The Little River news., 1915-08-14

ty pages of ether miscellaneous featur- es of the whole state.
 Little River County.
 The following is the general write up cf Little River county in Arkansas and Her Resources:
 The writer thought he was familiar with Little River county, having made numerous trips there. However, in gathering figures for this book he made another trip there, and while in Ashdown, the county seat, had the pleasure of meting one Col. C.Y. Trice a Hand advocate" as he describes himself. Colonel Trice kncvs as much of Little River county as possib- ly any one man in Arkansas because he has made profound study of con- ditions there. He is iikable, distin- lguished gentleman, the soul of honor, and came to Arkansas from Clarks- vile, Texas, although chiginally from Lamar, Mo. When he left Clarksville the citizens of that city, over 1o0 o1 them, officials, lawyers, merchants, physicians and business men generally signed an expression of appreciation of his efforts to build that section up. He is a booster of the first magnitude, and the following is a statement e. conditions as he sees them in Little River county, prepared for this pub- lication. It is with pleasure the Dir ector of Publicity submits it to the ~rworld, and suggests that, if you are interested further, you write him air feet:
 Little River County is located fn the extreme southwest corner of the State cf Arkansas. the first county south of the foothills of the Bosto., Mountains; wedged in, you might say between two beautiful streams, Little River and Red River. Little River on tke north and east, is small stream coming down out of the mountains oi Eastern Oklahoma, being fed cn the way by numerous small streams and springs. Red River, on the south and west, is the boundary Ene between this county and the States of Texas, and Little River County, being be- tween these two streams, is composed mostly of rich fertile valley lands.
 "Ashdown, the county seat and lar gest town in the county, is located in the central portion of the county. Public roads from all parts of the county lead to Ashdown. It is town of about 5000 people, and has three trunk-line railroads (the Kansas City Southern, the Frisco and the Memphis, Dallas and Gulf. which affords very fine shipping facilities to the North, East, South and West. It also has b stave mill, cotton oil mill, flour mill, two wholesale grocer houses, two banks, two good hardware, furniture and implement stores, several gooc dry goods and grocery stores, $40.- 900 courthouse. a $30,O00 school build ing, four nice churches, a $40,000 brick hotel and numerous other buildings. Ashdown is a comparatively new place but is growing very fast, there being at present at least six modern dwelling houses together with 2. brick store buildin going up each month.
 While we have the above enter prisesy we have the resources fer more, and want them. Ashdown and Little River county afford resources for a large saw and blaming mill, boa factory, furniture factory, spoke fac tory, and handle factory, brick factory. ice plant, truck gardners and dairy men.
 The valley lands on Red River are of deep sandy loam soil, loose and very easily cultivated, and will grow from 50 to 75 bushels of corn, from Ithree-quarters to bale and half of cotton, and from four to six tons of alfalfa hay per acre.It also grows po- tatoes, sugar cane, timothy, clover and any other staple crops grown in the South
 "The valley lands of Little River are of a dark, deep sandy loam soil, which is very easily cultivated and will produce equally as well as the lands of Red River. The remainder of the county is composed mostly of !rich, dark sandy lcam upland, with a