Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1905-08-31
The WHITE RIVER COUNTRY
A Wonderful Region Where Ma
ture Is ALI Alive.
A Railroad Opens Up a Land I'm
Missouri and Arkansas Noted For
Beauty. Fertility and.HeaIth.

The Future Fairgrounds of the South
west" is what the White River Country
mas 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, the
whirr of wings where wild fowl flock
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 floated 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
n cedar, the absence of mosquitoes
in a 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
a mussel shell on the lower White
river may bring to light a valuable
gem. Children used to collect these
pearls for playthings till their value
became known
Few regions have charms of a utili-
tartan character as we'll as urrivaled
scenic beauty and favorable climatic
conditions. One going to tsss White
River Country to make money finds
health and pleasure as we'll as wealth
The WORKOUT unfortunate who takes
his small savings and here seeks to
p~rolong his days is benefited in mind
and body, and besides finds, with new
life, means of securing a competence
and enjoyable surroundings; the pleas
ure seeker, too often tagged out ir
the very pursuit of diversion, sees II
this enchanted land serious possibili
ties for improving his pecuniary wei
fare, and his whole system receives new
IMMIGRATION and tone.
"a fairy tale" you say? No, it Ii
that truth which is stranger than fc.
ton, a truth which shows one who
tries to tell it the poverty of all powers
of description. When the spell Of thu
beautiful White river scenery is or
the beholder he is silent. There is such
a thing as the pathos of the perfect.
In the minds eye there passes II
review the succeeding inhabitants o.
tf..as valleys, and many generations
have left their traces-the mound build
ers, the early discoveries from Europe
and the Indians. How many songs ant
legends have been chanted by primitive
peoples, to whom these nature wonder!
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 than
eagles fly,
Stretches the land of beauty, archer, thu
perfect sky,
Hemmed through the purple Mats afal
By peaks that CLEAN like star on star
bringing the prairie pillows, fretting hor.
ions line,
Darkly green are Stumbling wildernesse:
of pine,
Sleeping until the zephyrs throng
To kiss their silence into song.
Sailing into the %cloudland, sailing into the
sun,
Into the crimson portals ajar when life
is done?
o dear dead race! my spirit too
Would fain sail westward unto you"
1t is not chimerical to believe tina
the whole valley, now newly opened
up to travel between Carthage, Mo-, anG
Newport, Ark, will in time become
succession of charming resident and re.
sort communities, with great minera
and agricultural prosperity.