The log cabin Democrat., 1907-06-27
T ARKANSAS N ESTATE NEWS9

receiving sealed bids on levee work and will continue to do so until June 26. Approximately 3,330,oOO cubic yards of levee construction Is planned by the board, which work will be completed February l, 1908. | The S5OO.O00 bond issue recently authorized by the Arkansas leglsla- ture will be used to refray the ex- penses of the undertaking. These bonds will be sold in small lots to investors of moderate circumstances and the contractors who will do the work have expressed willingness to accept bonds in payment for the work.
 | Additional lands have been with drawn from entry, 35,925 acres in Yell and Polk counties, for forestry purposes. These lands are adjoin- ing the Arkansas national forest. The forest bureau has not yet had time to complete its arrangements for patroling the Arkansas national forest. Reparts have not been made on which to predicate action, and it will first have to be determined that the lands temporarily with drawn are wanted for national for | est.
 Professor Perdue of the Arkansas University, with five assistants se- lected from the engineering depart ment of the university, have gone to Slatington to make survey of the slate fields as provided by the Legate bill passed by the recent legislature. The act provides that a complete survey shall be made of the slate fields of Arkansas. The two coun- ties in which slate predominates are Polk and Montgomery, and the sur veying party will confne its work to these two counties.
 A school of instruction for cotton growers. the first to be established in the state, will open in Conway in July and continue for a month or longer. The school is for the purpose of in- structing cotton growers in the methods of handling cotton after it is shipped from the fields. The manner in which cotton Is handled at the warehouse, graded and ship ped. will be included; also, a course in making bills of lading and other clerical work.
 An experimental farm will be es- tablished in Franklin county. The plan is to select five acres in the county and have the owner cultivate 1t under the direction of the govern mcnt experts. The seed is to be fur nished without cost and after the crop natures the seed therefrom IS to be returned to the government, tC be used upon newly established farms until a dozen or more are in operation in each county in the state.
 With a 5O-ton mill and force of eight men, the Morning Star Mine in Marion county IS turning out three to three and one-half tons of zinc car-bonates, worth $34.25 ton at the mine The Silver Hollow, ono of the best mines in the county, with force of 16 men, is turning out about the same amount of ore.
 A. K. Goodnight has secured three acres of land at Batesville, on which to locatae an excelsior factory, cost ing about $6,000, and having a ca pacity of seven tons per day of ten hours. The building will be erect ed Of sheet steel. It IS proposed to operate box factory later.
 William Holt, a fireman on an en- zine belonging to Lee Wilson X Co.,, at Amorel, was accidentally struck on the head by limb attached to Il log which his engine was moving, and his skull fractured. Mr. Holt's home is at Blytheville.
 The body of Ernest Lassitcr, a young white man, was found recent ly at Stamps. It was lying near an oil tank and the skull was badly mashed.
 Twnnty-fve carloads of Elbprtt,