Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1897-02-18
-ALetter ,From Northern. Arkansas.
WIENER, Arkansas, February 8, %

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WIENER, ARKANSAS, February 8, '97.
EDITOR JOURNAL am not a pat
ron of your paper but have a good
many relations and friends who are,
therefore, with your consent, l will
give them a few facts through the col
umns of your valuable paper concern
ing Arkansas and Poinsett county in
particular. Within the borders Of this
State exists almost every variety of soil
and climate. There are hills and noun
tails, plains, forests, undulating prai-
ries, swamps and undulating lands,
the first comprises about one-third of
the State and is in the northeastern
part. The next is what is known as
the Mississippi bottoms and extend
from the base of the mountains to the
first bottoms, or low lands, the latter
and borders on the Mississippi river
and it's tributaries. All these low lands
are covered with hardwood timber.
Prairie, Poinsett and Cross counties
are principally on the second bottom
and abound in heavy hardwood tim
Der, consisting of all varieties of oak
and hickory, and the prairie land is
covered with blue stem grass VIII CHI
yield from one to two tons of ha per
acre and the hay sells from $4.OO to
$500 per ton. No State stands ahead
of Arkansas in fruits, berries, vegeta-
bles, cotton and timber-in fact Arkan-
sas is worldwide known. 1t is a stock
country and costs nominally nothing
to raise cattle or hogs, and no country
offers greater inducements than does
this State for stock raising, the winters
being so mild and short that not over
two months does stock need feed. The
alluvial soil on all this second bottom
land contains the condensed richness
of decayed vegetable deposits for ages
past and will produce a splendid crop
of cotton, which heretofore has been
the principal crop, but recent settlers
have proven that soil which will pro-
duce cotton will bring forth a paying
crop of corr and other crops are raised
on this land as well. In fact it is not
necessary to eulogize a State where
good soil and a variety of products are
so well known. Arkansas laws are
just to the creditor as we'll as to the
debtor. Her free public school system
challenges the world; her school fund
is the largest of any state-a district OF
fifty scholars a support a six months
school without a cent of direct taxa.
ton. Arkansas has about 1000 school
houses, and half of them have been
built within the past eight years. The
limit to which taxation may go is fixed
by the constitution and cannot exceed
three per centum OF the assessed valu.
alton, and the State has not levied its
limit for years. Counties, cities and
towns are prohibited from issuing any
interest bearing debt, hence no bonded
indebtedness exists to burden the tax,
payers. The taxes in Poinsett county,
are from $500 to $500 per quarter sec
ton: The increased population is proc
of the strength of the country's sol
and attractiveness of it's climate. The
population in 1870 was 4S4,471, and in
1890 it was LIPS, 179. Raw land car
still be bought here at from 5000 t.
$1,000 per acre, but cheap homes will
soon be a thing of the past in thi
county. Weiner is on the main lin,
Of the St. Louis & Southwestern
Railway, is 2sS miles southwest of st
Louis; lag miles southwest of Cairo
Illinois; los miles northeast of Littl
Rock, Arkansas, and lUO miles north
west of Memphis, Tennessee. AS m,
letter is already too long I will desist
Yours truly, C. HEAD.
Constipation causes more than hal
the ills OF women. Karl's Glover Root Tea
pleasant cure for constipation. For sale by {
w. Houston.