The Green Forest tribune., 1912-06-21
MAKING A MODEL FARM.
''Ranch" and the Site of the Pro- posed Big Power Plant.

POSCO DE O"Si T ldiIl'
 The Tribune editor dropped out 0. town Saturday evening for his sum mer vacation which he completed bJ 12:36 p. m., Monday and from oul mental note book we extract the fol lowing:
 The "Story of an Arkansas Farm that has brought fame and fortune tc w. R. Lighton could be initiated with much interest by our friend Clarence Foreman, who is putting theoretica farming into practice on his "planta tion -Santavo-a mile and a halt north of Grand View.
 It was just little bit more than g year ago that Mir Foreman efforts tc establish himself in the farming busi- ness were perfected and he is now ir the midst of his second crop; yet there is not home in all the Ozark regions that is surrounded with more sub- stantial luxuries. You can't name a variety of fruit or vegetable common to this country that is not gatherable upon the Foreman farm during the season, and what is more than that there is an abundance of it; while the place is stocked with both red and black pigs, chickens in superabundance turkies and guineas.
 A Jersey herd of half a dozen milkers are producing the money neces- sary to buy practically all of the family needs not raised on the farm.
 Some sixty-fve acres of the hundred owned by MT. Foreman is devoted to the raising of alfalfa, clover, corn, etc., while the rest is used as pasture. Not foot of the place is left on the com mons.
 The Foreman home is not mansion nor does the farm present polish that would charm the visitor. It was an old rundown place when Mr. Foreman picked it up at a bargain. It was in fact to very great extent in the rough, making id necessary for the new owner to acquire the helpful eX- perience that comes from one putting his own affairs into order. To have found palace out on their new habita- tion would have deprived the Fore mans of all the pleasure that comes from "pursuit. J No one ever proper ly appreciated home he did not build. It takes hard knocks and self-sacrifce to bring one to happy realization.
 MT. Foreman is going to make a suc- cess on the farm. We know he is be- cause he is already making it, and as- surance is made doubly sure in his case, for he has "better half" that is truly described by these two words. Few men ever made a success in spite of their wives; no one ever failed with the hearty cooperation of sound, sensible, economical and industrious companion. These are exactly the words that de- scribe Mrs. Foreman. She is one of that class of good women that could go It alone ana make money.
 Money, however, is not the god that rules the Foreman home. No home could be supplied with better class of literature and no greater students could be found in the country
 The environments of this home are su rely the kind that inspire the youth with the qualities that make men and women. If not a dollars profit f. nancially should be realized by the Foremans in decade, this education and training of their two sons and daughter would repay them a hundred times over.
 Clarence Foreman has by no means a monoply on the good things about Grand View. He has scarcely an ad- vantage of any of his neighbors, who have farms of equal or even superior value, and most of them seem to be working along the same line. That section of the country is well blessed with good farms. The soil is strong and the ground lays exceedingly we'll. Grand View neighborhood can show some of the best orchards in this DOT tion of the state That section is rapid ly filling up with new people. Three of Foreman's closest neighbors are all late corners, all coming from the north one family from Illinois, another from Kansas and the other from Nebraska. All are we'll pleased. So good do the surrounding of that burg look that George L. Sands, the moving spirit of the N. A. road, has recently bought a twenty-acre tract of land there upon which he proposes to build home and spend the remainder of his days. It is suspicioned that this move upon the part of this sage railroader means the establishment of the railroad shops there.
 Grand View is going to be benefited greatly on account of it being the rail. road station for the great power plant on Kings River, which is located some. thing like two miles down the river from that point. A visit to that place Sunday afternoon convinced the editor that this proposition is going to be a go. In fact, it has already gone. One more shot is expected to bring daylight | through the tunnel and then work or the dam and power plant will be begun. At least that is the expectation. The company is now to the point of raising