The Green Forest tribune., 1902-10-04
SOME FACTS ABOUT FRUIT.
Great Possibilities Follow the
 Railroad in Carroll County.

As a candid statement of facts, THE TRIBUNE submits the follow inc for the benefit of those who may be interested in the fruit lands of Northwest Arkansas and Carroll county in particular:
 The counties of Benton and Washington, traversed by the Frisco railway and it's feeders, please the eye of the tourist upon every hand by their great stretch es of green trees laden with fruit. Before the advent of this road it was land only, raised passable crops; with a living for it's occu- pants.
 This is about the extent of commendation that could be giv- en at that time. The condition today is marked contrast. Ev- cry farm has in it the possibility and many of them the realization of actual fortunes. In these two counties, owners of forty acre orchards sold their crops on the tree for sums ranging from S3, 900 10 S20,000. In Benton county the crop of 1901 alone sold for $1,11O, 800. This means only the figures as shown by the records at the various railway shipping points, and does not take into ac- count the thousands of bushels discreetly canned away and dried for winter use, after the manner of frugal housewives. Think of the figures! It means from the apple crop a.one-thirty- five dollars for every. man, woman and child in Benton county. Consider the per capita circula- ton added by a single crop in your own county, whatever it may be, and cease to marvel that in year of drought there should be prosperity and plenty.
 Adjoining Benton county on the east lies Carroll county, very similar in all respects to her western neighbor. Like Benton, it is a natural fruit county, but, unlike Benton county, the fruit was not gathered nor gatherable in quantities. In every nook in Carroll county may be found family orchards of apple and peach, with their annual yield of luscious beauties that would tempt love to swap his whole stock of ambrosia for half what he could eat of them. Until last year no encouragement was of fered for anything more than small orcharding in Carroll coun- ty, as no railroad facilities were at hand for marketing the over plus of family consumption and the total orchard acreage of the entire county was probably not more than 75O acres.
 The building of the St. Louis & North Arkansas railway from west to east through not only Carroll, but eastward through Boone as well, has wrought the same metamorphosis as that brought about by the passing of the Frisco through Benton and Washington counties, and today, only eighteen months from the running of the, first train over this new road, will show an in- crease from 750 to 7,5OO acres in orchard, besides hundreds of acres in small fruits and straw berries.
 In the neighborhood of Green Forest, situated near the center or the county, and on the line of the railway, about 3O,000 apple ana Elberta peach trees have been put out during the past spnng, besides some 350,000. gfaIts in the establishment of Nurseries.
 This portends magnificent re- suits for the future. Unlike older developed counties in the apple oeh, Carroll is not all owned by people who have none of it to sell. oh the contrary, lands can be se- Iured at a reasonable figure nroughout the county, and the opportunity is one for the small
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