The Pulaskian., 1915-12-03

county have advanced from $20 to $50 an acre this year because the Memphis suburb adopted closely the diversified farming program, with the building of S2,000 900 of drainage ca nals, and County Judge J. B. Thomp- sons stupendous good roads drive, Is the assertion of all taxpayers The building of the Rock Island free driveway bridge to be opened in June has had an electrical effect. Some 400 prominent Memphis people were land owners here the first of the year, and since then half as many more from there have picked up good black land holdings.
 Willis E. Ayres, the Memphis re- clamation engineer, in charge of most of the drainage canal work, and Supt,
 Charles Walker of the Canal Con- struction Company of Memphis, have made large land investments, attract ed by the deep, black soil which they say is the best in the Mississippi val | ley.
 Drainage District No. has been
 formed and the contract will be let 1 and bonds sold at Marion on Decem- Der 10. This is north of Turrell, and the Morgan Engineering Company of Memphis has charge of it. It will be the connecting link between the gigantic Mississippi County drainage
 system, which cost $5,0O0,000, and the Crittenden system. No. T, which
 is to drain the Turrell and Heafer
 country, will cost $210,0OO. Thirty seven thousand acres will benefit 1 from it.
 Engineer w. E. Ayres of Memphis 1 is finishing the survey for Drainage District No. 8, to reclaim 15,000 acres about Mound City and Fogleman, to cost $100,O00. The contract will be let within the next 30 days.
 The largest drainage district is in the tri-county around Earle, where 92 miles of ditches are nearly complete
 and more than 10000 acres will be drained at cost of $400,000
 For the purpose of making an in- vestigation of the local government reservation, as a prelude to extensive 1 improvements, the Department of In- terior contemplates for Hot Springs a party of officials from Washington arrived here. The party consists of Stephen Mather, assistant secretary of the interior, in carge of all parks and reservations, accompanied by Mrs. Mather; Howard Greenley, landscape artist of the Interior Department; H. M. Albright, private secretary to MT
 Mather; Lyman T. Hay of St. Louis, of the New York Hotel Company; D.
 F. Platte of Englewood N. J.; MT. and Mrs Howard White of Chicago; c. l.. Stone, traffic manager of the Missouri Pacific Iron Mountain. Territory along the line of the Memphis, Dallas and Gulf railroad has yielded another valuable product This road gives to Hot Springs it's west ern outlet and runs through one of the richest sections of Arkansas M A. Teal, farmer of Pearcy, has brought to this city samples of slate taken from a mine he discovered few days ago on land purchased a short time ago. This slate was pronounced to be exceptionally fine material After almost nine years Fort Smiths big paving contract, which nol Od nF ,tv is finally settled, closed, and the contractor paid. The improve ! ment district paid Burke Bros. ap- proimately $5O,0OO. The contractors sued the district year ago, claiming more than $150,000. The Chancery Court awarded them $42,O0O and the Supreme Court increased the sum.
 There is every indication that one of the big oil fields in the south west field will be developed in Craw- ford County" is a statement credited to Prof. Erasmus Haworth, state geologist of Kansas and head of the department of geology of Kansas Chi versity, who left for his home after visiting the Kibler gas field in Craw- ford county.
 A huge rock rolling down the mountain side knocked the engine of freight train 100 feet down the steep declivity and caused four deaths on the White river division Of the iron Mountain railroad. The accident oc- cured near Gerber, Mo, 50 miles