The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-04-07
IN A NEW COUNTRY
RARE CHANCE TO MAKE PROF
TABLE INVESTMENTS.
Fine Opportunity for Merchants
Mechanics and Tradesmen
OfAII Kinds.

or All AIn0s.
The new extension of the Choctaw, Okla
homa and Gulf Railroad company to Little
Rock, Ark, there connecting with their
Memphis line. will open up one of the
richest countries and fields for investment
in the west.
The country abounds in mineral includ-
ing coal, zinc, lead, slate and onyx and
has unlimited timber resources, both pine
and hard wood, including walnut.
The climate is perfect and statistics
prove it to be one Of the very healthiest
in the Union, forming a happy medium
between north and south where the eleva-
ton gives freedom from all malarial or
other influences, common to the south
eastern part of the state on the Mississippi
river.
1t is one Of the best watered sections
to be found anywhere, having large rivers
and mountain streams of cool. sparkling
water.
The rivers are beautiful bodies of fresh,
clear water and an anglers paradise.
The Choctaw Railroad company will
operate extensive coal mines along the
new line, there being perhaps the largest
and richest coal deposit in that region
of the southwest; some of the veins near
Bonneville, in Logan county, exceeding
six feet.
As a fruit country, it is par excellence,
being the best place today for apples,
pears, peaches and grapes, while potatoes
and vegetables and all small fruits grow
to perfection. The small fruits are earliest
and most convenient for the northern mar
kets such as st. Louis. Kansas City and
Chicago.
The railroad follows the valley of the
beautiful Petit Jean, conceded to be the
richest valley in Arkansas, which now con-
tains highly developed farms, while at Ola,
on the east, it forms the gateway and
distributing point for the Fourche valley,
the largest and greatest cotton valley in
the state, either of which up to this time
have had no railroad facilities, and, in fact,
there is a larger undeveloped country in
Arkansas in both it's northern and south
ern portions, than in any other state in
the Union, though ii is an established fact
that Arkansas today is richer in natural
resources than almost perhaps, any other
state in the west, and she needs only the
progressive influence of the railroad to es-
tabish that prominence to which she is
fully entitled, and already there are
number Of railroad projects in sight sew
eral of which will be fulfilled, and of which
the Choctaw will be the pioneer wedge,
as it has been for large part of Okla
homa.
The Choctaw will establish several towns
along its new line, under the management
of its Townsite Department The princi-
pal points viii be Bonneville and Magazine,
in Logan county, and Ola, in Yell county.
Bonneville will be the largest point on the
line, AS they expect to establish there the
central division point of the line, and will
spend $4,000 alone to that end. 1t is in
the center of a rich country with every
attraction of climate. location and re-
source, and giving the best chances for all
kinds of legitimate business enterprises.
The opening sale of lots will take place
at Bonneville on Wednesday, April 26th
Excursions viii be run OIL different rail-
roads to the nearest point, which is Mans
field. on the Frisco, southeast of Fl
Smith.
Bonneville Is 112 miles west Of Little
Rock, and so miles southeast of Fl. Smith.
Abundant timber and stone for building
purposes Will be on the ground and every
facility and accommodation possible ex-
tended visitors by the railroad company,
to insure their pleasure and success.
Logan county. in which Bonneville is sit
uated. has 5000 people, all happy and pros
porous. with no town of the first class in
it's border. The county has not dollar
of Indebtedness and its warrants today
are worth one hundred cents on the dollar
In this highly favored section of the
state they have no dust, or wind storms.
Drouth and failure of crops are unknown,
and judging entirely from positive past
experience, it possesses every quality and
attraction for the up-builGing of success
full and happy homes which is proven by
the large population already there of con-
tented people, the peer OF any other COM
muuity in the west.
The chief other towns Will be Magazine,
also in Logan county, al the foot of Maya
zine mountain, the highest peak between
the Rockies and AHeshanies. a maenifi-
cent location in every respect. It viii be
the college town and undoubtedly great
resort.
Ola. the third town. is IN Yen county.
and Will be the junction for the DardaneIe
and Hot Springs railroad. while it is the
center and will be the distributing point
for one Of the greatest cotton districts
in the state and VIII undoubtedly be
very large town.
The offices of the townsite company,
who work under the name Of the Choctaw,
Oklahoma and Memphis ToHnsite COM
Tany, are at Oklahoma City, o. T, and
at Bonneville, Ark. The manager in charge
Is NJ. C.. =. Bennett, well and favora6'y
known through Kansas and Oklahoma,
He can be addressed al either point while
of course. offices Viii also be opened AT
The other points designated.
THIS is certainly an opportunity that
should not oe missd by any one DESTROYS
OF seeking a new nome OF business chance
for any reason. as we believe today il :
the best opening III The west.
WOUNDED OF The TWENTIETH
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