The Huttig news., 1915-05-29
NORTHWEST ARKANSAS.
Press Association Spend Enjoyable Week In
 Ozark Mountains.

The Forty-third Annual meeting of the Arkansas Press association was held at Harrison the first three days of last week and the latter half of the week spent by the members and their wives or sweet hearts in visiting the various towns along the Missouri and North Ark ansas railroad, one of the states scenic lines.
 Harrison, the county seat of Boone county, where the meetings were held is live, progressive town with 5000 inhabitants, with no negroes, and before the M. & N. A. railway was built through there about eight years ago was said to be the largest inland town in the United States. There are seven religious denominations with good church buildings in the town and two grammer and one high school buildings. The elevation above sea level is 400 feet and everybody seems contented and happy and boasts of the climate and fruit, as we'll as the mineral resources and scenery of the com munity.
 Two nights and one day were spent in Eureka Springs, one of the greatest inland summer resorts in this country which is 1,zOO feet above sea level, and where the street cars carry you to the top of a mountain over 2,OOO feet above sea level, on which is located the magnificent Crescent hotel. Be- sides the Crescent is the Basin Park hotel, one of the finest to be found any where, and numerous smaller ones to take care of the summer visitors who were already beginning to arrive. If you have never enjoyed a trip to Eureka Springs you have missed a treat, both there and the magnificent scenery to be viewed enroute from kensett up the M. & N. A. railway
 On the return trip from Eureka Springs stops were made at Berry vile, one of the largest shipping points for poultry and mules in the state, and live town which has the destinction of not having had a fire or business failure in nine years.
 At Green Forest, one of the cleanest towns in the state, we were welcomed by the late Repub- lican candidate for governor, who said that Act No. 5, known as the publicity act, was the best law ever placed on the statutes books of the state.
 At Mercer we visited the marble and lime works, where the supply of raw maternal is unlimited and where also is mined phosphate rock for fertilizer.
 At Zack a trip through Roaring Cave was one of the most interest ing sights on the trip. This natur- al cave, or the first rooms of it, are used as cold storage plant as the temperature is always the same. When it is warmer outside the air is drawn out naturally and when it is colder outside the air is drawnin. The connection from one part of the cave to the other is by a pass age just large enough to permit a mans body to pass through and at this point the current of air is so strong that it creates roaring sound, from which the cave de- riyes it's name.
 At Marshall the party was shown that that section of Arkansas was rightly called the fruit belt, as we not only saw the strawberries, cherries. etc.. growing, but were served with a bountiful repast of them.
 At Leslie and Pangburn, two growing towns on the comparative ly new railroad, the editors were given a hearty We.come and more