The Mena weekly star., 1910-02-24
LANDS IN POLK COUNTY

cause for this mounting skyward of land prices. Sometimes it is because a community has built good road to, through or by it; sometimes it is because new line of railroad has brought it close to the markets, and may be some ether thing affecting locality.
 But the general proposition is, that unoccupied land that can be titled is thing of the past in most parts of country. While thinking men. statesmen and the government of the United States are looking ahead to the increasing demand of soil products and the lessening pro- duction, and shouting ''back to the farm," the man who tries to heed the admonition generally finds it im- possible to get back.
 At the prevailing price, farm lands are beyond his reach. | For years and years. as the tilla- be lands of the East became de- pleted, the rising generations have migrated westward, through Ohio, Illinois. Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and to the Pacific coast, always seek ing cheap and new lands.
 It is now beginning to be realized that this westward march is at an end. As an indication of this, mill lions upon millions Eof dollars are being expended by the government and by private corporations in bring ing.under the blow areas here and there by Irrigation. And, besides, thousands upon thousands of Ameri- can citizens, still searching for homes. and cheap lands, have migrat- ed to the far north, to frozen Cana da, where only crops that mature quickly may escape in the brief sum- mers the frosts of the long winters. And, all this time, and today, it is doubtful if in any state in the Union good land can be so cheaply bought as in Arkansas, the state with mild climate backed by a multitude of favors from bountiful Nature. II And why, it will be asked, have the fertile acres of Arkansas beer passed by?
 II To begin with. the line of progress f from East to West. was along ths
 center line of the nation-to St B. Louis, Mo-, up the Missouri river tt 'f Kansas City, and onward. Ther
 again, following the same thought
 Westward immigration struck tn !, swamps of Southeast Missouri, thel
 the mountainous region, which ex
 tended into Arkansas, and passed al
 by as worthless.
 ,s Then there were sentimental req
 sons, arising in some degree iron
 war and strife, but more, far more .Se from idiotic literature, in book an,
 story, which made the very name 0
 our grand state a byword and U reproach, and person acknowledg C ing allegiance to it, subject to jibe j. and ridicule.
 But these days are passed, and vii V never return.
 '' Arkansas is coming to it's own ' Its cheap lands soon will be occupied ' by happy, healthy, industrious peo
 pie.
 e And of Polk county-that count, s at the altitudinal apex-from whicl Il all streams fiow--that county of fer t tile acres, pure water, vitalizing ail
 and the best all-the-year-round eli mate of all the South-in all tn, state, there is no place where goot ], land can be had at lower prices thar :. here.
 v As result, Polk county is goins E to be known as the garden spot oi
 the South. It is going to be filled !. with people who will cover its hill. s with fruit trees and vines, it's valley. S with grain and garden products, it n pastures with cattle and hogs anc n sheep; and people, too, who will fine s the key to the mineral treasures oi S it's hills.
 And, don't forget this: Poll |. county, because of its health-givinc climate and water and it's beautiful I scenery, will be the resort of thou n sands who will love it for that s health and happiness that they vii r find within it's boundaries.
 Finally, Mir. Homeseeker, you car
 find in Polk country, Arkansas n cheap land, pure water. healthfu ' climate, and as few drawbacks as ir n any place on earth.
 f These are reasons why Polk county s is certain to prosper, and why ths z prices of it's lands soon will join 1T
 the upward move.
 They never again will be so easily r acquired as now.
 If you delay, you lose.
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 AID FOR COUNTY FAIRS. /. The United States Department oi