The Green Forest tribune., 1903-05-16
JEALOUS OF THIS SECTION.
Benton County Editor Attempts
 to Belittle Carroll County.

DoCduSG Ol UIAC Ac'CU Cl1dO II uIGG a number of Benton county people have seen proper to sell out over there lately and move to Carroll county, the editor of the Siloam Springs Republican falls into mood that is closely akin to jealousy and attempts to belittle this section.
 He says that an old SiIoamite who recently located in Carroll county has written a friend there, y if answer to an inquiry concern inc location here, that this is oood place to take a rest, go fishing and have a good time, but as for making money here this summer he doesn't think he could do it.
 With this statement for text the Republican editor delights to remark that call is not gold that glitters'' and that tales told by land boomers should be taken with considerable salt and goes on to say:
 "Our opinion is that the best country on earth is located right in this immediate vicinity, and while prices of land may seem high to the uninitiated, the returns therefrom beats an investment in railroad bonds or bank stock, even in a bad year, Cheap lands can be had here by getting out a few miles from the city, and still you would be 100 miles closer to market than you would be if in that section, and to a market that always pays the highest prices in cash. A few dollars an acre on a piece Of land is but a small item when everything is taken into consideration. Remember this, friends, and be wise. y
 These remarks and insinua- tions from the Republican, at the expense of it's next door neigh bors, are extremely unkind, and as false as they are unbecoming. Nobody has broughtinto question the virtue of Benton county's soil, nor has anything else been done that should have provoked the ire of Editor Crandall. The press of Carroll county has ever spoken in the highest terms of the resources of Benton county. To have done otherwise would be to injure our own cause. Ad- joining counties, practically the same by nature in every respect, there is nothing we could say for ourselves that We could not say for Benton. The fact that Benton county was furnished railroad facilities a score of years in ad- vance of Carroll county has not changed the climatic conditions over here in the least, nor has it changed the adaptability of our soil to the growing of fruit and berries to any perceptible extent; and any intimation that this sec- ton is non productive and holds out no inducement to the home- . seeker and investors is a slander Which can place nothing to the credit of the adjoiuing county of Benton.
 The former "siloamite, ; who advises his friends at his former home that .bhere is nothing in his Sjudgment at which he can make money here this summer, we take 1t for granted, tells the truth. We have never advocated this as get-rich quick settlement. We wonder what there is over in Benton county that the average farmer may move over there and ind at which he could make money this summer. He could hardly grow an orchard or even produce a crop of strawberries III so short a time. Then, what could he do? These crops, they tell us, are the long suits in Ben ton county.
 Where Carroll county now af- 1ords{ Advantages to the people of i5entdN as well as those from al- most Everywhere else is in offer Ing theh lands, with the same naturall advantages and as good railroad facilities, for about one- llfth tfe prices charged for lands llrn,a EI,r,.o l.,,t L tI1r,nl th 1t