The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-24

Geologieally speaking, the Arkansas up lift is ansupthrust of novaculite and lime stone mountains known as the Arkansas or Boston Ozarks, which characterize the western and orthwestern portions of the state These mountains, picturesque with streams, forests and scant settlement, for many years were looked upon as merely an ideal game preserve by sportsmen, and, by certain newspaper writers and cartoonists. as a national sanctuary for a human species created to furnish ma terial for humorous paragraphs and more or less humorous pictures that help sell new s-butchers' literature, according to Graham Burnham of Glenwood, Ark, who contributes an article to the Baltimore Manufacturers Record.
 Little by little spectacular mineral, agricultural, horticultural and industrial resources in Arkansas have been uncov- cred and brought to the attention of out side capital. and from rumor to realiza- tion of facts has been a swift stride that has brought within range of action what for long was in the realm of almost fic- ton.
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 Pike county situated in the southwest part of Arkansas, has an area of 62i square miles, a population of approxi- mately 13,000. an assessed valuation of s, 322 900 and tax revenue of (l9l7) SS9, 62i The county was survey into town ships in 1S19 and sectionized in 1886. and at various later periods for correction of errors RIt n 121Q ba e,l,i -IYo turned in to the surveyor general at Washington showed a settlement where the present county seat of Pike county IS located and takes cognizance of "the Murfreesboro-Fort Townsend road, which is deliEeated upon the map.
 From 1873 to 1918 is l00 years less one, yet elght years ago Pike county, as pen etrated by the writer on a hunting and prospective trip, in it's whole area had not brick building, not a painted house, not an electric light, bathtub, automo- bile, steel bridge or any one of hundreds o1 those things that are commonly ac- counted ordinary necessities of modern life The largest town in Pike county eight years ago was the county seat, with approximately 800 souls.
 In seven years, under the influence oi mineral, agricultural horticultural and
 
 in Pike county 56 brick buildings. cost ing from $l0,000 to s15;000 each; 15 steel highway bridges, 120 modern farmhouses 10 canning factories and truck packing houses and innumerable rural service sta tions. In seven years three towns of Pike have installed electric light plants and other municipal utilities, three railroads have penetrated the heretofore unbroken waste in order to capture the tonnage created and automobiles are more numer- ous along the network. of new highways than deer and wild turkey were before the uplift.
 One seeks to discover the motive power of such movement, not from observa- ,tion of the present existing facts, but from a human desire to know what fires were kindled, what energies awakened or what resources were discovered to change so apathetic an area into section bound ing with movement and seemingly elec- trified into action Again, by analysis of sample one may merely point to the causative clements of the movement and let the industrial fac tor seeking new field to engage his capi-