The Harrison times., 1915-11-13
DEVELOPMENTOF NORTH ARK
Lumber. Live Stock, Fruit, Poultry, as
Well as Zinc Among Products
Shipped
Little Rock Gazettel

railroad is little known to the people
ofLittle Rock, even to those who
travel the Iron Mountain TO st.
Louis. The Missouri and North
Arkansas intersects the Iron
Mountain, but few but the com
meYcial travellers or occasional
visitors have need to travel on that
line. Therefore, what is going on
in that part of the state, which the
railroad has done so much to
develope, is wholly unknown TO a
large part of the population, not
only of Little Rock, but of the state.
| ". S. Holt of Little Rock. receiver
! of the road, recently made trip
over its line and brought back good
accounts of the activities in that
section-as well as some of its pro-
ducts in the form of fine specimens
of Arkansas Black apple. Very much
has been published of late of the
zinc mines in that country, so that
some may imagine that getting out
ore is the principal industry. This is
not the case, nor is the shipment of
ore the principal business of the
road, as many may suppose. That
industry has grown enormously,
Mr.. Holt says. but so have many
other industries.
According to Mr.. Holt, the ship
mcnt of cattle and other live stock
has shown a very large increase.
Buyers of horses for the allies have
bought very many horses which
have been shipped chiefly from
Berryville, Green Forest, Harrison
and St. Joe. The poultry and egg
business has also shown a wonder
full increase, many of the shipments
going as far east as New York city.
The lumber business is a big thing
too. There are extensive lumber
mills at Higginson, Shirley, Heber
Springs and other points, as we'll as
some smaller concerns. At George
town the road has recently found it
necessary to install a loading crane
which yanks the logs out of the
river and loads them directly onto
the cars There are large shipments
of mussel shells also from that point
to Muscatine, Iowa, to button
factory. There are big logging
enterprises elsewhere on the road,
also, according to Mr.. Holt, "a
world Of fine white oak ties of very
superldr quality gotten out, and
slaves alore.'
At Be ,ner there is a marble and
lime plant, which had no market
until the railroad provided means of
transportation There is produced
there an unusually fine red marble,
which is shipped to all parts OF the
country for building purposes. The
road handled 40 cars Of peaches the
past season. Business ir all kinds
of freight is increasing, and since
the recent floods in the bottoms, the
people driven out temporarily, far
from being discouraged, have all
moved back and are at work logging
and blowing for next seasons crops,
In the zinc district, which begins
along the Buffalo river iu Searcy
county and extends to Harrison,
Boone county, taking in Marion and
Newton counties on the White River
branch, business is booming, Wher-
ever zinc ore crops ont, it is being
worked. Not great deal of land
has been sold, Mr.. Holt says, but
the owners lease it wherever there is
a prospect. According to Mr., Holt,
in addition to the former shipping
points of Harrison, st. oe and
Gilbert, Pindall and Everton have
become important zinc ore stations,
as well as some minor points. Mr.
Holt tells of some of some Of the new
fields, or old fields once abandoned,
being operated.
Yesterday Mr.. Holt received a
telegram from J, W. Massingale, a
big planter OF Plum Bayou, with a
plantation of 100000 acres, saying
that he had just completed arrange,
ments to put in a lotion mill at his
zine properties, Mr.. Holt was not
certain where they are located, but
/ thinks they are in the Rush Creek
district,
L Storthz recently shipped the
first car from his newly developed
mine near Mount Hersey, Newton
county, and is said to have received
a check for 81, 400 in payment.
Harry Churchill Of Pangbnru re.
Gently put in a large mill near
Pindall, in Searcy county,
| Harry Littleton, formerly of the
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