Year: 1875

 dertke that the natural Pope County are su make her almost commonwealth within herself

 The information contained in the following description obtained principally from report made by Messrs w. Washburn and " knowledge of the subject treated obtained from actual reconnois 0 the territory described

 We have only abbreviated the report made by them to tract it suit our limited space

 made under the auspices of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Rail road Company The of the county by these the surrenderand the in dapidaed and dac couny-especay society of the country Churches and Schoooues dot County in al there local divisions of denson people We have State administration perfect accord with the wishes and

 We commend all these things and the following description County to those seeking homes in good country

 On Point Hills lead has found and daens the rocks Mr. Epraim Lemey Glass Village this stream fed which lies hundred yards from the Point Remove foot hills This lead has also been gathered by others in these hills timber superior Large forests of red black white cup cncapn and other oaks ntepersed with tall pines hickory and other valuable the tract Cypress brakes of which the railroad ands also growing here I These brakes extend down @ the valley to p and now @ Rock @ large tracts of level upland intervene The water good and ocea fifteen forty feet great these upand known to out the southwest barrens rich in soil and adapted to food being required for them in winter which here be sa the throughout the entire valley The undergowh amos trop pums and all the berries abound Peaches and apples finely region out of Washington comtyth apple o par excellence of this Stae The native abundant and nutricous whilst clover timothy herd and other cu

 Coal is found in many parts of this tract T l9 in the vicinity of Carrion Crow Mountain coal has been years ago. dug Brooks coal bank three miles northeast from Norstown This coal is from to twenty eight s T. so the thickness of this coal is as yet nGnown It oSrns we'll Coal Goa out on nG a sides of the n abound this m and all along the waters of the Illinois bayou pecaly near Noristown and Old Dwight.

 

 formerly much used and which probably anthracite Illinois Bavou miles Arkansas river This coal such used has been exposed for untold itself manifest themselves eouent aong this stream up to Dover the distant from the village of Norrstown four teen miles also in various other parts Of this tract Of land from Point Remove to Illinois bayou

 miles Russellvile the Ky, opened the spring s7 and have been successful operation since yielding paying supply of coal which in de and Little Rock and St Louis For fuel greatly preferred but little smoke soot cnler or ashes

 The Brooks Coal Bank and half miles southeast of Russell vile yields plentiful supply of coal similar to the Oulta This bank has been worked but little The merchants of Russeve have used for fuel for winters and consider it good The the hill

 company with capital could procure this bank very fair terms and the investment would pay largely and rapidly

 PREVAILING ROCKS,

 sandstones Of the mill stone grit series with their associate hales and conglomeates About Old Dwight the bayou six miles from the Arkansas the Goodrich coal bank chys a suphuret of ead and hyraed kidney iron found runs from the mouth of this ayon up the hills and nerspeses the woods between this and Point Remove There several mills in this All these mills doing fair business. The owlands of the hs with those of the ntcrsect ing tributaries re the auvium being full of salferou deposits and the errugaous ss ages back The be said of the entire Arkansas Valley which gives

 PRODUCING either dc for hundred miles from the mouth of the It's capacity for produce almost unlimited Cotton yields from ous to and half bales wheat from fifteen to twenty bushels acre and other cereals and grasses the ratio with inferior cultivation Tobacco better than in Maryland while hemp does well as Kentucky Missouri Bar ley and yield as heavy lands outside of California

 The timber of these creek 0wlans alike throughout Valley One enumeration here will for the valley from Fort Smith The these tall numbess all the oaks live ash cottonwood walnut cher hickory mulberry sasafas two feet in diameter cof large tree bo dare locust (tee varieties black and sweet maple cedar dogwood red abound in of magnifcence ntewined with grape which eighteen inches in diameerand eed with reeds and tall grasses and tued with uxuran and flowing undergowh.

 Very living and cold springs break along the banks and in the valleys of the Point Remove Galley Creek Whg Creek Hi nois Bayou their aunts Some of these springs along banks of Illinois bayou cold and water in the wod the the wells cold and unang and anywhere obtained large and perpetual mineral spring wells the mountain above Norstown and has been noted for in valds for

 Where the soils of the upand inferior the material needed which is lmees in the skrting Boston Mountain These lands generally hale and easily improved to all the valley