The Harrison times., 1905-01-21

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~ every point of the compass,
= L until at last they unite their
troubled waters and form beautiful
White river, and then shorn of an
tagonism, they flow on until they be-
come a part of the Gulf of Mexico
and the Atlantic Ocean.
A child of Arkansas, White river
never forgets its parentage, and al
though it wanders afar in Missouri,
it returns to its native state, and
pursues its tortuous course until at
last it finds peace in the turbid wa
ters of the Arkansas and Mississippi.
1t wanders many leagues, and often
makes many crooked turns, doub-
ling and turning until at last it
unites quietly in its marriage with
the great Father of Waters.
1t is of the fertile valleys and
and pleasant hillsides along White
river that we have to do. To tell OF
the farms and orchards, the pastures
and fields along this stream, and
the opportunities they offer; what is
being done along its course, and
what can be done by those who are
willing to avail themselves of the
opportunities thus offered them.
White river traverses a wide eX-
panse OF fruitful and fertile lands;
along valleys, whereof the yield of
available crops are little known, but
valid and important; it passes
through a country where man needs
to put forth but small amount of
labor to win substantial returns,
and where the husbandman. the
herdsman, the %ruit grower and the
gardener can easily and quickly earn
good returns for slight effort;
where the winters are short and the
summer heat is not oppressive, and
where man can live without a large
expenditure of labor, and where a
reasonable outlay of effort will re-
turn an hundred fold TO whoever
will engage earnestly in wise agri-
culture
From the head of White river on to
where the Buffalo joins its forces,
on down to where it empties into
the Mississippi and Arkansas rivers,
there are attractions before which
all the aliuring possibilities of the
west are sure to pale into insignifi-
canoe, when the advantages which
are at hand and within easy reach of
all are fully understood, for all along
this stream today are lands that
will put to blush all that can be said
of the west, and can be had at a ri
dicufously low figure
Here are valleys which will yield
many bushels of corn, and where all
of the smaller crops are certain of a
ready sale at excellent prices; where
succulent grasses for stock grow, and
where all that is needed is work,
thrift and common sense to make it
an Eldorado
Along these pleasant hillsides there
are many splendid orchards, yielding
ample crops, while the vegetables
produce returns that will surprise
those used only to the ordinary out
put of farming. And what has been
done here can be done again, with
only the slightest attention to the
needs of the crop. Yet these unculti-
waited lands are only within a short
ride of the best markets of the west,
and where the products of those
acres would always find a ready
market that would treblv repay any
effort made to cultivate them.
1t is not a new" country in the
sense usually understood when that
word is employed. 1t witnessed the
efforts OF those sturdy pioneers who
came with and after DeSoto. 1t saw
the Acadians so pathetically describ4
hed in Longfellow's "Evangeline, y
wander
Into this wonderful land at the base of
the Ozark Mountains
1t is not necessary to recount the
reasons that make these conditions
possible; it is enough to briefly state
! what can be done, and set forth such
points as can best serve to show this
territory as it is to-day; TO present
that which will show the truth OF
the statement that it offers many in