The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1900-06-30
HARRISON, Boone COUNTY, ARK, l
June 18th, 1900. /

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June 18th, 1900.
With L. d, White and d. H. Nc
Cullough, | got here last Thursday.
night, the 9TH inst. The ride in a
covered hack from Eureka Springs,
torty-six miles northwest of here,
was somewhat tiresome but enjoy
able. The road runs over several.
large divides called mountains but
not so steep and high as pictured
The highest .lexatloa ie.-l..saa- -il.4.
above the aitehler spring Here
and there for miles the road is on the
ridges, not on the highest points
or back bones, but about 200 feet
below. Then it goes to the valley,
often mere gulch ten rods wide at
the first landing and ten feet in the
dry rum bed at the bottom.
1t took three different teams,
which were changed at relay
stations, fourteen hours to haul the
party, four with the driver, the
forty-six miles. There is a spring
about every four miles, and con
veniently fixed to accommodate the
public-both man and beast. In
some places there is the tree trunk
chopped out for trough, filled for
the horses, and fed by the stream
from lead pipe above; other places
furnish the old time spring house
where the rill from the mountain
side leaves the natural drinking
fountain to spread out and wind its
way among milk crooks that cover
the gravel bed over which rests
clap-board roof on moss-covered
logs. At one place, some miles
west OF here, is spring under
under tree, the monarch of elms.
1t is twelve feet in circumference and
the breath measurement from the
point OF one outer limb across to the
other is 100 feet. Its boughs droop
like the ban-yan tree, nearly touch
ing the ground, and the symmetry of
shape is SO perfect that the whole
foliage looks as even as an ivy clust-
er. About eight feet from its
massive bass the water tew. feet
below level, is dipped with an oaken
bucket and drunk from a gourd.
Z The timber along this old highway
includes nearly all varieties--oak Of
every sort, walnut. hard pine, chink-
apin, sassafras, gum, linn, sycamore,
elm and black hickory. Little else
than brush grows on the mountain
slopes besides the trees. What the
driver called japanese clover crops
out along the roadway, but whether
or not it is native, Ican't say. No
corn to speak OF is grown in this
section, though patches show up
occasionally. Wheat is the staple
between this point and Eureka, but
Boone county raises more than
enough corn to supply local de-
mands. A load from the country
brought As cents a bushel this morn
ing on the street. The big red apple
flourishes here in abundance but it
never falls on bluegrass. Clover
and timothy do fairly well but the
acreage is very small. The cotton
crop is but trife in this part of the
State and tobacco is grown but
little. Irish potatoes give but Ia
light yield and are generally soaky.
Poultry is in evidence everywhere
- chickens, geese, turkeys and ducks.
Till within a year or two ago 1T was
no uncommon thing for huckster to
gather up twelve hundred to fifteen
hundred geese and turkeys and drive
them forty to fifty miles to market.
Natural agricultural advantages Nbe-
coming known and the discovery Of
lead and jack in this region have
drawn people and made freighting
more profitable so the day of turkey
and geese drives has gone by.
Poultry is about all hauled now; by
the first of the coming year it will
goout by rail
Coming here epassed Carrollton,
the oldest town in Arkansas, situat
ed near the eastern line of Carroll
county. 1t was founded in 1929
and was once the seat of govern
ment for nearly all the northwestern
corner Of the then Territory. But
like Mechanism, Stanton and
Tontzville, of our own county, it
set in the wrong place and it is
doomed and well nigh done for now.
Local option is the law in this State
and nearly half the counties are
dry that is they have no saloons
and no drug stores selling in