The Green Forest tribune., 1902-08-02

Aii HuoiAoioAOo' III OFOIJ HoOh' III 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 las year no encouragement was off, 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 750 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 fifteen months from therun- hing of the first train over this new road, will show an increase from 750 to 7,500 acres in or chard, besides hundreds of acres in small fruits and strawberries.
 'In the neighborhood of Green Forest, situated near the center of the county, and on the line of the railway about 30,000 apple and Elberta peach trees have been put out during the past spring, besides some 35O,OOO gratis in the establishment of nurseries.
 "This portends magnificent re- suits for the future. Unlike older developed counties in the apple belt, Carroll is not all owned by people who have none of it to sell. On the contrary, lands can be se- cured at a reasonable figure throughout the country, and the opportunity is one for the small investor as well as the man with thousands. The man who is willing to buy one acre of land, set it out in fruit, and by the cul- tivation of the land and any other means he sees fit, make his living five or six years, until his trees begin to bear, may safely count upon an annual return from his acre of from S100 to S4OO, ac- cording to the season and the va rieties of his fruits.
 "The prospective settler may figure with himself how many of these acres he is able or cares to own, always keeping in view that he will never be able to own more than he can properly have cared for. He can get these acres figuratively at his own price. for there are in Carroll and Boone county thousands of acres of virgin forest, with some of the finest hard timber in the world, of pine, oak, ash and walnut. These lands are cheap, their principal value being in timber; l hut once this is cleared away, and the purchase price far more than realized therefrom, the investor has the land to commence or charding on as good as can be found. and with the additional advantage of being new, fresh and rich. ,,,
 "One thing above all should be remembered by the would-be or chardist, however, that paying orchards do not, like Topsy, siust grow If they make prof. table trees, it is by careful at tention and cultivation. The common sense, energy and ex- nerience of the fruit grower IS usually shown by the fruit he raises. While fruit raising and selling is more profitable and less lahorous in this section than per- haps anywhere else in the fruit growing belt, there are no Ilowery Reds of ease about it, and satis- factory results are obtained only hv the man 4who puts attention and muscle into his enclosure, as well as apple and peach sprouts. Nature is his firm ally from the first no fruit raising section IS SO free from blight and pests of every kind as Northwest Arkan : sas, and it is this fact that makes S' lDNO1 IL 1 NE thQ