The Spectator., 1915-12-03

mine.
 D. W. Kirkland of Little Rock has started the construction of a big ho. tel at this place on the new townsite. on which work is being rushed.
 year ago 100 would have been a large estimate to put on the popula- tion of this place and immediate vii cinity. There are some 2,500 oti 3,- 900 people here now, all engaged in miners.
 For the purpose of making an in- vestigation of the local government reservation, as a prelude to extensive 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; II. M. Albright, private secretary to Mr. Mather; Lyman T, Hay of St. Louis. of the New York Hotel Company; D. F. Platte of Englewood, N. l.; Mr. 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 PearCs, has brought to this city samples of slate taken from a mine he discovered a few days ago on land purchased short time ago. This slate was pronounced 10 be exceptionally fine material.
 After almost nine years Fort Smiths big paving contract. whicA called for 70 miles or paved streets. is finally settled, closed. and the contractor paid. The improve ment district paid Burke Bros. ap- proimately S50,000 The contractors sued the district year ago, claiming more than $15OOOO The Chancery Court awarded them S42,000 and the Supreme Court increased the sum.
 Property owners fighting the pro ject of graveling the Warren road from Pine Bluff for a distance of five miles won when the commissioners of the district, No. s. adopted a resolu tion to abandon the project. Proper ty in the district was assessed ;o cover expenses incurred in the prelim- inaries. $1,350. The money will be collected in January.
 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 Uni- 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 oi the iron Mountain railroad. The accident oc- cured near Gerber, Mo, 50 niles north of Cotter. The wrecked train was Red Ball Freight No. "A.
 Fire loss of nearly $l.250.000 wae experienced when approximately I4,- 900 bales of cotton were destroyed by fire at the storage yards of Pine Bluff Compress Company.
 Architect T. Edison Mitchell of jonesboro has just completed plans for a cold storage plant for the Jones. boro Ice Company
 R. L. Hickman is shipping several hundred gallons of Baxter county sor- ghum to Idaho.@
 Joseph F. Lee. who lives near Par is, is making success of celery growing.
 The second award in the co,ton growers contest took place at Boone. vile. Wesley Davis won first prize $35 in cash; J. k. Peoples. sec.,nd, $25; Tom Springer. third. $15. big crowd was present A third contest will take place December Is. Prizes amounting to Sl00 will be given away at that time.
 Med Donaldson, game warden ar rested R, P. Marley and Ii. N. Hen dricks of Paragould on a charge of shooting quail out of season.