The Green Forest tribune., 1903-07-25
FROM CAR WINDOWS.
Few Things Observed Between
 Arkansas and Nebraska.
Touhy, Neb., July IS.

Touhy, Neb., July Is.
 DEAR TRIBUNE: A few ob- servations from the car window incident to a trip from Arkansas to Nebraska will do to fill up space and might prove worth the reading to some of the hundreds who peruse these columns every week.
 Leaving Green Forest at 5 :46 In, m. the 18th, we found close 6c5nAection with the "Cannon Ball" for the north at Seligman, and a brief change of cars at Monett headed us for the west. At i a. m. the 18th, the celebrated mining town of Joplin was reach ed.
 Having a full half day lay over here, opportunity was af- forded to form some idea of the vast mineral interests of this sec- tion, The country comprising what is known as the Joplin min- ing district, which covers a terri tory of several hundred square miles, is a net work of wire and nails, intermingled with vast ant hills of dirt and rock excavated from the thousands of mines; after sufficient ground is occupied to accommodate the inhabitants with places in which to live there is scarcely room left in the coun- try for 8 respectable garden spot. But little attempt is made at farming for some miles in any direction of Joplin. In an area no larger perhaps than the East ern district of Carroll county, ,there is located a dozen towns most of which make many city pretentions. The inter- urban electric and steam roads consti- ute almost perfect street car service for all, while electricity is harnessed for everything and is convenient enough anywhere you want to use it.
 As town, however, Joplin was a trifle disappointing to the writer, the class of business houses and buildings not coming up to what we had anticipated for the place, |and the street improvements do not rank up with what would seem proper for place of it's resources. Joplin is a good town, however. Her capacity for business is great and she works up to it a good deal of the |time, so they say.
 After taking a birds eye view |of this great zinc and lead dis |trlct, we boarded the K. c, $. train for Kansas City at Il :25, a. m. The train being more than |an hour behind time, the train- men were afforded an opportunity |to test the virtue of the splendid Fly rock ballasted ad-bed of Ehls company between Joplin and Kansas City and the sensation of |traveling at the rate of fifty to sixty miles an hour between eRu9ns was experienced several finlcs on this run of 154 miles.
 The crops along this road are surely far from what the people would like to have them. Some Ptthe corn is Lot much higher |Haq your head and the well Cultivated field was the exception. NV heat and oats do not seem to lave been the best and bad Peason has caused much loss in harvesting, while the fruit crop d total failure, not an apple or peach was seen on tree during hls four hours run.
 The evidences of the great bod in and near Kansas City
 re slckening almost in the ex- reme. The vast area of debris o be seen drifted in the bottoms
 eloW the city reminds one of an Arkansas clearing, where the
 lack Jacks have been fallen so
 hlckly that the brush heaps
 oVer almost the entire surface.
 nese great drifts seemed to con-
 aln almost everything from
 hole houses down to pieces of.
 moer wrenched into fine splint-
 rs. A large territory that was
 nee populated is now vast lake,
 le current of the over-flow hav-
 2 been so strong as to dig out
 fllroad tracks and form whirl-