Year: 1875

-o-O-o- Some ago promised give readers description, in general Soil Timber &c, of Pope County The frequent letters which and others of cizen receive making inquiry of of the the state to that the natural Of Pope County are su The information contained the following description obtained principally from report made by Messrs J. w. Wahburn and Denc both gentlemen of fine attanments and with thorough knowledge the subject treated of obtained from actual econnos sance of the territory described

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

 under auspices of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Rail road The of the county by these gentlemen upon which the report based made a the the country was in daated and distrac ted condition has been improvement condition in the morals and society country Churches and Schookouses dot County in nghborood Good will and goodfeeng prevail and there local divisions of dssension people sentiments of the people, and future full of promise

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

 Point I lead found and iron darkens the rocks Mr. Epraim Lemy Glass Village this stream sec fe which lies few hundred yards from the Point Remove foot hills This lead has also been gathered by others in these hills

 Point Illinois Bayou Pope County the land and timber superior Large forests of red black white post over and other valuable tree tract Cypress brakes which the railroad lands aso growing here and from two to five miles wide country broken yet large tracts upland intervene The water is good and occ fifteen to fove feet of these upand known tho pastung planting Stock of all kinds thrive here little food being required for them in winter which, here be it s the

  ca in their exubersace Fine wild grapes muscadne pums berres Peaches pea and apples grow gon par excellence of this State The native grasses very abundant and nuous whilst clover timothy herd and other cu Coal found in parts of this tract Near Potts 2o found and peneou indications exist good quality dug and used from Brooks coal bank three miles from This from twenty eight inches thick Coal crops wash ourths of mile from Norristown S s 2o the thickness of this coal is yet unknown burns we'll Coal out both sides of the noun tain just above Norristown and it's top where epson salts IS al % this M 2n % an on e wass % pecially near Norristown and Old Dwight.

 GOOD WORKABLE COAT,

 formerly ued and which probably emanthacte crops out the Illinois Bayou six miles from the Arkansas river to water and air. and therefore inferior to the coal which for the interior Coal shades and Dover the county distant from the village of Nosown four miles, also in various other parts of this tract Of land from Point Remove to Illinois bayou.

 THE ouirA COAL MINES,

 three miles west of Russeyle, the L. R. d. Ft S Ry were opened the spring of 1874 and have been successful operation ye yeg Ra png supply Ea coal a which is, in great a to the Ptsburg coaoucng does great heat and making but little smoke, soot cinder or ashes.

 The Brooks Coal Bank and half miles southeast of Russell

 vile yields plentiful supply of coal similar the Outa This bank ucdt for fuel for and consider good The deposit from 2S 36 inches thick and increasing the hilL

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

 

 sandones of the mlstone grit with their associate shades and congomerae About Old Dwight the bayou six miles Arkansas Goodrich coal bank quartz c tas suphure of ead and ydated kidney iron found PINERY from the mouth of this Bayou the hills and less mcsperses the woods between this and Point Remove There several mills in this All these mills doing fair business.

 The owands of the river in this with those of the teec ing tributaries fer the auvum being full of saerou deposits and the ergnous si of the river for back The same may be said of the entire Arkansas Valley which gives COUNTRY, either sido hundred miles the mouth of the Its capacity for produce almost unlimited Cotton yields from theeourth half bales wheat from fifteen twenty bushels other cereals and grasses the with inferior cultivation Tobacco better than Maryland while hemp does well Kentucky Missouri Bar ley and yield heavy outside of California

 The timber of these creek owlands alike throughout the Valley One will for valley Little Rock Fort Smith The of these forests huge tall and numberess all the oaks live ash cottonwood walnut hickory mulberry assafas (two feet in dameter nut large tree bois darc locust thee yarietes black and sweet maple cedar dogwood red wood abound of magnfcenc ntewined with grape which eighteen inches in dameterand etted with reeds and tall and tuted with uxurian and flowing undergrowth.

 Very many living cold springs break along the valleys of the Point Remove Galley Creek Whg Creek Hi Bayou and their uent Some of these springs along the banks of Illinois bayou cold and pure any the word and the in the wells cold and unang and anywhere obtained large and perpetual mineral spring wells the mountain above Norstown and has been noted for