of an
exposition, and new railroads. Gould's
heavy hand falls hard, however, when
new roads are mentioned.
The southwest is IN durance vile to
Gould. Every ne" railway competitor
Is strangled. The stock some morning
turns up in Gould's possession. Then
further construction on the road is at
once indefinitely postponed. The Mem
phis & Little Rock road is not in Gould's
hands, but in a receivers. In this fort
unate condition it is aspiring to build to
the Hot Springs, the trade of the city
having tempted capitalists not in the
Gould slave pen. Last year the com.
pany graded some of the way. Help
from Texas, groaning under the Gould
heel, appeared. The prospect was bright
but the evil genius OF the states da7ken-
ed the scene this spring again, and now
no pick or shovel Is heard leading the
way for new enterprises and a new order
of things for this city and portion of the
state. They say Gould got the best of
the game again, but not before tue chart
er and portion of the road thet was built,
was roundly paid for. 1t is said this
feeble attempt to do business in the
Gould domain was clear case of bluff
and the spectators made money ont of
their scheme. A recent meeting OF
Memphis, Little Rock and Hot Springs
business men was held to revive the rail-
road project, but nothing has come from
it, although this town offered to give
100000 to he'll the company, and Mem
phis merchants could we'll afford to
build the line--about sixty-fve miles
by themselves.
The St. Louis drlmmers ask the top
notch prices for everything in this city,
as we'll as in every town on the Iron
Mountain road, the Could highway.
Memphis wholesalers could sell lower,
but the freight from Little Rock, where
Gould gets it to carry on his line, more
than makes up the difference. Nothing
III the shape of concessions can be had.
This city OF Il, 900 resident inhabitants
and in the winter from tive to seven
thousand more, is at the mercy of Gould's
road. He favors st. Louis and the long
haul over ;4is line. Freight, tirstclass,
from st. Louis distance OF 400 miles is
SLIGO hundred pounds. 1t costs Hot
Springs hotels 81 cents pound express
for Kansas City beefsteak. None else is
worth eating here. Butter comes from
Elgin, Illinois, and fish from Chicago.
Memphis has seven big railroads
spreading out eastward like a fan, and all
stopping there-afraid to make a move
into the Gould country. Gould takes
the cream of the cotton crops of FORTH
ern 1exas and southern Arkansaw over
the whole of his line to St. Louis, and
these roads sit on the fence and see it go
by. These seven roads at Memphis are
apparently helpless to prevent it. They
are the seven sleepers and their slumber
lasts long and the snores sound loud to
the exasperated citizens OF the Hot
Springs.
Another little terror of railroad mo-
nopoly is Col. Diamond 10. Reynolds %
mile line from Malvern Junction on the
Iron Mountain road. This little railway
is the only line into the Springs The
state helped to build it, and ia an adver-
tisement of it's existence, the nerve of the
protector is seen. He says without the
road, the Springs would still be in the
woods and beyond the reach of civiliza.
tion and that all the public needs to
know is that the trains run regularly.
He has made fortune each year, in ad-
dition to his kindness in permitting the
public to ride in his cars at the $500 for
the round trip. The freight rates into
the Springs are fats that seem registered
from above, so irrevocable are they.
Northern Enterprise Developing her Re
sources.
But Notwithstanding the apathy of the
natives and the grip of Gould, Arkansaw
is slowly awakening to the sense of a
new commercial life brought about by the
inaowing of northern capital under the
active management of northern men
The whole south and southwest is in the
same condition. Their resources are
boundless for the creation of wealth, and
the energy brought from the colder
states lasts man for a long time here il
he properly conserves it. The climate
has it's advantages and drawbacks, the
same as the climate in the far northern
states and territories. There the winters
are long and numbing to enterprise
Here the summers are long and enervat
ing at the end of the season. Men need
relaxation from both extremes. The In.
dlans of the southwest move from one To-
cality to another distant one to prevent
sickness. A visitation of some malady
IN Colorado band of aborigines is the
signal for the departure of the whole
gang of savages, whose instinct tells them