Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1907-11-14
UNION HILL, ARK.

Sbcfiait 10 Me Ne7OJ.
will endeavor to write few lines
about this country. This is a very
good country for those that like it, but
| don't like this part OF Arkansas,
though some parts are better than this
People haven't raised much this year
on account of the drouth. There is
very little corn and about one-third
crop of cotton. Land is cheap here. 1t
is 81 per acre and is very good land.
On account Of the drouth cotton only
made about four bales to ten acres this
year, and we have scarcely any corn.
There is timber work and saw mills.
There are all kinds of minerals in
Arkansas that there are in the world
and some that have never been dlscov-
cred anywhere else. There is more
prospecting and less mining than in
any other state. There are fine pros
poets on top of the ground, but when
you go down the mineral is not here.
The settlements in Arkansas are
along the rivers and creeks and up the
gulches.
There was a mining outfit started
to drill in the side of mountain, but
instead of drilling straight down
they drilled crosswise in the side of
the mountain and after few days
work the drill struck cavity or a
cave, as they supposed, and they pull
ed it out and there was a coonskin
fast on the drill. The whole neigh
borhood went wild over their coonskln
mines, but in three or four days they
heard from the other side OF the noun
tain and the people over there were all
on the war path. They said the Chin
amen had bored a hole through the
earth and were stealing their coon
hides The drill had rubbed up against
the side of house and got the coon
skin tangled ON the bit and pulled it
through the hole. The excitement
soon died away, but they left the hole
open for speaking tube, so one settle
ment could notify the other when they
were going to have dance.
There are but few carpenters in Ar
kansas for they don't need them.
About all they do is to make and hang
doors and make troughs. The doors to
| log houses are made out of clapboards
and hang with a wooden hinge, and
| the farmers in these narrow gorges and
gulches have lots of lead troughs put
up in zigzag shape to run the sunshine
| down on their crops.
The inhabitants Of Arkansas are a
very peculiar people, but that is not at
all strange when you understand their
| origin. The human race originated in
| the garden of Eden. None of the de-
cendants of Adam and Eve would live
in Arkansas. Then the great question
was, how and by whom shall it be in
| habited, but there was an lrishman
who married a white woman and
moved to Arkansas, and their first
born were twins. The mother being
of frail nature, they hired a negro
woman to work for them and help
nurse the babies. AS the children die
not thrive, they bought goat and
MIXED it and fed the children. They
grew and waxed strong, so they were
the origin of the natives in Arkansas.
| They were cross between an Irish
man and white woman and were
raised on negress and goat milk. That
is why the natives of Arkansas possess
so many peculiarities. that the hu
man race or the descendants of Adam
do not possess. They seem to inherit
the disposition of their foreparents,
that is the Irishman, the white wom-
an, the negress and the goat. They
are very healthy, tall, robust, rough
and ready-that is, ready to eat or TAXI
drink of whiskey. They have very
large mouths and voices like mules
father They are like the Irish, fight
one minute and be good friends thu
next. They are wiley, wirey, wild an(
woody, will eat and won't work M. E