The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-10-07
THE WHITE RIVER COUNTRY
A Wonderful Region Where Ma
ture Is All Alive.
Railroad Opens Up . Land In
Missouri and Arkansas Noted FOE
Beauty, Fertility and Health.

Beauty, Fertility and Health.
1.-THE Future Fairgrounds of the South
west" is what the White River Country
has been called. Very earnest and ex-
hilarating play much of this sport Is
to those who are jaded by familiar
scenes of business life.
Nature is all alive in this wonderful
region-the rushing streams, woodland
sounds of breezes in the forest. ms
whirr of wings where wild fowl focE
to the waters, the splash of gamey FISH
tempting the angler, the very colors
Of mountain and river showing moth
ing of dead, arid waste of sand and
stone.
"Semi-Alpine," says an experienced
traveller, of the country, dotted with
growing towns, nestled in the valleys
of the James and White rivers in south
ern Missouri and northern Arkansas.
One who has trudged through the for
ests or fioated down the river from
Galena to Branson and Cotter will be
sincere in calling the Ozarks "moun-
tains," yet there is no danger to life
or limb in such a pilgrimage. The
ozone-laden air from oak, pine, cypress
and cedar, the absence of mosquitoes
in land of cold, springfield streams.
cool nights and temperate days, make
it a delight to live, and move, in this
favored cline.
There is always something TO do.
whether of sport or of discovery In
the way of minerals on land or pearls
In the stream The casual opening OF
mussel shell on the lower White
river may bring to light valuable
gem. Children used to collect these
pearls for playthings till their value
became known
Few regions have charms Of utiH-
tartan character as well as uprivaled
scenic beauty and favorable climatic
conditions. One going to tfs1 White
River Country to make money finds
health and pleasure as well as wealth.
The WORKOUT unfortunate VINO takes
his small savings and here seeks to
prolong his days is benefited in mind
and body, and besides finds, with new
life, means Of securing competence
and enjoyable surroundings; the pleas
ure seeker, too often tagged out In
the very pursuit of diversion, sees In
this enchanted land serious possible
ties for improving his pecuniary well
fare, and his whole system receives Dev
IMMIGRATION and tone.
"a fairy tale" you say? No, 1t ia
that truth which is stranger than fc-
ton, truth which shows one who
tries to ell it the poverty of all powers
of description. When the spell Of the
beautiful White. river scenery is on
the beholder he is silent There is such
thing as the pathos of the perfect.
In the minds eye there passes IN
review the succeeding inhabitants Of
tt.ss valleys, and many generation!
have left their traces-the mound build
ers, the early discoveries from Europe
and the Indians. How many songs and
legends have been chanted by primitive
peoples, to whom these nature wonderl
spoke with mystic force. One Is re
minded of lines in E. Pauline John
sons story of ''The White Wampum:
Farther than vision ranges, farther thar
eagles fly,
Stretches the land Of beauty. archie, tn
perfect sky.
Hemmed through the purple mfzts afa
By peaks that CLEAN like star on star
Fringing the prairie pillows, fretting hor
lions line
Darkly green are slumbr ring wildernesse
of pine.
Sleeping until the zephyrs throng
To kiss their silence into song.
Sailing into the cloudland. sailing into tn
sun,
Into the crimson portals ajar when Lift
Is done?
o dear dead race! my spirit too
Would fain sail westward unto you."
1t is rot chimerical to believe tina
the whole valley, now newly opene'
up to travel between Carthage, Mo-, an
Newport, Ark, will in time become
succession of charming resident and re
sort communities, with great minera
and agricultural prosperity.